Live, from Oak Street Studios, downtown Des Moines. You are, Live from the Path. And you're listening to Live from the Path, on Des MoinesAmplified.com. Thanks for being with us tonight. Oh, we are on. Hi, things are rocking. It's the final night, the final countdown. What do you say? Why do you look at me? I can't pull off anything. Here's the deal. It's like, legitimate broadcasting circles, you say something heavy. All right, you pull off something slick, and everyone looks at you because it's artsy the thing to say. I say it here, and you just stare at me. You didn't really say anything. I said, the final countdown. You're in charge of, like, the lead-in, the final countdown. It sure is. I thought maybe that was going somewhere. No, no, no. Come on. No, that's all I have. No. Anyway, you're listening to Live from the Path on Des MoinesAmplified.com. I'm disappointed. My name is Ben Foost. Yeah, the studio feels kind of empty compared to last week.

Yeah. Yeah, seriously, there were 50, I don't know, there were 50 people in the studio last week. We're not 50, but there was a good amount. Syndrome of Fire was in here last week. I like them. Oh, man, they're solid. They're just cool people. Yeah. I mean, let alone music. They're just cool people. Yeah. I haven't even heard their tunes. They're just nice guys. No, I've heard that. I don't even like their music. They play and I leave. No, they really are. They're musically amazing, and as it comes to trying to walk with the Lord and going about your everyday business, they amaze me. I like the new sound, too. I mean, the kind of clip we got to share a little bit was, I like it. Really? You dug on Fast Train? You rock at it at your own house?

Danielle texted me in the next week and was, I'm a fan. I'm like, I've been a fan for a while. I'm the original fan. The train left a while back in this Fast Train. Before it was a syndrome, it was just an itch of fire. I was there. Yeah, so anyway, they're fairly solid. I heard they got their record deal signed here this week, so that's awesome. Yeah, I'm excited to see what comes out of that. I bet they got a lot of really cool stuff coming up. Sounds like they're booking a bunch of stuff for the middle of summer. You know what I think it is, really? I've decided this. You just have to have cool-looking hair. That's what's holding us back. I think that's what I got going for me. That's true, Dan. You're the only legitimate hairstylist here. All right, Dan. Never mind. If you're going to cast it into the camera, you're going to sit in the other seat. And the Jesus meter hits to zero. No, I have terrible hair. Actually, you know what I started doing?

So here's what I started doing with my hair, because I've been thinning on the top for quite a while. So I tried the last time I got myself a haircut, because I cut my own hair. I only cut the sides and left the middle at the same length, figuring that it would start to blend in. Comb over? Well, no, because I'm not asking the side to take over for the knot in the middle. I'm just asking for the middle to remain a little bit longer. And, you know, it looked good. Well, it did look good. I'm pretty sure it did. It was better. I'm pretty sure it looked like an underwater Chia Pit. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. So how long have you been cutting your own hair? Ten years. Wow. Where do you go? Where do you get your hair styled? Shelly Pullen. Oh, yeah. I go to a stylist as well. What? You get your hair cut?

Yeah. I was going to a guy named Sam, and then I found out that his brother, Fantastic Sam, had opened a shop. And I thought, whoa. That's got to be better. I'm going there. This guy sounds fantastic. Dale Rupp? He just cut my hair. I used to cut my hair. Oh, yeah. Does Dale still cut hair places? It used to be at Sonny's. I don't know if he's still there. He gave me a card. He was moving somewhere else. I can't remember. It's tucked away somewhere. You know, I really enjoy talking to the hairstylist. You know, that's got to be like, they just sit and talk to, small talk to people all day long. Yeah. And it's probably the same four things. So, how's it going? Yeah, great. So, how's your family?

How's the weather? Good. I bet you hear some weird stuff if you're a hairstylist. I bet you do. Some people use them as a cheap psychologist. Yeah. You know, you don't want to pay the psychiatrist any money, so you go to the haircut joint and unload on the poor guy or lady who just happens to be cutting your threads that day. Let me kind of, you know, you got to play that a little bit. Go in some time. Well, I'm thinking about killing myself. What do you think? What, Dan? Why did you have to? Why? Why would you go immediately there? Well, I'm just saying, that's usually something. That'd be pretty deep. Why don't you start with, hey, I'm thinking about getting a divorce. Or I'm going to buy an ugly couch. Well, my kid has really gone off the rails. I just thought I'd be a sh- I'm not thinking about ending it all. Sweep up my hair.

That's the last bit you'll ever see of me. Just like my hair, I've already did. On the other hand. Dang. Oh, man. Yeah, I have not been a hairstylist in 10 years or so. You're like a bull in a china shop, Daniel. Man. I don't know. I have nothing to add to that. I'm getting to the point on the chat. So, what do you bald fellas do? Like, do you have to do nair or something on the top of your head to keep it smooth? Does anything actually work? I mean, let's break down to brass tacks here. I'm missing hair on top. To grow hair back, I mean? Yeah. I mean, does it work? Or is it, I mean, is it, like, bosley? Surely that spray can stuff's got to be great. I've seen it on TV. Yeah. It works great on TV.

I've seen a lot of stuff on TV. Jay Leno, perhaps. Actually, we should. I don't know. Do you guys know anybody who's attempted to do a hair treatment? Hmm. Chat, do you guys know anybody that's done a hair treatment? You know what? If they've done it successfully, I wouldn't even know to ask him. That's cool. Because his hair looks… That's true. Yeah. Oh, I can see you accidentally added blonde to your black hair. That'd be awkward. Have you ever considered… Let me ask you this. If you were… If you had a problem with hair strength up at the top, would you ever consider a toupee? No. I wouldn't. You would just embrace it and run it? Either you let her all go or, you know… Yeah.

And I've said this for years. I think it's best just to shave your head bald. Yeah. One time so you know what it looks like. And then if you happen to go blind later in life, then you know. Because as soon as you go blind, you have to trust other people to comb your hair. Yeah. You ever let your lady comb your hair? Disaster. Yeah. It looks puffy. Yeah, it is. It's always puffy. It's got volume. It always looks like Jimmy Swaggart. I can't have it. I love my lady, but I'm telling you, I can't stand it when she combs my hair. When she gets the curling iron out, that's where you stop. Ah, well. My grandpa did that to me one time when I was like 14. So I'm in the midst of my most, you know, socially awkward stage of my life, you know. And I'm like, I don't want to be seen as a doofus. I'm already a doofus. I already wear big glasses.

I'm a doofus anyway. And grandpa decides he's going to comb my hair just like his. And he does a hurricane swirl in the back of his head, you know, like they used to do in the day. Still keeping it up. And then like a shelf that comes over the top. And so he did the exact same thing to my hair, and I thought I was going to die. We went to the mall because my grandpa's parents walked. I thought I was going to die. I was terrible. Did you go to a hairstylist? I went to the hairstylist immediately, and I said. Confide in them? My grandpa, he combed my hair like his. Can you believe it? They said, oh, yeah, Gene, he comes in here all the time. Ah, no. So how do you tell someone who is, say, in their 40s that's still doing their hair like they did when they were in their teens? Or in their 30s. A lot of times in their 30s, people haven't, their minds haven't caught up to the fact that, oh, it's not the 80s anymore. Or the 90s, or the, you know, whatever decade that they were in their teens. Is that where it stops? Like, when you're 16, 17, is that where your hairstyle sticks? That's when you were, like, trying to really be cool. And then, you know, and then, like, for some reason, your brain never, for a lot of people, their brain never switches gears.

And so, like, 16 years later, they're still doing their 16-year-old haircut. Yeah. And you see them all over the place. Because, really, how long, like, even at 16, how long have you actually been combing your hair yourself since you were 10, 8? I don't know. Yeah, like, you were an expert by then. Yeah, I mean, you've put 8 years into it, and now you're saying, look, for the next 80 years, the thing I've practiced for 8 years, this is it. This is all I'm doing. You don't notice that everybody else is different. You just, all you do is you look at yourself and go, oh, yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. I used to talk to a guy at work about this all the time, but, you know, we'd be out working somewhere, you know, and some guy would go rolling by, you know, playing Leonard Skidder at the top of his stereo, you know, rocking around. I'm like, you know, the sad part is that's going to be me with 90s music, you know, when I grew up. And so, 30 years from now, I'm going to be rolling by playing tunes that I dug on in high school, wondering why no one else is digging them like me, you know. It's like, it's a classic, whoop out the vinyl. You know, I don't know. That's awesome. It's very scary. Well, I think, you know, we were in our 20s, late 20s, and one day Cheryl came home from work, and it was just devastated because her friend there said, like, grow up, you know. And it was the hair thing. It was like, you got 80s hair, and it's like 90s now, you know. And it was like, you know, he just didn't think about it. I didn't think about it, and I was probably, I don't know, I probably still had my mullet going.

I know where I'm going. Well, who decides the day? You know, like, does it just take the one time when your buddy come rolling up and goes, you got to do something? You got to do something different. Actually, I think that's what it takes. Can you be that? So that was Dan's initial question. Can you be that guy? Are you the buddy that can go up to someone and say, hey, man, look, you're out of style? What makes that, you know, either that makes you a really good buddy or it's like their worst enemy forever because they don't believe you. I am totally comfortable being that guy. Really? I'm comfortable being the guy that says, you got a booger in your nose, friend. That explains a lot of our conversations. There's a booger right there. Hey, your eyebrows are growing kind of close together. You might want to do something about that. Hey, uni. Hey, you missed a button. You look ridiculous. This is you, Mike. This is what you're going to rock out to. This wasn't my favorite tune, but I was certain it would crank it up if I heard it out of random. Actually, I have that problem.

There'd be songs that I didn't like when they came out, but now you're 15 years out and you hear it, and now then you're rocking out. You're like, that's when music was music. Yes, exactly. Man, there's nothing but crazy computer drums, boo. I'm going to see if I can find it. I heard this song today in the car, and boy, I was really excited about it. Hold on a second. Hey, did you see that video that I liked underneath or that I favorited under our YouTube channel with the beatbox and flute man? No. Oh, it is hip. Oh, this isn't the right one. It's probably some joker in his home studio. That's like a 70s, isn't it? It sounds like a guy who just stole something, and he's like shimmying down the street. Be careful. There might be swear words. A lot of times you randomly select things. Man, I've made some mistakes. You know, I used to think that I could be like the guy that does soundtracks for motion pictures. You know, I'd be like, this would be an awesome job. I always pick the perfect tune for a life situation. But then I realized that I only have like a category of 15 tunes that I would use. And then, like I could do one movie. That was it.

Everything else, I'd be like, man, we should use that tune again. It was perfect. Just like you hear the tune Walking on Sunshine all the time in movies. Like at the very end. Everybody's happy. Yeah, yeah. And every, almost every movie uses it right at the end. I'd probably seen eight movies in the last three years that he used it. Because it's classic. It's all gold. Who's with me? I got distracted here. Hurrah! Wow. I love that one. You're listening to Live from the Path on Des Moines Amplified.com. Thanks so much for being with me here tonight. Just a quick reminder. Starting next week, we will no longer be on Des Moines Amplified.com. To catch the show, you'll have to log on. Actually, it's not even logging on to it. Just go. Just go. I like it.

Go as you go. Make disciples and watch Live from the Path. That's the Matthew 28 thing. Yeah. On livefromthepath.org? Yeah, livefromthepath.org. Where was it? Livefromthepath.org? Livefromthepath.org. Oh, yeah. There's current content there, I believe, right? Yeah. Past shows, interviews with bands. Can you watch it live right now from there? No. No. No. But say next week you could. I did that last week, actually. But next week you can. Yep. You could just go to livefromthepath.org. It'll fire up right when you open the thing. You'll be good to go.

It'll be live. Yeah. From the path. Indeed. Indeed. I heard Richard Nixon's going to be on. Is he? I don't know about that. Wasn't he on last week? He might have been on. I think he was here in disguise. Creepy. It was creepy. Anyway, coming up on the show tonight. Troy Ungerdinger. Yeah. Yeah. He's going to be here. I have full confidence he's going to be here. Microphone smells like Cocoa Puffs. My ass. Fuck you. I'm glad you brought that up. It's not Cocoa Puffs, though.

It's it. You know what? I was giving the gals a bath before I left. And what? I just don't hear too many people start with the sentence. The girl. The small children. I have two gal children. Okay. Anyway, I was giving the gals. I thought you were in front. They smell like Cocoa Puffs. No. No, but I went to dry the old one off. And I grabbed a towel. It smelled like Doritos. And I thought there's no reasonable explanation why this towel is. So I checked it for orange marks. You know, I'm like, there's got to be Doritos on here. And it isn't. So apparently if you like, you know, reuse a towel and hang it up and then reuse it and hang it up to dry or whatever and just keep it there, which I'm sure, you know, totally my doing. My wife, you know, cleans them like they're supposed to be. But this is my towel. And I think I was going to use it.

I'm like, I think it smells like Doritos. I've done that before. There's something in the air. I think it attracts Doritos. It must be. Either that or when it's time for me to take a shower, I smell like Doritos. And so whiz bang. It could be that new Doritos soap you got for Christmas. Yeah, there's nothing for me to worry about. I know if I don't smell Doritos, I'm flying high. Yeah. Pert Plus and Gillette all the way. What's this now? It's the same one. I wanted the new one. Why? That's a good one. Hey, speaking of Doritos, that's not 90s, though. I'm pretty sure you can embarrass yourself at your own house. I don't think there's any reason to bring it here. Oh, yes, yes. There will still be random chats next week. So speaking of Doritos, I bought full-on cheese puffs this week. I was out doing work at the Ministry Center trying to get the studio and stuff set up.

And so I stopped and I got, I don't know, some pizza rolls from the Casey's. And I thought, I'm going to have something I normally wouldn't buy. So I passed this thing of cheese puffs. So I picked them up. And it must have been a long time since I've had a full-strength cheese puff. But, I mean, they're this big. They're humongous. They melt down like they're nothing. Yeah. Anyway, they're too much for me. So I blame that on the youth group. I figured the youth group, the ones that are in the office right now, those are yours. Can I have them back? Yeah, because I don't want them. I'm losing weight. I'm not eating cheese puffs. Okay, sweet. Anyway, I can't take full-strength cheese puffs. They're too much for me. Huh. Just in case you were thinking of buying me some or something. We used to get them for Christmas every year because it's big and it's cheap. Get a Sam's paper. Wait a minute, you bought them for other people?

For like our kids. Merry Christmas. Cheese puffs. To Dan, love Dan. Yeah, to our children. I guess you could always tell if you were sneaking around the gifts, there's cheese puff marks all over the present. Your fingers are all yellow, Bill. Who was up earlier today? I was coloring. Well, I mean, I did buy them. I do want them back because, I mean, they're a little much for me, but maybe I could eat them over the course of a few weeks. They last a long, long time. Is there any food that you used to love when you were younger that you no longer love? Chat, do you think about that? Any food that you used to eat? I mean, gangbusters. You know what I haven't had for like about 40 years, probably? No. A horse and buggy ride. A horse and buggy ride. My mom used to make me milk toast. And it was like toast and then warm milk and then threw a little sugar on it. I don't know if that's for like depression food or what? What, maybe you dip the toast in the milk or you pour it on the milk?

No, it was like cereal. Oh. You take the toast and you put it in little pieces and you dump it in there and they poured hot milk, warmed up milk over it. And then they pour a little sugar on it. I haven't had a really desire to have that for years. I don't have any desire right now. Exactly. Wet bread, that's disgusting. Well, it's toasted though. Yeah, it's toasted. I mean, I didn't like it soggy. I liked it when it was still pretty crunchy. Was that before Cinnamon Toast Crunch came out? Yes, we probably invented it. I don't know, that's like an old, really honestly, it could be some old depression thing where they didn't have any money and my mom lived through the depression. So, you know, maybe that's something. I wonder how much of the stuff I grew up with that I didn't know was like, you know, survival skills. I wonder how much of our recent depression will carry on through to my children's life. Yeah. I didn't change anything. Start prepping them for milk toast. Our kids grew up with caviar. Of course they did. They went to Fantastic Sam's.

They've known about it for years. Pork rinds? Bean used to love pork rinds? I don't think I've ever had a pork rind. Bean used to eat corn nuts like a mad fiend, and I tell you what. I used to like those. Oh, I had to ban them. I hate to smell corn nuts. Barbecue ones? They're nasty. Oh, man. Yeah, that's terrible. I suppose marriage probably took that away from me. Oh, those corn nuts. That's terrible. She says she still loves them. I know she does. She's not done with them. No, she could keep them. I used to love them in traveling. As soon as the lapse, the judgment moment gets back in. It'll be corn nuts for everybody. I can think of a lot better travel food than corn nuts. I haven't had for years.

It smells up the whole car. Yeah. It's stinky. I'm not allowed. Well, plus, I mean, you have to get a whole pile. You know what I used to eat a ton of that I don't eat much anymore is the French toast sticks from Burger King that you dip in the syrup. I've had those once or twice. They're pretty good. Oh, they're solid. They're the best. All this stuff's like, will kill you. Yeah. I can't think of any health foods I used to enjoy that I no longer. You tend to go the other direction. Man, I've had way too many oranges. I just, I can't eat another orange. Although I do that when them Clementines come around, you know, when it's that time of the year. Yeah. We'll buy them and then I'll, I'll, I'll ghostbuster them way, way too much. Gangbuster them. What did I say? Ghostbuster them.

I was trying to figure out what that meant. I'm going to just act like, yeah, that's probably some cool, cool hipster. Yeah, I'll ghostbuster them. And then when I'm done, I'll say, bleh, I can't have any more. Riveting. I can't think of anything else. I used to order, they sell those little, I don't remember who makes them, but they sell those cakes at the gas station. Yeah, the chocolate cake, Nemo. Yeah, the Nemo chocolate cake, Nemo banana cake, and they make a carrot cake. And boy, they're good. They're fantastic. Yeah. I do enjoy those. What, Chuck Wagons? Oh, Chuck Wagons. Chuck Wagons are good. Chuck Wagons. We used to have Chuck Wagons when we'd go gambling. Me and Pants. Me and Pants and the lady. Chuck Wagons. Those are Chuck Wagons. It's like a, what is there, what's on there, ham and bologna, I think, and then cheese.

You get it at the gas station, it's like a buck fifty. Yeah. Microwave, three minutes, ding. Good times are waiting. You know, that's evolved quite a bit, gas station food. Yeah. It used to be pretty nasty, and some of us taste it now. It kind of irritates me, is when gas stations that I, you know, when they try to expand a new forays, and they're not good at it, like, Quick Trip has pretty much dominated the foods ready. Well, Casey's. Casey's and Quick Trip both, you know, pull off, hey, there's ready food here, grab it. Yeah. You know? And then Come and Go started doing it, and I was kind of irritated. It's like, Come and Go, you know, listen. You can't do that. Just be Come and Go. You know, Quick Trip and Casey's, they got you beat hands down. You're not going to be able to pull this off. Mostly because they don't carry the right kind of chocolate milk, and they sell Highland potato chips, which are terrible. They still make Highland? Oh, yeah.

I didn't realize those were even around. Oh, they're rocking. Isn't Highland a local company? I don't know. It used to be. Wasn't it off of Guthrie or something? I can't remember where that was. It could possibly just been a distribution center. It used to be like. It's like saying Best Buy is a local company. They used to make it. No, I really thought that Highland was like a local. Yeah, it used to be. Yeah. It's probably in Mexico now. You don't know your stuff. You don't know stuff at all. Probably make them in China. Everything's made in China. Ship them here. That'd be pretty light shipping. Pants digs on the chuck wagon. All right, Pants. Of course he does.

Pants knows chuck wagon. Pants was in the studio. When? Two weeks ago? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hiding in the corner. Freaky. Kind of like that kid from Three Minute and a Baby. Hey, yeah. That reminds me. So, the City View is doing their Best of Des Moines that they usually do. You know, where they ask you like four or five pages worth of questions. And we're on there for a radio show. And when I say we're on there. Can I do that right now? Yeah, Ben will post a link on the website to do it. And then if we find out you wrote some other radio show in there from our website, I'm pretty sure he'll be upset. I'm pretty sure we'll find you. He'll put a link on the website. You know, probably not tonight, but tomorrow. And I get that up there for you.

So, you can just click on it. And I don't care how you answer the rest of your questions, but put Live from the Path in there as a radio show. We're not going to win, but at least we'll be in there somewhere. I don't think this is it. It's dmcityview.com. Ah, there we go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I never know how to answer the questions. Like, you know, they do these city surveys. You know, it's like, what's your favorite restaurant? And I think everyone goes out of the way to name some kind of hole-in-the-wall, privately-owned restaurant. And I'm thinking, Long John's. That's my favorite restaurant. Let's go there. You know, and everyone's like, oh, you'll go to that little blah, blah, blah place down in the blah, blah, blah. I'm like, no, I used to go to Long John's or McDonald's or something. You know, for some reason, my palate is just not attuned to well-cooked food. I like everything.

I like, yeah, there's very little food I don't like, which is part of my problem. Can somebody help me put my tail on? I like the food. Why do people do that? Like, why do they always pick the hole-in-the-wall? They want to make it seem like they have the insight. Like they're onto something. Maybe partly it's because, like, it's a local Joe. You know, it's not like Ronald McDonald on high building this 1900. Yeah, you know what? I actually kind of had to eat my own words today. And I felt bad after I'd done it. Not terribly, because I didn't say anything offensive. But this guy was telling me about this pizza place on Southwest 9th that's called, like, I don't know, Rock Pizza or something, you know? And I'm like, Rock Pizza? I said, what is he? What is he? Some kind of 80s headbanger, you know? And he goes, oh, no, he's deeply religious. Yeah, I think it's from the church. Yeah. I know where that's at. Yeah.

And he's like, it's the best pizza you ever had. And I'm like, oh, well, deeply religious. Yeah, that sounds all right. You know, I'm like, I wish I wouldn't have called him some kind of crazy gangster two seconds ago, you know? I'm supposed to be the Jesus representative in this room. So that was kind of embarrassing. Do you remember Rocky Rococo's? What pizza? Rocky Rococo? Not Rocky Rococo. It was like on East 14th. Sounds like a bad list of Euclid. Man, that's probably 20 years now. It was a little drive-thru pizza place. Rocky Rococo. Coconut Rockies. Come on, it's surely someone in the chat knows it. But Rocky Rococo's. Rocky Rococo Pizza and Pasta at RockyRococo.com. Man, that was good stuff. Is he still around? No. Well, download the Rocky Rococo theme song.

Heck yeah, I will. Let me know. Well, I'm glad you asked. I haven't had pizza like that since. I'd probably be nasty now that I'm 20 years older. I would assume 20-year-old pizza is lots of flavor. I used to break sometimes from lunch and library binding service. That's where I worked there. I'd zip up to East 14th and grab something to eat and go back. Ben, did you know that the wife's grandpa and grandma used to work with Daniel at this library binding services? No. Yeah, so Daniel used to be some kind of book-binding monkey. I was a ship-and-receiving dude. Yeah, and Jared's grandma worked there. And so they called him Danny Hudson. That was Barb, right? Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Barb and I, we had a great time. Yeah. Okay, here we go. Here's the theme song.

Oh, where'd it go? To Rocky Rococo. We'll see what this is about. Remember this one, Nick? This is awesome. The pizza's even better. Yes! It's going crazy. I want to be the guy that comes in and goes, pizza! This is where he does the announcements. And get our large special for $9.99. And buffets on Tuesday. Don't forget Rocky Rococo's. Did you say breadsticks? I said breadsticks. Breadsticks amore! That's Rocky Rococo's 20 years ago. That was some good pizza. That's a perfect ender. Yeah. That was some good pizza. That's some good pizza. Rocky Rococo. Cool, man.

Yeah. See what you guys missed? Trip down old memory lane with Rocky Rococo's. A little known hole-in-the-wall pizza joint. Hey, vote for them on the City View. We'll bring them back alive. That's right. We'll open our own. Our own Rocky Rococo's. I smell lawsuits. We'll do the exact same thing. Actually, Dan, you kind of look like Rocky Rococo. Do I? No. Did you see him there? No. No, he looks like a bit character from Casablanca, is what he looks like. I've never seen that movie. Really? Yeah, I've never seen it. It seemed like it'd be too heavy for me. Well, they still have an active website. That's what I'm looking at. That's where I got the theme song.

Illinois, Minnesota, Washington. Oh, it's a franchise? Yeah. You've seen the Mean Gene Okerlund pizza franchise? No. Do you know who Mean Gene Okerlund is? I have no idea. I'm kidding. Well, this is going to be wasted. He was a wrestling announcer back in the day. He used to do Mean Gene Okerlund, WJF Wrestling or whatever, and then he opened his own pizza joint. It gets franchised in bowling alleys a lot. When we played in a band, we played at a show in Cherokee, Iowa, and we ended up playing in a bowling alley, and it had a Mean Gene Okerlund pizza. And boy, it was solid. Huh. It was really good. Of course, they have posters of mean wrestlers that are like, I hope you like this pizza. And so even if you didn't like it, you best not say anything. Macho Man Randy Savage come out and give you the what for. Yeah. Yeah. Sweet. I now like Rocky Rococo on the Facebook. Good.

Well, that's exciting. You beat me. Is there any other – all right, so we're talking about food that you stopped eating, that you've kind of grown out of. What about more Rocky Rococo's? Are there any restaurants that used to be around that used to frequent all the time but are no longer there? Showbiz pizza. Oh, yeah. It was a kid's palace, and it had a big gorilla playing the keyboards. That's Shakey's pizza, too, right across from the Bucks. Oh, Bucks Arena? Yeah. It's like grass. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They had these awesome little potato things. But I know what you're talking about, showbiz. I don't think I ever went there because I didn't have kids yet. It was prior to the Chuck E. Cheese? Yeah. The Chuck E. Cheese. I tell you what, it's a drink fest at that Chuck E. Cheese. You've been there? They serve booze there. People get wild. Everybody's wild.

The kids are wild. The parents are wild. Yeah, the kids are wild. The parents aren't paying no attention because they're drinking, and then the kids are causing a ruckus, and then the dad starts causing a ruckus, and all of a sudden there's just a ruckus. I've not been there, I don't think. Yeah, we went there. I've been there for a long time. Oh, it's wild. I used to actually like their salad bar. Okay. Everybody likes their pizza, but I like their salad bar. Sorry. Yeah. Hey, wait, they have commercials for Showbiz Pizza from 1982. Where are you finding all this stuff? I don't know. I'm on fire. I can't be stopped. Hey, will you look up that flute man? Hold on a second. Let's see if we can get a handle on this Showbiz Pizza commercial. All right, fine.

Talk amongst yourselves. It's not happening yet. I remember going to the, what did I say, the other place, the Shakey's, and there was like, I used to go to all the, all the, like the Air Force Marines, all those guys would have like free meals when they were recruiting people, and I like went to all of them, so I got all kinds of free pizza. I remember doing an Air Force thing at Shakey's, just because I love Shakey's. Wait, but really, they'd like, we want to talk to you one-on-one, and then you'd say fine? No, you'd have like four or five people. They'd try to have like a little reception thing, you know, so I didn't know. An intervention? Well. Your life's going down the tubes, joining the Air Force? No, it was just like, hey, come on, see, we're cool, we eat, you know, look at, we like pizza. We're just like everybody else. You know what, we should start witnessing to people like that. That's the Christian new approach. Hey, listen, we eat too. Look at that. Let's go to the pizza joint. We'll talk about Jesus here and there. I think they probably showed slides or something, I can't remember, and some guy would talk,

I don't remember that stuff. I just remember, I like the pizza. Blah, blah, blah, Air Force man, pepperoni me. That was good stuff. It's kind of almost, it's a, I mean, because you got a pizza ranch that has like the barbecue chicken and the chicken. They had stuff like that, but they had these, I haven't had the potatoes like it since, sometimes I crave them, and it's very sad. Hmm. Yeah. All right, here we go. Here we go. Showbiz Pizza Commercial, take one. Appearing tonight on three stages at Showbiz Pizza Place, the Rock of Fire Explosion. Yeah, I went there. I was always disappointed their mouths didn't move correctly with the language, you know? I was like, boy. Those were the days, man, I'm telling you. Remember when you used to be all inspired by these things? These animatronic dudes, you know, all they'd have to do is like, they'd be playing and rocking, and then they had it tilted like, just like one of those creepy pictures that follow you with the eyes. So when he looked, you'd think he was looking right at you. Yeah.

Oh, Gorilla Man! There's somebody in there. Yes. You know, the thing about those dudes at the Showbiz is like, you could hear them, like you could hear their eyes blink, and you could hear them move around and stuff. Click, click. I always thought I was going to build one when I got older. It's not looking real promising now, but I, yeah, I'd like to build an animatronic guy. We could have one at the ministry center, waving at people when they drive by. We'll put them in the gyrus closet. We'll call them gyrus. We'll just have them pop out and kind of look around and then go back in. Put my wheels so it looks like someone in there at all times, no one will break in. This is a great idea. Yeah, and then we'll attach one of them Roombas on the bottom, and we can vacuum while he's trolling around. I like it. Until he gets stuck right by the stairway. Doot, doot, doot. And he gets all disappointed in British. Oh, borax. I'm stuck by the stairway again. Actually, I wonder what that Roomba does if you put it in, like, an open field. Like, does it head just straight out, or is it, like, is it designed to just turn when

it hits something, or does it case the room and then go around it in circles? I'd say that I know. I really want one. I don't know why. Like, for some reason, I think it would just be, like, another friend in my house. Like, you know how the dog, you tend to just walk in and say, you know, hey, Walt, you know, just, you got a dog, and I think the room would be the same way. You give him a name, and you walk in, and you know what, you're always proud of him, because he's always doing his job. He never disappoints you. Where's Steven? He's vacuuming the bathroom, I think. I haven't seen him. You go in there, and you know what, I'll be darned. There's Steven cleaning up the bathroom for you. How often do you have to clean that thing out? I mean, it can't hold too much dirt, you know. Well, unless you're running some kind of garbage dump at your place, Dan. And I think he'd probably just, every couple of days. Cheetos, and. Yeah. You throw things and let him pick it up. Pieces of pizza. It would be just like having a dog.

You can throw things, he'll get it. That is the beautiful thing, having a dog is, I don't worry about it if I drop something. No. Dog find it. Yeah. He does all the pre-rinse, so you don't have to do it before the dishwasher. Exactly. Those dogs are the best. Dogs are great. He used to clean up all the kids' stuff. Kids are always throwing stuff around, making messes out of things, and just send the dog around to take care of it. We had a few years where I didn't have a dog, and. I just would walk away, and then I'd come back later and get in trouble, because I'd left a piece of lettuce on the floor or something. Dad's got cheese and pepperoni from a piece of pizza on the floor. Why don't you pick that up? What happened here, Daniel? I figured the kids would lick it up. What do we even have kids for? Somebody just mess up. What good are they? That's wild. Yeah.

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Yeah, that's brand new. Can we get them used… Somebody had to have bought one. Oh my God, this was a terrible idea. We don't need this thing. I bet we get one… You want to find that guy? Yeah. I want to find one on eBay for 50 bones. I bet you can do it. I might have talked to the wife to see if it's alright to buy this thing, but I think it's a good idea. Especially for the Ministry Center. Really? Yeah. Okay. So On This Rock will be in… 21st? Yeah, they'll be on the 21st. You can check them out. If you go to livefromthepath.org and you click on Performances, you can find the band on this rock they've been on before. They're going to be back in on the 21st. And then on the 28th, Eyes Wide Open, who is new to us, will be in studio as well.

Cool. Also, quick heads up, Jess and Jordan Anderson, who we had on the show a few weeks back, will be back in town Saturday night. There's a Girls' Night Out thing sponsored by Pulse. So if you go to Pulse995.com, you can find information about that. Jessa will be performing there. Also, she and Jordan will be at Pathway Church, which is our church, this Sunday, at both services, both the 9 and the 10-30 service. If you're interested, Pathway Church meets at Wallace Elementary in Johnston. And again, there's a 9 o'clock and a 10-30 service. So if you're looking for a church home, we'd love to have you out. More importantly, if you're looking for a relationship with Jesus Christ, we'd like to be able to help in any way that we can. So you can visit us, either at the church service at Wallace Elementary, or if you go to thepathonline.org, you can learn more about the church and the stuff that's going on. You know, kind of speaking of helping people with their relationship with Christ, I'll tell you what doesn't help. And I was reading this on that John Acuff blog that we talked about quite a bit, the stuffchristianslike.net. And he wrote a blog about what he calls the Jesus Duke. Jesus Duke. Yeah, Duke. And I don't really like the phrase at all. Like, it really irritates me to listen to it.

But the whole point of it is, is like, you know, whether it's, you know, two fellow believers that are just talking or like, you know, someone who believes in God and then somebody who doesn't, you know, somebody who drops like a big Jesus bomb in the middle of a conversation for, I mean, really no proactive reason, you know? Just kind of like, well, I'm really going to show my Jesus stuff now type of thing? Yeah, well, you know, I don't know how to say it. Like, I've deleted people off my Facebook account for this. And I believe in Christ. Is that why you dropped me? No, you're still on, Daniel. Yeah. I don't know how you made the cut, but you're still on there. This week. You know, like, I've been friends with people on Facebook, and every post is, you know, something to do with God or Jesus, and, you know, that's great, you know, it's great, but it's only palatable to a certain point. Like, it's hard because you don't, as someone who follows Christ, you don't want to say, that's too much God. Yeah. Like, there's too much God here. You know, you don't ever want to be that guy that says that. But I tell you one thing, if you're looking to be a fisher of men, if you're looking to get people to Christ, this is not the way to go about it. And, you know, and probably I could relate to that.

I have a friend on Facebook that is like a total New Age, love the earth, the earth is God thing. And he's always throwing this stuff out there. He had one the other day, you know, where did we get the sunshine? The earth. Where did we get the, you know, what guides us on our life? The earth. You know, I had all these little things that had nothing to do with the earth. I was just so tempted to get on there and say, dude, the earth is a rock floating through the earth, you know, space. It doesn't guide my life and it doesn't, you know, it does nothing. I'll bet you people think that way about, like, you know, Christians. Yeah, yeah, about people that, you know, and this is not just a Facebook thing and it's not meant to single anybody out, you know, I don't know if you're a frequent Jesus poster. You know, there's nothing wrong with hiding your faith, you know, I'm sorry, what? There's nothing wrong with showing your faith, excuse me. What I meant to say is you don't need to hide your faith, but I guess, like, some of the examples he gave is, you know, this lady was talking and she said, you know, I called my husband and I said, I started, I just left him a voicemail that says, you are my sunshine, you know, and just left it that, figured he'd call back and finish it, you know, and he said, he called back and said, the only sunshine I have is Jesus Christ, our Lord, and the representation that our marriage is to him. And, you know, it was a… Right, it was a simple, hey, I love you, you know, and he brought Jesus, our Lord and

Savior into it for what reason? Like, to demean somebody else? You know, like, there's ways to encourage people with Christ and encourage him with the words that he's provided. And there's ways to bring him down. And, like, when you have nothing but, like, judgmental quotes from Christ to say all the time, that's a Jesus juke. You know, you're like, I don't even know what your motivation is for doing this kind of thing. And I just, I can't stand it when people do it. It really irritates me. I would just think of a guy or his wife goes, hey, man, will you vacuum the living room? And he's like, Jesus is the vacuumer of the soul. Things like that. That's exactly the kind of crap I'm talking about. You know, people do that all the time. But, like, hey, man, I saw this guy today. He was working real hard, you know, and then someone goes, you know, if I worked that hard for Christ, we'd really have a lot of people here. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. That's helpful.

That's awesome. You know, like, you know, I… Let me write that down. I just, I don't know. I just, it just seems like, I was thinking about this in the car. There's, there's ways to go about expressing your faith to somebody. If you're really trying to reach out Jesus to them, there's ways to do it. And the first way is with honesty. If you don't usually show up with flowery, Jesus-filled speeches, don't start now. The Lord does not need your help. You know what I'm saying? He doesn't need your phony, holier-than-thou speeches. You know, the Lord will move how he wants to move, and he will touch hearts as he wants to touch hearts. Yeah. And you, like, trying to make something up on the fly and be somebody that you're not, it's transparent. It's obvious. You know, people, people will, even if they don't come to know Christ directly through you, they will respect your faith for your honesty. And so, if you live your life in a, I'm attempting to follow Christ manner, then at least they'll respect that. But if you live your life in a, you know, turn or burn fashion, and all you do is judge people on where their relationship with Christ is, no one's going to listen to you.

Not even your Christian friends will listen to you. You won't be someone that anybody comes to for guidance or for their walk with Christ. I tune people like that out. So, if it's not some type of, you know, genuine faith, you know, it just turns me off. Yeah. And you know what? You can, and you can generally tell genuine faith by humility. Yeah. That's, that's how you can generally tell. Like, I mean, they're going to have their downfalls, you know, they're going to be jerk on occasions. They're going to be prideful. They're going to be human. They're going to be hard to deal with, you know? I mean, they're going to have all kinds of failings that, that, you know, someone would love to point to and say, he's not following Christ. But I tell you what, you can tell them by their humility, by their lack of, you know, just their, I, you know, I'm this. This is where I'm at in comparison to, you know, the God that saved me. And that is honest. And that is true. And you, and you can, you can get a lot more people for Christ with your humility than you can with your Jesus bomb you drop in the middle of conversation. You know, now there's way to, there's ways to talk about Jesus in a conversation without

being a jerk, you know, and you can practice those. You actually should practice those. It's hard to, if you don't, if you don't say the word, I used to do this all the time when I was a teenager, I thought, you know, maybe, maybe I'll say something about God here, but I realized that I don't say the word God or Jesus enough that it sounded very foreign to me even when I spoke it. Yeah. You had to force it in. Right. And, and, and, okay, I'm going to, I'm going to make my statement now, you know, hopefully, you know, listen up because here it comes. Right. You know, yeah. Right. And like, I had never, I had never said out of my mouth, Jesus is my Lord and Savior. And when I said it, like the first time it felt so weird and awkward that I thought, I can't, I can't say this. I just can't, I can't say this. Cause right now I, I don't mean that. Like I can only say what I mean. I can only say what the Lord has equipped me with now. Yeah. And, and frankly, it's, it's worked out great. You know, I don't know that they're showing up in droves, you know, based on my testimony,

but people around me know where I stand. And they know my failings and they know my successes, but they know at least where I stand. Yeah. And so it doesn't take a lot of flowery, you know, showbiz to get it done. And so I don't know, I was, I was reading it on that post today and I thought it really is, it really is true. And, and it really is, you know, stuff like that. If, if people would just live their faith, honestly, take, take where the Lord has you and respect where the Lord has you and, and ask him where he's got you going and just live where the Lord's got you now. That's more than enough for him. He's given you every tool you need. Yeah. I mean, there's, there's a significant difference between taking baby steps and false leaps. Like here I am living for Christ. And if it's a total lie, you know, actually Paul talks a lot about that, about not only the pretension in living like that, but also how worthless it is for God. You know, like these actions, these people, the things that you soak in and you don't do anything, um, so disobedience, but also folks who, you know, act like there's something that they're not. Um, I mean, I don't know who we are to think that we're going to fool a God of the universe. It's like, Oh, you know, Oh, I conned my way in. I'm not really this, but I'm acting like this.

So it's cool. Like, you know, it's, it's actually kind of a weird thought because a lot of it, we can't really, if you think about it, you can't be doing that for Christ. So who are you doing it for? Well, right. And, and, and, and Jesus hits on this a lot. I love this phrase, but like, like if, if that's the type of Christ living you're trying to do, you've received your reward in full, you've gotten your accolades from the people around you. You know, people think very highly of you for your walk with Christ, but you've already received your reward. That's the maximum amount you're going to get because it's phony and it's not true. And, and, you know, and, and, you know, you can't take that on every level and judge people's, you know, faith cause that's not your job, you know, but, but I think it's, it should be, you know, more apt, common knowledge that, that, you know, if you're going to proclaim yourself to be a Christ follower, and I hope that you are, make sure it's honest, make sure it is honest because, you know, when the time comes and you have to stand in front of them and the Lord goes, I know what you had going and this wasn't it. You know, sometimes, I mean, it can be the, the, the fake, like you say, but maybe sometimes it's just the clumsy Christ follower who's generally trying to do well, but they, they're already socially awkward or they're already, you know, they just don't know how to. Right. And so they just, they just spit Jesus stuff out, figuring this is how, this is the best I can come up with.

Some preacher said, this is what you got to do. You got to get on the street corner or let her shout, you know, and they're just probably just doing what they heard, you know? And I think sometimes that is part of it too, that misdirected, misguided, as opposed to the Matthew 28, which you referred to earlier, as you go make disciples, as you're doing your thing, living your life, doing whatever you're doing, you spread. Wait, am I, am I sitting on the wrong side of the fence on this? Like, should I be, should I, should I not be offended by people that, that like, I mean, Facebook is so much, you know, out of direct biblical reference, you know, but I mean, if this is, if, if, if, if every day I'm getting three posts a day with Bible verses on them, you know, they're not judgmental virus, they're just Bible verses, you know? Is this, I don't know, sometimes, I mean, it's annoying, it can be, it can be annoying. I mean, I suppose half the stuff I post is annoying to people, though, sometimes I do that just to be annoying, you know, not necessarily averse, but I mean, I'll throw something out there just to see if I get a reaction, you know, and that's just being immature or something. You know, I think it just almost begs the question, like, am I, am I offended, and I'm not, I'm not really offended, am I irritated because, you know, it's, it's, it's poking me the wrong way, like, I just don't, I don't want to hear this all the time, like, like, like, I want my God separate from my life. I don't think that's the case, you know? You're embarrassed. Well, I'm embarrassed. Oh, the Lord, he's caught me on Facebook. I mean, you're embarrassed for God, because, like, I mean, I don't want people out there

quoting me all the time, well, yeah, well, Dan said, blah, blah, blah, Dan Hudson, you know? Yeah. It's just like, well, yeah. I can speak for myself, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I think, I don't know. I mean, we are his voice and everything, but, and it's sometimes maybe it's just a verse that's hitting someone that day. I've done that before. Or some verse is like, wow, that's really big, hitting me, I'll just throw a verse out there or something. Right. You know, but that's probably in the same context, like, like, you know, we've talked about, you know, people that, people that heal people and, and like, and Bible verses and whatever, you know, like, if I'm getting slammed in the face by a Bible verse every day, every day, something monumental has hit me every single day. It starts to lose its effectiveness, you know, you know, it just starts to lose its, its genuineness. I would say, you know, like seriously, if you really were meditating hard on that verse from yesterday, you'd probably still be rolling on it. Cause that one's a big one. Exactly.

Well, that one's done. This is Wednesday. Yeah. Yeah. That's all the bigger and better things. Although, you know, I, and I, I can't say, I mean, I've, I've gotten rid of people off Facebook because for, for smaller reasons, you know, people that announce the day every day, they kill me, you know, welcome to Tuesday, dot, dot, dot. Thanks. Do you like defriend them or just hide them? I hide them. Okay. I've, I've, I've, I've hit people. I don't think I've ever defriended anybody, but I've hidden people because the next day will show me like Thursday's rolling. Okay. Great. Or the, or the, or the song lyrics guy. These are another guys that kill me. You know, they'll quote a tune every day, a tune, a new tune, like, just like the Bible verse guy. This tune is really speaking to me today. Really? Every day you got to hold your hand.

Really? I just, I, you know, I, I, I, I probably don't even belong on Facebook. Like, I love, I love the crotchety old man of Facebook. I am too. Like I hear from people. I, my favorite people are the people that I don't hear from, you know, but every once in a while, like every, like once every two weeks, they'll change their picture or they'll have gone camping or something. And they'll have pictures of it or fishing or whatever, you know, or that, you know, I get bored of my picture. Yeah. I noticed that Dan, you'll switch back and forth and then you'll go right back to your thinker. I know. Like, I got to find something, they switch my face or something. So people are like, who is this guy? I like that these are the big decisions Dan has going during the day. What should my Facebook profile be? Do I do a scripture or change my profile? I got a big sermon coming up, conferences to talk about, leading sheep. I wonder what my picture should look on Facebook. People won't respect the guy that's leading, leading people for Christ with that face. Maybe I should go to Fantastic Sam's. I don't know, maybe I don't buy a Facebook. I probably don't, I probably don't.

I probably need to create a, the Dan page that I can put all my quotes on. Yeah, you should probably have three Facebook pages, sure. Yeah. Just to encapsulate your giant personality. So the Dan can go, Monday's rolling, it's the Dan. Welcome to Tuesday, week's almost halfway done. Wednesday, week's halfway done. Thank you, thank you friend. Friday's coming. You know, I paid like three bucks for a calendar. It's working out just fine. Your announcement of each day, it's killing me. I just, I can't take it anymore. There's Dan the Amazing. Oh, it's already taken. No, it's not the Dan. Oh, it's still, it's still around? I can do the Dan. I think you should. What would it be? It'd have to be a, would it be a person or would it be like a group? A fan page? I'll fan the Dan. Pansy's not doing it.

Get it done real quick. Steal it from him. Take the Dan from underneath him. Someone else is courting as the Dan. Why don't you do a fan page? I've never done a fan page. Oh, this is, this is going to be a debacle. That's how you check the weather. Okay. Oh, actually, you know, I was, I was hesitant to do a happy birthday today. It was my cousin's birthday. Yeah. It was Parker's birthday day. And like, I mean, once you get 75 happy birthdays, it was like, what's the big deal? You know? Yeah. Yeah. I hear that too. Like, you're still on a Facebook thing, right? Like, somebody's birthday and they're like, there's like 15, 20 happy birthdays. You're like, what do I get at the end of the line? Happy birthday, I guess. Yeah. Right.

Like, yeah, you're, you're late to the crowd. So I thought I'd come up with something clever to say. And I don't remember what it was. It had something to do with like a velvet rendering of myself. But like, yeah, that sounds spot on. I'm sure he'll get a good job. But I don't know. It seems like it's there. They do this at work too. Like when you've been, this is absolutely terrible. It's so, so cheesy. But every year, if you're there for another year, you get an email with like balloons, like a picture of some balloons. Like clip art balloons? Yeah. And it says, oh, that's nice. Happy anniversary. You've been here seven years. I'm like, yay, an email with balloons. It is. Yes. Ultra lame. And I can't get them to stop doing it. Like they.

Is it an auto? So like it just keeps track of when you started? No, they got a spreadsheet somewhere with everybody's start date on it. And then so it's someone's job to check it. Like it highlights red? It's been today. Yeah. But I, you know, I can't imagine the guy that's like sitting at his desk doing his work. And then he gets an email. He's like, yay. He gets on the horn. Hon, you'll never believe it. I've been here eight years today. Update my Facebook for me, will you? Tell them it's Wednesday. And then I've been here eight years. I'm having difficulty. Okay. Registering the dance. I have to choose a category. Actor, director, artist, athlete, author, business person. Can you do all of the above? Writer, teacher, public figure, producer. Do public figure.

Yeah. Public figure that works. The Dan is a public figure. Okay. I'm going to agree to that. Get started. All right. Go ahead, Vance. I'm waiting. What is ultra lame? I don't know why he's typing that. So I have a list of all my students' birthdays. Okay. Good. Keep it up. Just want to let you know I have a list. Well, it's okay to have a list. And actually, I'm not saying that. Like if you went up and said, hey, man, happy birthday. Like that's okay. That's okay, too. But like it's the email that I find impersonal. Oh, so when it's their birthday, you give them a happy meal toy. Yeah, that's funny.

Yeah, yeah. That's funny. That's a way to say happy birthday without being awkward or something. Wait a minute. Does that mean that Jokan gets a happy meal every day? What if there's like five birthdays that he has to go to McDonald's every day? Ooh, yeah. Verifying. For now, I think I'll have to use my Captain Awesome badge for my The Dan picture. Well, am I on a different topic than you guys? No. Well, everyone just go and friend The Dan, please, so we can get past this. How do I? Is it logged in yet? It's The Dan's there. I don't know. I'm just going to have to publish it. This says The Dank. Yeah, that's different. I sure hope so. Actually, in York, Nebraska, Dan the Man McCann. That is awesome. That's the coolest name I've ever heard. Boy, I don't spend enough time on Facebook.

You don't spend enough time looking for a random… I could put a picture of Matt Cassidy. Yeah, there's an idea. That will certainly calculate it. You see his show's still rolling. Yeah, that's awesome. Picked up a sponsor. Yeah, that's awesome. Good for him. Now, here's the deal. I don't like to give that man credit for stuff. But indeed, the first six and a half minutes of his show were great. It was good. Yeah, it was very well played. So congratulations, Mr. Cassidy. It was very impressive. Good work. I agree. And you know what? He doesn't update his status every day with lame stuff. Like, he'll pop in and out. That's true. I have not hidden Matt Cassidy. Isn't that amazing?

Wow. I tried to hide from him. He's an adequate Facebook user. Yeah, he is. So what kind of information do I put about? I'll just worry about this later. Please. Yeah, that'd be awesome. Unless you want to spend the next whole hour doing some kind of ego massage. Let's talk about me for a while, can we? I didn't see the chat vote on this. So Stacey's, if you remember, Stacey's New Year's resolution was to friend somebody on Facebook that had the same name as her. Okay. Okay, so she was having trouble. Where's this at? I'm trying to see where it was at. So she was having trouble. Okay, so here's the person's name. The name was Stacey with an E, Hardikoff. H-A-R-D-E-K-O-P-H. Uh-huh. Hers is a T. Uh-huh.

Does that count? I'd say so. Yeah? Close enough. Okay, Stacey, that's a win. We're going to let you have it. You've succeeded in your New Year's resolution. Congratulations. Okay, good. Hey, I'm going to tell you something weird that happened to me. So me and the old gal are playing blocks and trains or whatever this week, you know? She decides it's going to be some kind of cowboy country. And then she names herself Cowgirl Snakeowits. Ha, ha, ha, ha. This girl is four years old. I, I, I, three. Three. She's three years old. Does she have a black hat? I said, I went up, I went up to my wife and I said, where did she get the word Snakeowits? She goes, I don't know. I said, did she watch the TV? Well, not really today. No, no.

I thought, what am I going to do? What am I going to do when she turns like 10? If she's calling herself Cowgirl Snakeowits when she's three years old. That's it. It's some kind of villain Jewish cowboy. What am I supposed to do with this? And so I just continued to call her Cowgirl Snakeowits. I figured, well, if that's what you want, you're in. That's a cool name. I'm scared to death. I like it. She's smarter than I am. I know it already. She's going to, oh. She does it in a southern accent? She does. She goes, I'm Cowgirl Snakeowits. She's classic. Snakeowits. She is absolutely classic. Boy, that's funny. That is good. I can't, I can't keep track of her. I saw her get in a fight with a verbal altercation with another young lady at church going, you stink.

Also a classic. And then she didn't like, it was Emma. So Emma just goes, no, I don't. And she goes, you stink. What, what, oh, Ben, my daughter and Ben's daughter are relatively the same age. His daughter, his oldest daughter is four and my daughter's three. And my wife and her had gone over to Ben's house to have a play date or whatever. And Ben's daughter, Emma, had claimed to know the musical The Nutcracker. And my daughter said that she did not know the musical The Nutcracker, but Grace knew what The Nutcracker was. And what ensued was like a three-week fight. On every night before we went to bed, I'd say, good night, honey. I'll talk to you in the morning. She would go, but, but, but, but, but Emma does not know The Nutcracker. I say, most certainly. Every night. It would never end. Until I said, look, you're going to have to straighten this out with Emma. I, I, I don't know whether she knows The Nutcracker or not. She said, but, but, but, but, Daddy, Emma does not know The Nutcracker. I said, okay. I'm going to win this, okay? Okay. You win in this house, I guess. I don't know what to say.

Those kids are surprising. Like, they have long memories and, and, and really stick to it. She, um, uh, Emma tells me today, she goes, you know, Grace doesn't listen to her mommy sometimes. I said, okay. Well, they were over here and she was being loud. And her mommy said to stop it. She kept being loud. So she doesn't listen to her mommy. I said, well, I'm sure that happens. Hey, Emma, that happens at my house too. The good news is, uh, they'll be teenagers soon. I'm weeping already. I'm thinking of getting a closet just to kind of put her in. I thought you were going to go in there and cry. I thought that's what the closet was going to do. No, I thought, I'll put the kid in there. No, Emma does not listen to her. Well, yeah, you know, for the most part, but I think she has the same experience, you know, every once in a while you go somewhere and like, she completely ignores everything that's going on and do whatever she wants. But I was thinking the closet would be good for the children. See, we homeschool her. I mean, no one's going to notice that she's not around.

We'll just kind of, we'll feed her through a wall or something. That's a good way to get yourself out of America's Most Wanted. And no one will ever know. Way to stand up for all the homeschoolers. The Snikowitz family hasn't been seen in days. They took off in their 89 Buick Regal. So she's done growing her hair out and we get all our jean skirts ready to go. Oh, man. Thank you for, you've been listening to Life in the Pan, Snikowitz. Are those the feds coming in? I think they've got better things to do. I certainly hope so. So 11 o'clock, where's Pay Langer? He was supposed to be here at quarter to 11. Boy. I think we're going to, just for a heads up, I think we're going to stop the broadcast early. We'll be cutting the show off at 11.30 tonight. Yeah. Yeah. We just got some stuff we've got to straighten out. And we've got to do it before midnight. Some final T's to cross. Our ties. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. So 11.30, actually, we've got to do, we do have some secular, or not secular shalom. Biblical signs of the apocalypse. Non-biblical signs of the apocalypse. Ooh. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Will you play that flute video? I'm telling you, people can see it. What flute video? The beatboxing flute man. Oh, from our YouTube? Yeah. That thing's going crazy. Oh, man, our YouTube is growing. Yeah. Send more people to the YouTube. What about 8,000, you said now? It'll be, it's 9,500. It'll be 10,000 before the end of the week. And we were at 2,000 at the end of November. So it's going well. Exponential.

Yeah. See, the thing is, what I've realized is, it's by no means us that's doing it. We just have high quality guests in. Oh, yeah. Syndrome of Fire's going well. Caps for sales, for some reason, off the charts. Yeah, what's up with that? I don't know why Dan the Dunce hasn't followed, man. Dan the Dunce is solid. It's classic. Yeah, it is. Dan the Dunce is classic. I don't know. And, you know, actually, Jack and the Beanstalk isn't doing well. I wouldn't surprise, man. That's not my favorite. It's because everybody does, you know, the classics. I'd never heard of Caps for Sale. You know what? My wife had. Like, it's a children's classic. I just, we didn't read it. It's probably fringe enough that the people looking for it, there's not people who've done it until they find ours or something.

Maybe so. Is this Beanstalk, man? Yeah, okay. I think this is the one you're talking about, right? No, that's not the guy. What? What do you mean? No, that's not him. He's going to do Inspector Gadget. No, no, no. Don't do that one. That's terrible. Boo. He's tucking his shirt in. No, no. He did it in a hotel room. It's rocking. What song is it? I favorited it on our YouTube channel. That guy's terrible. No, that's not the one. You get it. The one I'm talking about, he's got real creepy eyes, like he looks at the camera, and then he starts raising it, and he plays the flute, and he's scary.

It's awesome. What song is he doing? Was that guy playing, like, from Aladdin? Okay, hold on. Is that the Aladdin song? No, it was the theme to Inspector Gadget. Ah, that's it. Okay, there we go. Oh, boy, this guy does look wild. Yeah. Hold on a second. Bored in a hotel one Thursday night in Indiana. Okay. All right, here's your guy. Oh, man. I feel like he's going to bite me. Is he from the Siberian orchestra? This song is cool, too. What's this sound check to you? Like, what would you be doing listening to this tune? I would be hustling people. Oh, man. That way it gets creepy at the end. Oh, no.

Yeah. I wish he wouldn't have done that. Yeah, but that's not the coolest thing you've ever seen. Oh, that's pretty cool, though. He's awesome. I do like that. Yeah. He gives the I at the end. Oh, man. Boy, oh, boy. He's wild. So, anyway. Yeah, I think he's… See? Soundtrack material. This guy. What? They're making fun of Dan guessing that song is Aladdin. Put that on your Facebook, the Dan. I know tunes. You never have a friend of that. I'm the tune guy. Can I have a ride to vacation Bible school? You're like the guy that also gets a new Bible in the mail.

He's really excited about it. Hey, everybody. It's the new international version. Hey, the King James signed this one. It's been revised. What was wrong with the first one? Exactly. Born. Jesus needs revision. That's hip. I'm telling you. Yeah, I do like that. That's kind of wild stuff. Is it free? Is it free? Why are you looking at me like that? Why'd you do that crazy flute man thing to me? I'd become one with him. Hey, can you paste Dan's photo on that flute man? I can't make it do the eye things that he does. Well, just get Dan in various poses, and then you can just stop motion it. It'll be solid. Okay, these are good ideas. All right.

Yeah. Boy, Engel think we're supposed to be here to provide entertainment in the 11 o'clock hour. Ooh. He's probably outside. I forgot. I turned my… Snuck in a snowdrift. I turned my text message beeper thing completely off, and so I never hear a text message coming. Maybe he texted and said he's not going to make it. I don't know where my phone's at. You guys are great. We're professionals. You really are listening to… Oh, yeah. He wrote he couldn't find the building. He's been here. At 11.05. Oh, just now. He just now said it. Oh. What is it? Ninth and Locust? Yeah, it's between 8th and 9th, isn't it? Yeah.

All right. Talk amongst yourselves. Okay. Anyway, while he's worrying about that, you, and that's you on the chat, go ahead and stretch your fingers, you know, crack your necks, and get your brain pumped up, because you're about ready for the next round of Non-Biblical Signs of the Apocalypse. We lost Mike. Dan, we're in some real trouble. He's out trying to shovel Inkel Dinger out. Oh, man. Mike's kind of the comedy portion of this operation. We're going to be real pickle here. I'll have to pay attention again. Yeah. Let's get off of Facebook. What do you got there? Hey, I love Focus by Hocus Pocus. You want to listen? Okay, hold on. Let's listen to that real quick. That video was awesome. Hold on a second. Oh, it's got a commercial on it. Okay, here they go.

Focus. These guys are awesome. So, this is like a really long instrumental. You remember this? I recorded my daughter dancing to it. She does the operatic part in the middle. Remember that Mike? Is that Steve Hardcroft playing the guitar? No doubt. Looks just like him. When he had hair? That guy looks like he's from the Bee Gees. Wait, not that guy. He looks… You haven't seen this. That kind of looks like Steve. He cut the hair off. That is Steve. But he's lifting weights. I wonder what's going on in that guy's mind. It's drugs. It's all drugs. Look at him. I don't know if people don't act like that.

I think he's playing. Did he get to do the scream again? Hold on a minute. Yeah, yeah. He's coming back on. That kind of sounds like Steve. I wish I could write tunes like this. You know, all you have to do is rock out for like 30 seconds, and then you come and do some kind of girly scream, and they'll put you on TV. I can write songs like this. I started a joke. Wait, where'd he go? Is that the same guy? No. I don't think so. Okay, one more time. Can you do it again? I feel like you should be riding a pink dragon. Mixing it up. Here's the thing. There's got to be one guy in that band that goes, are we seriously playing that tune on TV? We're not playing that.

I would like to, you know, I can think of two interesting situations. The first one is when he pitches this to the band. He goes, so here's how it's going to go. Yeah, you guys hold out, and I'm going to go like, You know what, though? They were probably at a state where they all thought that was an awesome idea. Wait, wait, he's on the flute. He's a mad flutist. He's a mad something. This is terrible. No doubt he would play the flute. There's no doubt about it. Can you shut that off now? Yeah, okay. Man. Boy, I love that song. Was he a non-biblical sign of the apocalypse, that guy? He might be. It's over. Oh. Yeah, he's top 40.

It's already coming up. That's it. The world was doing it. That voice of his, that was a 60. He was getting ready to hit the trumpet blast. Are you waiting for Engelinger for the apocalypse? No, we're going to have to get started. He's coming. He's like three minutes away. He's in. Yoni, yoni, yoni. Classic. Boop, boop. His brothers are the one. Oh. Oh, boy. From the Mad Hatter. He does not like the Mad Hatter. He's wild looking. He's a wild looking guy. There's Engelinger right there. Better go, let him in. Is he here?

Yeah. Oh, I see. I see his reflection. Yeddy out there. Yeddy? He's dressed as a Yeddy. What's a Yeddy? What? You don't know what a Yeddy is? What is a Yeddy? It's like a mountain beast. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, that was enough. Now that you say that. Hey, you can leave it open, Troy. Okay. All right. We're back in for you. Good to have you. Thank you. He's going to make it. There you go. Oh, he looks good, too.

Hold on. Yoni, yoni, yoni. Hey, Troy, you ever seen this beatbox in Flute Man? Flute Box? Not Flute Box. Flute Box. I know Flute Box. I've never seen it. Why do you keep saying Flute Box? Because that's an actual beatbox. Hey, Ben. What? You want to turn his microphone on? Oh. Yeah, sorry. There you go. Speak louder. Hi. That's better. Anyway, he kept saying Flute Box, which is not what we're talking about. He's a beatboxing Flute Man? Yeah. He beatboxes and plays the flute. His name's Flute Box.

The man's name is not Flute Box. What's the man's name, then? Greg somebody. Yeah, Greg something or other. Or Dan the Man McCann from York, Nebraska. I'm Dan the Man McCann? I'm calling him. Do it. I'm going to see if he'll come on the show. Skype him. All right. So anyway. Okay. We're in for non-biblical signs of the… Oh, wait. Hold on. You're listening to Life from the Path. We're talking about non-biblical signs of the apocalypse. Chat, remember, your responsibility here is to vote. I will give you the story. You tell me whether this is likely to be a sign that the end times are near, even though it is not recorded in the Book of Revelation. Or whether… It's just people being people.

Just people being people. And we've got some more time. All right. All right. So here we go. First story. This is coming out of Fletcher, North Carolina. Authorities say a dispute over leadership at a church in western North Carolina turned from angry words to fistfights. About 30 police officers from five agencies were called to break up fights Sunday at Greater New Zion Baptist Church in Fletcher, about 94 miles west of Charlotte. Henderson County Sheriff's Captain Jerry Rice says the brawl was under investigation and no one appears to have been seriously hurt. Rice says there were about 75 people at the church when police arrived, but not all of them were scuffling. Guesses as to what this is about? Mike? Tithing. Okay. Anywhere? What do you guess? What's going on? What's it about? I go with Mike and tithing.

Tithing? Dan? The color of some wall they're going to paint or something. Here it is. Church members are divided over the recent ouster of Reverend Lavon Urey as a pastor of the church. The fighting apparently began over whether a vote should be held to reinstate him. No charges have been filed. A fist fight. Fist fight. Now, check this out, though. Look at the people-to-police ratio. 75 people, but not all of them were scuffling. 30 police officers sent to this church. Church folks are rowdy. They're little dirty fighters. They're not used to real fights, so they just… I can just imagine someone picking up a pew and trying to hit someone with it. Well, you've got to be pretty mad to pick up a pew and throw it at somebody. And they're doing it for God. They think they're really, like, at the… Well, you know, honestly, you've got to be pretty mad to just start fighting in church in general. You know, I'd like to see how it escalated.

That's the thing I would like to have seen. The stair step before someone finally threw an arm. You know? Like, let's vote to reinstate so-and-so. What's his name? Laboosh? Fred Laboosh? Lavoya. Lavonia. Okay. Wait, wait. That's his first name. His name is Lavonia Ray. Okay. I can't talk about that guy. That's a stupid name. Bob. What else? So, Bob. Let's vote to reinstate Bob. We ain't voting to reinstate Bob. Yeah, we are. No, we're not. Fellas, we'll handle this in the deacons meeting.

Why ain't a deacon anymore if Bob's not going to be here? Whoopsh. And then it goes. Suck. Now it's all done. And all of a sudden, they're all at it. Yeah. Rather than, you know, the mature ones standing up saying, okay, we're going to hold everyone back. Oh, yeah. I mean, there's just… The only people that didn't stick around for the fight were the smokers. They went outside. Exactly. We've got time for this. They're watching. This is ridiculous. This isn't right. This old lady is hitting each other with purses. Yeah, they're going, I can't see anything. Throwing hams at each other. What's going on in there? It's too dangerous. I've got a soft pack on me.

A soft pack. Don't hit me. It's a soft pack. You'll damage my smokes. Bummer. If I had lights in a box, I'd be in on this deal. I'd roll it up my sleeves and go in after it. So why didn't Bob show up and say, hey, how about if I just not come back? I assume he wasn't there. He had been ousted. Yeah, but see, if Bob had anything to him, he'd say, okay, I'm an issue of division here. I don't belong. Right. You think that's the responsibility of the church leader, even if the division is illegitimate for you to leave? All right, then. Or to get rid of… It depends on how it got to be such a division. Right. Either half the church needs to get kicked out, or, I mean, honestly… Where the preacher man needs to go. But this is deeper. If it's gotten this bad, it's a deep, deep issue. Right, this didn't just happen on that.

They need two churches. Right. You know, and that goes back to, you know, it's not a direct quote or anything, but kind of the correlation between Paul when he was talking about with the… With Mark. With the Corinthian church. Yeah, yeah. Well, that's perfect, too. They went different ways. Hey, we were getting in fistfights. Yeah, they just said, go. You know, rather yourself be wronged. Yeah. You know, wouldn't you rather be wronged than to cause other people to stumble? Let's do Jesus our own separate ways, and God will fight all the more. Let's not fight about it. We're talking about two people that are marked for doing a lot for the early church. Yeah. Paul and Mark both, and they said, look, we don't get along. Let's go. You know, and they split. Then later on, they got back together. I don't know. I always got the impression that Mark was just a…

He's kind of a weasel. He's the guy that fled naked when they came to arrest Jesus. It was purported. Those were internet rumors. He's a fleer. That was the first sign of trouble. That was a status on Facebook is what that was. Maybe that's why Paul didn't like him, because Paul was, there's trouble, let's go get it. I mean, personality, complete different personality. Yeah, really. I'm just saying. Mark's like, it's Tuesday. Mark sees trouble. I'm going to be naked. Look at that. Here comes Wednesday. Engel Linger, you're not that Facebook guy, are you? The guy that updates what day it is every day? No. Are you a song lyric man? Yes, actually. Yeah, he does song lyrics. I've probably hidden you already. That's fine.

How often do you do it? Not very often. Oh, you're probably still on there. I'll check. Well, thank you. I appreciate it that I'm able to be shown on your Facebook page. Hey, if you song lyric me, I'm going to ban you. You know, I'm just going to start commenting song lyrics, and they're not even going to make sense, just random ones. Yeah. Like Bananarama songs is what I'm going to do. Well, I think you can consider our Facebook relationship over. That's fine. I'm not only going to block you, I'm going to defriend you as a whole. Can you do that? Do they send a message that says, you've been defriended? I don't think you can defriend, but you can unfriend someone. Do you stop seeing my posts, too? So, Troy, I see that you still need someone to be your valentine. Speaking of Facebook. Speaking of Facebook, that's not creepy, but whatever. I'm not stalking you. I'm in front of you. I'm looking at your Facebook while looking at you.

Okay, point taken. Yeah, I get it. So, I'm stalking you in front of your back. So, you're having trouble with the ladies. No, there was someone on my Facebook that said, who wants to be on my valentine? And I was just messing with her, saying, oh, I still need a valentine, too. But there were numerous comments from people that wanted to be my valentine. And then more people today at my work. Oh, Preston. Preston Bieber is a guy at my work. Yeah, he decided he wanted to be my valentine. Tony? These are kind of awkward moments. Yeah, I know. Is it Tony with an I? That could be a lady. No, it's Tony with a Y. And his name is Anthony. And he has a mustache. Castellina is like multiple saying, me, me, me, me. Very true. Castellina is after you. Bring her to the Oscars. And then Patty's on there, too.

Patty's on there, and she said she called dibs. But technically, Preston called dibs. Well, I'm going to be honest with you. You haven't gotten any better looking since I met you. You better start saying yes to some of these. You know what I'm saying? I haven't gotten any better looking since I met you. What he's saying is that you're slowly degrading. And you've got to become a problem. You have to grab the ledge of the cliff at some point. Otherwise, you're going to go all the way down. No, I've got to stop you on that, though. Have become a problem, which means they weren't at one point in time. You were a debonair fellow. Yeah. I mean, to the nines. Age just got to me. Toes to top of the hat. You looked good. Yeah. You were a spit and shine. Now I just want to give you 15 bucks and a free stay in a hotel somewhere. Or a ride to the mission. I don't know if Computer Doc, when he says me, is talking about wanting to be your Valentine

as well. Or if that's… Is he referring to something else? I know. I think he's saying Valentine. Be careful because let's just say he has lots of kids. Yeah. Wow. You can take that however you want. I think I know who that might be. Okay. Excuse me. Non-biblical sign of the apocalypse or not? My bad. It's over. It's over. Dan started it. Oh, the church fight? The church fight? No, no. That's been recorded in the Bible. That's just people being people? Just people being people. Just people being people.

There's church fights in the Lord's Word. That's poor leadership. Agreed. All right. All right. So we still got time. Let's see if this one does the world in. Here we go. Urination plus a colleague's door equals trouble. That's the hard lesson to take away from the case of a California State University Northridge math professor who allegedly urinated on a colleague's door on campus. Timur Petrov, 43, was charged with two misdemeanor counts of urinating in a public place. His arraignment is Thursday in Los Angeles. School officials' yellow flags went up when they saw what they suspected was urine outside another math professor's door. Petrov was rumored to be in dispute with his colleague, according to school officials. They allegedly struck gold by capturing an incident on camera in early December. I have two questions. At least two questions with the story. The first one is he was charged with two misdemeanor counts of urinating. Which means he did it twice. Where does one stop and the next one stop? Like, is it the stream? Yeah.

If you hold it. I can't do it anyway. Maybe stop midstream. Yeah. I think that's the same one. Well, it's just like assault. If you stop and then start another assault, that's two assaults. He's being unfairly charged. Uh, secondly… Yeah, he's definitely been wronged in this situation. The man urinating on the door. How could you? It seems on the up and up. It says they saw what they suspected was urine outside another math professor's door. Now, like, without getting too graphic, if a guy… They called the science professor and he checked it out. If a guy did a Rizzola on the floor… Chemistry teacher. Like, how would you automatically assume that it's suspected it's urine? Like, what makes it not look like water? Hey, I've done that before. I've looked at a substance and thought, what is that? And then sniffed it. And then, sorry, I've done it.

I've done that, definitely. I try and make it my own rule not to do that. Maybe they peed right next to it. And then looked at it and thought, yeah, that looks about the same. That looks about the same. That's probably it. You know, the big thing that's missing in the story is understanding what he is in dispute with his colleague about. Like, what has to go on in this relationship? You're in such dispute that you're like, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go take a whiz at this door. And they're training the next generation. Yeah, this is what's coming. I mean, they're like the professors, right? I mean, they're… Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're not just some random dude walking around the campus. They're actually teachers. It's a state university. Well, that guy is. Private tuition. No urine. Did they give an age on the man? Not the other guy, but the professor was 43. The wizard.

That's a little early. The wizard was 43. Yeah, a little early for… That's a little early for incontinence or whatnot. I mean, it could have been an accident. I forgot something. And then he thought, oh man, he's going to think we're in dispute and there's going to be big trouble. What if he's just a victim of service? I'm thinking the video would probably show that it wasn't an accident. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't know. I mean, what's the difference between you, you know, do it on purpose and doing it and then you really had to go because you have the health problem. Either way, it's the same motion. You probably would have been more into the bush. I have kidney stones. Well, it's not like he's going to run and then flail around. I can't help myself. I think in one example, you would be exposing something. In another one, it would just be running down your leg because you couldn't stop it. Yeah, like I can understand if it's just like, oh man, I really wish I wouldn't have done that or wait one second, I really got to stop.

Oh man, I better put this on the Facebook. With song lyrics. I wet myself. Now see if that Baptist church would have used this whole thing. That's how to clear the air right there. It would just be messy, but in a different way. We're going to get a new carpet. And they said, we need someone to clean out the baptismal. Levon is coming back in. Clear the way. Do not settle disputes that way. That's not what we're saying. All right. I cannot imagine. I've been in disputes, but never to the point where I thought, I'm going to urinate on his door. That's what I'm going to do. I have. Iro, the end is near on that one for me. That's not people being people. No, that's one guy being himself. You know, you're going to find, what's going to happen is you're going to get this man in court and people are going to start showing up out of the woodwork. He's done this before.

His ex-wife's going to show up and say, that's why we got a divorce. Yeah, he's a real problem. His old college roommate's going to be like, dude, he did that all the time. Yeah. I don't know what his deal is. We have to have a two-sided mailbox just to keep things like this from happening. We did that whole, this side of the room is mine. That smelly part is yours. I'm thinking, the guy's in his 40s, he's a college professor, he's supposed to be the cream of the crop, teaching the next generation how to live. Dude, it's over. Yeah, end is near. Either we're going to end ourselves because that's the best we've got training us, or Jesus is just going to come back. You know what, it kind of cracks me up every once in a while to think what the Lord would think about these situations, you know? Just hear his commentary. Like, if you go through the grandeur of what he created and the intricacy and just the amazingness of the earth and the people and all this thing, and then he's just hanging out in heaven, checking out what everybody's got going on, and then this guy starts peeing on the door. And he goes… Really? Yes.

Like, I created you… That's all you got. …to be an intelligent being. Right. That's what you're doing with that. And you take your free will… Yeah. …and urinate on some dude's door. And here's the crazy part. The Lord still loves him. Wants him to seek him. Come back towards him. You know, he can forgive the urinating on the door. He still thinks it's ridiculous. I think. I don't know. I would assume. But still, you know, this is the part… And this may be the heavy Jesus thing that we were talking about. I don't want to… You're going to do it. I don't want to ruin it, but… Guy whizzing on the door, go ahead, Mike. No, I can't do it.

Forget it. You got to. You got to. You got to. You can't open it like that and then… We will all urinate on your door tonight if you don't do it. Do it. Okay. At different times. Like, I look at this guy and I think, I don't even want to be seated in the same room with this weird guy. You know what I'm saying? And… Troy specifically or urine dude? You're kind of going like this to me. We're going to act like Troy did the body. Okay. Guilty. Boy, this is really going to be heaven. I don't mean it to me. Jesus loves this dude. Died for this guy. You know what I'm saying? He's ridiculous.

He is wasting, obviously, the life that the Lord's given him by peeing on doors. You know? But the Lord loves him just the same as he loves me. He loves Dan. He loves Troy. He loves Ben. He loves people who don't even know. You know? It's heavy. Dang it. It's heavy. I'm sorry. Sometimes you got to be heavy. I feel like I'm lifting weights right now. End of the world? End of the world. We got more time. All right. Here we go. Mike says we got more time. Everybody's going to go. I think he's gotten kindness. All right. Here we go.

I love him like the Lord loves him. You need to straighten your lives up. Here we go. Dateline Phoenix. In a brazen attempt reminiscent of a medieval siege, Mexican smugglers tried to use a hefty catapult to hurl drugs north over the U.S. border. Yep. The Mexican military seized 45 pounds of marijuana, a sports utility vehicle, and a metal-framed catapult just south of the Arizona border. What if they have guys sitting there like, uh, uh, uh, uh, oh. You can see it cartoons spacking up in the face. Legs and hands. Here's the best part is they have to repo this catapult. And here's Sheriff going, where are we going to put this in? We're going to sell this at auction? Like, yeah, I'll take the catapult. That looks like something I need in my backyard. We're selling a bunch of Ford cruisers. Uh, excuse me. We could use it to send the illegal back. Yeah. Just flip it around. The table's back at you. It's like a revolving door.

They throw the drugs. Our police take them. We grab one. We throw them back over. I mean, seriously. That's Homeland Security right there. It's just like border patrol. That'd be more than we're doing. That's true. People are weighed down by this subject. What are we going to do about the borders, the safety, blah, blah. As soon as you put a catapult in there, people want to see what's going on. It makes it fun. Yeah. You can have like a balloon slide on the other end, just like, yep, you're going to land right there. And then you'll be like, dude, why wouldn't I want to do this? Yeah. You know what? Have the senator try it out of that state. We'll stick it in New Mexico and we'll stick him on there. It's just like, look, it's fun. We're not sending you back to your country in a bad way. I mean, we're having fun doing it.

What do you want to go on a creepy bus? Catapult? Come on. We can't afford the bus anymore. Catapult's on a blow-up slide. Are you kidding me? You make it into a theme park. They're running out like, here am I. Send me. Stick him on there. I'm going out Isaiah style. Seriously. I'm Isaiah. I don't know. Is there a Spanish Isaiah? How do you say it? Isaiah heel. Seriously, this is the thought of a guy. I mean, high as a kite. He says, you know what we're going to do? We're going to catapult that stuff over the border. Yeah. Listen, we've tried underground. We've tried in people.

We've tried in cars. We've tried in dogs. We've tried everything. We have not tried a catapult. The skies are all that's left. We need a brick of marijuana and a catapult. And that's all we need. I would want to be there at that thinking process. Just like, okay, how are we going to do this? No, no, no. Seriously. Somebody actually built it. Yeah. Think of the scientific types they had to get in league with them. You know, they show up with a couple machetes and go. All of Mexico are building together to make a catapult. Listen, Javier, we're going to need your services here. I'm going to need a catapult. It's going to need 45 pounds. It's going to have to go 300 yards. Seriously, this is going to be righteous. This is going to be awesome, man. Do you have any rubber bands? Your mom's got some, right?

Your mom has some rubber bands. I couldn't take that job seriously. No. Just like, I just got contracted to make a catapult so that we can catapult drugs over the United States border. I can't. The guy, you're right. The guy that they contracted out for that has got to be like, they're not going to pay me. They're not going to pay you for this. I'm never going to get paid. No. His wife's going to be like, John, you're doing all this work on this catapult. And you know those hippies ain't going to pay you anything. They're good guys, sweetie. They're going to come through. You know, they promised me. Yeah. They said. I've got a signature that I think is his name on a piece of paper. If you can't take the word of a drug runner, who can you trust? What is the world coming to? They're serious enough to build a catapult, are they not? Yeah.

You'll be lucky they don't kill you when this is over. All right. I don't know. The end's not. I'm pretty impressed by it. I don't think the end's near. I just think that's just general stupidity. I mean, I'm sorry. I don't like using that word. I like that they're branching out. Well, it's creativity, yes, but it's stupidity as well. How far is this going? I mean, seriously, how close do you have to drag this? Like, you're not going to get caught dragging this catapult to the border. One person gets caught by the heat-seeking imagery. You hook them up to a burrow and you haul them in? Here we go. There's like a 10 cattle pulling this thing. Just like, do they think we're not going to notice that coming up to our border? What's the 40-foot tall cattle doing? It's coming. Why don't they just go to the part where we haven't built a fence? Yeah. And run through.

Exactly. Like everybody else. Like Red Rover, Red Rover style. Wait. There's not a fence right down there. Send the drugs on over. Like, think of the guy on the other side with his arms up. Like, wait for it to come over. Okay. I am ready. This is a great idea. Don't send the mule. They always check the mule. They always check the mule. They always check the mule. Seriously, if I saw a mule flying over the border, I would let him stay. Especially if he laid it on his feet. If he laid it on his back and kind of wallowed, you'd have to help him. All right. I don't know. That's not the end of times. That's weird. No. No, not the end of times.

That's just people being people. Oh, man. All right. That's just people being people. All right. We build a catapult. Here we go. Let's see if we can get two more of these. And we're over time already. We're going to get rolling here. All right. And Idaho Library has closed the book on a string of condiment attacks against its book drop now that the ketchup-wielding criminal has been jailed. We're relieved it's resolved. It's going on for a while. Ann Costello, Reference Librarian, Ada County Community Library, said of a caper that began in 2009 when library books in a drive-up drop box were smothered with substances like corn syrup. Here's the best part. Joy Cassidy, 75, Boise, pleaded guilty on Friday to malicious injury to property stemming from what police said were more than 10 assaults on the book drop. Totally more than $1,000 in damages. And Idaho judge sentenced Cassidy to a month in jail in order to have no contact with Boise area libraries for two years. Can you imagine her being booked in?

Like, what are you here for? Drop some condiments on some books for two years? I've been at large for years. They finally caught me. You'll never catch me. I was on a catapult ready to head to Mexico. Here's the details. So, authorities say Cassidy dumped an assortment of condiments, including ketchup, maple syrup, and mayonnaise, into the book deposit because of conflicts the senior citizen had in the past with library patrons and staff. In an attempt to nab the serial condiment criminal, the library installed a surveillance system, but the real break in the case came last summer when Boise police staked out the crime scene. This is what they're doing in Boise. Officers on June 13th took Cassidy into custody after she placed an open jar of mayonnaise in the drop box, according to a police report. Cassidy's attorney cannot be reached for a comment on Saturday. Are they dressed as bushes or something? I mean… Sitting outside the library like, all right, where's this lady at? Here's the funny part. Like, it's funny to think of it as like a sitcom, you know? But like, think of you or this lady. You take up some mayonnaise, you get in your car, you go to the library. I'll show them.

You look right at what you're thinking. You shake it in there. Then you throw it, and then you go… Tell me, sir, have you ever messed with me? Those books will never be the same. Every time I come here, someone has Harry Potter. Every time. Every time. I'm a mayonnaise this place. I want to know what Agatha Christie does. No one tells me anything. I wish she would be more creative with it, though, than just dropping like a regular jar of mayonnaise. Like a mayonnaise grenade would have been way cooler. Yeah. Or like a whole burger or something. She did maple syrup and ketchup. Was she mixing them? Bring back the Susie Orman table. You know what? That's weird, too, is because ketchup is squeezable and syrup is pourable. But the mayonnaise… Mayonnaise? I couldn't figure it out. I mean, you got a squeezable mayo.

You got a spoon? Oh, yeah, I guess. Well, that's out there. Well, aren't we cool? I mean, seriously, it's kind of like the church thing. I really want to know how she was wronged in this manner. Like what made her say, you know what? Screw this. I'm getting mayonnaise and ketchup and maple syrup. I wonder if it was like a string of they did not have the book she wanted for months. Like, that's a two years. It started in 2009. This woman at 13 attacks. I mean, she's patient. She's like serial killer-ish. She does one. She waits. You know, 13 over two. Maybe she had hold timers. Maybe she forgot. She forgot. I'll get them. Is this my fridge? And then just puts mayonnaise in there.

Like, wait a minute. Where'd my mayonnaise go? Where did my mayonnaise, ketchup, maple syrup, and corn syrup go? I can't find them at all. You just wanted an easy cookbook. That's funny. They'll get the hint. They'll get the hint. Here's some mayonnaise. You know, all these non-biblical signs of the apocalypse tend to boil down. People don't know how to settle their own disputes. Poorly done conflict resolution. Just fights in church. Oh, man. I'll tell you what. That's a toughie. I think she had dementia. You know, being, I guess, given her age, I'm either going to say I appreciate her vindictiveness at that age and her effort, or she's not right in the mind. So not in the way. Actually, she's not wasting away her golden years sitting out on the couch doing nothing. She's being productive. She's out and about. She's buying the ketchup.

I don't know if I'd say the word productive. She's living life. Well, it's good for the economy. They have to buy new books. Maybe busy. Provides jobs. Somebody's got to clean them up. There's a janitor for the book deposit now. Man, seriously, I wonder. I can't imagine that the Boise State Police have nothing better to do than stake out the library for this chick. Well, can you imagine that conversation? Can you try and take yourself seriously in that situation? Like, all right, there's cops that are supposed to be for murder, robberies. We're watching a library to make sure no one puts mayonnaise on the books. Yeah, they're sitting there eating Cracker Jacks, and the one of them is asleep, and he goes, hey, hey, Phil, look, she's here. That's the gal. Look, she's putting a mayonnaise in there. I mean, how do you answer that when they come up and say, you know, excuse me, ma'am? Excuse me, ma'am, are you putting mayonnaise in there? No. Isn't this the recycled beer? This isn't my fridge?

Just donating to the poor. Isn't this the food bank drop-off? I wonder how many days they staked it out, though. Because, again, like two years, 13 incidents. I mean, she has to space them out. I wonder if that cop's been there every day for like four months. That's true. Wait, sweetie, how'd the search go today? Nothing again. Come on. They probably rented an apartment. He's taking his job seriously like a Fed and a murder. He's had an ice cream truck in there. Don't mind us. You can even come and get stuff from us to put in there. Exactly. He leaves out horseradish right next to the drop. Just a tempter. If they take it. Who's already here? This is convenient. I'm saying it's not the end of the world. No, no. That's just people being people.

It's just dementia being dementia. People being people. All right. Another classic from the weirdasiannews.com. A Taiwanese man has tried to sue his five neighbors for training their Minah bird to insult him. I like him already. Here we go. Wang Han Chin, an electrician in central Taiwan, claims that the offensive bird curses at him, calling him a clueless, big-mouthed idiot. Every morning as he leaves for work, he believes the bird's owners have trained the bird to insult him as revenge. Here we go. After he filed a complaint against him to the police that they were making too much noise. The basis of the lawsuit alleged that the bird's insults caused him serious distress and was the cause of his loss of concentration at work, resulting in bird injuries. He burned himself at work as an electrician because this bird is insulting him on the way up the door. Because he was dwelling on the bird insults earlier that morning. Man, what does that bird have against me? I think he's a little overly sensitive. I think that he's just married to people. Here's the bird talking. Where is Jack? Call Jack. Jack! Jack is a dog.

He's whistling for the dog. Come here. Jack, Jack, Jack. Is that the bird? That is the bird. The doggy says woof woof. What's the putty say? That's just creepy. Hey, you know what? The bird sounds like he's got it right. Maybe the guy isn't doing this. I think so. No, the doggy says woof woof woof. Wait a minute. What's the putty say? Meow. What's the putty say? That was the woman. That's the bird. I thought this guy was Taiwanese. Yeah, this woman appears to be American. You're pretty smart. Wait, is this the video for that clip? Yeah.

Or is this just a random clip of a bird? No, no. This is the bird. Can we stop watching it now? Yeah, sorry. I really enjoy it. I enjoyed it, too. I think the bird's funny. I want a bird now. Yeah. I've got some neighbors. I mean. So here we go. The bird's owners denied the allegations, and prosecutors were forced to drop the charges because there was no direct evidence leaking the bird to Wang's injuries. The bird in question has nothing to say about the accusation and shall be judged by another tribunal beyond human understanding and judgment. What did he call him again? A clueless, big-mouthed idiot. Every morning as he leaves for work. I like it this bird is hanging out waiting for him to walk by. It's like, where is he? Where is he?

A clueless, big-mouthed idiot. You think he says, hey? Hey. Hey, you. Hey, you. Get his attention. Wing henshin. Wing henshin. It doesn't look good to him that the bird says that to everybody who walks by? Just him? See, I'm pretty sure the bird goes quack, and he interprets it as, you clueless, big-mouthed idiot. I think he's just a depressed guy. Or the wife's always calling the husband an idiot, and the bird picked up on it. Yeah, that's what I was going to say, because if they hear it a lot, they could say it a lot. Well, maybe Wing henshin doesn't know English, and so he assumes that whatever the bird is saying is offensive to him. Yeah, it could be poorly construed American. Poorly translated bird. Yeah, very well. Boy, that's tricky. Anyway, what do you think?

It's just birds being birds. Birds being birds. Well, I don't know. If you're looking at the birds' actions, it's just birds being birds. Oh, that's true. If you're looking at the Nancy Pants that is trying to sue him for it, the end is near. Why doesn't they just urinate on their doors? Yeah, it solves everything. Or get into fighting church, it seems. Throw some bandage at us. We need to get all these people into one building and just ask them questions for an hour. Yeah, exactly. When watch the disputes erupt. Separate the church, though. All right, well, I don't know. I think I'm saying I'll be the final decider, and I say that's just people being people. You're offended at the bird. Why are you the final decider? Because I'm the guy with the music, and I say, he's got the power. And I say that you have just enjoyed

a fantastic segment of non-biblical signs of the apocalypse. We're that good. No doubt. I'm pretty sure Ben will fit in a catapult. Who's with me? I've been making one of my garage secret ways. As long as I can be like over there, just pulls down a catapult. For the Mexican government. That's weird. I got an email from Jose. Something like, do this or I'll kill you. Weird. We're laughs. You clueless, big-mouthed idiot. I'll urinate on your door. Leave mayonnaise in your library of deposit box. All right. Well, you've been listening to Live from the Path and our final night on Des Moines Amplified.com. Thank you so much for listening. We really appreciate you spending some time with us. We're not going anywhere. You can find us broadcasting next Monday night at livefromthepath.org from our new studio.

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