The Harland Highway - 731 - Rabbi Pappenhiem returns. A visit to Acestory.com

Episode Date: January 11, 2016

Harland gets a call from the outspoken Rabbi Pappenhiem. A Pavment Pounder cries on the show. And Harland goes to Ancestory.com to trace his roots. No trace of a face!!!! Learn more about your ad cho...ices. Visit 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 Hello. I love you. Do you want to sleep over? No, wait, wait. This is a podcast. We don't do that stuff. This is a podcast. Hi, I'm Harlan Williams. This is the Harland Highway. You're not required to sleep over. Just listen. Listen to the podcast. Great show today. Towards the end of the show gets very emotional. We have the very first Harland Highway cry-in. One of the pavement pounders left me a phone message that brought him to tears. And quite an emotional moment towards the end of the show. So you've got to catch that. Also, it's the new year. Rabbi Pappenheim is calling in. He's a rabbi, a Jewish rabbi that I got into a little bit of a verbal altercation with over the Christmas holidays. Apparently he's phoning to just kind of calm and mend the waters. So we'll be getting a call from Rabbi Pappenheim today.
Starting point is 00:00:56 Also, I went on Ancestry.com to come. kind of track down my family heritage and boy oh boy it didn't go the way i planned um yikes so you might want to uh you might want to hear what happened when i started to trace my family tree hello yeah not not sure if it was the smartest idea but nonetheless we keep motoring on so here we go get your family gather around listen to the harland highway Where are I? What is this? Some kind of a joke or something?
Starting point is 00:01:34 Welcome to the Harland Highway. What you're talking about words? Son, you got a panty on your head. Shut up and sit down, you big ball fuck. Oh, God, what's happening here? What's happened? Hey, Harland, it's Shelby. You just made a wrong turn.
Starting point is 00:01:48 On to the Harland Highway. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other thing. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. That is fantastic. What's wrong with everybody in this crazy place? The Harland Highway. What is it? The opening.
Starting point is 00:02:05 To what? To another dimension. This is Harland Williams. You're a bad man. You're a very bad man. That is fantastic. Hello? Hello?
Starting point is 00:02:22 Hey, Harlan. I just listened to the rabbi Papen Shnime, or whatever his name is, episode with the head listen of. Oh, my God, I think it had me dying. You need to bring that rabbi, son of a, back on the show. All right, keep up the work, because it's awesome. Very funny. All right, Arlen. How's?
Starting point is 00:02:46 And who is this guy? Uh, hello. Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello, Holland? Yes, hello. Hello, Holland. This is Rabbi Bapen. I'm calling.
Starting point is 00:03:04 Oh, okay. Hello. Rabbi, what a surprise calling into the show? We weren't expecting a call from you? Well, you know, life is full of unexpected pleasures, Holland. It certainly is a pleasure to hear from you, Rabbi. I'm sure you're busy now that the holidays are over. Well, you know, the holidays, they were a lot of stress, a lot of running around. Of course, you and I had now differences at the holidays, but I think the overcame them. Would you agree? I certainly would agree. We had a little bit of a blip on the radar, but everything's leveled off.
Starting point is 00:03:52 And that's why I decided to reach out and call you, Holland. Oh, okay. What have you... Well, I decided having a little get-together, and we'd like to invite you to how you share the get-together, Oh, well, isn't that nice, a little social gathering? Yeah, I'm sure. We're having a little celebration. There's going to be some delicious food.
Starting point is 00:04:26 Of course, I will make my... wonderful cream of mushroom soup, Holland. Oh, well, okay, little snacks and how many people Well, there'll probably be, you know, 40 or 50 people getting together.
Starting point is 00:04:43 We'll have some wonderful snacks, and then I'll serve my cream of the mushroom soup, and it'll be wonderful. Great, I'm sorry, what is the occasion, Rabbi Papenheim? L.A., we are celebrating 23 years since Stephen Spielberg's hire, let me say the Sindler's List came out.
Starting point is 00:05:10 I'm sorry, what is it, Rabbi? The Steven Spielberg's Sinless List. Did you have a little hiccup there? But I'm saying all in this, it's the 23rd anniversary. Yes. I'm Stephen Spielberg's film, Schindler's List. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, okay, I'm sorry. Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List.
Starting point is 00:05:37 That's right, darling. They'll be serving little snacks, crackers, livermast. They'll be having the wonderful cream of the mushroom soup I'll be serving. Wow, okay. Well, that sounds fantastic. And how many years? It's been 23 years since Universal Studios released here, how you're going to say, Stephen Spielberg's Schindler's list. Wow, wow, that is a long time ago.
Starting point is 00:06:11 It seems like yesterday. Well, you know, there's a lot of things, Holland, it seemed, you know, just like they were yesterday, you know. Well, I guess you're right. You know, some good things, and some things are not so good, Ireland. Okay, well, can we... Well, why don't we just shave what I think we're both thinking about? Well, I wasn't thinking about anything, Rabbi. Well, I think maybe the tone in your voice, you know, maybe somebody was thinking about
Starting point is 00:06:47 how you want to say, you know, you know, how do you know, how do you know, how do you know, how No, no, no, no. I wasn't thinking about Adolf Hitler. I was just thinking about Schindler's list. Well, that's what I was calling about there. Would you like to come this Saturday, this week, at 8 o'clock? We'll be having a screening of Stephen Spielberg's Schindler's List. Well, you know, I am honored, first of all, Rabbi, that you would have involved. invite me. It sounds wonderful. The get-together, the people, the wonderful snacks. And don't forget my wonderful cream of mushroom soup. No, your cream of mushroom soup, but unfortunately, Rabbi, I am going to be away at a wedding this Saturday, so unfortunately
Starting point is 00:07:43 I can't make it. Well, you know, this, I maybe, you know, I should have, you know, maybe expected dish from someone like you. I'm sorry, sir? Well, you know, if someone like you, perhaps, you know, maybe you have more important things than to, you know, look at the movie about the Holocaust. Well, no, I'm going to a wedding, rabbi. I don't have anything against the Holocaust.
Starting point is 00:08:16 That's ridiculous. Well, it sounds like maybe, Who is this friend's wedding you're going to, by the way? Well, it's my friend Donald. Okay, and this gentleman perhaps have a last name, Holland? Yes, Krauss, Donald Krauss. Oh, well, look at, you know, I'm not fishing in the Dead Shears, isn't that a German name? I guess it is.
Starting point is 00:08:45 I've never thought yet. Don Krauss is a, I guess Krauss is German? Well, look at this. Somebody doesn't want to see Steven Spielberg's Sinless lists, but somebody wants to go to the Kraut's wedding? Wait a minute. Now, hold on, Rabbi. He can't throw the word Kraut around.
Starting point is 00:09:09 He's German. I didn't even realize that. Well, there's a lot of people that, quote, unquote, didn't realize things about the Germans back in World War. I mean, who is this? guy I'm talking to here that won't go to she Stephen Spielberg's Schindler's list, but goes there to a crowd's wedding. I mean, who, who, who, who is this guy here?
Starting point is 00:09:33 It's not, Rabbi, it's not this guy. It's me, Harland Williams. I mean, who is this guy? I've got the priscuits with the Swiss cheese. I've got the special cream of the mushroom soup of celebrating Stephen Spielberg's. Rabbi, it seems like every time you say that movie, you're dragging it out a little longer. Well, you know, maybe somebody dragged out World War II a little longer. If you think about your friend, you know, I hate to say his name, but I'm the old Hitler.
Starting point is 00:10:10 He's not my friend, Rabbi. I mean, who is this guy? I offer cream of the mushroom shop. I offer Triscuits. Everybody loves Trishkits, like wheat. crackers and the melted dish snacks with the swish cheese on top and the cream of the mushrooms open that you're going to a wedding to celebrate Adolf Hitler? I'm not, Rabbi, I'm not going to a wedding to celebrate Adolf Hitler.
Starting point is 00:10:37 I'm going to, my friend, Donald Krause's wedding. There is this again, Kraus, Klaus, for Christshank. I mean, who is this guy that goes to a wedding that the celebrating? Steven Spielberg, Schindler's list. Rabbi! Now, sir, I need you to dial it back a bit. Okay, I would love to see Steven Spielberg Schindler's list, but unfortunately I have an engagement.
Starting point is 00:11:11 I've got plans. You well, you know, I'll enjoy you. Can I tell you somebody else who had plans? Hmm? May I tell you? No, sir, I'd rather you didn't. There was a gentleman that lived in Munich, Germany, back in the 40s, Charlotte. No, I know where this is going, Rabbi. He had a little tiny mustache under his nose.
Starting point is 00:11:38 It looked like a caterpillar. Sir? It looked like Charlie Chaplin's mustache. Did you know howl. Sir? His name, Adolf Hitler, Holland. Okay. You know what?
Starting point is 00:11:51 He had planned, Charlott, and look what happened. Look what his plans led to. Can you believe who is this guy I'm talking to? Stop it! Sir, I am going to a wedding. It's a friend of mine. His last name is of German descent. It has nothing to do with anything, okay?
Starting point is 00:12:11 With all due respect, what happened back in the war was horrific. It was horrible. That's been documented. In fact, that's what Stephen Spielberg Schindler's list is all about. And it will never happen again. And it's my wedding plans. I have nothing to do with... Stephen Spielberg, Schindler's List?
Starting point is 00:12:33 Stop it. Well, I mean, who is this guy I'm talking to here? I invite him to a wonderful social gathering with Stephen Spielberg's Schindler's list. Can you stop dragging? it out. And some delicious Trishkit and some wonderful here, just some wonderful cream of mushroom soap and all of his shutdown. He's going
Starting point is 00:12:57 to a Nazi war rally. I mean, who is this guy here? I'm not going to hang up on him, Roger. I'm going to a wedding with a hang up on him. I mean, but you're going to walk down the aisle and here comes the bride, here
Starting point is 00:13:14 comes the bride. Higher Hitler! Stop it! Roger, hang up on him. I am sick and tired of being accused of being friends with that old Hitler. Hang up on him. Here comes to bride. High Liddler!
Starting point is 00:13:33 Hang up on him! God! What is with that guy, man? I politely declined his invitation. I love that movie. Schindler's List. Is he gone? Wow.
Starting point is 00:13:55 I mean, just hang up. Just because I have a friend of German descent, he has no right or authority to attach any type of war propaganda from World War II. That's not fair to the German people, and it's not fair to me. And I'm not giving anybody a pass for the atrocities of the war. what happened to the wonderful Jewish people. But I almost feel like Rabbi Papine might be overstepping his boundaries, and he might have to let go of some of this a little bit.
Starting point is 00:14:32 Let history document what happened. We know the atrocities. And I don't think it's politically correct. I don't think it's proper for him to attach every little discrepancy in life to make people like me to look like they have some kind of sympathy or some kind of association with the Nazi Germans and their demonic leader, Adolf Hitler. I don't know if we want him ever calling back.
Starting point is 00:15:07 With all due respect, Rabbi, if you're listening to the podcast, this isn't really the right format for you to be calling. And so I'm going to leave it there. Schindler's is a wonderful movie. It's an important movie that documents something very important in human history, never to be replicated, not the movie, but someone as abhorrent as Adolf Hitler. We get it, Rabbi.
Starting point is 00:15:38 We all know. You got to lighten up, man, because you're alienating me. All right, Roger, let's move on. I'm a little flustered. Let's move on to something. Let's clear our heads and let's move on. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:15:55 Wow. Hello? Hello. Hey, Harlan. This is Rich from Kelly again. I'm hiking up right now at Stinson's Park Hill, having a good time. But I thought I'd like to chime in after listening on your podcast to give you feedback on that show you did with Greg Fitzsimmons.
Starting point is 00:16:15 And let me say, man, it was a great show. I enjoyed it very much. And it's a real treat to see for like the first time, at least on the podcast, your Mr. Hyde kind of form of comedy, because most of the time,
Starting point is 00:16:30 or is it, yeah, yeah, because Jekyll, I think, is the good one. Checkul and Mr. High. One of those. Anyways, usually you have a pretty good calm personality when you're doing your show on the podcast, but when your live performances hits a whole different harland. You really go out there and I love it. So I love
Starting point is 00:16:46 the two personality sides to you and like I said, if your viewers haven't seen a show yet, there's their chance right there to see how your personality is, I just come up with things on the fly so I would like the Olive Garden. So anyways
Starting point is 00:17:03 yeah, and I just want to say an awesome show. I'm digging the premium stuff. I get to go back and listen to all the great episodes again. It's working great and I'd recommend all your viewers to give it a shot. All right, man, you can tell me, brother. Have a good one, bro.
Starting point is 00:17:20 Hey, hey, thanks, Rich. For those of you, they're wondering what Rich is talking about. He's talking about the other podcast they do called Let's Have a Fight. You don't actually see it, you hear it. He said it was nice to see, but what he meant to say, I'm sure, is it was nice to hear. on my other podcast, yes, you get to hear comedians go at it and basically go through three rounds of verbal fights. And sometimes I'm the opponent.
Starting point is 00:17:52 So sometimes it's me doing the fighting. And it's a lot of fun. So I'm glad you appreciate it. If you guys want to get in on my other podcast, let's have a fight as exclusively. uh, for premium members. Um, you can become a premium member by downloading the app, the Harland Highway app for your phone. And it's only 20 bucks a year. Uh, and that gets you all the over 700, 700 episodes of the Harland Highway and the other podcast. Let's have a fight and a bunch
Starting point is 00:18:30 of other bonus material. So thanks for chiming in. I'm glad you like it. There's going to be some more great. Let's have a fight podcast coming up. very soon and uh and uh thank you so much for uh for joining the premium membership um now that being said let's keep rolling here man let's keep moving along down the harland highway it's 22 years later and norman bates is coming home i am own a motel not too far from here and you'd be welcome to spend the night in one of the empty rooms if you'd like. Well, speaking of mothers, I finally did it. I finally went on Ancestry.com.
Starting point is 00:19:17 I decided I need to know who my family is, where I came from, what is my past. 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. 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.
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Starting point is 00:20:28 This is an exclusive offer specific to this podcast. So be sure to use this code Harland so you get your discreet. and 100% free shipping. Code Harland. Have fun. Don't throw your back out. And boy, oh boy, what a fascinating, what a fascinating website. If you don't know what it is, Ancestry.com is a website you can go on and trace your family tree. And I had no idea that you better be ready for the things that this thing on earths. It is, it is fantastic. What an illuminating experience. First of all, I get on there, and right out of the gate, I was just flabbergasted.
Starting point is 00:21:13 I had no idea. It turns out my grandmother is my dad. Isn't that something? I had no idea my dear little grandmother as my dad. Yeah. It turns out also I found this out. This was wonderful that I come from a long, long, uh, very long line of, uh, assholes. Um, that was nice. In fact, uh, it doesn't even show a family
Starting point is 00:21:45 tree on my page. It shows like a cactus and it's just full of pricks. Um, yeah, just a whole long line of pricks that they didn't even have a tree. Um, really fun stuff on Ancestry.com. I'm really glad I did. Here's a charming little... This is just a charming little tidbit. What a pleasant little surprise. I had no idea. I'm a rape baby. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:22:14 What a... I had no idea. Yeah. Unbelievable. Just a cute little rape baby. My dad was a crack addict. In fact, they didn't even show a family tree from my dad's side. They showed the bush behind the Denny's where he urinates.
Starting point is 00:22:40 That's daddy. That's my dad. And my mom, God, I don't even know. It was weird. I had to go in and you check your heritage where your family comes from originally. And this is crazy. It turns out on my mother's side, I'm Brazilian.
Starting point is 00:23:05 And on my father's side, his old family came from Zaire. So I had to go in to get my passport changed. And now it says nationality, it says Brazir. Turns out, yeah, turns out I'm a brassiere. I think a decop maybe. I'm not sure. And, you know, now it says rape baby, of course. and it says eyes,
Starting point is 00:23:33 and the color of my eyes, it just says lost. I guess my lost. And my hair, rape brown is what it is. So just all kinds of wonderful, charming, fun stuff. If you really want to dig deep
Starting point is 00:23:52 into where you're from and who your family is, just look at the wonderful stuff I have. My grandmother's my dad. I'm a rape baby I'm Brazier We come from a long line of pricks I mean just what a delight
Starting point is 00:24:09 Of course I'm goofing around Thank you Can you imagine though What if you went on there And you found out like all the horrific stuff I just said Like you found out you were just you know You go on there and there's nothing And you find out you're like an orphan.
Starting point is 00:24:32 Nobody wanted you. You weren't even good enough to be adopted. You just go on and it says, yeah, we got nothing. Blank. There's a picture of, there's a little video of Moses bobbing down the river in a reed basket. They say, and it says, we know more about Moses drifting down a river when he was abandoned at birth and tossed in a body of water. then we know about you, loser.
Starting point is 00:25:05 And at that point, you should probably jump over to Suicide.com and register and then jump off a building. I don't know. Have any of you done this thing? Has anyone done Ancestry.com? Could it be a bad thing? Everyone probably goes on there thinking, oh, I bet my grandfather was a gold miner,
Starting point is 00:25:26 and I bet my mother, you know, worked in San Francisco as a secretary. And I bet we come from a whole line of hearty Irish people who jumped around a pot of stew and farmed sheep. What if you get on there and you find out like your dad was like wighty bulger and your mother was like a, you know,
Starting point is 00:25:53 she ran a brothel in, you know, Dubai. And your brother's Jeffrey Dahmer, the guy who eats people. What if you find out a whole bunch of bad stuff? I don't know. Is Ancestry.com a good idea? I want to hear from you guys. If any of you guys, any of you pavement pounders have done the Ancestry.com thing And you have any crazy stories?
Starting point is 00:26:22 I want to hear about them, man. I feel like you might be, you know, prying open a can of worm. You might find out stuff Wait a minute What is it? I'm transgender? I'm not even a... I'm not even a dude Well, thanks, Ancestry.com
Starting point is 00:26:42 So, uh, you know, watch What you look around for? Could be trouble. Yeah. Life itself seems lunatic. Who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical as madness To surrender dreams, this may be madness, to seek treasure where there is only trash.
Starting point is 00:27:03 Too much sanity may be madness. The maddest of all to see life as it is and not as it should be. Oh, yes, life. Life can be crazy. And, you know, sometimes life can overwhelm us. Sometimes life can build up. Or sometimes life can present things that are taxing to us. emotionally.
Starting point is 00:27:31 And, you know, a while back, I can't remember how long ago it was, but I did a podcast where I said, I wonder about crying. You know, does it take courage to cry? Have we lost touch with that emotion where people are afraid to show their crying? Does crying represent weakness or does it show strength? recently President Obama cried while talking about gun control. He gave a speech and he openly wept during a press conference. And as a president, you look at that and you go, well, we really don't want to see
Starting point is 00:28:12 the most powerful man in the world openly crying. But then you go, well, you know, it takes a, maybe it's a real man who can control his, you know, can be in touch with his emotions, that. It's not afraid to show tears. And to me, I don't think it's an argument one way or the other. I just think if crying comes, crying comes. And there should be no judgment on crying. It's an emotion.
Starting point is 00:28:40 When you laugh, you aren't judged. When you smile, you aren't judged. When you're sad, you're not judged. And I feel crying lands in that neutral zone. Or if someone has to cry, let them cry. And I put kind of a challenge out there to you guys. like, hey, if anyone ever had something emotional they wanted to talk to me about or leave a message about, and it kind of choked them up and produced tears, you know, don't be too ashamed
Starting point is 00:29:12 or fearful to call. And here we have, I said, let's do a cry-in. And here we have a wonderful pavement pounder who took the challenge. and had the courage and had the openness and had the ability to share with us something that he was very emotional about. And so here it is the very first Harland Highway official cry-in. Hey, Harlan. It's John. This is my official cry-in. It's finally hit me. I've got tears going down my face right now
Starting point is 00:29:57 thinking about somebody I don't even know so about a month and a half ago my wife and I bought a wakeboard boat which was awesome because I've dreamed about one since I was in high school
Starting point is 00:30:08 because I do wakeboarding and surfing and all that kind of thing we bought a wakeboard boat and our parents have a lake house down at Lake of the Ozarks and just this Labor Day weekend one of our boat neighbors that has another really nice wakeboard boat where they waitboard
Starting point is 00:30:26 and surf in their big family unit and they do everything as a family and uh the mom um out of the family her husband owned the boat and they were out night cruising and so were we we actually saw them like maybe an hour before an incident happened but they uh they accidentally crashed their wakeboard boat offshore in the shore and hit a tree and uh four people out of like six people got lifelighted and the mom ended up dying out of the four of them just a Wednesday of this week and it just made me think about my wife and my family and I just couldn't imagine losing somebody at 37 and it just it's insane like how short life is and they did everything as a family and there's a news article where the 12 year old daughter did an interview with the newspaper and And it's just amazing how this 12-year-old said all these great things about her mom, and now she's only 12 and has to live the rest of her life without her mom. And she's, like, talking about the positive about it, about how her mom is always so positive.
Starting point is 00:31:38 And even the day she died, or the weekend of that boat crash, she had a shirt on that says, I want to make you smile. It just seems like so many, like, positive good people die. And when you think about it, think about your own family dying and, like, your own wife dying. It's just insane. Like, it's very sad that this happened, and I'm not sure how they crashed, but it's just terrible. And just getting it out there makes it feel better, and after this cry, I'm going to feel better. I'll still always feel sad for this family, but I guess life will go on, and that's my crying.
Starting point is 00:32:20 Keep rocking down the Harlan Highway. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. John, John, thank you so very much for that moving and emotional phone call. Not easy to do. I could hear and feel your tears. And obviously, I got that message a while back, and I don't know why I held off on it a little while. I just, it was very sad and it was a very honest call. And as I said, courageous of you to share. And, you know, the most poignant thing about it, first of all, our prayers and our sadness and grief goes out to the family and the other people that were lost their lives and were hurt. but what I think really struck home for me
Starting point is 00:33:16 is your comment about how fragile life can be how quickly it can come and go how someone can walk out the door and everything's rosy and unbeknownst to you you don't get to ever see them again and I could hear that in your voice and I could hear you obviously relaying towards your own family and we all relay that towards our own families um so a very very sad call
Starting point is 00:33:53 and i just kind of waiting you know a show where i was talking more about families and stuff like that where i wanted to drop this this message down and it's kind of a somber way to end the show but if there's any positive light in in john's cry in and by the way thank you for being so honest and open and willing to share your emotion. I know that's not easy. I know that might not be comfortable. And, you know, it's just, it's just not an easy thing to do. So that is very courageous and wonderfully for you to share that moment with and that pain
Starting point is 00:34:31 with us. But what I take away from that is, gang, live every day, enjoy every day. You never know when it's going to be taken away. And a powerful phone message like this reminds us of that. And as we start a new year here, 2016, just be grateful for every year that you're able to chalk up. As John said, this poor woman, I think he said, 36 years old, everything she had taken away from her and her family and our kids. And so if we can look for anything positive, it's to rejoice. Every living moment and respect and be grateful for the life of yourself and the life of others around you.
Starting point is 00:35:26 Okay? So, John, once again, thank you very much for such a personal moment that you shared with us. The very first Harland Highway cry-in. If anyone else ever wants to do a cry-in, it kind of isn't the kind of. comedy angle of my podcast, but it's the human angle of my podcast, which I always like to put on display and share with the listeners here. It just makes us more human. It makes us more of a family. It makes us more of a community of pavement pounders as we roll down the life's highway that we know as the Harland Highway. So thank you. If anyone else ever wants to call
Starting point is 00:36:12 or even comment on what John had to say on his wonderful phone call. 323-739-4-330, 3-2-3-739-4-3-0. And as John said, you know, the crying, one thing about it, it really lifts a bit of a weight off your shoulder. I think crying is a powerful emotion that can definitely somehow, I don't know if it releases some kind of pheromones or chemicals or whatever, but I know everyone listening has had a good cry in their life, and it certainly somehow seems to adjust your emotions
Starting point is 00:36:49 and alleviate the sorrow and the heaviness of mental pain and anguish. And so maybe you want to call in and do a cry just to get something off your shoulders or out of your soul or out of your system. Hey, I'm all ears. And as you can see with John's call, I handled it very delicately. I would never poke fun at anybody that would call in and leave this kind of a message. To me, this isn't the comedy zone. This is a very touching and personal and really I like the connection here.
Starting point is 00:37:32 So you're always welcome and know that your emotions would be safeguarded with me, even though I'm a comedy guy, I would not make light of something that caused you to well up and cry. So you have my assurance on that, okay? So there you go. The Harlan Highway Cry in. Any time you feel like it, feel free. And I think we'll leave the show right there in a bit of a somber place. We started with Rabbi Pappenheim accusing me of being friends with Adolf Hitler.
Starting point is 00:38:08 and then we kind of segwayed into, I got on to Ancestry.com and found out I was a rape baby, jokingly. And we end on this somber note where we go forward in 2016, enthusiastic, enjoying and embracing every day of life that we have, every moment that we're breathing the air and walking down the street. So there you go. We'll leave it right there. Let's do a few announcements. Speaking of life, life moves on into the comedy world where maybe I can make you laugh in person.
Starting point is 00:38:46 If you would like to see me do my stand-up comedy live, I will be at the improv in Tampa, Florida, Wednesday, February 3rd through Saturday, February 7th. And then the following week, I'll be at the Orlando Improv, February 11th to February 14th, big Valentine's Day show. And then at the end of February, February 25th to the 28th, I will be in Phoenix, Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona, at the House of Comedy. It's a brand new comedy club, wonderful club. You will love it. As we roll into March, March 10th to the 13th, you can catch me in Houston, Texas at the improv. I'm improvving it all over the place. So please feel free to go on to Harlan.
Starting point is 00:39:36 Williams.com and check my stand-up comedy tour a link. Also, if you want to call me and do a cry-in or you just want to talk, you want to sing, you want to tell a story, a joke, 323-739-433.30. That number is on the website, harloweems.com. As well as a contact link, if you want to write me anything, you will see the contact link and I look at all your emails and I might read your email on the the show, or I might put your voicemail on the show, as we did with John and other people that call in. Also at harlewilums.com, we have a great store full of all kinds of great merchandise you can buy, books, t-shirts, movies, digital downloads, CDs, DVDs, everything. So check it out. Children's books. I don't know if you guys know I write and illustrate
Starting point is 00:40:33 children's books. You can take a look at my children's books. at the web store at harlo-williams.com. And lastly, please, please, please, as you heard from one of our callers here, who's now a premium member, go on your phone and download the Harland Highway app, which is absolutely free. You get the most current 50 episodes of the Harland Highway,
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Starting point is 00:41:36 Uh, so that's it for today, gang. Remember, uh, let's, let's enjoy life. Uh, keep your, uh, your head in the air. And, uh, until next time, chicken. Chalmayne, baby? I mean, who is this guy?

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