Low Street Studios, downtown Des Moines. You are Live from the Path. What an embarrassment. Why does everybody have to embarrass me? Natural. Hello! You are listening to Live from the Path on Des MoinesAmplified.com. Thanks so much for being with us here tonight. I was just kidding. No one was embarrassing me. Everyone was on their best behavior just before the cut. So congratulations. I was. Yeah. Congratulations, Dan. My thoughts are inside out. Intentionally? Both of them. My daughter flushed her sock down the toilet at school today. Why? Is there a backstory or is that just the deal? Evidently, speaking of backstory, someone didn't flush. And I don't know how her sock fell in the toilet. It was after swimming. So, you know, I suppose, you know, you're swimming and it wasn't after. Anyway, I probably shouldn't have said that out loud. Sorry, Shanna. I'm going to tell you something that I've learned here in the last three years. So I have a little gal.

You know, she's circa three years old. And the dude's room is a disaster. Like the dude's bathroom is just deplorable. Oh, yeah. You don't want to take girls in there. No. I used to do that, too. And I was like, ugh. But it's awkward to go in the girl's room. Oh, yeah. I don't go in there. I used to walk in the bathroom and I'd look at the toilet paper covers, you know, the toilet seat covers and go, pfft. I'm not using that. Come on. Who uses that thing? And now I'm like, I got three of them on there. You have a spray. I've actually taken to cleaning the toilet seat with hand cleaner. You know, before I'm like, I can't put her on here. Why are dudes so terrible? It's embarrassing. I know.

They are. It is groovy. Anyway. I like to hold her above, you know, four inches above. I never tried that one. Oh, no. Yeah. The gal does the shimmy. One slight angle wrong and I don't know if I'd like that. Oh, there's big trouble. You're an impressive man. I don't know if this is a good or bad thing. So the question on the chat was, I never watched before. What is the show about? And the comment was, it won't take long to figure out. And after two minutes of toilet stories, the told you is the comment. That's a bummer. So congratulations. Do we have a way to ban blah? I don't think so. No. They're in. You're not invited.

So whether you realized or not, you were listening to Life in the Path on Des Moines Amplified.com. My name is Ben Foose. Thank you for being with us tonight. We do have a fun show with tonight. Tim Cooper and friends are back in the studio. Welcome back. Hey. Tim Cooper and friends. Hey, you didn't give it an animal analogy. Somewhere between a blank and a blank. Oh. Oh. So if tonight's show, five being a tenacious panda bear and one being a drunk hippo, this is… Why are we laughing at Tim Cooper? Well, I draw hippos. I have a… I'm sorry. What do you mean? In the center? I am a hippo artist. I'm pretty sure I've never heard that before from anyone, ever. What do you do?

I draw hippos. Well, it's… Where do I draw? No. I actually have a four-year bachelor's graphic design degree. A bachelor's degree in graphic design. You're putting that to work, then. All I can draw is hippos now, but I draw them on everything. Everybody gets a hippo on the outside of envelopes, Christmas cards, but it's normally like gas bills, water bills, tax bills. Everybody gets a hippo. Some of them are not very polite or appropriate. I like how Tim Cooper… So I would buy a stamp. …stitch with it. But I have… Dahls recognize me now. They go, it's the drawer! And they kind of like gather around and look at them, and everybody gets a hippo. What's the name of your studio, Tim? Oh, the studio is Hippo Studio. I called it that several years ago, knowing if I ever needed a logo for it, I'd be all right to draw it.

I joke not. Too cheap to face it. That's nice. Boy. I didn't see that coming. I didn't see it. I draw hippos. Actually, there's an international story of this thing as well. My brother, he kind of likes my hippos. And he's a schoolteacher over in England, like an elementary school, whatever you call it. And he was in his class the other day, and he's got a bit of a surreal sense of humor like me. And he said he was in there, and he just suddenly stopped. And then he just looked around, and he said to one of the girls, did you see that over there? And this girl, yeah. And he says, it was a hippo. And so we started this thing where all these kids now, they think there's a hippo on the loose in the school. He asked me, he sent me an email and asked me to draw some hippo cartoons. Based on the school. And so I sent him over like four of them.

And one of them was this hippo sitting very awkwardly. Because it's the same hippo. I only ever draw it, it's facing right. So I had this one where it was sitting on one of the stalls in the boy's toilet, sitting vertically upright. Because I just turned the paper sideways, drew a usual hippo, and then drew a toilet underneath it. And it's like, I forget, I think he called it Aldenon in this. It's like Aldenon found it very awkward and uncomfortable, hiding in the men's toilet. But so, anyway, that's it. I like your simplicity on your approach to life. Yeah, I draw hippos. Everybody does. It goes from the right. I did one based, sent it on a credit card bill on Friday, based on the security stuff, the TSA stuff. And it basically said, hippos don't like being frisked. And there was a man laying on the ground with something freshly laid on top of him, resembling a bowling ball. And this is on the front of the, it's kind of trademark. So, I'd imagine your competition is pretty low. Like, yeah, I've not encountered any hippos. People call up and say, look, we need a hippo that faces right.

Do you know anybody? Actually, that would be really awkward if Tim just met somebody randomly. He's like, hey, I draw hippos. And the guy was like, I draw hippos. But he probably doesn't draw them as poorly as me. And then he goes, go. And they both whip out like a pin and start drawing stuff on the wall. But down the road, I'm going to be doing a book probably with him, because I've been doing it for years. And I scan them all before I send them. But the book will probably be just stuff from these scans of the outside of these envelopes. And I really think people should start doing this. Mail system is so boring. You know, the postman, and I can guarantee they probably, when they receive my mail, it's going to get a different reaction than everyone else's. I like a certain amount of pride that you have in these right-facing hippos. Yes. Yeah, I scan them all before they go. Yeah. I mean, I save all my toenails. So, I think we're the same. Well, I had one I sent to the waterworks a couple of years ago where it was a hippo with a spear through.

Ted Nugent was calling to take care of what was affectionately called the hippo problem. It was just a dead hippo by the waterworks. So, stuff like that, you know. See, there's more to it than just the hippo. Yeah, yeah. Like, there's a story with it. It's just hippos being hippos. It's just hippos being hippos. Well, they bring a smile. Yeah. That's the thing. And I draw, oh, yeah. Credit. Yeah. You know when you sign a, you go, like, sign for your credit card, and it says signature accepted? They will accept anything. You don't have to sign it, whatever. You can draw a hippo, you can draw whatever. So, yes, the people that dials, they wait for me to, and they say, what is it today? And it's like, you know, it can be really bizarre. There's more than enough evidence here to have you in a home. I'm pretty sure there is.

Thank you. So, if you guys are ever lacking a signature, give me a call. I have no problem. You have to have fun. Really. You have to have fun. Wait a minute. So, we were between. A hippo one. What was it? A fierce panda? A fierce panda, and number one was a drunk hippo. So, this particular show is definitely a, I don't know, probably a lemur, but like an average lemur, with no motivation one way or the other. He just goes along to get along. He's an apathetic lemur. An apathetic lemur, yeah. He doesn't got much going for him. That's us. That's us tonight. That's cool. I can't promise anything, but that's what we're shooting for. If we have an apathetic lemur, we've really made the grid.

You know, the cool part is, we could have rigged a lemur to come out, but since he's apathetic, he'll probably just mill about in the hall. He'll let us know. He'll be like, yeah, I'll come in, I guess. I'll let you. There's a hippo's not in there, is he? Quick run, he's looking to the right. Yep. All right, so we will be enjoying the musical stylings of Tim Cooper and Friends and the Dr. Freud couch session with Tim Cooper, personally. We'll also be back for a- Is your mother large? What? Daniel! I was doing a little counseling. Even in the context of a hippo discussion, that is an inappropriate question. Excuse me, is your mother large? Well, I'm just wondering why would you start drawing hippos? Sorry. I've never asked that question to anyone in all my days. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have come up in my mouth. We were getting them on the couch. Oh, right.

We're getting them to deeper thoughts. Okay, right. We're getting motivations, why would I draw hippos? Sorry, Dan. All right, so we will be doing a non-biblical signs of the apocalypse. It's coming up. And also, as promised by the Facebook, it is the best Christmas present ever. And that will be revealed probably just prior to the 11 o'clock hour. It's the best. And we're offering it tonight. Well, probably not tonight only, but definitely tonight is a special. Yeah. So you can pick up the best Christmas present ever from Live from the Path tonight and just before the 11 o'clock hour. So stay tuned for that. I'm excited about it. It's worth it. Yeah. It is totally worth it. The little lemurs looking in. What? Christmas? And then we'll also be talking a little bit.

It was, I came across to, I was reading in Mark this week and something struck me. It was when Jesus was in his hometown and he basically wasn't healing anybody because they weren't believing. And Jesus said, you know, a prophet basically doesn't, he's appreciated in his hometown. And I thought there was, I don't know, it just got me thinking about some stuff. So we'll hit that a little bit about not only appreciation for where you're at, but why? Like, why is it that people aren't necessarily appreciated or taken seriously or taken strongly sometimes within their family, within their houses, within their city? And if there's anything that you can do to. I'd recommend Mark is a good book to start out. Everyone starts at Matthew when they start the New Testament, but Mark gets done in half the chapters what Matthew gets done. Matthew is like 30-ish, 20, 29, 28, something like that. Eight, yeah. Okay. Mark is 16. Yeah. He's in and out. True. He's the cut and dry. So if you're a black and white dude and you want a place to start in the Bible, Mark's your man. Have at him.

There you go. All right. So we'll, I don't know, we'll hit him. We'll read through it. His mother was also large. That's why he didn't have time to write 30 chapters. He's busy. I'm still hungry, Mark. Oh, man. What if Mark would have had an oppressive mother? You can't put that in the Bible. God told me to. Actually, that would be pretty tough if you're trying to otherwise like write something down and track what's going on in your life. And if you have like a real nagging partner, like why, like maybe one of the other apostles was jerky. And like, and that's why he didn't get his own book. Like Bartholomew was kind of a, it's kind of a bucket, you know? Nobody likes to talk about him. Bartholomew, you're always such a wet blanket. I mean, he still made the book. You guys said we were going to get new robes and we don't have new robes yet. We've been doing this for 20 years and this is the same robe.

And every day, day in, day out, fish and bread, fish and bread. That's all we got. We try to get something else, but Jesus is always like, there's leftover fish and bread. There's plenty of fish and bread to go around. How many servings? Eight basketfuls. All right. So Tim Cooper and friends, what's, what's, what's been happening lately? Are you, uh, uh, did I hear wind of a potential CD project? Well, I'm always working on a CD. I'm very slow at recording. You're the perpetual CD tinkerer? Yep. Um, yep. CD number four, just been in the works for three years. I just got all the songs written. I'm just, uh, very slow at recording them because I'm a busy man. Um, but band had a busy summer, played a lot, a lot of outdoor stuff and, uh, different things and had a few months off. Then we played last, uh, two, three weeks ago, something like that. And, uh, now we have nothing lined up. Oh, good. Good.

A little break's not bad. What was, uh, was there a highlight of the summer from the gigs that you played? Oh. That was, that was a lot of fun. The acoustic, yeah, the acoustic stage was really. Really, really cool. Uh, just, uh, worship. Just, uh, played for about an hour, around 15 minutes, I think. And, uh, had a guest singer up there, didn't we? Steve came up for a while. And, uh, it's really funny. His, um, friend of ours, Steve Haig, he's got a, got a great voice. He knows a few of the songs. And I'm just always up for, hey, come on up and sing with us. And, uh, he was there with his granddaughter. Huh. And, turns out, she was dancing at the back of the stage. I didn't even know. I mean, we were just having a nice time of worship. And, oh, she's been up there dancing the whole time. So, it was, uh, but it was, it was really nice. And then the State Fair, that was, uh, we were on the Riley stage this year. Oh, cool.

It was hot. It was great. It was unbearably hot. But that, well, that was great. I love doing that. Yes, and we found that keyboards do not necessarily operate properly. Ooh. Nope. Keyboards don't. Keyboards. You know, they have a, they have, like, a piano that you can borrow at the State Fair, like an acoustic-ish piano. Oh. I broke it. Ooh. It was part of, it's part of the deal. Like, I used to, I used to, like, kick, kick my piano, or, you know, elbow drop it, Hulk Hogan style. And, uh, that would be, like, the third piano that I've broken. And the State Fair was not, they were not happy. They weren't mad, but they weren't ecstatic to know me. They haven't asked you back. No, no, they haven't.

No, they haven't. They haven't, yeah. Mike, Mike Fuston, the piano stompers is, it's just, it's just, it's just not as popular as you'd think. Exactly. I thought it would sell itself. But I am seeking graphic design help and getting my logo up and rolling, so we'll see what we'll come up with. I don't know, I was trying to think whether we've run into you after the festival. I'm not sure that we, I'm not sure that we have. We should have coffee. What time do you guys get up? 4.30. Can you meet us somewhere by 5.15? Absolutely. Okay, coffee it is. Daniel? Where, where, where, what? We'll do this later. I'm not sure Daniel's following the conversation. Well, I was briefly distracted. I was looking at the chat and then I was, I wasn't listening. Okay, there we, that was, that was the initial thought, yeah.

I'm in, what are we doing? Yeah, okay. No, but, oh man. We'll have to go to the quick trip and panhandle. You're talking about tomorrow? No, not tomorrow. No, not tomorrow. I can't make it tomorrow. Just any random time. Yeah. We're going to talk about this later. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Anyway, the original, I thought, I had a great time there. It was, it was excellent. And we had, we got to see a lot of the, a lot of the bands that we'd had in the studio and that was really fun. Yep. And then we, so we, we had this, when you were in, we talked about getting a booth. We thought, oh yeah, we're going to have a booth. It's going to be awesome. And then of course, we're not responsible enough for a booth.

We showed up and like, we had a piece of paper size sign. We laminated it. Yeah. I thought that was pretty classy too. It was going to stand up to the elements. I thought this was really going to stick out. I think it did. We picked out some random dudes to like hand out CDs and just like solicit. We've got to do better. We realized that before we agree or even ask for a booth, we probably should figure out what to do with it. Well, we gave you, we gave you a plug from the main stage. I did see that and it was good. And we got, we got to go up and that, and that was fun. Our, the pictures made a couple of our promo stuff. That was fun. Yeah. But yeah, anyway, it was, it was a lot of fun. Got to meet a lot of cool, cool folks. It was very cool. That my daughter was almost run over by a deer over by the acoustic stage. Oh, I think it's when Vance was driving. Well, no, she was, she was, she was standing there.

We were watching, I think it was Vance. Yeah. No, she wasn't driving. She was standing. Oh, the deer. Oh. See, I'm only listening to half. This deer comes running through the crack and, and, and, and like smacked into her. And she didn't actually hit her, but she felt the wind. It was close enough. She felt the wind. She was kind of the wind beneath her. That had to have been a deer. I'm certain. No, then we looked at her, I was like, man, it's a deer. And it was, it was pretty crazy, crazed out. It was like trying to get out of there. Have you guys ever had any close encounters with animals? With a deer kind? Hippos. Of any kind. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I killed a deer a few years ago.

On accident? Driving a vehicle. Huh? Yeah. I was going to say, you didn't look. No. The tomahawk style? No, it was just driving a vehicle, had my kids in the back, and this deer jumped out and went wham and kind of hurt the car enough that it was an insurance write-off, but mechanically it was totally sound, so got a couple of grand for it. To finance my second CD. Seriously, I've been driving the car for another few years. Thank you, Lord, for shining upon me. Well, I had actually been praying, literally had been praying a few days earlier about, okay, I need like two grand. We named the CD Venice Stew. And so I'm thinking, you know, people always use that scripture about, yeah, a cattle on a thousand hills, and I'm thinking, okay, well, Des Moines in the city, near Tim's house, we've got deer, I need a volunteer. What if I have any close encounters with animals? Pat says he took out a flock of birds with his car. Oh, what? What do you mean?

Either Pat said driven off a cliff somewhere, or these birds were inebriated. Birds don't travel on car level. You ever tried to hit a bird that you see in front of your car? You can't get them. No, they're always, no, they're always real close. You ever see them driving right, they kind of fly down super right in front of your car? I always pump the gas. I think I'm going to tip them. And I can never. That's pretty sick. I can't get them. Dude, they're ungettable. They're really crazy. It wasn't in my grill before, and it was kind of cooked by the time I pulled it out. Well, I am curious. There's a big, big honking thing. Yeah. I am really curious. So the whole deer hunting thing, my understanding is deer hunters, they'll go out, they'll dress like the scenery and the camouflage, and then they'll go in there and they'll put on the spray so they smell like nature. And they'll sit and they'll wait for hours and hours and hours silently and wait. The people that kill deers are driving big pickup trucks with KGGO blaring in the headlights.

Which is the approach? Iowans? I've seen it done either way, because I go deer hunting, and everybody I go deer hunting with goes out silently. Like, they sneak out like an hour before sunrise or whatever, and they set and they wait. And I bring my iPod with me and make gobs full of noise, and I don't notice any difference. I generally can get a deer most years. Not this year. Not this year, but most years. What kind of music attracts them, do you think? Well, it's certainly not, I put the Bible on my iPod, and it shuffles in every once in a while. Like, I don't do it all day, every day, but it just pops in every once in a while, and I usually like to do it, you know, whatever chapter we're on. A little Genesis 6, come to me. So you have like one verse from Genesis, then one verse. It's just like, it's really a new way of looking at the Bible. The thing is, like, if the Lord ordained it all, he puts it together for me as I see fit. You know, so as far as I see, he's trying to tell me something with my shuffle. Like, since I don't have any control over the shuffle, sometimes I think the Lord's taking over the shuffle and trying to let me know what I need to know, you know? It's weird. You should definitely put the Bible on your shuffle and shuffle it.

I have done that before. Yeah. It's amazing what pops out every once in a while. Yeah. Okay, so Pants claims that this flock of birds, he had a funeral for them and that you officiated the funeral. I don't recall that. Oh, you know what? No, no, no, no. We had a funeral for a bird that crashed into the window at a place where Pants and I worked. He claims to have hit them with his car. No, he didn't. That's a completely different story. No, he didn't do that. Tell Pants this is live from the path, not live from the hovering above the path with his lies. We're attempting to stay on the path. Mike said something about you lying, Pants. His valvoline was his response. Yeah, he didn't hit it with his car. The bird ran into the window and then we had a funeral for it and buried it in the back because it was winter and slow. That doesn't sound like a flock. No, it was a bird.

Like the way Pants tells it, he got like eight geese or something with the front of his Buick. But really, a single bird ran into the window at the oil change place and you buried it. Yes. Pants, that was a terrible, terrible story. Oh, by the way, type of music that a deer likes. So I was sitting in my office or in the room of my house, that's my office, right? And this deer kind of knocks on the window and he goes, you got any Arms of Love by Tim Cooper and Friends? And sure enough, I turned it on and he starts doing this number. And he gets a couple of guys come by and they're doing it too. Is that the Dance Like David? And it was worth three bucks. Is that the Dance Like David? Got it. That would be hip if you had the deer come with Dance Like David. Speaking of intriguing tunes by Tim Cooper and Friends, what do you have on tap for us? You got one you can play for us? Sure. What do you want to start with? Praising you? Do that? Yeah, sure.

Okay. Start with a lively one tonight. Because it's all mellow. Dan, you want to shift them over at my microphone? I certainly can do that. Do we get to share one here, Vicky? You've been listening to Live from the Path on Des Moines Amplified.com. This is Tim Cooper and Friends. Please enjoy. Doug's going to hit the guitar. He's going to do percussion. He's a really good drummer, Doug. Don't let the guitar fool you. He's a really good drummer. After a set-up like that. It is peppy. It is peppy. I love it. I'd like the do-do-dos at the end. I think we should see more of that. I like it. We need more do-do. You just can't get enough do-do.

That was, I loved it. We have much higher standards than that. Yeah, can't you see somebody walking like a modern banking commercial where a guy's like trolling through life, you know? Hey, yeah, Tim Cooper, let's try it. You do a little bit of playing, and we're going to do the, we'll do a couple rounds of the do-doos. That sounds like fun. Ready? Wait, now you've got to lead it. We have to act like we're walking down the street? Yeah, yeah. Wait, now you've got to do it for me, because I don't heard it one time. Do it, ladies. Ready? Yeah. That was totally worth it. I have a feeling that's going to show up somewhere. No way. I don't know what you're talking about. Do-do cam. Actually, it would be pretty cool if I could get us kind of walking down the street and then, like, this hippo walking in the middle, kind of cruising down the road,

facing to the right, and he's, like, sliding at you. You see, now you're intrigued about it. Actually, I had a bit of fun. My boys, I had a bit of fun with them. You've got to do fun stuff, you know? I mean, life, there's enough tough stuff going on anyway. But one of the things I signed at Dahl's, I mean, they're kind of like, look, what's he going to sign today? It's a lizard in a box. It's like a really poor drawing of a lizard in a box. So anyway, I was on the way home, and I thought, Craigslist. So I went and I drew a proper version of this lizard in a box, drew a frame around it, and then I put it up on Craigslist for 50 bucks. Authentic Cooper signature lizard in a box. I had no calls on it. I couldn't do it. I have not given up. I might do more. I did another one. It was some, I forget what it was. It was some crocodile on a limousine. I can't remember. Really poorly drawn now.

Cooper, it just takes one person to buy it. You're a seven-dimensional character. You know? There's definitely more than meets the eye. You know, back in the 80s, the whole alligator on the shirt thing kind of worked well. If you could design a hippo on a shirt for this next generation, you've got something going there. There you go. I'd probably wear that. I think I would, too. If they were reasonably priced. Oh, yeah. And they were made in the United States. Yeah. Cambodian-made hippos are. They just don't sell. How long ago was this? I can't find any listings for a lizard. What did you put it under? Oh, crazy. It was about two months ago. Oh, wait. Maybe it's not looking that far back.

Yeah. Bummer. Well, okay. But under lizard, you can get a suede, a Western-style suede vest for ten bones. Ten bones? Oh, wait. Okay, hold on. Check this out. This is kind of a… This is coming back from the missionary field. This is kind of… Look at this. This is like some kind of… Cutler. What is that? Oh, that's wild looking. Yeah. Anyway, I think that might be used for nefarious purposes. I can't find a list of in a box. Well, hold on a second. Oh, oh. Okay, so here's the prices. Never worn beautiful black suede vest with silver buttons, size large.

Brand new Western-style boots with spurs. Boots are $140. E. Oh, those are the spurs. Oh. Yikes. What's a modern man you need spurs for? I'm not really sure. Okay, hold on. Can you use them to open a pop bottle or something? Or peel an apple? Is there any modern use for spurs? I can't think of it. Perforate paper? Maybe you'd like people to know that you're coming. Ting, ting, ting. Hey, it's Dan. What? It's like an announcer for you. Cowbellum. Yeah, it's your own personal announcer if you wear the spurs. It's the guy with the spurs, they'll say. It's gone.

Well, Cooper, it's off. I can't seem to find it. I haven't bought it. It didn't get sold. I can tell you. I can tell you. Boy, that's tricky. Looks like it's a Christmas present now. I think the second one was a sleeping pig on a limo. That's what it was. A lovely big looking pig. Hold on. Hold on. Here we go. You didn't get my name in the Christmas drawing, did you? Beautifully framed. On the Tim Cooper and Friends website, enter our contest to win a free sleeping pig on top of a limo. First one to enter wins. Actually, there is a biblical time with all of this, because I'm a Christian show and all of that. Years and years and years ago, I still could draw a hippo. And I was in school, and this was back when I used to have a religious education. And I remember sitting there at the end of term exam, and it said, either give an account of Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem or draw it. I said, ah, no contest.

Pulled out my crayons. Unfortunately, I could not draw a donkey. So I drew Jesus riding on a hippo. And the best part is, I had fun, and I passed the test. Nice. It wasn't technically biblical, because it's one of these vague, new, modern versions. I think I'm going to take Tim's approach on life. People are going to come up to me and say, Mike, why didn't you have that job done on time? I'm going to go, hippo. We've got to have fun, right? And then I'll talk to the guy in the unemployment line right next to me about the same thing. Exactly. How'd you get here? Because it didn't work. Hippos. Yeah, hippos. So wouldn't a donkey be basically a thinner hippo? I mean, couldn't you just… With big ears. Well, yeah, I mean… I can draw other animals, but they look largely like hippos. Like hippos. Like with antlers.

Giraffe with a really long neck. Or a trunk. Do you know that hippos plug their ears underwater? No. Yeah. Why? I don't know. I read it in a book. Sennheiser headphones. I'm not sure why they do it. They don't care for the musical stylings of the anemone. Shut him down. He's awful. Actually, if you go to my website, tcoopamusic.com, click on Hippo Studio, there's a picture of my hippo on there. Really? It's the hippo logo. What did you say? Anemone? Yeah. Anemone. Yeah. That's not how it's said.

There will be music coming up. No, that's not correct. Two… Okay, now hold on. Where's this? Oh, there it is. It's the very bottom. Okay, here you go. Here we go. See it? You see the hippo in the very bottom? He's got headphones on. He's digging it. Yep. He doesn't have a mouth. Tim, it looks like a thumb. Thank you. It looks like a thumb with a wart on it. I think you've put your thumb on a piece of paper and drawn around it and called it a hippo. I'm just wondering if you were expecting to be impressed. It is minimalist. I mean, it is minimalist.

I'll give you that. I had an image in my head of what this hippo looked like. No. And it was not a thumb. You were thinking everybody else's birthday card. No, no. You're thinking of everyone else's version of a hippo. And I can actually draw pretty well before I went into art college and then it came out. It ruined me. I like it. It looks like he could either look at you and give you a real hip smile or he could growl at you and take a bite out of your leg. I don't know if hippos get angry or what. They do. They're dangerous. They kill more people out than the crocodiles or something. I did not know that about hippos. Maybe. Pretty dangerous. Well, that's crazy. I don't know. Dan, do you have anything? Like when you're doodling, like your go-to doodle?

My go-to doodle is like a woman with kind of 80s hair with a stick person running. I knew I shouldn't have asked that. A woman with 80s hair. But I started drawing that in the 70s. I think it set a trend. This woman is in. She's out. Well, in 10 years it will be. I draw a muscular Pac-Man with a rock falling on him. I don't know why. I don't know why. I've always done it. Muscular Pac-Man? I've always done it. I have. How do you do a muscular Pac-Man? Are you round? Yeah, that's what I was saying. You can't draw circles. It's just the Pac-Man face, but it's augmented. But it's a Pac-Man face with a huge beach body. But I can't draw legs, so I stop the picture like after slightly below the mid-waist because it starts to look phony after that.

But I can do. Oh, but you love that. Yeah. Yeah. But he's always looking up like this, and there's always a big rock coming down on him. And I don't know. Do you sing the tune when you do it? Not anymore. Not anymore. Some of us have to grow up sometimes. Really? Really? Really? Really? Tim, if your hippo were to have a theme song, what would it be? Like, how would it go? Jesus is just all right with me? I was trying to do the doo-doos from earlier, but the walking tune. Oh. It sounds the same without the chords behind it. Oh, one thing's leading to another tonight. It's kind of like… I've always said it's kind of like the…

There was a time, about six months ago, when I was playing keyboards in the church, and they were doing, I forget what song, it was one of the old, it was like, I'll fly away or something like that. But the drummer started doing what I was thinking was the hippo groove. And so I'm like… And I couldn't stop laughing. And so I was just like, this is crazy. Everybody's meant to be worshipping. I'm not there crying. I was laughing. It's this groove. I'm like, I'm a white English guy from the center of England, as far detached from this kind of country gospel thing as you can imagine. And so all I could do was put my head down. I just… Oh, look, he's praying. Two weeks later, in a leadership meeting, this woman says, I have a question, Pastor, if I may. And she looked at me and said, Tim, she says, why were you laughing? Why were you crying during that song? Well, it was kind of a hippo groove. I couldn't help it. It was so funny, but I went for it.

You know, I went for that. It was like… You're afraid to say anything now, aren't you? You don't know where to… I don't know either. All right. Oh, my. So no one on the channel is admitting to a go-to doodle. I do… It's not that bearded woman, is it? Yeah. It's not really a woman. It's kind of an effeminate looking guy. So it's always just… It's not intentional. So it's just a guy… It's my inner self coming out. It's just a guy with the… That's exactly what he called it. He tried to make a t-shirt out of it like five years ago. He draws this bearded woman, and then he makes a t-shirt that says, be yourself. And then he tries to sell it. No, that's not the one.

No, no. That's a different lady. I had to have my wife draw that one. This is how you know a woman loves you, is if I say, here's what I want you to do, wife. I want you to draw me a lady with a full beard so I can put it on a t-shirt. And if she says yes, that's a keeper. This is really funny. You're laughing at my hippo. And it's like, I draw eight women with… Stick women with 80s hair. So my go-to doodle is a guy's face, and he's got like… He's kind of got my stylings, all right? It's an egotistical drawing. Look at this. It's the dream me. I can only draw it when I'm looking in a window or a mirror. So he's got like surfer-looking hair going to either side, and he's wearing a beanie. You know, like the helicopter things on him. And then he's always got big lips because I don't know how to draw lips. Like, I can only do the line with the two buck teeth or the big full lips. Those are the only two things I can do. And then he's always got like an earring. It's a hoop earring, but not like one of the big 80s ladies hoop earrings, but the more smaller.

And then he's always got a Band-Aid. He's wearing a Band-Aid on his cheek. And that's him. That's what he looks like. Didn't you make an ashtray out of this fella in high school? I think we had some kind of clay-fired class. And Ben walks out with an ashtray when he made of this guy when he was like 15. He was funny. Hey, we should go look lazy. I keep thinking one of you is making it up, and then the other one remembers it. No, these are true. I really have. It's not as cool as Tim's hippo that wants to be a thumb, but soon we'll get there. I was really thinking that hippo theme song would be just like a slow inner monologue. Like he was like, where will I walk? Where will I walk? Now that I'm here, where will I go? And then it starts over. Where will I walk? Where will I walk? And then he goes. He's like a. He does that for 15 hours a day.

Yeah, he's like a happy Eeyore. Yeah, like a gas car. They're kind of, you know, get the hips into it. Can somebody help me get my hippo on? Could you draw a hippo with 80s hair? Because I'm in there. That's not how it goes down. Just at one time on that one power. Try it looking left. I draw them on Tithe envelopes as well. Here's my real gift to God. You can keep the cash. Right now, I think Christian Life Assembly of God are trying to figure out who this guy is. Whatever, they're putting that on Craigslist. Tim, I'm pretty sure they know exactly who it is. No, we knew that. Yeah, we kind of had to leave the last church over a hippo. There was a hippo instead of the last church. I've been wondering who the guys with the coats are that are waiting in the lobby. Come on, Tim. Tim goes, where should I go? Here, where do I go? Putting on the jacket.

Hands behind my back. White coat, white coat. Standing in the room, padded for me. You were listening to Live from the Path on Des MoinesAmplified.com. We are in the studio with Tim Cooper and friends. Coming up within the next, I would say, 10 minutes, the reveal will finally come to fruition. The best Christmas present ever, available tonight and tonight, plus other nights, you know, on Live from the Path. And so you can be prepared for that here within the next 10 minutes. Operators are standing by. Yeah, yeah. Maybe. Hey. You should call. Yeah. If you want to call, you can call us here in the studio. The number is 327-1007. That is not toll-free. That will cost you big money. Even if it's local, it is routed through India. So it's a Budapest. Budapest charges will apply. So dial if you've got to dial. I mean, you've got to really want it.

But otherwise, we'd love to have you. Also, if you want to get a hold of us during the week or, you know, God bless it, if you have other stuff going on and you actually want to see what we're doing during the week, we'll pray for you. But you can find us at livefromthepath.org. You can find old shows, except for last week, which was so awful, we did not post it. It didn't record. That was a miracle. Yeah. It was the worst show to have ever graced humanity. And they forgot to record it. It was a good thing. We basically ran out of stuff to talk about 45 minutes into a two-hour show. And then I can't even tell you what happened the last hour and 15 minutes. So what do you want to talk about? Nothing. Whatever it was, it was terrible. Ben took to playing clips from old shows. It was terrible. Yeah, but look at this one. This was good. It was bound to happen. I mean, we've been doing it for, it'll be nine months coming up. And, you know, we're bound to have one of those. I'm surprised it hasn't happened 20 times prior to this point.

Yeah, yeah. Anyway, if you didn't catch last week's show, congratulations. It's a betterment on your humanity. But anyway, you can find past shows on there. You can also find all the artists that have been in the studio. There's a performances link on the side, and it's got a beautiful picture of all the artists. And then you can get links to every song that they've played here, as well as the full show that they were part of, and a link to the website. So we've had a lot of cool folks in here, a lot of cool bands, so I would encourage you to go check them out. And, you know, figure out what they're doing and what they're up to. Try to see them locally. We've seen a couple of the bands recently, and it's cool. So, you know, definitely do that. What do you guys got? You guys got another one for us you can play? Sure. I'm sure we do. Okay. Do you guys need a microphone? I'm going to guess. So this is, if I remember correctly, this is the Christmas number? Yep.

Mike, tell us a story. There once was a man named Tim Cooper and his friends, and they were going to sing a song on the Live from the Path, and it was this one. Amen. Chad likes it. Of course they like it. I like that. So you guys wrote that? Yep. He wrote it. I saw Emmanuel, I thought, oh yeah, I'll probably know this one. I'm like, oh, I don't know. Wait a minute. I've heard the words before. That was nice. I like it. Yeah. I mean, I'm not sounding surprised. I mean, like, well, that was a nice one. That was a really good one. I expected a real pile. Since that hippo thing's not working out so well,

I'm glad the music's coming along. You might have a chance in life. I'd give it a thumbs up slash hippo. Two hippos up. That's funny. We'll give that song three hippos. I kind of feel bad that I used the drunk hippo as our bottom end option. I could have put the lemur at the bottom. I mean, it's just random selection. It was inspired. There's nothing random. Let there be lemur. All right. Well, that was Tim Cooper and Friends. You can check out the website. It's at tcoopermusic.com. And there's all kinds of stuff out there. Neat stuff. Lots of buttons to click around. Lots of stuff to read. Hippos and pictures and music and stuff. Crossword puzzle. Is there a crossword puzzle out there?

Nope. They took it down. Oh, man. It was good. I defeated it. Twice. I am horrible at crossword puzzles. It was actually more of a fill in the blank. It was like Tim Blank and Friends. Let me see. I got it on the third try. I mean, you got to put yourself in a whole different frame of mind for crossword puzzles. I've never really spent enough time to put myself there. I've beat it up to Wednesday. The New York Times crossword. I've never tried. After Wednesday, I'm out. Yeah, I do too. Like three-letter words and stuff like that. You make crossword puzzles? Three-letter words, Dan? Hey, Tim, will you shoot that mic over to Julie? I'm interested in this crossword puzzle creating.

So, like, for your own enjoyment or for publication? No, actually, I don't like to do things like everybody else. And so the first time I ever had to do a baby shower, I didn't want to do that stupid Scrabble thing, you know, where you got the mom's name. Everybody already knew, you know, they came with the list in their pocket. Oh. Okay, so I never want to do that. So I made a crossword puzzle. I've had a lot of things in it. It was probably 60 different things, you know. Did you use, like, software to – or did you do it, like, on – No, no, I – I'm stupid. I bet they have software for it. I didn't use it. Well, they do because I've done, like, Bible stuff before with it. But in a stupid art program, even Excel would have been better. Yeah, crossword. Little squares, all the same size. Squares would have already been there for me. Rats. Huh. I like that. Have you done any subsequent crosswords?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yes, I've done crossword puzzles for all my grandkids and for my kids just to have something fun. And we've done some for Christmas. I'd be like, what's a little furry animal that purrs? Oh, a cat, you know. I'd be horrible. I don't know. That seems like a pretty good clue and answer. But that's it. It wasn't completely left field. The ones that are, like, really deep, like, you know, it'll just say – I don't know. It's the ones with the question marks at the end. The jokes. Tree bark. Here's the clue, but it means something different. Yeah, yeah. Like, king of the world, question mark. Hmm. Hmm. And it's, like, King Vitaman or something. Yeah, it's a serial guy. I mean, years ago, I just thought, eh, I'm not smart enough, evidently.

I just, you know. Well, I have had to switch to the word finds because my granddaughter is five now, and she can do a word find. Yeah, so, you know, those are fun. So, got to do those for her. I like word finds. You know what? I had to stop playing. I used to play that, the online crossword at msnbc.com. They had one. But the thing is, is it turns red if you don't have the right letter. So, then I just go to the spot and then do ABCDFG until it turns black. And then I move to the next one. ABCDFG, blah, blah, blah, blah, until it shows up. It takes a long time, but I dominate those crosswords. Reminds me of the guy on the airplane I saw one time. He was doing the crossword puzzle in the airplane, you know, book, whatever that magazine is. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And he couldn't find the answer, so he was shuffling around. And he actually got up and checked a few pockets behind us until he found when they had that fill, dude.

Allison, are you saying that you rock at third grade and under crosswords? Is that what I'm understanding? Do they sell them by grade level? Yeah, they do. I suppose. Oh, yeah. Okay, she does. Yep, that's it. Yeah, definitely. That'd be it. I suppose, you know, people don't assume that you're getting a third grade, that you're getting a third grade one for yourself. They assume that you're buying for others. So you could buy a pile of people like, oh, bless your heart, buy a bunch of crosswords for the children. But really, you're going to go home and rock them. I am so good at this. You know, that's true, though. You do feel pretty good, regardless of the age level. When you complete it, you're like, yeah, I took care of that thing. Yeah, really? I finished that whole book. I had to stop doing those word searches with my daughter because I got impatient with

her. I'm like, there it is right there. It's right there. Come on. We could be done with this thing. Are you getting kind of competitive? Yeah. It's terrible. Let's draw this. Okay, you do that. I'll do the word search. Daddy, I'm four. Who told you that? No, she didn't remember. All right, you're listening to Live for the Path on the Wynn Amplified.com. Again, that was, in case you missed it, shame on you. That was the beautiful musical stylings of Tim Cooper and Friends. I like it. I could listen to you guys all day. I mean, it's very peaceful. It's calming. I like it. We could.

Yeah. Tim did threaten to play all night. He said, how many songs can I do? Well, we heard about last week's show. Oh, yeah. I appreciate it. Bear for you, man. Obviously, you need help. I appreciate you coming to dig it out of the ditch there. It's pretty bad. But I said, Tim, you can play two songs. He goes, we're playing 15 or we walk. And I said, all right. All right. Cooper. Boy, oh boy. Darn union. He's a stiff Betty when it comes to that. I've got to tell you this. I met Doug outside in the parking lot when we parked the cars. And I looked down. He came. He was wearing wellies.

And now I look down and he's wearing slippers. What's a well? He brought his own footwear to the studio. Hold on a minute. What was that first thing you said he was wearing? Wellies. Wellington. Wellington boots. Wellington boots. Ah. As in the Duke of Wellington. Wellington boots. He was wearing wellies. But now he's got his slippers on. Slippers are very comfortable. I'm confused with these wellies. Where do they go fishing in? Wait a minute. You're missing the point that Doug has brought his own slippers. Oh, sorry. You're getting hung up on. Two pairs of footwear to the studio. I was going to wet willy, which is a whole different thing.

I was like, totally different. No, you're missing the point. How do you wear that? Because Cooper's saying weird things like wellies. You're getting distracted on the point that Doug has brought in more than one pair of footwear to an occasion. These are like moccasin looking things, too. Did you get a gander at them? I got something like that. Soft moccasins. Mine are much more beat up. Yeah. So you took Mr. Rogers style. You brought him. You sat down. Anytime you change what you're doing, you've got to flip your shoes around. You took you the first day in the neighborhood. Change your sweater. Don't worry. No problem. He gets his little ascot out. Puts it on. Wraps himself up.

Ascot. Yeah. What? What? Next time it will be the bunny slippers. Don't make me do it. That's when we know the show is really on its way out. Doug is swapped into his fire escape boots. I'm out of here. Just in case. Click, click, click. All right. As promised, we've been discussing this week. Mike and Dan and I put our heads together and we said, you know, we want to create or make available to our listeners the best Christmas gift ever. And we put our heads together, I mean, long and hard, like Medusa style, like heads together. Yeah. Yeah. Thinking about it. And I think we've really come up with something that you're going to enjoy. So, courtesy of Live from the Path, please enjoy the best Christmas present ever. This Christmas, don't subject your family and friends to the same tired old Christmas songs. Instead, start the season of singing and celebration off the right way with the fresh holiday sounds

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I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. That doesn't usually stop Dan. I make it up. Christmas! You're not getting my money this year. Actually, you know that turned out well because I had threatened to do that as a Christmas present for my family. Like, I was in the car one day and I thought, I can sing over perfectly good Christmas tunes. Great! And I'll just record that and then give it to everybody for Christmas. And then I'll get me out of having to buy gifts because I'm cheap. And then I'm pretty sure that would have embarrassed my wife, something fierce. And it would have made me angry! I wouldn't want it! She talked to me a little bit about that Sunday and she was quite appreciative that we jumped in. Oh, what? That's true. It could have just been, Ben sings over perfectly good Christmas tunes. Yeah. That was what it was originally. I'm really, actually, she's pretty lucky that I don't have a microphone and stuff at home. I can only do it here. Because when we record stuff like that, we do it after the show. So we're, you know, you think the show's over and you've gone to bed.

We're still here, you know, 1245 in the morning. That's how dedicated we are. Record stuff. Yeah. And so, really, we should have just done it last week. But hindsight's 20-20. Now we think of it. Oh, no. Anyway, enjoy. Thank you. Feel free to purchase. There's nothing to buy. Hey, I did design a t-shirt though. I got a t-shirt done. But then I tried to, I sent it to a place to get it put up online. And for some reason, the website doesn't continue to not work. It's pretty, there's just a donkey on in front of it. That's all it is. Anyway. It's big money. It costs big money. How much is it? Like 30 bucks?

It was a sweatshirt. It was like 38. $38? It was big. Like, I can't get one. Somebody else hopefully buys one. But I, not me, I can't tell. Is it a hooded sweatshirt? Yeah. Oh, that's all right. It's not bad. I part with 40 bucks for a good life from the past shirt. So it's blue. It's got like white stripes on the side and then a big donkey kind of looking at you. And then it says life from the path on the back. I was pretty happy with it. But I, yeah, I can't. Why don't you buy that for me for Christmas instead of your rewritten Christmas tunes? 40 bones. I only got to, no way. That's not going to happen. Absolutely not. I might get you a fruit basket that someone else has given me.

That is your best opportunity. In fact, your only opportunity for something decent is that someone gives me something cool twice. And then you might get something. Left from last year. Oh, yeah, exactly. Actually, no. I might give you some of your shirts back. Yeah. Why don't we start there? You have that nice purple shirt that I have. You know my wife likes that shirt. You better get back to me. You can have that. Sure. Sure. Sure. You have a green shirt of mine as well. You know what? I'm going to go over to your house and look at you. I'm pretty sure you have all my shirts. If they're nice, I mind. I get in the van after church is over.

We get in the van. I take my shirt off because it's hot. You know? Well, not, not like bare chest. That was a great message. I'm glad that church is over. Could get myself comfortable. Still tired of wearing this stuffy clothing. Exactly. Back to my nudist ways. It drives through Ozyman afterwards, right? I'm glad we tinted these windows. This would be awkward. Three fellas riding around in a tinted van. Nothing funny here. With the bumper sticker that says, Going Samson on it. Oh yeah, Mike went all Samson with it. That and the, what's the bumper sticker on the back of the van? It says Fred. Fred O8. Yeah, for Fred O8. The Fred Thompson O8.

But anyway, like I always take off my dress shirt on the way home and then I always leave it in the van and then bin up scones with it. And then I don't get it back. I take it inside to launder it and make it nice for you and then you never come back and get it. Ain't that something? Dan, do you bake at your house? Do you do any of the baking? I don't bake much. I cook. But you don't do any baking? Here's what I'm gonna guess. Okay, and Julie's not able to respond, but my guess is that Julie makes excellent cookies. Is that true? The scones are her specialty though. Really? I don't make cookies. Well, you didn't bring any. I don't make cookies. What do you mean you don't make cookies? I don't make cookies. I never make cookies.

I make scones. Yeah. Scones are English cookies. They're not scones. Okay, here's a little English thing for tonight. Scones is common. Scones is posh. Oh, really? In fact, three, four years ago at my Victorian Christmas tea, we learned that we were posh because we were having scones. Scones. Okay, Mike, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm confused already. Okay, no. I'm gonna bring you back here. What do you mean already? I'm gonna bring you back here. Commoner. Me and Dan are gonna have Twinkies until this all goes away. That's right. Mike, I'm gonna come up to you and ask if you have any scones, and you're gonna respond scones and look down upon me. I might be common.

I might have scones. Wait a minute. No, I'm gonna probably just, I think just so you get a good image. Is this a societal… People just look down on you like, oh, yes. So what if I am a commoner and then I say it in a fancy way? Are the people gonna… Are you a poser? Frown at me? You're a scone poser? Where they say… You are a commoner. Wow. You're not allowed to say it. Have Tim Cooper… Okay, have Tim Cooper do it. Okay, you say it. I'm gonna be some kind of abrasive Western who says, hey man, do you have any scones? And I want you to correct me in a very posh manner. Make it clear that I shouldn't be using that word. Or that I've used it in a low-brow manner. Do you mean scones?

Yes, okay. Alright, ready? So here it comes. Ready? Hey man. Hey man, do you have any scones in here? You're playing yourself, Tim Cooper. I assume you're referring to scones. Yes, I suppose I am. Am I? Where's my willies? I'm leaving. Wellies. Wellies. What was it? Wellies. Wellies. Wellington. What about? You can't say willies. No. Wellies. You've got all Samson on it.

I thought I had it. I'm putting my shirt back on. I'm out of here. Oh my. Boy, that really took a turn for the worse. Shoot. That's what I thought. Maybe you're going to be clever. Where's my willies? My bad. That was a mistake. That was a mistake. I admit that much. You're listening to Life in the Path on Des Moines Amplified.com. You're in studio with Tim Cooper and friends who have already treated us to two lovely melodies already tonight. Mike, here's what I want you to do. In the next song that Tim Cooper and friends plays, I want you to close your eyes. And after it's over, I want you to paint a vivid picture, a musical landscape, if you will, as to what they've done. Can you do that? What's the name of the tune? This one is called Mercies. I used to do that with my daughter, with Danielle, when she was four years old. We'd turn on some Vilvaldi, and we'd close our eyes, turn the lights off, and I'd say,

okay, tell me what's happening. That was really cool. Yeah. My dad used to do that with us on Journey to the Sorcerer by the Eagles. Yeah. You ever heard of there's a banjo in it? I don't know. He made up some elaborate story about a sorcerer stealing something from somebody. I don't know. It was outrageous. But it was a long car ride. Yeah. It worked. That's a good idea, Daniel. Yeah. It's really kind of fun. Gets their imagination going and appreciation for music. I'd play this thing, but it's seven and a half minutes long, so that's not going to happen. Journey to the Sorcerer? Yeah. Yeah, that's not going to happen. Okay.

All right. So, Mercies, right? Yep. Are we ready? All right. I'm ready. This is Tim Cooper and Friends with Mercies on Live from the Path. Now take a storm, I've another chance to feel your breath. Now take a storm, I reflect upon your faithfulness. In your love you have injured and have torn, but you have healed and revived and restored. Your mercy on you, this morning. Your mercy on you, this morning. Your mercy on you, and your love upon me. I'm alive in you this day. Now take a storm, I've another chance to walk in faith. Now take a storm, I will sing like a child again. You have come to me like the winter rain. The time may live in your presence again. Your grace and your life is dead. And your love… Very pretty, Mike. What is the musical landscape through your ethereal mind that you've come up with? I've got bad news for you.

For some reason, all I can think of is a spider that lived in the arch in St. Louis and weaved a web all the way through the entire arch and a big giant bird got caught in it. I don't know. That's all I… For some reason, I tried to concentrate on the tune. What kind of bird? Like a big giant red bird. Like three stories tall. So a spider wove a web through the whole arch and then the… Oh. And so this big bird… Three stories tall. He was giant. I don't know. That's what I got. Huh. I'm no longer using you in a pain of image. So Tim, did you write this song? Yep. How do you feel about Mike's interpretation of… I think he's crazy. Might he show up on an image in your next bill you send out? Hopefully not.

Mike squished by a hippo. Hopefully not. Hopefully not. Hopefully not. Red birds are dumb. Tim's still trying to recover from that image. Who will squish? Song about God's grace along. Well, we've got this spider. He's right, man. Your mind doesn't work right. I don't know what to say. I closed my eyes and I thought, really envision it. And so I started out with like fields of hay and stuff. I don't know. And then all of a sudden I was in St. Louis with this spider and a big red bird. And I thought, well, there ain't going no one back. What am I going to lie? Make something up? That's what I thought of. We appreciate your candor and honesty. We can pray for you. Yeah, you better.

The question of how twisted you are. I need the mercies. See how I've tied it back in? The councilor lines are now open. From the manual. Yeah. All right. No wandering the gray ethereal abyss of a mid-morning lake. Instead, bird in a spider's web. I saw the grace of God ascending from a mountain. That was a bird in a spider web. Lord made the spider. He said, watch out. Especially if you're a big red bird. It was in Hebrews. All right. Hebrews. Hebrews. You want it? You got it. Welcome to the next edition of Non-Biblical Signs of the Apocalypse. I'm sorry. I just laughed at that guy.

I can't help but laugh at him. He gets me every time. All right. Non-Biblical Signs of the Apocalypse. Ready? That's the one. Every time it takes. Oh, no. Hold on. I had some. Now I've lost them. Mike. Distract them. Camera's not on me. I can do the right one over here. It makes Ben look like he's done something weird. Mike. Non-Biblical Signs of the Apocalypse is a segment that we like to do, which are signs that maybe the end is near that are not necessarily found in Revelations, whether he, you know, John just ran out of time or, you know, he didn't quite get to it. Yeah. Or maybe the Lord did not. His wife told him, hey, don't put that in.

Yeah. His mom's like, John, I'm still hungry. Don't put that in there. What are you thinking? What do people think of you? They'll say, John, the crazy man. So is he the one that ate bugs or just came up with weird dreams? The mixture of that other John. Which John is it? Okay. So here you go. And, chat, your responsibility is to vote. After the end of the story, you're voting either yes, the end is near, or yeah, we've got some more time. Okay. Story number one. Wisconsin woman accused of biting off husband's tongue. A Wisconsin woman bit off half her husband's tongue during a kiss and has been arrested, authorities said on Tuesday. The bitten piece of the husband's tongue was recovered and he was taken to a hospital following the incident late on Monday, Sheboygan, Wisconsin police said in a statement. Now, here's the best part. Okay.

The woman's account of the story. Okay. The woman, 57, told the emergency worker she had, quote, bit her husband's tongue off. That's the only account of the story. Like, there is no additional details or embellishment. That's all that happened. She had blood on her clothing. That was the additional. The 79-year-old victim said his wife bit. Okay, so she's. 79. Yeah. She's 57. 57. 57. Okay. He's 79. Okay. Said his wife bit his tongue while he was kissing her. Okay. The woman. Does he have teeth? It doesn't say.

I just wonder. Okay. Surrounding circumstance, the woman was singing Christmas carols and blowing a New Year's horn when police arrested her on charges of felony mayhem. The victim was transported to an area hospital where doctors were trying to reattach his tongue. About half of his tongue was bit off. The victim said his wife had been acting strangely in recent days roughly in Sheboygan roughly 50 miles north of Milwaukee. So, a number of things stood out to this story. One, the age difference between the couple. Okay. That is. And this happened December 7th. Singing Christmas carols blowing a New Year's horn. That's kind of early. Yeah. No indication of inebriation. What does a New Year's horn look like? What? Like the flap. The things that go. Yeah. I was thinking more like a Vuvuzela looking thing, but you know.

Gotcha. That's the only impression I do of a New Year's horn. Well, I don't believe those Vuvuzelas are that melodic. No one invites me to their New Year's party, so I wouldn't know. What the heck? You're the buzz kill, Dan. No one wants the pastor at the New Year's party. Hey, what do you got in that drink? Old Dools. Just drinking a bunch of Old Dools, Pastor Dan. Are you honoring Jesus right now? I want to make a New Year's resolution for the Lord. You realize you can come back at any moment. Even right now. Or right now. Is that, wait, which horn do I hear? Is that a trumpet or a drunk woman getting ready to bite somebody? Would this be a good time to repent? I wonder what her actions were that they say that she's been behaving strangely in the past couple of days. Like she'd been practicing, you know. Biting on the cat. Walking around her front yard making bites.

Carrots. Singing a song, I wish this was a tongue. I don't know. End is near, we got more time. I think they just have marital problems. Okay. I think a tongue's got to be tough to bite all the way through. You ever bite your own tongue, you know? Like I bet you'd really have to have that. It's got to be gay. You have to really. Have you ever had cow tongue? Can you have people, can you get custom dentures? Yeah. Like can you have them sharpen them up so they're really, I mean they're really hardcore. Like Ed Cullen style? Yeah, king of the dentures. I suppose you have them made, you can do whatever you want to them. Like if I throw an extra couple hundred bucks and I say, look, you know, Bob down the street's got a new set and I don't want to be riding Volvo. You know, give me, give me the Mercedes of dentures here. I want these things to cut through a steak like it's winking. Do you have dentures there?

I think that can be done. And if it can't be done, it should be done. High scale dentures. We should open a business. We could do that. We'll call it hippo dentures. We could do the grills and stuff. The grills. This is why no one loves you at their New Year's party. You say things like the grills. By the way, is your mama large? This is her. Nice to meet you Pastor Dan. All right. McKees, Rocks, Pennsylvania. Wait, so that was, we've got more time. Just marital problems. Yeah, I think we've got more time. Boy, I mean you're 79 and you haven't worked out your marital difficulties. Like, where they're still biting you. I'm thinking he must have thought things were okay. That's true. I mean, he's got his tongue in place.

She's like, I'll go ahead and, you know. I don't know. Man, I like that she didn't offer anything else except for, like her statement was, I bit his tongue. Well, think about it. He's not exactly going to refute it, is he? Yeah, he can't. She did it. I'll tell you. Cat got your tongue. I wasn't there. She did it. She bit my tongue. That'd be painful. I don't like it. I don't care for it. Not one bit. I'm against it. I just don't like it. I tried to take her New Year's horn. She got very upset. No, who was that? Not the New Year.

You got three weeks. You crazy old bird? You listen to me, I'm the man of the house. Mr. Gower. Mr. Gower, Mr. Gower. Oh, George. Shut up. McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. Authorities say a two-year-old girl spent 15 minutes stuck inside a toy crane vending machine in a Pittsburgh area mall. Moon run fire chief Paul Cashmere tells the TV station that the girl didn't seem upset by the ordeal in the food court. A firefighter's arrived to find the cutest little girl in the pink outfit sucking her binky inside with the other toys. The girl apparently climbed up the chute into which the coin-operated crane drops prizes. Cashmere used a tool to pry open a door or a machine to reach the girl and the vending company has not been identified. I don't know, that seems kind of par for the court. How was she? Three? Two. They don't put those flaps on there like they do on the candy machines where you can't get in there and take candy. She obviously weasels up there. Now here's, this seemed like a, it was kind of a cute story. The reason I had end is near is, I mean, first of all, that's a, that's a mobile two-year-old. And I don't know what parent is like, this is the middle of a mall. The end is near when your two-year-old can escape your attention and you're in the vending machine. Yeah, I had to take a little time to squirm up there.

Yeah, I mean, it's not like she just slithered in. I mean, they had to be working around, I'm sure made some noise. You know, this couldn't have been that smooth of an operation. You think I could, you think I could buy the child? Like if I caught her with the crane and got her out, dropped it on her cranium and hoisted her out. Well, I'd grab her by the back of the overalls and gingerly drop her down the side. She'd probably think it was great. How many quarters did it take to get her daughter back? Exactly. Yeah, really. If I was the vending company, I'd be upset. Yeah, maybe that's why they didn't identify the vending company. Yeah. Like, cause they had to pry bar open up that thing and that really isn't your problem. He's a small business owner too. He's just trying to make a buck here, stocking toys. Anyway, I'm going within his near just because that's some awful, awful parenting. There's a lot of awful parenting. I'm going to say we've got more time. Oh, because it's par for the course? It doesn't stick out? Okay. Alright.

Alright. Here we go. Security camera. It's only the, I don't know, the east coast is a problem. Well, Mississippi doesn't. The east coast is a problem. Anyway. Picayune, Mississippi. A man caught naked. The Lord will address it. A man caught naked in a South Mississippi church cemetery says he was trying to take photographs of spirits. Robert Hurst told the Picayune item newspaper that he shed his clothes because he believes skin is the best canvas to show spirits orbs of energy. The 47 year old said he only intended to remove his shirt. See, it's a dangerous path. It's a dangerous path. It's a dangerous path. It's a gateway. It's a gateway. It's a gateway removal. He just started after church one Sunday and took off my shirt and pretty soon it's the socks.

Next thing I know, I'm in the middle of a cemetery naked. Okay. So he only intended to remove his shirt, but he took off all his clothes. A move he now calls stupid. As do we. Authorities had set up a motion activated camera to try to catch vandals, but the camera caught an unexpected image of Hurst naked. He faced the misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure and posted $500 bond after turning himself in. I could just, I could just see the rest of the story that they didn't mention. Like he was running back and forth across the camera view going, wow. Was he catching the spirits? He's got a magic bowl and a big spoon. Wah! With his little horn. Wah! No one can make a fool out of me. That woman took my tongue, she can't take my dignity. Well I'm thinking on the camera it says, he's probably just reading it wrong, it says on the top it's got, you got your aperture, you know, 5.6, exposure time, 4 seconds. Oh, exposure! I can do that. Sure.

I don't need that camera to tell me to expose it. There's some weird rules at this cemetery, but I'll oblige. I don't know. So the flesh is a canvas. Yeah, best canvas to show spirits. So he's taking pictures of himself? Yeah. Hoping the spirits would just happen to be there? Yeah. I got, I like his story though. Like, first of all, I like that he posted $500 bond after turning himself in Friday. Like, so I'm assuming there was pictures on the news and like, have you seen this man? And like, unless he was impressive where he said, oh yeah, I'm the guy. That's me. Otherwise I would have tried to get away with it. And I tell you, I tell you what I also thought is I really feel bad for the police guy whose job is to monitor cemetery footage. Cause I mean, you really gotta be fingers crossed on something happening. Cause that seems pretty lame. That's true. Why would you randomly be looking at cemetery? Like unless he was damaging things, which doesn't sound like he was. I think they've had vandalism problems.

Yeah. But I mean, I mean. So they set up a sting. Like when people vandalize, I don't think they set up for four or five hours. I mean, you're really hoping for 15 minutes worth of, you know, 10 hours of cemetery midnight footage. That seems like it stinks. So have you ever been to a cemetery in the middle of the night? Uh-uh. Really? Yup. It's kind of freaky, isn't it? Yes, it is. A little, especially if it's a little foggy. He dragged me to him. No. Well, it's kind of creepy. Why would you do that? We were freshmen in college. That's what you do. What you do? Just people being people. Just people being people.

Yeah, just people being people. She told me we were relatives. I had no idea. She had a camera. She said, roll up your sleeve. Is it not wrong to flash a ghost? That is a good point. It's a moral problem. I like that the ghost is like, yeah, skin. Go for it. I know. Hey, I used to have skin. Let me get near that. This guy's warm and creepy. And he's taking pictures. He's awful loud. Get one of me. All right. So, I don't know. End is near? Or do we have more time? I might say. A naked man in a cemetery looking for spirits taking pictures of himself.

I'll go with the end on that one. End is near. He's picked a good location. I mean, what else do you want from the guy? Santa? Obviously, your regular walk through the cemetery is not producing spirits. So, he's at least giving it a shot. I'm going to say we got more time. He's a thinker. No, no. You're missing the genius of this man. I'm in agreement with Allison from the chat here that he's trying. He probably can't trump anybody else around him. So, he goes to show off the skin to the ghost. Look what I got. Yeah. I think Allison's got that spot on. I think that's what's happening. Bob got the promotion. Yeah. I got the skin. You got skin? Didn't think so.

Let me get a picture of your feeling. He's a spirit bully. Yeah. All right. Okay. I'm getting cold. I guess that's not a problem for you guys. Okay. This is from Bartonville. I don't know what state. Question is, what would you do if a pal left a dead squirrel on your dashboard as a joke? Would you A, laugh it off, dispose of the carcass, post haste, and disinfect? B, abandon the vehicle and the friend? Or C, adopt the dead rodent as a pet and deposit at the closest fast food restaurant drive-through window? Who do you think the man in our story? Which one do you think he chose? I'm thinking fast food. He did drive-through window. Christopher Thompson allegedly chose the last option Friday. According to the Bartonville police, the 26-year-old Picanite had been at a friend's place working on a recently purchased vehicle earlier in the day when the friend placed a lifeless squirrel on the dash. Thompson told police he saw the animal but decided to leave it there as he departed. It was still on the dashboard about 945 when he pulled into the drive-through lane of the Bartonville Hardys at 5515 Adams Street. After he pulled up the window and received his order, he asked the attendant for extra nuts for his pet squirrel.

The woman later told police, here's the best part, he was holding and petting the dead rodent. I like how she handles this. She expressed her disbelief at the scene unfolding before her eyes. That squirrel is not real, she told the customer. Then she turned and walked away. Thompson allegedly retorted, yes, it is. And to validate the accuracy of his statement, he tossed the animal through the open window where it skidded across a ledge and landed on the floor of the restaurant. He then drove away. The customer picked up the carcass and set it outside in the snow. Thompson did not return a call from the Journal Star on Thursday. The incident does not appear to be so-called fire-in-the-hole acts where drivers record themselves throwing drinks back through the drive-through window and post the videos online. I have not seen that. I've seen some TV show on it. I didn't know that was a deal. Fire-in-the-hole and then they throw it in. Then they, fire-in-the-hole! That's kind of funny. That is kind of funny. I mean, wrong. Yeah, I would. Let's do that. Very comical. Again, I'm really surprised at the verbal interchange.

That squirrel is not real. Yes, it is. That's it. That's the dialogue captured by the journalist. I think if some guy comes up to the drive-through and they're petting their dead squirrel and they're asking for extra nuts, I just kind of let them, yeah, okay, I'll get you. I'd let them have it. Here you go. Here you go, sir. Pick whatever you want. Yeah. Just don't throw it in the window and yell fire-in-the-hole. Yeah. You know, someone prank called me this week. Really? Like, and I didn't realize it was a prank call. I guess I was kind of naive, but my phone rang or whatever and I didn't recognize the number, but I always pick it up and I say, you know, this is Mike. And he says, hey, it's your neighbor. I said, hey, man. And he says, you've been stealing my newspaper. And I said, I most certainly have not been stealing your newspaper. He goes, am I going to have to come over there? I said, well, I'm not there right now. You know, I knew like it was a prank, but I didn't really, I thought maybe he was actually looking for somebody.

And I thought, well, I'll just defuse this situation right now, you know. I got this covered. So he goes, blah, blah, blah. You've been stealing my newspaper for years, you know, and I saw you do it this morning. I said, look, fella, I don't even live in a house anymore. Like, I moved in with my in-laws. The times are tough. You know, I'm not stealing your paper. And he goes, I know how to read. I've had enough of this. I'm coming over there right now. And I thought, boy, you're a different kind of cat, ain't you? I just told you I wasn't even there. I'm at work, fella, you know. And so I found out, the only way I found out was I went to my work Christmas party. And a guy from work was laughing when I walked up. And he goes, haha, I prank called you this week. I said, were you the newspaper guy? He goes, yeah, you're not very fun to prank call. He goes, you didn't get mad or nothing. He's like, I didn't do it. And then that was it. I said, well, I don't know what to tell you, you know.

I mean, he's like, I thought most people when they say I'm going to come over and really cause trouble, they start spouting off at the mouth, you know. And I'm like, well, what am I going to do? You know, he's obviously not going to stop by, you know. I don't know. It was really weird. It was like a prerecorded prank call. It was odd. That's bizarre. It was odd. I racked it appropriately. I didn't. I use no profanity. That's nice. I'm impressed. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you very much. I did have my shirt off at the time, though. I didn't mention that on the phone. I thought you were at work. I was. Yeah. Yeah.

I work at the YMCA. Don't do anything. I'm the Indian. I'm the Indian. I'm the Indian. That's a two stage joke. You got to put it all together. You got to work for it. All right. I don't know. In is near or still have more time. What were we talking about? Is this this? Oh, the fire in the hole guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Squirrel. Squirrel the drive through. Got to be more time. You know what?

We were like probably four and five or, you know, somewhere around there. When we were putting dead snakes on my mother's visor in a car. Oh, no. This is not new stuff, people. That was pretty funny. In fact, one time we did a live one and she drove before she put that visor down. Oh, man. Oh. Oh, that sounds terrible. Okay. I'm going to side with Julie more time. Yeah. Okay. More time. Hey, I just have a question. Can you find out if that Allison that's on the chat thing has any relatives in this room? Allison, can you indicate on the chat if you have any relatives in the room? I'm not saying she's my daughter or anything. All right. I'll keep an eye out. We'll see what she says if she immediately signs off. I don't think so. No, I don't know.

No, she does not. I didn't think so. She disowned you. Oh, man. What have I done? Oh, no. All right. A camel falls on audience at Florida Christmas show. A camel and its rider are unhurt after toppling onto audience members during rehearsal for a costume Christmas pageant at South Florida Church. The camel named Lulabelle walked down the aisle and was supposed to stop and kneel. Instead, the animal balked and then stumbled sideways. It fell onto several pews and the rider was tossed into the audience. So, we have video of this one. So, here's the video of this camel. Is this the same one again? Oh, yeah. There she is. Okay. I feel bad for it, but it's kind of funny. There we go. Poor guy. Anyway.

You know, that's quite the production that this church is putting on. Yeah, no kidding. With a live camel and whatever. Yeah, no kidding. You can see after this happened, they look right at the guy whose idea was like, oh, Rick, we had to have a live camel. The kids won't believe it without a live camel. Way to go. Boy. Well, I suppose the end's not near on that one. That's just funny. Camels fall down all the time. You just took them out of their natural element and put them in a church building. They're bound to do things like this. Well, you know, here's the deal is they rented. Oh, the pastor organizing the pageant says the camel won't be in any shows. So, what do you mean? I think it seems like. Oh, he's out now because you. Is that fired? Oh, that's crap. That seems like an overreaction. Yeah, really.

Togging him around. You take a camel that has no business being hauled down an aisle for your own petty story and then you fire him because he fell on a couple people. I think that's terrible. And the camel was on loan from Animals in Motion, a Florida company that trains and transports animals for movies, shows, and parties. I would totally rent a camel though. That'd be fun. I wonder what they paid for that. What about that cost? I don't know. 75 bucks. Oh, it's gotta be more than that. Doesn't it? Oh, really? Yeah. For free? Can we have them at our booth at the Spirit Midwest Museum? Camel rides. That is what we need. Live animals. Camel rides. Definitely.

We'll have like a petting zoo. Hey! That's a good idea. Yeah. Look at that guy with the dead squirrel. Don't worry kids. Can I have these animals when you guys are dead? It won't bite. Dude, stay away from the guy that yells fire in the hole while he's standing next to the camel. That can't come out well regardless of what's going on. Alright, so we're gonna call that one, that one's alright. Yeah, I'd say we got a lot more time. Okay. We're good. They overreacted at the camel. He's alright. Alright. Berlin, a two meter, that six foot marijuana plant decorated as a Christmas tree was confiscated from the home of an old hippie who was now facing a drug possession charge. Uh, all you need, let's see. Police in the western city of Colblent said they discovered the giant plant in the living room of the suspect.

This is the best part. The two meter tall marijuana plant had been put in a Christmas tree stand and decorated with a string of lights. When asked, the hashish fan told the perplexed officers that he intended to add more decorations to the tree and place presents under it according to tradition. Police seized the plant at another 150 grams of marijuana found in the apartment. Is that a lot? Uh, three, 5.3 ounces. I don't know. Is that a lot? Who knows drugs? Seems like an appropriate amount. To have on for a man. Is that a normal, is that enough for a personal guy or is that like… Well, you're looking at me as if I would know. I am. Daniel, just tell me. I don't know. Oh, Allison says this a lot. That's a lot. Thanks, Allison. Thank you. All I know is when I was in junior high, some kid asked me if I went to buy a half an ounce

and I was like, a half an ounce of what? I had no idea what he was talking about. And they laughed at me and I'm like, a flower? I mean, I had no clue. Okay, so he's got, so he could be distributing. It's a little more than personal. Or, personally, he has a lot. He's an old hippie. Anyway, like this was, that's a six foot. That's a six foot marijuana plant and he's got it decorated like a Christmas tree. Do you play football for the Hawkeyes? That's not tall. Isn't it? Do they grow a lot taller than that? You can go out to the west. Really? That seems big. That's a giant plant though. Maybe it's normal for marijuana, but it seems pretty small. You grow a little giant marijuana on your properties? I cut it down. It's one of my mini properties. I dispose of it appropriately after I cut it down.

Very good. They call this the weed property. Yeah. It takes about two days to do the job properly. So we had a, we used to live in a- Julie ordered a foot long sub and has been at that property for forever. Yeah. Yeah. You either cut it down or burn it. She's the latter. We lived in a house once and, and we had these neighbors that like we never saw ever, like for like five or six years that lived next to us, you know, and then they moved out and we had some friends come in and buy the place. I mean, the thing was falling apart. Literally, you could see the rafters from the roof. Like they didn't repair it and stuff. And they were renovating and we're going to sell it. Anyway, they took us down in the basement and there was this extremely elaborate watering system all throughout the basement and these, you know, growth lights and stuff. And we're like, well, I wonder what they could have possibly been doing with this stuff. That's kind of interesting. It was kind of freaky. Sweet tea.

Yeah. They're making sweet tea. Pretty much. Pretty much. It's a real process to make it right. Baby camels. Exactly. They need a lot of water. Go let the eggs hatch. Kimmel eggs. Someday you'll be in a nativity. Don't kill anybody. My shirts will go through the roof. It's not me. I got two humps. I'll crush a boy. I'll do it. They don't tell me what to do. I'm a camel. I'm seven and a half feet tall. No, I'm going to a bonfire at Julie's house. All right. All right.

Well, so that one seemed a lot worse to me because apparently I don't know that marijuana grows that high. So maybe that seems par for the course. So I'm going to rescind that entry. I'd say it's all right. If the man had been nude decorating the tree, that's the end of the year. Taking pictures of himself. Yeah. Look at the spirit. The spirit's leaving the plant coming to me. Okay. Spartanburg, South Carolina. Speaking of potential prank calls, a motel guest said someone called his room and told him to smash the things inside in order to free a midget trapped next door. Spartanburg County Sheriff's deputies said they were called to Motel 6, no doubt, on Sunday night after a guest nearly punched through the next room with a wrench. A motel worker called deputies after she discovered the man had damaged the television mirrors and the wall between rooms, according to police. Here we go. When deputies arrived, 73-year-old Joseph Jones, recently tongue removed, told him someone had called his room about 11 p.m. and said he was a manager at the motel. Jones said the male caller told him the previous guest had installed highly sophisticated cameras in his room.

The caller told Jones not to bother looking for them and instead the caller would instruct him on how to get rid of the cameras. Jones said the caller asked him if the TV was on and if it was on to turn it off and unplug it. Jones said he did it as he was told. Next, he was told to remove the back of the toilet cover and to smash the TV with it. He did and the cover shattered without breaking the TV screen so he was instructed to throw the TV outside. Jones did as he was instructed. At some point, according to the report, Jones gave the caller his cell number so he did not have to keep running back to the room phone. Here we go. The instructions continued. Jones told deputies that the male caller told him cameras were also behind the mirrors in the room and that he needed to smash the mirrors. Jones grabbed a wrench that he found in the room. Why is there a wrench in the room? And smashed the mirrors. Jones said the caller then said that a midget who was 4 feet 3 inches tall was barricaded in the room next to him and that he needed to help police get to him. With that, the report said Jones took his wrench and began to break away the wall board behind the room door. He broke through to the next room but then stopped due to complaints from other guests

about the loud noises. This is awesome. Here we go. While Jones was telling deputies his story, he got another call on his cell phone from the male suspect. The report said Jones gave the phone to a deputy who took the call. There was a man on the other line stating that he survived gunshots and was coming back to the Motel 6. The man was asking if all the cameras were destroyed and the man on the phone then realized that he was speaking to someone other than the guest. And then he said, I have the wrong number and hung up. And it's over. It's over. That's outrageous. Oh no. So here we go. No charges were filed but the manager did ask Jones to leave. The poor old guy got audios from his hotel room for having done what he felt was the right thing in freeing the midget next door. I like the guy that really wants to free the midget but then after people say, it's a bit loud, don't you think? Oh. Yeah, I guess the midget will be fine.

Could you try knocking on the door next time? Maybe calling the office where they have a key? That's a bummer. I don't know, man. I mean, he's only, now I said, he is only 73 though. I think, you know. Yeah. I, I, I, they didn't say why he was a trustworthy old man. Yeah. I mean, people used to take people at their word. Well, think of a, I mean, he's gotta have some heft to him though. He's a 73-year-old guy. I mean, wailing at the wall board with a wrench. Yeah. See you, and you envision a gigantic wrench. I think it's probably a small wrench. I mean, who puts a gigantic wrench? A small wrench. Yeah, it's probably nothing, you know. Could the midget not reach the door knob? Probably not. He's barricaded in everywhere. Oh man, that is a, that's unfortunate.

Anyway, I don't know. End is near, we got more time. I'm saying end is near. Definitely. Yeah. Things are, things are on the outs with that type of behavior. For someone, at least for him. Yeah. If he's, he's, he's, you know, thinking this is a pretty legit thing. I better go ahead and throw the TV outside. Yeah. That's pretty extreme, you know, cause I, it's broken, right? I better take the toilet tank and try to break the TV. Don't they bolt the TV down? Most places. Yeah. I bet he hefted it out of there. How do you know? It's Motel 6. He's got a wrench. The TV is just. Last time I tried to take it. Take the towels and the television.

Uh, speaking of, speaking of, uh, uh, trouble with walls. A German, uh, DIY enthusiast accidentally walled himself into his own basement. And only managed, and only managed to escape by drilling his way through to his neighbors. Um, the 64 year old pensioner in, uh, Gumparda, Germany had aimed to seal off the interest to his cellar and went downstairs armed with bricks, mortar, as well as food and drink. Um, he was on the wrong side of the wall when his work was finished. Uh, when, uh, using his drill hammer, he went to work not on his own wall, but on the firewall separating his home from his neighbors. This is, this is the best part. The neighbors, with whom the pensioner had already been quarreling for months, called the police when they heard the loud drilling and he busted through on the other side. Officers were waiting for the hobby handyman when he broke through. Boy, that's unfortunate. That's what, that's one heck of a guy. He's a go getter. Who gets on the wrong side, walls himself in, and instead of breaking down the wall that he just put up. Yeah. He goes through the neighbor's wall. Well, I'm gonna mess up my work. I'm most certainly not going through mine. That poor guy. I don't know. He's only 64. What? Why did, why does age suddenly equal dementia to you all the time? I don't know.

When you're 85, I, I, I'm willing to let a lot more things go. Yeah, maybe. Like if you were 85 and all you did was draw hippos all day, I think, well, you know, he's only 85. I'm anything younger than that. There's something I'll ride with you. While you're 64, might wall yourself in. I don't know. Well, he's still putting up bricks. He was still. I wish I knew what the tussle was with the neighbors. I wish I knew what was going on. I wonder what he, obviously there's a wall that separates him and the neighbor. It's why would he want to wall off his cellar so no one could get in there? Yeah. Maybe he's afraid of them coming in. I liked it. Stealing his camel. Yeah. With the camel legs. Boy, I don't know. But he's been quarreling with his neighbors for months. I just wish I knew what it was. I'm interested.

I've never had a quarrel with an adjoining neighbor. I could see quarreling with a guy down the street. Yeah. It would be fun to have a quarrel, like an ongoing disposition towards the man at the end of the block. Every day I get out of my house, I leave for work. At 645, I look over and Fred is awake. And I'm mad at Fred all the time. I could do that. But the guy right next door to me, that seems like a real hassle. That's a lot of effort. Yeah. Here we go. Real quick, two more. Amherst, Massachusetts. A man wearing a Bob Dylan backstage pass who ordered 178 pizzas from Massachusetts Pizza Parlor has left the restaurant blowing in the wind. The man walked into Antonio's in the college town of Amherst early Saturday morning shortly after Dylan performed at the university and ordered $3,900 worth of pies. He said he would return in several hours and deliver them to Dylan's crew, but he never returned and the manager called the police. Restaurant employees stayed until 5.30 a.m. making the pizzas. He said he gave some of the pizzas away, but he had to throw out most of them.

178 pizzas. Now, this doesn't pass the sniff test. Uh-uh. Dylan's road crew wants 178 pizzas. Yeah, hello. And you don't take… That's a big crew. No credit card, no check, no… I mean, it's Bob Dylan. I would assume he would just have left five grand or something. Yeah. Now, here's the other thing that got me. He's paying full price for these pizzas. 3,900 bucks divided by 178 is like $21. Bob Dylan is paying full price for 178 pizzas. I order 10 pizzas, I want a deal. Yeah. You know, three bucks off a pizza. He's paying full price for 180 pizzas. If I were Dylan, I would go somewhere else. Yeah, yeah. But, I don't know, he certainly got taken. Boy, you know, that had to really stink though.

I mean, you get excited, you're like making pizzas for Bob Dylan. And you got stacks. I don't know how they're keeping them all warm. There's no way you got a place to keep all these pizzas warm. Yeah, what do you do with that? So, anyway. None of carriers, all that stuff. I feel bad for Walter Pacheco, who got hosed on this deal. But, I mean. I don't know. He should have seen it coming. He didn't engage. The guy was. He's so brave. How does he? Oh, he does not say. Okay. 64. That's my guess. Oh, and finally. And finally, an update from our story about a month ago. Our beard eater, Harvey Westmoreland, who was forced to eat his beard at Machete Point after a tractor deal gone wrong in Florenceburg, Kentucky.

So, two central Kentucky men were sentenced to probation. That's all they got. That's all they got. Probation in connection with a bizarre case in which a third man said he was forced to eat his own beard after an argument. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported 47-year-old Troy Holt and 51-year-old James Hill were sentenced Tuesday. Are you really sentenced to probation? Yes. I guess so. Is that what it is? Sentencing? Okay. You jumped right into that one. I tried to steal a TV from a hotel once. I was trying to clear my field. So, again, Harvey Westmoreland of Lawrenceburg had said Holt cut off his beard and forced him to eat it while Hill allegedly hold a sickle blade to Westmoreland and his brother during the May incident. Holt could not say why he made Westmoreland eat his beard other than that things got out of control after some heavy drinking. He added, I ain't got no excuses about what I done. Hill had no comment.

As condition of their sentences, neither Holt nor Hill is to have contact with Westmoreland. You know, that's exactly what happened. Holt heard the verdict go down and he goes, well, I gotta build a brick wall. I can't have these fellas coming over here. Exactly. Exactly. Oh, crap. Oh, boy. I seem to be in a pickle. So, I don't know. Oh, I forgot to ask on the pizza guy. The end is near. Oh, we have more time. More time on the pizza guy. The end is near on the probation for the beard cutters. You think they should have gotten more? Yes, that's outrageous. You can't just make a man eat his own beard. That's like he took a sickle to him. With a knife? What if I didn't keep a clean beard? What if I was kind of a slob? I had to eat my own gangly beard?

That's terrible. That just doesn't sound good. I don't know. And this has been Non-Biblical Signs of the Apocalypse. Alright. It's been a wonderful night tonight. Thank you so much for sticking with us on Live from the Path. You can find us during the week at livefromthepath.org and you can please sign up for our newsletter. You can get a hold of the podcast. You can also check out a link to our YouTube channel of which you can watch our Christmas commercial if you really enjoyed that. As well as see some of the performances from the bands including Tim Cooper and Friends who's going to send us out on our way tonight. And what song will we be listening to on the way out? I Will Arise. I Will Arise. This is I Will Arise by Tim Cooper and Friends. Hey, thank you so much for being in the studio with us tonight. We really appreciate it. Good to see you back.

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