SHECKYmagazine columnist Kid Dave Miller sends along pics and his inimitable prose detailing a recent trip with Ron “Tater Salad” White on a one-nighter extraordinaire!
Turns out the jet wasn’t a Lear, but a brand new Raytheon Hawker 400. Close enough.
It had been flown one time. You think new car smell is cool, try new jet smell. The jet seats eight passengers, but there was only 3 of us.
We climbed aboard, taxied into position and the pilot firewalled the throttle. The Hawker climbed like a bottle rocket off the runway and into the instrument conditions above. It seemed like we were in the soup about a minute before coming out on top of a cottony white stratus layer of clouds, on our way to a cruising altitude of 34,000 feet. That’s about 34,000 feet higher than the cruising altitude at which I usually travel to comedy shows.
I was on my way to open a show for one of the most popular comedians of all time, in a chartered business jet, with the pilot tossing me beers. Never in my wildest open mic dreams did I ever picture anything like this happening to me, but thanks to the generosity of one Ron White, it was.
Wallow in the full account of Kid Dave’s trip from Tater’s mansion to a gig in Michigan (with a stopover in Columbus, OH)– all in the space of nine hours!