The Harland Highway - 854 - MR. FEATHERSTONE & Charles Assmunch gang up on Harland
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Hey, everybody, Harlan Williams here.
You're on the Harlem Highway.
I'm your host, Harlem, William.
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Also, today we have my boss, Mr. Featherstone.
Apparently he wants me to go up to his office for some reason.
I hear I might be in a bit of trouble, so I'll be going up to see my boss, Mr. Featherstone.
Also, an interesting call from a pavement ponder about kind of the argumentative differences
between political parties and the public
and a call about how and where to find vitriol on the internet.
And then a return call from Dr. Charles Asmunch
to kind of talk about the political environment here today.
He's a professor of political science from NYU,
very sophisticated guy, almost hard to understand,
but we got him calling in.
So let's have some fun.
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office, Mr. Featherstone up here on the 12th floor. He called me up for some reason. I don't know why I was just about to start the podcast and Roger, you know, comes in all frantic. You got to go see Featherstone upstairs. He's having a fit or something. So I don't know what the hell I did. But oh, there's a, hi Betty. There's a receptionist Betty. How are you today? Beautiful day. Isn't it Betty? Well, okay, she just flipped me off.
As you
I can go in
Okay, thank you
Here I go
I'm going into my boss's office
There he is at his desk
Just handing up the phone
Hello, sir
Mr Featherstone
Hello
Hello
Yes sir
How are you today sir
How am I
Who are you to come in my office
And start firing questions
What are you the
Spanish Inquisition here
Well sir no
You asked me to come up to your office.
And who are you?
Sir,
Sir, I'm not going to play this game.
It's Harlan Williams.
Who?
Harlan Williams, sir.
Howl.
Sir, it's Harlan Williams from the Harlan Highway Podcast.
Plot. Splod Blot.
Podcast, sir.
Plow.
Splalop.
Sir, it's the Harland Highway Podcast.
Holly Wally's got a lollipop.
Sir!
Enough of your shenanigans.
I didn't have you up here to play word games.
What are you, uh, some kind of ferry at, uh, fairy school?
What does that mean, sir?
You know what I mean.
Sir?
Uh-huh.
Sir?
Uh-huh.
Sir, I don't go to fairy school.
Well, you sure look like you go to a fairy school.
Sir, what is this all about?
Sit down.
Okay.
Now, I got a complaint from one of your guests on your Splodplot.
Sir, it's a podcast.
I'll raise your voice of me, tinkle teeth, timey-wimey.
Tinkle-teeth, timey-y-wimey.
Ah?
What do you mean I got a complaint?
Before I get into that, I got to ask you something.
Have you ever farted?
No, I don't fart on things.
Why do you always ask me this?
Shut up.
Have you ever farted on a fresh head of lettuce at a grocery store?
No, I haven't farted on a fresh head of lettuce.
You should try it.
It makes the leaves blow.
Sir, what am I up here for?
You lipped off to one of my guests that I was on your plon tot.
What do you mean?
One of your guests that you had on, your inviting guests, apparently you gave him a hard time.
Well, who was this, sir?
Dr. Charles Asmunch, that's who.
Wait a minute.
Yeah, that's right.
Charles Asmunch from New York, U.
The political science professor from NYU
That's the guy
Oh funny you remember him now
What do you mean remember him now?
You just brought it up
Uh
Sir?
Uh
What
All right I'm confused here
What what happened
Well apparently
He was on your snod blood
And you were being rude
and making fun of the way he talked
and you gave him a hard time
and he sent a complaint over.
Well, sir, if I remember correctly,
Dr. Charles Asmunch was being very...
Everything he said seemed to make no sense.
There you go, see, insulting a guest.
I'm not insulting him, sir.
I'm just stating that he was very miscombobulated.
His words didn't seem to make sense.
he seemed to be talking jibberish almost.
Oh, and like you're not?
No, I believe I'm very articulate, sir.
I'll bet you're articulate at your funny little bars downtown.
Sir, I do not go to funny little bars downtown.
Oh, really?
Yes, really.
Well, how about the rusty doorknob at 59th and 12th?
Sir, I don't go to the rusty doorknob.
Uh-huh. Sir?
Uh-huh.
Sir, are we done here?
No, we're not done.
I haven't even asked you yet if you farted.
No more farting stuff.
Have you ever farted at a checkout line at your grocery store?
Sir, why would I fart at the checkout line?
Because if you fart on that little conveyor belt where you put all your groceries on?
Okay.
If you fart at one end of it, the conveyor belt carries your fart all the way down right into the cashier's face.
Sir, that is disgusting.
Are you telling me you fart on a conveyor belt so that it slides down and hits the cashier?
Uh-huh.
That is just wrong.
Oh, well, you said you've never tried it, so why don't you relax your ass muscles until you've tried it?
I'm not going to relax my arse muscles.
I bet you do it, you funny bars.
Sir, I don't go to funny bars.
Oh, really?
Oh, here we go.
How about the sticky phone booth at 29th and 15th?
The sticky phone booth.
That's the name of a bar.
Ah.
Sir?
Ah.
Sir, what do you want me to do about,
Dr. Charles ass munch.
Don't raise your voice
and me. You're the one that's got a
testicular
tyronic tog.
What?
You know what I mean?
No, I don't. I don't even know what you just said.
It's when you treat your
guests rudely and don't talk to them
properly. Okay.
So what you're going to do is you're going to have
them on as a guest today
and you're going to let them talk
and let him get out what he needs to say
so I don't get any more complaints
from Dr. Charles' ass much.
Well, I wasn't planning to interview him today.
I don't care.
You're going to do it, or you're going to get a pink slip.
Sir?
Speaking of pink,
have you ever farted on a Rudy-to-Tootie,
fresh and fruity at I-Hop?
Sir, I don't fart on things.
You should try it and blast the blueberries
all over the surface of the pancake.
Sir? Disgusting!
Speaking of disgusting, how was your Saturday night?
What do you mean my Saturday night with your funny little guy friends?
Sir, for the last time I do not have funny little guy friends
and I don't go to the funny little bars downtown.
Oh, really? Yes.
Well, how about that one at 15th and 47th?
Which one is that, sir?
You know the one?
Squeeze my orange juice.
I do not go to squeeze my orange juice with my funny little friends.
Ah, sir?
Ah.
You know, why don't you get on your horse and ride Elvis Presley?
Excuse me, sir?
I'm busy here.
Now listen, I got a phone call coming in,
and you're standing here drooling all over my car.
carpet. I'm not drooling all
you. I'm here.
Get on your horse and ride.
Prude Zelda?
Prude Zelda?
Get out of here. I got to take a phone call.
You better interview Charles Asmunch.
Sir? Get out of here.
Oh, God. Thank you, sir.
Up yours, garlic bread teeth.
Goodbye, Mr. Featherstone.
Blow it out your caboose hole.
Good Lord.
He must, I should file a lawsuit against this guy.
It's the most humiliating, berating, demoralizing.
I'm just, oh, God, he gets me.
Thank you, Betty.
Good to see you at least.
That, well, okay, Betty just flipped me the double finger.
Thank you.
Roger, play a commercial.
I'm going to get my head together called Charles.
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Hello?
Hello.
Hey, Harlan, this is your friend, Tony.
Hey, thanks for accepting my call.
I wanted to just mention that I heard your podcast a few weeks ago
that, you know, you were absolutely right
in decrying the way some Hillary supporters
or Democrats, but liberals are vilifying Trump voters.
But if you want to understand how it's a two-way street,
I suggest you go to Breitbart.com and look at the comments.
Look at the comments about liberals, about Democrats.
They are pretty horrific.
Leave a comment or to yourself that might disagree and see what kind of reaction you get.
I've done that a number of times.
I've been called a number of things.
So I think the street works both ways.
I think your caller who was vilified in Oregon, he's around liberals.
he's around a certain type of person who criticize them.
If he were in a different venue,
or conversely, if a liberal were among Trump supporters,
I'm sure they would get their earful as well.
I don't think the Trump supporters are all these civilized, polite people.
Go to brightbark.com to see what I mean.
Okay. Talk to you later.
Bye.
Hi, Tony.
No, no, I'm not going to go to brightbart.com.
And do I sound angry about it?
Yes, you know why I'm not going to go to brightbart.com?
Tony?
Because you're right, dude.
Tony is 100% right.
I'm not going to go to brightbart.com because Tony is accurate.
I know that there's vile, vitriolic, toxic, spewed,
language that's mean and cruel and hurtful and and borderline violent.
I've never been to brightbart.com in my life and I don't need to go because I know Tony is
right. Just like I, you know, just like I chastised people on the Democratic side for being,
for being mean-spirited and cruel and using horrible language and demeaning people.
because they have opposing points of view.
I already know what's there, Tony, and I don't want to see it.
And I know it's the same on both sides, and it's horrible, and, and, oh, it's just got to stop.
I don't want to go because it's going to be depressing.
I know that there's people there that can be just as mean as the mean as Democrat,
and just as vitriolic and cruel and rude and spiteful, and all these horrible words.
and Tony is 100% right
and when I talked about the vitriol coming from the Dems on a recent podcast
yes I can't deny that it happens just as equally on the Republican side
and the point here is I wish it would just stop why do people have to be that way
are any of you listening that way when you find out that that your friend
or your relative or your wife or your husband supported a different political party.
Do you really sit there and go, oh, fuck damn?
You know what?
I used to like my cousin, but he's a fucking asshole now.
He's a racist.
He's a homophobe.
He's this.
He's that.
And that goes for whatever side you're on.
If you're a conservative, do you go, oh, man, what a fucking asshole, my son.
sister is. You know, she supports Hillary and Hillary has the email thing and the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Like, I get it. Both sides are flawed. Both sides have their faults. Can't you just go,
hey, you know what? I'm with this camp. My mindset, my mentality, I kind of skew more towards this side than
that side. But you have fun on your side and I'll have fun on my side. Why can't it just be left there?
I have never, you know, I have never demoralized someone or stripped someone down or called them a vile name because they don't have the same party affiliation as me.
And by the way, I'm not party affiliated.
I've always said that.
I sway like the wind.
I go with what I feel good about each election.
So I'm not.
but this time I went
Republican as you all know
I was a Trump guy but I've never
I've never like
beat up on someone
a friend or a relative
or even someone I don't know
for liking another
political party or agenda
so it's just horrible
it's like can't there be polite discourse
can't there be polite debate
Can't there be, you know, let's agree to disagree
and still be friends and sit down and have a damn ice cream together?
I mean, I don't have an issue with people liking another party.
I like it.
I respect it.
That's diversity.
I like having a conversation about opposing sides.
But when you go beyond that wall of, you know, having different tastes
and you become vitriolic and you become cruel,
and mean and call people names and tell them they're a moron and an idiot and they're stupid and they're
well who are you to say that no matter what side of the political spectrum you're on who are who are you
to say that you're right and someone else is wrong you're not your your opinion is no more
valid than your opponent's opinion all you can do is throw it up there and talk about it and trade
ideas and trade concepts and trade you know philosophies and opinions and but neither of you is
better or smarter or more superior or in the right so drop all the meanness man and i don't know
all these vitriolic sites but i've heard about them i and i i'll never go on them but if
that's what bright bard is tony then i don't ever want to see it and if there's a
There's ones that are, that slam the other side.
I don't want to see them.
I don't want to go on them.
I don't need that in my life, man.
That's negative energy.
That's just, you know, you walk around, you carry that around with you, man.
If you start getting into that type of speak and that type of mindset, you carry that with you.
You become, I believe you become an angry, bitter.
person and you start to wear it like a coat and you better be careful you better be careful how
deep you want to go with with your with your your uh you know being adamant that you're so
right about your political party whichever side of the aisle you're on because the more entrenched
the deeper you dig in the more it shows the more you wear it the more it becomes
part of you. It becomes part of your fabric. It becomes part of your life. And at the end of the day,
what are you arguing about? You're arguing the cause of a bunch of corrupt politicians on both
sides? Let's face it, folks, they all have their shortcomings. They all are corrupt at some level.
They all, in my opinion, are not servicing we, the people, the way they should be. They're more
interested in their party lines and their agendas than they are in, you know, John Q. Public,
if you want to ask me.
So just be sure about what you're getting so, you know, entrenched and impassioned about
before, you know, it becomes part of who you are.
And so I thank Tony for, you know, bringing this up.
And I thank Tony for, for, you know, eveninging the playing field.
not evening
that sounded like nighttime
is it evening
yeah I guess it is
I just realized
evening the playing field
and also I hope you have a good evening
I've never really made that
association before
but
so Tony is absolutely
correct that both sides
of these
the opposing
political teams
can be very
very unruly and very mean-spirited.
And I hope you people listening aren't like that.
And if you are, maybe take a look in the mirror and go, wait a minute.
Why am I like this?
Am I too over the top?
Am I being mean?
Am I going to resolve anything with being so mean and vitriolic?
I mean, really, are you going to change the person you're talking to?
Are you going to change the world?
Are you going to change the giant political American machine
by snapping at someone and throwing a knife at them
and being cruel?
I don't think so.
So why don't you take the high road,
debate your point of view, debate your politics
without name-calling, without being hurtful,
and I think the world would be a much better place.
Hold on. What?
Oh, he's on the line?
All right, well, maybe the world.
this is good timing. Apparently, Dr. Charles
ass munch is on the line. The guy, Mr. Featherstone, my boss, is forcing me to have another
phone call with him. Okay, put him on hold for a second because I want to end this thing.
Tony, thank you for your call. And, you know, even you, my friend, I would advise you just stay
off of that stuff. And, you know, just you can do what you want. But it sounds like,
like you've been on there and you've been berated and you've been ripped a new one by complete
strangers with an agenda none other than to be hurtful. And so maybe it would be cleansing for you
to just steer clear of that stuff and not engage and not be part of the anger cloud that people
have brewed up. Take the high road, buddy. Just have, you know, if you want to have political
conversations, my recommendation, and you can tell me to go jump in the lake, would
be have them with civil people, respectful people, people who are willing to listen and
not be mean.
Okay, so there you go.
Okay.
Thank you, Tony.
Now, this could be, you know, last time Charles Asmunch is a professor of political science at NYU,
and as my boss, Mr. Featherstone, stated earlier in this segment,
okay, Roger, can I just set this up?
Roger's like giving me the hurry up sign.
Give me a second, man.
So he feels that I was rude and discourteous to him
when we did our last conversation,
but maybe it's me.
Maybe I wasn't a good listener.
it felt like the professor was kind of straying off topic somewhat,
but maybe I need to be a little more patient with him and listen.
So let's give him another shot.
And as I was alluding to, this might be good timing
because we were talking about, you know, politics here for a second.
Thanks to Tony's voicemail.
And Charles Asmunch is a political science professor.
So all right, Roger, I'm ready.
You can relax, man.
Okay, put them through.
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Here we go, Professor Charles Asmunch.
Hello, Professor Asmunch. Are you there, sir?
Yes, how are you today, Harlan?
Very, very good, Professor.
Listen, let me just open the segment by apologizing
if maybe last time I was a little abrupt
or maybe it was, you know, a little confused about where the conversation was going.
but, you know, let's give it a second chance here.
No need to apologize, Arland.
You know, these are difficult topics.
They're elaborate topics, and, you know, sometimes they can get convoluted.
They can get built up to a point where, you know,
that people's heads are just spinning.
Well, that's very kind of you to say, Professor.
And I think you were listening to our last phone call here.
And maybe we should jump in with that, you know, talking about the, you know, the political discourse, the way that society seems to be angry and built up and pent up and people lashing out at each other.
Yes, it's a common phenomenon when, you know, especially just after an election has taken place.
and what happens is people build up the hormones into their chlorine bacteria dish,
and they end up reversing the synological trajectory of foresight.
So people are like they build things up psychologically?
Exactly, Ireland, yeah, they build it up, and it's almost,
I hate to equate it to, you know, a food product, but it's almost like a psychological lasagna.
They build up these layers in their head of anger, of frustration, and the only way they can really get them out of their system is to projectile them into the ejector seat of the chronological factorium.
And when, you know, a group of people or a political group decides to
transjectorize the fertilizer, then sometimes what you're going to find is a component from a computer
that prostrates in the Omega-5 or in some cases the lunar solar eclipse sunbelt.
Okay, Professor, now, just so I'm clear, just so I'm really clear here, people, can you just you just
you modify that a bit? Could you elaborate?
Of course, as I said, this is a complex topic, and when people's emotions get drawn into
the political scene, into the political arena, really all.
all you can do is take the fibrous nature of the intertwining of the machinery.
And sometimes you'll get a hydraulic lift from what is perceived to be a chronological
facsimile of a textured cauteride bronchial asthma.
let me let me fast forward here a little bit if if if I could just since you're a professor of political science
if I find me hypothetically in a in a social setting and perhaps a cocktail party and I'm I'm of
you know one mindset with my politics and I bump into someone at a cocktail party and
and and there have another mindset and all of a sudden it gets heated uh voice
prices begin to get raised and the other person is, let's say, hypothetically yelling at me,
talking me down, berating me. How does one handle that in a social setting?
Very good question, Arlen, Dad. And by the way, a common occurrence that happens, as I said,
especially after an election. And I think what we've got to remember is the fertilizer in people's minds.
can go in a clockwork position with the texture of the cumulus clouds.
Now, people often will take a petri dish to the situation,
and very often you're going to find yourself asphalting or reclining into a biological conundrum.
okay professor listen i i please sir don't don't uh take this the wrong way but if there's any way
you could just dial back i i understand that that you're a professor you've been at n yu you
teach a very intensive uh intelligent uh curriculum up there if if maybe you could just bring
it down a little so that we're just you know almost like we're two guys talking in a park and uh you know
The vocabulary is maybe getting a bit ahead of some of our listeners.
Absolutely.
You know, sometimes I have to remember that not everybody's enrolled in an Ivy League school,
and you're absolutely right.
You know, if I could just put this in a, as you said, Arland, a more layman's terms,
what we have to do is people in a social environment need to look through the lens of the coil.
And sometimes in doing that, there's a nesting that happens, and you have to porch light the situation so that the translucent and the, you know, the bi-gender grappling hook of the cord that cord that attaches the ambilical juice to the vitriental juice to the vitrioling hook of the, the cord.
fluid is never punctured, severed, or any abrasions occur at all.
Okay.
Charles, with all due respect, sir, I just think maybe what you're saying isn't connecting.
Well, you know, you did ask me on this show, Mr. Williams, and I'm trying my best to
communicate to you the framework of the metallic molecules that, uh, you.
uh, run rampant through the, uh, vestibals of, uh, a, uh, a railroad, uh, grid on a, uh, on a power stream of hydroelectricity.
You know what? I, I know my boss is going to be mad at me, but, but this is bullshit, sir.
Okay. Well, you know, if, if, if I'm going to be invited on your show and, uh, you're going to, uh, you know,
plasticate the environment with generic gargantuan-sized pea meal,
then you know what, I think we've got a real situation here
where the filter of the gold flakes are not going to be translucent
in the midnight fluorescence.
Sir, I'm going to have to hang up because this is just a load of bullshit.
Well, you know, Mr. Williams, sometimes when you illuminate the guidance system in the rocket fuel pack,
there's always going to be some phosphorus, cantancerous, and cancerous celluloids.
Goodbye, sir. Thank you very much.
Go suck the back end of a fucking carb battery.
Wait, did he just get mad at me?
go suck the back end of a car battery what did i do oh god i knew we shouldn't have that guy on man
now featherstone's going to give me shit god oh jeez well you can't say i didn't try right gang
i get i'll face the fire if it comes my way i mean the guy's not a good guest i'm sorry
and I know if my boss is listening, I'm going to get it, but, you know, I can't even understand what the guy's saying.
Is it just me or what?
I mean, this guy's supposed to be a professor at NYU?
Not.
Jeez.
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And this show, gang, I mean, it is an idea that I took into Disney, I'd say about six years ago.
This is how long the process takes in the animation world.
So it's a show about two little puppies, two little pugs, and they go on these crazy adventures all over the world.
and I took this idea in about six years ago
and we went through all these steps
where I had to write the pilot
and I had to come up with ideas for the pilot
and I had to submit a bunch of ideas
and I had to write the pilot
and I had to work on a rewrite of the pilot
and then we shot that they put an animated pilot together
and then they tested it.
They went Disney's very thorough.
They went out and tested it all over the world.
And the feedback, the reaction was very positive.
And so Disney went ahead and ordered the series.
They ordered 50 episodes.
So it's 50 11-minute episodes.
There will be two episodes per half hour, two 11-minute episodes.
And, you know, this show just, it's coming out so good.
I am so pleased and so happy with it.
It's above and beyond what I even thought it would be.
The advances in animation technology are so great now and so wonderful that, you know,
I was kind of expecting kind of that computer-generated kind of Saturday morning,
herky-jurkey like animation.
And what we've got, what we've received, what Disney has produced is, I mean,
these episodes look more like Pixar movies, man.
They were just stunningly beautiful.
And my background is in animation.
I don't know if you guys knew that or not,
but that's what I studied in college.
So I know that industry.
I know the methodology and the process of animation very elaborately.
And, man, is this stuff coming out good?
Now, I won't have the actual release date for you right now
because it's not coming out until later today.
But the next podcast, I will be able to give you the exact date.
And then hopefully I'll start to be able to play you some clips
and I'll be able to post some images and some animation up on my Twitter feed
and my Instagram, and you guys will get to start to see this show.
And, man, am I excited about this?
So happy puppy day to everyone.
And I'm super excited, as I told you.
And I'll give you more details as things start rolling out.
It's probably going to start coming fast and furious from this day forward
with events and news and clips and all that stuff.
So just so you know, the show is aimed at young kids.
It's a Disney Junior show.
But it really watches and feels and reads like something anyone could watch.
I mean, I've watched all the episodes, and they're really engaging, they're really fun, they're really charming, they're really cute, they're really sweet.
Every episode has a song in it.
We have these great little songs.
I mean, some of the voice talent, we've got Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis in the news.
He does one of the voices.
We have Sherry O'Terry from Saturday Night Live does one of the voices.
We have Tom Kenney.
Do you know who Tom Kenney is?
Tom Kenney's the guy that does the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants.
He's SpongeBob.
He does one of the great characters on my show.
We have Patrick Warburton, the guy that played Elaine's boyfriend on Seinfeld.
Now he does all the Enterprise Car commercials.
You know the guy with the squinty eyes and he's always cut.
of talks like this.
Oh my God, we've got, we've got, we've got, we've got people who were in the show
30 Rock. We've got people from the show The Office.
I do a voice. I do a bunch of voices in the show.
Tom Green, my buddy Tom Green does some voices.
I mean, it is, I am just so excited about this show.
So today we announce it and I'll fill you in more as we go.
and I can't wait to hear what you guys think of it.
So let's leave it there.
Happy Puppy Day, if you have a puppy.
And very cool.
Let's get to some announcements.
I have my stand-up comedy if you want to catch me.
I'll be in Erie, Pennsylvania, March 30th through April 1st.
That's coming up next week.
Erie, Pennsylvania, a junior's last laugh.
It's supposed to be a great club
I have not been there
But they have a lot of big name comics there
And I'm going to be one of them now
Hooray
And then the following weekend
April 7th through 9th
I'll be in Virginia Beach at the Funny Bone
Virginia Beach
The Funny Bone
So check that out
And then the end of April
April 20th to the 22nd
I will be in Connecticut
at the Indian casino at comics with an X on the end.
C-O-M-I-X, okay?
That's April 20th to the 22nd.
All these dates are on my website,
harlem-Williams.com.
You can check them out.
You can even buy your tickets in advance
right there at the website.
So I hope I see you at these clubs.
And hopefully I can make you laugh, baby.
Make you laugh live and in-person.
Also, while you're at the website, you can write to me there at harloweems.com, we have a contact link.
You can call me if you want to leave your own voice message, 323-739, 43330, your voice message might get on the show like Tony's dead.
I play all kinds.
I play silly ones.
I play serious ones.
I play ones that criticize.
I play ones that praise.
Anything goes.
It's just a voicemail.
You don't talk to anyone so you can leave any.
kind of message you on i listen to every one of them i there's too many for me to put all of them
up but i kind of pick and choose and if you say something stimulating or funny or silly or whatever
i might pick yours so love to hear from you especially you people listening overseas we want
to get some some foreign callers in people with accents come on the UK don't be so sure you
bloody brits come on get on the telly give us a
Oh, then. Give us a ring on the tell. I would love to hear from people from the United Kingdom, Scotland, Ireland, China, Indonesia, Iran, Australia, anywhere. Come on, come on, you accent people. Also, get our free app. The app is absolutely free. So you can listen to the Harlan Highway on your phone wherever you go.
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And so it helps support the show,
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and I hope you dig it, man.
So there you go.
That's it for today.
Also check out our store at harloweems.com.
We have lots of great merchandise for sale in there.
We'll send it out to you.
So that's it.
I hope you had a good time here today.
Remember, be civil to one another.
We all have feelings.
We all hurt.
we all have
our
just be nice to each other
okay
you can disagree
nicely
right Tony
hey harland
this is your friend Tony
hey thanks for accepting my call
okay thank you guys
and until next time
chicken
chau-main
baby
go suck the back end of a
fucking carb battery
wait
Thank you.