Greg Cote was never a full-fledged hippie, but if he saw someone thumbin', he'd be sure they had something to torch up. Greg walks us through the golden age of hitchhiking, back before murderers went and ruined everything. Also, do the Cubans have the best finger foods? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the origins of tequila?
Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here?
Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.
Cuervo.
Cuervo.
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Chapter 2: How did hitchhiking become popular in America?
What'd you do it for? Just a thrill or you need to get somewhere?
I needed to get somewhere. That was back in the day. And the Opel GT station wagon was in the shop. I had to get someplace. It's not that different than Uber, right?
You're getting in a stranger's car.
You don't know that stranger. That's a very good point by Billy. Because he's right. Everybody thinks, oh, hitchhiking. How dangerous. Who would do that? You're calling an Uber. You got a total stranger picking you up in God knows what kind of vehicle. Yeah.
Well, you usually know because it'll tell you.
Hey, you know, everything's a dice roll nowadays.
Exactly right.
It's really not.
You get an exact license plate. No, sometimes you look and they tell you, no, the other car's in the shop. You're like, I hope this person's telling me the truth. Right. Murders and rapists really ruin hitchhiking, huh? I guess they ruin everything for the most part.
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Chapter 3: What were the dangers associated with hitchhiking?
Are you saying that they made it better, Dan? That's a take. I'm putting up a poll question.
I'm not saying anything. I'm just putting up a funny poll question. You and Greg Cody talking about hitchhikers and Greg specifically talking about his tawdry past that I want Chris, the investigator, to continue asking him questions because it seems like Greg was only getting into cars and then bumming weed off of people. It doesn't seem...
No, it seems like he had this standard that if he was going to pick up a hitchhiker, they needed to have something to smoke. But when he was hitchhiking, he never felt the need to supply, like, hey, I got something we could smoke. No, I mean, come on, you didn't carry it around. But you're saying that you were hoping someone that was hitchhiking did carry it around.
During your most dangerous days, because you really are looking back fondly at what a rascal you were, at what a scoundrel you were back when you were a hippie hitchhiker. Yeah.
What I'm trying to convey is that back then, it was pretty common. Okay, it was common. So it's like, I got to go to the store. What are my options? I could drive or I could just go out and hitchhike? You did it a couple of times. You know, I'm not overselling it. I didn't spend... Nobody spends 10 years hitchhiking, okay? Hitchhiking is sort of a sad thing.
You do it when your car's beat up and broke down or you do it just, you know, you pick up somebody for ulterior reasons, right? which in my case had to do with, you know, a puff here, a puff there. Did people ever have the thing from Pee Wee Herman, like the stick and the little thing attached to it? No. You're talking about hobo. I did ride the rails for a time. Did you? Geez. Is that so?
You never know, Greg. You've lived a colorful life. You know, my dad hitchhiked from Sudan to Europe. What? Yeah. Like just ferries and boats and trucks and stuff like that all the way through. Didn't even speak the language.
If you take a ferry, is it hitchhiking? Can we put that on the poll? I mean... How do you hitchhike on a boat? I think it's possible.
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Chapter 4: Did hitchhiking have a cultural significance in the past?
Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Can you hitchhike on a boat at Levitard Show? Or can you hitchhike... Not on a boat. It would be hitchhiking near a boat.
In the ocean with your thumb up like, hey!
Hey, cruise ship!
Stop!
All right, you guys, though, this is the problem. Things are moving a little too fast. I think you guys all missed Greg Cody adding another catchphrase to his repertoire, and you guys didn't even hear it.
What was it?
A little dab will do you. Oh!
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Chapter 5: What stories does Greg Cody share about his hitchhiking experiences?
Brill cream!
He blew it in under his breath and nobody heard it because there were too many shots going off around here. And I don't even understand the context you were using it in because I've never heard you say that before.
Right. Yeah, it's a popular phrase from back in the day. Brill cream, a little dab will do you. You know, in this case, you know, you take a puff. You know, the joints were passed around. You have a puff, a little devil, do you?
Okay, you mentioned this already.
How would that work? You just, like, the person gets in, you're like, got any grass?
I don't totally believe him all of a sudden. What? He's talking a big game. The story's got so few details that now I think he's just making up stories we can't verify that he hasn't hitchhiked.
What do you mean a detail?
What do you want? This is nerd. Put it on the poll, Juju, at Levitard Show. Is hitchhiking kind of sad?
Dad, give us a detailed story of you picking someone up. They had weed to smoke.
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Chapter 6: How have attitudes towards hitchhiking changed over time?
There you go.
I like him.
I like him.
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Chapter 7: What modern alternatives exist to hitchhiking?
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Don Libetard. Surely every time you're watching this, you recognize that your wife is laughing that she married Larry David.
I do, yeah. One of the great characters in the history of television, in my humble opinion. And to my credit, my personality... In my humble opinion, followed by to my credit. To my credit. It's amazing. My personality does predate Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Stugatz. Oh, wow.
I'm not going to say Larry David patterned himself after me.
All right, put it on the poll, please, Jude. You did, Greg Cody, copyright being an asshole long before Larry David.
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Billy, you saw Gronk on a scooter this weekend?
I saw a video of Gronk on a scooter, but it was around this area. This would be a good area for Gronk to be on a scooter.
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Chapter 8: What humorous anecdotes arise during the discussion?
And I think he hit the car that was, like, doing a video of him with the joking, watch where you're going, asshole.
Classic move. Ah, nice. Classic move. Well, he's, as you can see, going, you know, in between lanes, possibly down the wrong side of the road.
Again, none of this is safe. This is... Safe to the other people, right? This is not safe for anybody involved.
He's just cutting across an intersection there. Grog's fine. As this video ends, he is just illegally cutting across an intersection. What'd you guys do?
Jeez, what is with you guys and laws today? Do me the favor, please. Just do me the favor. Find for me whether electric bike hospitalizations are up. They must be. They have to be.
Because I'm constantly hearing bikes that weren't meant to move that fast that are heavy moving at a high rate of speed, making a noise that makes them like vehicles that if you crash on them, you're going to break bones.
Dan, I don't know if you know this, so in Santa Monica... And hospitalizations did go up. They ended up having to ban these things. But it wasn't what you think. It wasn't because people were crashing. It's because the users would get done and then they would splay them all over the sidewalk and elderly people walking would trip over them.
And so there was an increase in hospitalizations due to that, not because of people. I don't believe that story you're telling.
No, I do. No, that is ridiculous. You're going to have to get out of here. No, no, get out of here. That story's not in any way true.
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