Meet the Cast Monday #38: Animal House Boys (Part II)

And today we're here with Part II of meeting the Animal House Boys. If you missed Part 1, click here to learn about the AHBs in general and to meet Mr. AHB and Pig Farmer.

We'll kick things off today with Trailerpark Bryan. Unlike the other Animal House Boys, this is not a blog-only nickname. No sir, that's what I call him in real life. You see, we met Trailerpark Bryan when Pig Farmer and NM Animal House Boy lived at Donkey Farm.....a nasty old trailer in a trailerpark. Trailerpark Bryan was their neighbor. The name stuck and never went away. He's now a veterinarian and he's seriously one of the kindest, funniest, handiest people you'll ever meet. I didn't worry about fixing anything the whole time I was at OSU. I just called Trailerpark Bryan!
What is your favorite college memory? House parties. {Anyone sensing a theme here?}

What is your favorite memory involving me? Me and Pig Farmer riding in the back of the car going to the strip singing Johnny Cash. {Okay, our senior year those boys watched Walk The Line literally twice a day. No lie. And graduation weekend on the way to the Penny, they started singing the "I've got Arms, You've got Arms" duet to each other in the back seat of my car. It was awesome.}

Best advice you were ever given? Do it, you only live once! {Amen!}

Next up we have the Governor. He earned his name by saying all through college that he wanted to run for governor of Oklahoma. He now says he's over that and enjoys his lobbying job, but I'm still exepcting to visit him in the Governor's Mansion one day. He and his adorable wife were the first of the group to have a baby....Little Princess was born back in 2010.

What is your favorite college memory? Winning 2005 Livestock Judging College National Championship. {Not sure this has been mentioned yet, but all of them with the exception of Trailerpark Bryan were on the judging team that won--with a record setting score--Louisville.}

What is your favorite memory involving me? When you wrote our ag comm paper and how you and my wife and College Roomie had out house decorated when we got home from Louisville. {The ag comm paper...I should probably just plead the 5th and go on, but trust me, it's a great story.}

Best advice you were ever given? Don't burn any bridges and try not to make enemies. {Politician? I think so.}

What is one (or more) item(s)on your bucket list? Go to the Masters golf tournament.

And we'll wrap up the day with the NM Animal House Boy. He and I go way back to about the 8th grade where we were judging against each other in FFA. So he was the link that got me in with the rest of these crazies. He's one of my best friends in the world and I just can't say enough good things about him. He and his wife live in a town that is the definition of the middle of nowhere and just had a baby boy within the last month.

What is your favorite college memory?

I think it is a shame how many of my favorite college memories I do not remember! Some of the funnest times happened in that wonderful college hangout....IHOP. {You've read about this before on my blog.} What we would have done without that place I don't know (Probably sleep!). I remember going there with the Logan crew after Calf Fry when I announced to the entire restaurant on the microphone that Daryl Worley was at IHOP and then we built a tower out of the condiments. When I started talking on the microphone they sure got us a table fast. {He doesn't remember this exactly right. Actually, when he got on the microphone, they KICKED US OUT of the restaurant fast. We had to sneak back in and were never actually seated, we just stole a table that they just bussed and sat down before anyone saw us or asked questions.}

I also remember [two Animal House Boys who shall go un-named for obvious reasons] peeing on each others legs in the bathroom and being embarresed to tell everyone. Of course it started because one was just trying to pee in the drain because the urinals were being used. {I thought this was a code of secrecy, never tell kind of story, but hey, if he typed it, I'm leaving it! I did take the names out...you're welcome boys! This ended with them coming back out of the bathroom, acting strange, and some random guy walking out after then and both of the boys screaming, "You saw NOTHING!"}

I am glad Woody (security gaurd) never shot Mr. Animal House Boy...though I don't think he had a gun which is good because some college student (possiblly one of us) probably would have tryed to take it away to look at it. {I totally forgot about this....how have I not blogged about Woody! Toward the end of our senior year, IHOP got a security guard. I wonder why.... Anyway, he was probably 70 years old and I later learned his name was Wally, but we called him Woody. Mr. Animal House Boy always asked him how he got his shirts so stiff. It really is a miracle he didn't get shot.}

What is your favorite memory involving me? I really like the memory of you coming to pick us up on some tuesday night when Mr. Animal House Boy and I swore we were going to go have a few beers (early), play a little pool, go home early get some sleep, and go to class the next day. {Mind you, early meant 5:00 pm. And on a Tuesday.} Funny how that always resulted in a free ride home from Tiffany at 2 in the morning. I am glad you can drive well with your eyes covered from the backseat or with somone with a rug mark on his forehead is ready to kill someone! {Two stories here. First, NM Animal House Boy thought it was hilarious to sit in the back seat and cover my eyes and yell "Guess who!?!" while I was driving. Not once.....EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. Second, he got the rug burn on his forehead after a wrestling match with Mr. Animal House Boy. Mr. AHB tackled NM AHB and drove his head into the ground, leaving a huge rug burn. So NM Animal House Boy choked Mr. Animal House Boy until he passed out. They're still like best friends.}

Tell us one thing you did to throw the best house parties.

Unlike Mr. Animal House Boy our best parties were well planned...up to the point of Pig Farmer drawing a map on the chalk board in the animal science lab we were teaching to invite everyone to come. This makes me think of another college memory. I have no idea how a floor could get that dirty. Our Kitchen floor would literally have an inch of muck and mad on it the day after a house party. {This one is on Trailerpark Bryan who always thought he needed eggs at 2:00 in the morning.}

Give us a piece of relationship advice. Someone in a relationship always has the HAND. If neither person has the HAND that is the person to marry. {He preached this non-stop in college. I can't tell you how many relationships we had to analzye for hand.}

And now you guys have met five of my best friends and favorite people in the world. Thanks, boys, for making my life so much more fun!