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Episode 46
Tuesday, 25 November, 2025
Miles throws out his back again and sees an angel, while Bob almost gets caught in the crossfire in downtown Chicago. _ultp_btn_ic_right_circle_line_ultp_btn_ic_end_Subscribe Random show from the last 25+ years Random Post https://youtube.com/live/CGdMK9_T6yk Bad AI Transcript of the show this week click a couple of things and uh bingo bango bongo and Irving we're on the internets foreign What are you… This is Dr. Death. It's more like choking on his own phlegm there for a second. I know. I know. More like, you know, gobs of snot. I know. I can't stop it, man. Yeah, hell no. I know. Can't help it. What's wrong with you? Jeez Louise. I don't know. You'd think you'd been sitting through a session with the Beatles. Christ. Mm-hmm. I tell you one story about the Beatles, which you refuse to look up. Paul is dead. Everybody knows that story. Everybody knows it. I told you one story, one story, and you got a little excited. It's one story only, sir. One story. You seem to relate to it, which is funny because you're like, oh, me and my friends, Kevin and Dave and Billy andjr and steven and squirrel skippy and uh that's right skippy and dougie yeah yeah i hear you exactly We'll have, maybe we'll talk about that on another time. Okay. All good. All good. All good, Bob. All good. All right. So I'm here with Da tonight. Da. Yeah. He's gone very, what do you want to call it? Existential or something. Yes. Something or another. Yeah. Whatever. Yeah. Making up words. Welcome, everybody, to the show. It's been a week. You haven't heard from us. You're wondering what's going on. You're like, how could this world be any better? Oh, wait. I'll listen to the show with Static Radio with Bob Miles. And it'll be better. So I went to Chicago this last week. Yeah. You were very cryptic. Yes. And so, yeah, I was in Chicago for a few days in downtown and I had, you know, it was a good time. Good time was had by all for the most part, you know, between the, between the traffic and, you know, the crush of humanity and,And the yelling and screaming. It was a good time. Did you go to Twin Anchors? No, I did not. Where's Twin Anchors at, anyway? It's like an old town up there by Lincoln Park. Oh, okay. No, I was in the loop. I was down… I was about a few blocks off Michigan Avenue. Mm-hmm. So… I don't think that's anywhere near Lincoln Park, is it? Probably not. Yeah. So why were you there? Why? Secret business. Okay. Can't talk about it. All right. You won't talk about it? Yeah, okay. All right. All right, asshole. Yeah, okay. Get it. All right. No, my wife had to be there for her work, and so I just tagged along and went. Yeah. oh i'm like oh i'll go sure why not i won't tell my boss. I'll just go yeah i i don't tell them anything. on other days why would i tell them about this right yeah why not yeah why what what is that whose concern is that of anyone's? Uh, my concern. Well, you're because you're a little and you're like, hey you're getting away with something. Yeah.I don't like people that work the system. I don't. You are a person that works the system. That is your MO. I know. You are a total system worker. I'm trying to push the button. You've got a T-shirt and everything. You've got a card-carrying member. Oh, free parking. Yeah, I'd take some free parking. What do I got to do? Yeah, I don't care. I give you whatever you want in the store. Take it for free. Don't matter to me. That's right. Don't be joking. As long as I get for me. Don't hate. Don't hate. So, no, we were down… And I happened to send you… There was a shooting downtown Chicago, and I was, like, not that far from it. Right. So… This was a big weekend in Chicago. They lit the Christmas tree down there by the Bean. What's it called over there? I don't know. It's Sunset Park. What is the name of that? Yeah, it's called Flickin' the Bean. Flickin' the Bean, yeah. It's Dave, you know. Oh, what the fuck is it? Yeah, there's Millennium Park. Millennium Park, that's it. Yeah, I know Chicago. You don't, yeah. I know. I don't go that often. You're much more versed in Chicago-ese or whatever. I want to learn.Yeah. And so I, um, so we were down a couple blocks off michigan avenue friday night they're gonna light the christmas tree. We actually went out to dinner, uh, right there nearby, right around the corner. And, um, and luckily i suppose we went back and by the time the shooting happened, I was asleep So I didn't hear anything. I didn't see anything. Even though eight people were shot. Yeah, eight people were shot. Like within a stone's throw of where I was sleeping. I was Sergeant Schultz. I knew nothing. I had actually seen this on the news prior to you announcing that you were close to the action. Yeah, no, it was weird. I had taken a picture, which I sent to you. Uh, it was right outside the Chicago theater. Uh, which I was, I was, I just, I'm like, Oh, this is neat picture. I'll take this picture. You know, like less than eight hours ahead of this whole event taking place. I mean, tons of people out on the street, tons of people. We had, we had dinner and then we headed back, you know, and we were probably back in our room, you know, by eight something, whatever it was. Sure. And then the shooting happened at 10 and I was already conked out. But, uh,Yeah, it's those weird happenstances in life because I think we literally walked past the area where everything transpired. We walked through that area just a couple hours ahead of it, right? Right. So, yeah, that was weird. So then I wake up on Saturday morning. My wife's like, hey, there was a shooting downstairs. Right. True, true, true. I'm like, what? I mean, that is the oddest feeling, right? It was. yeah i'm like really oh good i mean i so she had to work and i kind of just, you know bopped around for a couple days and so i walked through that area. I don't know how many times. Wow. You know, and even that, that day she had to go do stuff and i walked right down there. Everything was all done. I mean, there was, it was like, as if nothing happened, the street was full of people, you know, Hey, last night, several people got shot here on the sidewalk.there was no, you know, uh, police tape or any, you know, crime scene, silhouette things on the pavement or anything. It was just, it was like, as if nothing happened, Bob's going around picking up bullet casings. What's this? Yeah. This would be cool. Key chain. Um, yeah, nothing, you know, nothing out of the ordinary happening in that area. Cause I, I did walk around there because actually, uh, we parked not too far from that location too. So, yeah. Right. Uh, just a weird, odd experience. I don't think I've, I'm trying to, well, other than in college when the lady got kidnapped from behind my apartment. Yeah. That's probably the other closest to when, you know I I you know, the next, later that day or something, I get this knock on the door and i answer the door and it's a cop. He's like, Hey, where were you last night? You know? And I'm like, I was here. And he's like, did you hear anything you know weird because this woman got kidnapped in this parking lot. because I used to live, I lived basically on the strip in carvondale uh, whenever that meant something so yeahthat was weird. So, but that's not the only weird thing that happened, believe it or not. Okay. Yeah. Prior to that, I don't think these two things are, are tied together in any way, shape or form. So prior to that on Friday, I was, you know, you know, peddling around. Yeah. And it, you know, Chicago's a big city packed full of people, especially down in that area. and christmas time yeah the christmas village is right there, uh, close by and the um uh macy's right there chicago theater the nita lander theater, um, all these places to go, all these shops and businesses and everything. So it's just constantly full of people. So I am, uh, walking, i'm waiting, you know, to get across the street, like a good citizen yeah and i start walking.And this guy, I'm almost across the street, and this guy's coming towards me in a black coat with a black hat. Okay. Like a fedora or something? Yes, like a fedora. Like a nice hat. Yeah, you're screwed. Oh, man. And he comes right up to me. Yeah. I'm just crossing the street. Yeah. He comes straight up to me and says, I want to guess what he says to me. Would you like to make $5 the hard way? No, no. Um, it wasn't anything untoward. At least I don't think I'm going to say it. I don't think it's anything untoward. Yeah. Okay. Go ahead. He goes, are you Jewish? Yeah. Ooh, yikes. He was a very Orthodox-looking Jewish man. Mm-hmm. Oh, okay. All right. And he comes up to me, and he's like, are you Jewish? And I go, no. No, I'm a sugar man. Sugar. And then he goes, oh, and he walks on. Ignition the nuts. Yeah, no, he didn't. I was like, does this happen every day down here?Yeah. Most people avoid me. Yeah, I would too. I'd be like, who's that? Stomping around. Looked like the penguin. Well, at least he didn't ask what was the frequency, Kenneth. That's true. Punched you in the face. Yeah. What happened to Dan Rather? Yeah. No, but just on the streets, I guess I must look Jewish the other day. No, no, no. Yeah, I was like, that's, I've never, actually, that's not true. I have been asked that before, so that's not totally true. I think i've been asked that more than once. Well, you don't have a curly hair anymore, so that's all i mean it still is curly, but not like it was, yeah. Yeah, you're missing, like, a lot of hair now. Yeah, I'm missing a lot of hair. I'm like a dandelion like if you're like aYou're like an alopecia person with like more complicated. Thank you. Thank you. You know, but my hair, the hair that I have is curly. I kind of look like a, uh, I look like Teller if he was Penn. Yeah. Okay. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. There's something to that. Huh? Um, yeah. So anyway, that was a a tree about, like,
