The Harland Highway - 954 - Commander TOM DOWDY on SPACE FORCE. Harland sings! Question of the day!

Episode Date: August 6, 2018

Commander TOM DOWDY on SPACE FORCE. Harland sings a summery song with his cousin Kevin! Question of the day! 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

Oh, welcome to the Holland Highway, everybody. How are you today? I am your host, Harlem Williams. Great to have you here at the podcast. What a podcast we have today. Oh, my God. At the end of the show, a little bit of singing action with me and my cousin, my cousin Kevin, from our band The Cousins.

You're going to hear us improvise a song that turned out to be a huge radio hit from the 70s, and we're going to play both of them, the improvised version and the real song back to back at the end of the show. Very summary song, a lot of fun. Also, we're going to be talking about Space Force, Donald Trump's Space Force, but not for me. We're going to go to an expert. We're going to go to Colonel French Lieutenant, Captain, Captain Senior Reports Officer Tom Dowdy, who's a dedicated career military person, and we're going to ask him about Space Force,

if it's needed, if there's any reason for it, what its functionality is, all that stuff. So that's going to be fascinating to hear from him. And then the Harland Highway question of the day, we're going to be talking about something very hairy on your body. Something really hairy and weird. So get ready. Put your goalie mask on.

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You're listening to Harlan Williams. The rest is bullshit, and you know it. We are going to have the Air Force, and we are going to have the Space Force. The Space Force. There it is. You've heard me talk about it on the pod before. Donald Trump is creating a space force to, you know, kind of keep the United States butt covered in space as things progress as military action in orbit amps up as we move on into the future.

It only makes sense to me. I've had people call me and say it's ridiculous and stupid and this and that, but those people are out of touch. They're living in the past. We are moving out into space eventually, whether you like it or not, and just like if you go to a concert, or you go to the beach,

or you go to a bar at night, or you go to an event, or you go to a jewelry store, there has to be security. So if you don't think we need some kind of security in space, where it's going to be the Wild Wild West, when other countries start going up there, what am I saying when?

they already are many countries on planet earth are already navigating space and have satellites and working technology and blah blah blah so it's only going to amplify and if you thought star trek was just science fiction i think i think it's safe to say that one day it's not too unreasonable to think that there will be spacecraft from various countries flying around in orbit the same way we have submarines and ships floating around in the sea. That's the way human nature works. If there's a frontier, we conquer it, we explore it, we exploit it, we expose it, we do all these things. So, that being said, I got a little blowback from some of the pavement pounders for appreciating the concept of a space force and understanding the

practicality of it, there's those that listen and politicize it. So instead of seeing it for what it is, which one day will probably be a necessity, there are people who just decide to vilify it because the words came out of Donald Trump's mouth and he happens to be the president. But if Barack Obama had said the same thing, they'd be jumping up and down happy about it. So I've chosen not to politicize it. I'm just, I talk about space. force at its face value, that it's something we need. And just to diffuse all you political haters, if Barack Obama said we need a space force, I would have been just as excited and jumping up and down as if Hillary said it, or Ronald Reagan said it, or Donald Trump said it, or

future president Ivanka Trump said it, or whoever. Okay? So get your politics and go take a long bus ride. But since I know some people don't know how to separate politics and everything else that said, I thought it would be wise to bring in a real expert on the matter. Since I'm just a layperson, I'm a civilian, it's probably better to hear this from someone who has an esteemed career in the military, a decorated soldier, an individual that knows the theater, of war.

I mean, what am I doing talking about it? Let's get, do we have them, Roger? Yeah, because this guy dedicated most of his adult life to being in the military. And now he's down at Camp Pendlington in Southern California at a U.S. base camp there, Camp Pendlington. And this is Commander, let me get this right, Commander, Corporal, Lieutenant, First Ranking Officer, uh, corporal, uh, captain, uh, Tom Doughty.

Did I get, well, okay, Rogers gave me a thumbs down. I'm, I'm all around it though, right? I mean, this guy has a, as a laundry list resume that I, I can barely get through. So let's bring him on, Rod, let's put him through and let's get, let's pick his brain. Let's see how a military, career military, soldier sees the effectiveness or the purpose of President Donald John Trump's Space Force. Hello, are you there, sir? Inspector, Lieutenant, Commander, Quadrant, Sexter, Navy SEAL, first ranking officer, Tom

Dowdy. Are you there, sir? Hello, civilian. Yes, sir, there he is. Hello, Commander French Colonel, Lieutenant. How are you today, civilian? Doing great, sir. Glad you could join us.

You are a go. Pardon me, sir? You are a go, civilian. I am a go, sir. You have been cleared to commence. Commence, sir. You are clear to engage. Go ahead, civilian.

Engage, yes, sir. So I'm sure you've been watching the news, sir. President Trump has announced that he wants to start a new division of the military called Space Force. And we were wondering if we could get your perspective, your thoughts on this concept. Let me just say this, civilian. It's about goddamn time. Wow. So you're for it. You know, this thing has been missing ever since they put Apollo 13 up on the moon.

Whoa, okay. So you've been kind of holding out for something like this. Civilian, have you heard of a book called Where's Waldo? Yes, sir. Where's Waldo? Well, how about, where's the goddamn Space Force? Oh, okay, sir. So this. This is something that you feel we should have had when we first started going into space. D-I-N-D-O-N-Bingo was his name, civilian bingo. Wow, wow.

So, you know, based on the way society is evolving and whatnot, you truly feel in your heart that a space force is a necessary entity to help protect America's interests. First of all, civilian, if you're going to say the name is Space Force, you're going to have to say it with the respect it deserves. How do you mean, sir? I think I'm articulating it properly, space force.

Negative civilian. What do you mean, sir? If you're going to say something like Space Force, you're going to give it the respect it deserves, civilian. I'm not disrespecting the name, sir. I think I'm pronouncing it quite clearly and legibly. That's not what I'm talking about. You're going to pronounce a sombrado.

You're going to say Space Force and give it the acrimand it deserves. I'm not sure I follow, sir When you order a piece of prime rib at a shitty old steakhouse You order a quarter-round steak and roof crisp Okay You get garnish You get a piece of parsley greener than Shrek's last diarrhea stain Sir?

You get scallop potatoes that have been shaved thinner than rosy old Donald's the last fucking ass cheek shaving. Sir? You get cream-style corn. Creamier than Marie Osmond's fucking hair gel. Sir, can you... I get it. Garnish is? So when you say Space Force, Civilian, you're going to give it some garnish. Sir, I don't know if that's necessary.

Oh, it's necessary, civilian. Or would you rather just pull out an American flag, shove your fingers down your throat, and barf a filial fish sandwich all over the stars and stripes? Sir, I'm not disrespe— I'm not going to barf a filial fish sandwich all over the stars and stripes. I'm not disrespecting the word space force. I'm not sure—

You're going to say it with some echo. Sorry, sir? Echo. When you say Space Force to me, a career military soldier who's been in the theater of war and done 52 tours of duty from Vietnam to Afghanistan, to Iraq, Pien Bienfou, and the Tuktuk jungle, you're going to say Space Force with some echo on it. Sir, I'm not sure I understand. Listen.

Space, four, four, four, four. Sir? You heard me, civilian. You're going to give Space Force the respect it deserves, and you're going to put an echo on it. Sir, I don't know. Space, force. Sir, how does putting an echo on space...

Don't say it. Sir? You don't see. The name of that force, unless you put a respectful echo on its civilian. Sir? Do it, or I hang up this phone. Faster than Rosie O'Donnell shoves a shrimp cocktail down her throat

at the Golden Corral all you can eat, summer shrimp fest. Sir, can you stop referring to Rosie O'Donnell? Do it, civilian. Sir? spit it out I'm trying, relax Don't tell me what to do, civilian. I'm sorry, sir, I didn't mean to bark an order at you, but I'm...

Just do it with an echo. Yes, sir. Space for four, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sir, sir, sir, sir, sir. Sir? Sir, I said, do it again, Sir William. Sir, I don't want to... You'll do it again, or I'll slam this phone down faster than a meteorite dropping in Rosie O'Donnell's swimming pool and splashing her rig to the food court, where she sucks down a box of...

Sir? Where she sucks down a box of Panda Express Honey Walnut Shrimp faster than a... fucking narwhal shark at a fucking crocodile Dundee, cross-eyed, fucking camp festival, fuck not. Sir, what? They what? Oh, she. Space is, four, va, vars, fars, far, fars. Excellent civilian.

Sir, I, okay, well, what, what about this space? Fars. What about it? Well, I think some people are confused about what its function is. Civilian. Have you ever heard the term, close encounter of the third kind? Yes, sir, I have. Yeah, well, there you go.

There you go. What? It was a movie by Stephen Spielberg's or a sci-fi movie. Yeah, and guess what it was about? It was about space aliens coming to planet Earth. And trying to talk to us, why? Were they trying to be our friends? Were they trying to kill us?

Or were they trying to boil us alive and eat us like Earth lobsters? Earth lobsters, sir? You heard me. And the only thing that saved them was what? I don't remember, sir Let me give you a clue, civilian Yes, sir Oh, uh,

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, ooh, Ah, ooh, ha, oh. Sir? You heard me When that goddamn UFO played that music, Sir, do you mean that when the thing went Boop-boop-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo.

Exactly. Do it again. Sir? Do it again. Boop-boop-boop-boop. Boop-boop-boop-boop-bo-bo-bo. Sir? Do it.

Boop. Boop, boop, boop, boop. So, I'm not gonna do it back. Sir, I'm not gonna do it back, civilian. Billion. Boop, boop, boop, boop. Sir! Sir!

I'm not doing it again! You're gonna do it, or I'll slam this phone down faster than two fucking circus clowns playing with a dodo at Johnny's sex factory. Sir, sir? Do it. Boop, boop, boop, boop-boop boop-boop-boop Boob-poop boop bo-boop Bo-boop-pboop-poo-poo-poo-poo-poo-pup-poo-poh. Sir! Hey everybody, who wants to have better sex?

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Don't throw your back out. You know what that means? What does what mean? That sound that the aliens made. No? It means we're in a fucker. a seven-foot fucking orangutan crocodile Dundee Thunderhammer. Sir, that's not what it meant.

It was a threat. It was a threat from an invasive alien species from another galaxy. And boobah, boobo, boop means we're going to roll you over and fuck you from behind like a fucking hairy walrus at a bald hair plug festival. Sir, you're not making sense. Have you been drinking? I've been drinking. I've been drinking from the well of knowledge, you little sod-off university sucking pencil pushing. Fuck your teacher in the Xerox copy room, son of a whore.

Sir? Now, we're going to have space force. And you're going to respect it. Okay, sir. I think, okay. I was kind of hoping this would go in a bit of a different direction, but I guess you've enlightened us to a degree. That's right. And space force, space force is going to be there to protect us throughout the galaxy civilian. Yes, sir, space for... Uh, uh, uh, sir, space for us, we'll be there to protect us in the galaxy. Exactly.

Any more questions, civilian? Sir, I think we're done. Thank you for your knowledge. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your insight and your perspective. Thank you, civilian. Now, I'm going to go in the backyard. and throw a hunting knife through a tree.

Sir? You word me. Go get a can of fucking pringles and go fuck yourself. Wow. Go get a can... Sir, hello? Oh my God.

Roger, this guy just... It just keeps getting a little worse. Every time we talk to him, he goes a little more around the band. yikes what is with the echo what is with the Rosie O'Donnell crap what is

the close encounters music I mean hi aye aye I wonder if he you know I have to ask the question does he suffer from trauma from all his his time you know in the military on missions

in the theater of war is he I don't want to I guess I shouldn't even say it out loud. I don't want to disrespect the man and his legendary service. But there you go. For those of you that hate, and I'm not doing the echo, for those of you that hate Space Force or love Space Force

are indifferent to Space Force, there's some more perspective for you that doesn't come from me. Non-political, just boom. So take it for what it is. Take it, leave it, whatever. Those weren't my opinions They were his Oh my God, I'm sort of drained

Let's move on, man Do a commercial and let's move the hell on Holy Space Force What a nut cake We are going to have the Air Force And we are going to have the space Space Force Space Force

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So there I was the other day, and as I'm getting older, I find it becomes more frequent that I have to grab the tweezers and rip freaking hairs out of my nose. I'm talking up inside the nose holes. Or if you like to refer to them scientifically, the nostrils. And as you get older, the hairs seem to grow faster and they seem to grow longer and they seem to want to sneak out of the cave. When you're a kid, you have little nose hairs and they stay up in the cave where they belong. But I guess as nose hairs get older and they get curious and they want to come out of the cave.

So now instead of having little nose hairs that grow inside the nostril, now you're going to, you've got nose hairs that decide they want to grow down and hang out of the nostril. It's like roots from a tree like tunneling deeper into the earth to find the groundwater. For some reason, some of my nose hairs are starting to make the journey out of my nose and onto my face. Is there something on my upper lip that they want? Do nose hairs have a thing for mustache hairs? Do they want to copulate?

Do they want to touch each other? Do they want to have sexual intercourse? I don't know what the hell they're doing. And it's just kind of ugly and gross. Nose hairs coming out of your nose. Now, at least I'm aware of it. You know how many friends I have that don't even have a clue and you're sitting there talking to them at a restaurant

and all you can focus on is the hairy caterpillar coming out of their nose? So anyways, I just, it's a bit of a mystery to me. I mean, okay, if I'm putting on my science hat, all right, what are the nose hairs for? Are they, you know, it's not like my, oh, what a, what a chilly day. The inside of my nose is freezing. Thank God I've got a nice blanket of hair up there. So I'm guessing that the, the hairs are filters, maybe for debris. particles, pollutants in the air, maybe they're receptors to a degree, you know how a catfish

or dogs and cats and many mammals have whiskers and the whiskers can pick up movement and they're sensitive and they, you know, maybe they even help capture sense. I don't know, but maybe the nose hairs do those types of things. Maybe they're there to as a block. If you're sleeping and an insect tries to crawl up there or something, it becomes an obstruction for them. You know, these are just guesses. Obviously, where there's hair, there's pores. So there's obviously pores up inside your nose.

So I don't know. You know, I just, I'm not a nose doctor. So instead of analyte, I'll just go back to the Harland Highway question of the day. why in the hell what in the name of Harry and the Henderson's why do we have hair up our noses

the Harland Highway Question of the day The Harland Highway Question of the day Okay speaking of nose hairs and sniffing and whatnot This is a great segue

There's a band in the 70s When I was growing up Now you know why I have long gray nose hairs coming out. Ignore what I just said. There was a band in the 70s called Sniff and the Tears. Okay, that was the name of the band, Sniff and the Tears. And from what I know, they were a one-hit wonder band. And they had kind of this really kind of upbeat, cool, poppy, like summary song called Driver's Seat.

and you know it was basically a song about a girl and getting in a car and going driving on a Saturday night it was a great weekend song and and it was one of those ones that was on the radio when I was in like grade 10 you know in the in the mid to late 70s and it was just one of those songs I can trace back to my youth right from sniff and the tears and I could remember like being in a car with like like seven of my high school buddies rolling down town on a Saturday night and this song comes on and we're all singing it. And there's a really funny part in the song. I mean, it's not meant to be funny, but there's a part in the song where the, uh, where one of the backup singers, the chorus is like, yeah, yeah. And then he does it really deep. He goes, yeah, yeah, like you'll, you'll hear it.

I'm going to play you the song, okay? But I remember every time that, that little, yeah came on me and my buddies would all do it at the same time and break up laughing it's one of those funny moments remember in uh in wainsworld that movie wainsworld where all the guys the buddies are in the car and they're singing uh queen's uh bohemium rhapsody you know i see a little schiluetto of a man's got a moose can you do the fandang you know all that well i think every group of buddies and girls and guys that's just like a bonding thing you do when you're a kid. And so this sniffing the Tears song was one of these songs that, you know, we were singing

together in the car long before Wayne's World came along. Like, we were way ahead of that, as most kids are. And so anyways, just kind of playing into the fact that we're into summer, and this is kind of a summery song where you're out on a Saturday night driving. I'm going to play the song, but here's why I'm going to play the song. but here's why I'm going to play the song. So as you know, I have a little band with my cousin, Kevin Hearn. He's in another band called The Bare Naked Ladies.

And whenever we get together, we try to have a jam session, and we just, Kevin plays music, and I just start singing. And we improvise. And then if we like what we hear, we kind of take the improvised songs and turn them into finish songs when we have time, right? That's how we make our music. And so, me and Kevin,

Kevin were together like a couple of weekends ago and we're in the studio and we're just, you know, we're just trying song it. Kevin just starts playing the piano or the guitar. And then I jump in and make up the lyrics as we go, right? And so as you'll hear from this next little improvisation, Kevin just started playing a riff. And I know he didn't know this song by sniffing the tears. In fact, I asked him later. He didn't know that it was an actual song. But he starts playing this guitar riff, and in my head, I immediately went, oh, that sounds like that old song from the 70s by sniffing the tears, driver's seat. And so I just, instead of saying anything to him, I'm like, oh, dude, we can't do that, man. Somebody's already done. I just thought, you know what, I'm just going to start singing driver's seat. But of course, after 30 years, I can barely remember the lyrics. I can barely remember the song, but it starts creeping back.

I'm kind of doing the best I can. It's not even close, by the way. Wait, do you hear what I do up against the original. But anyways, I did the best I could, and so I wanted to play for you, just because it's such a fun summary song. I'm going to play for you the one that I improvised just off the top of my head with Kevin,

and then at the end of it, I will play the real song. I don't own the rights to it. I'm not trying to make money off it. It's just a reference thing. and just so, you know, so this plays to sniffing the tears benefit, download the song. It's a great song. I hope you hear it, and it inspires you to put it into your playlist, man. It is a real fun, catchy summer song.

So I'm just going to play it for reference purposes, but anyways, listen to the original one that I do, trying to remember from the 70s, or don't listen to it. It might be hard to listen to it. It's not like it's stellar or anything. I thought it was just a fun thing for you guys to hear in the moment that the creative process unraveling in the moment, right? So here it is. Here's me and Kevin improvising,

and all of a sudden Kevin goes into this riff, and I start digging into the memory banks for driver's seat, which I bastardized, and it's different, but you can still hear it. And then afterwards, I'll play the real one for you. and I think you're really going to like it. So here we go. Raj, hit the improv, baby. Jet the ride in drive the seat.

Take the ride in the drive the seat. Come with a day. Take a ride in the drive the sea The moon was blue The night was black Take a ride Never come back Yeah

Drive the seat Drive the seat, yeah, drive the sea, yeah, drive the sea. We're coming back, flying down that one way to travel, too much time, gonna find a way to find a way to drive myself. The news is blue. What do you do? Jenny was sweet. Took a turn in the drive the seas. The news is blue, yeah.

The news is blue, yeah. The news is blue, yeah. The news is blue Come with me Go fly down on the freeway The news is true Don't know what I'm going to do Because

It was sweet Took a turn in the drive the seat Take a turn in the driver's seat. Come with me. Take a turn down the old freeway. The news is blue. The news is blue. Come with me.

Take a turn in the driver's soon. Come with me, drive, come with me, God, come with me, yeah, Jenny. You know that song? Oh, is that a song? That's a riff on Driver's Seat. Oh, what's Driver's Se? It's kind of a similar thing, but I kind of moved it around.

Wow, I like Driversy. It was sweet. Took a turn in the Driver's Seat. Come with me. Whose song is it? It's an old 70s hit. It's kind of a one-hit wonder. It's kind of a cool song. And then there's a beat in the middle where it goes,

Driver's seat, yo, drive a seat. Like it speeds up. And it's called Driver's Sevent. I think so, yeah. I want to check it out. Yeah, it's cool. I'll try and find it, but um. That's cool.

Oh, that's cool. Doing all right, a little driving on a Saturday night, and come walk me, gonna dance the day away Jenny will sneak, show a smile for the people she meet On trouble is dry She had to know the way you're looking like News is blue

The news is blue How's its own way to get to you What can I do I do I'll never remember my time with you Take up your feet Got to move to the trick of the bee That is no elaine

Just take your place in the driver's sea Driver's seat Drive the seat Yeah Ooh, little driving on a Saturday night Yeah Come walk with me Ooh, let me dance

Away Yeah Drive the seat Ooh drive the seat Yeah Charlie with sweet Who That is no elite

Yeah Oh, big up, pick up, yeah, pick up your feet. You're going to dance to stay away. Drive a seat. Ooh, drive a seat. Yeah. Driver seat. Oh, drive a seat.

Oh, drive a seat. Yeah Drive the seat I don't know. Doing all right. Little driving on a Saturday night. Oh, man, I love it. It's just such a cool, carefree youth song, you know?

And I realized as I was listening back to it that, you know, there might be some of my younger listeners listening right now and going, what the hell is that? What planet is that? That's music? That's because, you know, kids nowadays, and I sound like the old guy saying that, But I still listen to current music, but, you know, imagine an 18-year-old or a 24-year-old kid listening to that and going, what, what is, where's the, where's the rap? Where's the, where was just the affected voice? Where's the, you know, what I mean? Like, and that's the beauty of this type of song. It was just like the, it was a weird one-off hit wonder. And, you know, these guys probably wrote it in their garage and they didn't have a boardroom meeting and they didn't have executive.

planning out their careers and they didn't have, you know, focus groups and they just wrote a song that was fun and summery and driving on a Saturday night with Jenny. So even if you're younger and this sounds like it came from another galaxy, I hope you can appreciate the innocence of it, the fun of it, the energy.

It's just, you know, that's what music used to be like. And I'm not saying that today There isn't good music, but I think today's music certainly lacks maybe the purity and the heart that these old songs possess. And then did you catch the little thing right near the three quarters of the way through where the guy goes, here, let me play it for you. Oh, my God. It's so funny. We would sing that and just laugh.

We would just giggle like little school boys because that's what we were. Oh, so fun. So good memories. And if you want to see that it's a really cool video on YouTube. I don't know if it's cool, but it's neat to see the retro music. And it's all white guys and there's one black guy in the band. And the black guy is the guy that sings the, oh my God. just so, so cool.

And the video is hilarious because like today's bands, you know, you usually have to have like good-looking people. A lot of times music nowadays, the singer is extremely hot, whether it be a girl or a boy, they look like models, they're chiseled. And if you watch the rock video to this, oh my God, the lead singer, I hate to say it, but he ain't a runway model, I'll tell you that. But yet there's something cool about. him because he just gets out there and sings he doesn't try you know Beyonce when you

watch Beyonce go out she she looks like she's she's being electrocuted or something and you watch a lot of these singers they're putting on these phony dance moves and they're jumping around and they're it just seems so unnatural and this this this guy and I'm gonna say kind of ugly duckling type of guy he just literally like puts his guitar and walks up to the mic and just start singing and out of that comes this really cool peppy song and and then the black dude in the video he's kind of like he's just like bopping away he's like kind of get all this really cool energies wiggling his head back and forth so anyways i i know i've been rambling on about it but it's a little blast from the past a little bit of you know put a little summer

little that old uh you know sweet and innocent fun endless summer into your step or whatever, into your head, into your spirit. And if you want, go back and listen to the original song by Sniffin the Tears. And then if you want to go back and compare the one me and Kevin did, I don't know, see if it, I don't know, just something fun. Just something fun. And I think we'll leave it there. I think we'll leave the show right there on fun, summer fun.

I hope you are having a fun summer summer. I know I am. What's not to have fun? It's summer. Oh, my gosh. I don't have any comedy shows coming up for the rest of August, but in September, ladies and gurgleblurgens. Mid-September, September 13, 14, and 15,

I have a show in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Great city, great town at the Blackfoot Inn, and it's a double header. It's me and my Canadian buddy Tom Green. We're going to be doing a show together all three of those nights. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, September, 13, 14th, and 15th. Get your tickets, man, because this sucker is going to sell out, okay? It's two Canadian boys going home, and we're going to bring the funny man.

So September 13, 14, 15, Calgary, Alberta, the Blackfoot Inn, the laugh stop comedy club. and you can go online to harland williams.com and pick up some tickets yeah yeah pick up some tickets and uh and come and see us man it's it's very rare you get to see me and tom green together we love to work together but it's hard because we're both headliner comics so we've always got our own gigs and it's very very rare that we get to do this but the laugh stop is having their 30th or 35th anniversary and they're like let's bring some of the canadian boys home and it is just going to be so fun and me and tom might even do some like we'll have our separate acts but we might even do something at the end and do some improv or maybe some singing or who knows what it's a maybe

I'm not promising that part but it let's just say we've talked about it um so you never know little bonus things you know um also while you're at harlo williams dot com check out our store the harland highway store we have some great gifts and fun things there for you uh we're going to have uh the digital download link for my latest comedy album carmel corn the pug in fact it's not an album it's my special it's a video uh of me doing an hour long stand up special as a dog Yes, as a dog. Mm-hmm. I said it.

Carmel Corn the Pug doing stand-up comedy. Check it out. It's an Amazon Prime. You can rent it or you can buy it. And it's just a digital download. So I hope you check it out. Really fun stuff. And what else?

We have other stuff in the store. Also at harloomwiams.com, you can write to me. We have a link there. You can also leave me a voicemail if you want to. Let me give you the number 3-2-3-739-43330 And if you can't remember that number The number is on the website

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So there you go, gang. I hope your summer's great. I've heard rumors that Barbecue Eddie might be back again soon as summer is blowing up here. We'll see. And until then, I guess that's it. Be safe, have fun. And until next time, chicken.

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