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Comedy Club Days, Aunt Becky, and Texas Executions
from Episode 149 - Ron Bennington (Live from Moontower) · #149
3 min
Ron recalls running a Tampa comedy club during comedy's drug-fueled heyday, they joke about wanting Lori Loughlin (Aunt Becky) executed, and riff on a Texas execution of a 21-year-old case and Florida's rotating aliases culture.
- Tim discusses opening a comedy club in Tampa and the era when comedy was cool because people were doing drugs and money laundering.
- Comedy isn't cool anymore because nobody's on drugs or dying, unlike back when it was actually interesting.
- Audience member wants to see Aunt Becky go to jail; Tim explores how much punishment would satisfy real Texas justice.
- Texas executed someone today for a crime committed twenty-one years ago, and the person wasn't even sure it was him.
- Death penalty in Texas is now administered by headlock rather than the electric chair.
- Tim has changed his name three times and doesn't know who he is anymore, constantly moving to avoid being identified.
- His cousin in Florida moves to a different town every six months, always choosing names that sound nicer than the reality.
- Cousin told him at a Chili's in Delray Beach that she loves the family but loves heroin more.