The Harland Highway - 919 - BOY GEORGE calls the show. CRAZY surgery. A street SCREAMER!

Episode Date: November 27, 2017

Pop idol BOY GEORGE calls the show. A woman SCREAMS in the street. And insane human surgery! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...ormation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, hey, everybody. Welcome to the Harland Highway. We are on the air. Don't forget the new format. We're only doing one podcast a week now due to my busy schedule. So it'll be every Monday. I'll try and do them a bit longer than normally. But the very least, you'll have a podcast to get you through the week. So today we got a great show. We got a very crazy news story about it's almost, I'll just use one word Frankenstein. It's very interesting. So you want to stick around for the crazy news story. Also, we have Boyd George, Pop Idol from the 80s. Boy, George is calling in. Let's see what Boyd George has to say. Well, you know, who knows what that nuts up to. Also, the Harland Highway question of the day.
Starting point is 00:00:55 We're going to be asking an important question. And then we're going to start the show off with something very interesting. I was walking down the street and, you know, some woman, some lady just started screaming at the top of her lungs and renting and yelling and yours truly decided to record the conversation or record the screaming. So we're going to start the show with a screamer right out of the gate. So put your earmuffs on, put your face brace. on this is the harland highway put on your seatbelt it's about to get bumpy oh how perfectly awful
Starting point is 00:01:44 i get my kids above the waistline sunshine when will they take the bandages off we don't know who we are we don't know where we are you're riding down the harland highway Please! Let me tell you, you're starting something here that that's what you should be frightened of. Oh! Fuck yeah, bud. Just leave us alone.
Starting point is 00:02:07 Sit down, strap in, and shut up. What's going on? What's the matter? I thought maybe if I could kill him, I could make him stop. My mother-in-a-bred me. She told me she liked me as a friend. Who are we? This is the Harland Highway.
Starting point is 00:02:21 What? It's the Harland Highway. It's a cookbook. Ah! Ah! Oh, yeah, there's some screaming right there. She's screaming. And speaking of screaming, well, why don't we start the podcast with a screamer?
Starting point is 00:02:36 As you know, I'm kind of interested and not in a patronizing or cruel way. I am just fascinated with people that are out in public. And let's be honest, a lot of time it's homeless people or people who might be on medications or who knows why. they're out in the street screaming. But I'm just fascinated, you know, as a race of people of human beings, most of us are not comfortable at raising our voices out in public. Most of us are very docile. Most of us are very polite.
Starting point is 00:03:17 Sometimes if someone's inebriated like a businessman or a football chick or something, you know, there can be some screaming. But it's rare for the average. person just to be wandering down the street yelling and so very often a lot of times it's the mentally ill and it's people that that have issues and have addictions and and i find it fascinating and again not in a cruel way i just find it very interesting when people yell out and so throughout the course of this podcast i've always kind of made it my mission that if i'm in proximity to said screamer, street screamer, I hit the record button on my phone and I like to
Starting point is 00:04:04 document it. Because a lot of times, you know, they're saying stuff that the average mind, that the sane mind, the mind that thinks cohesively and coherently would not string these types of thoughts together, would not create these sentences, would not come up with this kind of dialogue. And so when you hear a screamer, I'm amazed. It's almost like if I was listening to a poet or a writer who had a knack of putting words together in a way that was so poetic and so, you know, mesmerizing. And I think you have to have a certain skill or a certain talent to do that. and what I find with people that are just so free and renting in the streets, I find that there's a certain uninhibitedness to them.
Starting point is 00:05:01 I find there's a certain freedom. I feel like they're yelling stuff that maybe some of us want to yell or whenever I have the courage to yell, or they're making stuff up on the spot, they're issuing sentences that the human mouth has never spoken before. And so for no other reason, I'm just, I have a human curiosity to people that yell. I always have. Even as a kid, I always wanted to get close to the screaming homeless guy,
Starting point is 00:05:30 just to hear what he or she said. And so during the course of this podcast, I've put a few screamers. I just press record on my phone. And here's one. I was in some city on my travels. and then this person, you'll hear, somehow, busted me. She figured out while she was screaming about her vagina that I was recording her, which I find mystifying.
Starting point is 00:05:59 So here it is. We got us a screamer on the street. Have a listen. He's using my phone to call the cops, by the way. Who's that? You're going to call Tyrone? Because you can't use my phone. Oh, hi, Rihanna.
Starting point is 00:06:22 I'm gonna hound you and tell you to leave town. You were raking people under the bridge. This is my area, he said. Who the fuck does he think my vagina belongs to? This is my fucking vagina. He's fired. He got in his fucking goddamn fenced in the area. And stop following me.
Starting point is 00:06:55 Not following you. You're walking down the sidewalk. You're fucking recording me on your fucking phone. I'm not recording anything. Bullshy. I don't know how she figured that one out, but she was totally right. Somehow she knew.
Starting point is 00:07:09 But at the same time, knowing that I was recording her, I think she put on a bit of a show. So at the end of the day, I think she enjoyed it. We certainly found out about her vagina a little bit. What the hell was that all about? Whoa. So there you go. Walking in the streets, we got us a screamer.
Starting point is 00:07:38 Wow, right? You can still hear her going on in the background, man. Like, you know, she was like streets away, and you can still hear her screaming. But, yeah, I find that interesting. I mean, I don't know what she was going on about. But she was, like, pointing to her crotch area. And then, you know, I wasn't doing anything peculiar with my phone. I mean, how often do you see people just walking down the street holding their cell phone?
Starting point is 00:08:10 in their hand, right? And that's what I was doing. I was very incognito. I was just kind of walking down the street nonchalantly in the same proximity as her as she was walking. And my arm was down. My phone was in my hand. I did not have my phone sticking out.
Starting point is 00:08:30 I was not holding it in a kind of obvious manner. And I found it very interesting that she was perceptive enough to deduce that A, I was following her because I was merely just walking down the sidewalk with everyone else and B, that she somehow suspected that I had my phone on record because, as I said, I was very inconspicuous.
Starting point is 00:08:57 So that also tells me that maybe she was putting on a bit of a display because if she knew my phone was recording and she thought I was following her, you know, why all the screaming and the yelling. So that was an interesting one, man. And as fate would have it, as I was walking around, you know,
Starting point is 00:09:19 I went on a long walk that day. I ended up down by a river and by an art, outdoor art fair and all this and that. And, you know, like an hour later, guess who's over at the art fair, screaming and yelling? I'm like, okay. But there you go. Just thought an interesting way to start the show. with a, uh, a random screamer.
Starting point is 00:09:44 Ah! Ah! The Harland Highway. Crazy news stories. That's weird. Wow. That's strange stuff. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:00 This story could be crazy or maybe it's not so crazy. Uh, maybe this is a story that's long overdue. Maybe this makes more sense than anything. When you hear it, when you hear the headline, you're going to go, oh, my God, that's crazy. But then when you start to think about the applications, you'll be like, wait a minute, maybe I want one of those. So here you decide.
Starting point is 00:10:28 Here's the headline. It's pretty crazy. Italian doctor says, World's first human head transplant imminent. Hello. Yeah, you heard me right. Head transplant, lirdle-nurdens and bloodsnerdlskins. Here's the story.
Starting point is 00:10:49 An Italian doctor announced Friday that he will soon perform the world's first human head transplant in China. Because medical communities in the United States and Europe would not permit the controversial procedure, Frankenstein. The doctor says the Americans did not. understand, said Sergio Canverro, as he was doing a news conference in Vienna. Canverro said the Chinese government and a Chinese doctor partnering with him on the procedure would confirm the surgery's date within days to signal its goal of becoming a world leader in all fields, including medicine. President Zing, or whatever his name is in China, I can't read these names.
Starting point is 00:11:38 President X-I. Okay, that's a Roman numeral. So why is a Chinese guy got a Roman numeral for a name? He said he wants to restore China to greatness. He wants to make it the sole superpower in the world. I believe he is doing it,
Starting point is 00:11:57 Canverro said. Well, I guess if you've got an army of youthful soldiers, right? That never grow old. because every time your soldiers start to age, you just plop a new body on their head,
Starting point is 00:12:15 then I guess you might be the biggest superpower in the world because you've got like this endlessly youthful army. Right? I mean, you know, your soldiers would never get old. Anytime they got old, they just plop a new body on them. And how about you guys? You know, this is what I said earlier, Would you go for it if your doctor came to you one day and said, you know, Ed, you know, you're 70 years old.
Starting point is 00:12:47 You've probably got, you know, between two and eight years left to live. And after that, you know, your body's, if you lived it'll be in your 80s and your 90s, your body's going to slow down. You'll have trouble walking. You'll have bad knees, bad hips, bad back, bad shoulders, bad neck, bad posture. You won't be able to get an erection, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But how would you like the body of a 19-year-old college kid? I mean, would you say no to that? Right?
Starting point is 00:13:23 And then let's say, you know, you can stay in your 20s, 30s, and 40s for like the next 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 cycles. Right? Your brain stays fresh and intact. All the knowledge you've gained, all the things you've learned in life, all your experiences, all your stories, they're still there, and you get a fresh new body every 30 years? Would you say no to that? I don't know, man.
Starting point is 00:13:55 I don't think I would. I'd definitely try it, bros. Bros of some procephiotuses. That's a girl version of a bro. So I don't know, man. I think this could be really cool. But let's read more into this story. He says, Canervro would not divulge the identity of the Chinese donor or recipient.
Starting point is 00:14:26 The donor will be the healthy body of a brain-dead patient matched for the build with a recipient's disease free head. God, this just sounds creepy, doesn't it? I mean, that's the stigma. It sounds creepy. Canavero estimates the procedure will cost
Starting point is 00:14:47 up to $100 million and involves several dozen surgeons and other specialists. Wow. Remember when we were kids, we used to watch the $6 million man. Now we got the $100 million man or men.
Starting point is 00:15:03 I guess is it plural now? If you have one person's head and another man's body, does that make you a them? Because there's two of you? Are you an us instead of a you? So here the doctor says he will simultaneously sever the spinal cords of the donor and the recipient with a diet. with a diamond blade
Starting point is 00:15:34 to protect the recipient's brain from immediate death before it is attached to the body, it will be cooled to a state of deep hypothermia. Ooh, so your head will be like frozen. And then they'll cut your spinal cord with a diamond blade. And then it says the recipient and donor will be in a sitting position to facilitate what's expected to be the more than 24 hours of laborious work to separate and then reconnect
Starting point is 00:16:09 vertebral bones, jugular veins, the trachea, esophagus, and other neck structures. Machines will help the recipient breathe pumping blood through the body. The patient will be kept in a drug-induced coma for an unspecified recovery time. wow how weird would that be bros they cut your head off they cut two heads off and then just zip them over to the other body and they reconnect your your your spine your throat your jugular veins
Starting point is 00:16:50 and I guess the big question is would all the nerves reconnect would they all would everything have feeling Michael Sarr, a former surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and the editor of the journal surgery said Canervo's procedure is radical. He says, doctors have always been taught that when you cut a nerve, the downstream side, the part that takes a signal and conducts it to somewhere else, dies. The upstream side, the part that generates the signal,
Starting point is 00:17:27 dies back a little, a millimeter or two, and eventually regrows. As long as that downstream channel is still there, it can regrow through that channel, but only for a length of about a foot. This is why he said if you amputate your wrist and then re-implant it and line the nerves up well, you can recover function in your hand. But if your arm gets amputated at the shoulder, it won't be re-implanted. re-implanted because it will never lead to a functional hand. Okay, so there's what I was just talking about with the nerve stuff.
Starting point is 00:18:08 What Canvera will do differently is bathe the ends of the nerves in a solution that stabilizes the membranes and puts them back together. The nerves will be fused but won't regrow. And we'll do this not in the peripheral nerves such as you find in the arm, but in the spinal cord, where there's multiple types of nerve channels. Okay, this is getting very, you know, detailed and very, you know, medical. But I'm going to keep reading because it's so fascinating. There has been some success using Canverro's proposed technique on mice and dogs. In one example, a dog walked after six weeks, albeit with an awkward gait,
Starting point is 00:18:52 based on the classic thinking about how nerves regenerate, it was unbelievable. Canavero said his team has rehearsed his technique with human cadavers in China, but there are otherwise no known human trials. He said the 18 operation on two corpses showed it was possible to reconnect the spinal cord and blood vessels. Before the full transplant takes place, two brain-dead patients will undergo the surgery. surgery. Most medical experts say it's a long shot, but even if the operation works, the biggest obstacle may not be the science itself, but whether it should happen at all.
Starting point is 00:19:35 Yeah, I mean, this is, this is, uh, you know, this is like Frankenstein stuff, man. Right? It's pretty, pretty crazy. Some doctors are saying there's too many risks at this point to go ahead with it. We don't have enough data with animal models sufficient published and peer-reviewed results, and particular data about morbidity and mortality on the animals that have had the procedure. 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
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Starting point is 00:22:03 legal rights to children produced by the new body. It's not just about the head adjusting to the new body. We might be dealing with a whole new person. Wow, that's something You didn't think about, I bet, right? I mean, holy smokes. So, I mean, you know, everything starts somewhere. I mean, people going to the moon, people getting heart transplants. And at some point, you know, this is probably a valid surgery that can save millions and millions of people. and, you know, give us extended lives.
Starting point is 00:22:47 I don't know. You're going to do it, man? I don't know. I'd probably try it. I'd give it a try just so we could, you know, keep doing the Harland Highway for another 70 years. But I'll let you decide, man. So there you go.
Starting point is 00:23:03 Crazy, crazy news story. Now, to be certain that I have this straight, I'll re-capitulate. What? Oh, cool. Someone's calling in about the head transplant story? Awesome. Okay.
Starting point is 00:23:22 Good. So someone was listening and they're calling in right now? Okay, put them through. Hopefully it's a doctor. Hopefully it's a medical person because I really want to talk more about this procedure. And, yeah, put them through right now. This will be good. Here we go.
Starting point is 00:23:40 A live phone call from someone who was just listening to the head. transplant story put them through roj hello roger what is that music no it's not no i thought we had a doctor i do not want to talk to boy george hello oh god what are you doing calling boy it's boy it's boy george right out of the fighting gate right? Why? Why are you calling? We just did a whole new story on something medical and it was a breakthrough procedure. I don't have time to talk to you. Oh, look at you, Mr. Oh, you might. You can't talk to old boy George, right? But you can talk to anyone else, hey? It's not I don't want to talk to you, George. It's just, it's boy fighting George. You know what? I'm going to come down there. with a fucking toilet plunger,
Starting point is 00:24:46 and put it on your face and plunge your fucking face so it looks like your fucking face looks like a fucking zebra just farted a hay fart. A hay fart. That's right. What the hell are you phoned for? Well, I was listening to your story
Starting point is 00:25:05 about, you know, the head thing. Yeah, the head thing, so? So I like a little head a holland. What do you mean you like a little head? Well, I'd like a little head on me on my shoulder. What are you talking about, George? It's boy, fucking George. All right, I'm going to come down there with a bag of fucking potatoes
Starting point is 00:25:34 and smash you in the fucking face with him and tell them mashed potatoes. You got me, your fucking knob, goblin, fuck God. Listen, relax. Why are you phoning in? Well, I figure if, you know, they can put another head on a bloke, then, you know, maybe these daughters can help me, Arlen. Oh, and how could they help you, boy, George? Oh, look, you got at that time, eh?
Starting point is 00:26:03 Just what, why would they help you? Well, as you know, Arlen, I got little piggies. What? I got little piggies. You ever heard of a pep pig? Yeah, I've heard of a pep pig. What do you mean? You've got some pep pigs?
Starting point is 00:26:19 Yes, that's right, Arland. I got six little piggies. Okay, what does that got to do with anything? Well, if you let me finish, maybe I'll complete intel you, Hey, Arlen, always jumping all over me like a trampoline at a fighting mental institution. I'm not like a trampoline at a mental institution. What does that even mean? What I'm trying to tell you is I've got six little piggies.
Starting point is 00:26:47 Okay. You've got six little piggies. What do you? What has that got to do with the head transplant? Well, I'd like to get a titty transplant, wouldn't I then, eh, Harlan? A what? You were and me a titty transplant. What is a titty transplant?
Starting point is 00:27:07 Well, I've got two titties, right? I'm assuming, yes. Well, what if I was able to get six more for a total of eight? A total of what? A total of eight titties. What, eight titties? Why would you want eight titties? Because if I could have eight tities on me belly, right?
Starting point is 00:27:30 Then I could lay down on the ground and feed on me little piggies. What the hell? That's right. Imagine all my little piggies coming. There's boy George laying on the little piggies. living room floor topless right he's got all his titties hanging out and there comes old boy george's little pig is and they're sucking on me tetties right they're just sucking up hold on what would you would you knock it off what's the matter with you
Starting point is 00:28:12 then you don't like little piggies what i don't like is you making my audience picture you with six titties rolling around on your living room floor right with with live piglets okay running up to your chest because you have six tities implanted on you and they're suckling on your your tinnies like like a barn animal. That's right, Holland. This way I could feed them all it wants, and they could have the comfort of knowing that... Stop it!
Starting point is 00:28:53 Just stop it! Okay, that's not... That's not a scientific advancement, okay? The head transplant thing is a scientific advancement. Why are you yelling so my child? Jesus Christ, you sound like a fucking train driving through a tunnel tunnel with a fucking bag full of fucking kittens on the roof.
Starting point is 00:29:15 Well, you're getting me upset. I do a story on a serious topic, and you're using this surgery for your own self-indulgent purposes to feed your piggies? Oh, look at you. A little of you, an animal hager, eh, Holland? I'm not an animal hater. Well, then, why do you want to see me piggy starve to death, eh? I don't want your piggies to stop.
Starting point is 00:29:41 starve to death. It certainly sounds like it because I was talking about feeding all my little piggies. They come running up to the daddy's chest. Boy, George, got his eight little tities hanging out, and the little piggies run on. They're sutting and grunting and hoinking. Stop it! Just stop it with the noises
Starting point is 00:30:13 Oh, look at you, hey, you would have known, eh? Mr. Big Shot Pogaster, eh? The host and MC are the Arlen Eyeway. Look at that, and a piggy-hater. I'm not a piggy-hater. It certainly sounds like it ain't to me when they're coming to feed on me titties. Stop!
Starting point is 00:30:39 Stop! Stop! Don't! Stop it! Holy God! What is wrong with you, bro? Look all and I'm just trying to make life pleasant for my little piggies when I come home and have a long day of singing in the studio. Oh, like you're singing. and any more, George.
Starting point is 00:31:10 It's boy, fighting George, all right? I'm gonna, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna rent a fucking hang glider. Jump off a cliff and fly a rate of your fat, fucking ass. Watch your mouth. Now, you're not getting a titty transplant for your little piggies. Well, you at least say the names.
Starting point is 00:31:31 What do you mean? Well, you just call them pegies like the pieces of garbage. You can at least say the... names. What do you mean? I don't know your Piggy's names. Well, how about Wiggly, Woggy, Wiggly, Wally, and David? What? You heard me, Olin. Now, say the names. I'm not saying your stupid Piggy's names. And I want you to where you're saying the names, printed of sating on my tities.
Starting point is 00:32:08 Now, stop it. I'm not saying pigly, wiggly, jiggly, curly, whirly. And David. Stop, David. Why would you name one, David? I ran out of rhymes, darling. You know what? I'm trying to do a show, and I don't have time to be wasting my listeners' valuable time, okay?
Starting point is 00:32:32 On you talking about getting titty implants so you can suckle your piglets. Oh, look at you, eh? Mr. I am mighty. Well, you know what? Maybe I'll get an extra ding-dong implanted, and you can kneel down and suckle on that, you dirty bastard. What did you just say? You heard me, I'm going to have a double ding-dong,
Starting point is 00:32:57 and you can kneel down and dingle-dangle it on your fucking... Get out of here! Ding-dong it! Hang up on God! Roger! I don't even... You know what? If someone else phones in,
Starting point is 00:33:11 I don't even want to talk to him. I'm done. I'm done with this segment. I'm pissed. This guy's insane. He's talking about pigs sucking on his... Ay, aye, aye. Unreal.
Starting point is 00:33:26 Let's do a commercial. I need a moment. I need a moment. And then we'll come back. Unbelievable. Play a commercial, Roger. Jesus. For my feminine itching,
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Starting point is 00:34:17 You know, at Christmas we have like Christmas TV shows and Christmas movies. We have The Grinch that stole Christmas. We have Rudolph, the Red Nose Reindeer. We have Frosty the Snowman. We have a Christmas story of the movie. have National Lampoons, uh, uh, you know, Christmas movie. We have, it's a wonderful life. You know what I mean? We have, we have all these kind of traditional movies. And then at Halloween, we've got the Charlie Brown Halloween. And we've got movies like that. But I was thinking
Starting point is 00:34:53 at, uh, at Thanksgiving, I can't really think of a go-to, like, you know, like a, uh, a tradition. Thanksgiving like TV special or movie that kind of you know one of those go-to things where we all have to sit around and watch it together when we're with our families and I feel like that's a bit of an empty void it's a bit of an empty spot during the holiday and so the Harland Highway question of the day is does anyone know of like a traditional Thanksgiving piece of entertainment that, you know, people do across the country. And I'm not talking about what you do with your family.
Starting point is 00:35:46 I'm sure every family has their own little thing. But there has to be something that's done by everybody. The way, you know, you have the Christmas movies and the Christmas specials and the Halloween special and all that. So I don't know. If anybody out there knows, let me know. We want to hear if there's a special dedicated Thanksgiving piece of entertainment that people do. I think if it hasn't been done, someone needs to do it, man. So that's the Harland Highway question of the day for you right there.
Starting point is 00:36:25 And I think we'll end the show right there with the Thanksgiving mystery Harland Highway question of the day. The Harland Highway, question of the day. All right, so let's get to some announcements. By the way, I just want to mention to you guys. Oh, my God, all the people who are loving my puppy dog pals animated cartoon on Disney Jr. I've been getting all kinds of Twitter and Facebook posts. People are buying the puppy dog pals toys for their kids for Christmas. And I got to say, they really are cute.
Starting point is 00:37:02 adorable toys, and I would be proud to give them to my kid if I had any kids. So I guess at the end of the day, the puppies, Roleum Bingo that I created for the show are my kids. But if you do have little kids and you want to get them a really fun, sweet little toy, you know, Roleum Bingo are the puppies from my show, and they're two little pugs. One's a brown one and one's a black one, and they're just adorable. You can find all the merchandise online at the Disney store at Target.com, at walmart.com, at Toyser Us.com, at, you know, Amazon.com. And you can go to some of these physical stores, too, and just pick them up in person. But I hope you, if you're looking for a gift for your youngans, you'll think about getting them some puppy dog pals stuff.
Starting point is 00:37:58 because I think it'll really warm their heart and give them a snugly little friend to have. So there you go. Also, you know, I thought I had the whole month of December off. Like I didn't have any comedy gigs booked. I was like, okay, I'm at the end of my tour. At the end of November, I'm done. And then my agents call me and go,
Starting point is 00:38:20 Listen, Ireland, I know you kind of wanted to take it easy for December, but we got these great clubs and these great offers. and I said, well, I doubt I'll do them, but what are they? And they go, well, there's the parlor live in Seattle, Washington. And I went, oh, really? Come on. And they're like, yeah. And I like, I can't say no to that club. It's a great comedy club.
Starting point is 00:38:42 The parlor live in Bellevue, just outside of Seattle, Washington. So I'm going to be doing that in mid-December. That's going to be the parlor, December 14th to the 16th. And then next week, it's going to be, well, it's actually, I guess it's, when is it? I guess it's, yeah, it's going to be, well, I guess it's, what is it? What is it? I guess it's next week. Yeah, it's going to be Orlando, Florida, at the improv. It's going to be December 8th through 10th, 8, 9, and 10, Orlando, Florida.
Starting point is 00:39:28 And these just came up out of nowhere. And then for New Year's, I thought I was going to have New Year's off. And another one of my favorite clubs called and said, Hey, Harlan, how would you like to come and play New Year's Eve? And I'm like, okay. So now I'm in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Wise Guys, December 29, 30th, and 31st. They opened a new club in Salt Lake City in a place called Jordan or West Jordan, which is just right on the edge of the city there
Starting point is 00:39:59 and I'll be doing wise guys there so come on out and spend New Year's with the kid, man. This is this crazy. So I went from having no gigs in December to like three. So it's going to be a busy December for moi. But that's okay. You know, it's a good time of year to bring the mirth and the merriment to folks, right?
Starting point is 00:40:23 So we're going to do it. We're going to do it, baby. so there you go. Also, don't forget to get our app. We have an app on your cell phone. Just type in the Harland Highway in your app store and you get the app absolutely free. You get the 50 latest episodes of the podcast for free. And if you want the entire library, almost 1,000 episodes of the Harland Highway, you can become a premium member for $20 a year. That's it. $20 a year. and you get so much entertainment. Thank you to all the premium members. And from time to time, I post special things just for the premium members exclusively. Hello.
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Starting point is 00:41:36 And I might put your phone call on the show. So don't be afraid to call, man. And that's it. December's coming up. We'll have all kinds of Christmassy stuff happening on the podcast in December. I'll probably end up singing another Christmas carol to all of you, and I'll be, who knows what I'll do, man. But we're going to have fun.
Starting point is 00:42:00 We're going to celebrate the holiday. It's a magical, beautiful time of year, and it'll be awesome. So that's it for today, gang. Thanks for being here on the Harlan Highway. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving. And until next time, chicken chau me, baby.

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