when you grow up in a small town you end up doing weird stuff just to pass the time I’m just a fourtner from Livonia Michigan let’s talk about that good mythical morning this episode is brought to you by snow makers of fine musical iPhone and iPad apps including songify we are doing a contest right now we announced that last week we’re asking you to song a thigh an original GMM jingle using the song if I app you send that to us details are in the description of how that works but you can win mythical shoes and $100 itunes gift certificate the entries are flowing in like this one well go go watch good mythical morning Rhett link stop chill in the morning when do you watch this in the morning mythical mystical mythical about thanks for participating it’s easy and it’s potentially free if you go about it correctly so participate you might win something have a good time that’s what this is about participating and having good time having a good time just listening to him Oh today we’re gonna reminisce about small town life in the news recently the smallest town in America was sold Beaufort Wyoming population 1 it’s a small town one man lived in the town of Buford had his own zip code sold the town at auction an unidentified businessman from Vietnam purchased the town for $900,000 let’s just shy of a million dollars probably my uncle you have a Vietnamese uncle I do and he’s in there he’s really into buying small town so I need to call him so he hasn’t said what he’s gonna do with the town he hasn’t even said who he is what means I’m identified so one man sold the town to another what’s in the town well there’s a gas station an old schoolhouse from 1905 and a three-bedroom house that I guess the guy lived in and it had a garage that’s it at the gas station there were a few mailboxes that people from like outside of the town will come in and get their mail well I think that he’s gonna move his family to the town they’re gonna live in three-bedroom house the kids are gonna go to the school his wife is gonna teach him and he’s going to work at the gas station it’s it’s a simple life yeah where do I sign up why you don’t have $900,000 I just want to I want to be like the teacher’s assistant at the school or that maybe let the gas attendant the guy who’s selling the town says that he’s gonna write a book about his experiences in the town I guess looking out his three bedroom window at the old schoolhouse and like yeah that’s that’s a great book how I sold a talent to a man in Vietnam for $900,000 and you can – oh so so gotta buy the town first though yeah that’s your inherited so it reminded me of growing up in the town of Buies Creek you know that’s where we grew up now it was a population of more than one yeah but it was still a very small town so share in the comments your experience if you grew up in a small town I was born in a small town mm-hmm and I live in small town Paula died in a small town so snow snow computer TV computer yeah computer t I don’t remember that part that must’ve been the Vietnamese version of that song John Cougar Mellencamp man I mean that’s a great he still lives in a small town and in Indiana yeah yeah I so Buies Creek was uh well it was it near it was up as a population I think at the time we were there it’s it’s about a that it’s less than a thousand people but then there is pretty much the reason that Buies Creek is Buies Creek it is a town is Campbell University so see ya out of school too but small school in abandoned school built in nineteen oh yeah it’s actually a University and it you know home of the fighting camels the Campbell University fighting camels out of the mascots a lot has changed there but there’s a sign when you come into Buies Creek at least there was when I grew up there right there next to the shortstop and it said welcome to Buies Creek home of the fighting camels and one day as I was being taken to school I think actually that day my dad was taking me to school he would take me to school sometimes and then go to work at Campbell University where he was teaching mm-hmm they had somebody who changed the sign they had left the f-from fighting in the sea from camels oh where they had changed it to welcome to Buies Creek home of the fat chicks which which you know was their truth to that I’m not at liberty to say bye you know it’s just a little student prank and a you know it was a small town if it wasn’t for Campbell University it would be nothing but I mean because the camel University there was at least a shortstop that was a gas station yeah and this is how small the town was there were no traffic lights but I remember one day there was a huge celebration almost just a flurry amongst the town people because they were putting up a traffic light but it wasn’t a traffic light it was just a caution light there was blinking one blinking yellow light what was yelling all we had in our town it was yellow one direction it was red the other direction oh it says yes he either had to stop her you had to stop or slow down be careful because there’s a slim chance but you might actually meet someone on this road every 80th time that you drive down it so growing up in this town well you know we didn’t we didn’t have a lot to do we lived on opposite sides of the tale and again the town was so small the RET would call me up on the phone who said hey you want it you want to get together you want to ride bikes and I’d say yeah and then we both pick up the phone go outside get on our bikes on opposite sides of town and start riding to the midpoint and so within like seven minutes on our bikes we will have met in the middle of this town in the graveyard anybody see each other we give the bike high-five you know where you go buy one bike and then I go Alinea like that yeah we didn’t we do that we should have them but if we had a mythical handshake we could do that so yes we haven’t decided upon what the mythical handshake will be yet but they’re just what isn’t a lot to do so I remember we would just get on our bikes and we would just ride around in hopes of finding something to do like oh look what’s that on the side of it is that roadkill up there yes like a turn / let’s go check it out let’s go poke it with a stick and see if it pops yeah not you got that is what we did you can have hours of fun with roadkill depending on how fresh it is all right I remember the main thing that we would do is we would find abandoned houses well like a beside the road or even back in the woods you know if if you don’t find any roadkill if you don’t find any abandoned houses you start going into the woods and you’ll find in the middle of the woods with trees growing all around it I’m not talking no driveway no road no nothing just a house oh those were the best from like way back in the day that’s been long abandoned and we would just go up to this house we’d find an open door or window or something and we just go in there and then we just kind of sit would be like well we would hey we’re in an abandoned house in this cool yeah let’s act like we’re having a meeting of some kind let’s milk this for all it’s worth because we probably won’t have anything else to do once we leave and then we were like we would like call attendance link here Rhett at here I but I remember it was R it was real creepy right cause it’d be it they would all look spooky and dilapidated and I remember the first one we went to we just kind of stood outside of it and you we weren’t really prepared to go inside you know you will you go in first oh you go in first no you go in first but sometimes we would find one that I questioned whether or not it was truly abandoned because once you get my trust back because once you go into one abandoned house some of them are obviously abandon there in the woods there’s nothing in them but I remember one time we went in one and like there was like furniture inside us you know it was like it’s like the door was kind of cracked open and it was like I don’t know if some his television was still on nope it wasn’t it wasn’t that fresh yeah like but if maybe was in foreclosure or something but you’d go in there and he’d like I remember opening drawers in the house yeah well it was still abandoned though I remember there were lots of old bottles and stuff in the in the kitchen and you know those old bottles that made out of glass that look like they had different medicines in them I remember there’ll be a lot of those in a bag houses and then on the walls that would be murals painted like people had come in later like they got squatter’s yeah and they would paint murals and whatnot it was kind of like cave paintings yeah but kind of in a modern vagrant kind of a way but that my favorite abandoned house of all was the one that was in there next to the dump you know and there was a silo next to it yeah and some days you would go and you would get in the silo and some days you would go and you’ll get into Bennett house first of all our parents had no idea we were doing this if my kids were like hanging out in old abandoned houses and silos I would like freak out but we just did this every day and so I remember there was that he was close to my house so we went there all the time and then I’m not gonna incriminate this person because he’s probably like a doctor or something now but one of our friends older brother you know I’m gonna put his name in the description he wired the house up with dynamite and blew it up yeah our favorite hangout who’s like hey man I got some dynamite we weren’t there we were not there for the record we were not there when it happened but that was the inspiration for you writing that part of the job description sketch where you talk about umbrella France yeah job reference that’s a description um yeah that was that was the inspiration he blew up like our dream house our dream abandoned house yeah what were we gonna do now you know we have to ride our bikes to find another house if you’re a kid out there watching the show I’m just gonna advise you don’t go in abandoned houses don’t make these mistakes that we made it could be wired with dynamite first of all be safe people be safe oh but if you’re an adult and you’re watching the show we know a lot of adults watch the show what are some of the stuff you did as a child that you now shutter to shutter to think that your kids would do it just creepy the Bandit houses you know you just felt like you think it happened the floor could fall in what is this Rhett gives birth to a baby hippo oh gosh this was a suggestion of someone’s someone had this in their mind yeah I don’t know that this person was Armisen from a small town do we have a doctor in the house think he’s pregnant Russell with a 100 within a hippo think so gosh how did that happen oh let me wrap it in something what should we call him what’s a he oh god I’m gonna name him after you hmm every day I wake up with G mm I saw my day off right you need to get with the program retinol it’ll make your laugh it out Warren and let’s talk about that on to the mythical morning you