Like every fifth episode, it’s Kevin + Steph sharing their own stories with you. In this episode, they share stories with their good friends, Adam Bennett and Joe Muck. Stories include…
– The road trips that Kevin and a few of his buddies have taken to an Ohio State football game each year.
– Their EPIC trip to Minnesota, including how they snuck into the stadium luxury box to watch the game.
– How they almost convinced Joe to streak across the football field in Iowa.
– AND the time they had dinner with one of Joe’s internet friends before a game…who then shared some WILD stories about living in Miami back in the ’80s…including how he ended up in federal prison.
Hope you enjoy this episode of Tell Us a Good Story!
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[0:00] Hello, friends. Welcome to another episode of Tell Us a Good Story. Today, like every fifth episode, it’s Steph and I sharing our own stories with you. However, I have been very sick here lately. Which means that he has been very dramatic lately. Which means I had to cancel the conversation we had scheduled with some friends for this fifth episode. So we’re going to replay one of Steph’s favorite episodes with my buddies, Adam Bennett and Joe Muck. Oh, you guys, Kevin used to take an annual road trip with some of his friends to a high State game. And this conversation includes the stories about their epic trip to Minnesota. Yes. And includes some fun stories from our other trips too. And as you will hear, my buddies are hilarious. You guys, we can’t wait for to hear this conversation with Adam Bennett and Joe Muck. I’m Kevin. And I’m Stephanie. And during our marriage, we have dealt with an electrocution, a brain tumor, brain surgery. Then doctors telling us that children were not in our future, followed by miscarriage, and then Kevin’s cancer diagnosis. However, today, we live a life completely healed and restored with three healthy children who doctors said were not possible. And we’re here to tell stories that inspire, give hope, and brighten your day. Welcome to… Tell Us a Good Story.
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[1:48] Every year since 2010, I’ve organized a high state game on the road. So first year, it was at Illinois. Second year, it was at Purdue, on and on and on. So there’s only two we haven’t gone to at this point. It’s Nebraska and Wisconsin. I’m afraid to go to Wisconsin. Me as well. I’ve heard bad things. I have too. How they treat fans. Absolutely. But on these annual road trips I have with these guys, I come back hoarse, without a voice. I’ve been laughing the entire weekend, crying laughing at some of the stories I’ve been told. And so this is probably a good time to share some of these stories and some the things we’ve experienced i want you guys to talk about how meticulous kevin is with his organization of these trips can we discuss that somebody has to do it i give credit where credit is due i mean you show up with cash and he’s there with your ticket your ride i mean they make a great human trafficker actually i mean you roll in and next thing you know you’re in the back of a vehicle.
[2:46] Everything else is taken care of. Oh, my gosh. Yes, I organize all the logistics from the tickets to the hotel to everything. Does he have his folder or his little binder put together? Yeah. Kevin will be like, at 12.28 p.m., we will have lunch at, you know, fill in the blank place. And then at 1.17 p.m., we will leave to go back to the hotel. Put this blindfold on. I don’t want you to be able to retrace your steps. The very first year, I just thought of this story just now. we stayed in Indianapolis on the way to Illinois. And in Indianapolis, I’m like, we’re getting there on Friday afternoon. Let me organize some type of tour of something. So I was like, hey, why don’t we go to Butler Fieldhouse where they filmed Hoosiers? Well, it wasn’t open then for a tour. It was closed. Well, what’s the next best thing? Let’s go to Gene Hackman’s house.
[3:35] See if he’s awake. it was let’s go to the real jimmy chitwood is bobby something he has what was advertised as a restaurant there in indianapolis and it was supposed to have some memorabilia and like kind of like museum like that would be fun let’s go there and hang out at this this place so we go there and what was it joe oh my gosh it was i don’t know how to describe it but it was if the theme was hoosiers related it would have to be dennis hopper’s alcoholism because, all it was was just booze and pretzels because when we showed up like hey can we get some food here yeah i was gonna say we asked for a food menu and it was like a shocking request and there were and there were animals walking around inside of the place like a couple of dolls like key west, yes that’s a good comparison so run down now i remember the waitress’s face like i think kevin you asked for a food menu and she looked at you like you had a hole in your head like you can’t drink nachos.
[4:37] I remember she turned she’s like hey Bob these guys are looking for a food menu. We did it for five minutes like no it’s time to move on. But, yes, I do try to be meticulous stuff. Well, if you remember that night, I just kind of remember this. That night, we went to Cheesecake Factory. And we were just sitting outside, like on the patio. And it started getting kind of chilly. And so, the server comes out. And they had those huge outdoor heaters. You know, the tall, like, lamppost-looking ones.
[5:03] And it’s propane-fueled. It’s the gas, yeah. And they’re hitting that ignite button. And it’s, like, literally right behind us. The gas is flowing. Yes. And couldn’t get it. Couldn’t get it. Couldn’t get it. Somebody else comes out. They try, can’t get it, can’t get it, can’t get it. So finally they bring like the manager out or something to light it. They get it lit. But when they do a fireball, I mean, literally shoots off this thing. I remember feeling it coming up the back of my head and everything. And so it’s the four of us guys sitting at our table. And there was maybe five feet away was this table of middle-aged ladies that were all dressed up. And I’ll never forget, like, as soon as that happened, they look it over at me. And i happen to be a bald man and one of the ladies makes some comment like oh it burned off all of your hair i was like okay thanks thanks lady yeah rub it in it was crazy we ducked down you’re right it was a fireball it was because this guy was pressing that gas button the whole time they never owned a grill i mean once that gas is flowing shut it off shut it off oh my gosh Yeah, that’s right. That was almost the first and last trip that we ever took.
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[6:52] Okay, so four dudes. I’m boxers only. How do you guys decide who sleeps with who? I know Kevin is too cheap to get four individual rooms or two individual rooms. So y’all are sleeping in one room. It’s part of the experience. Yes.
[7:11] Kevin and I always sleep together because we’re ex-family members Think about it, it’s really kind of backwards I usually end up with Todd which I like because then I could freak out my grandmother by telling her I’d slept with a man of color.
[7:32] She’s since passed away it’s okay, yeah i guess you’re right joe it does it has come back to you and i typically have slept in the same bed but i was telling steph when we sleep in what the queen size bed we are totally like social distancing so i’m on the far left side you’re on the far right side like we you pillow the middle like let’s let’s stay as far apart as possible but then the one time i slept in the same bed with you, Adam, I think it was the second one, and you woke up the next morning, you were like, Kevin, I’m just going to let you know, I think you stopped breathing like five times in the middle of the night last night, and you might want to get that checked out. I watched an episode of House the day before, so I was… You knew I was going. I felt qualified, yeah. Yo, listen, I’m a terrible insomniac. I mean, terrible insomniac, and so it’s like one of the loudest snoring dudes you’ve ever heard in your life. And then those pauses are when his heart stops And he starts walking towards the light Because it’s like And then there’s this big pause And then they gasp and then he comes back Yeah.
[8:40] Like a dozen times a night I think he’s probably going to die And so yeah, I don’t sleep at all When we do our football trips I literally sleep an hour a night And this was my life, you guys This was my life So after Adam made this comment Well, I need to stick up for you because since your guys’ last trip, Kevin has gotten it taken care of. So he doesn’t have any of that issue anymore. But we’ll see. He sleeps peacefully now. It’s amazing. But here’s what happened. Because of his comments, I went to the doctor. They diagnosed me with sleep apnea. So I had to have one of those CPAP machines for five, six years or whatever. Yeah. Well, then went back, got retested, and it had gotten better, which was, thank God, it had gotten better. And switched to a, went to a dentist, switched to a mouth guard. So now I’ve got a mouth guard that I use. And it’s amazing. Snoring went away. Gone. Completely gone. Completely gone with it. I’ll believe it when I hear it. I’m not buying this at all. Because you guys saw, missed that old rusty chainsaw.
[9:40] But Joe, do you remember what happened at Michigan State? I was telling Steph this earlier. You and I were sleeping on the bed. We are social distancing. And I wake up in the middle of the night. Or you woke me up in the middle of the night. Like, hey, can I get some room over here? And I realized my arm was around you. Yeah, it was like planes, trains, and automobiles.
[10:00] So I started on the far left side. You started on the far right side. When I woke up, I was on the far right side with you with my arm around you. Oh, man.
[10:09] Yeah, of course I remember. Yeah, I’m kidding. It was quite awkward. So let’s go through a couple trips. I think your favorite stories, though, Steph, are Iowa City. Iowa is my favorite. Iowa City is your favorite. I’ll set the stage. You guys jump in. Iowa City, Joe, I remember us flying in. Flew into chicago drove to iowa city that was the economical way of doing it but joe made the comment as we’re driving into iowa city hey guys i have a i have a friend he’s been here before he told me we’re going to be surprised how nice these people are to visiting fans in iowa city we’re like okay that sounds great we get out of the car and we parked it i think a church where there were a lot of tailgating going on pull out of the car and right beside of this iowa tailgate well this woman immediately is like hey welcome to iowa city why don’t you take one of these buckeyes and adam’s like nope laxative lace yeah same i didn’t i don’t eat sweets and you didn’t take it either and i felt bad she’s very nice me and todd ate it you two did not right so i started eating it and i made the joke that man i hope this wasn’t laced with anything and she goes well you’re about to find out about 30 minutes from now and i’m like oh my gosh of course these guys He’s like, I told you. I told you shouldn’t eat it. I told you shouldn’t eat it. Then we’re walking to the stadium.
[11:27] A guy passes us and was like, hey, welcome to Iowa City. Go down here to the stop sign. Turn right. And the stadium will be like half a block that way. We’re like, oh, thanks. And so we look at our map, look at directions. We’re like, that is the complete opposite.
[11:42] Complete opposite direction. Absolutely the opposite. That we’re supposed to be going. So Joe had a fancy beer store that you wanted to go to in Iowa City. So we’re going to go there first so we’re walking to this store that has all these very rare beers apparently you want to see right and while we’re there we had multiple iowa fans just yell out they were nice just very kind people just randomly expletives yes as soon as they get past us they would yell it out it’s kind of like liquid courage i guess have a good day i think yes one of the yes absolutely so we come out of the store and we’re.
[12:18] This was so funny to me. There is a car with the college age kid at a red light rolls his window down. It’s like, Hey guys, welcome to Iowa city. Hope you have a good time. Like, Hey, thanks. As soon as the light turns green, he yells out, eat something, yells it and takes off. And so we bust out laughing. And I remember Adam being like, man, Joe, you’re right. These people are like song of the earth here in Iowa city. Super nice. So get to the game. Isaac got destroyed, but the atmosphere was incredible absolutely incredible it was it was fantastic remember the first quarter they had the you wave to the yeah the children’s hospital right outside the stadium which was nice but um your favorite story of all time is what is when you guys make a bet yes how much will it take so during i guess we get to the end of the first quarter and of course there’s a long tv timeout in between quarters so todd’s to my right todd’s talking to me because we’re getting distracted because high skates are starting to get blown out. They were favored by three touchdowns, lose by four touchdowns.
[13:17] Well, Todd starts asking me just random questions, like how much would it take for you to run across the field right now? And so we start having this conversation within the game. Todd has a number. I’ve got a number. I think I said minimum 150,000 and Todd’s number was much higher than mine. And because we’re going through what it would take legally, maybe we’d lose our job, all this stuff, right? Well, quarter’s over. Joe decides it’s a good time to go to the restroom he’s walking past us and todd just randomly is like hey joe how much would it take right now for you to run across the field and joe’s like hmm five hundred dollars and we’re like we should totally make that happen right now so he goes he goes to the restroom pass around the hat it todd’s like oh my gosh todd was on it like he was really really on like all of a sudden he is super excited yes and so joe goes back to him and we turn i’m like hey guys are you guys in for 125 piece if we can get Joe to run across the field you’re like yeah done so Joe comes back and I was like how are we gonna do this how are we gonna do this I’m like okay let’s wait a little bit let’s like make it incentive based like, If he runs on the field, steals a pylon, he gets, like, another $200. If he gets to midfield, we’ll give him another $500. And then Todd’s like, okay, what if he, like, punts the ball? And so we’re, like, putting out these numbers, right? And so we’re not clearing it past Adam and John.
[14:37] So just throughout the game, we’re just feeding it to Joe. Like, Joe, here’s what we’re going to do, right? If you get to midfield, this is how much we give you. If you steal the ball, here’s how much we give you. And then we’re pointing out the security guards, like, that dude weighs, like, 300 pounds. Dude, you’re a freaking track coach. You can run past that guy. You can make it over in that corner. And so we’re just hyping him up, hyping him up. And then Todd and I were talking like, when’s the right time to really make the final offer to Joe? And so I’m like, let’s wait till the fourth quarter because if a high stick makes a comeback, I want him to be able to see this. Well, that was not happening. They lose by four touchdowns. Get to the fourth quarter. You guys decide, I can’t watch this anymore. We’re done. And so we never actually finalized. you have no idea how close i came to jumping over that wall because we were we were right there we were right yeah we were right there it would have yeah we were four feet away from the wall to jump down onto the field um there was no barrier or anything other than that and like one security guard i heavily considered it five hundred dollars yeah that’s yeah i’m sure and so it was it was so in that was todd me adam john so adam of course is a an attorney john is a.
[15:49] Surgeon at the Mayo Clinic, I’m like, Joe, here’s the thing. We’re going to bail you out, okay? You’re going to get this $500 outside of your legal fees, all right? You’ve got an attorney right here that’s going to bail you out. Not in that state. Hey, if you get tased by chance, hey, we got a doctor right here that’s going to help you out as well. And never made it to that point where we could give you the final offer. If I had any profession outside of being a school teacher, that would have happened.
[16:12] You stayed in the drywall game. You’d have been out there in your speed up. Well, my number would have been like 200 like shoot yeah.
[16:23] All right, Steph, I’m going to test you again here. What is your favorite book of all time? Obviously, it’s the Bible, Kevin. Yes. Nailed it. Very good. This time, you didn’t say the book we wrote called You Met Her Where. But it’s still a really good book. That is true. And it would make a great gift for friends or relatives on their birthday or for Christmas. Friends, you can order your copy of our book titled You Met Her Where at KevinAndSteph.com.
[16:46] And we will make sure to personally sign a copy for you or whoever you want. And as always, thank you for listening to Tell Us a Good Story.
[16:54] So one of the best trips of all time in my opinion was our trip to minnesota this was gosh this was probably seven years ago and adam how did we how did we get tickets yeah my uncle works in banking and the minnesota’s football team plays in was it tcf tcf bank stadium okay tcf bank stadium so he had done work with tcf bank and once i let him know we were going to that stadium he said hey i’ll get you into that box i’m like which box he’s like the tcf box i’m like all right i I didn’t ask a lot of follow-up questions, so you can kind of take it from there. We show up, we have our tickets we purchased, and then I call my uncle and I kind of say, you know, so we’re going up to the TCF box, and it was snowing. I think it was the coldest game in Big Ten history. It’s still the coldest game. Oh. Big Ten, but I know it’s still the coldest game in Ohio State history. Okay. Okay.
[17:41] It was when we showed up it was minus seven and that kickoff it got into i think six degrees but it was it was brutal i mean minnesota in november was brutal yeah so i i was a little fuzzy on the details but i just knew he said you know we can i can get you in the tcf box which made a big difference because being outside that day was going to be rough so if i recall correctly we’re sitting out there my uncle calls or texts me and says these guys are coming by and then a group of maybe four or five guys between 28 and 40 years old kind of roll up and we introduce ourselves and they say they’re with TCF Bank. Yes. So we’re with these guys and we start walking and ascending the stairs to go to the box. And I think we’re probably only 40 to 60 feet away from the box. And one of them turns around and goes, hey, if anybody asks, you do work with Brian.
[18:28] I don’t know anybody named Brian. None of us are named Brian. He’s not your uncle. We don’t know. My uncle’s not Brian. None of these guys, I think, are Brian. I’m like, okay. So we get up there and wow, it was luxurious. It was incredible. This is TCF Bank Stadium. We are in the TCF Bank Luxury Box, which is smack dab step on the 50 yard line. We go in with this contact. He introduces us to the chairman of the board and CEO of TCF Bank. And it’s like, hey, this is such and such. They do work. They work with, he goes, they work with Brian. And at this point, it’s so cold and it’s so nice in there. It doesn’t matter yeah i would have said yeah i work with osama bin lad whatever it takes i want these chicken fingers um so yeah he goes they work with brian and all of us you know we got our act together all of us just kind of nod yeah we work with brian brian’s great he was in my wedding i don’t care and that was all it took so we come up with a plan of let’s stay away from the chairman of the board yes because our story will fall apart if he starts asking and we are going to contradict each other because we don’t know Brian.
[19:35] Avoid the white haired guy. Adam, this is the only time I’ve ever seen him actually nervous, right? You were very nervous like, oh my gosh, we’re going to get busted. Might get my uncle in trouble, whatever, right? Because we are in the TCF bank box with the chairman of the board. Under a complete ruse that we have no… It’s not like we had time to fabricate a story to keep it straight. We don’t have a story. No, there’s no story. He thinks we work with Brian. so what’s the furthest point away from this executive of the bank outside so we go outside on the balcony yeah and go ahead joe we sat out there pretty much the whole first half and and really nobody else sat out there it was still cold but like i said it was so warm with those heaters you did not even have to have your coat on we took our coats off unbelievable yeah it’s incredible then we went back in at halftime and i remember i think kevin you said like hey let’s go kind of to explore the rest of this area. So we go walking down the hallway. I remember they had like.
[20:31] Statue of the gopher and you know it’s like a luxury mezzanine yeah yeah a big plaza area we walk around and when we come back and now like half the people are out in those seats and we can’t go sit on the balcony anymore yes and it’s the dude and his wife in the main part of the luxury box and i don’t think maybe even anybody else i think it was just us and him yes and his wife so during the first half at the time i didn’t know who this gray-haired gentleman was so they had introduced us got his name we’re outside stuff i google this guy’s name and i come to find out he is the chairman of the board and ceo of tcf bank so then we’re freaking out then we start freaking out like oh my gosh this dude is a big big deal at the time i worked i worked in banking so it meant more to me i guess because i’m like oh my gosh this dude is a big deal yes let’s stay away from him because we don’t have a story we don’t have a story there’s nothing so what do you do with brian yeah uh what don’t we do with brian and he’s like in his he’s probably like in his 80s probably 70s and his wife was the typical i don’t want to say typical but she was a trophy wife yeah probably she was 30 year old she was probably 30 years old.
[21:43] Long blonde hair oh yeah yeah oh yes it is totally done up completely yeah she looks like a swedish model blonde probably 30 she was swedish remember she was swedish but she was probably a model and he’s 70 and so we come back in staff and again the plan was let’s not talk to this guy because we don’t have a story but we come back in everybody had taken our seats so we’re in this large screen box it’s the four of us and the chairman of the board and his 30 year old swedish wife so we talked to and he he wanted to talk a little he came over i remember he walked over to So the four of us were kind of standing where you could look out this big window. And they were over here, sort of on the opposite side of the room. But at some point in time, he makes a beeline right for us, walks up and right off the bat.
[22:32] Busts out a joke about swedish women being dumb or something and starts telling pretty much all these dumb blonde jokes yeah his wife again is 30 between 30 and 35 is standing there she’s heard these dumb blonde jokes probably since she’s met him she is rolling her eyes she’s not entertained at all well he’s telling these dumb blonde jokes we laugh and we probably laugh harder than what oh yeah they should have he knows how to schmooze people he just wants to talk he’s really not into the game he’s there because it’s the biggest game of the year biggest game of the season for minnesota high season town so he shows up he’s probably not even a football fan but he sees us wants to talk to us hey here’s four fun guys starts talking and we we do not want to talk to him we’re trying not to talk to him but because we laugh probably harder than what we should be he just starts rattling off even more jokes oh yeah a ton oh he just and they’re all dumb bond jokes anything to keep the topic off of banking if you asked a banking question my answer would be limited to my experience with atms free calendars and rolling change so we finally we get to the fourth quarter and it’s gotten more comfortable we’re interacting i’m telling him some of my dumb jokes and he’s like you know what i think i’ve seen enough.
[23:51] We’re gonna we’re gonna head out early and says goodbye to someone and we’re like do you mind if we stay he’s like yeah stay and have a good time and when he decided to leave like everybody everybody left yeah except us everybody left so we’re the only four in this luxury box from the fourth quarter on the free food keeps coming oh yes it’s glorious food anything you want heat i mean stuff it is freezing outside yeah there is snow ever again we literally couldn’t give away our other tickets we could not because couldn’t hand them off no we tried to sell them i remember we were only asking for like 20 bucks yeah and then we seats and then we yeah and then we just said hey you want them for free you can have them and nobody would take them because it was that terrible out that people were not showing up because of how cold it was i like to think by the by the fourth quarter if the ruse had been given up i think he wouldn’t have cared at that point i think he was good for you yeah we were like best friends we were he was cool with us by then he said congratulations on getting in those are the same skills that helped me land a 30 year old wife so godspeed and good luck young man so he leaves we’ve got the entire luxury box to ourselves the entire fourth quarter so we ask the person who keeps bringing in the food and we’re like how long can we stay here like can we spend the night or what’s the longest we can stay he’s Like.
[25:11] You can stay until an hour after the game’s over. You can stay. We’re like, done. So we stay in there. They keep bringing the food. What? Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Free food, free drinks. Anything you want. I mean, you have to remember, it’s TCF Stadium. Yes. And this is TCF’s box. Luxury box. Yeah. And the chairman of the TCF Bank was…
[25:30] Anything you want, you can have. Like, are you guys ordering off a menu? Or was there like a set? Yes. It was more like a wedding buffet where they brought in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you have to remember, we work with Brian, so.
[25:41] So, you know, they’re trying to impress us. Yeah, I mean, we work with Brian. Make sure you take care of Brian’s friends. Brian’s big shot caller. Get the champagne in there. The caviar. Who was it? Because with me, football, chicken fingers, nachos, soft pretzels, popcorn, hot dogs. Yeah. Or was it like fancy? There were sausages. It was a step above. I don’t think it was that. Brats. yeah but then like any any drink potatoes any drink you wanted you could get any drink you wanted on the house and then wine whatever yeah the game’s over we asked him hey q-turn like where’s the remote for these tvs so then we change the channel we start watching like alabama there’s like four flat screens yes so we’re just sitting on all these couches all these chairs for as long as possible food’s coming we’re watching the tv it was amazing those servers we’re so annoyed with you guys oh i’m sure oh my gosh leave so we can leave they’re coming in the clean we’re like no we’re good like we’re not done stuffing granola bars in our pockets please well yeah we got to get to that part we got to get to the john we got to get to the john stuffer oh that was funny right so we’ve got a uh world-renowned surgeon with us who grew up as a farmer and he’s like we’re not gonna let this food go to waste and he starts putting rolls in napkins and shoving it in his pockets in his coat pockets we’re like john let it go were they good rolls? Who cares?
[26:57] Well, I understand where he’s coming from. They’re like Bob Evans rolls. Well, no. It’s like Bob Evans rolls. He’s stuffing them in his pocket. They weren’t going to be good after we drove six hours home, which is when he was going to eat them. But like, if they were what’s that? Logan’s rolls. I would have been like a joke. No, that didn’t matter. No, Logan’s rolls.
[27:14] I would have eaten those on a whole day. We did not want to get thrown out of TCF Bank Stadium slash suite. Over rolls. Over five rolls in John’s pocket. Exactly.
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[28:26] I don’t have a sponsor in every city just one per state more of a time zone thing, Joe says, hey, I’ve got a friend that we can meet for dinner while we’re in Indianapolis. He’s a great guy. You’d love to meet him. Okay. So on our way to this dinner, Joe makes the comment, by the way, just do me a favor. Do not ask him any questions about his background. And he’s really referring to me like Kevin. Don’t ask any questions. Don’t be nosy. Don’t be nosy. Adam could not give a flip. Does not care. He’s not going to be asking all these questions. Okay. He knows it’s going to be me asking questions. Yeah, not that Kevin asks people lots of questions when he meets them. Not at all. He doesn’t do that. No. That doesn’t sound like me. He asks waitresses endless questions. Is this cream base? Or is this a little broth base? We could do a whole podcast on Kevin ordering food on the trips. Ewa drives me nuts about Kevin. Can I get this on the side? He worked at Texas Roadhouse. Do you know when they say, would you like the salad with… Now, what comes on that again? I’m like, you freaking worked here. You know what comes on the salad, but he has to know specifically. I’m like, I could tell you what’s on the salad. Do you guys salt and pepper that? Yeah. Am I going to salt and pepper that myself? What’s the ratio? Is there salt and pepper? Yeah. Is it two to one?
[29:47] That’s so true. I’ll tell you what is going on the food now. It ain’t salt and pepper. It’s not salt and pepper. It’s a special sauce. That’s right. So joe tells me don’t ask my buddy any questions about his background i thought that was odd that was weird but i will gladly do that i am just here here for dinner it was the trip of not asking questions questions kevin all right got it so we start having this dinner he shows up very nice guy and i make the comment during dinner we’re like 45 minutes into 45 minutes into dinner right adam had recommended a documentary to us ah right that we should watch cocaine cowboys so good which is one of the best documentaries we’ve ever seen right highly recommend it to you listeners if you haven’t watched it very educational it’s actually two documentaries one that’s true so steph you and i had just watched that like the weekend before so i bring that up during our conversation that hey adam great suggestion we watched that cocaine Cowboys this weekend incredible documentary like mind-blowing well when I said that Joe’s buddy slash sponsor his eyes get like deer in a head like big and I’m like have you seen have you seen the movie before like I because I saw his reaction like have you seen it before and he goes nope but I lived it.
[31:07] And I’m like, oh my gosh. So then I have to ask him, what do you mean by that? And Steph, he turns into an open book. Yeah. This guy had lived in Florida back in the 80s, had been a drug smuggler. And he’d been in federal prison. He’d been in prison. And so he starts talking about all of the stuff he had done. He could have been in that movie, quite honestly, Cooking Cowboys. Oh my gosh. Why have we not asked him to be on our podcast, Tell Us a Good Story? Because he’s under an assumed identity at this point. And that is fine. Because no one would know. How have we got to talk to him about this? He’s in Witness Protection Program. But no one would know his… Johnny is his name. Brian. I think his name’s Brian. I work with Brian.
[31:53] So he starts opening up stuff. He becomes an open book. I remember, Kevin, if I can interject real quick. Please. The one thing that I remember, if I remember correctly, is you said something about like, oh man, we’re watching this documentary and these guys literally are throwing crates of coke into the water and then this other boat is supposed to come and pick it up and like bring it back in and that’s how they were getting and they didn’t care they were making so much money like they didn’t care if they lost someone stuff like that and he made the comment after that like yeah that’s that’s how it was done or something like that like takes me back yeah he totally had been a part of that scene it was completely yeah it was unbelievable. Completely. So, we start asking him about Trips Gone Wrong, right? So, he told a story of somebody picked him up. He was supposed to buy X amount of cocaine down in Florida, pick him up.
[32:42] Put something over his head, drive him around for like 45 minutes or something. So he does not know where he is at. He can’t trace the steps, nothing. Go into some warehouse, pull the cover off of his head, goes out there. And he said the cocaine that they showed him was all dirty. He’s like, I’m not buying this stuff. And they’re like, all of them pull out guns on them. Yeah, I’m pretty sure you are. And so he’s at that moment. I’m like, you know what? I may not be in the right business is what he said. But then how did you launder the money? And so then he starts opening up detailed stuff how he laundered the money he’s like we would open up a gym we do a fishing charter service he’s like maybe two people show up we write down 12 people he talked about like having judges paid off yes everything yeah that’s like five grand went to the attorney five grand went to the judge and you’re out he’s like everybody had a number he said we knew what bank to go to what teller to go to we knew what judge to go to everybody had a number you could pay them off not an issue and that dinner became the most fascinating dinner party i have ever had like he became an open book so then of course we get in the car afterwards i’m like joe oh dear god is that what you’re talking about and i don’t think you knew half the stuff you just knew he had been in prison or something i knew a portion of it i didn’t know a lot of the specifics i was familiar with his background okay yeah but steph hands down most fascinating dinner i’ve ever been a part of the guy became an open book and had served time federal prison all that joe we’re gonna need his name and number so i’m in contact with him i’m just i’m just saying it’s a good it’s a good reason not to mess with me if i gotta make a phone call yeah i know a guy.
[34:12] So anywho i think that’s that’s all i got guys so steph any other stories you want while we’ve got these gentlemen i mean lots of stories i want to talk about but we need to what do you always say we need to be respectful of their time and let these guys go yes well guys absolutely seriously thank you so much i thought i told kevin i was spending the night you’re more involved them too. If you want to spoon them upstairs, I’ll happily be on the couch tonight. Like old times, Joe. Friends, we want to encourage you to please follow us wherever you listen to this, whether it’s on the Apple podcast app, iHeartRadio, Spotify, or one of the other platforms. You guys, it’s completely free. And while you’re there, feel free to give us a rating or a nice review. Thank you for listening to Tell Us a Good Story.
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