The Harland Highway - 366 - IT'S LISTENER MAILBAG. YOUR LETTERS AND SNAILS TOO!

Episode Date: January 26, 2012

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Bing, bang, boom, baby. You want to party with this? Hey, do you want to party with this podcast, baby? I know I do, and you're listening, so you must want to party with this podcast, too. Today, interesting podcast. We go a little bit longer today, and here's why we are dipping in to the Harland Highway mailbag

for the majority of the show. And I took some hard ones today, man. I got a few people calling me out. I got a few people, a few of the pavement pounders are thinking of bailing on the highway. They're mad, they're upset. They're threatening to go.

They're threatening to jump off the highway because of things I've said, because of suggestions and comments and ideas that I've spewed into the universe. And I don't blame them they're right. No, wait, wait, wait, no, they're not right. We're going to discuss them today. We're going to read their letters.

We're going to talk about them and see if we can, you know, set things straight, come to an understanding, hold hands in kumbaya. Let's see what happens. Also, we're going to be talking about yucky foods that you eat. And as promised, I'm going to give you an update on the Honeybadger viral video project I'm working on right here on the Harland Highway Welcome to the Harland Highway Relax

Get ready to have fun What we've got here is Failure to communicate One Keithburger With everything coming up You just made a wrong turn On to the Harland Highway Look at me, Damien

It's all for you This is Harland Williams I'm a human being God Hey, hey, hey, hey, it's Harlan Williams. Take yourself out to dinner. Go fancy, man. Go to a nice, fancy seafood or steakhouse restaurant.

Eat sushi off the back of a bald man's head. Go out and get something exotic. Although, wait a minute. I'd take that back. Any escargo eaters out there? Hmm? Snail eaters? When did somebody decide eating snails was a delicacy,

and we should pay top dollar for something that destroys our garden? Hmm? I don't see anybody eating caterpillars or beetles or any of the other garden destroyers. Yes, would you like to try the fabulous escargo dipped in butter this evening? $700 for these lovely lowlives that crawl around and eat your cabbage. in your organic garden. Really? Can I eat snails?

What the hell? What's next? Yeah, give me some of that possum meat. And, yeah, that alley cat looks delicious. And how about that carp that's sucking all the garbage off the bottom of the lake? That looks like a treat. And maybe some skunk haggis. I'd love to taste the intestine of a skunk.

What in the name of St. Corn on the Cobb is happening, man? And who was the first guy that decided to eat snails? Who was that guy? Had to be some guy out in the garden, some guy working away, working up a sweat, and he was just too tired. He got hungry from working in the garden. He's like, oh, man, I've got no more energy, man. I can't get up and go back to the house.

Wait a minute. Look at all these snails. everywhere. What the hell? Let me try. Mmm. Crunchy. Mmm. Mmm. Smimy. Mm.

Mmm. Mm. Repulsive and vomitatious. Ah, but if I bake them and dip them in butter, they'll probably be delicious. If you think Fear Factor is a joke, just go to the nearest fancy French restaurant and order the snails. Oh yes, Waiter Could I have some cow eyes And some boiled squid legs

With that snail, please I'm doing it all up tonight Oh, give me an Alka-Seltzer And a barf bag Here on the Harland Highway Okay, I got to come clean I just ragged on escargo And I'm going to be honest

I've never tried it okay and I never will it just looks too gnarly it looks too disgusting i mean i'll i'll eat some squiggly things but that one i just can't get there man i don't want to eat snails i don't want to eat eels uh i don't want to eat oysters you ever you ever seen these guys and girls that i'll have the oysters on the half shell please and they bring these uh these shells these oyster shells with the raw oysters sitting on top of them and people tilt the shell up into their mouth and suck in this like blob of phlegm and i can only imagine as as a guy like outdating a girl or a girl outdating a guy

and before, you know, you get to, you know, the romance, you go out for dinner and this date is sitting across from you, sucking, raw oysters off the shell, slurping them down their mouths, these giant goleys or gollies or whatever you call them. Ugh! I mean, I don't want to kiss the mouth. that's been sucking down raw oysters, uncooked oysters right in front of my face. It's one thing to just get a fork

and delicately put that in your mouth, but to tilt your head back like you're a walrus, you know, and you're like a sea otter, you've cracked open a shell, and you're like, yeah, that's lady-like. That's attractive. Can't wait to French kiss with that mouth. No, thanks.

So there's some stuff I'm never going to try. And maybe, just maybe, escargoes delicious. I'll never know. I'm never going to try it. And that's like, what's that called, bias journalism or what's that? There's some kind of term where you don't investigate your story. It's not biased journalism. It's, uh, what, what would it be?

It's, uh, it's neglect. It's, it's reporting on a story, creating a story, and you've never even investigated it. You just did this whole piece where you slammed the innocent snail and you've never even, uh, participated in it. Well, good. Consider me bad journalism. And consider me having a beautiful, digestive system and now

speaking of digesting you know you people you folks you friends you fans you pavement pounders I encourage you to write to the show let me know where your head's at and we got to get to the mailbag we've got some interesting letters today

a few negative letters that I'm going to address but nonetheless it can't all be good so let's do it But let's dip in to the Harland Highway Mailbag. Letters. Oh, we get letters. We get your letters every day. Mailman, mailman, mail today.

Reach right in and pull one out. Those letters. I love those letters. Let's find out what you've got to say. Oh, boy. Mailman. Okay, here is our first letter. As I said, you know, a little bit of negative feedback, but it's cool. That's what it's all about, right?

So this one's from R. Baldwin, and the subject is Tim Tebow. He says, I just listened to your praise of Tim Tebow for wearing his religion on his sleeve. I called BS. I grew up in a household where religion was part of the routine. Heaven was the pie-on-the-sky reward for our suffering in this life. I've known hardworking people who could never rise above poverty but praise the Lord every day. But Tebow hits the sports lottery and basically says that the Lord personally helps him win. In essence, stating, Tim Tebow is more important than the rest of us.

BS. Okay. Tim Tebow, like many players in the NFL, have their faith. Good for them, but we don't watch sports for the players' religion. We watch it to be entertained, and Tebow, like NFL players in the past, have decided to make the football field their pulpit. If that's what I wanted, I'd be going to church on Sunday instead of watching football. Okay, hey, valid point, valid point.

And, you know, I don't think when I did my report on Tim Tebow, I was saying that players should necessarily do it, that they should, you know, bring the religion to the football. field, but I was more less kind of praising the fact that he was doing it, it wasn't afraid of it. I wasn't encouraging players to do it.

But I think what I like more, and you mention it in your letter here, R. Baldwin, maybe Rob, I don't know. But it sounds like you got a bit of a bad taste in your mouth about religion. Maybe, you know, it didn't work out or

you don't like the way that people put so much faith in it and so on. But that's what's interesting to me about Tim Tebow and the word faith is that you can put everything you want into something and it's all about your personal belief on how much it impacts you, how much you think it works for you. And I think I was commenting more on the power of faith, and how it can give people strength. Now, whether it works or not, you're right.

You know, hardworking people who could never rise above poverty, but praise the Lord every day. And that happens all the time. There's people that never make more than a dime, but their faith is so strong that it supersedes. It goes beyond the fact that they're living in a ditch, or they're living in poverty. they've got some kind of inner light, some kind of inner glow

that see some kind of bigger picture. And I think my comment is that I find that admirable because when someone is so low and you put your faith in God and you say, God, please help me, I've got nothing. And God still doesn't come. Or maybe he comes in other ways. And even you're still destitute,

but you still believe in the way. that entity you still have faith in that entity and and it's admirable to see people that can hold on to that strength and i agree with you it can also be disheartening to see people you know kind of counting their chips and and thinking that this this supreme beam is is going to help them or whatever. But my Tim Tebow commentary was more about the power of the faith, the belief that people put in it, even right to the end. I mean, look at Tim Tebow, in the end, he lost.

But do you think that's shaken his faith? Do you think he's going to give up on getting down on one knee? Do you think that's going to stop him from praying? No, because the faith is an invisible spiritual connection to something. and if that invisible connection brings people's strength which is more valuable than money or wealth or poverty or success or anything I think there's something powerful and valuable to that and that strikes right down to the core of a person's soul

a person's being in it it goes beyond all the worldly things and worldly possessions that we know So I'm not trying to jam religion down anyone's joke because I'm not that guy. I'm not an overly religious guy myself. But I was trying to more open the door, open the box on the strength and the power of conviction of faith. And I appreciate your letter. I appreciate you challenging it. I appreciate your point of view on it.

And I think what you're saying is valid too, but I just didn't want you to get confused that I was trying to push, push religion and faith. Because I think faith can be in things above and beyond, even God. I think you can put faith in things that you manifest in your own mind, and they become, you know, a goal or an objective for you. Hey, everybody. Who wants to have better sex? No? Yes? The answer is yes. You always want to have better sex. That's what you want it to be better, not worse. Trust me. And Adam and Eve is offering 50% off just about any item plus free shipping. And more than that, Adam and Eve wants to make your life easy. They offer discrete shipping as your privacy is a priority. Plus 100% free shipping on your entire order. Doesn't matter how much you spend or what you buy. All will be packaged and sent to greatly for free and fast. Don't wait. Better Sex is just a click away. That's 50% off, one item, and free shipping. Bring more pleasure and satisfaction into your bedroom. Just go to Adam and Eve.com and select any one item. It could be an adventurous new toy or anything you desire.

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writing in. So let's go to another letter. Here we go. This is from J-A-N-N-A. Wow. What she got to say? Subject, 2012. Just caught up on your latest episodes.

I put off listening to the first one I saw that Dr. Featherstone, well, it's not Doctor, it's Mr. Featherstone, who's my boss. I saw Dr. Featherstone's visit in the description and I was worried that the show was going to change and I was right. So sad.

However, it is obvious how much effort goes into the show and with your traveling, I'm not sure how you did three days in the first place. So I guess I'll manage. But if you ever cancel the show, I will put my iPod in the microwave. As always, thanks for the giggles and the guffaws, smooches Jana and then she says

P.S. Maybe you can update your Facebook page every once in a while. Yes, you can do it from your phone very easily with an app called Friendcaster. Well, let me address first your concern about going to two shows. Yes, three shows

was a lot. Not a lot of guys do three shows or even two shows a week. Some people do one show a month. So with all my work, all my other jobs, my acting, my voiceover work, my writing, blah, blah, blah. It became a lot of work to do three a week. And with Mr. Featherstone chastising me for, you know, cutting out for the Christmas holidays,

we're down to two. But I tried to do it so you have something at the beginning of the week, and then you don't have to wait until the end of the week. You got Thursday, which gives you a day to a day to a day. enjoy it and you're not waiting too long in between. So it's almost like we just kind of shifted a day. And I'm sorry if I disappointed you, but I hope you'll enjoy twice a week just as much.

Maybe less is more. Maybe it'll make you want more. Maybe I'll just do one day a week for three minutes. If less is more. Maybe I won't even do it and you'll listen to it all the time because there's nothing and now I don't know what I'm saying. As for the Facebook page, I couldn't agree with you more. My Facebook page is going through a huge revamp right now.

As I said, I've brought on board a new friend, a new person to help. My friend Jeff is reworking the Facebook page, so it's going to have a lot of the Harland Highway stuff on there. And it's going to be a lot more interactive and have more features. And so we're getting that going. Thank you for, you know, bringing that to my attention, but we are on it. Let's see. Our next letter.

Let's see. This is from Veronica Rossi. Oh, boy, who always corrects me. Thank God. She's like my thesaurus. And I probably just said that wrong. She's my thesaurus. How's that, Veronica?

She says, Dear Harlan, in your latest podcast, you mentioned the girl with two virginia. And referring as to how to think about it, you said animonically, anemonecable, atatomical, atomical, atomicabable, the word is anatomical. I think two vaginas reduced your IQ to somewhere between a carpenter ant and an onion bun. Wow. Yes, Veronica, you are absolutely correct. Oh, I do get hung up on the word sometimes, folks. But have faith. Ah, see, I threw the faith word in there again. Have faith that I will get better and better with my words.

All right, let's go to the next letter. This is fun. All right, let's see. Here we go. This is from Sammy D. And it says the Harland Highway Harlan. love all your work, all your appearances and movies are tops, and your stand-up comedy

is awesome. I have been a long-time road pounder, or pavement pounder, is the correct thing. I know it's your show to present, and I cannot imagine how much work goes into each segment of each podcast. Kudos, but I am respectfully considering unsubscribing because among the past several podcasts,

the preaching, question mark, question mark, moral messaging, question mark, question, is too long. I don't mind a message or advice, but it gets frustrating after a few minutes. God bless. P.S. Hope my message wasn't too long. PPS. Please don't wait too long to return to Phoenix Tempe. Well, hey, you know what? Valid call. And I understand it. You know, if I'm being totally objective, I don't necessarily like to hear preachy stuff when I'm tuning into a comedy podcast. And trust me, when I start into a topic, and I hope you'll understand my point of view, and I hope you don't unsubscribe. But it's up to you.

But sometimes when I get into a topic, I can get passionate about it. And when I start into something, it's like I get emotions, I get feelings, I get thoughts, and I want to stream of conscious those onto the show and let you guys hear what I'm thinking. I try not to preach it, people. I try not to, you know, say, oh, this is the way. This is, but I like to share ideas, and maybe sometimes you're right. I might get a little long-winded. Maybe I talk too long about a certain topic. Maybe I share too much of my personal feelings about it.

But that being said, you know, if nothing else, it gives you a platform to disagree with me. or, you know, maybe here's something you've never heard before and agree with me. Or maybe you're enlightened or maybe like you said here, you're kind of like turned off by it. But, you know, I figure that when I do do that, it's maybe a small percentage of the podcast. And, you know, obviously I don't want to turn any of the listeners off by doing that. But I got to be true to who I am. I got to be true to what flows through me. And sometimes, if you can tolerate it now and then,

I dump stuff out there that maybe for some might be like, oh, God. And then for others, you know, I get letters on the other side of this for people like, oh, my God, I loved your perspective on that topic. I loved your insight. I loved your point of view. I never thought of it that way. Or I didn't agree with it.

but I still liked it, blah, blah, blah. So obviously this is a medium where it's communication and it's me talking to you. And as you see here, I get feedback from you in return. And I hear you, buddy. I hear you, Sammy D. And are you a DJ? Sammy D.

Spinning the platters. I hear you. I'm aware of it. And I, you know, I will not kind of censor myself. because, you know, it's what I do. A podcast is to express yourself, but I will keep track of getting long-winded. I will keep track of trying not to be preachy.

And believe me, I'm not trying to shove moral messages or any religion or anything down anybody's throat. But I like to point out when I see something that I perceive to be good in this world, something that lies on the side of being positive. I like to give kudos. I like to talk about that. I like to encourage people to see life in a positive way and do things in a positive way.

And I can see how that could turn some people off. And I'm not saying you're a negative person, but I can see how maybe you don't want to hear that. You're like, come on, dude, make me laugh. I don't need to hear how you put 20 bucks in the hand of some guy laying on a sidewalk. You know, what are you trying to guilt me out or something? You know, I don't know, man. But I hear you.

I'll put a checkmark beside it. And I hope you, for the small amount that maybe sometimes I get carried away, it doesn't cause you to unsubscribe because, you know, I love it that you're here. I love it that Sammy D is here and listening and, you know, it's a weird thing when you do these types of shows because you can't live in a world where I got to make everyone happy because you can't make everyone happy. So Sammy D, let me close with this.

If 90% or even 80% of what I do is what you want to hear, don't let the small percentage of what you don't want to hear push you away from the bigger picture. Take what you can and what you like from the podcast and, you know, the stuff you don't like, just erase it from your memory bag. Drink a bottle of, you know, paint remover.

And, oh, I can't take. What did he say? Oh, good, I burned that out of my brain. No, don't really. do that but um thank you for your letter i'll be a little more aware of it and uh you know don't don't take off stay stay here with the pavement pounders on the harland highway okay let's get to a couple more letters and then we're out of here okay let's see what we got here this one is from shana wilson subject from an adoring fan okay here we go this one's a little more

positive but uh i like getting them both just so you know i you know i can't improve the show unless i hear what you like and you don't like so you know good on all of you so here this is from shana wilson i've always loved seeing you in movies my favorite being rocket man which i could watch over and over again and sadly only have on vhs who has that anymore hey shana go to our store we just lowered the price on rocket man DVDs and uh we'll send out to you right away. I'll continue with your letter. I recently saw there's something about Marion decided to look up some more things by you. I just wanted to say after reading your bio, I've definitely fallen more in love with you. Hello. I am an art major studying in Missouri

working as a landscaper gardener to pay the bills. After watching the Conan interviews, I couldn't stop laughing. The things you say are exactly things that I would say and are no offense, completely retarded but so utterly hilarious and doesn't and wait hold on and sadly i can actually follow every step in your head on how you got to what you were saying wow okay Conan definitely doesn't seem to appreciate how completely hilarious what you say is just thought to shoot you an email zip pong that's the sound my email gun is shooting it's not very deadly ESP with pathetic noise and thank you from an appreciative admirer

well hey thank you Shana Shana Wilson so see there's the yin and the yang you get people that are like I don't like what you're saying and then you get other people that are like oh I love what you're saying so that goes back to it you can never win and that's why I just got to do what I do

and I hope you'll balance it out and keep the good and the bad. But, Shana, thank you for your wonderful letter. And just so you know, I don't want to blow the cover a little at all here. But, you know, me and Conan, I've been doing Conan show for, it's got to be, God, I think it might be going on 20 years, 15 years I've been doing Conan. And when we first started doing it, when I first used to go on Conan, I'll be honest, it was awkward and we weren't really in a rhythm.

And me and Conan weren't really connecting. and I didn't really love it that much. And then one day, I don't know, I think about 10 years ago, I went on and me and Conan just clicked. And what Conan did is he kind of took this point of view, and I don't want to say it, but it's a little bit of an act where he sits there and kind of stares at me, dumbfounded, like, what the hell is wrong with you, dude?

and he realized by, you know, with my nutty sense of humor and the crazy things I came up against, he realized that by kind of taking the point of view where he's just sitting back and going, holy cow, this guy's nuts, that it kind of worked. And it made us kind of like a team that went back and forth. And so whenever I go on his show,

he plays that up a little. He doesn't really sit there and think I'm an idiot and think I'm stupid, but he plays that angle up so that it kind of makes me look sillier and makes him look more befuddled and it's that, you know, it's that old conflict. Whenever there's conflict, there's comedy.

And, you know, in the commercial breaks, Conan tells me, he goes, Harland, I love when you come on the show because with a lot of guests, I have to work. I have to sit there and listen to them and I have to work it, you know, keeping the conversation going. And he says, what I love about you is I just get to sit back and it's like watching a show. He goes, I just let you go. And, you know, I just shake my head.

And so we have that kind of pattern. So, you know, in other words, to stick up for Conan and protect my buddy Conan, I have to let you in on that so that you don't think that Conan is really like kind of disrespecting me or, you know, kind of trying to make me look bad. In fact, he's doing the opposite. that he's by putting on a little bit of an act. I mean, he's not acting when he's laughing and having fun. That's all real.

But by putting on a little bit of an act that I'm such a freak, it kind of pumps everything up to another level. And that's a gracious thing that he does. And it's a trick of the trade that he does. And it's a tip of the hat to his ability to know how to do that. A lot of talk show hosts don't know how to find a beat with their guest. that, you know, make them look better. So there you go.

Don't feel bad about Conan, and the next time you see us together, just know that we're in it together. We're like a little team, okay? So there you go. I think that's quite enough for the mailbag today. And what? One more?

All right, one more quickie. And then we're going to wrap up the Lister Mailbag. Here we go. Uh-oh. Looks like another angry one. Yikes. But hey, we got to go through them. We got to go throw them.

This one's from Jessica. And the subject says episode 359 cross-dresser. And here's the letter. It says, you, sir, are an idiot for backing this woman up. What was this transgender person supposed to do? Shop in the men section? Can you imagine seeing what looked like a woman trying on clothes there? Of all people, star of sorority girls, well, it's sorority boys.

I thought you would be more understanding of this. I've listened to every episode of the Harland Highway, and I'm not sure I'd like to continue. All right, please don't be angry and bail out of the Harland Highway. Look, everything I say, I'm not a prophet, I'm not a genius, I'm not a rogue scholar, I'm just a guy, and you know some of the stuff I say you're not going to you're not going to like but let's put it this way if you had a band let's say Fleetwood Mac or Lincoln Park or Prodigy or Van Halen okay and every song they put out you liked or loved and then one day they put out a song that you're like oh god listen to this piece of crap oh god are you going to abandon that band because they uh they

produced one song they used up two minutes of your time that you didn't like so you're going to forego all the good stuff that brought you joy in happiness and blah blah blah no so cut me the same slack and also

if I was right all the time how bored would you be if you agreed with me all the time how boring would that be isn't it isn't it feel nice to kind of disagree with me and have an opposing opinion and and write about your feelings and look at the look at the passion i got out of you and believe me i'm not looking to rub anyone's nose in it but you know your opinion matters to me as much as uh mine should to you i'm not saying you're right or wrong but let's get into your

letter here basically there was a story and this was a few podcasts back so i might not get it 100% accurately so again cut me a little slack player There was a story where a man dressed up as a woman, a transgender guy, went into a woman's dressing room area at Macy's or J.C. Penny, and the attendant working there asked this person to leave for the safety of the female customers. She'd probably never been confronted with this kind of situation. She was clearly uncomfortable out of a physical male who was cross-gendered, who was dressing as a woman trying on clothes in the women's change area. And I said, I agree.

I don't think it's safe for whether a man's got transgender issues or not that a man should be hanging out in the woman's changing area. It doesn't mean I'm not compassionate towards, uh you know whatever this person's going through um but i'm going to put the uh the safety of of the public and the safety of women ahead of the the needs of one person who's a uh cross cross dresser um and then uh jessica's point was she goes can you imagine seeing what looked like a woman trying on clothes there um what sorry hold on she goes she says um what was this transgender person supposed to do shop in the men section

can you imagine seeing what looked like a woman trying on clothes there well yeah i'd rather see a guy dressed as a woman and here's my whole point here because this is about safety and you you got to you can't deny me this there's a lot of wackos there's a lot of sexual perves in the who will do any trick in the book to drill a hole through a wall or put a camera up under a dress or peek through a window. Okay, we all know this deviant stuff happens where people are purves and predators, right? So I would rather have a guy dressed like a woman trying on clothes in the men's section because a man can more than likely defend himself if this,

if this guy turns out to be a problem, whereas you throw a man dressed as a woman in the woman's section, you know, as we know by the laws of nature, chances are if he got crazy and he wanted to pin a woman down or, you know, lock her into a dressing room or contain her with his physical force, his physical might, the physical advantage of being a man, Yeah, that's a concern, so I'm not backing down. You can disagree with me. You don't have to bail out of the Harlan Highway. There's going to be other topics where you disagree with me.

But I respect your point of view. I respect your words and your opinion here. I see your argument, but I think I said it in my piece. I have four sisters. I would not want one of my sisters. to be in jeopardy when they're all of a sudden are at the gap and they're getting changed trying on jeans and little skirts and a six foot two quarterback dressed as a milkmaid comes walking in is like yeah when you're going to be finished in there i'm i'd like to use that change room when you're done uh-uh man so i don't know if the solution is that stores have to create a

neutral zone, right? It's like you ever go to the airport and you'll see the men's bathroom, the women's bathroom, and then right in the middle, sometimes they have what's called the family bathroom. And it's like a little bathroom, which is one stall, you go in, and it's people with different needs, special needs, than the average tinkler or pooher. You know what I'm saying? So maybe the solution, and maybe Jessica, you can find some compromise with me here.

Maybe we can agree together for the safety of all sides and for the protection of someone who wants to be cross-gendered or a cross-dresser. Maybe stores have to accommodate this by building another area for them to access so that there's no confusion and that people working in the store aren't put in this situation where they don't know what to do. By the way, you know, talk about having compassion. This woman who has a family was fired from J.C. Penny or wherever it was for trying to protect these women customers. She was let go. And, you know, that's not fair either. So there you go. So, you know, Jessica, I hope there's some rationale there for you where you can hear me out, feel me out.

I'm not saying you have to agree with me, but at least consider my words and where they're coming from. And I certainly take in your words and give them just as much merit as mine. And I'll leave it there because I don't want to start to sound preachy, right? Wow, this is a heavy mailbag, man. You guys have me on the ropes this week with the mailbag. But I'm not backing down. I like engaging in a good conversation. I like, you know, I like hearing your point of view,

and I like standing up for my point of view. I'm not afraid to be wrong. If I'm wrong about something, hell yeah, I'm wrong. Whoopi do. What have I got an ego? It's like, oh, I'm not wrong. You're the one that's wrong. I'm not wrong.

You're an idiot. I'm smart. You're stupid. Screw that. If there's one thing I can say to all, All of us, there's nothing better than learning in life. And if someone can illuminate you, if someone can write you a letter or say something to you that makes you stop and think and go, hmm, wait a minute.

Maybe there's some validity here. Maybe there's a point of view here I wasn't really looking at or recognizing or maybe there's just a semblance of something here that has me thinking. I take that from all your letters and who knows? you take it from mine maybe not maybe you're stubborn maybe you're open but it's all here we're throwing it on the table in a very heavy i'm going to say it again harland highway mailbag who so let's see what the next batch of letters leads to um thanks again to everybody and that's all we have time for we might have used up a big portion of the show here on the mailbag let's let's see where the hell we're at with the uh the time here good look we've gone over time we've gone

overtime but who cares you guys are important you you leave your your messages and uh and there you go so let's close it up the harland highway mail bag Wow, there you go. We powered through the Harland Highway listener mailbag and, you know, some tough love, tough love from you folks. But keep it coming. Just trying to keep it real in the deal. And thank you for your letters. Thank you for your honesty, your openness.

And it's fun. It's fun to, you know, talk about these things. Now, I told you last podcast that I would have some news for you about the Honey Badger. Okay, I think y'all know the viral video sensation. Honey Badger doesn't like this. Honey Badger bit the snake off a head. Oh, Honey Badger's a badass. So here's the news, and I can let it out because it went out in the entertainment trade papers last week.

it's no longer a secret um i am creating a uh animated cartoon for the honey badger uh crew the uh honey badger guy randall and uh it's a lot of fun i won't give you all the details on what the show is but uh i thought it was uh it was fair game to uh fill you in since i had teased you with a few podcasts back that something was in the works and uh and here it is i'm creating an animated half hour show for the honey badger in conjunction with uh randall who created it and uh a great uh animation company and uh i'll give you more details as we start to roll it out and uh very exciting stuff So there's your Honey Badger Update.

God, I hope I don't get any angry emails from the Honey Badger. Imagine that. I mean, look at the hits I took today. Imagine that Honey Badger going to town on my ass. Woo! So there you go. And don't forget, let's get into some sweet announcements. It will be tonight.

My first night in West Palm Beach, I will be at the West Palm Beach Improv, which is going to be a lot of fun. That's the 26th of January through to the 29th of January, and go to Improv.com, get your tickets, come on out and see the kid live, and we're going to have a lot of fun. So that's it. Don't forget, we're back up on Stitcher. So you can get the podcast on your cell phone. And don't forget, check out our store, our web store at harlough williams.com, where prices have been slashed to help everyone through the economy. And you can write me at harlomwilms.com,

or you can call and leave a message, 888, 52090. Oh, and I'm spent. That was a rough one. But I liked it. Stimulating stuff. That's it. And keep it coming. Don't abandon the highway.

And we'll catch you next time. And until then, chicken. Chow main, baby. The honey badger is really pretty badass. They have no regard for any other animal whatsoever. Looking, it's just grunting and, ew, eating snakes. Ew, what's that a mouse? Oh, that's nasty. Oh, they're so nasty.