The Harland Highway - 854 - MR. FEATHERSTONE & Charles Assmunch gang up on Harland

Episode Date: March 23, 2017

Mr. Featherstone orders Harland to re-do a phone call with Prof. Charles Assmunch over the political scene. Learn more about your ad choices. 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 Hey, bad a, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad a, swing. Wait a minute, no, what? This is a podcast, not a baseball game. What am I thinking about? Hey, everybody, Harlan Williams here. You're on the Harlem Highway. I'm your host, Harlem, William.
Starting point is 00:00:17 At the end of the show today, got a really cool announcement. I'm going to be able to give you more information about my new Walt Disney cartoon. So make sure you listen to the end of the show today, where I talk about the show, the new show that's coming out very soon. 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
Starting point is 00:00:58 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.
Starting point is 00:01:26 This is, the Harland. Highway Sit down strap in and tighten your diaper Come here, baby You're about to go down the Harlan Highway
Starting point is 00:01:40 No I didn't bargain for this Oh yes you did Chick-chic-chac-cha Chick-chic-choo-choo-main, baby I'm the creature from all the space Please don't stop
Starting point is 00:01:54 I got to feed an ugly thing Magnificent performance. This is the Harlan Highway. I hate you. Well, that's the way it goes. What do you say? We get down to business.
Starting point is 00:02:23 Well, here I am. 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
Starting point is 00:03:06 Just handing up the phone Hello, sir Mr Featherstone Hello Hello Yes sir How are you today sir How am I
Starting point is 00:03:16 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,
Starting point is 00:03:31 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.
Starting point is 00:03:52 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?
Starting point is 00:04:13 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.
Starting point is 00:04:28 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?
Starting point is 00:04:52 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.
Starting point is 00:05:17 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.
Starting point is 00:05:45 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
Starting point is 00:06:03 Uh Sir? Uh What All right I'm confused here What what happened Well apparently He was on your snod blood
Starting point is 00:06:18 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.
Starting point is 00:06:39 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.
Starting point is 00:07:08 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.
Starting point is 00:07:28 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.
Starting point is 00:08:02 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?
Starting point is 00:08:30 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,
Starting point is 00:08:48 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.
Starting point is 00:09:05 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
Starting point is 00:09:21 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?
Starting point is 00:09:39 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.
Starting point is 00:10:09 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.
Starting point is 00:10:34 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.
Starting point is 00:10:54 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.
Starting point is 00:11:14 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.
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Starting point is 00:14:04 Now I can sail on to something more important. Someone figured out there are things I'd rather be thinking about. Monastat, because no woman I know has time for yeast infection. 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
Starting point is 00:14:29 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.
Starting point is 00:15:03 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.
Starting point is 00:15:33 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?
Starting point is 00:15:58 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,
Starting point is 00:16:36 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
Starting point is 00:17:20 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.
Starting point is 00:17:59 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,
Starting point is 00:18:31 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.
Starting point is 00:19:12 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
Starting point is 00:19:30 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.
Starting point is 00:19:56 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
Starting point is 00:20:31 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.
Starting point is 00:21:16 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
Starting point is 00:22:01 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
Starting point is 00:22:51 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
Starting point is 00:23:14 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
Starting point is 00:23:30 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?
Starting point is 00:23:53 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.
Starting point is 00:24:17 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
Starting point is 00:24:37 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
Starting point is 00:25:32 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,
Starting point is 00:26:06 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,
Starting point is 00:26:31 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.
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Starting point is 00:27:54 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.
Starting point is 00:28:28 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.
Starting point is 00:29:09 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
Starting point is 00:30:19 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
Starting point is 00:31:30 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,
Starting point is 00:32:33 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
Starting point is 00:33:40 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.
Starting point is 00:34:47 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,
Starting point is 00:35:45 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.
Starting point is 00:36:30 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.
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Starting point is 00:40:13 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.
Starting point is 00:40:38 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.
Starting point is 00:41:17 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.
Starting point is 00:41:48 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.
Starting point is 00:42:24 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.
Starting point is 00:42:50 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.
Starting point is 00:43:20 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
Starting point is 00:43:46 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
Starting point is 00:44:02 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.
Starting point is 00:44:21 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.
Starting point is 00:44:39 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.
Starting point is 00:45:06 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.
Starting point is 00:46:09 Just go to your app store on your phone. Type in the Harland Highway and boom, you are in, baby. You get the latest 50 episodes of the show absolutely free. And if you want to become a premium member for $20 a year, which is nothing, you get all 850 episodes of the Harland Highway plus bonus stand-up comedy material that I post, things like that. And it's a great deal, man. And so it helps support the show,
Starting point is 00:46:41 help support what I do over here, 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.
Starting point is 00:46:59 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
Starting point is 00:47:13 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
Starting point is 00:47:25 chicken chau-main baby go suck the back end of a fucking carb battery wait Thank you.

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