The Harland Highway - 705 - Strange adventures in the middle of the night. Tipping wars.

Episode Date: October 12, 2015

Harland finds himself wandering the city streets late at night and runs into a desperate person in need. Calls from listeners and tipping wars. Tip me a chip!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...t megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Like a Harland Highway Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo. Okay, I just stole the lyrics from a great Glenn Campbell song and applied them to the opening titles of my show. Lawsuit. Hello. Copyright infringement. Wait.
Starting point is 00:00:30 What am I saying? No, no. Hey, why would I set myself up? Welcome everybody to the Harland Highway. It's me, Harland Williams. I've got space madness. Stimpy, you idiot. Welcome to the show.
Starting point is 00:00:48 Crazy show today. We're going to open the show with a wild experience I had, wandering the streets in the middle of the night. And I'll let you hear what happened. But this is some live recordings of me out in the streets of a big city. And I get confronted with a very interesting situation that turned into a very sweet situation. Also, we're going to be taking some phone calls from you guys. And a big debate over tipping or not tipping when you go out to eat dinner.
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Starting point is 00:02:05 You just made a wrong turn. On to the Harland Highway. Weird. Just plain weird. You're not me. I'm still alive. I'll tell you what I won't give you, you muckers. I won't give you the satisfaction of saying that I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:02:22 Welcome to the Harland Highway. Oh, you get your money to work. Believe me. Okay. Okay, okay. Let's start the show. This is an interesting story. This is one of these weird things that happened to me. Recently, I traveled to another city. And, you know, sometimes when I travel, I have trouble sleeping. You know, because I travel to the East Coast. I live in California. I went over to the East Coast. Suddenly, I'm in a different time zone. And I'm all discombobulated. Oh, my God. And, and so I had one of these restless things where I woke up at three in the morning and I was just rolling around in bed and I'm trying to trick myself that I'm going to fall back asleep and finally I'm like, oh, screw it.
Starting point is 00:03:16 And I said, I'm not going to play this game. I'm not letting sleep win or lack of sleep whim. So I just got up and it was kind of chilly and I'm like, I'm going to go walk the street. I'm going to go find some breakfast. I'm going to find a 24-hour drugstore and get some throat lozenges or something. So I do this. It's dark out.
Starting point is 00:03:41 There's hardly anyone on the street. It's chilly. It's like, you know, 4.35 in the morning. I'm wandering by myself. I got a hoodie on. I find a drugstore. I buy some hull's mentholptus. Because that mentholptus burns through the cold, doesn't it?
Starting point is 00:04:00 It's like fumes, like sucking on exhaust fumes. And then I get lucky. I find a little place that's open early and serving up some brecky. So I go and have a nice, tasty little brecky. And I'm walking back towards the hotel. And as I get near the hotel, I start hearing like this out-of-control screaming and like wailing. And I'm like, what the hell is, what? And all of a sudden I look over across.
Starting point is 00:04:30 this intersection all the ways down the street and I see like somebody up against the wall of a building just wailing and I'm like, whoa, this is weird and they're screaming really loud and I thought, well, you know, I like unusual things. I'll put the recorder on and I'll go over there and I'll record the person I, at this point, I labeled them the night screamer because I didn't know who they were. I didn't know what the situation was. I just, it was night, and I heard someone screaming, and I thought, I'll go, I'll wander over and record it and see, see what the Delio is. So, so here's me kind of out in the street approaching the situation.
Starting point is 00:05:15 Okay, I'm walking the street, and I hear a screamer, crazy night screamer, homeless person. I'm moving in for the record. Let's see if we can get some mad. So you can start to hear the screaming as I get closer, but I realize it's a, it's a woman in a wheelchair. She's just crying. Now that I've got for myself, but I'm going to be right to go. Rambling.
Starting point is 00:05:50 Tears covered down your face. Are you okay, ma'am? And here's where the story gets a little fascinating to me and takes a weird turn. because I realize after the fact that this becomes a study or a lesson to me in human behavior and human compassion and just the human condition, the built-in, I believe we all have this, the built-in need to protect and care for our fellow human beings when they're in peril. So I approached this person. Originally, I thought it was a man. I thought it was just a, you know, you've seen these guys
Starting point is 00:06:31 they wander down the street and they're yelling and they're swearing and, you know, they're angry. And I thought, oh, this would be interesting to just catch the rant. Like, my sister eats chocolate bars. I want to throw a fish at the president. You know, that type of stuff, right? But then when I got up to this woman and she was like a chubby black woman, probably in her 40s, and I realized now she wasn't just a crazy person. I mean, I think she had some mental illness, to be honest,
Starting point is 00:07:07 because she, I don't know, the fact she was in a wheelchair in the middle of the night on a street and screaming, almost speaking in tongues it sounded like. But my curiosity from finding a guy that was just kind of a spectacle, switched gears and almost instinctually automatically went into you know this person's in peril
Starting point is 00:07:36 how can I help them how can I help this person that just the tears running down her face and you can hear it in her voice this this woman is in almost in agony and it just like went And it was like an arrow right into my heart, and suddenly I became protective of this woman, and I wanted to, like, care for this woman.
Starting point is 00:08:02 And I was suddenly doing, like, damage control. And so I started talking to her to try and get the info. Here it is. I did a ride to go home. To go to my house. I have to go to my house. You need a ride? A ride, please.
Starting point is 00:08:18 A taxi? A taxi. A taxi. I ride and a ride. Where's your house? I live at 20-11. One university than that's better than university. Not too far from here to say. Can you, if we get a taxi, can you get up and get in the taxi?
Starting point is 00:08:34 Yeah, please. Let's see what we can find. You help me. You help me. Go bless you. Oh my God! Let's get you a taxi going. Oh my God, go press you.
Starting point is 00:08:44 It's cold out. Oh, that's all right now. Let's see if we can wave. See if we can wave down a taxi. a taxi. Listen, I had a pair of parking theater, but you don't feel I wasn't changed. I can't help you, buddy.
Starting point is 00:08:58 I'm helping her right now. Sorry. And so you can hear the desperation and the need in her voice. And then when it rains it pours, I don't know if you caught that. But in the middle of trying to sort out what this lady who
Starting point is 00:09:12 was destitute needed, out of nowhere, a guy showed up on the sidewalk of a homeless guy giving me some kind of yarn that he needs to pay for a parking meter or something, and this guy was clearly homeless as well, and he was trying to pull one of his little scams, and I'm like, dude, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm in the middle of something here. I can't, did you catch him here? I'll play it again for you.
Starting point is 00:09:38 Taxi. I can't help you, but I'm helping her right now, sorry. And I was almost in disbelief because again, remember, it's like five in the morning, there's no one around. And suddenly this guy appears from nowhere, and he's trying to, he's got his little thing he needs. And he totally disregards the lady who's wailing and crying, and he just beelines right to me. So I had to, you know, fluff this guy off and get back to the situation at hand. The night screamer. And I don't mean to call her that, but that was the name I came up with already. I'm not really
Starting point is 00:10:24 I'm not really I'm seriously I'm just nod in my head I'm just I'm not for me and I'm full of my food
Starting point is 00:10:34 I guess I'm seriously trying to figure out what language this is I'm just nod in my head I'm just
Starting point is 00:10:43 nod in my head let's see I'm like I'm like baffled I'm like baffled to help you Are you with her? Now another guy walks up.
Starting point is 00:10:58 She just needs a taxi to get home. So I'm gonna. Are you waiting for a taxi already? Huh? She needs to. No. No, I'm trying to reply, I'm waiting for one. Okay?
Starting point is 00:11:09 Yeah. No, but I'm gonna look on the corner, okay? See if I see a taxi. Hang on. Okay, so this guy looks like he came out of the office bill. This was a young, like 24-year-old dude. and he once I establish I'm looking for a taxi he leaves I walk to the corner I look down the other street there's four taxis sitting on the curve but I'm whistling and like the guy in the first cabs
Starting point is 00:11:39 just totally ignoring me I can't tell if he's asleep he's looking playing on his phone I'm whistling and nothing. So I get frustrated. And I'm like, why isn't this taxi coming? And now, you know, the night screamer starts chiming in on the whole thing again. And I'm like, you know, she's getting all fired up. Hang on one sec. Speaking in tongues.
Starting point is 00:12:11 There's a taxi right around the corner. I'm going to see if he'll come up here. I don't know what she's saying. Hang on one minute. Oh God, poor thing. Boy, this lady's out of control. She's in a wheelchair. It's an elderly black lady.
Starting point is 00:12:36 I can't figure out what she's saying. But she definitely needs some help here walking up to a taxi, see if I can get some help. So I walk up to the cluster taxis, and I'm the first guy, I bend down, and I'm like looking at his window, and I'm waving, and he barely even looks up at me. I was like, okay, taxi, you don't want to pick up a fare, okay. It was just kind of bizarre. So I went to the next taxi in line, which is totally breaking taxi protocol.
Starting point is 00:13:17 You don't do that, right? But I was like, screw it, this lady needs some help. So I went down the line to the next guy. Hello. Hey, I have a lady just around the corner in a wheelchair. Can you get her over to Chestnut Street? Yeah. This guy's looking at me like I just made up the street.
Starting point is 00:13:38 It's Chestnut Street. What's that? No, but she's, I think she needs some help, so I'll give you some money if you can take her over to her house. Okay, no problem, okay. She's just around this corner right here, the first corner. I'll meet you there, thank you. So this guy agrees, I go running back. Alright, I think we have a taxi.
Starting point is 00:14:06 I'm gonna go back and see if... The night screamer's still there. She's just like five in the morning. She's screaming. Yeah, she's still there. Let's see what happens right now. Okay, so now we're coming up on the end of the whole scenario. And I finally get the taxi over to her.
Starting point is 00:14:34 And all of a sudden it gets a little weird. suddenly she starts like bartering with all the money. Take a listen to this. All right, I think we have a taxi for you, love. I'll give you money. Huh? I'll give you money. That's okay.
Starting point is 00:14:53 What's your address? 111 chestnuts. 1-1-1-chestnut, yeah. So now the tax he's pulling up. He says it's 11-1 chestnut. How much does that cost? So I tell the guy, she starts throwing out prices. Did I give you like $40?
Starting point is 00:15:17 Would that work? No, no, no, no. I'm talking to the cabby right now. She's yelling from the sidewalk. All right, I'll give the money to him. How much, sir? Yeah, it's taken, yeah. See, now there's where it just got weird again.
Starting point is 00:15:39 It's 5 in the morning. There was 90 taxis around the corner. I'm dealing with, I got a screaming woman in a wheelchair. And once again, out of nowhere, some guy appears on this empty sidewalk at 5 in the morning, comes right to my cab and says, is this cab taken? I'm like, where are all these people coming from at 5 in the morning? Why are they all gravitating to us? Clearly you can see all the cabs over there.
Starting point is 00:16:09 Why are you coming to me? And then meanwhile, the night screamer's like, I'm trying to give the cab driver $40. She's going, oh, no, no, no, no, just give him five. Give them 10. And I'm like, what do you care? I'm just trying to get you. I'm giving the guy as much money as I can to make sure.
Starting point is 00:16:26 I don't know where you live. I want to make sure he gets you all the way home. And, you know, after four miles goes, well, that's $10. Get out. so I thought I'll give the guy extra money just to make sure that he gets her all the way home and then take a listen to this she's still going at it with the money thing one one one chestnut I'm going to give them $2025
Starting point is 00:16:57 no no no no no no no no no give me 10 that it you give me 10 that you what you say All right, I'll give them 10. I'll give them 10. She says 10. I'll give you 20, but she says 10. Yeah. Okay. That's good.
Starting point is 00:17:13 $10. Yeah. Okay. You want to get in? There you go, sir. Thank you. Okay. Come on, love.
Starting point is 00:17:22 You're going home, okay? You get in there. Take care of her, sir. Thank you. You all right? So now I'm telling lies. I literally had to tell white lies to this lady. I gave the cab driver 20 bucks.
Starting point is 00:17:41 I wanted to give them 40, but she kind of weaseled it down to 20. And now I had to lie to her that it was only 10. I'm like, what the hell am I doing? I'm 5 in the morning. I'm lying to a screaming homeless lady in a wheelchair. And she should be saying, give me more money. Yes, $10, $10, that's all he's got, yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:08 How much is that? $10, right, sir? All right, you'd be good, okay? She checks with the guy. I'll pray for you. You get home safe, okay? All right, baby, you'd be good. You said to answer prayer, God is God to answer to prayer.
Starting point is 00:18:23 You bet. Relate to life, before there's no answer, you can answer anybody anymore. The only answer will know that comes from Almighty God. Almighty God. And then as we get towards the end of this whole ordeal, it got kind of sweet. I finally got her in the back of the cab. I asked the guy to take her home. And God bless her, she starts praying for me.
Starting point is 00:18:43 And she had such a look of a gratefulness on her face. And she was just so sweet. And it's like I said, it all plays into most of this stuff just kind of washed over me without even thinking about it. And that's one of the real pleasant parts of being a human being is, you know, with all the mischief we get into and all the trouble we cause and sometimes we're guilty of being bad people, but it's really nice.
Starting point is 00:19:11 And without even thinking about it, you realized we're hardwired to do good things and help one another. And it just kind of took over and we got this lady on her way. When you're your situation, you're going to get to die, and not reaching up to God.
Starting point is 00:19:26 Reaching up to God. That's what we're doing here today. You won't die. He's going to take you home. Thank you, so. Okay. What's the name? Harlan.
Starting point is 00:19:35 Yes. What's your name? Mildred. Go home. Get some sleep. Bye, baby. We got her in the car. Mildred.
Starting point is 00:19:44 Great name. Wonderful. Okay. Wow, what an ordeal. We got her in a cab. She was screaming out of control. She didn't want to give the cab driver more than $10. I gave the cab driver $20.
Starting point is 00:20:01 driver 20 and off she goes what a crazy world Williams out and there you go gang there's my late there comes the garbage truck in the background and that's my late night ordeal that that started off with a fascination of somebody screaming and yelling and turned into an act of kindness for a complete stranger and I was happy to do it. It was so nice to see. I mean, this woman was just lost completely out of her element. And to know that she was being taken care of and driven to a place she called home was great stuff for me. So, Mildred, I'm sending you all my best wishes.
Starting point is 00:20:54 and I certainly hope that you're okay and there's someone there looking after you and everything's going to be fine. And thank you for opening my eyes up to, you know, as I said, a peek inside not only my own heart, but what I consider to be the hearts of most people, I feel that what happened with me and Mildred is reflective of the response that almost any human being would have. Hey, everybody. Who wants to have better sex? No? Yes. 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.
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Starting point is 00:23:12 ass up out of bed, wander the streets, and help a fellow human being. in need. You work in mysterious ways, God. But when it turns out good like that, we'll take it every time. Hallelujah. Hello? Hello?
Starting point is 00:23:36 Have you checked the children? Hey, Harlan. This is Bobby Wheeler, Orlando, Florida. Thank you so much for playing my voicemail in your podcast, the one about languages. Yeah, that really made my day, and I told all my friends to listen in. How are we doing? Chicken chalmy.
Starting point is 00:23:56 Hello? Hello? Hi, Harlan. I just wanted to talk to you about tipping at a restaurant. I was looking on my Facebook feed and looking at the news segment about a receipt that was posted somewhere on the Internet that got viral. A guy left a little note in the tip section that said, one hour for food. Zero tips. Everybody on the internet was saying tip shaming, you know, like this guy is a jerk for not leaving a tip.
Starting point is 00:24:28 And don't shoot the messenger because the server is doing the best that they can to bring it to you. It's not their fault that the food wasn't cooked in good time. Well, I had a bit of thinking to do about this, and I thought I'd share it with you. And I usually tip, but if food takes a long time or my experience is bad, I won't fit. and I don't feel bad about it either because it's up to the business to make sure that the customer has a good experience at the restaurant.
Starting point is 00:24:57 That way, I will return with more tips. If I tip in the moment and had a bad experience, I will never come back. And it's lose, lose for everybody. In the moment, sure, they have the tip they wanted.
Starting point is 00:25:10 That's fine for them in the moment, but there's more money to be had if I come back again. And I feel like people overlook that when it comes to tipping and maybe it's controversial because a lot of people on the internet they really seem to think this guy was a big jerk for leaving this note behind i'd like to get your thoughts on this if you don't mind speaking about it on your show i greatly appreciate it all right you have yourself a nice day arlin williams all right i will have myself a nice day thank you
Starting point is 00:25:39 and you're ready for my answer what which way am i going to go do am i with you or am i against you do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do i sir agree with you 100% yes tip shaming my ass okay you're you're absolutely right you're going into a restaurant and you are paying for a service you're paying for food you're paying for that food to be prepared well to come to your table hot and part of the chain that makes it all happen is the server and the chef and the dishwasher and the bus boy and everyone in a restaurant is kind of judged on their performance it's one of those live in the moment things where you're judged on your performance and uh i totally agree if if i get last lousy service, why am I inclined to reward that person?
Starting point is 00:26:51 I get my food cold, I get my food late, I get the wrong order, I get a, sometimes you get a waiter with an attitude, sometimes you get a waiter that makes you feel like, you know, you disservice them by even showing up. waiters perform a function they're trained to perform a function they're paid to perform a function and that function is to be prompt and courteous and polite and get your order right and get it on your table hot and fresh
Starting point is 00:27:27 and yes sometimes things slow down sometimes orders get mixed up but you can kind of tell when there's been an honest mistake. But you can also tell on the same note when a waiter isn't exactly present or a waiter isn't doing a good job or a waiter is ignoring you
Starting point is 00:27:50 or a waiter is kind of putting you at the back of the line. Not showing any concern or courtesy. You're going to reward that? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's why, at the end of the day, even though it's minimum wage, waiters get paid underneath their tipping. That's their safety net in case, for whatever reason, they get someone that doesn't tip even if they're doing a great job. Because, you know, sometimes you get those people. You could have the best waiter in the world, and some people are just stingy, you know.
Starting point is 00:28:28 They're frugal. They're misers. You could have a waiter or waitress jumping through hoops. I'm like, well, I'm not tipping. They're getting minimum wage. They're getting paid. I used to be that guy, by the way. But it wasn't because I was an asswad.
Starting point is 00:28:45 It was because I didn't understand it when I was like in college and stuff. When I was a younger guy, I just said, oh, someone's doing a job. They're getting paid. Why would I ever tip them? Why would I give them money on top of their money? and I didn't understand it. And so I blatantly would never tip. This went on until I was probably like 18 or something.
Starting point is 00:29:10 And then as I kind of got out in the world and started to understand it, I was like, oh, okay, I get it. Okay. And then, you know, I've tipped ever since, obviously, but I'm with you, buddy. Don't tip, shame me. I'm paying for a service. It's like any service. If you take your car to get the tire chain. and the guy forgets to put a tighten the bolts on your wheel and your wheel falls off are you going to drive back to the shop and say hey great job
Starting point is 00:29:42 you know I lost three of my kids when the minivan rolled but hey great job at least you put the tire on okay guy I know you didn't put all the bolts back on but you got the tire on and that's that's hard that's tough to do you how's your back Did you think you can make it to my kid's funeral? Yeah. So, you know, I'm with you, guy. I'm with you. And I've been there. I've been in that industry.
Starting point is 00:30:15 I was a bus boy once. I don't have any entitlement issues. I totally and firmly believe in you do a good job. You get rewarded. And all those people that were tip shaming, I don't know what world they live in. Maybe they live in some kind of entitlement world where just because you show up and you put some lipstick on and comb your hair, you deserve a tip. No, you got to earn that tip. And by the way, here's the thing, like you said, you know, if they do a good job, you're going to go back and the place is going to continue to make money.
Starting point is 00:30:52 But also what I don't think you mentioned is a lot of times when someone does a great job and puts in the extra effort and gives you that extra small. mile and takes that extra beat, I very often tip above what they should get. You know, they say you're supposed to give like 15% or whatever it is. I'll usually go above that as a way to say, hey, I'm connecting with you, waiter or waitress. I get it that you put in the extra effort. You put in the extra effort to ask me about my day. You put in the extra effort to tell me about a dish you really liked or didn't like. or who knows what, but, you know, and, and I reward that.
Starting point is 00:31:37 The same way as if they go backwards, if my food's laid, if it's cold, if the waiters being an asshole, and sometimes they are, then I'm not inclined to go, hey, hey, you know what, Sarah? Can I just say something? I had, oh, this is, I just had the most horrible experience. here. I mean, can I tell you, sit down, sit down, Sarah. Can I tell you, the food was horrible.
Starting point is 00:32:10 It was cold. You were late. You got my order wrong. There was hair in my Coca-Cola. You forgot to bring on dessert. And your attitude really sucked. Can I just, can I, what can I do? Well, you take, put your hand out.
Starting point is 00:32:27 Let me press this $50 bill into your hand. Thank you for that. thank you so much for your shitty attitude and your bullshit service you know what here's another hundred take a hundred and fifty I know my meal was only you know $21 but here's a hundred and fifty dollars for being a douche thank you I want to reward you no and and by the way if you can't live with that as a waiter or waitress to me if at the end of the night you go oh man i only made like 80 dollars in taps and you have to look at that and go well maybe you did something wrong maybe uh you weren't maybe you weren't on
Starting point is 00:33:17 your game i don't know now in in the event that you you did get a table full of misers or a bunch of cheap skates okay i feel sorry for you that's going to happen that's going to happen no matter how great you are. But as far as me and this pavement ponder who called in, and I don't know how many of you out there feel the same way, but uh-uh, if you do a crappy job, I ain't tipping. And like the caller said, yeah, sometimes it's the chef's fault. Sometimes the chef gets back there and he's overwhelmed
Starting point is 00:33:55 and he can't get the food out on time and blah, blah, blah. But I hate to say it. it's all part of the system. And that's up to each consumer to recognize, you know, if you have a waitress or a waiter who's just an angel and the sweetest thing, and you can see the frustration, and they're like, I'm so sorry, I know I've been over to your table three times that we're just so backed up in the kitchen. Can I refill your soda for you?
Starting point is 00:34:22 Can I give you a hand massage? Can I blow dry your hair? What can I do? If you recognize that everything's backed up And the waiter, it's beyond the waiter's control And you can see that they're remorseful about it And that they're trying their very best Use your common sense.
Starting point is 00:34:43 Okay, if I saw that, yes, I would still tip the waiter. I'd be like, you know, I'd almost feel compassion I'd almost feel sorry for the waiter Because you can see they were doing the best they could but they were kind of a victim to circumstance. And I think the average consumer recognizes that. But I think what this caller is saying is if you get an out-and-out shitty waiter or waitress and have a shitty experience, I don't think you should ever be expected to tip that person.
Starting point is 00:35:17 I agree with you. Let's go out to a restaurant. Let's go to Sizzler. Let's me and you go to Out to You know the Golden Corral or somewhere together And let's celebrate Let's celebrate that we agree on this
Starting point is 00:35:35 And just to prove we agree on it Let's stiff the waiter We'll order tons of food And when they give us the bill We'll just pull out a Sharpie and write F you on it And leave them some Canadian change How about that?
Starting point is 00:35:52 No, I'm kidding I'm kidding. Like I said, I worked in the restaurant industry for a little bit. I get it. But even though I worked in it, I still, even me, would not expect to get rewarded if I did a crappy job. So there you go. Thank you for that call. Unbelievable call.
Starting point is 00:36:12 And there's my answer. And, you know, if you want to get your phone call on the show, on the Harlan Highway, you can certainly do so. 323-739-4330. And maybe you disagree with this whole waiter story. Maybe you are a waiter or waitress and you're boiling mad. Or maybe you totally agree. Maybe you want to call in and leave a message of your own
Starting point is 00:36:42 and tell me and this other guy to go jump in the lake at Denny's or something. Or maybe you're like you want to like back us up. but maybe you just want to talk about anything 323 739 4330 love hearing from you guys and I think we'll leave it right there we'll leave it right there for today's show thanks for listening everybody and and for your phone calls if you want to write you can write me at harlem williams.com. Also, where you're at harlemwilms.com, check out the web store. We have some great gifts on there for you.
Starting point is 00:37:32 And if you want to see me live, if you want to see me doing stand-up comedy live, which is always a treat. And I do expect a tip, by the way. When I do a kick-ass show, I do expect it. I'm like a stripper. You better throw some ones and stuff at the stage. I'm not up there being funny for nothing. Oh yeah. You better tip my ass. I'm going to be in Denver, Colorado, October 23rd and 24th, two nights only.
Starting point is 00:38:03 Saturday, Friday and Saturday, October 23rd, 24th. Get your tickets. I'll be at the Comedy Works. Amazing club. Unbelievable. Great city. I can't wait to get out there. So get your tickets online at Harlem Williams.com. Just click on my comedy schedule link, and you will be led to the place. Also, please get the new app. It's free, the Harland Highway app. It just lets you click on your phone and listen to the podcast wherever you go.
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Starting point is 00:39:15 any technical glitches when you download the app, there is a tech support button on the app and you will be able to you'll be able to reach out to the app builders and they should be able to resolve your problem
Starting point is 00:39:30 but so far there's only been a few little minor glitches for some people and that could be based on the age of your phone and the system you're using so if you're having glitches with my new app for God's sakes go out and buy a new
Starting point is 00:39:47 $600 phone so you can listen to my free app. So basically for $600, you get my free app. No, not too soon. Okay. And that's about it, gang. I hope you're having a fun fall. Summer is over.
Starting point is 00:40:09 We're into the football season. And let's have some fun leading up towards December. and it's going to be a fun fall here on the Harlan Highway. So that's it. Keep it real in the deal. And until next time, chicken chamein. Baby. Hi, I'm Jackie.
Starting point is 00:40:33 Want to play? There's been a load of compromising on the road to my horizon. But I'm going to be where. the lights are shining on me like a rindstone cowboy riding out on a horse in a star spangleroio like a rindstone cowboy getting cards and letters from people i don't even know Thank you.

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