Bob has a terrible time travelling during the World Cup, while Miles takes us back to a simpler time where a 10-year-old could see celebrities in Dallas on their own. 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/g7455VoOB28 Bob has a terrible time travelling during the World Cup, while Miles takes us back to a simpler time where a 10-year-old could see celebrities in Dallas on their own. Real Travel Bad AI Transcript How are you, young man? Which item do you identify with? The scotch tape? Ha ha! Bye. Hey, everyone. Miles with this podcast thing called Static Radio here. I love how you're so enthusiastic. You really get people into the mood of the show. I'm just an average guy. I'm just an average man living an average life. I work from 9 to 5. Hey, hell, I've paid the price. I've never done good things. I've never done bad things. You know, sometimes in your life, it's like feast or famine for stories. The night, it's feast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Rather than just run right into it, how are you doing tonight? I'm, I'm doing well. I'm all right are you Do you want to tell the story first? No, I just have a really short thing I want to talk about because I know you're going to have a pretty long thing going on here. I'm a rambling man. Just because I had a request from one of our biggest fans. Oh, really? I wanted to honor that young man's request. Who was requesting this? Are we privy? It is a loyal listener by the name of CB. Oh, CB. A good old CB. CB.
He's battling psoriasis right now, so he's like, Miles. Is he really? I'm just making that up. I don't know. Psoriasis kind of has negative connotations. You might want to say he's just got like pink eye or infantile. Yeah. Gingivitis. Gingivitis, yeah. I can see him having like fist disease or something weird, you know. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not sure what he does, but anyway. We are brothers in arms. The disease of. but um no uh and unfortunately i've really through captions on tiktok and Facebook, I've actually told most of the story, but he wanted to hear a little bit more about, I'd posted some pictures, like they weren't really postcards, but kind of headshots of a couple of people from an old, old, old show that was on nbc called real people, people, uh, which was kind of a feel good stories, I guess, a
lifting feel good stories that, uh, there was like, what about six people on the cast? Uh, various times. Yeah. There was Skip Stevenson. I'm going on a memory here. Yeah. Barbara. Yep. Uh, uh, who's the Byron Allen. He was on later though. Oh, okay. Peter Billingsley was on Bill Rafferty as well. Bill Rafferty. That's what I was trying to remember. Bill Rafferty. And, um, Everybody's favorite porn house viewer. captain Willard, Fred Willard. Yeah. Yeah. And I think there was, I don't think there was anybody else that i can recall. Oh, Mark Russell appeared early on in the earlier seasons. And I think they got rid of that guy. Remember he played the piano and like did political songs. Oh, that guy. Was he on there? Yeah. He was on real people for a while. He played i'm gonna tell you, I'll tell you skip i'm gonna play a song
You know, Jimmy Carter, he likes peanuts. Wait, did you say peanuts? Yeah, it's peanuts. Peanuts. And then I think they got rid of him, and that's when Byron Allen came on. Oh. You know, I didn't. Wow, man, this guy knows his real people. Let's get rid of that stupid-ass white guy playing the piano, singing songs about, you know, Millard Fillmore. Yeah. Somebody hip in here, like Byron Allen. If you knew Susie like I knew Susie. What was the question? What was his question about it? You seem to be intrigued by it. Have you pleasured yourself to Sarah Pichelle? Not at that point. I was too young. Or was I? I was going to say, I didn't think you were too young. I don't know. I've probably been about 10 when that show came out. I know.
Uh, but anyway, they had done, I kind of looked this up a little bit, but they had kind of done like this promotional thing where they rode like a train around United States. They had different promotional stops in different cities and they had, this was, I think early on. Cause, uh, as fate would have it, I was actually at one of these stops, um, down in Dallas, Texas. Yeah. I was like, hey, hey, where's the free stuff? My kid needs it. Interesting enough, I think I was there by myself. That's the weird part. Yeah, I was like a young kid. This is before you knew kids could be kidnapped and murdered. Hey, kid, go run around Daly Plaza or whatever it was. Kennedy got shot in the head. See what it's all about. There's this weird phallic-like
building, uh, in dallas called like the reunion center or something called the book depository. No, it's come on. It's a, come on. You know, I'm talking about, it's kind of a funky looking i've been to dallas actually. So, and i'm sure you have, I'm sure i've seen the area. Yeah. And, um, nap on the grassy knoll. No, I had, no, this has nothing to do with the grass. Get it Yeah. Get past that. Yeah. It has nothing to do with the book depository. The grass, you know, it has nothing, nothing. and uh so oddly and i don't know, I don't, I somehow happened upon this or i don't know how i heard about it. I went out. I remember being by myself though, like in this crowd of people, which i can't see sarah purcell i'll show her, you know, that's not the first time I, because my dad would win like this yearly trips for his company he worked for. And,
I remember like walking around like downtown Toronto by myself when I was a kid. I'm like, wow. I mean, I'm like, I'm even here to tell you the truth. I'm lucky. I'm just that, you know, it's not like you're like prime. pickens as a child you know what i'm saying i don't know people are looking for you you're like one of those kids in the uh far side comics that you know sticks his head in the trap and whatnot i look like uh when i was kind of look like peter billingsley like if he went on a bender as a kid five o'clock shadow peter billingsley at eight and Yeah, my hair's all fucked up walking around. Kind of like Peter Billingsley mixed with W.C. Fields. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's me. Yeah. Okay. And so the train was there. And as I recall, this is a long time ago, I'm sure it was Skip Stevenson and Sarah Purcell. Wow. And they were waving to people. They weren't really.
Fred Willard would have been the third A-lister. Bill Rafferty and John Barber, B-list at best. I don't like to say this is like a million years ago, so I really don't. This is like early, early 80s. You could just be making all this up is what you're saying. Yeah, so this is called the false memory. I don't know. It was implanted. But the odd part, if that wasn't odd enough, is like some dude had like a stack of like these headshots and literally just put it in my hands and walked away. I'm like, Here you go, here. You look like Peter Billingsley's drunk cousin. I'll give this to you. Are you on a bender, Peter, or what's going on? I don't know. I must have cherry-picked the ones I want. I just threw the rest in the dumpster. You didn't keep them all? No. You have no sense of history? No. At the time, you don't really think about stuff. You're like, oh, okay. I understand.
this just happens all the time. You know, I could just randomly walk around downtown Dallas by myself as a child and 10 years old. I don't know how old I was. Yeah. Be honest. You're like 25. Come on. Yeah, I wish. No, that is true though. Yes. I went to the red light district. Uh, you know, one night, we didn't get to stay at the nice hotel. And I think we actually stayed very close to the red light district. That's what your dad was. I, I only got two nights at the good hotel. Yeah. And I don't know why, but cause I, the only thing I remember like out in front, there was like this huge rat and had been run over. Oh, great. And it had like dried out, like all of its juices were gone. So all it was like, just kind of a gross, you know, whatever it was, you know, like, Oh, a rapper, you know, like, Oh,
The things you remember on trips. So, yeah. So, but I know that I, I didn't get to shake anyone's hand or, you know, I was quite a, you know, a lot of people got to steal a stack of headshots. I didn't steal. No, some dude, just some random dude. I have random people come into my life. You know, when I was younger, green gave the Jersey to the kid, this guy, big kid. Yeah. I mean, I wish it would have been like $100 bills or something. No, it's like headshots of real people. Well, little did you know, those are worth $100 a piece now. I know. I know. I sent this to you privately. You're like, where's Sheriff Rousseau? I want to knock it off, man. Like, I don't have it. I threw it away. I threw it away. No, they were…
How, in the end of the story, I guess, to conclude it is that, uh, my niece, my niece's nephew, their dad passed earlier this year and they're kind of cleaning out his house. And there was like this big thing of like postcards that, uh, my sister had. Right. And, uh, like it's postcards upon postcards upon postcards of zoo animals and hotels, like. I said to my mom, I go, back in the day, didn't hotels have like free postcards like they kept in the room