Speaker 1: So this is a super rad song. And this is
Speaker 1: the whole Damon Alburn project, The Gorillas. Do you guys
Speaker 1: know the rapper on this song?
Speaker 2: No, but I love that rap so much, The Homo Sapien, Right,
Speaker 2: Dell del the Funky Homo Sapien. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard mining Ben's Dell the Funky Homo
Speaker 1: Sapien story?
Speaker 2: Oh no, did you find out that he was Dell
Speaker 2: the Funky Homosexual?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, that would have been Delp though. Right, that's
Speaker 2: a pretty good rap name. If you're gonna try to
Speaker 2: break into the game.
Speaker 1: I want to not. I don't think Dell would care. Nah,
Speaker 1: he's cool because this happened when he was nineteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was on tour Statute too. Yeah, he was on
Speaker 1: tour with his older cousin Ice Cube. Oh wow, and
Speaker 1: the band Black Sheet. Do you guys know the song?
Speaker 1: You could get with this? So you can get with that.
Speaker 1: That's okay, that's Black Sheet okay. And they had a
Speaker 1: real huge record in like ninety one or whenever this
Speaker 1: was now, this was at the legendary concert hall in
Speaker 1: Oak Cliff that I think is now a home depot,
Speaker 1: but at the time it was called Bronco Bowl.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I need to come back.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, man, I saw some bad ass
Speaker 1: shoes at the Bronco Bowl. Everyone has now. Me and
Speaker 1: Ben like to consider ourselves men of the people. So
Speaker 1: if you're out and about, we would love to drink
Speaker 1: a beer with you and talk. So part of this
Speaker 1: story I'm gonna leave off air, okay, but I encourage
Speaker 1: you if you ever see me and Ben out, to
Speaker 1: ask the reason this happened. But Ben and I and
Speaker 1: our friend Alvarez, and I think bl was there. You
Speaker 1: guys know bl We're in the crowd at the Bronco Bowl.
Speaker 1: Dell had just released his debut album called I Wish
Speaker 1: My Brother George was here, but he was not near
Speaker 1: as big, if big at all, as Ice Cube and
Speaker 1: Black Sheep. Everyone was there to see them. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: Dell is able to walk around in the crowd at
Speaker 1: the Bronco Bowl. Okay, So he comes walking. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my cause I loved his first record, like I
Speaker 1: was way into it, and I.
Speaker 2: Was like, oh my god, it's Dell.
Speaker 1: You're dude. You're like walking around. He's like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's just kind of a little dude. And so he
Speaker 1: just kind of stood there talking to us for a
Speaker 1: little while, and then at one point he goes, y'all
Speaker 1: are white boys? Do you know where I could get blank?
Speaker 1: And we're like, well, actually, Alvarez is next door neighbor
Speaker 1: sells that.
Speaker 2: I thought you're gonna say some p.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was tells it he made he was a
Speaker 1: pip and so was.
Speaker 3: Looking for some video games. Now I get some good
Speaker 3: video games around here.
Speaker 1: If you guys have listened to the Benning's Gen Show
Speaker 1: for a long time. We lived in Richardson and Alvarez
Speaker 1: lived across the street from Huffin's Rec Center. So you're
Speaker 1: talking Plano Road, and like, I think that was Apollo Road.
Speaker 1: So Dell said, oh really, all right, we're in. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get my boy. We'll meet you guys in a second.
Speaker 2: No leave what is now the home depot.
Speaker 1: We left oak Cliffe, We left the Bronco Ball. We
Speaker 1: didn't see ice Cube that night. Now I'd seen ice
Speaker 1: Cube other times. We drove to Richardson to get what
Speaker 1: Dell was interested in acquiring, and then we drove back
Speaker 1: after we had acquired whatever we had acquired, and we
Speaker 1: put on our demo tape. Oh boy, after his mood
Speaker 1: had been changed, and his boy who was with him,
Speaker 1: who later ended up being in a group called Souls
Speaker 1: of Mischief who had a big rap song called ninety
Speaker 1: three till Infinity. You guys have probably heard it. He
Speaker 1: started speaking for the first time after the long drive
Speaker 1: to Richardson and the long drive back because they were
Speaker 1: loving it. But I think they were loving it because
Speaker 1: of how they were feeling. Yeah, we drove them all
Speaker 1: the way back to Cliff and all of the tour
Speaker 1: was waiting for us by the tour bus because Dell
Speaker 1: had held up the tour bus for wherever they were
Speaker 1: going Houston or wherever they were headed next. And he
Speaker 1: got out of our car and walked off into the
Speaker 1: night and we never saw him again.
Speaker 2: I mean, back then, you're not exchanging cell phone numbers.
Speaker 1: You are not.
Speaker 2: But he left with our demo tape. You're not thinking, oh,
Speaker 2: let me take a picture because you didn't want to
Speaker 2: have a camera.
Speaker 1: No, this would have been, honestly, like ninety one or
Speaker 1: ninety two.
Speaker 2: And all we have is those memories of you guys
Speaker 2: to relay this story that is a badass story. But see,
Speaker 2: sometimes you drink a little bit or whatever. So those
Speaker 2: memories get cloudy and fuzzy, and that's why the pictures
Speaker 2: and stuff coming handy. People smoke, you know, yeah, you
Speaker 2: know some people smoke.
Speaker 1: I I funny memory. I mean, there's so many things
Speaker 1: I like about that story. But my favorite part is, Yell,
Speaker 1: are white boys maybe in your car driving around? So
Speaker 1: we had to take two cars.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: So we'll take you to our Hispanic friend's house. Alvarez, Argentinian,
Speaker 2: Argentine whatever. I tried, but uh, but yeah.
Speaker 1: That all happened. And uh and I'd like to think
Speaker 1: that maybe I not me personally, but all of us
Speaker 1: changed Dell's creative path.
Speaker 2: And then he was you know, how did he end
Speaker 2: up doing stuff with the Gorillas? Because I mean, I mean,
Speaker 2: which are Clint Easwood right there? But yeah, he's on
Speaker 2: feel Good Inc. Yeah, their biggest hit, No Dela Soula
Speaker 2: is on Field. Okay, I'm sorry, yea, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So one of the things that they the Gorillas do
Speaker 1: is they just work with different rappers and different artists
Speaker 1: and stuff. Dell was a Bay Area rapper and he
Speaker 1: was as he got more creative, he got a little
Speaker 1: more psychedelic and got a little more out there, you know.
Speaker 1: And so he definitely became and he became an indie
Speaker 1: darling like he was wasn't a big rap star, but
Speaker 1: he was part of this whole scene called the Hieroglyphics,
Speaker 1: and it was all Bay Area rappers that kind of
Speaker 1: had their own sound that wasn't like a hard funk thing.
Speaker 1: It was more kind of trippy and jazzy and psyche.
Speaker 1: And so he kind of became a honestly like he
Speaker 1: kind of became a favorite of like the white boy
Speaker 1: skateboard rap crowd or sometimes they were called backpack rappers,
Speaker 1: you know, Bay Area. Yeah, yeah uh, And so it
Speaker 1: would totally make sense that. And he also had done
Speaker 1: some stuff. I think he did some stuff with a
Speaker 1: handsome boy modeling school. Do you gotta know that is no?
Speaker 1: Do you guys know the TV show Get a Life?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: You guys know Chris Elliott, Yes, Chris Elliott who you
Speaker 1: probably would know Christina from something about Mary.
Speaker 2: You know, he was in Ship's Creek too.
Speaker 3: Okay, the real quick you'll continue.
Speaker 1: Chris Elliott got to start his dad was a famous comedian,
Speaker 1: but he got to start on the David Letterman Show,
Speaker 1: playing weird sidebar here his sister.
Speaker 2: Is Carmie's Uh his sister in real life is Carmei's sister.
Speaker 3: On the absolutely he's also in a scary movie right with.
Speaker 2: A little Everything in the nineties. Yeah, and I actually
Speaker 2: think Carmei's his daughter. Oh, I bet that is Abbey.
Speaker 2: I bet that is his Abby is his daughter?
Speaker 1: Yeah, which crazy because she was on SNL in the
Speaker 1: two thousands. And dude, when I had a shaved head
Speaker 1: and a beard, people told me all the time that
Speaker 1: I looked exactly like Chris Elliott, like all the time,
Speaker 1: uh so much so it scarred me.
Speaker 2: Get this, I don't that Steve Higgins, who is the
Speaker 2: guy who is Jimmy Fallon's hype man. Okay, yeah, and
Speaker 2: he's Lauren right hand? Is Abby Elliott's uncle? Is that right?
Speaker 2: And and what should mean Chris Elliott's brother in law. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Chris Elliot's brother in law. And Steve Higgins one of
Speaker 2: his kids is one of the guys and please don't
Speaker 2: destroy Yeah, so that connections are Chris Elliot's dad.
Speaker 1: I think his name is Bob Elliott. He was part
Speaker 1: of a comedy duo called Bob and Ray, but he
Speaker 1: was actually on The show Get a Life and Get
Speaker 1: a Life was on Fox in the early days when
Speaker 1: Fox was first launching, and it's not a great show,
Speaker 1: but I loved it because I love Chris Elliott and
Speaker 1: he's basically like a grown man living at home and
Speaker 1: he's a paper boy, and so at one point he
Speaker 1: wants to he does an ad in the back of
Speaker 1: a magazine to Joy that joined the Handsome Boy Modeling
Speaker 1: School and pays money and goes to the school and
Speaker 1: then feels exploited. I mean, dude, it's the dumbest thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, I think you should leave dumb. But it
Speaker 1: was on network television, and so when Prince Paul of
Speaker 1: Daylas Soul of fame started Handsome Boy Modeling School, he
Speaker 1: took it from that dumb TV show Get a Life,
Speaker 1: and so they'd have a bunch of samples from it,
Speaker 1: and Dell was on that and blah blah blah. That's
Speaker 1: how all this long thing goes. But yeah, so whenever
Speaker 1: we play the Gorillas and I hear Dell the funky
Speaker 1: Homo Sapien, I'm transported back to ninety one one ninety
Speaker 1: two of the Ronca Ball when he got in our
Speaker 1: car and oak Cliff and drove to Richardson And it
Speaker 1: also reminds me of the intro.
Speaker 2: T time boys. Right now, you're ready, ready's right right,
Speaker 2: ready to do one.
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Speaker 5: except a simmer sweet pursuing it. Donld out shaw shank
Speaker 5: through the sewer, kid, Now what chill in at the eagle. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we're doing it. Three o'clock on the dock. Got a
Speaker 5: habit for my house of gold status. Howard starting to
Speaker 5: get craddic, shows that up multiplied like a rabbit tuned.
Speaker 1: End zone out, prink it up, beat the habit.
Speaker 3: I'm on anything out with my friend locking it on
Speaker 3: the radio.
Speaker 2: My home boys in talking on the radio. It's time
Speaker 2: to to this walk. Oh baby, baby, go at Christine
Speaker 2: up see all the radio.
Speaker 1: All right, it's a Friday afternoon and we have something
Speaker 1: brand new right now. It's time for.
Speaker 4: This world news, world news, world news.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have some stories.
Speaker 2: I have a couple of stories from the world I've
Speaker 2: been holding on to all week and I wanted to
Speaker 2: get to Okay, s gooverning Spain. Jouking Garcia is his name. Uh.
Speaker 2: He decided to stop going to work six years ago.
Speaker 2: It's a toxic workplace. It's like, I'm not going to
Speaker 2: work anymore, but somehow they did not notice. So he's there.
Speaker 2: I took a paycheck without going to work for six
Speaker 2: years until the company even though they didn't realize that
Speaker 2: he doesn't work there anymore. But he didn't formally quit.
Speaker 2: He just stopped showing up.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. But this is very office space.
Speaker 3: It's amazing.
Speaker 6: He was due to receive an award for his twenty
Speaker 6: years job and they're like, wait, where's he at now.
Speaker 6: He was an engineer overseeing a wastewater treatment plant and
Speaker 6: he was in charge of two departments, and he quit
Speaker 6: showing up and they kept giving him money.
Speaker 1: God, this totally six years. This totally justifies all We've
Speaker 1: got to trim the fat. It really does.
Speaker 2: You know, now, this job was he was getting just
Speaker 2: thirty thousand a year pay, but the entire time to
Speaker 2: just not go to work because one day's like I've
Speaker 2: had enough.
Speaker 1: I wonder if he got his second job and just
Speaker 1: supplemented his income with the stipend from the wastewater management company.
Speaker 3: Maybe did you see the fallow up to that?
Speaker 2: By the way, I've not seen the Foh.
Speaker 3: They took him to court obviously, because he was, you know,
Speaker 3: getting paid for six years for not doing anything. He
Speaker 3: only had to pay back a year's worth of gallery
Speaker 3: just one year.
Speaker 2: Now. It said he quit because like the toxic environment.
Speaker 2: Is that because they weren't treating the water very well? Oh,
Speaker 2: let's think about that. And there's a my first story
Speaker 2: of World News, World News, World News.
Speaker 1: Did you work with the meters on that? Intro?
Speaker 2: World News? There's this guy in Peru. He's a fisherman
Speaker 2: and he was at sea for ninety four days just drifting.
Speaker 2: And guess what he was surviving on his urine? Nope?
Speaker 1: Uh oh, bear grills is urine?
Speaker 2: No, turtles and cockroaches.
Speaker 3: Wait, cockroaches in the.
Speaker 2: Ocean somehow very weird. He was drifting at sea, he saying,
Speaker 2: I don't know the story, said Peru guy.
Speaker 3: How many? Oh I can't.
Speaker 1: Maybe he had a bag of cockroaches and turtles with him. Yeah, maybe,
Speaker 1: but turtles, turtles, turtle meat is good eating?
Speaker 2: Is that the people do.
Speaker 3: Said it so matter of factly. You have to cook them, right,
Speaker 3: at least cook the.
Speaker 2: Turtle before you're just eating it, you know, where you start.
Speaker 2: It's like sushi turtle meat if you put a little
Speaker 2: soy sauce on it. I'm telling you yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, God, we're off to a really good start.
Speaker 1: I love that it. Can I hear the intro again,
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