Kenny Mayne has lived an interesting life and he’s getting a chance to share more and more of his stories.
This week, Mayne had the opportunity to chat with the great Christopher Guest on the newest episode of Audacy’s Hey Mayne podcast.
Guest is known for being an actor and director in the film world, but he's also a fly fishing enthusiast. That allowed Mayne to share a funny story from his younger days growing up in Star Lake near Seattle.
“My nephew Troy was born blind and I used to take him out doing fun things, and one of them was fishing. We almost never would catch anything. We’d sit at the end of the dock and make too much noise. Nothing would happen,” Mayne said (27:20 in player above).
“So one day I decided I’m going to stop at Safeway and bought an already caught fish, put it on his line, and pretend he caught it. And then he’ll get the thrill of having caught a fishing,” Mayne continued. “Morally in the fishing universe was it OK that I did that?”
“Wow,” Guest replied. “Putting the word ‘moral’ in anything about fishing is a curious idea. I think you went a little deep on that. I think you were being a kind person. I don’t know how it all turned out in the end.”
Luckily, Mayne’s nephew isn’t finding out like the rest of us did via this podcast.
“I told him the truth later,” Mayne replied. “It’s similar to when my sister got contact lenses in seventh/eighth grade and she lost them somewhere. So she stood at the end of the dock on a summer day, a day or two afterward, having not admitted she lost her contacts, knowing that I would shove her in the lake. Then she could blame it on me. And that was the exact same spot that the trout from Safeway was caught, or not caught,” Mayne chuckled.
“Obviously someone needs to do a biopic about your life as I’m finding out,” Guest said. “This is like a little psychology podcast here.”
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