What Do You Get When You Cross a State Trooper and a Game Warden?

Happy hump day everybody!

Hope you’re hanging in there, busy week ahead. Halloween is Saturday, that will be followed by Sunday and then the dreaded Monday. But enough with the early morning pleasantries, let’s jump in, shall we?

So, yesterday Cousin Fred and I continued working on our new reality show idea we’re tentatively calling “Art in Pubic Places Race”.  Step 2 in that web guide of pitching a reality show to important television moguls is to “Create a format for your show,” which the guide describes as providing an outline of what will happen during the show.

Okay, well that’s easy enough.  Naked people will race between the thirteen statues spread across Cosmic City, avoiding law enforcement and the subpoena slapping Arts Commission attorney along the way.  One team per week, at the end of the season we’ll figure out who had the best time and they win prizes.

Hmmmm…yeah, I see now that’s kind of lame.  I suggested to Cousin Fred that maybe instead of having the racers take a time-stamped selfie at each statue, perhaps we’ll have a dance contest.  We’ll have a real panel of clothed judges sitting there and making copious notes, but not saying anything substantive.
Nah, still doesn’t work does it? Maybe we need to figure out a way to eliminate contestants.  Yeah, that’s it…vote naked racers off the team.

Eh, I guess the idea still needs a bit of polishing to get it done.  The TV show “Naked and Afraid” didn’t just pop out of a guy’s head during a meeting or something.  Well, actually it did.  Sigh…back to storyboarding.

In case you’ve been wondering why Cousin Fred is still hanging around, he’s really excited about the upcoming Junior Brown show at the Woodward Arts Theatre downtown in November (14th).  Tickets are only $50 and include a reception and an opportunity to meet the man!

Proceeds go the Plains Indians & Pioneers Museum and the Woodward Arts & Theatre Council.
I knew I had heard of Junior Brown, but wasn’t all that familiar with the music.  Cousin Fred, during a break from writing our reality show, played some of his videos on YouTube.  I have to admit, I was hooked.  He’s a great guitarist and one of those guys for whom it’s tough to pigeonhole in a particular genre. 

Probably his biggest hit was the song, “I’m the Highway Patrol”…speaking of the Highway Patrol…
So, did you hear about the State Troopers and Oklahoma Game Warden who were disciplined for drinking too much and having extramarital sex during a narcotics assault training course being put on by the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics? 

I know, sounds like the start to bad joke, doesn’t it?  Six State Troopers and a Game Warden go into a bar…

Or, maybe, what do you get when you cross a State Trooper with a Game Warden?  A gamey trooper. Nyuk, nyuk.

NewsOK.com broke the story about the fun at Camp Gruber…Camp Gruber, eh?  How come Camp Gruber wasn’t on the list of places for my parents to ship me off during the summer when I was a kid? 4-H camp was held at Boiling Springs.  Nothing like this every happened.  Oh sure, there was the occasional raccoon tipping over trash cans, but drinking to excess and illicit sex?  Eh, that didn’t happen. 

One trooper was fired and two others resigned.  Three other troopers were given suspensions, but remain on the job as does the female game warden who was also suspended.  Ahem…by the way, she is the wife of a State Trooper who was not present at Camp.

Believe I read in the article that sex between one of the troopers and the game warden was termed an accident.  An accident?  How in the world do you have accidental intercourse?  I’m pretty certain you have to make an appointment for that.  But, hey, what do I know?

Okay, I’m back to working on pitching our idea for a reality show.  I’ll make Cosmic City famous…you’ll see.

Please don’t forget to get your tickets for the Junior Brown show November 14th.  Tickets are available at outhousetickets.com or by calling the Theatre at 580-256-7120 (assuming the phones are back on).  See you there!