The Harland Highway - 794 - R2D2 IS DEAD. STAR WARS cast calls in. The Olympics naaaaaa..
Episode Date: August 22, 2016The actor who played R2D2 has died, his cast mates call the show to mourn. The Olympics suck. Calls from listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/l...istener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm sorry.
That really sticks me off.
Dallow.
And I don't say
Delo to snow.
Delo, snow.
I say
delo to me.
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,
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Man, dude, you should try it.
Man, dude.
Man.
Dude.
Dude.
Dude.
Man. Try the nitrous, dude.
Holy moly.
Come on, dude.
Come on.
Whoa, dude.
I'm dude.
Oh, your goals look a little inflamed.
Man.
Come on.
Hey, Holly.
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.
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?
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
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?
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.
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,
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,
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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?
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?
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.
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,
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
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
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?
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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?
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...
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?
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.
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
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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?
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Until next time, chicken.
Chalman, baby.
Mmm, asshole fuck was he?
Thank you.