The Harland Highway - 794 - R2D2 IS DEAD. STAR WARS cast calls in. The Olympics naaaaaa..

Episode Date: August 22, 2016

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Oh, my good God smothered in delicious jiblet gravy. Huh? Welcome to the Harland Highway podcast, ladies and gentlemen. I am Harland Williams. What a show today. We're going to be doing a little bit of mourning. Apparently, Art2D2 has died, and we're going to be calling his castmates,
Starting point is 00:00:23 some of his castmates, C3P, C3PO, Chewbacca, Yoda, to get some feedback. how they feel about their castmate R2D2 passing away, so sad. And speaking of outer space, we're going to be talking about someone who was hit by something from outer space. Very, very strange story. Wait to you hear this. Almost unbelievable.
Starting point is 00:00:48 And then we're going to be taking some calls from the pavement pounders today. We got some nice phone calls from you, the listeners, the pavement pounders. So we'll be getting into those. and then towards the end of the show we're going to have a little chat about the Olympics. The Olympics have come and gone and the Olympics for some reason left me with a bad taste in my mouth about the whole affair.
Starting point is 00:01:12 And I guess I need to talk it through with you guys to understand it and just get it out of my system. I shouldn't be feeling this way because normally I love the Olympics. So let's get into it. Here we go. All kinds of nutty stuff. It always is because this is
Starting point is 00:01:27 The Harland Highway. What is this? Some kind of a joke or something? Welcome to the Harland Highway. What are you talking about Williams? Son, you got a panty on your head. Shut up and sit down, you big ball fuck. Oh, God, what's happening here?
Starting point is 00:01:43 What's happened? Hey, Harland, it's Shelby. You just made a wrong turn. 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. That's wrong with everybody in this crazy place.
Starting point is 00:02:02 The Harland Highway. What is it? The opening. To what? To another dimension. This is Harland Williams. You're a bad man. You're a very bad man.
Starting point is 00:02:13 That is fantastic. Hello. Hello? Hey, Harlan, Snow, from instead of Washington. Hey, man, I'm going to call you out on something that you made. mentioned kind of on one of the last podcast episodes. I mentioned that Sausis Party was like, the world's first R-rated animated film.
Starting point is 00:02:36 That's not true in its entirety. I got to call you out on this man. You were in a film a couple years ago. You might remember it. It's a Rob Zombie flick. Animated. Good, good film, by the way. Oh, Super Beasto.
Starting point is 00:02:53 Dude, you played Gerard the Exterminator. It's a really renowned voice. You got that iconic Harlan Williams' voice. I mean, it's you anyways. But you can't state that Saucas Party was the world's first R-rated film when even El Super Bisto from 2009 was an R-rated animated film. So you got to stop telling people that Saucas Party was the first. It wasn't, dude.
Starting point is 00:03:26 I'm sorry. That really sticks me off. Dallow. And I don't say Delo to snow. Delo, snow. I say delo to me.
Starting point is 00:03:39 You'd think I'd know. Here I am saying it's the first R-rated movie, but there was another one, and the other one I was in it. And I forgot. But here's the thing, Snow. In all honesty,
Starting point is 00:03:54 this is 100% honest. I may have omitted, what I meant to say is the first CGI R-rated movie. If you go back and listen to the podcast, I compare, I compare Sausage Party to Shrek and Madagascar and all these, all these CGII, the big CGI productions. When I did that podcast, I was not thinking about, you know, traditional animation. and El Super Bistro is an R-rated movie, but it's 2D animation. So, no need to get pissed off, settle down. I was accurate, but I guess I didn't convey or communicate properly that I meant a CGI anime.
Starting point is 00:04:46 Because I guess when you talk about animated movies nowadays in any context, you just automatically assume, at least I do, that we're talking CGI. I mean, it's not often you see a 2D animated film anymore. They do exist, but they're so passe. They're so in 1995, man. So you were right, but give me a little wiggle room. And good pick. I'm glad you picked that off.
Starting point is 00:05:16 It makes me laugh that, you know, I wouldn't even know that. And I'm in El Super Bistro. I'm also in Sausage Party. uh the movie uh seems to be doing pretty good people are liking it it's making money so who knows maybe they'll do a sequel let's take another call thank you snow hey harlan bill truax from from cooperstown i was listening to your episode about the dentist and you know what irks the hell out of me you go ahead and get your teeth clean they scrape the hell out of it goes through the torture chamber and then the dentist comes in looks in your mouth well i don't know if this
Starting point is 00:05:52 happens anybody else or it happens to me looks in your mouth looks in your mouth but it's in your mouth Oh, your guns look a little inflamed. Really, dumbass? I just thought I'd set that out there. I don't know if I haven't seen anybody else, but it really irks the hell out of me. It's like, really, dumbass? You don't know what the hell goes on in here?
Starting point is 00:06:06 All right. Catch you later. Chicken tell me. I'm sorry. That really sticks me off. Yeah, the old dentist, man. They always got something to say about the inside of your mouth. I hear you, bro.
Starting point is 00:06:18 Yeah, they chop your mouth up. And then they come in after the fact, and, oh, man, your mouth. Look, real shredded up. What do you, what have you been chewing on nails in here? What do you, what have you been chewing steel wool? What's going on in this mouth? Well, your dental hygienist just ripped it up with their metal tools, dumbass.
Starting point is 00:06:39 Really, dumbass? I'm sorry. That really sticks me off. It's like, really dumbass. You don't know what the hell goes on in here? Arlen, hey, man, I'm a regular listener. I love the podcast. I even gave you $20 a year for some stuff.
Starting point is 00:06:53 I don't really do some two off. It's okay. I always listen to your regular podcast. Anyway, I'm going to get my teeth clean tomorrow, so I heard you say you got nitricks oxide to get your teeth cleaned? Sorry, bro, but that's kind of close to big time. To get your teeth clean, you got nitricks oxide. You can't get your teeth cleaned? Man, dude, I lost a little respect for you, some street card there. You lost it.
Starting point is 00:07:23 You got to get knocked out. to get your teeth cleaned. Holy moly. Where you clip your toenails? You got to take a painkiller before you clip your toenails. Before a haircut, you got to, what, tie one home before a haircut? I said, man, you're like pampered, rich guy, man. Come on.
Starting point is 00:07:39 Anyway, I love you, man. No funny stuff later. Yeah, and I got to get douched before I eat my lobster and my pheasant under glass. Hello? No, I don't get knocked out for my dental clean. I get nitrous gas. It's a gas that you breathe it and it makes you high. You're not knocked out.
Starting point is 00:08:03 You're very much awake and you're, it's like, I don't know if you've ever smoked grass or been inebriated, but it just kind of, it takes the edge off. Your brain goes into Funnytown. And whilst the dental hygienist is digging up your gums and down into your gums, with her metal, wiry dental tools. And excuse me for being a little squeamish
Starting point is 00:08:33 when someone shoves wire down into my gums. I like to take the edge off and breathe in the nitrous gas. So, you know, I'm sorry if you think I'm a pussy for doing it, but, you know, there's a lot of stuff I've done in life and doing life where I ain't no pussy, but I think we all have our little things that freak us out. I'm sure you might have one.
Starting point is 00:08:59 You ever sleep with the door open? Do you shut the closet? Do you need a flashlight when you walk in the dark? Do you get a needle in your gums when the dentist pulls your tooth? I mean, come on, man. I'm only human. Holy God. Man, dude.
Starting point is 00:09:19 Really, dumb ass? Anyway, um... You can't. it should teeth clean? Man, dude. Dude, you should try it, man. You sound like, you know, the big Lobowski. You sound like you like to get a little ripped now and then, bro. What's up, brosuf? Like, don't knock it until you've tried it, dude. You know, I hate to say it, but sometimes I actually look forward to going to get my teeth clean because I'm high as a freaking kite for 40 bucks on nitrous gas.
Starting point is 00:09:52 Man, dude, you should try it. Man, dude. Man. Dude. Dude. Dude. Man. Try the nitrous, dude. Holy moly.
Starting point is 00:10:04 Come on, dude. Come on. Whoa, dude. I'm dude. Oh, your goals look a little inflamed. Man. Come on. Hey, Holly.
Starting point is 00:10:15 This friend. I heard your podcast about the Dental cleaning. I went in about a week ago, and I was lucky, though. I didn't have a hygienist who tried to do what yours did. In fact, she was a beautiful blonde who smelled really nice. Holy moly. You know, it was just a pleasure to sit in the chair.
Starting point is 00:10:39 Man. And let her dig around in my mouth. Come on. But anyway. Good. Yeah, sorry that you had your experience and all that. And wish I could think of what else I was going to say, but I can't have a good day. Really, do you know, man?
Starting point is 00:11:05 Okay, okay, no, no need for name calling. Thank you for your calls, guys. I appreciate it. A lot of feedback on the dental hygienist thing. Holy smokes. um you know the whole medical thing speaking of medical um i want to uh i want to bring this up this is an interesting story have you if you heard about people getting hit by lightning right every now and then a few people get hit by lightning and uh what are the odds what are the odds
Starting point is 00:11:40 getting hit by lightning so how about this can i can i go one notch higher how many of you out there have been hit, not by lightning, but by a meteor. That's right, the things that fly through space and look like shooting stars. Well, apparently there is one person on record, a woman by the name of Anne Hodges. She's the only person ever struck by a meteor, and she was left with a massive bruise right on her side between her hip bone and her rib cage, right in that little, that area hurts too. Ever been hit by a tennis ball or a racquetball or some kid throw a rock at you right there?
Starting point is 00:12:27 It's like soft and meaty. It's like there's no bone. You got the rib cage, which is bone under there that protects the organs, and then it's just like nothing, and then the hip bone comes up. So there's that little swath in between. And it hurts, man. It's vulnerable. And this lady, Ann Hodges, in 1954, got hit by a meteor right there.
Starting point is 00:12:57 I mean, where the hell was she walking? I mean, what the hell are you supposed to think when I'm, and don't you have enough time to get out of the way? Aren't you looking up at the sky? Aren't you seeing the flaming ball? fly across the sky. Aren't you standing there going, well, look at that,
Starting point is 00:13:20 and it looks like a flaming meteors flying across the galaxy? Look at the flaming meteor streak across the entire atmosphere. It sure does look like it's getting close, doesn't it? Well, it looks like it's, if we stood here, if we just stood here, if we just stood here, Anne, it looks like, you know, it's probably about 7,000 miles away,
Starting point is 00:13:50 but it looks like if we just stood here, it could maybe come right at us. Well, I hope we have time to get away sometime in that 7,000 mile journey, or we could just stand here and see if it hits us. Who knows? Maybe right under the rib cage, right, Anne? Anne? Oh, my God. I mean, that is wild, dude. That is some bragging rights. Or that's the type of thing where you hide in your house for the rest of your life
Starting point is 00:14:21 because people think you're an idiot. Me, I'd be like, yeah, that's my sky right there, yeah. Oh, how'd I get it? Oh, you know, hit by a fucking meteorite. How about that? Yeah. Yeah, maybe I do have space powers. Maybe I got fucking gamma ray powers.
Starting point is 00:14:38 You want me to levitate you? I'm a meteorite, boy. I got hit by a meteorite. fucking right you better run away you son of a bitch i'm a fucking meteorite person i mean good lord man what are the freaking odds so anyways i just thought i'd throw that in there a good good old uh interesting story ann hodges 1954 dumb ass hit by a meteorite i mean it's amazing she wasn't killed
Starting point is 00:15:13 And, oh, wait a minute. Roger, you're playing, I think I know why you're playing that funeral music, right? Yeah, okay. Well, let's talk about it. Boy, I know you're all Star Wars fans, right? You love your Star Wars? Well, sadly, just recently, and I don't know if you've heard it already, and I'm sorry if I'm, uh, I'm sorry if I'm the bearer.
Starting point is 00:15:43 of the bad news I don't like to to be the bearer of the bad news but somebody died from the Star Wars world and it's well it's R2D2 let me just throw it right out there yeah Kenny Baker who played R2 D2 in all the in all the Star Wars movies little tiny guy Little teeny tiny fella. He died at 81 years old. He played the iconic droid R2D2 in the first six films. He died just short of his 82nd birthday, and I hate to use the word short.
Starting point is 00:16:32 He died just short. Because no matter when he died, he would have died short, just short. He could have died when he was 23, and he would have died just short. because he, he was only, you know, five, two, two feet, two feet high. 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.
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Starting point is 00:18:02 so you get your discount and 100% free shipping code Harland. Have fun. Don't throw your back out. um actually he wasn't he was three feet high eight inches can you imagine it's just you take it for granted uh how how uh how tall you are and then uh when you think people are that short it's so it's fascinating uh so um he was the guy man and i roger we have some of his castmates on the line Oh, poor little guy. Okay, well, it sounds like we got some of his castmates on the line calling in. And they want to kind of, I guess, share some stories, say a fond goodbye. Who do we have on the line first?
Starting point is 00:18:59 Oh, really? Yoda? Okay, let's put them through. Yoda's on the line to talk about, you know, this wonderful little actor, Kenny Baker And let's see what Yoda has to say My God Hello Yoda Are you there, sir?
Starting point is 00:19:19 Here I am Oh, there you are And where are you calling from Yoda, you're calling from Hollywood? Yes, steam bath, Oakleaf on Melrose Boulevard I call You're at a steam bath? Yes, I am.
Starting point is 00:19:35 Oh, hang on, ooh, oh. Rub not too hard on that thought you mustn't. Oh, and second thought, keep rubbing, you must. Hmm, mm. Hello, Yoda. Sorry, yes. Yeah, we wanted to get your thoughts about your, your castmate, your fellow star from Star Wars,
Starting point is 00:19:58 the lovable little, little actor Kenny Baker, who was R2D2. Mm, asshole fuck, was he? Excuse me? Fucking prick Ashole prima donna was he Like to kick him in his Peanut-sized testicles would eye Whoa whoa whoa what's that type of talk
Starting point is 00:20:21 Fucker mother he was He was a motherfucker That's what you're to say Fucker mother he was Short fucking prick Oh my God That's no way to talk I mean you're not much taller
Starting point is 00:20:37 Minot, hang on. Ooh, yes. Oh, right there. Tug on Yoda's pickle. Hmm. Oh, yeah, stop. Yoda, do you mind? Can we talk about Kenny Baker?
Starting point is 00:20:52 Abnoxious fuck was he? Pre-Madonna always picking his asshole on set he was. Okay, you know what? Let's move on. Do we have someone else on the line here? What about Chewley? Chewbacca. Mm, keep tugging on pickle.
Starting point is 00:21:10 Yoda got Dill Frenchpin? Hang up on Yoda. Is Chewbacca there? There he is. Chewy, obviously you spent a lot of time on set with this wonderful actor. Kenny Baker, who played R2D,
Starting point is 00:21:28 to any final memories? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Wait a minute. What was that? I thought I heard something. I don't know. I don't understand Wookie, but I distinctly thought I heard motherfucker. I heard motherfucker. Is that what you said? Did you just say suck my hairy balls? All right. I'm getting the sense that people, didn't really like this guy. Maybe we should talk to his closest star, co-star.
Starting point is 00:22:15 C-3. Roger, is C-3PO there too? Okay, put C-3Pio on. Surely C-3Pio's got something nice to say about Kenny Baker, who played lovable R2D2 on Star Wars. C-3PO, are you there? Oh, hello there, Master Harland. Hello, C-3PO. How are you today? I'm doing very good, thank you very much. I'm here at the steam bath with Master Yoda. Oh, you are? Um... Hmm, tug on Yoda's little green pickle, you must.
Starting point is 00:22:48 Uh, would you mind not putting him on the line? Give me that phone, Master Yoda, you naughty little man. Um, what did you think of, uh, you know, your co-star Kenny Baker, who, uh, you know, played R2D to your little sidekick? Well, I must say, I wish you. He would climb up George Lucas' ass and suck on his bomb grapes. What? He was a motherfucker, a prima don't know-daughter, and nobody liked the fucking little prick.
Starting point is 00:23:17 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. C-3Pio, what's going on here? I wish he would bend Steven Spielberg over and suck on his plump hemorrhoids. Okay, you know what? Maybe C-3Pio can tug on pickle, he must. What is this pickle stuff? I'd be happy to tug on your pickle. Mr. Would you guys stop it?
Starting point is 00:23:39 Oh, that's right, C3PO. Just put more soap on. Mm, turn the rod. How's that, master? Would you hang up on them? Well, now I just feel like... Was it just me? I thought everyone loved R2D2, and it sounds like...
Starting point is 00:24:02 He would... Hang up, Roger. And it's... Sounds like he wasn't very well liked by his castmates. That's, that's, that's sad. I mean, I wasn't expecting that. And Roger, what the hell is, I see three-o Yoda and Chewbacca doing, hanging out at a steam bath together? Is it just me or was that extremely creepy?
Starting point is 00:24:30 Yikes. All right, well, let's put it behind us. Let's, let's move on. That's just, ye, ye, ye. Ye. Let's move on here with the show. Wow. Rest in peace, Kenny Baker, C3PO, or R2D2.
Starting point is 00:24:50 Good Lord. A steam bath. Okay, well, speaking of taking a bath. Did anyone watch the Olympics, the summer Olympics? It just, it feels to. me like they came and went and I don't know are they even a thing anymore i used to get very excited the olympics used to be you know very exciting you know there's this huge buildup and and and it was like it felt like the world was such a big place and athletes would come from all
Starting point is 00:25:26 over planet earth from countries far and wide from australia and china and russia and the United States and Finland and Yugoslavia and Africa and you know it just just felt like the world was such a big place and it was such a big event and you know it was like you wanted to be in the know you wanted to watch some of it you wanted to be part of the mix and maybe it's just me I don't know but this year just felt like it kind of came and went and personally I didn't I didn't take much interest in it And I thought to myself, why is that? Why, why, why the lack of enthusiasm for the Olympics?
Starting point is 00:26:10 What is it? And I realized, I guess it's been mired in so much scandal and, and so much, like, nonsense. It feels like the last few summers, like we had, we had the Olympics in Greece and we had the Olympics in Rio. And it feels like the Olympics is becoming more. more about, less about the athletes and their journey and their struggle and their dreams and their goals. It seems to be more about who's the city that gets the Olympic nod. Who's going to win the bid to be the host city of the Olympics?
Starting point is 00:26:51 And there's this fanfare and this bill. It's almost like an election, you know? Everyone's vying, you know, jockeying for position to host the Olympics, all these countries. And then some country wins, like Greece or, you know, you got Rio and Brazil. And it's like, congratulations, you win the Olympics. Yay, yeah, everyone jumps up and down and cries and hugs. And then reality sets in and they go, oh, and by the way, it's going to cost, you know, probably about, about $8 billion.
Starting point is 00:27:33 to remodel your whole city. You know, what you've got to do is you've got to put in a couple of stadiums, a giant swimming pool, a new monorail system. You've got to build a new train system through town, new bus routes. You need to build an Olympic village for both the boys and the girls. Then you need this and that. And yeah, about $8 billion. You've got to readjust your rivers and waterways so the canoes can get through.
Starting point is 00:28:00 And all of a sudden you've got these countries that are all, already in almost economic collapse. Greece was ridiculous. Rio, ridiculous. I mean, honestly, it's just like all this nonsense overshadows the true meaning, the true spirit of the Olympics in my mind. Suddenly it's about the opening ceremonies.
Starting point is 00:28:30 Let's see how frilly we can get. Let's see how many fireworks we can light off. Let's see how many special effects. Let's see if we can get Muhammad Ali and Carl Lewis to hobble up a 3,000 flights of stairs and collapse as they ignite the Olympic torch. Let's see how big of a projection screen we can get and show all these crazy images. Let's get to 3,000.
Starting point is 00:29:02 dancers to tumble around in the middle of the center field of the sports arena dressed like Eskimos and turn into human totem poles and it's all this fanfare. It's all this buildup.
Starting point is 00:29:20 Who cares about the opening ceremonies? You know what the opening ceremony should be? It should be a guy with a starter pistol down on the track. The opening shot of the Olympic should be a starter pistol going off in mid-air and, you know, eight sprinters taking off down the track. I think if they made it more about the sports and more about the competitiveness and the rivalries
Starting point is 00:29:51 with countries, it would pique my interest more. But now it seems like it's all about money and showmanship and the closing. ceremonies and you've got these cities that can't afford to get stuff done. They don't get stuff on time. I remember the Russian Olympics, the winter Olympics when they didn't even have hotels and there were like cots in the hotel rooms and the shower water was cold and the shower water was contaminated and the food was bad and people were freezing and you know it's become it's like a poor man walking into a fancy seafood and steakhouse
Starting point is 00:30:38 it's like a guy who stood on the corner all day begging for money accumulated like 895 and goes into a steakhouse and sits down and orders lobster and steak for two hundred and fifty dollars he's way beyond his mean He doesn't have the money. He doesn't have the wherewithal. He's beyond his means, and that's what the Olympics feels like. And I'm not trying to dump on the Olympics and sour the Olympics
Starting point is 00:31:11 and take away from anyone's accomplishments. Good for them. But I think if I as an athlete, I'd be bummed out that there's so much hooplau around the Olympics. Just make it about the sports. I hate to say it. I get annoyed enough when at hockey games and baseball games, they sing the national anthem. I'm glad everyone's patriotic,
Starting point is 00:31:34 but I'm not there to see a singer. I don't need to see Whitney Houston putting a new twist on the star-spangled banner. I don't need to see Chuck a Khan or Justin Timberlake trying to do the American National Anthem better than the person did it last year. I don't need to see, you know, Katie Perry half-naked.
Starting point is 00:31:59 at halftime at the Super Bowl singing one of her shitty songs. I got to tell you, it would be more interesting to just watch the guys from the football teams, you know, getting coached in the locker room. But somebody somewhere thought all this fanfare would be a good thing, and now it's overshadowed the enjoyment of the event.
Starting point is 00:32:23 And then not only that, now the Olympic events are riddled with scandal. And this is nothing new. We have people taking illegal drugs. We have doping. We have Lance Armstrong. We had that guy, Ben, Ben somebody, the fastest guy in the world in Canada all those years. Ben Johnson, the Canadian sprinter, the newspaper fastest man in the world.
Starting point is 00:32:51 And then, you know, nine months later, shamed. Gold medals stripped away. Doping. And so now you don't know who's real and who's fake and who's, who deserves it and who doesn't. You get all these American sprinters that have admitted or been caught, doping and sneaking blood and urine around, and the night like creepy vampires almost. The lengths that people have gone to to break the rules. And so now I'm skeptical and I'm, I'm,
Starting point is 00:33:29 I'm bitter about it. I feel like I'm not getting the truth. And so this year, I just, I wasn't enthused. I wasn't thrilled. And it makes me sad because we should be thrilled. As human beings, we should want to see human excellence. We should want to see human achievement. We should want to see human beings push the boundaries of their capabilities.
Starting point is 00:33:59 And we should want to see the evolution of mankind. You know, is a man from the 1930s slower than a guy from 2017? How much faster and stronger have human beings become? Well, I can't tell because I don't know what's real. I don't know what's fake. What's been doped? What's been drugged? What's been tampered with?
Starting point is 00:34:27 And so instead of, all these reasons to be enthused about the Olympics and wanting to watch the Olympics. I'm starting to feel I got more reasons why not. I mean, did you see this year in Rio, the water was polluted, the water was contaminated, there was sewage water, there was crime, there was, there was, the air quality. Remember the air quality and when they had it in China? The air was like, looked like chocolate milk. You're bringing athletes into an environment where the air is not even safe?
Starting point is 00:35:04 I would be more than happy if they went back to having the Olympics on a track in a nice university or to school where they had people running around the track. They had long jumpers. They had pole vaulters. They had high jumpers in center field. They had javelin. They had shot put. All this stuff is doable in a very cheap, confined space. All you've got to do is set up the cameras and film it.
Starting point is 00:35:38 I guess what I'm saying is let's bring some purity back to the Olympics. They are such a noble endeavor. The Olympics are such a noble undertaking. To show the purity and the strength and conviction and commitment of the human spirit and the human physique. and the human mind and now it's all just muddied it's it's as contaminated as the water in Rio and I don't want to get in that water I don't want to be I don't want to have anything to do with that water I don't want to be contaminated by all the bullshit and lies cheating judges
Starting point is 00:36:21 and cheating commissions and people passing money under the table to to get votes so that their country can get the Olympics and then they're not ready to host them and yeah the list goes on and on it's just just another thing that's been ruined by big money and scandalous people and all i want to see is you know little tommy johnson you know who lives out in the country and runs 50 miles every day down a country road through the corn and realized he's got a gift the gift of endurance, and I want to see him run around the track and win on his own God-given talents. And I want to see little Cindy Slattery from Minnesota who spent, you know, 12 years of her adolescence in a gym learning out a balance on a beam and put her heart and soul into it and learned out a tumble on a mat.
Starting point is 00:37:17 I want to see Vladimir Gustafak who spent all this time figuring out how to, lift weights why don't I get to see that stuff that would be sweet man that would be nice but instead we get a bunch of bullshit the Olympic Olympic bullshit so hopefully they find a way I hope I'm not ruining it for anybody but I'm very dismayed and I hope that maybe one day They get it back where it belongs and focuses on athleticism and human spirit. I think I'd enjoy that. How about you? I'm out of breath.
Starting point is 00:38:06 Man, the endurance. Is there an Olympic event for podcasting? I think I just, that was like a 10, 12 minute bit. And I went without stopping. There's no edits. I just, I did it from start to finish. It's got to be a record. Dan, da-da-da-da-na-da-na-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
Starting point is 00:38:23 And there was no interference. There was no sponsors. There was no... Oh, my God, the purity, the humanity. All right, shut up. I'm gonna stop the show right there. I can't even go on anymore. I'm just exhausted.
Starting point is 00:38:37 It's hard being a podcast gold medalist. Who knew the Harland Highway was the gold medalist? And then I ruined it with Charles Nelson. All right, let's end it there. But we definitely won't end the podcast there because we got to do a few announcements. Reminder to everyone, check my website, harlone Williams.com for the stand-up comedy tour, which begins in the fall. It kicks off in September 9 and 10.
Starting point is 00:39:14 I'm in Salt Lake City at Wise Guys in Utah. Then the following weekend, September 15th to the 18th, Kansas City Improv. Then at the end of September, September 30th through the weekend, I'm in Pittsburgh at the improv and so on and so on. Go to Harlem Williams.com. Make sure that you get informed on me coming to your town, man. Oh, hell yeah. Also, well, you're there, check out the Harlan Williams.com store. Lots of great gifts and merchandise for you to purchase and have sent your way.
Starting point is 00:39:50 Also, don't forget to sign up for our free app for the Harland Highway on your cell phone. Just type in the Harland Highway app and in your app store and download us for free, man. Oh, hell yeah. And then if you become a premium member for 20 bucks a year, you get all kinds of great bonus material. So please sign up and join if you can for 20 bucks a year. Sweet deal. Also, if you want to write to me, you can write to me at harlindwilliams.com. We have a contact link or if you want to even phone me.
Starting point is 00:40:29 You heard some people phone at the beginning of the show. All the fun we have. 323-739, 4330, 3-2-3-9-43-3-3-3-433. Man, dude, dude, give me a call if you can. Yeah, that number again, 3-2-3-739-43-30. The number is on the website, too. if you can't remember it, harlandwilliams.com. So there you go, everybody.
Starting point is 00:40:55 Hope you had a great time. Thanks for being here. Tell your friends to get on the Harland Highway. Join our premium membership. And let's keep the laughter rolling. Okay? There you go. Thanks for being here.
Starting point is 00:41:07 Until next time, chicken. Chalman, baby. Mmm, asshole fuck was he? Thank you.

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