Episode 44: The Story of Lola

• Lots of coffee talk, including John’s dad’s opinions on flavored coffee. 
  • Merlin examines 7/11 coffee like a crazy person. 
  • John can drink an entire pot of coffee in a day (10 cups).
  • Merlin describes his Irish breakfast from his Sunday daughter-daddy lunch. 
    • He doesn’t like their silverware, doesn’t like their coffee, doesn’t like their water. They show up with a lot of their own stuff. 
• 15:30- John plays Santa for a burlesque (they’ve mixed burlesque with elivshness) Christmas in Seattle. 
  • Tattooed chunky girls with pointy airs. They are John’s dirty little elves.
  • As a result, he can identify with Christmas porn.
  • They help the indie-rock crowd gather the courage to come sit on his lap. 
    • And tend to want spankings. 
  • “Talk about a North Pole.” -MM
  • Portland v. Seattle stripper and burlesque scenes.
    • John’s survey of the strippers in Portland is incomplete.
    • 26:20- Alaskan strip clubs:
      • The doorman was just there to keep the Russians out.
      • Alaska got strippers from all around the world, and all of the money was in the hands of oil men without high school educations. 
      • “There’s no $20 bill that’s going to impress a lady as much as kicking some guy’s ass.” -MM
      • Coming from Alaska, going to parties required some adjusting.
      • “I am a legitimate, old-school pussy.” -MM
• 37:00- The story of Lola
  • John is 16 at the strip club and gets a table and a chair at the front. Everyone is calling for a girl named Lola. 
  • He’s drinking Mickey’s Big Mouths, a fortified beverage. John pees in the Mickey’s bottle to avoid getting up and going to the restroom.
    • “I can’t say whether I’m the only guy with his dick out in the bar, but I’m definitely the only one peeing in a Mickey’s bottle, that I can see. And I’m trying to pull it off.” -JR
  • Lola comes out to dance, and John puts the bottle on the bar. This is the mistake. 
    • A drunk Navy sailor asks if that’s John’s beer. “Nope."
    • “He kinda looks around, and sorta sly, grabs it. And it is steaming hot. And takes a big draft off of it. And Kel goes, ‘That’s it, we’re out of here!’"
      • “Just between dudes, that’s pee.” What John did not to say to the sailor.
• John and Merlin go to a strip club together.
  • Merlin felt like a homemade pussy. 
• John collects beer steins. 
• Chili
  • John makes a bunch of vegetarian chili with hamburger. Sometimes while wearing clothes. Sometimes only an apron. Sometimes just the Santa beard.
  • John buys vegetarian chili, confident that the chances of there being any hate in the can are very small.
    • “Do you buy anything more masculine to offset the appearance that you’re a giant faggot?” -MM
      • “No, because I don’t care what people in supermarkets think."
• Merlin: If you need to pee, never grab smaller than a liter. 
• Kashmir:
  • John suspects the Chinese of trying to move the fence anywhere the border touches.
  • Coca-Cola can solve this with Dasani water.
• When they wrap up Merlin’s going to pee and measure it. 
  • And he wants to compare with John. 
• 1:15:35: “I used to live in a warehouse loft that I kept meaning to put a bathroom in.” -JR
  • He lived there for 4 years. 
  • He would pee in gallon jugs and sometimes get 3 or 4 full under his bed at the same time. 
  • And he lived behind a police station.
    • He would throw his ammonia pee out the window and against the police station. 
      • He could wind up so he was really hucking it. Someone must have seen it.
• Merlin and his daughter asked the police about their shotguns.