Loyalty Boys

Bob is not sure about these celebrations of life, while Miles gets Frightened at HalloweenApolloza. Subscribe Random show from the last 25+ years Random Post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7acl3vKEows Bad AI Transcript of the show this week We'll see if this works here, Miles. Are you okay? Are you situated? Yeah, I'm in. Are you wearing your brace? My brace. Ah, Mr. Wilson. Ah, Mr. Heath. Hey everyone, this is Miles. What's that from? Because I'm a tax man. Oh, okay. I'm not as familiar with that cut, I guess. Welcome everybody to Static Radio. Static Radio. Glad you're all here. Hey. having some slight technical issues with miles and his microphone. I like this kind of party. But we're all good now. Yeah. I'm still depressed, Miles. Yeah, I know. I just spent like 35 minutes talking to you, and it was like i wanted to start cutting myself again after listening to you. I'm like, oh, my God. I didn't realize that i know i just started listening to you. I'm like, oh, my God. I just, oh. Okay.Please, make it stop. I didn't realize that you were a cutter originally. Which brings me to the third grade. Like, oh my God, this guy with the fucking Well, you know i don't know about my friend i know i know i yes i know yes i'm not so i mean it was nice, but i'm not so sure about these celebrations of life. Have you been to one of these things? Uh, yeah, I guess. I've been to a few of them now because people aren't as, um, religious, I guess you would say. Was it like, you know like uh uh some kind of hall or something like, uh, yeah, yeah. It was just like at your, like, you know, neighbor neighborhood. uh, like the W or something. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. Oh, it wasn't all like, Oh, let's get in the St. Patrick's cathedral here. No, no church at all. It was just to talk about our friend Roscoe here. Community thing. Well, um, yeah, community thing. So it was not, uh, I'm okay. I'd be all right. I've not been to something like that. No, but I mean, I'd be okay going to it. I don't, I really stay away from stuff. I know I'm, I,I really don't like going, but I feel a sense of duty. I know. And I'm… Yeah. I'm a very… As anyone can attest, if they've listened to this show at all, I'm an extremely loyal friend. Because I'm still talking to you. It shows my loyalty. It knows no bounds. You could almost be a Bears fan because you've been through so much suffering with me. Bears, Cubs, Sox, whatever. He's such a loser. I should just cut this guy loose. I know it. I didn't say you were a loser. You've caused me constant grief for a long time, but I still am here. I have this extreme loyalty and sense of duty. And so I went, even though no one went with me. Yeah. My wife's like, I'm not going. I've got other things to do. I don't know. Thanks. Thanks, toots. You got to do my hair. So, no, there was other things, cooking. So I go, and I walk in. I'm generally early.But because it was out of town and I had to drive in and so forth, I was about like five minutes after it started. What a shame. But, yeah, which, yeah. Well, you would think that, I mean, there was nothing. There was no ceremony. There was no, you know, kind of service or anything. So it wasn't like I was late because people came and went. you know, over the course of hours. So there was a little bit of a, of a, you know, eulogy kind of a situation, but that wasn't for another hour after I got there. So I get there and I walk in and I'm like, fuck, I don't know anybody. That's my fear. That is my fear. I'd be like, I'm looking around and I'm like, I'm like, I mean, cause I'm also,impulsively early. I'm like, I'm five minutes late did already everybody already come in and leave? Where's my friend, you know, Chinook from high school? I don't see him, man. Well, and so i knew, I knew one person because i talked to him was going to be there and he was local and, and he wasn't even there yet. And I'm like, okay, maybe i'm just early, which is normal for me. And so, I did know family and so I proceeded to go and talk to siblings and so forth and express my grief and sorrow for their loss. So then the next thing I know, there's a guy I went to high school with that I'm really not that fond of. i've never been super i mean, he's not a bad person or a mean person or a terrible person or anything. It's just not it's just one of those people i'm like you know, I don't He wasn't one of your crew. No, he was he was ancillary now people i hung out with would hang out with him, but i was not one of those people. Oh, I see. Yeah.Because, and I'll just be honest, he's a boar. You ever experience a boar? Boar the boar. Boar ploy. Well, he's a cornfield boar, so it's not quite like that. Yeah, I've talked to boring people. I just talked to one about half an hour ago. You're talking to one right now, you son of a bitch. So anyway, he comes up. and, you know, corrals me. Hey, Bob, how are you? I'm like, hey. Hi, I'm jumping with her. Coming right up. Yeah. I'm like, hey. He's like, oh, you just get here? I'm literally in the doorway. Yeah? Yeah. And he's like, well, I'm over here. My wife's over here. Oh, I'm not. We're all over here. And I go, okay, give me… I guess where I'm not going to be. Yeah. Well, no, I ended up going over. Give me a minute. Let me talk to some family and then I'll make my way over there. So then I I spied another person who I knew from high school who was sitting down close to that. So I sat across from him and next to this woman. Right. And I sat down there and I'm like, hey, Brad, how's it going, man? And oh, my gosh, you talk about.I mean, I was sad, but I wasn't like… My name's not Brad. Glum. So, no, I go, Brad, this guy is so dour. I think for a little while, I thought, did I do something to him? Because, man, this guy was giving me a look like, you know… You know, you got a lot of nerves showing up. Right. It was like, I was like, hey, how's it going? I haven't seen you in like 30 years. You shouldn't have come back to Salem, all right? I'm telling you right now. This guy was giving me the worst look, and I was racking my brain trying to figure out, what did I do to him? I'm like, the funny thing was that I know my friend who passed away, Mark, and I used to tease him a lot. Oh, okay. But I don't think that he was that mad about it.Well… And so, I mean, I sat by the guy for a good half an hour. Yeah. And I was like, wow. So then I'm like, I don't know what… He's like, I'm retired. And I'm like, wow, you're retired. Fantastic. But he never got any happier. The whole time I talked to him, never happier. I could never figure out if it was me. But… Here's the thing. This is the thing that you're going to be interested in is he works at an arcade in Central Illinois. After he retired, he took a part-time job. It's a different one than the one you and I went to in McLean. Okay. And so I'm like, hey, I love an arcade. I'm going to have to tell Miles that we got a new place to hit up sometime here, you know.Hey, you think we can get some free games? And then he kind of chippered up a little bit. He's like, yeah, you guys should come by. I go, oh, I love the old arcade. He's like, yeah, it's got all these games. He's like, the guy who owns the pharmacy built it because he wanted to have something else in the area for people to hang out. Does it have AstroTip? Uh, no, this is a real, like, this is not your, Oh, okay. Not that dirty game. That's not that dirty game you sent me yeah okay yeah oh i think yoder gave me that. Yeah. Sure. Um, so then, so then he cheered up and i'm like, okay, maybe he's not mad at me. Maybe he's really, really sad because you know, it was, they were good friends and and so yeah yeah and the other thing was my son, when i get home,my son's asking me, you know, who'd you see and who'd you talk to? And I'm, I'm describing them like, yeah, I saw Brad and he was really glum and everything. And I go, maybe I go, it's kind of weird because my son's like, why? I go, I go, because, uh, when we were in high school, like his late in his junior year, his parents abandoned him. Oh my God. You know the weirdest freaking people, I swear to God. The parents, like, took off and got jobs in some other state. Yeah. And left the kids there by themselves to graduate the next year. Ah, they're old enough. Well, and they both had to have jobs because they were paying utilities and things. Oh, my God. Yeah, so Brad was this poor working class senior. Yeah.Yeah, and my son's like, what? I'm like, yeah. I can't remember why, but they just left him there. Oh, my God. That's terrible. Because Mark and I used to go over all the time because there was a place to go because there's no adults. Oh, my God. Party, man. Well, there was a lot of that, right? And that's where we teased him and everything. So he's like, that's so strange that these people – I go – You know, I never really thought about it. Maybe that's why he's so glum. His parents abandoned him. Yeah. That's kind of weird. Nowadays, I don't know if that would fly very well. Yeah, it was. Yeah, he worked at Rack's Roast Beef. I remember that. Because there would always be Rack's Roast Beef stuff all over the place. Sounds like something Scooby-Doo would be talking about. Rack's Roast Beef. But anyway…I'll wrap up with my little adventure. But anyway, so I'm sitting next to this lady. I mean, again, he was the only person I recognized other than the dude that caught me at the door. And I'm like, I am sitting next to her and talking to Brad. And I go, I probably know who this is. But I cannot place anybody. And so I spent a lot of time going, introducing myself. Hey, I'm Bob Lament. I went to high school with Mark. And she's like, my name's Bev. Don't you remember me? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I must've done that to like four or five people. I'm a horrible person. I'm not hearing you, Miles, by the way. If you're hearing me, I'm not hearing you....