The hosts recount painful encounters with traveling healers: one promised a 12-year-old with a learning disability a cure, failed, then blamed the child and his mother for lacking faith. They describe healers at a music festival whose claimed cures did not last, and Pants, who has MS, declining their 'help' with the answer that he and the Lord are fine — a response one host calls his favorite of the whole episode.
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