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Time-Traveling to the '20s and Turbulent Tales for Luke Bryan and Jason Aldeanat 30,000 Feet!
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Imagine waking up in the roaring '20s with nothing but the clothes on your back and a head full of future knowledge. Would you carve out a fortune, or yearn for the creature comforts of the 21st century? We tackle this quirky thought experiment and the surprising results from a survey that asked folks about time-traveling to the past. But first, let's give a stuffed round of applause to Hamme the hamster, whose post-mortem transformation into a taxidermy stripper is sparking debates between being hilariously creepy and morbidly adorable. It's a wild romp through nostalgia and novelty you won't want to miss.
Fasten your seatbelt for a second chapter that takes a nosedive into fear and confession at 30,000 feet—a nod to the unforgettable turbulence scene from "Almost Famous." We swap terrifying tales of in-flight emergencies with a side of celebrity vulnerability, pondering whether the fame magnifies the fear. The discussion takes a lighter turn at a Dairy Queen drive-thru, where we chew over bands sharing small planes. It's a rollicking good time filled with rock 'n' roll, revelations, and the occasional reality check, so be sure to tune in for a listen that's anything but ordinary.
Hamme's Time-Traveling Stuffed Stripper Resurrection
Speaker 1Welcome to Eden and Amadeus . The podcast .
Speaker 2So we have a couple of things that today , specifically , we didn't get deeply into on our show , just kind of brushed on them . One of them , we got a little bit into it , but not nearly what we would have if we were on the podcast Because of the trigger warning we felt like we needed to put out about Hamme the hamster . So shall we relay the story of Hamme the hamster's ?
Speaker 1demise and resurrection . There was a lady in the UK who had this hamster that she loved named Hamme , and so she didn't do anything to the hamster , but it naturally passed away .
Speaker 2As hamsters do .
Speaker 1They do . There's a very short shelf life . So she decided that she wanted to have this thing stuffed and keep it around forever , like just something to have . So she had it stuffed and apparently you said in that town that she's from . There's something with strippers .
Speaker 2Yeah , there's some kind of , I think , political thing going on where they're trying to I don't know if they're trying to like eliminate any of the strip joints . There's something happening there to where this is something that she feels is a topic she wanted to be a part of .
Speaker 1So she put Hamme on ice . She found a taxidermist that would come and pick up Hamme , take him away , and when , when he's returned , he is this little stripper on a little stripper pole with this what do you call it ? A bell jar glass .
Speaker 2Yeah , like the one in Beauty and the Beast , where they put the jar over the rose . It's , but now it's Hamme .
Speaker 1And so Hamme is a stripper . He's on a mirrored floor with all these little dollar bills around holding onto the pole . The only thing he's missing , I thought maybe I did he have sunglasses on Did he .
Speaker 2I have to look at Hamme's picture .
Speaker 1I was going to go back and look too , and because sometimes they have beady eyes when they're stuffed and I couldn't remember what the eyes look like because it was so tiny .
Speaker 2Yeah , you know what I want to . I was going to go pull up a picture of Hamme , but you can't see that , so you'll just have to take our word for it , but I think it's really , really cute .
Speaker 1I think he . I feel like you could almost sell these Like they're so novelty .
Speaker 2Well , I mean , if you're the kind of person who enjoys when you go out to a restaurant , if they have a lot of these taxidermy , I don't know what you would stuffed . Stuffed animals , not stuffed animals , like the little kind beanie , baby kind .
Speaker 1Like the legit , literally stuffed animals .
Speaker 2Once I was alive and now I am not stuffed animals , so if that's something that doesn't bother you , to me it creeped me out because , as somebody who had hamsters , you never really can see their legs , but I guess that they're pretty long . And so Hamme has got one arm outstretched one's holding the pole and the other one's like outstretched , and it's so long and bony .
Speaker 1It's disturbing to me . It is a little creepy , but I feel like it's also a little cute , more than creepy . If I had to balance it out , I would be like 60% cute , 40% creepy .
Speaker 2You know , I think I'd say 70% creepy Really .
Speaker 1They're just as cute . Yeah , more creepy than cute .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , I have to say Cause I feel like I'm going to go with public opinion on that one .
Speaker 1I'm on the other side of that . I will buck the system .
Speaker 2Another story that we didn't get to in depth was this survey that was done , where they asked a bunch of people the first thing you would do if you woke up 100 years ago . In other words , it wasn't 2024 , it was actually 1924 . And most people said try to find a way back to 2024 .
Speaker 1Yeah , absolutely Like . How did this happen ?
Speaker 2This is like a bizarre movie , Okay but let's take that off the table , because the second thing people said was find a way to strike it rich .
Speaker 1with the knowledge that I have , that's the first thing I thought of as well . You're coming right off World War II , you know you're five years away from the depression , so what can I invest in or what can I do ? What can I build up to get ready for this impending doom ?
Speaker 2Yeah , exactly Now . If you knew , if you're really good with your sports stats , you could certainly bet on a lot of games too Sporting games horse racing and all that kind of stuff .
Speaker 1Oh yeah , I guess there was horse racing yeah .
Speaker 2And they have in 1924, . What else did they have ? Baseball right .
Speaker 1I guess Did they . Could you bet on it ? I don't know . I don't know either .
Speaker 2I'm trying to think back . I don't know , I don't know , I don't know .
Speaker 1I don't know if it's for me . Even if you could , I couldn't tell you who won last year's World Series . That's what I mean , unless you had some kind of book with you or some kind of way to access that you wouldn't have the internet , yeah . You wouldn't be able to look up anything .
Speaker 2You know what ? Because I'm thinking in terms of I read that Stephen King book where he goes back to I think it's the 60s because he's trying to prevent the assassination of JFK , and I think that in my mind I was thinking that , where there's a lot more memorable things , that have happened in the sporting world . And so he does do that , he bets on some things so that he has some money , and but as far as , like you could prevent some things , but then you change everything .
Speaker 1I can't even think of what happened in 24 that I could prevent .
Speaker 2Yeah , I mean it's too late to keep the Titanic from sinking .
Speaker 1Yeah , and you can't stop the depression from happening , you're just yourself waking up in that time .
Speaker 2So what are you going to do ? What ? Are you going to do in your little life ?
Speaker 1Again , I would , just with the knowledge that Black Friday is coming , you know , in 1929 , I've got five years to build some wealth and stockpile some food and get ready for this , for this period , this darkest period of American history .
Speaker 2Maybe you could invent something , though that's already been invented .
Speaker 1Oh , that's good .
Speaker 2You could be like hey , I have a great idea , but wouldn't that change things too . Yeah would , but nobody said you couldn't change anything . I'm just saying like you probably shouldn't .
Speaker 1Then I'd invent the internet . That's it .
Speaker 2Okay , how are you going to do that ? I don't know . Can anyone get me some wire and maybe a bungee cord , and I could ? Use a little bit of you know three screws yeah .
Speaker 1I don't know . I mean I don't know what I would invent .
Speaker 2I mean that I wouldn't even know how to dress . I would open up a closet and I'd be like I wouldn't even know what to dress and I think you would really think people smelled that because people didn't shower like the way they do now .
Speaker 1Yeah , you're probably right , there's a lot of things that would be so weird . I do not want to wake up in 1924 .
Speaker 2I don't think it would be pleasant at all .
Speaker 1I think I'd have to .
Speaker 2I mean also , how would you find a way back ? Yeah , what do you know ? You don't know about anything .
Speaker 1I don't know nothing . I don't know nothing . But now I am thinking like again . I feel like all I could do would be to prepare for what's coming . You know , we think a lot about the zombie apocalypse or whatever . All the movies and everything we see now is getting ready for that next big thing and I feel like we've had 10 or 15 years of learning about how to get ready for that .
Speaker 1And if you know zombies no , no , but for the depression . Oh , okay , if you know it's coming . Those guys didn't know it's coming , they weren't ready , they didn't have any kind of emergency fund or any food stocked up or anything . If you went somewhere , like in the mountains and you just started stocking up food and money , you'd be ready , yeah .
Speaker 2You'd be ready , people would think you were crazy , like we do now for all the people that are- .
Speaker 1Those doomsday preppers .
Speaker 2Doomsday preppers .
Speaker 1Hey , maybe they know something we don't know .
Speaker 2Maybe they're from the future . What ?
Speaker 1if they woke up 100 years before and they're like that's what I mean . Maybe that's them , yeah .
Speaker 2Maybe they're a couple of morning show hosts from 30 no 20 .
Speaker 1Yeah , 30 , 20. , 30 , 24 . Yeah , yeah , that's the case . No way , that's 1,000 years .
Speaker 2OK .
Speaker 1It'd be 21 .
Speaker 221 , 30 .
Speaker 1We can't even do math . How are we going to survive ?
Speaker 2How are you going to invent the internet ? Oh my goodness , this is why we do radio and not science of any kind .
Speaker 1So I don't know .
Speaker 2All right . So what else did we cover ?
Speaker 1I think we covered a lot of good stuff this morning .
Speaker 2Yeah , we did have a lot of good stuff . It's a Blue Monday . We talked a little bit about that . Yeah , that's a day that , for so many reasons , you're supposed to be more depressed than on other days .
Speaker 1I don't . I really I gotta say we talked about this off the air . I don't like that Blue Monday falls on the same day as MLK Day .
Speaker 2I don't think it's right either .
Speaker 1They could have moved it to a different day .
Speaker 2Yeah , I don't know Because it feels pretty random .
Speaker 1anyway it is yeah , I mean , I get what they're saying .
Speaker 2They're like OK , this is about the time that you . It's a Monday , so that stinks . It's coming off of the holidays , the holidays . You've given up on your resolution . You're paying your bills , but at the same time , it's also a day that is meant to be a day of service . So yeah , it's weird .
Speaker 1There's one more thing that we could talk about real briefly , and that's the fact that Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean were on a plane together . They were on a hunting trip and the plane had some some technical problems and the end Listen nothing bad happened . But when we both saw the story , the same thing was on both of our minds what are these two massive , massive country music superstars doing on the same plane and that kind of weather ?
Speaker 2I agree completely with that . I think it's ridiculous when we when you listen back to the song like American Pie , I mean , there are some parents of small kids that won't even fly in the same plane . If they're going , if their kids aren't with them , they won't even fly in the same plane . We can't have Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan , american Pie us . I mean we just can't .
Speaker 1Yeah , absolutely . There's a reason that the president and the vice president don't fly together . Yeah , someone's got to be in charge , and I believe for the last 10 , maybe 15 years , those are the two most successful artists in country music .
Speaker 2We can't have it .
Speaker 1Can not have it .
Speaker 2You cannot fly together , and I bet now that they went live on Instagram to talk about the fact that their plane had to come back for an emergency landing . I bet there are enough people that have said to them no more of that nonsense .
Fear of Plane Troubles for Superstars
Speaker 2Did you ever see ?
Speaker 1almost famous . Yes , do you remember that scene ?
Speaker 2on the plane ? No , no .
Speaker 1They were on a plane and they and it was , it was going down , yeah they were all yeah , and they were admitting things .
Speaker 2And they were admitting things , yeah .
Speaker 1I think it was the drummer from the back who was like I'm gay . And then , as soon as he did , like everything calmed down .
Speaker 2I don't remember that particularly .
Speaker 1I think they were all admitting like sleeping with each other's girlfriends , all these things they had done , and then he just blurts out that and then the weather , just like suddenly everything got better . So , yeah , I got to tell you that's . One of my biggest fears is to be on a plane and there would be some kind of problem like that . I can't imagine with them being superstars . What went through their heads ? Yeah . And they were like this is a headline .
Speaker 2I don't know how , harry , it really was , other than that pilot was like , okay , we're going to turn around and go back , because they were telling the story from the Dairy Queen drive-thru . And laughing and laughing about it , but still it does pose the question Are you guys regularly going to get on a small plane together moving forward ? Cause terrible idea .
Speaker 1That answers got to be no . All right everyone .
Speaker 2Now you know what we think about that and we appreciate you listening to our little podcast and remember you can always hear our radio show on 99.9 Gator country If you're in Jacksonville , and if you're not , ask Alexa , go download the app . She can do anything and we appreciate you , thanks .