Episode 7: Ian Hunter

Thanks For Giving A Damn

Otis Gibbs

Society & Culture, Arts, Music, Performing Arts, Personal Journals

5 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2012

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Ian talks about sneaking into Graceland to meet Elvis, seeing Buddy Holly live, refusing to meet Jerry Lee Lewis, getting arrested in Indianapolis, swimming with Mick Ronson, seeing Pelé make two banana kicks etc.

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0:00.0	I got an email a couple of days ago from a guy named Dennis in Pearl River, Louisiana.
0:07.0	I really, really enjoyed it, so I'd like to I got an email a couple of days ago from a guy named Dennis in Pearl River, Louisiana.
0:22.6	I really, really enjoyed it, so I'd like to share it with you guys.
0:25.6	Dennis says,
0:27.6	I went fishing this morning, but after a short time I ran out of worms,
0:31.6	then I saw a cotton mouth with a frog in its mouth.
0:34.6	Frogs are good bait.
0:35.6	Knowing the snake couldn't bite me with the frog in its
0:38.5	mouth, I grabbed it right behind the head, took the frog, and put it in my bait bucket. Now the
0:44.2	dilemma was how to release the snake without getting bit. So I grabbed my bottle of Jack Daniels and
0:49.3	poured a little whiskey in its mouth. Its eyes rolled back and it went limp. I released a snake into the lake without
0:55.7	incident and carried on fishing, using the frog. Not long after, I felt a nudge on my foot.
1:02.3	It was that damn snake returning with two more frogs in its mouth.
1:06.4	Music I'm M. I'm a
1:11.6	I'm
1:13.6	Oh
1:14.6	You
1:15.6	I'm
1:16.6	Oh
1:17.6	Oh Hi friends, this is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Damn.
1:37.7	This is a personal journal. It's an experiment. I'd like to say right up front that I
1:42.2	have with the slightest idea what I'm doing, but I decided to do it anyway.
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