Dumb People Town - Jamie Lee - Shoe Phone Drunk
Episode Date: June 2, 2026Comedian, Emmy Winning Writer, and author Jamie Lee (My Friend Katy) stops by as Daniel describes an influencer that was banned for life from all Six Flags for eating nuggets on a ride, Jason... explains why a drunk man tried to use his shoe as a phone before being arrested, and Randy warns against living in a strangers' crawl space, and so much more!Thanks to our sponsors: BetterHelp, ASPCA Pet Insurance, and Hims!You don’t have to be on this journey alone. Find support and have someone with you in therapy. Sign up and get 10% off at BetterHelp.com/DPT. To explore coverage, visit ASPCApetinsurance.com/DPTTo get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit Hims.com/DPTSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Oh my God, we have a fantastic dumb people down today with our very good friend, Jamie Lee.
She's amazing.
But on the show, we're going to talk about some amazing stories.
Number one, a little roller coaster mishap that happened from an influencer.
He is a challenge, but he shouldn't have done what he did.
Then there was a man who tried to call his family on a shoe.
He was that drunk.
And finally, a man and a family living where they shouldn't live.
All of it is happening on today's episode of Dump People Town.
Watch it.
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Hey Townies welcome to another episode of
Dumb people town.
Population, you?
Population Lee!
Jamie Lee!
Welcome to the show.
We've begun.
We do like a lot of fanfare and now we're...
Now we're here.
Now we're in it.
I love when you're on this show because you instantly get exactly what we're doing.
We're in a writer's room and we just haven't started working yet.
So let's get down to some funny, dumb, weird stuff and let's just riff around.
Yeah, we've got shit.
Let's shoot it.
Let's shoot that shit.
It's super dumb.
Shit is for shooting.
It's not painful dumb.
It's not like...
like anybody was a victim dumb.
It's just dumb behavior.
Sent him by Nicole Miller comedy at Nicole U, the letter, Miller.
So I guess Nicole does comedy.
Good luck you, Nicole.
Get up, Nicole.
Keep doing it.
Here's the headline.
He went on a roller coaster, now he's banned for life.
What?
He went on a roller coaster now he's banned.
Is this the Brad William story?
No.
A social media influencer.
He was on the show.
He would have laughed at that show.
A social media influencer has been banned.
for life from all six flags parks not even just the one you have to really mess up to be banned from all of them from all of them to get the full
he can go to a three flags he's got like a park hopper ban yeah he can keep being a red flag but he can't go to any six flights
how bad but who's going to keep that up like more than a part of the dog that's actually I don't there's
something kind of hot about that so what this is it kind of hot to be like like if I want to want to
a date with the guy and he's like I'm banned from six flags I go how many he goes all of them I love you so
much because I was literally I'm interested but then your next question would be rides or kids rides or kids
yeah what is the ban what did it too yeah you're right that should be my next question yeah jamie you got to do
you guys it's like I was you're sorry rides it's like I was you assaulted goofy I literally was gonna
ask do you put that in a Tinder profile I mean I'm O leo I'm banned from six
Right.
Profitian in Microsoft Excel.
Oh my God.
You know the bio that's like, whatever, like actor, dancer, person.
Can you imagine like?
Actor, dancer, banned from six flags.
Person.
You got to go back to person.
You got to end with person.
No, for sure.
I wasn't saying end on six flags.
I'm not a monster.
One of the best people I ever did shows with at UCV.
Amazing writer.
Her name is Lindsay Barrow.
This is one of the hardest I ever laughed in my life.
This will not live up to that story because she's,
she would be telling it, not me, to really hit.
She worked at Six Flags like St. Louis.
She's born and raised.
No, it's R6 Flags.
R6 Flags.
She was a costume character.
And she was playing Bugs Bunny.
Sure.
And she got to work for the day that there's her day to do Bugs Bunny.
And on the big feet.
They said, hey, just so you know.
Someone died in this.
No.
No, I don't know.
We had a phone message left today to the call in line that said,
I'm coming to Six Flags and I'm going to beat the shit out of Bugs Money.
Oh my God.
No.
So they go, people do kids, prank, all this stuff, but we want to let you know.
We have to let you know.
There's a hit out on you.
You'll have an extra person with you, but this person called in and said,
and Lindsay, be in.
Put your giant head on a swivel.
Whether she had started yet or not, she had.
She was a teenager, I'm sure.
but she's already a comic
You know she's like
Like I'm like it's gonna be 10 minutes of material
You know
If he knocks her out and then over
It's like what's up doc
I mean those costumes always look quite protective to me
Especially the head
It's hummed like
If you fall back in the head
It would be okay
Yeah right
So
Cushity
The whole day goes through
And you know
Tensest day ever
In at every interaction
So it's by
It's apparent by like
Three or four afternoon
this was just a prank.
Everyone's a suspect though.
Well, sure.
Trust no one.
I think it's some sort of deal.
They do like a meet and greed and that's like the kids or whatever.
And then like it's fun, they'll like hop on like a trolley and like right.
You know, right?
Sure.
Sure.
So she hops on to a trolley and she's like saying hi to kids and she looks over and there's a guy sitting there and he looks at her and he goes, I was hoping I'd see you.
Oh, no.
Stop.
Stop.
She hops off this movie.
Well, bunnies too hop.
Yeah.
Roll.
Stop,
drops and rolls.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Oh, my God.
That is a horror movie.
No confirmed if that was a guy.
But yeah, I mean, what if that was just a random guy?
It could have just been a guy who was like, and he genuinely was so excited.
He was hoping to see Bugs Money.
Right.
It's like, yeah.
I came to the park to see Bugs.
Well, yeah.
I always thought that was so interesting with like Six Flags and stuff.
Like, as a kid, I don't know if you guys felt this way, but I didn't need, um,
I didn't need a Looney Tunes theme.
I was like the rides do the heavy lifting.
We don't need the character.
I don't need any characters.
I don't need to take my picture with anybody.
What I keep picturing now with Lindsay is, you know.
She's like, whew.
Yes.
Well, no, this guy says it to her.
And inside the mask, she's like, oh, fuck, scared.
But the mask itself is like still like looking at her.
Like, everything's fine.
Oh, my God.
All right.
Well, this guy got banned.
Okay.
The mask isn't unlike Botox.
No.
Not at all.
Right?
It really hides your emotions.
Nobody can tell if you're crying.
It's actually bugs putting Botox.
Nobody can tell if you're crying.
No one knows what's happening on the inside.
Bugs and Bucs.
Influencer Alan Farrell.
This is what he did to get banned.
Oh, he banned or he's banned.
He's banned from life from all six flag parks for a stunt he pulled while riding a rollercoaster
at Cedar Point theme park in Ohio.
Cincinnati.
Influencer Alan Farrell ate chicken nuggets on Tuesday, May 19.
while riding the Millennium Force roller coaster
at a Cedar Point in Northern Ohio.
That's it. Wait.
He ate nuggets.
You can't eat on the ride?
He ate chicken nuggets.
I don't think you're allowed to eat on the ride
because what if it flies?
For all of them?
Oh, right, right, right.
But what if it flies?
You don't want a nugget in your face.
I remember when Fabio got a bird to the face?
Yes.
On a roller coaster.
No.
I remember that.
Oh.
Wait, Fabio.
He was at a roller coaster.
Oh, wait.
He was at a roller coaster.
Aaron, you might have to find this clip.
We're not going to have enough time.
Eventually in the show, we will have it.
They were shooting a commercial.
Yes, and he was in the front car, and he went face into a seagull.
Stop.
And it, like, broke his nose.
No.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Fabio would have never as beautiful as he was before.
Beak to beak.
Oh, my God.
Beak to beak.
That was the name of the book.
He was on the cover of.
That was his new talk show.
Okay.
So this guy, also, Millennium Force roller coaster,
Six Flags really toe in the line with their Star Wars.
Right.
Oh, yeah.
Millennium Four.
Of course.
Right.
I don't hate the game.
Farrell.
Have you been on the Mandalorius?
It's really, it's a great ride.
Is it great?
The Six Flags is just trying to do it.
Here we go.
There's an image of Fabio post bird fight.
That's awful.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
He looks so good still.
He almost looks better with blood.
Was he jacked or was he just a big guy?
No, he was jacked.
He was steroided up.
He was jaded.
It's gorgeous hair.
There's so much blood on the girls behind him.
Oh, yeah.
Is there?
Yes.
Wait, where?
I don't see.
On their faces.
She has blood on her face.
You see?
I don't see blood on her.
Both women have it out of the forehead.
Oh, shit.
Yeah, you're right.
I mean, a bird strike take, can you have a little bit of Fabio on your forehead?
Can you just?
Or bird.
She's like, I'm going to sell this.
This is when they started saying you can't have birds on them.
Can I sell my forehead?
Yeah.
For gosh?
No.
I'm touched by an angel.
That's a late night commercial.
Renting my forehead out.
Foreheads for cash.
Alan Farrell recorded the video of himself eating McDonald's chicken nuggets and dipping them into sweet and sour sauce.
Soros Source.
I can talk sauce aboard a ride on May 19th.
He shared the video that same day to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.
If you would have just done it and not posted it, he and told his friends about it.
But his whole thing is.
He's an influencer.
He's an influencer.
And this is it's not about doing it.
It's about people seeing you do it.
Of course.
So now I'm like, okay.
You get what you deserve.
Tony Clark, perfect name for somebody who's in charge at Six Flags.
There's no funny business in that name.
He's got a set of keys.
Tony Clark.
And everyone calls him Tony Clark.
They don't call him.
He is a full nameer.
He's a full name.
As one full name.
One full nameer to the next.
Have you talked to Tony?
Who?
Tony Clark.
Oh, well, yeah.
Tony's coming over.
I have no idea who you're talking about.
Paul Reiser.
God bless Paul Reiser.
Great stand up.
He's like, that was the joke that like you ever get like half the information.
but twice the recall.
You're like, Tony Clark, and you're like, no, and you're like, Tony, and you're like,
oh.
That's the other way, the other side.
Yeah, for sure.
The flip side of that bit.
It's so good.
It's so good.
It's so good.
Regional Manager of Public Relations for Six Flags said that guests must follow all rules for
Saturday.
He always introduces himself with that title.
Tony Clark, Regional Manager.
Hi, John Clark, Regional Manager, Public Relations.
Six Flags.
We've met.
Over Mid-America.
Safety is a cornerstone.
of our business and we have zero tolerance for inappropriate and unsafe behavior. Clark said in an
email adding that the company's policy prohibits all loose articles on rides, including food,
because it could become a choking hazard. Right. So inappropriate behavior is, to me, him going,
crossing the line. Sure. It is maybe unsafe to him and unsafe to someone else who might be screaming
and a nugget could come in their mouth. Go in their mouth and then, yeah, and then they're chewing.
Then they're swallowing. And then they spit that out. That hits the person behind.
them. Now they've swallowed barf.
They barf from the barf and then that goes to the boat of them.
And a whole thing of it goes into Fabio's face.
And that's viral, baby.
That's viral.
I mean, to be fair, you're paying it backwards.
We just wrote a scene from Final Destination.
That's so true.
This is called the paying it backwards.
Pay it backwards.
If you're Alan Farrell, this banning is great for you because it's all content.
Absolutely.
Anything that's talking about you anywhere.
And then you get to go on and be like, I'm banned from six flags and here's my story.
I'm selling free Alan Farrell T-shirts.
Right.
My website.
Safety's our cornerstone.
Like he said, guests who violate our code of conduct are not welcome in our parks.
And this guest has been banned from all six flags parks for life.
I wonder if there was like a prior offense for him.
Don't you want?
I mean, we'll all be gone.
Like just he has.
This can't be the first time he did this.
I want him at 80.
The world won't be around.
But I want him at 80 to go back up to a six flags.
and just see if he can get in.
I'm always curious about lifetime bans.
Right.
The lifetime ban is, it's hard to,
it's like telling your kid he's grounded
for like two years.
Yeah.
Sure.
18 months in, are you gonna really hold about that?
Granted for one night also grounds you.
It grounds you.
You got to stick around.
But the other thing is like,
is that part of employee training now
at Six Flags?
So like, here's how you dispose of waste.
And here's this.
And here's the guy who's banned.
And here's the,
Right.
You gotta tell every employee.
Right.
Like they're on a list.
On a face.
Here's him in a fake mustache.
And you can't just go by name because there's got to be other Alan Farrells out there.
Of course.
Six Flags.
Someone else buy the tickets.
Has a section on its website for content creators.
This is probably a constant thing for them.
Which says the park doesn't work with creators who violate the park safety rules,
code of conduct or creator guidelines.
The code of contact bans acts such as unsolicited photography or recording that disrupts a guest
experience or interferes with park operations, acts of behavior that park management
determined to be a safety concern or interrupts operations for a guest experience,
refusing to follow verbal or printed instructions.
In the video, Farrell read a comment daring him to eat 10 chicken nuggets while riding a
roller coaster.
He then recited his catchphrase, what's wrong with you?
And took on the challenge.
Wait, that's his catchphrase?
That's his catchphrase.
What's wrong with him?
What's wrong with him?
Get a better catchphrase.
What's wrong with you?
What's wrong with you?
I put the link to the YouTube in the video.
I don't want to see that.
But yeah, that's his thing.
He'll read a comment.
Right.
I found all this out.
I've been a fan for years.
And then he yells,
what's wrong with you?
And then goes and does it.
Which to be also, it's not like you read it for,
you decided to do this.
You read,
you chose what you're as much wrong with you.
Why did you decide to do this?
What's wrong with you is a playful.
It's you guys are the worst.
All right.
I'll do it.
Yeah.
That's my current.
That's my current album.
You guys are the worst.
You guys are the worst.
While speaking to a park employee, Farrell said,
Farrow could be heard saying,
so this is on camera,
he goes up to a park employee
before he gets on the ride
and he says,
if anyone asks,
I do not have chicken nuggets
in my underwear,
which by the way,
I'm sure wasn't the first person
to say that to that guy that day.
That day.
For sure.
Right, that's a common phrase.
Also, if you're a park employee
and people say shit,
you're like, whatever, man.
Right.
I don't, just get on the ride.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So then his initials are A.
They're like in high school.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Park employees.
Cool AF.
He's banned AF.
Yeah.
That was good.
Randy.
Circle gets a square.
Jamie didn't want to laugh at that one.
She didn't want to, but then she gave me.
Fought everything, like a McNugget on a loop to loop.
She fought it.
Fought it.
She's like, I'm a loop.
The employee nods at him.
She fought its way.
And then the video cuts to Farrell getting situated on the 310-foot Millennium Force coaster.
Oh, man. So gross.
Once the ride began, Farrell pulled the number.
nuggets out of his pants and even called for his cameraman to give him some sauce to dip the
nuggets into it okay okay the cameraman's on behind him oh behind him okay despite the wind and
force of the roller coaster causing the sauce to slather across his face he still screamed in excitement
as he had another nugget while aboard the ride and although he did eat some nuggets
he was just three nuggets shy of reaching his goal we got seven down so we did fail the challenge
he said what i guess then he has to kill himself your three your three nuggets shy of reaching
goal is also a way of saying someone is retarded.
I mean, he's three nuggets shy of a...
You're looking for a couple of cards short of a full deck.
And that you just mean somebody's a group.
I know, but can't you use that as a phrase like this guy over here?
He's three nuggets shy of reaching his goal.
Three shut seats to the wind.
You got the three part, right?
Did you see here that new guy that so-and-so is dating?
He's three nuggets shy short of his goal.
Like, what would you think of that person?
I would be so excited to meet this person.
I also feel like that's sort of an underdog story.
This is kind of, you know, if they banned him for life, he could say, I didn't even
eat all 10.
And I feel like they would have been like, okay, maybe you're only banned from a couple of
them.
Like, I feel like they would have reduced the sentence.
Or 7 out of 10.
Oh, that's so smart.
Of course.
Oh, it was right there.
Of course.
At one point, the coaster's car returned to the station and someone asked Farrell
if he brought nuggets on the ride.
Hell yeah, the person said when he found out that he did.
He also high-five someone in front of him
and included the video in his official roller coaster video
where viewers can see him munching on a chicken nugget.
Farrell, who is?
How old would you like to guess?
Alan Farrell.
We got to look at the side of his face.
Where do you put him?
Where do you put a YouTube influencer
that wants to know what's wrong with you?
25.
25?
I'm going to say 33.
33?
22.
22?
26 years.
Oh.
Okay.
Yay.
Based outside of Detroit.
I have a really good nugget dar.
Has been accepting challenges from viewers for six years.
He told USA Today via Instagram on May 29th.
In 2020, his fans dared him to do a crazy challenge, and he replied, what's wrong
with you?
From there, the phrase became his catchphrase and a recognizable part of my brand, he told
to USA Today.
His brand.
I've done it before with a cheeseburger on the same ride, and I saw it as good entertainment
for my fans.
He said he didn't find out he was banned until news outlets began reaching out to him.
And then Cedar Point Security called him shortly after.
When asked if he had any regrets, he said he doesn't.
Oh.
This is what I signed up for.
I love when he's like, this is my burden.
This is my cross-to-air.
You know, A, when you sign up to go in the Army, you expect to cease something.
Yeah, I love this, like, whatever, Vila Revolution's attitude.
You're going to make an omelet.
You're going to break smigs.
Like, that's this.
This is what I signed up for.
I understand Cedar Point's perspective.
They don't want others that aren't professionals trying to do the challenge.
I do on a daily basis.
Right.
Well, he, yeah, I mean that...
I love that he thinks he's different from other people.
Yeah, he's like...
Yeah, it's different.
Like, I have a license in this.
I wouldn't even call it.
You have a following for some reason.
I wouldn't even call this a challenge.
I would barely call this a dare.
It's really not much of one.
No.
Ten nuggets.
You just didn't eat fast enough.
I'm going to do something stupid.
Again, if I'm the person behind him and honey mustard starts flying back in my face...
I'm punching him in the back of the head.
I'm so mad at this guy.
Oh my God.
Right?
But that's not a...
to me a challenge is.
is I'm going to go in the loop-de-loop.
I'm going to drop a nugget from the top of the loop-de-loop
and try to catch it when I come down.
Or that's a really cool challenge.
That you put on your Tinder profile.
Yeah, for sure.
That is, wow.
I mean, that would just be, that would be, that was in my mind.
In fact, you'd be invited, whatever the opposite of band is,
you'd be that with, like, all the other, like, I don't know,
whatever else Six Flags owns, they'd be like, you have, like, lifetime membership.
You become the seventh flag.
For sure.
You should get a flag with your face on it.
Just a loop and a little nugget dropping down in the mouth open.
It's like Mount Rushmore.
You manage a build a better.
You deserve to have your face in the rock.
Yes.
I don't, this is gross, but to me it would be a challenge.
If he was like, I'm going to drink a gallon of milk in two minutes and then go on this
roller coaster five times, I'd be like, that's a challenge.
In a row.
I don't want to witness it or be a part of it.
No, but if somebody's somebody would be like, wow, you really challenge you.
I think I can handle roller coasters.
My kids may be gone on this roller coaster at Six Flags in St. Louis where the, the car
you're in as the roller coaster goes
spins. I've been on one of those.
And then when we got to the end...
You're Texas, right? Yeah.
So you've got...
No, you know. It kept spinning.
Six Flags over Texas.
Wow.
It kept spinning so much at the end
that I thought when it stopped,
my inside my head kept spinning.
And I'm like, I'm gonna die.
I know that feeling.
It was so... I thought I was going to die.
Now drink a gallon of milk before that.
Yeah, that's a challenge.
God.
Well, here's the deal. These two, how many
nuggets that you can eat in one sitting?
20.
No.
Wait,
not anymore.
Not anymore.
Not anymore.
Just normal,
like how much you can eat
without throwing out?
Old me could have done.
In your peak,
how many chicken nuggets could you have eaten?
80.
80?
No,
easy, easy.
We've had this conversation,
I don't care because I genuinely get shocked
every time.
Mine's like six.
40.
No,
you could eat more than six.
Come on.
I could eat more than six.
Could I?
But I'm saying we're eating
and I'm like,
I'm done with these.
Oh.
After like six.
Where you're like,
I'm at my point
where I can stop.
I've had enough chicken eggs.
You would never have a bonner ever again.
80.
And if you had all the dipping sauces out, I would easily eat 80.
I think for me, it's like 10.
The fact that the guy from supersized me.
Because when you get a six pack, there's always that feeling at the end where you're like, oh, there's no more.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
But 10, you are done.
Yeah, 10, I'd be good.
I'd probably buy two.
I'd probably have 12 and then I would probably have two to give.
The 20 piece or is what I would order.
To give to this guy.
I do 20.
I do 20, but
who's the guy
who was the supersized me guy?
Oh, Morgan Spurlock
who was just a raging alcoholic
He's dead?
He's dead?
He's no longer alive.
I want to say
McDonnell's had some...
But they found out all that supersized me stuff
was just him being a raging alcohol
Fine, but I think McDonald's killed him.
I think McDonald's killed him before.
Because the doctor went in and it was like
when he would go to doctor, I feel like, your liver.
What this is doing to your liver?
And he was like, I know I'm just doing it.
But he was just drinking like a gallon of vodka a day.
This makes sense because he seemed really fun.
He was the guy who was a, you know, because a lot of people at that time,
there were no fun documentaries.
He was like the fun doc guy.
And most fun drunks are like, super size it.
Yeah.
Give me more.
Right.
You know what?
Give a fucking big one.
That is the challenge you do when you're totally dry.
I'm going to eat McDonald's every day for 30 days.
No, you can.
Oh, you bet your ass.
Someone at the end of the bar.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, you can.
Watch me.
Watch me do it.
I'll fucking do it.
I'll fucking do it.
Where's my phone?
Give him his phone.
I love a documentary that starts
that the whole thing starts with him being like,
oh yeah, watch me.
Watch me.
That's how we should have known.
He was the dog hawk.
Anybody was like, watch my ass.
You know, when he died,
you're saying I can't do it?
You think I can't do it?
I'll watch me do it.
When he died, they doubled the size of his casket.
Oh my God.
They supersized the casket.
a lot of headroom in there.
That was...
I thought that was out of respect.
That was out of respect.
It was an honor to his legacy.
They wanted to honor.
We'll get out of here with this.
A quote and a fun little guess.
Because Alan Farrell says,
stay tuned.
This is what he told USA today.
We're not slowing down.
What's wrong with you,
merch is dropping soon.
You've been making videos for six years.
Yeah, you should have merch.
Merch should already be out there.
With 291 videos,
how many YouTube subscribers do you guys
This is going to make me mad.
This is going to make me so mad.
291.
He's just now getting merch.
Wait, sorry, say that.
What was the 291?
That's not many videos.
Videos on YouTube.
Got it.
He's been making videos for six years.
His catchphrases, what's wrong with you?
Merch dropping soon.
Right.
How many subscribers do you think he has on YouTube?
200,000.
200,000 from Randy?
That's a really good guess.
I'm going to say 300,000.
300,000?
I think he has a million followers.
A million from Jason?
He's going to call himself an influencer.
This will close out store number one.
Please tell me it's like 12,000.
Come back, I'll tell you what I've got going on.
Jamie will tell us about her show.
Jason, I'll have story number two.
But I'll tell you before all that.
That Alan Farrell on YouTube has a subscriber count of 1.89 million.
I knew it.
I knew it.
Oh, my God.
So he doesn't have to go to Six Flags anymore.
No, you can build one.
Build your own with your own subscriber.
Yes.
You want to know a real challenge?
try and revive Neverland Ranch.
You know what I thought you were to say?
You want to a real challenge?
I thought you were going to go, sell out the late show on a Friday.
You want a real challenge?
You know what I want to say to those?
Don't tempt him.
If he's listening, he's like, I should start comedy.
And then, yeah, I don't know.
Hey, we don't have a weekend for you anymore.
We're going to be opening for this guy.
You know what I want to start comedy?
What's wrong with you?
That's what I want to say it was 1.8 million followers.
What's wrong with you?
Why are you following him?
All right, that is story one down the books.
When we come back, we'll find out what Dan's got going on.
Hear about Jamie's awesome show.
all that stuff, it's Dumb People Town with the great Jamie Lee.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the show before we jump into Jamie's show.
Daniel, let people know where you've got some good stuff on the horizon.
In July.
Daniel vancirk.com.
I will be in July 7.
Second, I'm at Cap City Comedy Club in Austin, Texas.
And then I'm doing, what am I doing?
Chicago shows.
Yeah, Chicago is the 15th to the 18th of July.
Lincoln Lodge, different shows every night.
Super fun.
All stand-up shows, all great.
Me and the best comics in Chicago.
And it's just a good time.
And then on the 25th, I'll be at the Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake, Wisconsin.
That's in July.
And then ending out July in Boca Raton doing a weekend there.
I think that's like the 30th or 31st, whatever the last.
Day of July is into the 1st of August.
So those two dates right there.
Right around your birthday.
Yeah.
And then in August, headlining, uh, comedy festival in Cincinnati, the last weekend in
August.
And then we've got Charlotte and, uh, Cohasset, Massachusetts and other dates.
Everything's up at Daniel Van Kirk.com.
Yeah, I love it.
Jamie, let's talk about your, uh, fantastic show.
You're opening for Alan Farrell.
I am.
Six flags.
I'm doing a one woman show called What's wrong with me.
What's right with you?
What's wrong with me?
I'm fucking attracted to this guy.
And I haven't ever.
Since he got bam, that's what's wrong with me.
And Fabio's bloody face.
No, you have a great show.
I love seeing your promo about it.
Thank you.
I'll let you.
Yes. Let them know.
Okay, so my show is called My Friend Katie, and it's sort of like a true crime-ish stand-up show.
It's a one-woman show.
I try to avoid that label, but it fully is.
It's a theater show.
It's a theater.
Theater show, yeah.
But funny because it's you.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah, so the premise is that my best friend mysteriously and, and,
suddenly passed away when I was in college. And I basically, 20 years later, I go back to Dallas
and I try to investigate what happened to her. Wow. Yeah, it's just like it was an unbelievable journey.
Like just so many things I didn't know. And then I would get information where I go, that's the
piece that's going to be the closure. Like once I know this, I'm done. I'm going to stop looking. And then
once you get that, it just leads to more questions.
And so...
Were you surprised what you found out a lot?
I mean...
Yeah, I really was.
There were moments where you were like, holy shit, I cannot believe this.
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, also, you know, I'm a comedian.
I'm not like an FBI agent.
So I think a lot of the comedy is coming from like, what the fuck am I doing?
Right.
But also, this is someone I really loved and like it has been haunting me for 20 years.
So I'm also really, it was so exciting.
Like, just finally, like having some answers.
but then like there was one point where I ordered her autopsy report and I was like surely once I get the autopsy that is going to be it.
That is the end of all of this. Words I thought I'd never hear you say about anything. Right, right. And then once I had that information, I go, wait a minute. Okay. Like, wait. So if that's true, then that means this person did this and I need to get a hold of that person, but I can't find them on the internet. So I've talked to this other person who maybe could put me in time. Like it sent people think the autopsy report is.
the end of the show, it's not.
Autopsy is like, opens up all these.
It's pretty launchy.
Yeah, it launched us into like way more.
And yeah, but.
How long was this process?
Well, this started.
Before you even felt like, I think I, I think I'm, I think I can close this and now
I want to make it into.
Yeah.
I feel like, well, it started.
So my dad passed away in 2021.
And that was kind of what kicked it off because basically I was back in Dallas.
And I remember like roaming around my backyard, like honestly, just like a lost dog.
like I didn't know what to do.
I was like, I don't want to go in the house.
And I remember being like, wait, the last time I was in Dallas for a funeral, it was for
Katie's.
And I know how my dad died of a heart attack, but I don't know how Katie died.
And that was really like the impetus for like, I need to do something with this.
Like I was in such a weird frantic state.
I was kind of in this like manic death spiral.
And I was like, yeah, I'll just like start digging a little.
And I did not think it would be a show at that point.
I was like, I just know.
Just finding out the information for yourself.
And definitely being like there might be something here in terms of like artistic
catharsis, but never being like, this is going to be my show.
Like that came so much later because it really the show is about the journey.
Like I had to go through something.
Yeah, yeah.
And were you telling friends about everything that you were doing and they're like, holy crap.
Yeah.
This is a this is something.
Absolutely.
And a lot of people were really happy that I was doing it because they were like, I always
wondered what happened to Katie.
Yeah. I wondered that for you, like going back,
the younger version of you that didn't get to ask
all these questions and didn't get to go through
the healing process of like grieving
for information you don't have, grieving
for information you now do have and like that side
of it. And then you also doing that for a whole one to other
people who were like, thank you. Oh, the
amount of people who are like, yeah,
there were so many people that were like, I have
been wanting to talk about this for
20 years because basically
when she passed away, it was kind
of like no one wanted to say what happened. It was almost like impolite or something. And I was
just like, is that a Southern thing? Is that a Dallas? I think now that I, now I think a lot of it
has to do with that. But also the age of like you don't. And also honestly, this is, maybe this is like
a weird way to put this. But like this is before, this was in 2004. Like there were no podcast. There
was no discussion of anything. Like literally. Like no one, you wouldn't even hear about mental health.
We're so much more aware of things and it like, whatever, not to like praise the digital
age. But like that is one upside is like we just know shit that we wouldn't even be curious
about back then. So I think a lot. I think it was just an amalgamation of all those things.
And things would just happen in a vacuum and then just go away. And maybe somebody would be like,
yeah, we never really knew what happened. I know. But you don't talk about death in this certain way.
Well, that is also very true. I think we handle death in a very weird way.
We do. In the United States. Have you ever been to like New Orleans and seen like a
funeral procession. I'm like, wait, you're allowed to act that way after someone dies?
Wait a minute, we've been doing it wrong the whole time. This is the way to celebrate someone's
life. This is the way you do it. It's like there are all these things that surround people's
just weirdness around that stuff that, of course, no one was asking questions. Well, I will
let people know how to like consume this thing. So you can see, okay, so I'm doing the show right
now. I'm June 4th in Philadelphia. I don't know when this comes out. We're going to drop this
tomorrow. Oh, sick. Okay, so June 4th, Philadelphia, June 11th, Washington, D.C., June 13th,
Boston, June 16th, Joe's Pub in New York City. Love that venue. And June 25th in Los Angeles
at Dynasty Typewriter. So I'm doing a little June run. Great. If you're in any of those cities,
and you want to see a really cool comedy show that will also make you think and make you question
all of these things that you think about through your story, and this is what a great show does.
I'm sure you don't tell people this is how you should think,
but you walk away saying, oh, my God.
It's like we need to do.
If you want a night of Hub City Comedy Week in Chicago, take it.
I will give you the theater.
Oh, my God.
Well, also what's fun, too, about the show is I have, you know,
I basically made a documentary as well.
Sure.
And I ultimately want to weave all of it together, the show of the documentary.
But there are pieces of, like, audio interviews within my show that I'm throwing to
to kind of, like, support the narrative.
So you are getting to, like, basically experience a true crime documentary.
within a narrative about friendship.
I can't wait to see it.
I hate that it happened, but I cannot wait to see it.
No, I mean, I say it too.
I'm like Katie would fucking love this show.
Like she was so creative and so funny and such a like interesting dark person.
Like she would have loved it.
Like I feel very comfortable knowing that I don't, I don't feel.
And I obviously also like the tropes of true crime and everything.
A lot of people have feelings about it or like commodifying grief to make comedy like, you know,
being like, oh, you're making a show.
about a thing and like oh it was convenient that she died
because now you can do it da-da-da I've heard like
crazy fucking shit and you're like
this is my process
of going to this thing I think I'm
I don't know I just became something
you were like what can I make a show
well exactly no it's pretty fucking
inconvenient that she died yeah it's actually deeply
inconvenient this is my reaction to the thing I wish I
was going to comedy shows with her exactly
that's what I want to be doing yeah that's such
a weird way of thinking we always said
that we would tell a story about our
dad on stage just you know
anytime we tell stories about him or invoke stories about him,
we are keeping alive his memory for people.
Because there's like, people say,
there's an interesting thing in this world.
The people say you die twice, right?
You die when you die and you're gone.
And then you die when people stop telling your story
and talking about who you are,
which for most people happens when all the people they know have passed on.
Right.
But if you can tell a story about this person
that endures and reaches out to other people and connects them.
And so they live forever.
They live for much longer and their memory.
You're doing service and memory.
When is it in Los Angeles?
What's the day?
It's June 25th at Dynasty Typewriter.
Oh, please come.
Oh, wait.
I don't know if you're here.
But if you are, you should come.
We're not here.
You're not here, but we are.
So I want to try and come and see this.
It's beautiful.
Let's jump in this story.
Fabulous.
My friend Katie.
My friend Katie.
Oh, and all those ticket links are on my Instagram at really Jamie Lee.
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At really Jamiely
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Now this is not going to have as much
You know
Depth and density
Of what you just talked about
But I think actually I think it might
Maybe it will
Man uses last phone call
To call family on shoe
Before public intoxication arrest
So he called his family
Let me make a call
And he picked up his night
It takes it like a get smart
He was like dying and it was his last phone call.
Before I arrest, you arrest me.
Let me call my cousin on my.
I need to take off his shoe.
Are you going to remember the number?
A man was arrested for public intoxication.
Do you have your family on speed lace?
Maybe your shoe phone drunk.
You are.
I'm sorry, I drunk kicked you.
Public intoxication after trying to call his family using his show
when given his last chance by police.
According to a Coral Springs Police Department,
Arrest report.
Charles Robert Strom.
I feel like it's storm and they just misspelled.
Charles Robert Storm.
There's a Strom brewing.
I'm not going to say in Augustine.
I'm not going to tell you his age.
We can guess later.
It was taken into custody on April 17th after officers responded to multiple calls
about an intoxicated man behaving erratically near the 1,200 block of West Sample Road.
It's never good when you're drunk at an address.
and the address is not a house, right?
Yes.
When it's a block.
Where was he drunk?
Between 21st and 22nd Street.
Around the block.
Around, in this vicinity.
Yeah.
In this area, he was getting away.
So you got one call about him?
Multiple calls.
Police say the incident began when multiple calls reported a man
ripping off his clothes,
lying on the middle of a parking lot,
and banging on plywood.
Banging on plywood.
Maybe he was just trying to get a signal on his shoe.
Took off his clothes.
So many steps.
These things never work.
These things never work.
I can't get it.
I have roll over minutes.
I have a walkover minutes.
When officers arrived, they found Strom showing signs of being extremely entomched.
Yeah, no shit.
All the things you discussed were just signs of being extremely intoxicated.
Yeah, exactly.
It was at this point that we realized he was extremely.
And it's never like an REI parking lot.
It's a big lots.
Oh, yeah.
It's a Tilly's.
Burlington.
Code factory parking lot.
For sure.
Tilly.
Here we go.
Despite being warned, records show that Strom
continued to cause disturbances.
So I guess they drove by and they're like,
hey, why don't you just put some clothes on
and stop banging the plywood?
Yeah.
You can be drunk in this world.
Just like, dial it back.
You totally can be drunk in this world.
In a parking lot, probably.
You could be drunk.
I'd say parking lots is one of the top locations
to be drunk.
It's a safe space.
For sure.
Just don't start making people.
people on cover. Yes, exactly. One caller told police she saw him stumbling through an alley and running
in front of moving vehicles, forcing at least one driver to swerve the road to avoid hitting him.
Oh my God, no. So I don't know what he's doing. I mean, you're, I want to say I hope he doesn't
have a death wish, but I think he was so drunk that he thought he was in the game, Frogger.
Like, you know, when you're at, I'm in this video game now. Yeah, Frogger drunk. I think I have been
Frogger Dr. Cross you road. And you yell things like, they're going to stop. Yeah.
The logs coming.
Right.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Dude, dude.
You got to get across this river.
Officers later detained Strom,
as he approached the parking,
parked vehicles in the area.
While speaking of police,
Strom was asked to contact a family member.
Instead, investigators said he removed his shoe
and began talking to it as if it was a cell phone.
Now look,
in his drunk defense,
that might have been as like a fuck you to the cop.
Oh, you want me to fucking.
call somebody you want to call my
fucking shoe phone? Now if he was
a comedian, because he probably doesn't have a phone. If he was a comedian
if he does, it's four bars away.
Right, right, right. Yeah, I know.
It really is like salt in the wound.
Be like, where's your phone? You're like, oh my
can you guys hang on a second? I'm getting another call.
Yeah, right? Police
determine his actions
posed a danger to others citing his repeated
attempts to run into trafficking and
disruptive behavior in a public place.
Strom was transported to Broward
Health Coral Springs for medical clearance before
being booked into the Broward County main jail.
Let's guess.
Let's guess how old this man is.
Charles Robert Strong.
It's such a sophisticated.
Charles and Robert are two very formal names.
Those are older people's names.
So much dignity in the name.
I'm going to say, I'm going to go with 39.
That's a good guess.
I think 63.
Oh.
I'm thinking he's up and he's, you know.
Definitely goes by Chuck.
Chuck Bob.
Chuck Bobby.
And I'm going to go.
Chuck.
Oh, yeah.
Chuckie Bobby.
Chuckie Bobby.
I'll go 36.
36, 36, 39, 63.
One of you is.
My measurements.
One of you is two years off.
Oh.
It's me.
65.
You can go up or down.
I'm going to Walter Payton, 34.
You're going to go up or down.
Oh, oh.
Oh, right.
Sorry.
Okay.
I'm going to go up.
41.
Yeah, 41.
All right.
Get your answers in.
This is a quickie.
This is a quickie.
It's great.
I mean, look, he was talking to the new shoe.
And he was naked at a big lots.
Get your answers in because Charles Robert Strom is 41 years.
Oh, my God.
Jamie's crushing it today.
She knows these bad boys.
She knows.
She knows.
She knows.
Would you smash it?
Would you smash?
Oh, my God.
Would you put that on your Tinder profile?
No.
All right.
That is a story two down the books.
I have a lovely story sent in by it.
Wait, really quick.
Can I turn the volume down now in my,
Sorry, of course.
No, no, you're not.
I feel like I just started to get,
I think it's just because I've had him on for a minute.
We're good.
I have a great story coming up about,
just about a man who has figured out a wonderful place to live.
Okay.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the show before we jump into this final story.
We should let you know.
We have a couple of things coming up that we really want to get out.
into the world. We're doing headlining sets of comedy in Los Angeles.
It doesn't happen. It doesn't happen. Yeah, it really doesn't. Cool, a very cool venue called
the Venice West. I've seen music there. It's very cool. It's a 20th in Lincoln on June 16th.
We have two shows. There's a 7 p.m. show and a 9 p.m. show. And I want all of our L.A. peeps to come
out to these shows. Then that weekend, we're going to be in San Francisco, the 19th and 20th at the great
Cobbs Comedy Club. I love that club so much. Wonderful club. And last time we were there, we had
great audiences. So one show Friday, two Saturday. Let's see if we can sell like, this is my goal,
six to 700 tickets. Can you put 200 people in each show at least? It's a 400 seat room.
That's all we're asking. We have low, we have low expectations. We're not trying to, we're
not trying to, we're going to have good people coming out to those shows. We're trying some
new things is we're, because the worst thing that can happen to us is when we're, like, we just
did this wonderful southern rum, Mobile, Alabama, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, and, and, and,
Lake Charles.
Great shows.
All of them really fun.
We're in Lafayette.
We're hanging out the day after our show.
Just like hanging out downtown.
We went to this other thing.
And all these people came out to us.
They're like, what are you guys doing here?
We're like, we failed.
We failed because you don't know why we're here.
We're failing.
We should have been in our show.
They're like, I would have come.
So we're doing everything we can on our end to try and get the word out to people
so that they don't see us the day after and say, where were you?
Right.
What are you doing here?
So that's what we're doing.
superclorers.com, but I actually want everyone to sign up at punchup.
Live. Do you do Punch Up Live? It's so good. I love it. We have some video clips on there,
all of our dates and tickets. Sign up and put your email on there. This is something we should
have been doing for years. We screwed up two things, many things, but two things in our comedy
career. We should have just picked one airline and just gone with that the entire time,
no matter what. We never did that. And then we never started just gathering people's emails.
We're not going to do anything crazy with them, but we just want to let you know when we're coming to
So punchup. Live slash Sklar Brothers.
Look up, Sklar Brothers.
Follow us.
Give us your email and we'll let you know.
Come see us at the comedy for it also in July.
That's gonna be really fun.
Yes. Lots of fun stuff coming.
Lots of fun stuff.
Shall I jump into this last story?
Yeah, jump into it.
Okay, this was sent in by our good friend
from Portland Alvin Cadabay.
And I know we just celebrated Easter.
The Cadabay egg is actually...
One of my favorite eggs.
Egg on the outside, chocolate on the inside.
It's fine.
It's so wet.
I love it.
Here we go.
Man caught living in Crawlap
space of a happy Valley town home sentence to prison.
Good.
Well, he went from one prison to another.
I mean, who wants to live in a crawl space right there?
I mean, so he's siphoning off of their.
Right.
I mean, shelter.
Yes.
You shouldn't have access to your crawl space.
Do you even have a crawl space?
I don't have a crawl space, but there is a little area underneath the steps that come
out from our kitchen and it's open right now.
Don't make that.
Don't say that.
No, I don't want anyone to come.
Aaron cut that.
We don't know where he lives.
You don't know where I live.
All right.
The guy's name is Beniamine Bikur.
Okay.
That's the guy who got caught.
Yeah.
B-A-B-A-B-A-B-A-B-Kour.
What a cool name.
Bukur.
He's Benjamin Bukering.
Benjamin Bucur.
Was caught frogging.
P-H-R-O-G-I-N-G.
That's the term.
Oh, okay.
Frogging back in September,
having made a comfortable place in a family's crawl space,
complete with TVs and gaming councils.
Wow.
He's sponging off the internet.
He's cave maxing.
He is cave maxing.
Oregon City, Oregon.
A man caught living in a crawl space of Happy Valley Townhome was sentenced Tuesday,
and we're going to figure out how long to so much time in prison,
according to the Clackamas County District Attorney's Office.
The case began on September 3rd of last year when a neighbor spotted someone going
into the crawl space of a townhome on southeast old town court and called the dispatch.
Was not the guy like Laslo and real genius?
Yeah, he like went into the closet and he had like went down.
That was always.
You ever see that movie?
A long time ago.
I don't know if I ever saw that.
Worth going back and watch.
Val Kilmer.
Oh, I don't think I saw that.
Oh, you have to watch it.
Oh, you have to watch.
80s. It's so much early Val Kilmer.
He's so funny in this movie.
Is he?
So funny.
And he's like hot young Val Kilmer.
Oh, wow.
Hot Valcombe.
Hot South East Old Town Court called the dispatch.
After getting permission from the home's occupants,
deputies used a halogen tool.
Halogen.
Haligan, not gin.
It's G-H-A-L.
Remember the halogen light we had in our apartment in the 1994?
How could I forget?
Black, you know that one.
It was the black with the up thing.
With like every...
Oh, yeah.
Everyone had it and it would get so hot.
I'm like, we're burning this whole apartment to lay down.
With the one that's like martini glass.
Yeah, with a little light bulb for an olive.
And we're like, wait, we're going to burn down half of New York.
That was followed by everybody in college getting the light that it was a,
floor lamp, but then it had like six arms.
Okay, I'm so glad you brought that up.
Because I was hoping, right, the octopus.
Yes.
Yeah, and it was like, retro.
They were all like curly.
From 1999 to 2005, yeah.
Everyone either had that lamp.
I had it in my dorm room.
See?
I did it have like a blue and a green?
No, that came later.
Mine were all white bulbs.
Yep.
And yeah, I mean, it's like, it's just like a disgusting, like, tree.
Yes.
It's just like a light tree.
It went with absolutely nothing.
No, it was so ugly.
It was like this little space alien that you live with.
You know how you requested just light coming from your lamp?
We're going to now just interrogate people in several.
And like a bulb would always burn out and you're like, it's fine.
I have two more.
So then it's like two tentacles, like sad little aquas.
And you're like how many of these bulbs burn out before we start changing?
Right, right.
After getting permission from the home segment,
Halligan to crack open the crawl space store.
Just inside, deputies found Benjamin Bacur, Beniamine Bacur,
a complete stranger to the residence,
a married couple and their young daughter.
It's like parasite.
Oh, that's terrifying.
It's a parasite room.
Oregon parasite.
It is.
Inside the roomy crawl space.
You got to love that.
Why they make it sound nice.
Rumi-crow space.
I know everything I hear about this, I'm like,
Bacquer had finished it.
Put that on your Tinder.
That's what happens when you live in New York for any period of time.
I know, I've been there too long.
I'm like, oh, crawl space.
Yeah.
Sure.
If you have enough room for your TVs.
This is how long you've been living in New York?
No window, but there's a vent.
No, yeah.
I can breathe.
New Yorkers would be like, what's the square footage?
Yeah.
Inside the roomy crawl space,
Bacour had finished a comfortable living space for himself,
complete with string lights,
powered via a network of power cords
plugged into the townhomes electricity.
This guy's still in every siphoning electricity.
He also had multiple TVs.
How many TVs do you need in the crawl space?
That's a big cross space.
Yeah, that's like, yeah.
Oh, this is a real photo.
Gaming consoles and cooking burners.
That's a roomy crawl space.
Investigates multiple TVs.
And this is where it becomes a dumb people town story.
It's like a Buffalo Wilde.
Maybe.
Yeah.
Investigators also found a sword,
knives and a pipe containing methamphetamine resume.
All right.
Well, listen.
Hey, what he does in his crawls is perfect.
Hey, look, what he does by one of his many TVs.
What happens in the crawl space stays in the crawls space?
Apparently not.
Apparently not.
You actually will go to jail.
For how long?
How long was Beniamine mean?
Bacour was he the roommate of the family that they never knew they had, said Tiffany
Escobar.
No one's name is spelled correctly.
It should be Escobar.
It should be Benjamin.
Everything's just like a little.
It's a little off.
The name was Ben Amin.
Ben Amin.
Beniamin.
Beniamin.
Beniam.
B-E-N-I-M-I-N.
So we want us to guess how long he was in there for?
How long was he in there?
In the space?
In the cross space.
I'm going to say a year.
What do you think?
Four months.
Three years.
Okay, three years.
I don't know.
It's a number that came to me.
It's roomy.
He's had a lot of time to work on the place.
Get your answers.
You got two TVs.
Did you see the documentary about the people who built an apartment in a mall?
No.
No.
That's amazing, though.
I'm in.
He had been there for two and a half months.
Jay, you were the closest.
I was done.
Well done.
Thank you.
It was a room.
But they had two and a half months on meth is like 12 years.
They did a lot with this place.
Those are like 12 meth years.
And for the people who live there, yeah, that's a lifetime.
So you have to clear out the space.
You just have to clean.
You just have to clean out the space.
You have to always be checking your crawl spaces for rats and people, meth heads.
Extra TVs.
I mean, extra TVs.
Why is our electric bill so high?
You have to make sure.
Also, aren't you hearing a TV?
Like, do you hear that stuff?
You're like, who's playing the TV?
I already cooked dinner.
I don't know why I'm smelling something cooking right now.
He had cooking plates down there.
He had meth.
This guy was just, he was, I mean, he's an.
opportunist.
Sure.
So you got to give him that credit.
No, my first thought is this is how expensive it is to buy a house in America.
I know.
You got to crawl space.
You got to crawl space?
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, the fact that he like tried to make it his own with the lights.
Kind of makes you sad.
You wonder.
You do wonder.
But also when I saw that picture, I go, I'm not seeing any lights.
No.
No.
There were no.
I didn't really get a sense of design.
He needed a, I didn't get a, I've been watching a lot of lakefront.
Dacor.
Lakefront Bargan.
Yeah, I didn't see any daycare.
Wait, what's Lakefront bargain?
Lakefront bargain-hurt renovations my new kick.
I love all these fucking.
Lakefront bargain hunt.
They just had those.
That where they would just find a bargain on the lake.
And then renovation is the first half is them picking it.
And the second half is them renovating it.
I love shows like that.
Did you see the cross-based?
How about illegal cross-based renovation?
Illegal crawl-space renovation?
I would watch it.
Wait, there was a...
Renovation Aloha is currently my favorite one.
It's a married couple in Honolulu.
Just renovating.
renovating like old Hawaii and you know it's Hawaii so they're getting these like dilapidated completely
roofed-down house but it still costs in like 1.3 million but it's a great show oh I want to watch that
I want to watch there was two women who used to go around and renovate like motels they only did one
season of it I would watch that you find it it's so good I was obsessed with it it sounds so good what was
what was the name of the show like no vacancy or no I forgot what it was or or do not
I'm guaranteed.
A listener will tell us.
A listener will tell us.
Please do disturb.
That's great.
Please do that.
Please do disturb, is it?
All right.
So we're going to guess two final things.
Okay.
How long did he get in prison for?
Okay.
For a lot longer in two and a half months.
Maybe.
What do you think?
Oh, we guess it now?
Yeah.
He's like, can I stay in solitary confinement?
It feels like the old crawl space.
No, he actually lived in a crawl space in the prison.
He's like, this is an upgrade.
Right.
He's not looking over my shoulder.
Wait.
You guys bring the food?
He's like, thank you.
I have a bathroom.
I have a bathroom in here?
Wait, people are allowed to...
Everybody can know I'm here.
Is this a hotel?
There's turned out service.
I mean, I'm sorry, there's turned out service.
What do you mean tattoos are free?
You're gonna toss my salad?
They're not free, free, free.
You get to make friends in the shower?
This way is...
You put a bit on my pillow?
That could stand up.
Looks like it's called Motel makeover.
Motel makeover.
Terrible name.
Terrible name, but I love these two women
because they're like,
one has like a thick Michigan accent
and they're just I have 100% in it
you know they probably both have bumpets in their hair
I'm gonna guess I'm gonna guess you love him but they have
one year. One year how long was he in prison for?
Shit I'm gonna say two years
six months there's no way
Get your answers in town is this man
Wait wait wait before you go oh yeah I'm gonna guess his age and get out of here
Beniamen Bacour Bukor
was sentenced to three years in prison
What? I didn't want to be right
At least he knows where he's living yeah he's got somewhere
asleep. Well, you said one or two. I said one, but I had three years on the how long.
Okay, we're going to get out of here on this. The show is called my friend Katie and I want
everyone to look it up. Go to your... What happened to Katie? At really Jamie Lee is my Instagram.
At really Jamie Lee. It's my friend Katie. The show is called my friend Katie.
My friend Katie. Sorry. But we're going to figure out what happened to Katie and you're going to watch
this show. There is like, and we're not giving anything away. I literally want people on the edge of
their seats. If you're into true crime and you want it told to you by a very talented, funny and interesting
performer, go see this show.
go see the show and we're going to try and come see it. That's the most I can tell you.
Thank you. My friend Katie, I'm very excited about it. Daniel, go at Daniel v.kirk.com
and then come see us at the Venice West.
It's here in June. You guys are doing that right. June 16th and then in San Francisco.
I'm in Baltimore, D.C. I forgot June. I didn't realize.
Baltimore, D.C. and Janesville, Wisconsin, the comedy cabin in June.
Oh, yes. My friend Katie, I'm going to say the dates again.
June 4th, Philly. June 11th, Washington, D.C., Boston the 13th, New York, the 16th, L.A.
the 25th.
Got it.
Go.
Beniamine Bacour is.
How old?
I'm gonna go.
You go, you're a guest.
Or you can go last.
I'll go last.
I'll go last.
I'll go last.
23.
Okay.
Get your answers in, guys.
I love this so much.
This wonderful show that we do,
that is just us goofing around with the friends.
That forces our friends to come in here.
I love it.
Beniamine Bacour is 41 years old.
There you guys.
Jamie, they had a wonderful day guessing.
We love you guys.
And as we say in,
every writer's room we've ever been in where we're messing around before we have to start
working oh shit we got to get back to work peace
