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Hey, this week's episode is about the Society of Indecency to Naked Animals. It's kind of what you think it is. It's a whole group of people who are like, we should put pants on these things because it's really rude that they're nude. So we're a comedy podcast. We learn something every week, so there's a bunch of episode you can go listen to. But this week is about the society and then all the things that came with it, and especially about the creator. We learn about the other things and other movements that he did. So if your first time here, thanks for being here. If it's not your first time, share the episode, tell somebody about our dang show, cause we're having a good time doing it. Let's get to the episode. Hey, man, what's up? Have you heard of the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals? Society for Indecency to Naked Animals? Sina for sure, s ion Anxiety for Indecency to Naked Animals? Okay, so it's indecency to naked animals, that's what it is. Yeah, is this is either one this is one of two ways. This is either a group of people who's like, uh, all these animals are naked and they shouldn't be and they're running around me, and like it's offensive that your your dog's not covered up. And also crazy Frog, crazy frog is freaking naked dude, all this time naked naked Alex, did you know that it's insane? Do a quick Google image for crazy Frog. The first thing that pops up now that you know is naked. You'll see it pretty immediately. And I don't understand how we didn't like that crazy Frog was all over the place nudey and he that was again just great moment for people who never the Star podcast to us, just crazy frog, crazy frogs naked dude. All right. So this is either that's really mad that all these animals are out here just newdon or because it's indecency to animals. It's a group of people who's like, we we want to be naked around animal. They shouldn't be the only one, like they're just an animal, and they are getting after zoo, after zoo, that's the only two. They're looking at the gorilla closure. They're just like, I better take my pants off. I guess let's clothe every animal, whether dog, cat, horse, or cow too. Why put some pants on that things I learned last night? Did you cut me mid shirt? Thing? And then just the theme song it so uh, you were right. It is the first one. It's a political action group from the late fifties early sixties that had an issue with naked animals being out in public just anywhere out in the world. Here is They put out a record with kind of like like there's a couple of things on the record. The main thing is like their political discord lectures. Yeah, vinyl record, and so it's like lectures on what may believe you pour a good glass of Merlow and you okay, that's really good. Crazy Frog is nude, and not enough people are talking about it. He's got a cover up put pants on that, Like why okay, Yeah, that's a lot of work to play. It's not a lot of work to play a vinyl, but it's it's an effort to play a vinyl. And it's like, here's what I think we should do with those immigrants. And then that was one side to flip it. Have to flip the record to see what the rest of this is. We should give them housing and and you're like, oh, okay, that's not what I thought. I thought that was going a different direct. I seen you that video the other day right of the most like golf club looking guy. He didn't look at the golf club. He looks like it looks like a little gold like a polo wearing this rich looking white kid. And the video starts with what's my thoughts on immigrants? And it's like a man on the street interview, And I was like, why is this on my feeds? But then the rest of the video was like real find for everything and all that I do remember this. Yeah, I was like, WHOA well, different direction. So the record, the record they put out was like half lectures of like here's why, here's our beliefs and why we believe them and why you should believe them. And then the other half of it was like some songs that they wrote, which we're gonna spend some time on that in a little bit. But here's this record if you're listening, it's a record that's with shorts on. They're like basketball shorts. A confidential report on the activities of society for indecency to naked animals. Okay, here's another. This is like a bit though, this is like the this is like the birds aren't real. Guy, I don't right, I mean, the birds aren't real. Guy, Like this is such an absurd thing. Maybe I don't know, this is a real political action group. Here's another I'm saying it, but like if you look at the birds aren't real. There's people who were like, there's nothing other than the idea that it's funny, and like they know it's a joke. Would would be. There's nothing written anywhere. It's like by the way we're we're getting around, you know, Yeah, I mean there's no Here's another campaign poster they got. This one's just for decency. Uh. They really were focused on the horses. They wasn't horses. Here's one with their founder with a deer, a baby deer, and he's got I think it. I don't even think those are shorts. I'm pretty sure that's just a towel. He just wrapped it up in a towel. So here's the here's the story. Here's here's the story. They this was founded by two guys. Their founder who went by the name and by went by the name his name was he went by g. Clifford Prout Junior, and then his co founder. No, that does sound like a prude name G Clifford g Clifford Prout Drout Junior. Yeah, and then his co founder Bruce Spencer, so that this is g Clifford Prout Junior with the deer. Okay, and this is what was when I say Bruce Spencer, this is Bruce Spencer trying to put pants on a bear. Just so we can get ahead of the story. Uh so these people you smoked a pipe before. It's very difficult to do. I had like a bubble gum pipe when I was a kid. Is that the same thing? It's uh, I want I wanted to look like an author. I wanted to that is a pretty author thing to do. I wanted to look like a person who wants to pants animals. And I was like, you know what would do it? Is is a pipe. That was the point of the campaign. The campaign was it's too hard to bully animals. They don't and so we didn't get used to pants. So that's a all right. The way you guys are bullying animals is like ethnically, yeah, we have to create a scenario where we can just tease them a little. Yeah, we need to figure out a way where we can get just a lot of pants horse though. You know, I'm saying, like, it's freaking hard to do. It is a little tough. Okay. So so this guy he had a he noticed g Clifford Prout okay or Prout Prout, yes, prout, g Clifford Prout. He noticed that there's naked animals all over the place, and he had a problem with this and he felt like he he felt like this was corrupting our kids in our youth because they got to see the naked animals everywhere they went. And so you walk, you go up. You ever think like, if we just follow it through, Yeah, his fear, Yeah, is someone looking at this animal would then be corrupted toward what I mean, Let's follow it through. I mean, I know we're a family friendly podcast, but just follow it through for a second. Yeah, me looking is going to be like, man, I want to have some pre marital sex, right, And that speaks more to who Prout is. Then you know what I'm saying, Like if someone's like so that we should cover this up, and it's like why because looking at this whrse don't think about the thoughts that's making you think about and so you're making me think any thoughts. That's what I'm saying about the thoughts you're thinking when you're thinking about that talking, just follow it twelve seconds and you can be like, this guy's a pervert. It is a little it is a little like you're selling yourself out by starting this group. Like it's kind of like the faster talking about tiktoking exactly. It is like you can't get on this app without naked girls showing up on your feed. That was seeing a naked talk That's what I'm saying outside and not stumbled talking about what is wrong with you? You go back? You're freaking sick. Oh yeah, I guess I feel the same way about ATM machine. Dude, look at that idea? He nabby. Oh my gosh. You know his callback? Yeah? You know his Instagram handle Dan Sanders Saunders. You know his Instagram handle is at M Dan Saunders. No, he put the ATM. I mean you weren't supposed to answer that. You're just supposed to be like, oh, you're not supposed to say no, I didn't know that. Cool. You're supposed to say have you ever been in a conversation before? That's it your first time talking to someone? What is happening. Okay, hell, welcome to my podcast. My guest today's never talked to a person in this life. This is his first time doing this. Thank you for having me. Typically, uh, typically people look at each other when they talk to each other. I'll grow into it. Baby steps, crazy frogs, causing people to stumble. So yeah, I don't know exactly where this happened for him, but for throughout his youth he noticed there's just animals. So he started writing these pamphlets and then writing like letters to local news publications. And I got to give it to him because the guy crazy idea but honestly great campaigner, like probably could have been president if he would have chose a different if he chose to be normal. Yeah, he wasn't such a freaking psycho dude, No, because his so he came up with some pretty good, uh slogans. Well, let's take a look at a couple of them. This one, I'm probably okay, sounds good. The first one, decency today means morality tomorrow. Oh no, that's that's a slogan that youth pastor still said. So he got it from him. I know where you got this. Whoa whoa? Decency today means morality tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the same. You know who said something like that was the founder of Chick fil A. What you eat today, uh, determines how you feel tomorrow. Oh. I mean he's not wrong, he's not wrong. I'm gonna be honest. If I eat Chick fil A the next day, I don't feel great. Depends on what you eat from Chick fil A spice of chicken sandwich. Don't feel good? Great in the moment, so good in the moment. Better hope you die that. Yeah, I would love that as my last meals. Chick fil A Spici Deluxe are normal deluxe? Yeah? Okay, can we never mind pepper Jack cheese? Okay, So here's another one. Execute me is that where you're going? Can we can we make that happen? Wow? Okay another one. This one is not so much a slogan, it's just like a highly This is something that's like highly quoted for him. Uh. He said, any dog, cat, horse, or cow that stands higher than four inches or longer than six inches should be clothed. So there's a height limit on it. There's like a yeah, but that that limit is insane. Taller than four inches longer than six inches. We're talking freaking lizards like like that is so it's longer than six inches. Clothes. How you close on a snake? Special clothes? Clothes? Yeah, it's like it's one of those what do you call those, the finger traps? It just slide the finger trap on the snake. Just here's another one. Here's another one. Uh, this is my favorite. A nude horse is a rude horse. Okay, what do you rake that one for the rhyme? Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. So rude it is rude. So he started forming this political action group, got his uh mid friends with that Bruce Spencer guy, and they kind of started taking it to market, I don't know if that's the right word for that, to find other people who were weird. So they started canvassing neighborhoods, writing tracks and handing them out to people in neighborhoods like to support their vision. And they were sending letters into like local paper magazines. You got it. You gotta rail on how bad the problem is. It's such a big issue. You got to be like this, look at that? Do you want to look at that? A guy who rings on your doorbell. Can you photo a shot? One of our social media post is just this. It's just it's crazy frog just holding blur is mid section. When you see it, you're never gonna. You're never gonna. And I don't I don't understand how we didn't see it. I just don't understand how we did anyway. It's insane. Okay, So yeah, can you imagine though, opening there's a knock out your door. You think it's a tupperware salesman. It's the fifties, this is that's that era, and you open the door and there're just like, look at this, Oh god, what are you doing here? What is that? That's offensive, isn't it? I mean, yeah, it was pretty offensive. Is the picture of your dog yesterday? They come around your neighborhood one day with cameras. Yeah, they're like in their corres, like the car, like hiding in the car. Ticket waits. Everyone's naked. Pett is freaking weird, right, is freaking weird? What's that guy doing? He's taking picture dog? It's a cute dog, too cute, and dog's too cute to not have pants on. Too tall for new can't be that tall and naked. I guess, like under four inches, are they thinking like a squirrel? Maybe, like you're not gonna Yeah, I think there's a certain I mean four inches. Squirrels are a bit taller than four inches. I think it really is basically getting to the point where it only excludes insects. Yeah, insects are the only things you don't have to put close on. And that's probably a practicality thing. Honestly, if they could figure out how to do it, I'm sure he would have been for it, Okay, And so I'm not convinced this is a real So this campaign starts picking up some steam and they actually start getting like on television productions and so they're ending up on like CBS. And at the height of it, they had in nineteen sixty two August nineteen sixty two, they were on Walter Cronkite and so like they were like okay, they had were like public, they were out there. Yeah, And over the course of those few years of campaigning, they developed a pretty large fat following. There's estimates are somewhere in the ballpark at fifty thousand supporters nationwide that were then joining the cause and canvassing their neighborhoods to telling peopeople about, hey, here's what we gotta do. And what they said is they said, if you see your neighborhood, in your neighborhood, you see a neighbor that doesn't have pants on our dog and they're out walking their dogs, well, they said, you should feel free to essentially do a citizen's arrest and go and say, hey, you need to you need to put some pants on that dog. Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am. And you've got shorts and you're just walking, ma'am, ma'am. Excuse me, ma'am, mayam, ma'am, ma'am. Yeah, chasing me with a pair of shorts. Do you feel like public unity is fine? No? Absolutely not. You wouldn't do it. Dogs shouldn't do it. They even got to the point where a group of them picketed in front of the White House. This has been retouched so you can read the sign, just so you know, but this is them has been retouched. Yeah, so you can read the sign better. Oh, thank you for this is giving me a digitally altered little asterisk on this image. I just want you to know, like that's why the script looks so okay, legible. Sure, when you can be able to get that close to the White House, that's a good point before it burnt it down. Now you get to Washington, d C. And at the baggage claim, you turn around, there's the gate to the White House. It's very far away from the airport. Wait hold on, oh your's a like right when you get off the airport, there they have they have put a gate. You can't pass this line in front of the gate. Yeah, in front of the gate. All because that one guy got in there with a knife in the Obama of the years. Oh yeah, that's right. He just and everyone's like, stars that a knife, put some pants on it. We don't care about the knife. Put some I'm pretty sure he wasn't wearing pants, but yeah. And so at their height, they had around fifty thousand members. They were out there doing campaigning popul their neighbors. They had all these pamphlets, they had books, the record, they had. Their headquarters was in New York on Fifth Avenue, but they had offices in New York. Headquarters they had in New York headquarters, but they had offices around the states, in DC, LA Saint louis Ago, San Francisco. So this is the late fifties, early sixties, so it looks like it really picked up in fifty nine. And then it hit like it's like that sign said missus Kennedy. They're addressing Jackie, you know. Interesting, So yeah, this is the missus Kennedy. Did anything about it? Or what are you what make them think about it? As president? Well, well it's out here, just ignoreing my police. Yeah, I went all the way to the White House. I held up my signs. Yeah, even Brod Schortz for them. Another thing that was big in their campaign that this is another Clifford line that I forgot to tell you. So you rte this one. Oh okay, zeus are peep shows for children? What do you write that? I mean, it's clear, it's concise. Yeah, it's telling. It's very inflammatory. It puts a picture in your mind. Yeah, it does make you say, like, why are we letting kids see all that for free? 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If you don't want a support, that's totally fine. Thanks for being here. We really appreciate you watching the show. So yeah, okay. And then they developed their anthem, the Sena Anthem, and I want you to sing this. I'm gonna put it up on this scree I want you to sing this whatever tune you think. I think it goes to Yeah, I was gonna give you the tune, but actually I like that idea better. Oh you just go for it and see. Let me read it how you hit it. This is the late fifties early sixties. That can probably give you a pretty good hint of what the tune is for this. Uh wait, okay, hey what I don't I guess I don't know the tune. You're pretty close. I'm not gonna lie high on high on the wings of scene. No, we fight for the future. Now nailing it, That's exactly it. Keep going. What is the tune next? That's actually exactly it. I'm not thinking you were dead on. Let's clothe every pet animal, whether dog, cat, horse or cow. Gee. Clifford Proud our president. He works for you and me. What is this? You're nailing it? Keep going? Stop keep going. I want everyone to hear the right. I'm not kidding your daily yet. So clothe all your pets and join the Mars for worldwide decency. There we go. S I that's hard call a r y. I'm nude, that's who I him. Put some pants on that orang? Uh? S I A n A. That's our call. All for one and one for all? Hoist our flag for all to see, waving for morality. Onward, we strive together, stronger in every way, All Mankind and his Animal Friends for is it sena yes, s I N A, And I just I love the picture at these rallies that they would hold and would they would do this, And I just love the picture of everyone in that crowd chanting the s I N at the end, s I N A and they and really it would go uh for all Mankind and his Animal Friends. For set up, We are the worst podcast that exists. I think, I'm sorry you have to live through this stuff. And they had you're on a walk right now, a lot in your ears. We're going, which sucks from a content perspective. To be honest with you, it's just bad content. That's what we're doing. So they had UH and they had donors. They had UH probably the largest single donation this is like sixty one was a woman in Sambordino donated forty thousand dollars to the cause. And so like they had people. Sam, Yeah, he's the richest person. I don't know, if you ever just do a different time, it was a different time. Google image shirts. It was a different time. Sam Bernardino. I know, and I can't imagine a time that that crap hole looked good. To be honest, we drive through it to go out to the pretty part of California, but it's definitely the armpit. It's definitely the bit. Well, every time we drive through, it's like, I'm gonna drive faster. I need to get that out of here for real. My wife's like, I got a pee, you don't know, pee in my car, then me have to stop in San Bernardino. That's how much I hate this place. So this is becoming a pretty big big thing. And like I said, they got on Walter Kronkite's show and they had their whole expos about it, and he shared his opinion. And I should say most television shows and a lot of news organizations would broadcast this as like almost like a freak show sort of thing. Like they weren't like, we want you guys to hear about the newest risk attacking our ches. I'm saying. They'd be like, the birds are yeah, the birds are real people. Yeah, And so they'd be like, instead, they'd like, let him share his points. But then they'd be like, notice I said, birds are real people. I didn't say art, uh and so because they are so they're real people. So he's on a Clifford pruit. I like that you're pushing through, right, Birds like actors are real people. That's crazy. They're not wearing pants out there. They're just flying around pantless because they're like, Oh, I'm a bird, I don't have to wear pants. That's why they're booping everywhere. Dude, it's a dude in the alleyway by your apartment dressed like a bird. Like, he's just got a bunch of feathers taped to his arm, naked, he's painted as old. I live in Los Angeles. This is real. Ray that is by my house, a machine beak on his face. Yeah, but you gotta put some pants on. He's like, I'm a bird. Birds will wear pants, that's what anyway. The birds aren't real people are on the news, not because the news people are because but that that's what's funny about the The guy who does the birds Aren't Real thing. Yeah, he really commits to the bit. Yeah, and the news people are like, I mean, I mean you're joking though, right, And he's like, this is really read that you'd say that. Yeah, He's like, no, I really believe so, Walter, but that but that's the crazy thing is the bird's not real. Guy. There's people who are like, I think he's right. I think birds are just cameras are just drug. Sure, and that's dangerous. Yeah, but I mean like, wouldn't you rather than be rallying behind that cause than just like we should unite and take over a government building? You which one? Would you? Rather than be like hey, every once and a while just be like that bird's uh. I mean, but that leads to that. I don't know if I think that's the bird people. I think that's the like entry drug for you think that's the people he's talking about. First thing, I got red billed because of the birds. So I just looked at him and I was like, that's not real. It's definitely not right. Be for real. Uh So he goes He goes on Walter Kronkite, does his his broadcast, sure g Clifford proof shares all his says, his campaign lines, does whatever. They probably plays theme song when he walks out, his theme song, his anthem when he walks out, and there's a guy watching at home who works for CBS. Okay, and he's watching this interview. He doesn't work on Cronkite show. He works on different shows at CBS. He's like a boom operator or something, you know. Now even like a like a now you're like a person. He's just operator. Yeah. Yeah, he's like he's like a yeah he works there. He works there. Yeah, he's on the crew. He works that. He's not he does not like a president at CBS, you know, like he works. Yeah, And he's watching this and he's looking at ge Clifford Pruit sitting there in Walter Kronkite's guest chair, and he's looking at him. He's like, I know this guy. Yeah, He's like, this is no ge Clifford Prut. Oh, He's like, this is a Buck Henry. And Buck Henry was a brand new writer an actor. Yeah, that would go on. That would go on to be in a ton of TV and film and write a lot, but also act and be in different things and host SNL seventeen times after this. So this is before any of this happened. This is like his first time on TV was so he was just campaign bit Yeah, I love that's so. So this was actually started by the co founder. So the co founder Bruce Uh Spencer. This guy looks like he is serious about the paints. He does seem like he'd be serious about it. So this guy's this guy, he's going by Bruce Spencer. He's the co founder in this whole thing now making a lot of public appearances, very rarely coming on the public appearances with Prut who's actually Buck Henry Uh soon to be pretty major comedian. This guy is a guy by the name of Alan Abel, and Alan Abel in the forties was driving, Oh, I was really afraid where the next sentence was going to go. That was definitely a record flip moment. Alan Abel in the forties. That sentence is just dangerous for anybody, anybody. Yeah, So in the forties, he was driving through a like rural Texas area and happened upon a spot where pretty rare in rural Texas. There was a traffic jam and everyone's like outside their car, and like he like peeks out and he realizes everyone's like disgusted, and he's like, why is everyone so grossed out right now? And he's looking around, like people are covering their eyes. They're like they're very like they're noticeably angry, noticeably disgusted and in the center of the road ahead of them, traffic is blocked both directions. There's a couple of cows mating in the center of the road and blocking traffic, and everyone's just disgusted. Everyone's so mad. And this made an impact on him. Really, in the middle of the road in the forties, don't you know what's going on in the world right now? Put some pants on that cow. So he sees this, and this makes an impact on him because he's like, he thinks, how ridiculous are all these people that they see two cows doing what cows do and they're like grossed out about it? And he dead serious, this is dead serious his reaction. He's like, he's like, what's wrong with all these people? All these prudes just seeing seeing these animals do what animals do and get upset about. But I'm thinking about it, and I'm like, if I'm driving and I just happen upon a couple of mating cows, I'm also kind of like, oh, I don't want to look at that in the middle. I don't want to see that. Like I'm not like, I'm not like, oh man, these immoral cows. Yeah, I'm like rings, pre birdal cows and so uh, this leads like a lasting impact on him. He goes on and he becomes like a musician in college, he's in a band and he's doing all that stuff. Gets out of college and it's like, what am I going to do with my life? And he's like He's like, oh, I could do that thing, he says. He decides I'm going to start this as like a It's like it's a joke, it's a prank, but it's also like it's also proved a point. It's like, you guys are all so stupid, like you're you think that you're so into like how I want to become. I would love to spend the next twenty years and become like the top country artists. Yeah, and then turn around the end of the twenty years and be like, hey, I was joking and by the way, none of that was real. Yeah, I just made the lowest denominator of music. And you guys were like, dish ish good. I love this guy. And so he does this whole scheme. It obviously gets really big. He calls up Henry act if I do I don't, I don't hate country music fans. I hate some of them. Some of them deserve the hate, yeah, but it's not it's not all of them. They that person could be a fan of any music and they deserve that. Yeah, And they're not a fan of our podcast, So I'm not really freedom and so uh so he calls up Buck Henry, and Buck Henry's just starting out. He hasn't got a major role yet. He's written, he's got writing credits on a couple of things, but he hasn't been in front of the camera yet. And he's like, hey, I got this idea, and he and Buck Henry is like, I love this, this is great. Yeah, And so Buck commits and I think I kind of think Buck committed to it a little more than Alan expected Buck to commit to this thing. And they went hard, like I legally changed my name. I am now Clifford Brute. And so luckily Buck ran with this thing. And Buck was on his own going out and doing all these interviews and like contacting all these people. I was like, oh, okay, yeah, And it's just so poetic to me that he ends up becoming like this major comic. Sure, but his first TV credit is appearances for this before he got credits doing anything else. His first appearance, Gosh, what's the actor's name? You would recognize him, the guy he's in What we Do in the Shadows. Oh, I don't know. I do know who you're talking about. You've seen his his morning show appearances, right, Maybe look up his name requick so I can credit him so that people can look him up. And I wish I remember his name. When you say it, I go, oh, yeah, obviously. But he did like morning news segments. I've seen you multiple of them because I'm like, look easy it is to get on the mortgage. Which role does he play? He's the nerdy guy Mark prokesch Yes, Colin is Colin Robinson his name? Yes? Yeah, yeah, Colin Robinson. Yeah okay, So have you seen his morning news segments where he's like a professional yo yo er? Yeah yep. And then he gets a call in the middle. Yeah, oh, and you never do a single yoyo trick. But he gets a call about how his dad is dying. Yeah, but he's like on air, live on air. He's like, oh okay, and he told them like he goes, I might get a call and I'll have to take it, and like they just let him on and they just let him do it. That's what I'm saying. That's funny. Yeah, that's pretty good. So yeah, so that's what Buck did do some morning news segments with our highest goal being KY three. I can get us on KY three easy, Yeah, I think, yeah, I think get anybody on KY three. Yeah. Yeah. I think you would call and be like, hey, I know a guy and yeah, let's put them on. Hey, if you need a boost of confidence, let me give you a quick hack. Just wear a shirt size bigger than you usually do. You know what I'm saying Right now, you're wearing large and just buy an Excel you know. Uh, And we have plenty of sizes available in our merch store if you got a Tillan dot com and so that'll help you boost your confidence overnight. Is that good? Can I say that you can say what you want dot com slash merch. So Cina blows up. It becomes a big thing. After after uh, after his appearance on or after the appearance on Walter Cronkite, this guy comes forward and is like, tells CBS. He's like, he's like that guy is an actor and CBS is like really, and so they tell Kronkite, and Kronkite loses his mind. He's so mad, and there's a quote from alan Abel and alan Abel like reached out to him afterwards, and he said, he said, when Kronkite or alan Abel, Kronkite reached out to alan Abel, and alan Abel said later in an interview, he said, when Kronkite eventually found out that he'd been conned and I was the guy behind it, he called me up and he said, I'd never heard him that angry on TV before, not when he talked about Hitler, Saddamisan or Fidel Castro. He was furious with me Yai. So in nineteen sixty three, Time puts out an article and they like formally expose it as a hoax. Sure, but they still had people out there that like latched onto it and continued to campaign for it afterwards because they were like, yeah, you know what, they were right, we should not let naked animals be out there. So they were like canvassing neighborhoods and telling their neighborhood neighbors and holding up signs and picketing and stuff like that for years after it came out that the whole thing was just an elaborate ruse. And it's important to mention too before I forget. They got a lot of donations that came in, but they were like, we're we don't want to commit mail fraud, so just send it all back. And what they would send back is they would send it back to whoever send it with a note from Clifford Pruit and he would say, I'm an heir and so i have a lot of money. I don't need any money. I'm financing this myself. Thank you for your donation. That was really generous. I mean, like, what's the fun you make money off of it? Aye? If you're doing like, why are you doing this? If you're not get rich and so over? For fun? Fund doesn't exist in our capitalistic supreme society. Do you understand you have to claw your way ahead or you'll never make it in this world? You understand that if you don't save every single penny that you have and put it away for a later time, that you will be crushed in less than ten years, everything about you will be gone anyway. So Buck Henry goes on to get nominated for two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, and three Emmys. He wins an Emmy, and he wins a Golden Globe for the stuff, not for other stuff. They were like a great So he has becoming like a really major comic through like the sixties, seventies and into the eighties. And then his career continued after that, but it wasn't as well whatever, But it's kind of like, what are you still doing that? Alan Abel. On the other hand, his career continued, and so some of the things he did after this was he started a school for golf professionals to get better at golf, and he taught them ballet positions, and so they would gone on the golf course was doing ballet while they swung, because he thought it was really funny to picture all of them going out on the green. Yes, I mean it's pretty funny, respect it. He also created his wife played a fictional woman named Yea Bronstein, who he campaigned as a write in candidate for president and both sixty four and sixty eight, and they campaigned under their own made up party called the Best Party, and they obviously didn't win. They didn't receive some effod jocks and then he had a handful of other appearances one of my favorite as he appeared on the game show to Tell the Truth in the seventies. You know what that show is? No, that was a show in the seventies where there would be three people that would come out and they would like tell their story who they were, and then the contestant would have to be like, yeah, that's the person playing the truth. The other ones are lying. And so he came out and he covered his head and bandages so you couldn't see any of his face. Yeah, and so he's completely like you don't see any of him. The two people standing next to him are major A list actors, and so they came out and the major A list actors told the truth. They said exactly who they were, and then he made up this crazy story about how like he lost his face or something and had these bandages. Yeah, but you can't and not a single person can be like you know what I'm saying sends it up where it's like or it's like I think the victims lying on National TV. There's no scenario you could be like stand up, you know, like you can't do. It's Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jennifer Lawrence and you're like You're like, ah, it's the guy in the middle telling this. And they literally said, I'm like they said who they were, that's not who they were. There were seventies actors that I that's not what we want to want to get. What is this twenty thirteen video games just coming? Putting it in monitor Jennifer all our from our playbook, you know, I talking about you know the new movie that just came out with Jennifer Lawrence. Were you talking about putting it in words? But everyone here, what are you stupid? You can't afford this. He also started uh Omar's School for Beggars uh and so this was pretty late in his career. It was like he started it in the late He started in seventy five, ran it through nineteen eighty eight. And he would go and same thing. He would do TV appearances about how he was training homeless people to may and he had like a school that he would teach them. But here's the thing. People knew him now at this point, like he's like known for being the guy who goes on TV and lies and so all this I want to be known for. It's so bad all the TV companies had not I'm not even getting posters of him on the wall, and they like, do not let this guy on set? And so now it's a challenge. So now he's going on for He's going on, yeah, I teach almost people we homeless. So he he because of what he's doing, he tells them that he has to conceal his identity. So he's going on national TV dressed like this to this like a ball knobbery, and he's saying, I'm Obar, and I teach bankers out of bank and they're letting TV like that. And he's sitting on a morning show at a barding showing you turn on your TV, it's Rachel Ray, that scary person. Nah, today's news. That's how they all talked. We've got Omar who teaches homeless people how to do it better. Yeah, I tell him, I tell them if they extend their arm here, you know. But people don't like it when you come from above and like hey you got any money. They like it when you go hey you got any money there? And so a lot of people are starting to figure out what he was doing because he went on lots of shows as Omar, and one is he making money on this? What do you mean? How's he making money from being omar? You know, that's the thing he's not. We'll touch on that in a minute, okay, But one of them specifically, he's on the show and the host gets really mad at him because he comes out like he invites him out and he comes out out on stage live in front of the studio audience on television, and he brings the guy's lunch. He got it from the fridge and he just eats the guy's lunch right in front of life d in that math have the name on it and everything, and he's like, is that by lunch? And he's like, oh, I might be. I think, so is this your name? I thought that was read. Uh the sticker says, I what I didn't think. So in seventy nine, he faked his own death and he got obviously the New York Times to publish his obituary, and then he came out and he said, uh yeah. He came out on January third, nineteen eighty, just a couple of days later, and announced in a news conference. He called a press conference, and like there's like it's in front of the city all or something. He walks out, He walks out and he says the report four Seasons Guardian, and he says, and I've heard this phrase before, and I'm curious if this is where it originated or if he's using it. Very curious, but he says, the reports of my demise have been grossly exaggerated. Okay. He also hired a group of seven people to go to Phil Donahue's show in nineteen eighty five and be in the studio audience and faint. They all just started fainting, and they panicked so much during this live broadcast that they thought it. They were like, it must be too hot in here, and so they kicked the whole audience out and had a whole episode without the audience because these dudes pretended to faint in the crowd. And so this is just this is a lot of good stuff. He goes on to do all sorts of stuff like this, many many more, just random hoaxes and pranks and things like that. And then in two thousand and four, his daughter produces a film for this not sun Dance Slam Dance film festival called uh Uh. It was called uh Caine Raised Able, and it was a documentary about her dad. And I watched it and the very first line, and she said, growing up, we never had very much money. And I didn't understand why until I was older. Then I realized my dad just didn't want to have a job. And so she said that they were they were freelance writers and that's where the money came from. But they spent the majority of their time just the two of them coming up with these stupid pranks and getting on TV, him and his him and his wife, and so his wife was like, yeah, honestly they loved it. But yeah, And so at the point when she was producing this film, she was trying to get a home for them because they were they didn't have a home at that point. They were living out of a storage unit. They were sleeping on storage unit. But some of those most probably at the time of the documentary, Yeah, in two thousand and five. So this is like at the he's old. Yeah, at the end of their life in a storage unit. Yes, yeah, man, I was really looking after this guy. Yeah, I mean to be Fairy accomplished a lot except for the whole like personal life thing, the person's personal life with disaster, but the things he did pretty crazy. Pretty unless unless he's playing a long game trying to get on an episode of Storage Wars. He's like one day, one day, I'll be there and they're like it's a weird mannequin. And he's just back there, like just waiting for the closer. They close it and they still they're like, oh, yeah, I'll bid this, bid this for whatever. Yeah, and then he just walks up and starts banging on the door. Oh man, that's a great episode of Storage Wars. Uh. But yeah, this is him. I've watched every episode of Storage Wars. But the way this is him, uh Storage. He passed away in twenty eighteen. This is the very end of his life. He looked happy though. Yeah, he was good. How old he is, yeah, and look how happy his face is. He played percussion in the band in college, I hope, and uh pretty clear with all the percussion stuff, and he was like, he's like, that was my one true passion was percussion, Okay, but he missed it and instead did everything else he did. Okay, I'm gonna tell you this as a percussionist. If someone wanted to do a photo shoot of me in my percussion stuff, the triangle is the last thing I'm picking up for this photo shoot. I'm not gonna be like, you know that my mic. You know what, I've done a lot in my life. Yes, I live in a storage unit, but I still got a little bit of pride, right, Show me playing, let me get my try something better than the triangle I played? Yeah, there you go. Yeah, that's another one. Play the rainstick. Come on, dude, I'd rather hold a rainstick than the try. It rains. It's pretty sick. That's pretty good anyways. Uh, that's uh, that's a Society for the Indecency to Naked Animals. He said that they originally wanted to call it the Society against Indecency to Naked Animals, but then that'd be sianna. And he said, sinna is what I wanted it to be. So he had to change it to four. And he's like, that's a little confusing, but we had to stick with it. And that's sin that is how he pronounced it. Yes, because then my animals are sinners. Yes, that's the idea. Okay. Uh. And so that's the story of Alan Abel. His career got kicked off in a pretty crazy way. And I don't know if you could call it a career because I don't know if the money from it. Career is a word his lifelong hobby. I guess, oh yeah, it's kind of like whatever that we're doing here, you call this. I love this lifelong hobby we've been doing. Anyway, instead of the fiddle off, can we have the John Cena music. I don't think we have the rights for it, but it'd be pretty cool if we're like fiddle off. Yeah, we could just take that fiddle and remix it. So it's the fifth asked Alex to do different stuff with our music, and he does so many episodes and it's like he's like, yeah I can. He's like, I could do that because I have the ability, I'm not going to And he doesn't even sayd not going to it. He just goes, I can do that. Yeah. Well I learned that my hero ended up in a storage unit, so maybe that'll be my life too. Hey, thanks for joining us for things last night. If you like this episode, there's another episode we did called the nineteen oh four Olympics. There is an element of that story where a person one first place and then was like just kidding because he jumped in a car and set a record pace and people were like, that's crazy how fast you ran this race? And then he came out and was like, I I was joking, but there's a lot of other insane things that happened during that race, and it's personally one of my favorite episodes, one of my all time favorites. So please go check that out again. Please share the show. 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