[Music] And now, a church and other drugs breaking news report brought to you by... The Desperomps. [Music] Locally grown butter lettuce. Locally grown butter lettuce. Hey guys, it's been a while. It's been a while. I've really been thinking, Ken and, uh, that I like said something wrong or that he's been mad lately because he just, has he not been really quiet in the chat? Or is that just me? I don't know, he actually can have time. I'm being patient. He actually contacted me and told me he hates you. Well, I mean, just have the courage to let me know yourself. Don't hide behind silence. What, were you been on vacation? Yeah, so we went up to Michigan for a week visiting my family and getting back to work has just been, uh, crazy trying to catch up and got expanded responsibilities. So I have like, I've been not on my phone nearly as much. I thought, I thought you live in Michigan. No, man, I live in Missouri. Missouri. Wow, I tell everybody that you live in Michigan. Dude, you know, I bet Andrew you've been new. I live in Missouri. She gets confused earlier and they both start with them. Missouri, Missouri. What's Missouri like? Uh, Missouri. Missouri, very good. Very good. Yeah. What city in Missouri? It's called Warnton. It's on I-70 about our last year. You live in Wonton, Missouri? Oh, Warnton. Oh, Warnton. Warnton, Missouri. Excuse me. Warnton, Missouri. Geez. Would you consider that a big town or a small town or a city or a rural? That's small town. Yeah, it's fairly rural. It's growing. The question is, do you have a Walmart? Yeah, we do. Never. Own Walmart. The question is, could I try that in your town? Could I try that in a small town? No, you could not. Okay. Wood would, uh- Same here. Or do you live in a sundown town? I don't know what you mean by sundown. Like where you can't drink after sundown? Is that what you're saying? No, Ben. You guys are really sure. Expill. That's a dryer. Oh, is that a town you're- It's not safe or sundown? Don't be here after sundown. Yeah. Don't- No, no, no. A certain person. A certain- Yeah. Yeah, certain types of people. I don't think it's that bad, but maybe I'm just blind to it. It used to be. There- No, there's- Oh, sure. There still are sundown towns in Texas. I mean, I'm sure it's not like in force, but it's like- They are still- I think- I think Dirty was telling me that like- Beaumont still kind of as a- Or Conro. Excuse me, Conro. I think there used to be a sign. Yeah, I forget though. Y'all live- Y'all are Yankees, so y'all don't really know about that. What's the- What's the- What's the- No, they- Ben's not a- Ben's not a- You're not a Yankee. No, no, me and Ben are- Me and Ben are in this together. It's you two. Well, I'm definitely a Yankee. I'm in New York. Our baseball team is literally the Yankees. Well, all right, Kenneth, how many- What is the Caucasian to minority ratio in your town? Oh, it would probably be '98 to something like that. Holy crap. Wow. You know what's crazy? Like in our area, I would say it's 50/50. We might even- It might even be lower for us, like in the cities that I'm around. Are you talking in African-American or just other minorities? Or both? Honestly, both. Like, we've got quite a diverse town. You know, like not like in the rural country, but in like our closest, bigger cities. Like, they're pretty diverse. New York, that tracks. But go ahead, Kenan. Yeah, I was just saying out of all of my- Please, we're probably- 92/8. Wow. But for African-American specifically, it's 2%. Probably. Wow, man. See, I grew up in Flint, and that was way more- Like, yeah. I was on the outside, sorry. Yeah, it does. Andrew, while we're talking- I'm just sitting in the minority sometimes. Wait, while we're talking, Andrew, look up the demographics for Wharton, Missouri, please. I didn't spell that. I tried and I didn't spell it. I'm sorry. W-A-R-E-N-T-O-N. But some locals call it Wharton. Wait, it's W-A-R-E-T-O-N. So, Wharton? Double- No, double- Orlant. E-N-T-O-N. Hey, wait. Wharton. Oh, double-R's. Don't say double-R, say R-R. Is that a hard R? Oh, geez, dude. Do you remember that Rhett and Link? Was it Rhett and Link where he's like, "Man, I mean, we used to do hard R's all the time." And he was like, "What?" And he was like, "Yeah, you know, like, it started." And he's like, "No, that's not what hard R means." And he's like, "What's a hard R?" That's a different- Yeah, I've got it. All right, go ahead. All right, so as of 20-23, it was- Population was 9,298. Oh, my god. And if I go down to the race in Hispanic origin- See how close that was? White percent is 90.1 percent. Wow. Black or African-Americans, 1.5? Wow. And it's like American-Indian is- Do we wear more races present is like the highest one, and it's like 6.4 percent? Okay, do me next. I know now. I'm just curious. Yeah, this is kind of interesting. What's yours? Brent, Alabama. Brent, Alabama. I am a- That's 1.5 percent. That is- Wow. But only 9,000- That is a small town, man. Holy hell. We might be up to like 11 now. I didn't get quite the same page. Like his was pretty comprehensive, but yours is all right. So it actually says- Is it true? It's only 4,024 people? Does that mean it sounds right? Oh my god. Y'all are some small town- Yokels. Let me see. Racial makeup of the city is 48.93 percent white. 50.02 percent black or African American. That's what I'm talking about. Figured that was- And then it's small percentages of other races, like under 1 percent. Mine, Lafayette, is a population of 222,513. This is of- I think this is- Yeah, okay. 2023, I believe. 67.4 percent white non-Hispanic, and 20- Oh, I'm sorry. No, in 2023, 64 percent white, 27.2 percent African American, 4.9 percent Hispanic. And then, you know, the multiracial native- Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander. It's very small. What is green? Oh, wow. We are- Martian. No, 2 percent Asian. I'm actually surprised at mine. What's yours? I was quite wrong on the- on the- on the erasers. But- So I just use the closest big city, which is Binghamton. And- But we live in that area that's called the triple cities. So there's actually three cities right next to each other. Hey, quit. Quit excusing it, white bread. Go with the numbers. So the Binghamton one, which, you know, is about 30 minutes from me, is 47,617 people. Okay. So that's the population. And it actually says that- It is- He's six- Well, I'm not terribly- He's so- Just say the numbers, man. 60- 60- Relax, buddy. 66.2. Ooh, boy. Uh, 12- Relax. How? 12.9% Black or African American. And then Hispanic is like- Probably like eight to nine percent. Oh, well. And then- Oh, wow. That's a decent Asian population. Well, I'll tell you what, we have a big university here, Binghamton University. It's like a big one. And tons of people from New York City come up here to go to school. So- And a lot of them are Asian and Black probably come up from the city a lot. So that affects- What do you- What are you trying to say? What are you trying to say? Nothing. Nothing, really. So- What are you trying to pull from me? So, Baton Rouge, where I live before, Baton Rouge is 36% white and 55.2% African American, 3.6% Asian, 2.9% Hispanic population, 228,000. Yeah. Absolutely. We need to go to Flint, Michigan now. Oh, okay. We have a- That's why we grow. Population of Jewish students too. Like huge. Like so big that the entire Binghamton University gets every Jewish holiday off. What are you trying to say? I don't- I don't see a lot of- There's a lot of Jewish holidays. (laughing) Oh my god, dude. The poverty rate- This is just- This just popped up. The poverty rate in Flint is 33%. It's- It's 31.7. It's actually 33.3%. There we go with the numbers again. I haven't been talking about it, but I still see the numbers three to four times a day. Okay, and I've been showing Georgia now too. Oh my god. I also- Okay, sorry. Here, here we go. Flint, Michigan before I move on. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Oh yeah. Wow. 55.6 African American 33.7 white. Yep. 5.3 multiracial. All right. Okay. I see. I see. So it looks like Andrew is the only- racist white dude in the group. I think- I think Kennan is. Mute is my- Mute is my- Yeah, mute is my- Yeah, you don't- You don't get a seat at the table. You have nothing to talk about. Hey, hang on. Hang on. Kennan- Kennan's town is 90%. But- Well, but he's from- He's right now. He is from Flint, Michigan. Okay. I mean, if people want to talk about where we're- He literally left San Diego. He fled that- Oh, okay. Went to some place that's not- Yeah, Ben- Ben doesn't get a seat at the table. At the table either. He's from San Diego, dude. Oh my god. I was born there anyway. Okay. Have you all ever heard of the red grid phenomenon? No. It is a- We're about to. Yeah. If you want to Google it, Andrew. It is a thing where people get a perfectly shaped red grid rash on your body somewhere. It looks exactly like- Like dots? No, it's like a- Like diamonds, like a grid. It looks like you've been laying down on like a steel- Right. Yes. But you have not laid on anything and it usually happens after you- Like during the night. And some people think that it's like a sign of alien abduction or something. And it happened to me- It's happened to me once before in my life. Dude, I showed Georgia- Y'all listen, y'all laugh. I believe you- Y'all can get them. They're fucked off from my show, dude. Well, the picture I'm looking at, it's actually dots, not lines. So there's different ones- But the- It has to be a grid is the thing. Yeah, they're evenly spaced. Yeah, I've said- I've actually seen this before on people. People you know, evenly spaced dots. I feel like I have actually seen that. It just comes and it goes away. And so it's like it seems like a contact- Like a dermatitis is some kind. But like there's no good explanation. I don't know, man. Something's happened to me, y'all. Just admit it. You're watching my ascension in real time. I gotta be honest, there's not a lot of data. That's what I'm saying. There's not. That's yeah. It's everyone's- There's groups of people that are like, Hey, this has happened to me. But there's no good- Like scientific explanatory data. Anyway, something's happening to me. And y'all just don't- Y'all are going to laugh it up until one day- I don't think it's going to be an abduction. What do you think it is? I don't know. I don't think it's alien- I don't think it's alien. I'm going to woke up with them. And somebody on the comments said my husband and I both had these at different times. But like none of them are saying aliens. They just want to know why they have them. Yeah. This is a- Did we really talk about demographics for 14 minutes? Is that- Jeez. And for no reason either. For no reason. It's interesting. I guess- That's what the fun of it. Just for the fun of it. I wanted to see, you know, who deserved to have a voice, you know? I think it just started with you wanting to be an canonist racist. Yeah, that's not hard. All I got to do is just look up his Google search history. Dude, just so I want to make, you know, the Game Rocket League. Are you familiar at all? Actually, we have heard of that reference. Thank you for talking about something we know about it. Excellent. Excellent. Okay. So I want to make a book of the- I want to do the funniest screen names I see, gamer tags, and then like do an illustration of them. And to date, the funniest one I've ever seen was just a dude named racist Brian. It just said one word racist Brian. And I laughed so hard, dude. It's just so on the nose and I'm sorry. Like racism is not funny, but that is hilarious. The like, okay guy. Like way to lead with your chin on that one. And I'm sure it was a troll. Or it was a dude named Brian who was just incredibly racist and he wanted everyone to know he laughed. Yeah, he can't handle it in his, I can't try that in a small town. All right. So the reason I've convened the council, the council of four, we need a better name than just I want something like the, yeah, the council of four, you like the council of four? The elders. Yeah, I've convened the elders. If the group is the congregation. Ah, yes. Well, elders is better than deacons. Okay, I wasn't sure. Isn't. Okay. So the elders, I've called the elders of the congregation together because a crazy fucking thing has happened. How much, so I've just kind of said fuck it. And I've been like messaging it, texting it. Like how much can we talk and say the word? Smash your summation. Well, it wasn't it. It wasn't it. Attempted. Do you mean for the algorithm to not? I, or for the fucking FBI. I don't know the. Do you think we're the first group of four white dudes making a podcast about this? No, we're not. Okay, so yeah, dude, somebody tried to get former president Trump, dude, in case you haven't heard. In case you haven't heard. Right. It's crazy. Well, I was texting about it. And the person who texted me didn't say what happened. Just said, man, the function cycle's getting crazy. I didn't respond. And then five minutes later. Five minutes later, I get a message in our little chat that was just said, dude, Trump almost got got. And I was like, wait, what? Yeah, I think nobody wants to say it. Letting in from everywhere. Got got is a pretty good, you know, replacement word for it. Well, I told you, I think I told you maybe, but I remember seeing, I don't, I don't remember. I think it was when like the Supreme Court rulings happened. And like finally I started to see people on Reddit forums being like, so who's going to do it? Or like everyone was kind of like, so I think the thing that might happen needs to happen. Or do you think something is going to start happening? Like that was the first time I've ever seen people even like intimating that sort of thing. I had a, okay, I guess I want to hear first reactions. I guess I didn't think it was going to actually happen. I had a feeling, and I guess I would say that, oh yeah, I think this sort of thing was inevitable, but I didn't think it was going to happen. I certainly didn't think it was going to happen this way. What was your first thoughts? My first thoughts were to make jokes. Which is like, isn't that crazy of the way internet culture is now? Because like it's all funny and fun to make jokes about until it happens. And then it's like, whoa, hold on, we might like all die. I'm starting. Yeah, it's wild. Yeah, I think, I think for me it was, it was, I didn't think it was funny, but my first thought was, was because I didn't know whether he was okay or not. First of all, like when I first heard about it, and so I thought, oh, we could be going to civil war. Like there could be an uprising. Like this could be crazy. I still think there's probably one to read it. What? I immediately went to a Reddit. Yeah, well that's like, look up, like the Twitter feed, just to skip our post, because usually when something happens, people are there immediately posting on social media. So you don't have to wait, but filter through mainstream gear. Now there was like the BBC and CBS were there. But like, I want to know what's going immediately. Yeah, just as odd watching the video. You bring that up. So the BBC interviewed the guy with the red, with the red beard and the red hat. And because he was the one that, well, so, so I was trying to show George's parents and I Googled BBC Trump. And that was the wrong thing to Google, bro. Yeah, so I had to get more specific. Sort of like when I fooled a dozen people to Google Trump rule 34, that was one of my greatest. I cannot believe people fell from that shit. Yeah, if you don't know what I'm talking about, Google Trump rule 34. Okay. Real quick aside, before we get cut out commercials in the main feed. Wow. Sitting on a computer, hit F4 and you won't have to worry about commercials. Sorry, go ahead. Did you just like demonetize me? It fell that way. What is, what is alt F4? Will it fuck everything up if I do it right now? Kevin really does hate you. His, his connection is horrendous. I think you're, is somebody in your house like downloading? I don't know why, sorry. Okay, good, good for you. It sucks. Well, I think whoever you have holding the two wires together. Yeah. Yeah, hard line that shit. It's rural America, we can't afford that. Get Starlink, dude. What's wrong with you? Okay, anyway. Listen, none of your jokes come through because your Wi-Fi is terrible, dude. So. Okay, then I'll just shut up. No. Oh, wow. Okay. Wow, dude. Wait. Real mature, dude. Real mature. You are, don't make me demote you to Deacon. I will. Oh, no. We got the Deacon show. Yeah, it's just. He has to, he has to learn Deacon. Yeah, he has to be in there by himself and just do an hour. Uh, okay. So yes, number one, insane that there's just video of it. This is just, this is the reality we live in that there's just a video of a presidential candidate, candidate getting shot. There's a video also of, did you see the guy in the stands that got killed? You just see him go down. There's a video of the, they're watching the bleachers. Yeah, it's, you know, it's not violent, but you just see the dude like double, like fold over and fall down, which is incredibly sad to think you just go to a, a vent and you just instantly die. That's insane. Yeah. The other insane thing is that this 20 year old kid managed to get 400 feet away with a rifle on a, like perfect, like the, the number one spot where snipers should have been, and he was able to take a shot. I think it was set up in a video game for you to take a shot from there. Right, right. It was the, that's. And he missed. And he missed. Well, well, Trump turned his head at the last. That's second. Yes, that's a good point. Yeah, that's why I don't think it was a setup. Like, well, no way. Well, okay, I, I'm not. Yeah, I don't want to delve into that. Well, well, no, okay. Just to play devil's advocate, I'm not at all saying it was a setup either, but the ear injury could have been easily faked when he was tackled by secret security and, or secret service. And yeah, yeah, yeah, the wrestling people do it all the time. That would have been very simple to fake. So that's just playing devil's advocate. But I don't think, um, someone died. Yeah, yeah, more so. I think it is a unbelievable failure by the secret service. Like what the fuck somebody's getting fired. How did that happen? Like, I'm like, especially if they're warned, like a minute or two before. Yeah, three minutes is what the guy said that. Well, and apparently though, the secret service, they said this is the, their story so far is that, so it was a crowd of people jumping up and down and pointing. And so the snipers were looking at them and when they turned and looked at what they were pointing at, it was too late and he'd already taken a shot. They didn't ice that dude like immediately. They did. It was quick reaction once everything started. Like, who does it for them for that? Yeah, around stage, like in front of him, like chilling in. Well, but then they let him get back up for a photo op. Yeah, it was headshot. What the hell? All I have to say is, is him doing that legend status? Oh, it's going to be on every picture everywhere. Oh, yeah, probably. That was a surprise. Oh, yeah, he or that guy already won a Pulitzer Prize. That is a, the guy that, the guy that took the picture is a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer. Yeah, that is, dude, fist in the air, blood on the face, American flag in the background, sideways, it's just like, you know, unbelievable picture. I will hand and it will be everywhere. And already, the Biden campaign has pulled all anti Trump ads. They apparently like, they had a bunch of buses wrapped with like, fell in on it. They took all that down. He's going to get free publicity for the next two years. Um, this is bad. This is bad in saying that he was going to call him on the phone and have a conversation with them. I'm like, sure you are. Oh, dude, I think it probably is. They couldn't even shake him. Yeah, no, no, he probably will. Um, you wonder what would happen, uh, if it was reversed, you know, that's what's crazy. That is what's crazy. Yes. What, go ahead. Because when you, when you think about when, when Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked. Yeah. With the hammer. Yeah. With the Trump. Dude, everyone was like, yeah, serves you right, dumb bitch. Like, yeah, I don't think there would be any grace and mercy at all. I think they would, I think it would be, that's, that's what's, we're in trouble, dude. We're in, we're in real trouble. Like, we're in serious trouble. Why are we in trouble? Because of, because he's going to be present? No, no, no, no. Because societally it is almost assured that, like, there is a level of, of non-self-awareness and hypocrisy that if that happened to Biden, people would be like making immediate Halloween costumes about it. Like they did, or like posting, like people posted memes of like the hammer and saying, like, this is like the best, when Pelosi's husband got attacked. If this, like, but since it happened to their guy, it's, it's, it is widespread. Like, oh my God. And the fact that if it was reversed, there would be no grace and mercy. Just shows that we're far gone. Like, there's a huge swath of people that are so wrapped up in this cult of personality. Did you see people citing the verse in Revelation about the beast that gets injured and survives a wound and they're, yeah. Doesn't surprise me at all. But, but it's supposed to be a mortal wound. So that, that can't be it. They need to stop. I, you know, it's a, this is a, a side, a side path we don't need to be on. But like, it's just like them like trying to like produce red heifers. I don't understand. Like, I'm like, you know, when they were like trying to find the red heifer to like usher in the apocalypse, like with the issue. No, I, I missed that. They were trying to like genetically produce a red heifer. They were literally sending red heifers over. For like, they're supposed to sacrifice a red heifer or something. Why didn't they just get Ken and his mom to, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm just. Miriam, I'm sorry. Everyone, I'm sorry. But it was too. I love, I love that. This is an elder of the church. Yeah. I'm sorry. Everybody. Everybody. I'm so sorry that. Listen, if you forgot that other people were going to hear this. That's all it is. That's all it is. If, listen, if softballs get lobbed in front of my face, I cannot help knocking them out of the park. Yeah. I'm going to Babe Ruth it every time. Doesn't matter. At some point, not right now, because we're on a different subject, look up the Indiana farmer who is caring for red heifers brought to Israel from Texas. All right. It's, it's crazy. I am not going to do that, but let's move on. Dude, I know you. Yeah, someone, John was talking to me too, and he was, he was like, Trump was going to win by a landslide anyway. Do you all think Trump was going to win before this? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Oh, damn. Maybe I'm the minority. I don't think Biden has a chance in hell. I do. Or I did. You thought so too, Kenan? He couldn't complete sentences. It doesn't matter. Like it doesn't matter. I don't think he was going to win by a landslide. I'm going to win. You said did or didn't. Oh boy. You're, you're from Trump and my opinion was not ahead in the polls. Sorry for my Wi-Fi. Try up. Maybe you try hopping out and coming back in. See if that helps. Yeah. Yeah, it's literally like choppy maybe. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Once he gets out, I'm going to lock the group. Okay. So y'all really think he had it in a landslide? Okay. But no, here's. I'll say this. Yeah, go ahead. I think it'll be decisive one way or the other. Ooh. I don't think it'll be close. But the reason I really don't have much information, but choice, I guess. I think it feels kind of like subjective. Like, I mean, the groups that I am around and the people that I talk to, even the Democrat people don't like Biden. Right. I know. I know all right. Democrats that are like, I'm not even going to vote. To me, that's going to make Trump win. Well, I don't think anybody that is voting for Biden likes Biden. I don't think so either. So, but that's what I'm saying is that so him showing that he's not aware of his pants anymore like doesn't change the fact it's like, we already do that. It's just the fact that I'm not voting for the other guy. I mean, Biden isn't running the country, and I'm afraid of who is in the background. And I guess I have to say, okay, so if I think Biden's not running anything, then I have to say that I don't think Trump is running anything either. So then why am I more afraid of Trump? I, the answer to that, I suppose is the cult that he has created. But Trump will, is, does change things. When he was in, he was doing things. Well, okay, then why, what do you mean? Well, I just mean, like what? He was doing the, he was trying to get the things done that he said he was going to do. Like, even though he might have been coming up against it. I know you're going to want data now, but I'm going to have to look at that. Okay, Ben, why is there a tent set up in your room? I just, well, we're going to address the red heifer in the room. What are we talking about? Ben's got to talk about this. No, Ben, your name's not Ben. You buffooned. I didn't hear the word. We didn't feel like setting it up outside. So that's my kids. Okay, there. I thought you had to say kids. Do you, do you have any friends? I have lots of friends. They just live in Alaska. You wouldn't know her. She goes to school in Alaska. All right, Canon, let's see if you're better now. Am I good? Yeah, it was better. Way better, dude. Way better. Yeah. I had to go kick the hamster on the wheel to run a little bit faster. There you go. There you go. So do you, okay, so, Canon, you were of the mind that you did not think you, why do you think he was not going to win in a landslide? Just pull, showing that Biden was pulling ahead. He was kind of ever since the felony convictions. I think his numbers went down a little bit. Like he still has a strong core support. But anyone moderate, I think was kind of pulling away from him. Yeah, and okay, here. Yes, and a little more sprinkle of conspiracy. This happened right when, like the news that there are sex tapes of Trump and the transcripts of the case of rape against a 13 and 12 year old girl came out. You know, that stuff was really starting to pick up steam and it's gone. It's like, what a coincidence, huh? I have a hard time still believing, though, that it was that much of a coincidence because of that reason. Yeah, I get it. I can see like he might be the personality to actually attempt it, but I don't think he's, I think he cares about his life too much. No, well, the, the, it would be that his life was never in danger, I suppose. I guess there's a lot of ways it could have been. It could have been, I don't know. Yeah, I guess that it kind of falls apart under scrutiny. It would have been really complex or it could have been. The fact that two people died, well, in real life, because of it, like that. I guess the conspiracy part could be, was this person ordered, sent, paid, coerced, or was he, was he just, you know, acting alone? It's a 20 year old kid. You know, yeah, it's kind of wild. I will say like back to the, you were asking like what Trump actually did. When I looked it up, granted I'm just looking at, you know, sites that I'm hoping are true. But there are, there are, there's a huge list of things that he did as far as like signing executive orders and investing in different economic things. You don't think you could find an equal list for Biden? Well, all I know is that I, and this is what I think most of America knows, is my grocery bill is about one in a tough time, times higher than it was two years ago. And I pay more at the pump and. Well, supposedly that's because of things that Trump signed into law that like didn't kick into effect until now. That's a convenience. Like you said. Like the federalists are putting a full load of money within the past 10 years. Yeah, like yeah, all the, all the stimulus shit happened under Trump. And that is what fucked everybody. I don't know, man. Oh my God, dude. Well, I genuinely don't. Wait a minute. Is that a MAGA hat you're wearing? They, they say no. They say this when they always say this when things are going bad. And when things are going good, they take credit for it. And that's the thing is I don't believe that any president should get like direct. Good or bad feedback for what's going on the economy. Yeah, I don't think they do anything with it. Maybe some executive orders, but not like immediate. It's all lagging. Do you, so do you think this is the beginning of some real craziness? I mean, I guess you could say the real craziness has begun. The beginning really. Well, I mean, I don't think it is. The violence line has been crossed though. This is a big line that just got crossed. It's not the first time in history, though. Okay, Reagan was the last one. Yeah. Right? Or was it was it a Kennedy? No, Reagan. Reagan was her attempt. Yeah. Because his response during his speech. That was great. No, the second one was just a balloon popping. Yeah, miss me. That is the most bad ass thing in the world. I was most bad. If y'all don't know what he's talking about, at Reagan got shot and he was doing a campaign speech later on. And you hear a balloon pop in the background. It sounds like a gunshot and without missing a beat, he just goes, miss me. It's so sweet. It's even better than George W dodging that shoe. But it's not better. It's not better than Roosevelt getting shot in the chest and finishing the speech. Yeah. Wait, that happened? Oh, yeah. Gangster, dude. Roosevelt was a fucking different breed. Yeah, he got saved. He was saved purely because, at least this is what I heard, that he had a stack of papers in his front pocket that it hit. Wow. He had actually saved his life. But yeah, he took a bullet and went to the chest and then finished his speech before he got taken away. Wow. There was one president too, who it was like cold and rainy. And they were like, "Hey, don't do that speech right now." And he was like, "I'm going to do it." And he got pneumonia and died. Yeah. Who was that? And then the other-- I don't remember what I remember the story. Who was the one that had the natura-- He had a nickname for his Johnson. Was it-- Was it Lyndon Johnson? Yes. Yeah. No. It was-- He would like whip it out like as a power move. And he would like go to the bathroom in front of people. And I think he like, during one meeting, he famously like slammed it on the table and was like, "Who was that?" Somebody looked it up. Jamie, pull that shit up. Andrew, search president with notoriously huge donger. Safe search. I mean, not safe search. Incognito. Incognito, yeah. Yeah. And Google's no track. I'm just going to type it. I don't care. Um, so what do you type? It's like that. Oh, it's totally Lyndon B. Johnson. It was Johnson. I don't think it came up 36 president Lyndon B. Johnson. That's so funny. No, Lyndon balls. Well, he had a name for it too. He named it Jumbo. Jumbo, dude. Oh my god. That is unbelievable. I want to know how big it was. Oh my god. Okay. Calm down, Manson. Geez. This is why he doesn't care about his search history. Exactly, bro. Jumbo. I don't think they're going to have like dimensions, bro. Someone does. He was pretty excited about it. His tailor. That's right. Yeah, they don't seem to have it. Yeah, I remember there's a... Are you talking about the letter he wrote to his tailor? No. Oh, okay. There is a letter he wrote to his tailor about getting some pants made. And he talked about like leaving some extra slack in the front. And yeah, it's funny. Oh my gosh. Listen to this. This is the best story ever. All right. Lyndon B. Johnson. When a journalist asked Johnson to justify the continuation of the Vietnam War, Johnson asked all the women to leave the room, then pulled out his penis and yelled, "That's why." That, yep. That's what I was talking about. That was the... That's so... What a terrible person, honestly. But... Jeez. Maybe women should rule the world. Yeah, try to think of it like so bad. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we've had some pretty... Yeah, so, okay. Well, because I've got, you know, a bunch of my friends now are like, "I'm, you know, I'm leaving the country and like a mayor." It's like, dude. Yeah, I would say that. Calm down. Like, America is still the best place to live. Like for all your belly aching and like, it's still like go somewhere else then. Like, can you think of maybe Norway, like, and the weather sucks there, but I will contend maybe living under the Norwegian government is better, or like Iceland or something. I don't even know. Or Switzerland. But better to what? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Are they better in everything? No, I don't think so. Is their medical system better? Like, okay, do y'all think... That's so, actually. Oh, yeah, for sure. Do we really think that, like, seriously, that we are in danger of, that women are in danger of like a handmaid's tail type situation? No, I don't. I think women have more rights than they've ever had in history. I mean, they're, why, I mean, why would we think that's about to happen, honestly? I know, dude, they can vote? Like, what else do they want, dude? I'm just kidding. There's no sorry to Miss Mary. I'm on that one. No, she's going to kill me. Once again, it's just a softball. Those are, those are easy, man. I would love a matriarchy where I can just stay home and like, you get everything paid for. Like, that'd be tight. Would it not? Would y'all not love that? Like, if we got to... Yeah, it'd be that broad. Yeah, it'd be pretty cool. Yeah, I'd be all right with it. Hell yeah, bring it on. I'm good with it. Y'all, y'all go handle things. I will be at home, make an art, and tending to my garden where I will grow copious amounts of drugs. For the pollinators. Yeah, absolutely. For the bees, there's no greater, there's no greater. They say that opium, that popifer somniferum opium poppies, there's no greater plant for the biodiversity in someone's yard. I believe that. I just made it up. But... Doesn't matter. Let's go with it. Let's go. You heard it here first, folks. There's a subreddit called "drug gardens" and it's just people that have gardens of all sorts of drugs. And they're always like, they're in these crazy hidden spots. Like, I need to stay off the internet, don't I? Yeah, okay. Probably. All right, fair enough. Yeah, I don't know. Your silent speaks volumes. Are we in trouble? Is our country in trouble? I say yes. Usually. I think the country is in trouble. But I'm not sure we're in trouble the way that we're being led to believe we're in trouble. I think we are in trouble. I'm just not sure what to believe anymore. Hey, join the group, dude. Yeah. Yeah, I'll go with that. I said a little thing. This is funny. Do y'all ever, before I released the episode with Brandon today? Which y'all said listen to it. God, I'm so glad he's alive. Holy crap. But before it, I talked about this a little bit 'cause I recorded it this morning. And do y'all pray for the country? I do when I'm at Orthodox Services because they literally have built-in prayers for the military and country. So, but on your own. I can't say that I really spend the time doing that. Ben? No, I don't think so. It's a really good idea. Yeah, I mean, I wondered. I was like, wait, shouldn't I be doing that? But there's a, oh, yeah, I guess I realized I don't even know exactly what to pray for. I guess it would just be God's will be done in this situation. And as a Christian, you know, I need to be like praying that Donald not be, that no one be hurt, you know, no one be injured, no violence come. That kind of thing reminds me that, like, there's still a lot of soul work that probably needs to be done on me. It may be a lot of us because, right? I mean, am I wrong on this? Is this off base? Yeah, no, it's fully. Like it's important, but for me, I have a hard time not conflating it with Christian nationalism. 'Cause you always hear, like, pray for a country. And usually it's along the lines of God, you know, make us number one, while you're blessing out on us. And it's not coming from a place of humility. That, yeah, no. And that immediately takes me back to, like, every church I was in as a child, and it's like, it's having grown up and I hear pray for our country. Yeah, no. Exactly. And now that I'm a grown up and like, I've got, like, feelings about that, you know, like, Jesus wasn't American. Like, everybody acts like we're some chosen group of people. And it's just like, that's not in there. Well, no, more, I mean that while I half-heartedly joke about, like, burning it all down and let's start over, in reality, I should probably pray and hope that my daughter doesn't grow up in a war-torn nation. You know what I mean? Like, I need, it's not that, like, I don't, I do not care about like this, making this a Christian country or whatever that means. But I do think, I do want, like, should be praying for peace. Like, I guess I just don't, I don't think that's ever going to happen. That, I guess that's what I'm-- Praying for peace. But praying for peace and safety and, like, a morality in the country and in society is different than praying for, you know, a superior-- Theocracy. Yeah, well, that's what I mean. That's what, yeah, I was never, I would never pray for that. Well, it's, yeah, I wasn't trying to say that you would, but I'm just saying, that's where my mind goes, when I hear that phrase, pray for our country. It's like we have to come from a standard humility. It's like there's a subtext to that when I hear it. Yeah, it's-- Is that a big southern thing? I mean, obviously you're not southern. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's a little bit of that. There probably is some of that, but I didn't really grow up with that same experience of, like, that nationalistic kind of thing in the church. I mean, it's like the Pledge of Allegiance, dude. I mean, it's-- God, the Pledge of Allegiance is so creepy now that I think about it. Like, just children. You know what I mean? Just all in unison, like, pledging my allegiance to-- You were our idol. Yeah, dude. Did it feel that way when you were a kid, though? No, but-- It didn't-- it didn't to me at all. No, of course not, because you were a child and you're like, "Of course, this is what we do." Which is messed up, dude. Jeepers, creepers, bro. This is crazy. I need to go watch this. You're going to Boy Meets World episode about that. Oh, do tell. Give us the deets. Oh, no. To-- to panga just refuses to-- Okay. --say a glitch. To panga? Yeah. Has aged like fine wine. I actually saw her a few years ago at a kind of-- In person? Yeah, she's beautiful. Yeah, she's gorgeous. Yeah. I'm listening to Pod Meets World right now. I'm just doing, like, a whole rewatch. Oh, does it hold up? Is it good? Yeah. Yeah. In ways. I mean, they discuss all the good and bad stuff. Mm-hmm. Are they all still friends? Yeah. Okay, so there's no bad blood. Doesn't appear to be. Yeah, I'm that, I'm that Corey there too. That's a-- They were both there. Okay. Corey's brother was the kid in Princess Bride, right? Yes. In what are-- Fred Savage and Ben Savage. That's right. And Fred Savage directed episodes of It's Always Sunny, also. And he-- and he was some Wonder Years. That's it. That's it. God, The Wonder Years was a great show. So there-- I actually went back and watched it. It's one of my first favorite shows. Yeah. So like, what should I-- I want, of course, I want my daughter to like have-- Those were quality-- Like morality tale shows, man. Like-- Family Matters. Family Matters. And they all had like a gun. Yeah. They all had a gun episode. Do you remember when-- What was the daughter in Family Matters? The teen-- Laura. Laura, do you remember when Laura's friend got shot over a pair of shoes? Yes. Do you remember that? She's like-- Why would you just skip the shoes? Just skip the shoes. I'm talking now. All the shows coming out of the '80s were like that, though. They all had like blossom. And if you go back to listen-- I hated blossom. You know what? I re-watched it. Oh. I was shocked. I was shocked at the topics they were tackling. I was like-- They really went forward. What did they-- Like different strokes. They were big. They had some crazy stuff. Do you remember that? Like with-- I didn't watch different strokes. No. That was before my time, old man. They had at least a two-part episode that was specifically about-- You know who I'm talking about with Arnold? Like the little one. Yeah, Gary Coleman. Gary Coleman. What you talking about, Willis? Yeah. Yeah. Where he was abducted by a pedophile. Oh, snap, dude. It was crazy. It was to bring awareness to kids being too cool. And parents being aware. I was like, holy shit. But like-- Because it's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your children are? Yeah. That's-- Yeah, bro. What up, man? I miss it. I miss it. A little bit. Yeah. A little bit on the tragic thing. But on the tragic side that we've been on, Shannon Daugherty died. Oh, yeah, man. And Richard Simmons. Paul. And Shelley DeValle. And Dr. Ruth. Like, holy crap. How did I-- I didn't see. So I had-- I listened to the podcast. What was it called? Where did you go, Richard Simmons? And it was all about how him and his housekeeper or whatever. They-- He just out of the blue became an insane recluse and built a wall in front of his house. He-- Y'all know what I'm talking about? Oh, yeah, it was fascinating. Um, he literally like went full. Oh, yeah. Who was the guy that the aviator was about? Howard Hughes? Howard Hughes. Yeah, he went full. So they were talking about how on the Hollywood tours that Richard Simmons, whenever the tour bus came by, he would come out and take pictures. And then one day literally he built like a 13-foot wall in front of his house. He wouldn't make public appearances. So I was wondering how he died. I was just looking it up and they don't really seem to say-- Well, I mean, it says he was-- He also had like skin cancer, which I didn't know-- Oh, really? Ooh, that's scary. But I don't know that that-- I don't think that's what he died from. They said they just found him-- found him dead. The housekeeper found him dead, but it doesn't say why. Or how-- Yeesh. Exh. But he was also 76, you know? He wasn't-- Yeah, it's what-- We are getting to that age where they are going to start dropping like flies, dude. Yeah, you're not wrong. Did y'all ever do-- I'm on a low cholesterol diet. Don't talk to me about age. Oh, no. I actually-- I think my cholesterol was a little high when I went to the doctor, but you know? I mean, 39 years of eating. Absolutely, whatever I felt like. Yes, that's a good run. That's a good run, dude. Not everyone gets that. I've been on statins for like four years now. So you're doing a lot-- My doctor didn't offer. Shut up, all you guys. What the heck? I-- Oh, wait. The first one here in my blood work is perfect. Wait. Wait. Wait. Brrrr. Hold on, time out. Vimos Yankee sounding you ever have. Hold on, you guys. What the heck? You guys is-- That was-- What the heck? I'm making it. Yeah. It was very close. Sorry, you guys. What the heck? Yeah. Hey, buddy. Hey, buddy. [LAUGHING] You know what? Yeah. I don't even realize-- See, that sounded so-- That was southern. There you go. You got to say-- Well, you know what? All right, y'all. What the hell? All right, y'all. All right, y'all. And they say, what the hell? We would say up here that we have no accent. Like, we don't fit here. Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no. I need you to start over and say, Hey, y'all. What the hell? What? I have-- Because some southern trends. Hey, y'all. What the hell? There you go. Thank you. All right, continue. That was good. Continue. Yes, I'm all ears now. I felt right at home. Yep, me too. I hung out in Macon, Georgia for a while, so. Not really that long. Couple weeks. Well, what were we talking about now? Jeez. You were talking about how you-- Exactly. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Perfect blood work. I genuinely-- Well, a few of my levels were a little off, but nothing like I need to address. So I'm genuinely surprised that all three of you. How often do they have fried chicken and/or other deep fried foods at gatherings there? Well, I wouldn't say I ate great, but deep fried food is not a staple of like New Year's. So you don't have fried corn on the cob, fried-- Fried Oreos. Fried Oreos, fried Twinkies, fried ice cream. All of those things are up here, but they're usually only at like fairs and things like-- Mm. Yep. We'll cook it for dinner. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I have a neighbor who did have like a McDonald's fryer in his garage, and he would have parties where we would fry-- Whoa! --for the sweet pickles and onions and-- No. It was great. He had like a legit fryer from McDonald's. Yeah, like a commercial fryer. Oh, that's amazing, dude. You can move him when the stuff's done. Bro, I saw a kid get half of his forearm melted off, cleaning a fry trap at a restaurant, and I never fucked with-- It was-- I wouldn't do it. My minute, my wage was not worth it. I'm not doing it, bro. We had to take this-- It looks like a-- You know what a dolly is, a roller. Yeah, dolly, but it was like you fill it up. Yes, it was a tower. Yeah, it was like a-- It was a square, a long rectangular square. Yeah, if you were rolling that out to dump it, like you hit one rock and it's out there. Yeah, and so you lay it on the ground, you fill it with grease, and then you bring it horizontal again, and then you wheel it out, and then you dump-- It has like an opening at the top, an opening at the bottom. And yes, yeah, wheeling it back out when it's full of scalding hot grease. No, thank you. I'm not-- And so that's what I saw. The dude was trying to lift it back up, and it bumped, and it just dumped on his forearm, and that's a wrap, bro. That-- Oh, thanks. Permanent disfigurement from working at Kona Grille. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Like, nope. This episode brought to you by Kona Grille. Ah, it's closed. It's not there anymore. Something about a lawsuit. Oh, bro. That restaurant was-- That was kind of fun to work at. Uh, man, lots of-- I went to a lot of weird restaurants when I was in Georgia that I'd never seen down here. You probably-- They're probably normal, but-- Church is chicken. Have you ever been there? Yeah. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Yeah, yeah, I think I have. What else? Please tell me another one. [INTERPOSING VOICES] I got to think that was one of the places I went. I was trying to-- You've ever-- [INTERPOSING VOICES] Did you get some fried chicken from there? I got like-- they had chicken sliders, like spicy chicken sliders. I don't want you to know that. Church is terrible, of all the-- that's the worst, the worst. I would rank it-- how would-- OK, I would rank it. All right, people hate me for this. But if you-- I have been to a KFC that was the pinnacle of KFCs. It was in Alabama somewhere. I don't remember where it was, but that particular KFC is number one. Then I guess it would be bojangles, and then Popeyes, and then churches way at the bottom. You know what it was? It was not churches where I got those three sliders. It was crystal. Oh, crystal bird. That makes more sense. Yeah, crystal's disgusting, in my opinion. Dude, you can shove eight of those in your mouth, and I don't remember thinking they were pretty good. But-- Here's the thing, you probably got it out of novelty. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. When you've got like four bucks-- Yeah. --to scrape together to get some food. Crystal is where you end up, just because you can get a lot of food. I used to-- All I had to do to eat for the day was scrounge up $6.75, and that was two. So I could do lunch and dinner of a McDouble, large fry, and a large drink from McDonald's. It was like $3.12 or something like that. You know, they got deals like that at Wendy's now. Like-- No. --actually, they're once-- No, they don't. Wendy's-- Yeah, it's like $5 or $6. It is? Wendy's crime of crime. Yeah. It is. But it's like a bacon double cheeseburger with like fries, nuggets, and a drink. That's a good thing. Small nuggets, small fry, small drink. Small drink, junior bacon cheeseburger. That's the cheaper one. The $7 one comes with a double-- $7 one. OK. Do you know what I could have got for $7 back in the day? I would have eaten myself sick, dude. But listen, old man, you can't compare it to back in the day. That's what I'm doing. And why not? That's what this whole conversation is about. If I just started it with, I'm spending more on my grocery, though. [LAUGHTER] It's quiet. Yeah. But if I just go through the drive-thru and get the normal stuff at Burger King, Wendy's, or McDonald's, I'm paying 12 bucks. Oh, $15. Yeah, $12. For me in Georgia to get Chick-fil-A, it's-- I think it was like $36. And we can go to La Coretta, which is a Mexican restaurant, and get two chimichanga meals for like $26. So it's fast food is-- It's completely crazy. I can go down the garden for cheaper. Yep, yep, absolutely. You can get like chilies has lunch items, like a lunch entrees for like $12. Yeah, fast food is unbelievable. I like it. And the food's gotten smaller. Yeah. Shrink-flation. Our garden still has the unlimited soup salad and breadsticks. Oh, yeah, that's what we always get. That's the best. Olive Garden is an attempted assassination on your colon, though. I've never had that problem. I have every time there. Every time, dude. I do not know. But I will say, if you're from New York, especially the area I am in, which has a very strong Italian culture up here. What are you trying to say, Andrew? I'm saying that I live in a place where there's a street with that the middle line is the colors of the Italian flag. Oh, wow. OK. But I'm trolled by them. Never. Yeah, wait. One more point. My point is that they believe Olive Garden is a bastardization of the Italian culture. Yeah, of course it is. One more dialect question. Why expecially-- Oh, I was going to just ignore it. Do you say, do you say, "exscape"? I say, "escape." OK, why expecially? Expecially. Expecially. Yeah, that's how I say, especially. I can change it. But I definitely do say, "expecially." How about, supposedly? Supposedly. OK, you don't say, "supposedly." No, that's ridiculous. Yes. My ex said it that way, and it drove me in. It just makes you sound instantly dumb. I'm sorry, dude. Supposedly. Yeah, but especially in "exscape," I've never understood that. Write me an email, churchtanotherdrugscemo.com. Why do you say it that way? How did that happen? What about "expresso"? Oh, that kill. As a certified barista, that destroyed me. Let me get some "expresso." None of these words to me are as bad as people who say, ask, ask, ask, where they switched the "s" and the "k." I don't get it at all. They go in the store and ask for some "ask body spray." That's my-- [LAUGHTER] OK. Yeah. Ben didn't like that one. We are recording. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I don't get it. I understand it. I understand linguistics and how words change. Is it that? Is that what it is? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know why I say it's that way. I've been called the Northern City's battle shift. So instead of saying milk, it becomes mauke. Mauke. More mellow instead of mellow. What about couch? Definitely notice. Couch. Couch. You know the N? Yeah, I hear couch. I remember. Oh, Ben, I've-- you've heard "warsh." Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, "warsh." That's like the Missouri thing. Oh, that's-- But at least that's right. I don't say it, but it feels right. A "warsh" rag. Yeah. Yeah. A "warsh" room. Actually, it makes no sense. Why is the "R" in there? I don't understand. It ain't. Louisiana, they add-- well, more Acadiana, they add comma "me" after statements. I love that, dude. I do, too. I picked it up. So it's like, I'm going to fight him, me. Yeah. What? Like that one-- Yeah, like, I'm a bad-ass me. It's like re-iterating. No. Yeah, you're not going to catch me at a church-- church is sick and me. Yeah. You know what? That literally makes me want to punch people in the face. I love it. It's-- Well-- I don't even understand it. Listen, I mean, I get it, me. I immediately understand it. I don't-- Yeah. I mean, I understand it, me. I don't know why. It's killing you. It's killing you. It's killing you. It's killing you. I don't like it. Have you ever seen The Princess and the Frog? Kenning doesn't like it. Do they do it in that movie? The lightning bug guy, he does. Oh. I need to watch that, yeah, because it's a-- It's great. I get the-- dude, there's-- I don't know if there's really been a show that has actually done the-- the Cajun accent correctly. It's-- I don't have any other ones. I did. It is. I decided when-- when Dirty Mike started speaking in Creole accent. Yeah. My-- I assume it was Creole. Yeah. My boss is-- he still speaks Cajun French and he'll sing in it. Yeah, it's awesome, dude. It's an interesting-- Doubt, yeah. It's interesting. Language. Me. Yeah. May, yeah. Georgia can do it. Maybe I'll get her on here. She doesn't-- she does a really good-- got-- hold on one second. I'm a positive. Excited we were. No, she does. I know. I know. It was going to be the world premiere. Recording in progress. She said she'll do it next time. Alright. I will see. I know. I'm embarrassed. And Ruth made-- Ruth wrote another episode right after this. Yeah. [laughter] Alright. I got to go give her some Ruth watching time. Send me an email at churchnotherdrugs@gmail.com. Patreon.com/churchnotherdrugs. Well, that could do it a lot better than me, but I guess I could try. Very good. Pretty good. And I recorded that.
