Static Radio

Bob LeMent

The strange and humorous happenings in the lives of two US Midwesterners.

  1. 1d ago

    Radio Wars - Type 4

    In this episode, a tense personal encounter with local police serves as a springboard for a broader critique of government overreach and libertarian anarchy. The conversation quickly shifts to science fiction and the theoretical limits of human engineering, exploring concepts like Dyson spheres, anti-gravity technology, and the possibility of secret lunar bases. This naturally transitions into a discussion on UAP disclosure, anomalies like Skinwalker Ranch, and the theory that the military slowly filters highly advanced technology—such as brain-computer interfaces and directional sonic weapons—down into the public sphere over decades. The second half of the show tackles the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, automation, and their impending impact on the working class. The hosts dissect the current macroeconomic climate, criticizing inflation, corporate welfare, planned obsolescence, and the widening wealth gap while championing hard assets like Bitcoin and gold. Finally, the episode explores the future of infrastructure and energy, arguing that the societal fear of nuclear power has severely stalled the development of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) that could otherwise solve the grid requirements of an automated future. Too Hard for the Radio https://youtu.be/cuYbY-XICjU?si=9SncyDmdfDrHEDCc

    Radio Wars - Type 4

  2. 6d ago

    Mud Eye

    Miles wears the wrong shoes to the Ren Faire and deals with ye olde mud while Bob eats Indian food for the first time and gets a stye in his eye. GAMES, like old-school games, play a few with the Static Radio twist here – https://www.staticradio.com/category/games/ Subscribe Random Show Click Below https://youtube.com/live/mNPe1CnQsK8 Static Radio – Mud Eye Miles wears the wrong shoes to the Ren Faire and deals with ye olde mud while Bob eats Indian food for the first time and gets a stye in his eye. Mud Eye Bad AI Transcript How’s Cape Girardeau? Hey, Miles, how’s it going? How’s it going? Didn’t know anybody was here. I didn’t know I was podcasting. going everybody’s bob hey how’s it going this is miles fun house have a hot dog sorry i was late. I was listening to my new favorite band on tick tock demon so okay i told him i’d give him a shout out today so yeah oh really did they say, would you please or i didn’t get really get a chance to see what they said about that, so i don’t know. okay i I don’t think they’d be that impressed. Well, there’s five more people. Thank you. Thank you. So Demon P***y, check them out. Whenever you said that, I was thinking, oh, that’s what he calls his private parts. Yeah, sometimes. No, I was thinking of college radio when I heard this. I’m like, wow. No, really? You guys think about that group Bongwater a little bit? Oh, yeah. Yeah, Bongwater. Yeah, I mean, the girl’s on stage. She’s wearing horns and stuff. I’m like, wow, all right. No, this is all right. This has Miles’ title written all over it. And I don’t care what they say. Is it wrong? Is it so wrong? I would guess that it’s one of those things when you’re young, you’re like, yeah, that sounds pretty good. And then as you get older, you’re like, I don’t know if I want to have anything to do with that. That’s what I say about static radio all the time. I hope… Yeah. I was young and then I got older and I’m like, oh, geez. When I was young and my heart was an open book. Hey, I’ve got a piece of advice for you. What? Oh, no. I know. I said virus. You have a virus. Well, maybe. Let’s hear your advice. Maybe. Maybe. Who’s it from? So, you know, I love to go to lunch. Yeah. Yeah. So I went to lunch with my friends, Dr. J. Yes. And Dr. K. Yes. And I went to have Indian food. First time I’ve ever had Indian food. Yeah. Okay. All right. That’s okay. Then maybe the last time as well. I don’t know. Oh, come on. Yeah. Have you ever had Indian food? I did. I went to a… Private function, and it was exclusively Indian food that was catered in, and it was actually very good. I enjoyed it. Oh, well, yeah. I don’t know. You know, those guys had, I don’t like a lot of sauce. Yeah. And there’s a lot of sauce in Indian food, I think. A lot of biscuits and gravy. Well, I’m just saying there’s a lot of, you know, things covered in wet things, which I’m not a big fan of. Being from Decatur. I should be used to that. I don’t know. It probably has anything to do with the caterer. But anyway, my son prompted me. He goes, Dad, you know, because you’re a weirdo, get the tandoori chicken. You’ll like that. It’s not too bad. It doesn’t have any sauce. You don’t have to put any sauce on it. It’s like sauce on the side. And I’m like, okay. So that’s what I got. It was fine. It was certainly… You know, more than edible, better than some, you know. Yeah, yeah. But I was just like, eh, you know. Yeah, yeah. I didn’t, like, you know, really like it. Now, the funny thing was, we had a conversation, and when I was in Texas, I ate some plantains. You know, I’ve heard of that. I have no idea what that is, but I have heard that name. It’s kind of like a banana. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, that’s right, yeah. So, I got this dish… And it was like a garnish, but there are these little plantain chips. Yeah. Delicious. Never had plantains in my life. I love plantains. Now I love plantain, especially the, whatever these things were. Yeah. Anyway, that’s not my advice. Yeah. So while we’re there talking, I’m talking to Dr. K and he’s like, you know, we’re old at lunch and, Everybody’s talking about their difficulties. I love to pee. No, no, but, you know, just all the weird things that are going on, right? So, like, I have a finger that I swear to God is turning around on my hand while I look at it right now. It’s twisting on its own. Yeah. In ways it’s not supposed to. I hurt this finger recently. way back in, like, junior high school. It’s permanently bent because I didn’t have any medical care as a child. I love stories like this. I love them. My son always says this stuff. Like, oh, gosh, my finger is really bothering me. And he’s like, let me look at it. He’s like, why is it all bent? And I go, well, I got it. i got hit with a medicine ball right on my middle finger and it bent and then it’s never straightened out ever since like sixth grade he’s like he’s like because dad, you really, they didn’t, nobody took you to the doctor, did they? Yeah. I had an ear drum explode and all this stuff. Oh God. Once. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, And yeah, this finger that I jammed all these years ago, it feels like it’s turning. Like if you take the finger and just twist it the wrong way. Yeah. Yeah. Just during the day, I’ll be like, holy shit, my finger hurts. And I look at it, it looks like it’s twisting. Right. Anyway, that’s not the piece of advice either. The piece of advice is we’re talking about these kind of things. And Dr. K goes, hey, I found out I don’t handle gluten well. Mm-hmm. I go, I’m like, how in the f**k did you find that out? Well, let me tell you. Yeah, he wasn’t too happy when I said it that way. But anyway, I go, how’d you find that out? And he goes, well, I noticed… You laughing about this guy’s poor gluten problem? No, go ahead. I noticed when I ate a lot of bread that I get really phlegmy. I’m like, really? I go, that’s odd. He goes, yeah. So he’s like, I stopped eating bread and last night we had bacon sandwiches and I ate a bunch of bread and Yeah. And then I was all Flemmy again. Yeah. And I go, you know, my friend, miles title is the king is always f*****g Flemmy. It’s so annoying. He’s always got this phlegm going on. I know that’s why I can’t go like professional. Cause I’m all a bit gross. And I go, maybe he’s eating too much bread. You know, no one’s ever told me that, but, you know. I mean, you’ve met Dr. K. You know him. I have broken bread with Dr. K, I guess. Yeah, oddly enough. And you guys are both probably f*****g phlegmy as hell and grossing each other out. More French bread, Dr. K? On my own, yeah. Oui, oui. Oui, oui, Miles, of course. I wish it was a bacon sandwich, don’t you think? Bacon sandwich. So, but anyway, then Dr. J had to say something about the bacon. But anyway, so. Not the bacon. The bacon. So anyway, I thought I’d pass that along. I was like, oh my gosh. Wouldn’t it be funny if that’s it? And I’m like, yeah. Yeah, would stop eating bread for a week and see if you don’t get all flimsy. Oh, I love bread. Oh, my God. It’s not like forever. I know. Just try it out. I mean, just try it for a few days. Three days. I know, but that’s like a good friend. I love it. It’d be like saying goodbye to a good friend. You’re like, hey, man, we can’t be friends no more. Remember that time that you got called in for a movie and they’re like, it’s American Pie, but it’s with a baguette. You want to be a star, Miles? Anyway. And you’re like, I think it’s more like Olive Garden. All you can eat breadsticks. So, yeah, try not doing the bread and see if it helps you. Oh, boy. This is… I don’t know. Then you’ll know. I don’t know if I’m strong enough for this. It might be gluten. Might be gluten. Goodbye. It might be gluten. So that’s not even my f*****g story. So here’s my story. Oh, Jesus Christ. The Indian food, the bread, that’s still not in the story. Jesus Christ, this guy. Third time’s the charm here. I got, for the first time in my life, I got a stye in my eye. Ooh, that hurts. It did. And I was pissed. I woke up, and my eye was hurting, and I go and look, and my eye’s all red. I’m like, holy shit, I got pink eye. And my wife’s looking at it, and she’s like, I don’t think you got pink. How did you get pink eye? I go, I don’t know. You just put a hot rag on it or something, don’t you, to get rid of it? Well, yes, I did finally do that. But like my whole, it was like I had like half my face was tattooed red by my eye. with like all this inflammation and everything. And my eyelid was all effed up and everything. Yeah. It was just like, it was horrible. I was like, I can’t believe I’ve never, ever had this in my life ever. And then I get this and I’m like, I am angry. I am super angry. This is so, it was annoying. It was painful. I can literally used to be able to just pick up handfuls, Of dirt and rubbed them in my eyes and it wouldn’t even bother me. Right. Now, I’m like a fairy princess. I can’t even handle anything. You’re like 85 now, aren’t you? That’s right. Yeah, close to it. Freaking old. Is that what it is? You get old and you just get sties all of a sudden? I just saved you a $250 trip to the doctor. I didn’t go to the doctor. I looked it up and I did put a hot… thing on my face. Wait, you’re still sticking to your old ways, huh? Yeah, well, I’m like, I haven’t, you know, I haven’t paid a premium yet, so why start now? I’m not going to do it. Yeah, I’m not going now. Screw it. I’ve got a broken finger, you know, eyes on it, who cares? Dad, why do you wear an eyepatch now? Hunchback? Oh, I used to wear it. I used to wear an eyepatch for migraines. I did. I had an eye patch that I used to wear around

    Mud Eye

  3. Oct 27

    Scouser Gates

    Bob gets surrounded by Josh Gates look-alikes at a Josh Gates appearance, while Miles gets served nachos from Harry Potter in the deep suburbs of Chicago. GAMES, like old-school games, play a few with the Static Radio twist here – https://www.staticradio.com/category/games/ Subscribe Random Show Click Below https://youtube.com/live/WfCzknOjFtE Static Radio – Scouser Gates Bob gets surrounded by Josh Gates look-alikes at a Josh Gates appearance, while Miles gets served nachos from Harry Potter in the deep suburbs of Chicago. Scouser Gates Bad AI Transcript Let’s turn this up a little bit. Oh, my talk is slow. Welcome to Static. This is Miles. Are you sure? Yes. one of these days you’re gonna get on here and you’re not gonna know who you are. I have this feeling I have the like you’re you’re gonna lose your marbles like all in like a weekend. I believe it yeah you’re gonna come and you’re like, I don’t even know how I got here. Yeah. You’re right. I’m already getting like that. I’m already getting like that shot well between that and, you know, multiple doctor visits. mm-hmm so you know, and you like going to for a colonoscopy like every year and a half or something, you know. I think you’re supposed to have it every year and a half right now 18 like a 18-month rotation no you’re not. Like every 10 years. Oh. Well, who the hell is that guy i’ve been going to that’s right who is that? He doesn’t even have any equipment. Just give Linda your $50 and come on back. Listen, kid, I don’t have time. I don’t have time. He always wears that gray alien mask. I don’t know what’s going on. Hey, speaking of adventures. Yes, yes. A segue, yes. Speaking of adventures, I had a slight adventure, as much of an adventure as an old white man could have this weekend. Yeah. I flew over to Thailand. No, I went to see. I’m the most falling for it. I’m like, what, really? What? We went to see Josh Gates. Oh, I just saw a blurb on that up in Peoria or something, right? Up in Peoria. That’s right. Cool. Yeah. Peoria. And went and saw the Josh Gates extravaganza. I don’t know what he calls it. Josh Gates, I’m here. Josh Gates, I’m taking a break from traveling. I don’t know what the name of the show was, honestly. Cool. Cool. Yeah, so we just drove there and back, and I kept going. So my son saw this a while back, and he kind of mentioned it, and then I think he was going to go with some friends, and they’re all like, who’s Josh Gates? Of course. And then he was telling us about that, and my wife was like, well, I’ll go. Yeah. And then I’m like, I guess I’m going, right? Yeah. And they’re like, well, it’s in Peoria. And I go, oh, we got to get a hotel. I can’t. Yeah, right. No, neither one of them. No, no, we don’t need a hotel. No, no. That was over the weekend? Yeah, it was on Saturday. Oh, wow. That’s really cool. So we drove all the way up to Peoria, which is like two and a half hours or something, maybe a little bit. more depending on who’s driving. And, uh, and drove back all in a day and in between had the dinner and saw josh gates live. You were just in Peoria. I know. That’s the weird thing, right? Isn’t that how things go, right? You just yeah weird like get into these things where it’s like, yeah. Well, first of all, The best part of the night was we got free parking. That’s not too hard. Okay. That’s not too hard. Okay. No, I don’t think it’s too hard. Okay. Well, because we stayed at that hotel and we noticed that none of the parking gates were working and none of the machinery was functioning. So we just parked there. Yeah. Right. Right. And it has a skywalk over to the convention center thing or whatever it’s called. Mm-hmm. The Peoria, everyone, you know, Peoria Huddle House right there. But the weird thing was, so we drove up and we went to Monocle’s, which, of course, is one of my favorite things, right? Oh, yeah, that little shopping center, yeah. No, Monocle’s, the pizza place. Yeah, it’s a little shopping thing, yeah. Well, we went to the one in Morton. Oh, I don’t know. I don’t know if you’ve been to that one. It is in the shopping center as well, but I had some delicious Monocle’s pizza, which actually you and I had one time, I remember. It’s right by a big thrift store. Yeah, it was. You’re right. Yeah, that’s where we ate, yeah. Oh, well, anyway, it was very good, although I will say not the speediest service. Yeah. Food was really, really good. But our lady who was supposed to be taking care of us seemed to disappear for long periods of time. I don’t know what was going on. Oh, Mel? Yeah. And then a couple of times I saw her coming out of the kitchen eating. Your food. Maybe she had it. Maybe that’s what took so long. She ate my pizza and then had to go make another one. Wait, did she make eye contact and, like, turn around and, like, run away? Yeah. Like, oh, shit. Like, oh, no, I’m eating a salad. We’re still waiting. Is that my salad? No. In the meantime, there was, like, three other – because this place was busy. I mean, it was really – it was packed, and it was busy. Yeah, yeah. And there was, like, three other waitress people, and they were buzzing around like little bees, giving everybody everything. And then they’re like, you know, what the hell? We got, you know – sally slow-mo over here eating pizza in the back. Another mess up. Everybody take us live. So, you know and then and then it’s getting to where we’re having to make a decision. You know, we get our food and everything and then we ask for the check right like after she brings the food. We’re like, we’ll take the check yeah and then the check sits there. Because she doesn’t come pick it up. And it’s getting to be time where we need to hustle. Right, right, yeah. And then this whole big, like, you know, damn family comes in and heads back to the rumpus room. Yeah. And guess who follows them? Oh, I’m here to help you tonight. I’m like, oh, we’re never going to get out of here. And so my wife’s like, I’m just taking it to the front. Oh, ballsy. Yeah. So she just took it up front and we paid up front rather than having her come pick it up. So I’m like, okay, I mean, that’s breaking protocol, but, uh, was she wearing her next generation uh workout no no she was not for this event. Although then we, uh, we, we head over to the free parking spot in the, uh, hotel garage, uh, And, um, there’s like people everywhere. There’s all these people. And I’m like, holy moly, this thing must really be popular oh yeah i’m like this is this is crazy well uh it wasn’t that popular really yeah two they had two things going on. There was a hockey game and the josh gates thing on the same night in different parts of this big building. And I’m like, it was two of the widest audiences. They all looked like they could go to either one. I’m thinking half the people had like those stupid Indiana Jones hats. Yes, they did. And with vests. And the others had hockey jerseys and baseball caps probably. And so we thought it was like all for this thing. But then the guards are yelling, hockey people stay to the left and keep going. And the rest of you nerdy bastards. All you nerds go in here. I just met all these wannabe people dressed up like Indiana Jones. There was quite a few people with the hat. And so we get in, you know, and it was probably about half full-ish, I would say. Um, certainly the, the main level was half full. That’s where we were at. And then they had like upper levels, which there was nobody up there so yeah and uh and so yeah and yes there were people with the hats and the crazy thing was, it’s like everybody was either in the front or in the back and the middle was just kind of empty. Yeah. I was like, well, that’s, That’s interesting. I mean, there’s your demographic, right? The people who are so into it, they got to get in the front row. Which is you. No, I was in the back. Or cheap bastards like me who are sitting in the back because those were the cheaper tickets. Which are still like $60 or something. Right, they’re still like $60, exactly. So then the other thing is we get in, you know, and the row we have to go in… I want to put a plea out there to anybody who’s making an auditorium. I know it cuts into your profits, but always, always, always have a center aisle. No. This thing is like side to side, solid chairs. Yeah. There’s only two side aisles. And of course, when you get there and there’s a whole like f*****g family right there at the end. Of course. Then we have to climb over. Ha ha ha ha ha. and so we’re like, okay, here we go. Right. And so we, you know, we’re kind of towards the middle, I guess. And so we’re going down the row and there’s like, I don’t know, there’s had to be like eight of them or something like that. Well, everybody gets up, but this old guy, he doesn’t get up. I’m not getting up for you you dumb he rude the day that he did not get up. Oh, grandpa. So I’m like, You know, these size 12 feet cannot fit down this f*****g aisle shuffling sideways without a little bit of space. And I stepped fully, and I mean fully, on both of his f*****g feet. Oh, you bastard. This guy had to be like a bad diabetic or something because he didn’t even make a noise. Yeah. I’m like, sorry, sorry. And I’m like, crunch, crunch. Oh, my God. I mean, you weigh like 400 pounds. That’s better. I felt his toenails crackling. Yeah, he’s probably a tough guy. I was a nom. Yeah, he was tough then. I don’t know. I’m assuming he was like neuropathy is like. severe or something. I was on pork chop hill god damn it. I could take a fat guy walk across my feet. I’ve still got a bullet in my butt cheek. Yeah. We make our way down to our seats and we sit down and amazingly enough, my butt fit in th

    Scouser Gates

  4. Oct 20

    Greasy Pollster

    Miles tells a political pollster that his wife has passed away, while Bob skates through a convenience-store wedding party. GAMES, like old-school games, play a few with the Static Radio twist here – https://www.staticradio.com/category/games/ Subscribe Random Show Click Below https://youtube.com/live/RHPNZU5jnsw Static Radio – Judy’s Kitchen Miles tells a political pollster that his wife has passed away, while Bob skates through a convenience-store wedding party. Greasy Pollster Bad AI Transcript rrrrrrrrrrrrrr You’re the best thing that ever happened to me. Hey everyone, this is Miles. Welcome to Static. Thank you. I’m going to get all misty-eyed here. I know. That’s what I was hoping for. Goodness gracious. You don’t hear things like that every day. Well, I just thought, you know, you might need it after you travel so much. The truth comes out eventually, everyone. Yep. The truth comes out. It comes out. How you doing, Miles? You doing okay tonight? How’s your, you know, frailties? You know, had not all my friends left me, you would be further down the list, unfortunately. Lucky for me. Yeah. Yeah, thank you. I’m kind of divorced from all my friends at this point, so yeah. Well, yeah. I’m stuck with you, so. Maybe I should get divorced, because then I can get some alimony at least. I mean, you’re kind of like my Wilson. You know what I’m saying? Wilson! I mean, you’re just like this stupid head with a stupid face. You have to think. The Wilson thing. That’s Tom Hanks. Just move it to bosom buddies. Exact same expressions at everything. There’s no… His acting, there’s no difference between Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies and Tom Hanks… Castaway. Absolutely none. Peter! Peter Scolari! Right? Buffy! Buffy and Hildy! Hildy or something. I watched that show. I did watch that show. I don’t care what they say anymore. This is my life. leave me alone yeah there’s no, I don’t know how tom hanks is, everybody’s like, he’s so great because i mean you can, you can play these things together and they would be the exact same. You just have buffy and Wilson. Just swap some word you know, names in there. Yeah, I was watching Gray Wolf or Gray Lady or whatever the hell it’s called. It’s like the movie, by the way. I go, man, that’s his exact same role as Booth and Buddies. I mean, you put them side by side. That captain fighting the Nazis is just like Hildy. He always plays a character named Kip. He was Captain Kip. Yeah, right. Even in the one where he gets the pirates come and get him. Captain Kip. You know, he mixed in Captain Phillips, Grey Lady. What is that? Is it Grey Lady? Or what is that called? Grey Lady. Grey Lady. No, come on. What is that called? Is that Grey Lady? Grey Lady Town, I think is what it was called. He plays the same character in every movie. It’s weird. I was watching that, and then I watched Bachelor Party. I’m like, oh, my God. It’s insane. It is the same performance. From Decatur, Illinois. Oh, my God. Yeah. See, Wolf Captain. Same performance. Same guy, so limited. I love it when it came through the, you know, the little airlock area, and he’s holding the door because you guys, oh, what’s going on? Oh, no. There’s a topless woman on the bridge. What? It’s all like more your Barney Fife. I know. Unfortunately, I don’t really have a good time. Do Barney Fife doing that line again. I want to hear that again. Which one? There’s a topless woman on the roof. What? There’s a topless woman on the roof? foster girl. I think they need to recast that whole movie. That great lady. I have to work on my tom hanks impression well son there you go. You see the nazis submarine and the dude. Colin Hanks has more range than tom Hanks, which is interesting. No, I don’t know. Oh yeah. Oh, Chet Hanks. Anyway. No, Chet Hanks, I will agree with you. Yes, he’s a star. Did you notice Woody is the same as the guy in Philadelphia? Did you notice that at all? I didn’t notice that. I did. Settle down, man. Settle down. Oh, man. He’s like, there’s a snake in my boot. That line was in Philadelphia, the courtroom. Yeah, all right. Trails your snake. All right. We didn’t even get into Polar Express. Damn it. That’s right. All right, we better cut it. Even worse, the Polar Express is the creepiest thing ever. Yeah. Why people like that is beyond me. It’s so freaking creepy. Oh, you just like Eddie Deason. Yeah, well… Although I’ve met Eddie Deason, actually. Have you really? Yes, I did. I had to wait. He was late showing up, believe it or not. Sorry, I’m late. I stuck on the Ferris wheel. Mike, you stupid. Oh, my goodness. Well, I don’t have any stories about celebrities this week, but. Well, that’s the end of the show. Thank you, everyone, for listening, and good night. I did meet Tom Hanks at a Dickie Bub’s store. No, I didn’t. So I complained about having to work over the weekend before we started recording, and then you, of course, mentioned it and everything. i drive across for my work, I have to, I go all over Missouri. Sometimes I go other places, right? I had to go to texas and you know, I go various places. I’ve had to go to las vegas and california and all this kind of stuff so hollywood redwood that’s right yeah i love l.a um so anyway i had to go to jefferson city in missouri state Capitol. And I took a picture of the state capital out my hotel window and sent it to you. And you’re like, what’s that? There’s a snake in my boot. There’s one in my pants. And so anyway, I had to spend my Saturday in Jefferson City. And so then whenever I got done, I drive Highway 70. Highway 70 is the main highway that bisects from east to west the state of Missouri. And it is a killer highway. A lot of people die on it. There’s always traffic jams and things backed up for miles and everything. And I’ve had to drive it now for over 30 some years. So anyway, I get done with my thing in Jefferson city and I’ve always been told all these years are like, don’t go down 70, go down this high, like rural highway 50. Especially in the fall. Right. It’s beautiful. It’s beautiful. Was it like a man in like a Nazi uniform that told you that? My friend Belak, he told me. No, no. People have told me this over the years. And I’ve never gone down Highway 50. And so I was there. And I got to leave a little bit early, which is not the norm. And I’m like, it’s only about 10 or 15 minutes longer, it says on the map, you know. I’ve told all these years, never had a maps option until recently. But anyway, I’m like, I’m going to go down Highway 50 on the way home. And I do. It was beautiful. It’s rolling hills. You go up and down. You and Bellock. Yeah. You and Bellock from Raiders. Go ahead. Blow it back. Go ahead. Go ahead, Bob. Eat onion rings. Blow it back to God. Let’s blow it back to God. To God. And so I’m driving down highway 50. It’s just, it’s beautiful. It’s great. You know, you should, you should drive it. I was, they were all right. And I’ve been ignoring them for, you know, decades. Yeah. And so I’m enjoying myself now, you know, I’m like, wait a minute. I’m going to have to get gas. Yeah. I didn’t even think of this. I didn’t even think about this. You know, and I’m also, I’m very hyper vigilant about where I stop, you know. I believe this to use the restroom, and I know all the restrooms that I like to stop at on highway 70, which I got a new one. I talked about it a few weeks ago. I don’t know any restrooms on highway 50, and I don’t even know if there’s going to be a gas station. I mean, this is like not a major highway. This is, you know, a county, you know, state highway kind of situation. Luckily though, there was plenty of little towns along the way, you know, but you know, I, I like Casey’s, but they don’t always have the cleanest bathrooms. Agreed. Agreed. So they’re not like, they’re like emergency stop, not high on the list. Right. Um, And so I passed a few cases, and then I was coming up on the biggest town on this route until I got to, you know, closer to St. Louis, which was called Union, Missouri. All right. Have you ever been to Union, Missouri? Thankfully, no. Oh, it’s a nice little town. I would love to live in Union. What struck me, two things struck me. One was good. One was bad. I was driving by the local college, probably a community college in days gone by that’s now just a college. I don’t know how they changed the names. I have no idea. They had a big sign, like one of those electronic signs, and it said, come tonight to watch Blade Runner with film discussion afterwards. Ooh, I’m there. I’m like, why did they do cool shit like that whenever I was, you know? I know. I’d stay and watch Blade Runner again. Oh, yes. Anyway, so I thought that was really cool, and I thought, this is the place to stop. Look, they have Blade Runner playing at the college for free, and they’re going to discuss it. And I think you’re a replicant. That’s right. That’s right. I’m sure you’re not human. I’m sure you’re a replicant. Yeah. What do you, how do you react whenever you see a snake? All right. Yeah. I go, it’s in my boot. And then, uh, so then I come up to like the, the, you know, kind of the bigger area of businesses, you know, with all the different McDonald’s and all that kind of stuff. And there’s several gas stations and I, I’m low on gas at this point. Cause I didn’t fill up ahead of time and I have to take a whiz. And so I pull in, I’m like, I got like mobile, you know, 66 and they have a QT. Yeah. QT is called quick trip here in the area. I don’t know if people have those elsewhere, but QT. And I’m like, I’m choosing the, I’m choosing the QT. Yeah. It looks to be the biggest convenience store amongst the corner gas stations. And I’m going to choose the QT. Beca

    Greasy Pollster

  5. Oct 16

    Mondo Freako - Salida UFO footage 1995

    Salida UFO Footage 1995 In this episode of Mondo Freako, host Bob LeMent is joined by Houston Pierce, creator of the interview-based podcast 1,000 Crazy Questions, to discuss paranormal trivia and the infamous 1995 Salida, Colorado UFO footage. Houston participates in a high-stakes trivia quiz testing his knowledge of the legendary daylight sighting recorded by resident Tim Edwards after being alerted by his six-year-old daughter. Despite missteps on cigar-shaped craft classifications and missing out on final points, Houston defends his choices with sharp wit and skepticism. Transitioning from the quiz to the actual video, Bob and Houston analyze the grainy, historic footage of the mysterious hovering craft. The conversation broadens into a lively debate touching on secret military anti-gravity technology, defense economics, submarine-shaped naval concepts, and Occam’s razor. Throughout the banter, Houston promotes his ongoing project at thousandcrazyquestions.com and via Instagram, while Bob guides listeners through another deep dive into the weird world of UFO lore and unexplainable aerial phenomena. 1000 Crazy Questions @1000CrazyQuestions https://youtube.com/live/ASqiKx7gEEw UFO Witness Game (Click Graphic to Start) Transcript (AI transcription) Houston. How can there be Houston in Colorado? I think it’s kind of like there’s a weird in Texas and there’s a Colorado in Alabama. I don’t know. Words are made up. Words are Rico. I got Houston Pierce from 1000 Crazy Questions with me. Hey, Houston. Hey, how’s it going, Bob? Good. I hope you’re doing well. It’s starting to get cold. Not enjoying that too much, although it is 81 degrees still here at the moment. Is it cool where you’re at? It’s just now starting to get cool. But unlike you, I do like it. I mean, it gives me a chance to break out, you know, the winter gear. I don’t know about you, but Most of my wardrobe is like jackets, hoodies, and stuff like that. It goes with my wardrobe, totally. Exactly, yeah. And my wardrobe is naturally built for the cold, so I’m fine. Oh, well, then good. Now, everybody doesn’t know, Houston’s got a show called Thousand Crazy Questions. You can catch it right here, thousandcrazyquestions.com, or… at on the Insta and other places, thousand crazy questions. Look at that. I can’t believe it. You want to help give people a real quick brief synopsis on what do you really have? How many questions have you asked so far? I mean, what number are you keeping track of the numbers? There’s no way I can keep track. There’s no way. I think if I did have a, I think I have 83 episodes up. i’ve recorded over, I think i’ve recorded about a hundred and i’m passing up 90 really soon in this next season. So if i do the math, uh, with about seven episodes, average times 83 being recorded and fully asked, then eight, seven times 83, I have asked a math. seven times 83 i’ve asked is 581, according to my calculator then i have and i have asked on air, on camera, and at least recorded 583 questions. There you go. Okay, well, hey, you’re making a lot of headway then you you’re halfway more than halfway there. Yeah, more or less. That’s why that’s What I’ve asked within the collective career of what’s been on there. Actually, I know I’ve asked more than that, but that’s what you can find. That’s what’s documented is what you’re saying. The show is an interview-based podcast where I ask different guests every week a bunch of would-you-rather questions and just different hypothetical scenarios to interview them. And it gets weird. It gets deep. it gets silly and, uh, yeah, just always try to be entertaining on it. But that’s, that’s for sure. I’ve been on, I think at least twice. I can’t remember now, but at least yeah Yeah. And Houston asked me some very naughty questions. One time he’s like, are you okay for these kind of really, uh, terrible? I go, sure. Whatever. Do you remember that I remember. That might have been the first time I was on. You’re like, yeah, I’m going to ask you these horrible questions. I’m like, oh, okay. Yeah, because I remember I think it was near the end or something. You were like, you, I think you said you lulled me in with the good ones. Right. And then at the end you’re like, these questions are terrible. It was a horrible question, but I answered it. Everybody’s like, I couldn’t stop laughing at that. Like, you lulled me. You’re like, oh, these cutesy questions. And then, boom, a hardcore, you know, nasty question. I tried to warn him. But also, yeah. But also, I don’t know, I was talking to a blue cat. And I remember I had a fever that day, too. So that was definitely a vibe. Right. You’ll have to go back and check and see if it happened. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, like i think i think this cartoon cat can answer this question, I think. He answers anything, goodness gracious. He’s such a weirdo. But everybody check it out, A Thousand Crazy Questions. It’s a lot of fun if you’re you know, want to be on the show, you know, just reach out through Instagram. Oh, yeah. You still have you on. He’ll ask you some terrible, horrible question. Yeah. I’m just joking this is okay Only if you’re able to take it. That’s right. We don’t want anybody crying. There’s no crying on a thousand crazy questions. No, no. Unless it’s funny. And then which case maybe, but I’m kidding. But yeah, reach out to me at one K crazy questions at Gmail. That’s another one. I got to type in here. You don’t have to type. It’s just the email. If you want to reach out directly, otherwise Instagram is just fine to be on the show. If you want to reach out to me, um, but yeah let’s see if this is that look correct uh yeah yeah that’s it there you go. We’ll throw it up there. So yeah, if you want to reach out, be on the show. But this show is mondo frico and um we’re going to talk about something weird. You always have a choice at the beginning of mondo Frico. We talk about something strange. It’s usually in the world of the paranormal, in the world of the cryptids, or in the world of the UFOs, which is almost kind of like, well, I guess it could be in the water, but it’s kind of like sky, land, and ether, maybe, with paranormal. But we always try to, everybody else, if you want to take the quiz first, or do you want to take the quiz after we talk about what we’re going to talk about? I think… I think all the times I’ve been on before, I’ve asked for it first because I’m a sociopath who likes challenging myself. Okay. Well, I’m not a true sociopath. I shouldn’t say that. But I do like the challenge of going in completely blind. I’ll do it again. Doing the quiz? Yeah. Quiz. Quiz. Quiz. Quiz. There you go. Houston’s going to do the quiz. Here we are with the quiz. This is about the Salada. I hope I’m saying that correctly. Video footage from 1995. I know in 1995 you may not have been in existence yet, but it’s something to be, you know, to pay attention to. The Salada video footage in 1995. I’m going to start. We’ve got five questions here. We’re going to see how Houston does. And if you look here, Houston, it may be hard on your screen, but there’s a little easy button here, right? So it’ll be easy, medium, or hard. First question for you is easy. I always have a hint. Here is your first question. Are you ready, sir? I’m ready. In August 1995, which Salada, Colorado resident famously recorded a widely discussed daylight video of an anomalous flying object? Was it… Tim Edwards, Dale Salata, Arthur Cooper, or George Adamski. And I have a hint if you want to. Okay. So this is called the Salata video footage. And there’s a guy named Dale Salata in the options. Yeah. But something is telling me to not pick number D. I’ll probably go with Dale. I’m probably going to say it’s a guy named Dale. You want to go with Dale? I feel like. You sure? I feel like Dales are the people who just do this. Nothing to do with it. The king of the hill. Yeah. Great job, our boy. Love you. There is a UFO out there, Hank. Yeah. I have a hint if you want to do the hint. There’s no shame in doing the hint. I will not shame myself by doing the hint. I think this is a Dale. The last name has nothing to do with it. I think this is a Dale thing. Okay. Let’s see. Let’s reveal. Oh, no. It’s Tim Edwards. Hey, Tim Edwards recorded the footage in August 1995 after his six-year-old daughter alerted him. Look, daddy, UFO. There you go. He has a cool last name. Is there really, Dale Salata, or is that fully made up? I think it’s just made up. Okay. Because Salata is like, that means like to exit or something, right? That’s like Spanish for exit. Okay. Like Dale… Exit. georgia damski is a real person. Uh, I mean, they’re all real people. I’m sure with this names, but, uh, georgia damski is actually somebody, and i can’t remember why, what he is noted for but he’s somebody so got it all right you ready for ready for number two or no, I don’t know if that was easy. I may be cooked. Well, you don’t know anything about the topic. It just got sprung on you. So there you know what i mean? It’s hard. I’m trying. You’re going in blind, you know? So this was a medium question. It may be easier. Who knows? These little buttons, I think they just randomly pepper them in there. I don’t know. What general geometric shape is commonly used to describe the prominent UFO captured in the 1995 Salada video footage? Is it A, a triangle? B, a cigar or tube shaped? C, a perfect sphere? Or D, a flat disc? i do have a hint if you want it. This is all very a lot of classic ufo shapes there. Yeah. There was a cigar shaped uh asteroid that was going to kill us some years ago oh yeah yeah yeah I don’t know if it was going to kill us, but yeah. All right. I think it was just headed towards us. It did come

  6. Oct 14

    Judys Kitchen

    Bob and Miles meet for dinner at TikTok influencer Judy’s Kitchen in Galesburg, IL, for an impromptu gathering. GAMES, like old-school games, play a few with the Static Radio twist here – https://www.staticradio.com/category/games/ Subscribe Random Show Click Below https://youtube.com/live/nPO-PsG9g08 Static Radio – Judy’s Kitchen Bob and Miles meet for dinner at TikTok influencer Judy’s Kitchen in Galesburg, IL, for an impromptu gathering. Judys Kitchen Bad AI Transcript You can play with Bob’s balls if you want to. You can leave your friends behind. Hey, everyone, this is Miles with Static Radio. Probably would leave your friends behind if that was the case. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Another week. Another week. A week in the life. Here we are. Here we go. Here we go. Another week. Yeah. Miles and I had dinner together. Yes. Not even a week ago now. Bacon shake. No. No, we had Judy’s Kitchen or whatever, wasn’t it? Judy, Judy, Judy, Judy. Believe it or not, we actually saw each other, uh, in our human form in Galesburg. Bob was like, I didn’t know you’d like pina coladas. So, yeah, so that’s been weird. So I was in Peoria tagging along on a junket. Yeah. With my wife. And I’m like, hey, you know. Yeah. Well, my wife wanted to go to Judy’s Kitchen. Right. If you don’t know who Judy’s Kitchen is, you’re not from around these parts because she’s like a famous TikToker. Influencer. Influencer, yeah. And she’s like, we’re close enough. It’s only like 40 minutes away. I’m like, okay. I’m like, wait a minute. Miles lives about the same distance on the other side of Galesburg. And so I said, would it be okay if we met Miles at Judy’s? And my wife said, f**k no. Oh. Oh, no, she didn’t say that. She said, if you must. Oh, yeah. Which is worse? Which reaction is worse to you? Oh, f**k. I don’t know. That would be nice. It would be nice if you boys got together. Well, that’s nice. I’m glad. Yeah. So anyway, I said you know, I, I sent you a note and we’re like yeah we’re gonna do this. We had, we were a little bit late because, uh, you know, festivities and whatnot yeah so you know, you and i met up, uh, yeah. Right. Right. Which I will say was actually not, you know, I was hoping for more the dinner part. Okay. I was hoping it would be better. It was just kind of there, you know what I mean? How was yours, by the way? Delicious. Really? I had the Kung Pao. You had Kung Pao. Mm-hmm. I had General Tso’s. Mm-hmm. I can’t remember what my wife got. I don’t know. Your son had orange chicken because I was sitting across from him. Mm-hmm. I don’t even remember what my wife had. Now I’m thinking about it. I should probably remember that above all. She had some crab Rangoon. Oh yeah. I had the crab Rangoons. Yeah. Yeah. And your son got a free glass. Did he? Well, I don’t think he stole it, but I told him he should. Nah, he doesn’t. He’s better than me. He wouldn’t do that. I would do it. Yeah, you were like, hey, I got these sweatpants on, son. They’ll fit right here in the old crotch. No, I got in trouble once because I did steal a knife from Sizzler once. I got kind of yelled at for doing that. Those Sizzler knives, they were collector’s items. They’re like red plastic handled. Like a freaking clown knife or something. So yeah, we met for dinner, which is an unusual occurrence. Yeah. I know, and I almost pretended like I was going to honk your wife’s nose when she walked by. Uh-oh. Yeah, that wouldn’t have went over. She’s not in the nose play. Yeah, I don’t think that would have went over very well. I didn’t touch her, but I imagined I did. Well, I think you could probably say that about a lot of people. She’s got such a little teeny tiny nose, though. What? Okay. She’s got a small nose. Really? Well, compared to you. Well, no, my whole family’s got like these big polack noses. But she doesn’t, you know i mean well yeah i don’t know, I’m just saying i’ll tell you about that, but anyhow. No, I’m just saying. I’m getting a little weirded out by this nose talk. I have this weird feeling that you’re combing, you know weird tiktok instagram pages about noses or something. I don’t know what’s going on it’s all kinds of weird things going on. I’m grooming her for her nose. Yeah, I don’t know what, you know. Is there a nose fetish? I don’t know. No, I’m just saying she has a proportional nose she’s oh that’s very nice. I’ve got like this carol malden nose like everyone in my family, and i’m jealous i’m like wow i was cursed like one of those uh one of those elephant seals. Cha-cha-cha-cha-cha. It’s like flapping around. You’re like… You lean your head back. You’re trying to… Every time you try to drink, you just get a glass full in your nose. No, these credits are no good. That’s me. Yeah. That’s me. Yeah. So, yeah, I’m sorry. I quite a lot. Oh, but yeah. But no, we had dinner. It was it was nice. I was nice. I will say. Yeah. Out of the four of us at the table, you were the weirdo. I know what you’re going to say. I know what you’re going to say. Because my son and I had this conversation on the way home. Oh, did you? Yes. I’m like, maybe I should do this more often. He makes me look normal. Yeah. With his actions. He’s like such a weirdo at dinner. He’s so weird. I’m like, have you ever leave the house? I mean, you go out more than I do. Yeah. You got like your eyes are wiggling and your hands are doing things and making weird gestures. And you’re like making these noises. And it’s like, I’m like, what is wrong? I’m like David Byrne and stop making sense. I’m doing a little thing where I’m chopping my arm. You know, you might ask yourself. And then. You’re like, you know, I don’t know if this was like some kind of weird flirting you were doing with the waitress. I don’t know. But I mean, obviously she wasn’t taking it that way. She was taking it that you possibly had some kind of brain problems. It’s asking you questions because your wife was not feeling well. She didn’t make it in. You got her some egg rolls. It took you like 15 f*****g minutes to say, can I order egg rolls to go? I was, you know, just trying to be dramatic pausing. It was like Shatner times 10. It was a sous serre. It was a sous serre. It was a dramatic pause. I would like to have an order of what you might call… F*****g epileptic Hugh Grant over here. I… i would like even your son was like, what the hell with you old man yeah well i remember egg rolls and you’re driving oh my lord i thought i was all right yeah and i was just like, ah, it’s just like, you know, you’re like i just didn’t want the waitress to leave, you know, like, Vera, don’t know oh no! I just shined up my shoes. Oh, no. Yeah. Thankfully, you know, she, but she thought you were weird too. I could tell, I could tell with her demeanor. Oh, I think she thought, no, I don’t know. I don’t know. Yeah. I’m pretty sure. No, I think she’s used to it. She kept stepping back away from me. Yeah. She’d scoot back every time you moved your hand. Like it was going to reach out and grab her or something. She was pulling away from my gravitational pull. She’s like, oh, f**k. Gravity. What the f**k? Get away. Yeah. What’s in this Kung Pao? Holy shit. It’s like a black hole over here. I’m just reading your shirt. Yeah. You’re so weird. I’m like, he’s really weird. When we left, I’m like, God, Miles is really weird. That’s normal, isn’t it? I go, no, he’s weirder than usual. She’s like, really? I go, yes. If that f****r talks about your nose, I’m going to punch him out. She has a very nice nose. She has a nice nose. But no, yeah, you were all, you know, I don’t know. You have not hit on what my son and I were talking about, though. Well, did you touch yourself a bunch? I don’t know. I was at the table. Okay. Did you fart? I don’t know. No. Are those your main points, first of all? Well, your eyes were very shifty. You kept looking around. You made weird hand gestures. You couldn’t think with any kind of clarity. I’m like, is he choking out? What did your son say? No, no, I brought this up to him. You ate like a pig. You’re like, rah, rah. And I was like, hmm. No. So we all ordered different things, as you touched upon. And everyone. We shared, honestly. We had so much food. Yeah. And you guys all got rice, right? Right. Oh, the noodles. Oh, you and the f*****g noodles. And I ordered little Maine. They have a name. It’s called little Maine. It’s not called Chinese spaghetti, by the way, which you kept saying, which I thought was a little racist. I’m like, all right. Well, for the sake of show, he didn’t wink. And, uh, I see you’re even winking. Now you’re winking there. You’re winking. Now I have, I have some eating issues. I have to eat slower than everyone else. Okay. And, uh, did your mom told you or something? I don’t know. No, it’s just, it is a problem I have, which is not a big deal, but I don’t, you know, it’s not a big deal. And so can you explain this? Why slower? And the new, I have a swallowing problem. I do. No, I don’t laugh. If you want, I have a swallowing, right? Slower. Exactly why you should never go to prison. I used to be the fastest eater at the table, and now I’ve gone to by far the slowest. So these guys get their rice in a separate bowl, and my noodles come in a separate bowl, right? Right. They’re in a bowl. They’re in a bowl. Okay. I don’t know. I should have just thrown that in with my my main course. I should have just mixed it all together because like I’d eaten most of my main course, but I really hadn’t had the noodles. So I thought, well, maybe I’ll just start scooching noodles over from the plate that came on into the main plate. Right. And so I’m trying

    Judys Kitchen

  7. Oct 6

    Restaurant Jerk

    Miles experiences reality differently than his wife, while Bob goes out to eat in his own section at the restaurant. GAMES, like old-school games, play a few with the Static Radio twist here – https://www.staticradio.com/category/games/ Subscribe Random Show Click Below https://www.youtube.com/live/lz2qqNO-uH8?si=E7TzGCvmIhYnKliq Static Radio – Pharmacy Walk Miles experiences reality differently than his wife, while Bob goes out to eat in his own section at the restaurant. Restaurant Jerk Bad AI Transcript Do, do, do, do, do, do. Who farted? Well, it’s not going to go, so. So we’ll just have to do it manually. Yeah, clear your throat a few more times. And then have a little static noise. And then, oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. You got it, guys. Static. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the show. This is Bob. Hey, Miles with Static Radio here. I’m traveling, and so we’ve got the lesser setup. I have a lesser setup. Miles has the exact same setup. It’s a fart-free podcast, so enjoy yourself. Yeah. What do you mean by that? I was saying, you know, there was some suspect odor, apparently. Yeah. On your end of things there, but apparently that’s when you cleared up or something. Yeah, apparently the ventilation has kicked in, so we’re all good here. We’re all fine here. How are you? Blast them! Conversation was going nowhere. Yeah. So, yeah, welcome, everybody. It’s… October. Can you believe it? Yeah, it is October. It’s that getting the Halloween season now? Yeah. Which is nice. Are you planning your Halloween costume for this year? Maybe, yeah. Are you going to put up your AT-AT in the front yard or your elephant, whatever it is? No, I was going to shave my head, though, and go as Baby New Year. Okay. I think you can pull that off, actually. Get some tighty-whities I was going to wear. Well, possibly some Depends. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Baby New Year. Probably be like… Yeah. Yeah. I got my pumpkins ready to go. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You went to the pumpkin patch recently. A few skeletons. I’m ready to go. Oh, good. Yeah. Ready. That’s fantastic. Well, we, uh, my daughter was recently in town and, you know, uh, We don’t get to see her in person that often. And so when she’s in town, we usually take her to wherever she wants to go to eat. And we took her to this wood fireplace. Everything’s wood fired. Oh, sure. You ever been to one of those? I thought I saw it in a magazine once, yeah. I know you don’t get out much. Yeah, I’m not allowed. If it’s not like fast food… I had to be jealous of you. I know. I know. That’s how sad my life is. I know. So we go, we’re, we’re go out to this wood fired place and, uh, you know, it’s nice. It’s a nice place. And, um, you know, we’re, uh, there’s a group of us, several of us. And so, um, they, you know, we’re a little bit early on the early side of dinner, perhaps I like to be early, you know, Oh, wait. Is this the picture you sent me the other day? No, no. That was another place we went to. Oh, my God. Jesus. How much steak can one guy eat in one week? Well, we didn’t know. This was pizza. We had a wood fire pizza. Oh, shit. I thought we were eating steak all week. No, no. I did have a steak. I have a story about that place, but it’s not as funny as this story. So we get seated. everything’s good. We’re kind of in an area. There’s some other people in the, in that, you know, the dining rooms, they got to divide it up into several things. And so we’re, you know, having a good time talking and, and getting our appetite, you know, my daughter is so spoiled. It’s like, we normally, when we go out, we get nothing, right. We just get something to eat barely, you know, bear sustenance. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I’m usually, all I get is the captain’s crackers. Doubtful. Doubtful. Whenever she’s in town, it’s like appetizers and desserts and, you know, third course and all this kind of stuff. Let’s have some appetinis. So we got the appetizers going and everything. And so then more people are showing up because it’s now, it’s going to be, you know, regular dinner time. Yeah. We get drinks. Yeah. Everybody gets drinks. So, So they come in the little area that we’re in and they’re going to sit them at a table, not too far from us, you know, the next table over and the people are like, um, now can we move? Okay. They weren’t, they weren’t being rude or anything. They were just like, no. And they pointed, you know, someplace else in the, in the area. And so then they go away and it was just like a couple. I guess they didn’t want to be over in a corner or whatever. Didn’t think anything of it. And then we get our food. We’re eating. Another group comes in, a bigger group. And they sit at the bigger table on the other side of us. Oh, no. No, no. We want to go over. We want to go over to the other side of the restaurant. So you were farting? No. I was like, And so then my daughter’s like, what is going on? No one wants to sit by you. No one wants to sit by us. Like Charlie Brown’s family up for. Yeah. Pig pen. So then. Yeah. So then another family comes in. No, no. And there are four people. There’s a table. It’s not right next to us. It’s a little ways away. It’s within acceptable Midwestern dining limits. Right, right. This isn’t New York where you sit hip to hip. You know what I mean? Right, right. This is cornfield country where you’re like half a mile away, for Christ’s sake, at the next table. And they’re like, no, we don’t want to sit there. And the guy goes, you have to. he made him sit there. The waiter did. He’s got nothing else. I don’t want to sit next to that big, ugly broad. Oh, that’s a man? Oh, I’m sorry. So yeah, my daughter was like, is there something wrong? What is going on? I’m like, I barely even noticed, to be honest. They told me, and then I’m like, yeah, I guess you’re right. They didn’t want to seem to sit over there, and then they didn’t want to sit, you know. And, yeah, I guess you’re right, you know. I’m oblivious. She’s like, what is wrong? What are you people doing? They were all intimidated with all you guys eating salad, probably. They’re like, oh. Ah. Well, actually, I’m the only one that didn’t eat salad that night. These fancy people eating salad? There was a bunch of salad going on the table. Not for me. But yeah, I couldn’t believe it. I don’t know what the deal was. I was not farting. I did not stink. You weren’t telling dirty jokes. We weren’t even talking about saying the F-bomb or anything. Hey, f**k, f**k, f**k, f**k. My family, yeah. Yeah, none of that. We’re very polite, cordial, nice people. There was other people sitting behind us. They didn’t seem to have a problem. They were having a good old time. Wait, that is the lady who yelled at us on the boat in Germany. I remember her. She told us to get out of the way. Yeah, so I don’t know what was going on, but nobody wanted to sit in that area. And they’ve got it all, you know, like five tables in a section or something. It’s crazy. It’s so sectioned off. But yeah, the last people, they’re like, no. This is it. It’s this or out. We’ve laid down the law. And those people were noisy. They were all hairy and they were eating this wood-fired food being extremely noisy. Yes. Like the f*****g Morlocks moved in or something. That’s right. You’re like the Eloy, and they’re like the Morlocks. Yeah, Morlocks. Everybody read Time Machine by H.G. Wells. Yeah, no one will know what the f**k that is. What? One of the few books I’ve read. Yeah, same, same. I’m like, yeah, I don’t know what was going on. Nobody stunk. It was bizarre. And my daughter seemed a little bit upset about it. Did you quiz these people? Like, excuse me. Yeah, I will pay for your dinner if you tell me why the f**k won’t you sit next to me. I can’t do that. I cannot do it, sir. Were they like hoity-toity people? No, they’re all morons like everybody else. They don’t meet our high standards here in East St. Louis. Yeah, they all look like they’re half a click off. No, they’re just regular people, I guess. I don’t know what the deal was. I mean, we weren’t even near the bathroom or anything. The bathroom, they actually went closer to the bathroom. I’d rather sit right by the s*****r than sit with them people over there. Well, we were close to the kitchen, I suppose, but it wasn’t that close. It wasn’t like you were getting hit by a swinging door or anything. It’s just, you know. Three random sets of people said, I don’t want to sit here. Yeah, and they laid down the law on the last one. But you have no idea why? No idea why. No idea. It seems a little strange, don’t you think? Well, no, because I don’t think I would have even noticed had my daughter not brought it to my attention. This may actually be what happens every time I go out to eat, and I just never pay attention to it. Yeah, right. It may just be the constant revolving door of people not wanting to sit next to me. I don’t know. I can’t remember that ever happening to us. Really? I’m surprised. I mean, I actually ate with you and wanted to move tables. Yeah. Well, that’s all right. Yeah. I’m like, maybe I’ll take my half of the garlic bread and go over there. I’m used to eating by myself. I don’t care. There’s a reason. Yeah. Yeah, the French toast stick reason. Well, yeah, there is that. So what’s going on with you, sir? No one wants to eat with me. Yeah. I don’t know how… This is like the Polish version of shallow hell, I guess, or something I’m going to go into. The Polish version of shallow hell? Yeah, I guess. I don’t… So, like… My wife was having some knee issues, and so… Oh, no. Horrible. We had to travel a little bit up to Des Moines and see, like, this specialist, and it’s kind of a… kind of a ho

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  8. Oct 4

    Mondo Freako - Ozark Howler

    Ozark Howler In this episode of Mondo Freako, host Bob LeMent welcomes Jeff Ponder to discuss his newly rebranded hockey show, Hockey Night in St. Louis, following a 15-year run with Let’s Go Blues Radio. Ponder shares insights into covering local and regional hockey, including unique segments dedicated to beer leagues and St. Louis natives playing across professional and collegiate circuits. The conversation then shifts into a deep dive on Missouri folklore as Ponder takes on a five-question trivia quiz about the legendary Ozark Howler, scoring a respectable 60% by relying on his knowledge of regional geography and history. Following the quiz, Bob and Jeff explore the origins and cultural impact of the Ozark Howler, debating whether the bear-sized, horned cryptid was originally dreamed up as a clever cover story by Prohibition-era moonshiners to deter trespassers. They also touch upon remote wilderness conservation, comparing regional legends to Bigfoot lore and the logistics of audio waveform analysis for cryptid calls. The episode concludes with details on where listeners can find Hockey Night in St. Louis across social media platforms and streaming channels, blending sports commentary with classic paranormal folklore. Pondcast Hockey Night in St. Louis https://youtube.com/live/_fdF4C25TnA UFO Witness Game (Click Graphic to Start) Transcript (AI transcription) Hey, Ponder, what’s shaking? Me. This music is getting me. Oh, my goodness. Mondo Freako. Hey everybody, welcome to Mondo Freako. I’ve got Jeff Ponder with me here from the podcast and the newly live, almost live St. Louis hockey tonight. Hockey night in St. Louis. I’m making a new name. Yes. You know what? That’ll be next season. We’ll change the name. Hockey night, St. Louis. I knew I looked at it actually like about 10 minutes ago. Yep. That’s all right. Of course, it did not stick. in my head, and i just made something up apparently. I apologize. Say it again now hockey night in st louis okay hockey night in st louis we cover all hockey and all of St. Louis. So, you know, we’ve even got a beer league segment really like me can be like, hey, people talked about me on a on a dinky little podcast. Really? I didn’t really Actually, I know some people who are in kind of the beer league hockey situation, besides yourself. So I will make sure I mention it. Hockey Night St. Louis. Hockey Night in St. Louis, yes. In St. Louis. I forgot the N. Is it just a letter N or is it I-N? I-N. It’s not like in and out. No, Hockey Night in St. Louis. In St. Louis. All right. That will be the third season. We’ll change it to that. All right. Well, and don’t forget the podcast. Jeff does a podcast. Been doing that for a while. The hockey stuff, you’ve done a variation and this is the new variation, I believe. Yes. So we did a let’s go blues radio. We did that for 15 years, over 550 episodes, which was insane that people actually wanted to hear me talk about sports that much. But yeah, we started this season. We kind of, Reformatted, so we decided to rebrand, and we are now hockey night in St. Louis, and as you mentioned, the podcast how you and i met uh conversations that go nowhere. You can find us on any of the social media, or i guess any of the podcasting platforms, and uh yes it’s literally random guest random topic, and we just talk about silly stuff, which uh it seems, Bob, like you’re kind of into that. I do love silly stuff, that’s for sure. Yep. Definitely. So here’s the podcast. What’s the social handle for podcast? It is podcastconvos. So it’s what you have there and then C-O-N-V-O-S. All together. All together now. Here we go. Podcastconvos. There you go. There it is. All right. Hey, what is it? You got a cactus or something popping up? I got a kitty right here. He’s very interested in what you have to say, Bobby. He sees the cartoon cat and he’s like, what is going on? What is happening? I’m like, hey, my friend. Well, this is Mondo Frico, but don’t forget to check out the podcast right here, here and there. And I’m going to ask you, do you want to do the quiz first or hear the story first? You know, we did the quiz first last time. Let’s do it again. Oh, you want to go with the quiz? Oh, yeah. Quiz. Quiz. Quiz. at the quiz this week is about the Ozark Howler. Have you heard of this? Can you see the questions on there? I’ve heard of it, but I’ll admit my memory is fuzzy if I have memory of it at all, but I know I’ve heard of the Ozark Howler. Well, we’ve got five questions for you here, and let’s see how you do. about the Ozark Howler. I figured we’d do something that was Missouri-centric because we’re both in the area. Yes. And here’s your first question of five. Let’s see how it goes. This is an easy question. Which unusual physical feature is most commonly attributed to the Ozark Howler in local folklore? Is it thick ram-like horns on his head, leathery bat wings on its back, a long scaly reptilian tail, or Or feathered talons on its front paws. What do you think? Or I got a hint if you want to take a hint. Let’s just go for it. I’m going to go with the feathered talons on its front paws. Feathered talons. Oh, man. Sorry. That buzzer is kind of harsh today. Witness accounts commonly describe the howler as a stocky, bear-sized feline sporting prominent horns. Interesting. Okay. Oh, boy. I’ve made it too big here. Okay. Next question, another easy question for you, number 205. You know, kind of a slow start, but that’s fine. You’ll be fine. You just got to get more than 50% to win here. I’ll get it. In what primary geographic region is the Ozark Howler said to roam? The Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey? The Plateau and Mountain region of Arkansas and Missouri? the deep bayous and swamps of southern Louisiana, or the high desert plateaus of northern Mexico? I have a hint. Well, I think I know this one. I’m going to guess by its name. I mean, it makes sense to be New Jersey. I’m kidding. Don’t quit. No, I’m going to go with the plateau and mountain region of Arkansas and Missouri. There you go. That’s right. The Ozark Haller is tied specifically to the Ozark Plateau. Go figure. Across Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Interesting. Well, I most know it from Missouri. Right. I don’t know how big the Ozarks are. I mean, it’s a big space. We may look that up here in a minute. All right. This is a hard question. Number three. So you got one right, one wrong. Going into question three. In the 1990s and early 2000s, who orchestrated elaborate hoaxes involving fake sightings and emails about the Ozark Howler? Was it Chad Arment, Lauren Coleman, Ivan T. Sanderson, or Ray Wallace? I have a hint if you want it. Let’s go with the hint. Cryptozoologist Lauren Coleman identified this trickster who flooded message boards with manufactured tails. Okay, so it’s got to be Lauren Coleman. I’m kidding. Sorry. I guess he didn’t say self-identified. Right. I think I got to go. My gut originally said Ivan T. Sanderson. So let’s go with it. Are you sure? Want to call a friend or anything? Sounds like I should be. Let’s go with it. Yes, let’s go with Ivan T. Sanders. Oh, no. Of course, it’s Chad. Chad Arment confessed to fabricating numerous accounts and sightings across Internet cryptozoology, zoological forums. Ivan T. Sanders is actually another cryptid explorer guy. He died a while back. Yes, his name was… with me. You never trust a Chad. Of course it’s Chad. Yeah, it’s always Chad. In every 80s movie ever, Chad is the jerk. That’s right. Anyone whose name is Charles but chooses to go by Chad is a terrible person. That’s right. It wasn’t Chad in charge. It was Charles in charge. That’s right. Everyone loved Charles. That’s right. Charles, good. Chad, bad. Lauren Coleman is also a rather renowned cryptozoological researcher. And Alina from Decatur, Illinois. Anyhow. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Next. Vocalization is a medium question. How do traditional legends describe the signature sound made by the Ozark howler? Is it a rhythmic clicking sound like a giant mechanical clock? B, a combination of a wolf’s howl and an elk’s bugle. Or C, a piercing whistle reminiscent of a runaway steam locomotive. Finally, D, a harsh screech echoing across between an owl and an elk. I do have a hint if you’d like it. Okay. Using deductive reasoning, if it’s called the Ozark Howler, I would think it’s going to be between B and D. Okay. And I will say I’m starting to kind of get a picture in my head of what this Ozark howler looks like. I would imagine it would look kind of like a wolf. So let’s go with the wolf’s howl and an elk’s bugle. Bugle. Okay, B. That’s right. Pales describes its vocalization as an eerie mix of an elk’s hollow bugle and a deep wolf howl. There you go. Nice. All right. Good deductive reasoning on your part there, Pounder. That’s what I do. Ponder. I said Pounder. I’m sorry. All right. Next. So you got two. Get this one right. You get over your 50% and you win. Bragging rights, I suppose. Ready? Medium question. Which famous frontiersman was rumored in early tall tales to have shot and encountered the Ozark Howler in Missouri or Missouri, depending on which part of the state you’re from. A. Davy Crockett. B, Daniel Boone? C, Jim Bridger? Or D, Kit Carson? I have a hint if you’d like it. Okay. So again, using deductive reasoning, there’s a lot of tales of Daniel Boone traveling through Missouri. So that’s what I’m thinking, but let’s use the hint. Oh, you’re going to go with the hint? Here we go. I’m going to go with the hint. He is renowned for his coonskin cap legend and settling along the Missouri River. That’s… Well, yeah, I’m going to go Daniel Boone. Yep. That’s right. Of course it’s Daniel Boone. Daniel Boone. Folk stories claim Daniel Boone encountered and shot t

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    Bob LeMent
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    2012 - 2026
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