Driving Across America with Comedian Ed Crasnick
Story Worthy
Story Worthy Media
4.1 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2013
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Ed Crasnick (Self-Help Comedy Hour) drove across the country with two deadbeats and ended up in the governor of Oregon's chair.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, this is Woody Allen, and you're listening to, you know, you're listening to Storyworthy. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'll tell you something, I don't feel worthy, but the story's marvelous. |
| 0:19.1 | Welcome to the Story Worthy podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannes Finney. |
| 0:32.1 | Welcome to Storyworthy. |
| 0:33.6 | My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hanas Finney, and we're coming to you from the Greyhound Bus Station in North Platte, Nebraska. |
| 0:41.0 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 0:42.4 | Why would we be at a Greyhound Bus Station? |
| 0:44.6 | Because our topic tonight brought us, I should say, in English, by our guest, is driving across America. |
| 0:52.5 | Driving across America, but that's not taking the class, isn't it? |
| 0:55.0 | I drove across America with my ex that I moved to California with twice. |
| 0:58.9 | We drove in a car from Milwaukee to Los Angeles, took a Greyhound bus back to pick up the rest of our stuff, put it in a rider truck, and then drive across America again. |
| 1:10.2 | Did you hear of the airplane? |
| 1:11.7 | Have you heard of this? |
| 1:12.7 | We could not afford the airplane. |
| 1:15.3 | We rode a Greyhound. |
| 1:16.8 | This is the longest I'd ever been on Greyhound. |
| 1:18.6 | It was fucking horrifying. |
| 1:20.7 | And the reason the North Blatt, Nebraska is somewhere around 4 in the morning, the bus |
| 1:26.1 | stopped at a diner in North Platte, Nebraska. |
| 1:28.5 | And everybody was like, well, I'm asleep, but I want to get off this fucking bus, |
| 1:32.8 | and I got to eat, and I could die at any moment. |
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