Last Podcast On The Left - Side Stories: Jesus of Siberia

Episode Date: October 1, 2020

Ben 'n' Henry break down this week's true crime news: The Potsdam Giants, Siberian Jesus, death by licorice, and MUCH MORE.Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribu...tion 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, I'm Ed Larson. I need to tell you about my new documentary coming out called How America Killed My Mother. In 2016, my mother passed away suddenly from diabetes. Between the cost of medicine, overdraft fees from banks, credit cards, predatory casinos, we couldn't keep up. So I took the insurance money and I made this movie. How America Killed My Mother is available from October 2nd to November 5th for rental and purchase on Vimeo. Just go to HowAmericaKilledMyMother.com right now to watch. There's no place to escape to. This is the last talk. On the left. Side stories. I love your gliss. That's when the cannibalism started. Side stories.
Starting point is 00:00:43 Side stories, yes. Oh, yes! I know a lot of you guys think that Ben Kissel and I detail-oriented. Hyper detail-oriented. Data-driven managers of a media company, but I am going to shock you. Yeah, we're actually more broad strokes. Broad strokes, yes. Except you do know all of the fake politic numbers.
Starting point is 00:01:10 I watch C-SPAN. That's the real fake politic numbers. But they just say numbers. Well, you get to see them talking. And mostly, it's just them going through the red tape to even start talking. Because you got to say, sir, may I be allowed to speak? And then they say, after 18 lashes, you may speak, sir. And then the 18 lashes happen and then you have to ask for permission to apologize for even requesting the idea to speak. American politics are very interesting.
Starting point is 00:01:37 A horrible nightmare that Kissel was boring me to death. Oh, the parliament's fun, though, because they beat each other up, but they're British and frail. I like it because they got floppy wigs on and they yell at each other. That to me, if you want to get me involved, that's how I get involved. And you know why they do that? It's an adversarial system. So the main person, I think they're called the main twerp. They sit in the middle and then the dueling parties face each other. In the U.S., they all face one side.
Starting point is 00:02:01 Because one party's like, don't they have like a party of nerds? Yeah. And then they got a party of dorks. Yes. And then they got a part of thin guys with big Adam's apples. Then they have like actual literal Nazis in there. Then they got the Italian spaghetti junction. Though they have a party in the UK called the spaghetti junction.
Starting point is 00:02:20 Yeah, the Mussolini heads. There's so many things going on in parliamentary politics. And politics continue just grinding on here as if it's just a big ol' sausage machine and just spurting out shreds of the American dream into big intestinal cases. If I was made dictator number one, number one change, it's just the setting. I changed the theater. They face each other. So then they have to scream at each other, look at each other's eyes,
Starting point is 00:02:47 and we'll see who stands their ground. I wish my president, honestly, if I were to even consider enjoying a president, anybody who likes a president is diseased. I think that if I were to enjoy a president, he would need to be she. You would have loved Teddy Roosevelt. The same reason you love Elron Hubbard is because of the body shape. You're talking about vision. Vision for the future.
Starting point is 00:03:14 Teddy Roosevelt, I've actually read several biographies of him. He's a fun guy. He used to swim naked in the lake behind the White House. He used to climb trees and shit. I love this guy. And there was a story one time where, and we'll start the show, by the way. This is the last podcast on the left. Side stories.
Starting point is 00:03:28 Side stories. Teddy Roosevelt also, he would do big game hunting, but he did not like to cheat. So somebody tied up a lion to a tree and he said, I will not shoot that lion. Untie said lion. He let go six feet. Yes, he shot it in the fucking head. Well, I think that the president should be physically strong.
Starting point is 00:03:45 I want to see, especially like, honestly, it'd be kind of fun to be a big, see a big jacked woman president. Sure. Very tall. Big bucksum. Smart isn't smart. Really, really, perhaps? I don't know who you're talking about.
Starting point is 00:03:57 She's an American. She's not even American. I'm just talking about somebody with big gizongas, big legs, just physically strong wrestling, a bunch of tiny men. You know what, buddy? I am here for it in the future. You never know what it's going to bring. You never know.
Starting point is 00:04:11 Speaking of the future, we have a lot of strange stories to get to today, one including Joe Montana in one of the weirdest stories we have ever covered, but also one of the stories where the people involved don't want to talk about what happened as much. This is a weird little side story that popped up. Joe Montana's granddaughter. Yeah. They stopped an attempted kidnapping inside of his mansion,
Starting point is 00:04:36 and I have no fucking clue. They're being a little tight-lipped because I think Joe Montana being who he is. For those of you who don't know, even I know who Joe Montana is, he's a very good man. Four-time winning Super Bowl quarterback with the San Francisco 49ers. He's a legend. And he was born with that name. I don't think his name is like Joe Hinkelbaum.
Starting point is 00:04:54 I think that he was born Joe Montana. Joe Montana. Did you ever think growing up that your last name, I used to always think this is about Kissel, was just a guarantee you'd never be successful in sports? Yes. I was told openly that Zabrowski, when I first got into show business, that Zabrowski was too ethnic to survive,
Starting point is 00:05:11 which I think is really funny. And now, of course, you're not ethnic enough and you're not getting cast. I'm not white. I'm Polish. Yes, well, I don't know if that'll help. Joe Montana claimed this woman, Saadzai Dalzel, I don't know how to pronounce it, kind of just walked into his house and they came downstairs.
Starting point is 00:05:28 They found her holding his grandchild that was in the bassinet. It walked in and pulled the grandchild out of the crib and she was just holding it and rocking it. And apparently Joe Montana and his wife, Jennifer, started to negotiate with this person. Eventually, Jennifer, his wife, Jennifer Montana, physically wrestled the child away from the woman. Okay, so just set that scene.
Starting point is 00:05:48 You're Joe Montana. You're upstairs cooking steaks. His wife, I don't know. She's doing something very fun with her yoga instructor. You walk downstairs. You see this woman holding your nine-month-old- Nana sleep and good night. You don't know if she has a knife in her back pocket. Somebody left my pension and somebody left his crib.
Starting point is 00:06:09 You're just wealthy in Malibu and now you have to negotiate to get your baby back. Tell me why I'm here and not in the cemetery. You have to deal with a Stephen King character. So scary. I don't know where, you know, being a field general, he saw using his vision, his cone of vision. I've seen you play Madden. Of course, cone of vision.
Starting point is 00:06:31 He saw it and he click, click, click, click and he made, you know, he saw the way the runners were going. He saw the avenues and stuff and he just walked in and fucking American elbowed this woman on the side of the head. I don't know if that's true. That is not what happened. The sheriff's department, this is according to their statement, they said a tussle ensued and Mrs. Montana was able to safely pry the child
Starting point is 00:06:49 out of the suspect's arms. On Twitter, Joe Montana is going as Joseph Montana? I don't know, buddy. Old people are weird on Twitter. The whole thing should be banned. He does do the thing where he like signs it off like, love Joe. Every time he tweets.
Starting point is 00:07:05 This is not a letter to your loved one in the Civil War. This is a destabilizing influence on the American economy and the government. The woman is facing charges of kidnapping and burglary. Thankfully, nobody was injured during the incident, including the nine month old child. But what we really need to talk about here is Henry, late fatherhood. Well, I think that's his grandchild. Are you sure?
Starting point is 00:07:28 That's his grandchild. Yes, he's got, they don't know which that he belongs to. He's got four kids. I was looking this up. He's got four kids and they're all kind of suitably like of age. Oh, yes. Grandchild, very good point, but still hard to be taking care of a nine month old at any age.
Starting point is 00:07:42 What are you talking about? He's fucking Joe Montana. Give him the rock. He knows it's not a football. You can't throw the baby. Yeah, you know, he knows that there are certain rules. In every game, if you look at every situation, you're in like a new game, like a new sport.
Starting point is 00:07:57 You know that there are certain regulations you got to follow. And now that you're grandpa Montana, you can't necessarily spike that child when you cross the end zone of having a successful visit to the Sizzlers. You are a man. What happened? I never even went to a Sizzlers. Are you telling me it died before I could go to see it?
Starting point is 00:08:14 Yep. It's down. Really? I guess the hush puppies carry COVID like extremely well. I think the buffet business is really taking a hit. I will not let it die. I will not let it die. I will sink whatever money it is that we make out of the last
Starting point is 00:08:30 podcast venture into a series of satanic buffets. Can you tell me why I've been struggling with the sneeze guard this entire time if the damn thing doesn't even stop COVID? I hate the sneeze guard. I'm always hitting my hand on it. The sneeze guard was always there to make you feel emotionally. But it never worked. No, of course not.
Starting point is 00:08:44 It barely covered the food. And when I sneezed when I was at the buffet, honestly, if you're a successful person, you take your shirt and you put the shirt over your nose and you just sneeze directly onto your body. Oh, isn't that nice. That's how I always protect myself and others. Joe Montana did tweet out because of course you take to Twitter
Starting point is 00:09:02 when your grandchild is almost abducted. It is 2020 after all. He says, thank you to everyone who reached out. Scary situation, but thankful everybody is doing well. We appreciate respect for our privacy at this time. And I just want to say this alone. I just want to say big up to God for giving me the strength to continue and go and really, you know,
Starting point is 00:09:24 make the connection he's doing. I just want to say thank you to my teammate, Jennifer. It was my wife I have sex with and she's been a great, wonderful part of the team. She's always there when I need to have sex when I need to make a new chain of family. And I just want to really thank everybody involved. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:09:38 And what a great, a lucky grandchild that is, other than nearly being abducted, which is just going to be a funny story in the future. You get to have Joe Montana as your grandfather. You can imagine how fun the cookouts are. He won four Super Bowls with the Niners, 82, 85. They know Jerry Rice. And they know Jerry Rice and 1990 Jerry Rice,
Starting point is 00:09:57 the hardest working wide receiver in the history of the NFL. Not the most athletic and not the fastest, but you know what he was aggressive when it came to the off season workout plan. And you and I know. That's what we do. Our off season workout plan because right now we're considered this entire year off season.
Starting point is 00:10:14 And we've really been getting down into the proper podcasting shape, which is my body is slowly becoming the, I'm filling the chair. And I think it's important too because my lungs are getting more cradled with what I'm calling plague meat. I'm not going to lie to you. I had a nightmare about sitting on a plane recently. I'm not in plane weight.
Starting point is 00:10:34 And for those that haven't traveled a lot on planes, even the biggest of seat is not that large. No, it is very uncomfortable. Okay. So except for that one time on, on the flight to Australia, when you slept like a child who recently was given a breast filled with most delicious milk, one could argue I took too many sleeping pills.
Starting point is 00:10:51 Another would argue I slept 17 hours straight in the store. This was absolutely impressed on that same trip to Australia. However, coming back from Perth, I broke a seat. I was forced to sit by the bathroom. I delayed the plane by an hour. And at the very end of the flight, they gave me a bottle of wine and said, we're sorry. That's so nice, Australia.
Starting point is 00:11:07 That was very nice, but it wasn't me doing it. But they were so embarrassed for me. Speaking of people that are too big to live, I want to talk about this story. This is not really even a story. This is a historical thing that was brought to me. Oh, okay. That I am fascinated with.
Starting point is 00:11:21 Really? It's the topic of the Potsdam Giants. You think that we can cover a historical thing without Marcus? You think we're just going to do this? Watch me try. This comes from historyanswers.co.uk. God knows what's going on over there. Now, King Frederick William I of Prussia,
Starting point is 00:11:35 he greatly expanded the size of the Prussian army from 38,000 to 83,000 men. Now, he became known as the Sölderje King. Wow. And his military projects, they paved the way for his son Frederick the Great to turn Prussia from a relatively minor German kingdom into a great European power.
Starting point is 00:11:50 Winner. Yeah, loser to winner. And a part of that was a strain's obsession that King Frederick William I, his father had with essentially something like eugenics. Okay. He loved huge soldiers. Okay.
Starting point is 00:12:04 So he created this thing called the Grand Grenaders of Potsdam. And they were universally known as the Potsdam Giants or the Long Guys. I feel like they just have soup littles on their head and they're just hitting everybody with wooden spoons. Look at this guy. Look at this fucking guy. Wow.
Starting point is 00:12:20 What an outfit. This tallest soldier was a man named James Kirkland. He was an Irishman who stood at seven foot one. And so this started like, oh, it was wonderful. Okay. Also, you can't see the photos obviously because this is a podcast. But the hat on this man is about the half the size
Starting point is 00:12:33 of a red sausage. It's huge. It's like a foot long hat. He did it on purpose. He said each one had to be over six feet tall. And in some ways the Giants, they were given exclusive treatment. They were given fine blue uniforms. And like this cap, this very special grin.
Starting point is 00:12:48 They were being sent to die, by the way. No, they ended up not being, there's a whole shit. The grin in your cap that they were given was over 45 centimeters high to make them appear even taller. They were given excellent combinations and ate the best food. Rates of pay were determined by height alone. See, now that is good because there is a thing called the tall tax.
Starting point is 00:13:09 I pay extra for clothes. I pay extra for pants. I pay extra for shirts. I pay extra for seats. I pay extra for everything simply because I happen to be a warrior's size. But it became a little bit of an intense situation because first the Giants were willingly participating and volunteering. Human beings, yes.
Starting point is 00:13:28 Yes, yes. But eventually they were being bred by him. By him, first of all, pairing the milk in the Giants. He was having the Giants be milked by huge women. Very, very tall women. So that started trying to build up just them naturally. Then he started purchasing them from families where they would go from town to town and newborn babies
Starting point is 00:13:45 were marked with a bright red scarf for identification purposes if they were considered to become unusually tall. And then they would be given to the government. So that's a bit of, I mean, that's sort of a variation of the slave trade, I suppose, in the giant form. One of the biggest, this guy, James Kirkland, how he got involved, he was measured seven foot one and one inch, right? And they gave him this job.
Starting point is 00:14:06 But they knew that the king of Prussia wanted this super huge guy and he was fucking thirsty for it. So what, they made him like a waiter or something knowing that the guy was going to go to the restaurant? They essentially made him like a footman, like an assistant to this Baron Bork, the Russian ambassador to London. But in reality, the offer was a trap. Kirkland was then sent to a Prussian ship where he was like,
Starting point is 00:14:26 just get on the ship, don't even worry about it, get on the ship. How can he even fit on the ship that's so uncomfortable, this poor bastard? I'm mad at Delta and technically that's the highest advancement we've ever had in transportation. They got him on the ship. They knocked him out. They tied him to a bed. What, is he Gulliver?
Starting point is 00:14:41 Yep. And they brought him in and now he had his dress like this and this orange uniform. Did they even have dressed like a freaking, like a child? Like one of these like Honey Boo Boo? And some bizarre competition in South Dakota? I can't get deep into this because I know there's so much involved in this. What happened to him? He just got murdered.
Starting point is 00:14:58 He got murdered. And so why do you feel like this is a fun story? Well, they were used as entertainment for him eventually. They were so precious to him that they wouldn't even let them go into war. So he did, according to the King of Pressure, according to the first, the most beautiful girl or woman in the world would be a matter of indifference to me. But tall soldiers, they are my weakness. Okay.
Starting point is 00:15:25 I can, that's so, he just constantly dropped grapes on the floor and just been like, hey Thurngird, make sure you go and bring that up. No, that's not how he sounded. That's really not how he sounded. He could have been very articulate and very smart. Okay. And they were perceived, he would make them do parades for him with deformed people, tall, turbaned moors with symbols and trumpets and the Grenadiers, mascots,
Starting point is 00:15:49 and then they'd be followed by a big bear with symbols tied to its hands. I understand why the King thought that was fun. I get it. First of all, the bear, if the animal can't hold the symbols by itself, that's animal cruelty. If the animal wanted to play the symbol, that's great. Obviously the bear didn't want to. No.
Starting point is 00:16:07 Isn't a bear enough? Why do you have to have it cling, clanging down the street as well? Well, if it ended up being really good at the symbols, it became the Michael Jackson of symbol bears and we'd see that maybe there is a place for child abuse. Oh, right. Well, I got to say this. When it comes to the story, what I've picked up on there is a long history of the tall man being sympathetic or being aligned with people who maybe have special needs or so,
Starting point is 00:16:28 which is why tall people are very sympathetic and empathetic to individuals who might not be seen as normal by society. I went to see Elton John, for example. You know that story. Yes, we all know. You were put in the disabled section. And I was put in the disabled section because I couldn't fit in the seats and they were yelling, sit down, sit down.
Starting point is 00:16:43 And I was like, I'm just trying to enjoy the show, sir. Me, a woman in a wheelchair and a man with special needs, I got the woman in the wheelchair a large BEL. We had a great time. That's incredible. And it was a great seat. Not quite as good as the one that I paid $700 for, but it was a seat indeed. $700.
Starting point is 00:16:58 But that was on a whim. That was on a whim. Yeah, that was in Nashville. Where it got really notorious is that he tried to make his own tall people by getting his very favorite grenadiers and putting them on a constructed rack and trying to make them and stretching them until they're taller. And he just ended up killing a bunch of them. Yeah, that sounds horrible.
Starting point is 00:17:13 All right. Well, thank you for the history lesson. Definitely pulled it off in a way that, you know, we don't have any, we didn't have any good detail. Wide broad strokes. Broad strokes. Broad strokes. Well, speaking of broad strokes, this story, we would be remiss if we didn't mention it
Starting point is 00:17:27 this week. 9-1-1 is there for emergencies and emergencies only, right? Yeah, but also something that's cool about 9-1-1 is just on the other line. Let's say you're just some like lonely person. Not a sex line. I'm just saying that right on the other line, you have a bunch of fucking barrel-chested boys in blue and orange. You think that's who 9-1-1 operators are?
Starting point is 00:17:47 Barrel-chested boys in blue and orange. Sometimes, you know, it depends on what their, if their name's like Bradley or something. Well, that's definitely what this woman thought. This woman has been charged after calling 9-1-1, claiming, quote, her pussy was on fire. Oh, that sounds like an emergency. It does sound like an emergency. And it seems like she needs to get that pussy a little wet, if you know what I'm talking about.
Starting point is 00:18:06 No, she has a, I mean, technically she would need to have the doctor, and the doctor would just write WAP on the prescription, especially if it was an active fire. I need the fire department, please, because my pussy's on fire. So apparently the woman was extremely horny and, uh... Oh, and she, well, because her emergency service she asked for actually was legit, because she said that she needed them to come over with their hoses and put it out. That's a quote as well. And to be honest, it's the beginning of a penthouse letter, but you'd have to see a fireman
Starting point is 00:18:36 on the street. I'm going to say this to you now, honestly, girls, boys, don't attempt to not shoot your shot at fireman, because guess what? They will fuck you. Yes, that's true. Um, it's not difficult to get a fireman to fuck you. They are the most horny civil service member. I think the fireman...
Starting point is 00:18:51 I don't know if that's true. Fireman? If you fuck a DMV, you could probably eat a DMV, workers pussy for 45 minutes, and they'll love it, right? Well, that's possible. I want to say the next one is... I'm going to say what? What's a civil servant?
Starting point is 00:19:03 Uh, someone who works at the polls, for example, we have the election coming up, so a poll worker, they'll be tired that one day every four years they work. Honestly, if you do see a poll worker, this is a good time to give a poll worker a handjob. All right, the Port Clinton News Herald reported that the 50-year-old, her name is Katrina Morgan, she faces a felony charge of disrupting public services, and in Mr. Menor Church, she faces a charge of making false alarms. Now, apparently, her pussy was not, in fact, on fire. Because a fire, a physical fire, would be an emergency, but it sounds like she just
Starting point is 00:19:33 wanted to be tag-teamed and covered in the slathery, foamy juice of a bunch of rugged men who are up all night. Yeah. Well, maybe... And who knows how tall they would be? Additionally, Morgan asked if the fire department's hose was working, and told the dispatcher, quote, she needed somebody to come put it out with their hose. So please say Morgan was at her friend's house when she called 9-1-1.
Starting point is 00:19:56 And upon officers arriving, she became agitated after being told she was being arrested for making a false report. But she did do that. She did. You know what? I think some people are getting their streams crossed because of that show, 9-1-1. Yeah. And you think being like, no, I hate to tell you this, Ryan Guzman is not coming.
Starting point is 00:20:14 I know him personally, and he's not going to come to your house. Wow, humble brag. Yeah. Let me pick up that name I just dropped. Well, several empty bottles, speaking of dropping, several empty bottles of booze were found at their residence. So they were just getting hammered. Morgan was eventually handcuffed, and the police tried to put her in the cruiser.
Starting point is 00:20:29 She resisted. So they had to use the stun gun. This whole day, I mean, honestly, if you are this chick, you are hammered. You called 9-1-1 being like, my pussy's on fire. You end up getting stunned in the back of a cruiser. Guess what? Kind of got what you wanted. Go hang out in front of the fire department.
Starting point is 00:20:47 That's what she wanted. She wanted them to come to her. What I'm saying, if you want to go get dicked down by a fireman, after you've had a couple of cocktails with your girlfriends, go to the fire station and ask. All women are beautiful. All women are beautiful. I'm just going to say this, though. When it comes to Ms. Katrina.
Starting point is 00:21:03 She is a selective taste. She's a selective taste. So maybe the firefighter that she was looking for, maybe he wouldn't be there. Maybe the firefighter she's looking for is retired. Maybe he has 70, because if you're a 70-year-old retired firefighter, you look at her and you're like, that is a young, hot smoke and woman literally puts you on fire. Honestly, firemen could also really deserve, slip them 100 bucks. He'll fuck you.
Starting point is 00:21:27 Firefighters are not sex objects. This is not professional wrestling. This is not... No, you have a Chippendales version. You know firefighters actually work. I know that. But they also sleep a lot and they make a lot of food and they josh around and they slide up and down the poles and they slap each other in the shower a lot.
Starting point is 00:21:43 Honestly, the idea of being a firefighter is like a boy's dream. It is. It's a real hero. It really is a hero. You run into fires all the time. You've beaten everybody's spoons when they see it. But the fun part is the chili. For us.
Starting point is 00:21:55 That's the fun part. You're talking about Fat Boy firefighters, which is our new show coming to FXX this fall. Can you eat yourself out of having to go fight the fire? Yes. Can you just be like, I'm the guy. I'm here for three days. I'll be cooking for your boys. I saw a couple of guys trying to, at least, you know, my father tried to eat his way out
Starting point is 00:22:12 of being a cop too. It's fun to do. You can do it. Because eventually they just put you on. If you could, I think you might have to be physically able if you're driving the truck. But if you're filling out the paperwork, what does it matter? If you're a chef, if you're old, they call, if your nickname is like old bones, it's okay for you to be kind of fat.
Starting point is 00:22:30 I agree. By the way, I've been watching a great barbecue cooking competition show. It is on Netflix. We've been talking about this grubs. Grubs. I don't know what grubs is doing. Grubs. To be honest, grubs has got the attitude.
Starting point is 00:22:41 He's got the heart, but I don't know if he's got the skillset. I don't think that he does. He's going to Sausage. Miss Sylvie is incredible. If you haven't watched it, watch it. I'm not even, what is the name? The Great Barbecue Bake Off or something. I couldn't tell you.
Starting point is 00:22:53 I just know it's my barbecue story that I watch on the Netflix. Yeah, that's all we know about it. All right. Well, speaking of stories, God knows cult leaders like to spin a few, don't they? You know what it is. You know why? I even funnily embrace cell run harbor, right? LRH, I understand.
Starting point is 00:23:07 I don't know if it's so funny anymore because you do have it on. You wait until the CD that you have of Dianetics gets stuck in your car and you can't get it out of your CD player. I just listen to him so much. It's just on repeat and then you just become him. I know that it's a little problematic, my connection to him, but I just kind of view him as inspiring. Somehow he has kept Scientology KSW for 60 years now.
Starting point is 00:23:29 I mean, we'll see when he comes back. I want to say hello when he comes back. But LRH, in my mind, he had a flair for showmanship and he was self-aware enough that he knew how to properly manipulate people but also keep himself out of it until the very end. True. He really kind of fell apart. This guy that just got arrested is a cult leader who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 00:23:52 He's arrested in Russia. This is a very interesting story that comes from Siberia where a man named, who went by the name of Vissarion, aka Sergi Troup, was just this guy. He used to be a traffic officer, literally used to be my dad who got fired and then he decided I'm Jesus Christ. Okay, so this is my question. So there's a picture of this guy. He's got the long, the quintessential Christ-like look, right?
Starting point is 00:24:19 He looks like white Jesus. Why? But Jesus was not white. Why do they all fall down this classic trope? We're watching the next film documentary. By the way, I think it's the consensus of me and among most of my friends that every single person in that documentary is complicit and they probably all need to be dealt with in some way or another.
Starting point is 00:24:38 They're all villains. I want to watch the next episode. I'm sick of all of them fucking patting themselves on the back for how happy they are that they got out, even though when that Mark dude first hurt his wife was getting her fucking pussy branded. I hate that. He first was like, maybe when you really think about why your pussy is getting branded. Mark is also like, I wasn't into the cult until I realized it was about math.
Starting point is 00:24:57 Literally it was about math to the degree that Keith Reneary is like, I've invented two forms of new math. He just said it. No evidence. He just said it. Anyway, Keith Reneary, he starts with, I'm on the cover of Forbes, nice, crop, tight haircut, then he gets the long flowing locks. Why Jared Leto, whatever that weird cult is that he has started, whether it be real or
Starting point is 00:25:16 not with the long hair though. Why though, can't they think outside of the bun and not have the short hair? Why not? Or not have the long hair? Why not a bold Messiah? Why not? LRH. You're talking about LRH.
Starting point is 00:25:29 I'm not talking about LRH. Why, but why do they always go down this cliche road when it comes to the look? Do people, I mean, honestly, is there a scientific study that say long straight spaghetti hair is somehow more trustworthy than a dome, than a chrome dome? There's something about it because he looks like the, like, he looks like the fake version of Jesus Christ that we see of like, of an already fake Jesus Christ. He just looks like the picture of it. So I think that there's something about packaging.
Starting point is 00:25:56 I think that's what we learn from Scientology quite a bit and also with Nexium as well. The thing about Nexium is that you have, Nexium was really the first proto, like, medical that included the joke of, people call us a cult, like, they thought it was, like, really funny to absorb it and now we see it constantly. There's all these, like, little, like, micro internet cults that now pop up quite a bit, done by, like, half nude millennial women that show the, like, their whole thing as, like, we're a bit of a cult and that, Nexium kind of started that trend. This guy is doing kind of old school, old Christian, I am the new version of Jesus Christ
Starting point is 00:26:34 and everyone needs to listen to me and it just seems to be, it just, there wasn't a lot of information coming out. Right. It was of 200 church members. They lived in this place called the City of the Sun, which is a deep in the Siberian forest far away from everywhere. It looks like an elf community. Oh, and you could imagine the amount of sunlight they get in deep Siberia.
Starting point is 00:26:52 It must be beautiful there. I mean, honestly, I don't know how they were growing vegetables. No idea. But it is a complete, it's a vegan environment. He wrote this thing called the Last Testament, which is basically saying that the world is going to end and we are the only people who are going to be saved. So a bunch of full chapter just on vegan farts. I mean, I can't imagine the Siberian vegan farts.
Starting point is 00:27:13 So Torrop, aka Viseran, he lost his job as a traffic officer. That's why I'm not working at the toll booth. That's why. I'm Jesus. That makes a lot of sense. It's a good swivel. It helps the ego. It helped him.
Starting point is 00:27:27 So now he did collect several thousands of followers as they've continued on. I told the Guardian in 2002, quote, I am not good. It is a mistake to see Jesus as good, but I am the living world of God, the Father. Everything that God wants to say is as to me. So you're basically saying you are God. You're saying that you are God, but you're not a fire traffic officer. It is. I just don't understand.
Starting point is 00:27:52 I just don't know. I don't know how people get. I don't understand how people get trapped except for a fact like what else was going on in Siberia. Honestly, though, if you are going to start a cult, the collapse of the Soviet Union, you have no money. This is a perfect place to start a cult. You know, you know why I think it might work is because you go to a community where it's
Starting point is 00:28:14 kind of like, I've always said this in my own, my own way. Like if every single thing in my life fell to fucking pieces, right? If I lost everything going great now, yes, technically, yes, things are going great. But if my whole life fell to pieces and I lost absolutely everything, I would go away and I would just go to some small town and join a church and pretend to believe in God and like fit into a community in order to have like community again because they help you out. Right?
Starting point is 00:28:41 That's what people do to kind of gain the system. You know, this is recorded though, right? So they can go back and they can listen to this and be like, oh, he's just belching us for money and he really doesn't need it. They won't meet Henry Zabrowski. They will meet Thomas Sanderson, like whatever my new name is. But these people go to this little community where every single thing is taken care of, right?
Starting point is 00:29:01 They don't have to worry about the day-to-day. I get it. They just go and they give over all of their rights and they give all of their money and all of their possessions up to this super dinky, honky Jesus and then they go and they dig up the rutabagas every day and that's all they have to do every day. If you're a person that is high anxiety or maybe your life has also fallen apart at some point or you don't know, you arrive in this community where they're all like, oh, so happy to see you and then you don't understand until you get into the middle of it, especially
Starting point is 00:29:34 if you're a woman, that you become a breeding factory. Well, this is of course where the scam begins. You never see someone at the peak of their success or the peak of their life or the peak of their self-confidence. They never join the church or the cult. It is because these cults and these churches, it's not that they prey on broken people. It's a perfect storm. So just always remember that and of course, naturally, if you don't join the cult or if
Starting point is 00:29:59 you don't join religion, you will ultimately get better anyway, but then you get better in the end of the church. Especially if you do your own work and you work on yourself. But anyway, Viceroyan claimed Jesus was watching over the people from an orbit close to earth. Very nice, very close. And that the Virgin Mary was, quote, running Russia, didn't do a very good job because the Soviet Union collapsed. So I don't think the Virgin Mary should really be a leader, but there you go.
Starting point is 00:30:26 Nothing makes me more thrilled than seeing cult leaders in jail. Like seeing them look, look how defeated and sad he looks in the fucking sweats. Doesn't that complete the circle? Don't they have to go to jail? Well that's what we've been saying also for all of our different cult series that we've covered all of the years about how you confirm their persecution complex by closing the loop. But you have to come close a loop. Eventually you have to come close a loop because these people are just going missing
Starting point is 00:30:51 into the middle of the forest and all of their money is gone. And eventually some of these people's families I imagine are like, where's my son? Do you really imagine that though? I think so. Yeah, that's true. The only insight I have in Serbia is from the documentary World's Toughest Prisons. So maybe I don't have the greatest insight into what the actual people of Serbia think. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:31:15 Those prisons are really tough though, by the way. There is a, you know one good thing you could probably look up to, I don't have any other information but this. There has been a rash of Asian stars, like TV stars, legit stars that have committed suicide over the last week or so. This is, it is very, very strange. I feel like we hear these stories all the time with pop stars over in Asia, in China, where they get disappeared around 26 or 27.
Starting point is 00:31:45 Japanese actors say Asina was found dead in her Tokyo apartment on Monday, her management company confirmed. They believe to be able to do suicide. This happened on Monday last week. Okay. Then also on Monday was a Korean actor, Oh In Ye, also died, they believe that it was a drug overdose. And then Alien Hwang, who's a Taiwanese singer, actor and media personality.
Starting point is 00:32:07 He was also known as Hwang Hongsheng, was found unresponsive on the floor of his apartment by his father on Wednesday morning last week. And they all share the commonality of celebrity at a very young age. Celebrity is still a relatively new phenomenon. This is my understanding. Obviously in Asian culture, standing out, being a star, that's not exactly as accepted or as rewarded as we are here, as it is here. Well, they have way more of a, from what I understand, I actually, the person who speaks
Starting point is 00:32:33 here- And again, side stories, LPOTL, gmail.com. If you have any insight into this, not from a descendant of the Germans and a descendant of the Polish, let us know what you think as far as that goes, that conversation. Please, honestly, explain what we get wrong because I'm very interested in this topic because we've talked about, earlier last year, there was a rash of parasocial relationships gone wrong. Like the idea of fan to follower, like bleeding and followers were killing several people.
Starting point is 00:33:03 Like that one young girl, that was like an e-girl, they got murdered by the dude that she was talking to online. There was a couple of those back and forth. And this is another one where it's like, are they just getting worked to death? Well, you know, in Korea, they are very, they have, like the way where BTS came out, like that band, BTS, they kind of come from like pop star school. It's basically if Ron Perlman, that's the man who started in sync, I believe Backstreet Boys, he was behind the boy band phenomenon of the mid 90s.
Starting point is 00:33:36 He was horrible, he stole all their money, he ended up incarcerating, God knows what else he did. It would be like if he actually had government power. Because all of these things, keep in mind, all, they don't have independent networks. My understanding, again, side stories, LPOT, we have no clue, you tell us. My understanding is most of the entertainment is government funded. So a lot of these pop stars are actually more getting paid by the government. And a lot of the things that we have here, our main export, we talk about it all the
Starting point is 00:34:03 time, is entertainment. And that's one of the areas where the Japanese and the South Koreans specifically have really been trying to shine and sort of propagate their social beliefs via entertainment. We've been doing it forever. And so it's really intense. In Civ 6, that's a culture war. So maybe that you're trying to win a culture war by trying to imprint people with your ideas.
Starting point is 00:34:25 Exactly. So maybe these people, maybe these entertainers got out of line or something. I don't know, but it is strange to think of three celebrities of roughly, when you think about it, it would be like, if Curly, it's a middle, it's from like 25 to 35. 36 is the age range. And I just wonder if it is straight up corruption or is it just the grind of being a superstar over there? We know Wolf of Wall Street.
Starting point is 00:34:50 Who the hell is funding a lot of these projects, too? I don't know. I don't know. And it would be like, this story is literally like if Heath Ledger died, but then Ryan Gosling died two days later, and then Jake Gyllenhaal died too. Stop it. I'm not even saying it. I'm not saying it.
Starting point is 00:35:04 It did not happen. Don't you dare. Pete Heath forever, but that's how big the story is and it's, yeah, it's just so unique. Anyway, this is a story just for me. A man has died after eating a bag of a bag and a half of licorice every day. So be careful. I want, no, not me. Marcus Parks.
Starting point is 00:35:22 Oh my God. This is Marcus. Don't even say that. He likes licorice. He loves all of the candy. But he doesn't eat much of it. I know. He does not eat a bag and a half.
Starting point is 00:35:30 Wait, the way I've seen, when I've gone into his hotel room after a night, you and I, all night. We've got vodka and we've got joints screaming at each other all night. Don't see Marcus all night. Go into his hotel room filled with candy wrappers. Candies I've never seen before. Yeah. Don't know what they are.
Starting point is 00:35:46 All like, yeah. Monster, Clunch. And yeah. And Gribsons. All his weird British bullshit that people keep sending him. And then they open up. It's just one wrapper. Because he told me he opens up one candy at a time and he takes one bite.
Starting point is 00:35:57 One bite. And a small bite. It is, it's perverse. It is somebody who I think that would make- Obviously, these are two fats accusing a skinny of food crops. He's a toffee. He's a toffee. He's been on the outside, fat on the inside.
Starting point is 00:36:11 I think we all know that anyway, it is dangerous what Marcus is doing and we'll have to add to his pressure on his mind. Yeah, absolutely. Well, we're never going to mention this to him. A Massachusetts construction worker, he loved black licorice, which is interesting. Not my flavor, but that's okay. He ate a bag and a half every day. Man, every day.
Starting point is 00:36:31 Well, it's supposed to heal, it's actually supposed to be good if you have an upset stomach. So he might have uncontrolled, like, grid or something that he wasn't taken care of. That must have been like when we were in Ireland and we had the Guinness poops, which just comes out as extra Guinness. So apparently this threw his nutrients out of whack and it caused the 54-year-old man's heart to stop. Jesus Christ. So this is according to Neil Butala, a cardiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Starting point is 00:36:56 How sad is this in the age of a pandemic that you just get killed by licorice? Or she says, Dr. Neil N-E-E-L says, even a small amount of licorice you eat can increase your blood pressure a little bit. What? Do you not know that? I thought licorice was, like, neutral. I thought black licorice was healthier than red licorice. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:37:18 I'm a red vines guy. It can cause a dangerously low potassium and imbalances in other minerals, called, I don't know. This little, as two ounces of black licorice a day for two weeks could cause a heart rhythm problem. What? Especially for folks over 40. What?
Starting point is 00:37:35 Yes, indeed. This is like a controlled substance? It's crazy. This is according to Dr. Robert Eccle. He's over there at the University of Colorado. He says it's more than licorice sticks. It could be jelly beans, licorice teas, a lot of things over the counter. Even some beers, like Belgian beers, have this compound in it.
Starting point is 00:37:52 So be very careful, you might think you're living a pure life, just eating your candy every now and again. I eat my licorice every night. Be careful. But, you know, to be honest, I've always been anti-licorice, so I'm fine with us. Do you know where this guy collapsed? Where? Do you think, what do you think would be the saddest place to find out that you collapsed?
Starting point is 00:38:12 Where, like, if I was dead and then you told me afterwards where I was found? Yeah, like, where did they find you? The bathroom of a hardy's. Close. They collapsed while having lunch at a fast food restaurant. So, very sad. Well, he was eating something else. I know.
Starting point is 00:38:27 Man, someone should have told him to get, like, because now they do, and they shame you with the fast food places, because now they're like, you know, like, instead of getting fries, I'll have the side of apples, please. Oh, everyone loves a hamburger and apples. Oh, yeah, that's what I think of every day, because I am a 36-year-old man with the mind of an 11-year-old. I love apples, thank you. She responders, did CPR, and he did revive, he was revived, however, the licorice was
Starting point is 00:38:51 too strong. He died the next day. Did they pump the licorice out of his stomach and save it? I don't know. It was like when Jenny McCarthy gave CPR to the guy in basketball, when the hot dog just comes in and out of his stomach. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember. That's a funny movie.
Starting point is 00:39:07 Man, she was a hot tamalean at-film, huh? She still is, although... I don't care if she's crazy. Oh, I don't really care. I mean, she's definitely driving that one guy completely insane, but he's from an easy place. He's insane anyways. That you are signing up for that.
Starting point is 00:39:19 You know she's crazy. So Jeff Beckman, of course, he works with the, he's a spokesman for the Hershey Company, which makes the popular Twizzlers licorice twists. He says, all of our products are safe to eat, and formulated in full compliance with FDA regulations. He says- And beg people to not be afraid of licorice. He just says everything should be enjoyed in moderation.
Starting point is 00:39:40 Indeed. Okay, if you didn't have a phobia of licorice, you can add that right there. You can just put that right in your brain, and a new phobia has been born today. But yeah, you know, it's like one day, oh, eggs are bad for you. Oh, next day, bags are good for you. I don't want to talk about the egg that had my mother, Matic. It had every house mother in the 90s, Matic. Eggs every week, Oprah would tell us something different, and I still don't know the freaking
Starting point is 00:40:05 answer. Meanwhile, you know, then Oprah was being fucking inflated and deflated, and I got to listen to you about eggs all day. I can't believe that. I'm seeing her reading your fucking egg magazine, Oprah. I remember what Oprah did. Holy shit, get out of my kitchen, Oprah. Funniest Oprah episode ever.
Starting point is 00:40:21 Not to- I know she needs the plug. But she used to do an annual show where she would give away stuff, she would give away cars, cruises. She did one show they did where they said, we're not giving away anything, we're donating all of the gifts we were going to give you to charity, and then people were so mad, they almost rioted. Here's another story that is going to imagine unfold deeper into the future. Brittany and Armando Barron, New Hampshire man forced wife to behead a lover.
Starting point is 00:40:52 This is a very intense story. A New Hampshire man and his wife have been arrested and charged with the murder of the wife's lover. This comes from heavy.com. Okay. According to Keen Sentinel, 30-year-old Armando Barron had discovered that his wife, 31-year-old Brittany Barron, was having an affair with 25-year-old Jonathan Emerald on December 19, 2020, if they're going through her phone.
Starting point is 00:41:14 So you got to understand, this isn't, you know, to people and couples out there, to people dating right now, to people dating during, especially during quarantine, it's got to be tough. If you'd look on your partner's phone and you find something you don't want, I'm going to say a little bit that's on you. I have just heard, and I'm not sure if this is 100% true, perhaps it's more for top app, but this is about privacy. We had Joe Toscano on last week's top app, Automating Humanity, from the Social Dilemma.
Starting point is 00:41:39 Check it out. Apparently, the police are, you can, you don't have a Fifth Amendment right. You're not protected from your thumb print. So if the cops are like, open your phone, they can take your thumb, put it on there, but you can't put in the password. That, that's illegal. It's very weird. That's true.
Starting point is 00:41:56 But you can also, there's another work around with the face recognition too, is that if you don't look at it, or if you pluck your eyeballs out. Oh, so I've also heard of spouses taking their partner's thumb as they sleep, opening up their phone that way. Isn't that scary? What is this? A fucking Mission Impossible movie? It's insane.
Starting point is 00:42:11 If you don't trust your partner that much, I don't know. Have a conversation. So Armando Baron, he then, this is when it goes off the deep end, which I can understand. He's mad. I get that he's mad, sure. He's gone insane. He's gonna, I'm not going to say that it's, I think that he knew right from wrong, but he definitely had a moment.
Starting point is 00:42:27 I'm going to say a bit of a Monday moment. You are a little too sympathetic for this man. I'm not really. I'm really not. It's just, he just went so over the top that it's like, once you go into supervillain world, then it's like, it takes a chorus of people going, whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy, whoa. At first I am sympathetic. I said, that's really sad.
Starting point is 00:42:45 I'm so sad. But it's not sad what happened. Armando, that's really sad that your wife cheated on you. Let's go have some beers. Let's talk about it. Sure. That's when the sympathy ends. Right.
Starting point is 00:42:54 Armando Baron, he lured his wife's lover to Annette State Forest in Ringe in Southern New Hampshire using her cell phone. Think about this shit too. Again. So he's going to fake it. You know, you know that you're fucking, you're, you're fucking a girl that is married, right? Right. And you know he's got a husband.
Starting point is 00:43:10 And then all of a sudden you get some like random texts being like, baby, wouldn't it be funny if we fucked down deep in the woods? And the camera just zooms out and it's Armando's face. Yeah. I'm going like, beating off, just thinking about it. So you get this. And so you texting, you know, you're used to being a fuck boy. So you look at this text.
Starting point is 00:43:27 All right. I'll fucking along. All of a sudden, Emeralds arrived. He shows up. Baron jumps up from behind a tree, assaults him. Oh, no. Uh, Baron then ordered his wife to shoot Emerald. But she said, no.
Starting point is 00:43:42 However. Mice and men. This is insane. He's like, shoot him. Shoot him, bitch. Shoot him. And then she says, no. However, she capitulated when he ordered her to slit Emeralds wrists, which I honestly
Starting point is 00:43:53 think is almost worse. So she said, no to the simple death of being shot in the head. You're gone. And then made him cut. But I imagine they were light cuts and she's probably crying and so many grabberies like trying to make her cut. But then he just shot him in the head. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:06 Right. Baron shot him, then shot him in his chest twice. Okay. Then once in the head, the Baron then took Emeralds car and drove him to a campsite in northern New Hampshire, stopping on the way to buy lighter fluid, household cleaner, tarps and a shovel. And also, did they go to the serial killer store? They did.
Starting point is 00:44:22 I'm going to say right now, if you are cleaning up a body, here's a free tip. Buy some like bag of Snickers and like a gallon of milk or something just to throw them off. And just say like, oh, can't wait, can't wait to go to this family reunion. I got out dressed so dear tonight. Just say that out loud and legally you're not culpable. They literally bought everything that you would buy in a badly, poorly written script. It was at the campsite that he then ordered his wife to decapitate Emeralds head from his body and bury his head in bodies separate.
Starting point is 00:44:54 According to the affidavit, Armando Baron ordered her to do this so Emeralds identity couldn't be identified by dental records. Oh my God. There's so does this. Okay. This man obviously is not kept up with any modern science or any modern technology. This guy's still upset. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:10 I see. I don't think he's doing a lot of good deep planning here. He then demanded his wife to text her friends and say that she would be leaving for a while to clear her head and then he just left her in the woods with two guns and say, all right, you just stay here. Oh, right. And he said he was going to return a week later to come get her. Well, what was she going to do for that week?
Starting point is 00:45:28 She was going to go. I don't know. Yeah. She might have turned into a bit of a creature there. But then they found her and according to the Sentinel, two hunters saw Britton Baron at the campsite multiple times in the days following Emeralds killing and they didn't do, you know, they, they said, hey, you can't be here. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:47 So please say that she was alone at the campsite and armed near near her was a large object covered by a tarp and covered with sticks and branches. And this is what she's told the officers when they arrive. She says, I'm in big trouble, which I do believe is an accurate way to say that. To be honest, she was forced. He beat her very badly before it even began. He beat her. He had total physical control.
Starting point is 00:46:13 And this, this guy went fucking crazy. Yes, he did. He's a total scumbag. And obviously probably, uh, Miss Brittany Baron with probably this relationship was abusive and that's why she, that's why she was cheating, obviously was trying to get the train. Cause sometimes people cheat just to find a way to get the hell out. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:31 Armando, not good. Brittany Baron told police that she burned the belongings of her boyfriend and wiped down his car and was waiting for her husband to return. He was heading to the campsite with their nine year old daughter and dirt and concrete. Uh, really just that's, that story is so much sadder with the nine year old. It's so scary. It's a scary story. The couple is set to be arranged Friday with Armando in the Sheshire Supreme Court, Superior
Starting point is 00:46:58 Court rather, and Brittany in the Koo Superior Court. If this story is, if it holds up as it sounds, I feel like this woman was a bit under duress. Um, when this man was killed and, uh, so we'll see what happens with the courts there. And I will say straight up again, if you are a part of it, you are stuck in quarantine with somebody who's very, very dangerous. This is the time to maybe try to figure out how to reach out and do I could put right here the, the hotline for the national domestic violence hotline. Like honestly, if you are in the middle, like sometimes you need the, the fucking the kick
Starting point is 00:47:32 in the butt. Do you dial 1-800-799-7233. All right. Oh, this is a fucking wild story. But you know, that's obviously going to plan pan out, but we'll see, just take a fight. It's hard man. Be, you know, being cheating on is rough, but honestly, especially if you're a fucking piece of shit, I'm thinking I'm certain it's going to be revealed that he was a piece of
Starting point is 00:47:51 shit. I would think so. I would think so. And even if he wasn't, uh, the reaction of course is far, far too intense. Flip it, make it a cuck situation. Have a little fun. Why not? Brittany Barron's attorney, Richard Guerrero says there is no reason to deprive this woman
Starting point is 00:48:05 who is presumed to be innocent of her freedom at this point. He goes on to say she had no idea what else he was going to do. So we shall see and we can follow that story as a matter of fact. And who knows how that is going to turn out. All right. Well, I think it's about time for Hero of the Week. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:48:25 So I don't even know which one to choose. So Henry, I'm going to let you choose the landmine. You know about this rat. Well, the landmine rat did his job. Very cute. So there was a rat, uh, it was, it was sent out to detect landmines, which apparently are all over the UK. Did not know that.
Starting point is 00:48:43 Well, we left them behind. Ah, so the seven year old giant African pouched rat on Friday was awarded a British veterinary charity's top civilian award for animal bravery after sniffing out unexploded landmines in Cambodia. Interesting. In addition to 39 landmines, the heroic rodent discovered 28 other items. It was across 1.5 million square feet since he was trained by a poppo, a Belgian charity that works with programs in Angola, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Starting point is 00:49:14 So isn't that cute? He's a hero rat and he's super cute. That's, I want to see, this is an opportunity to do like a dark version of like ratatouille. I'm so happy with that idea. I had a rat in my Brooklyn apartment. I, they are so brutal, but like, imagine like, they were mean, imagine doing like a dark animated film about a rat. Like it's like essentially ratatouille meets hurt locker.
Starting point is 00:49:41 Oh, I like that idea. That's really what this would be. The PDSA head, Jan McLaughlin said, the work of the hero rat Magua and a poppo is truly unique and outstanding hero rat Magua's work directly saves and changes the lives of men, women and children who are impacted by these landmines. So thank you hero rat. We also have a story of MTA workers speaking of subway rats. For some reason, I just want to make MTA workers heroes of the week.
Starting point is 00:50:08 It was discovered right below Grand Central Trax. I mean, honestly, they are on the front lines of all of this bullshit always in New York. Yes, of course. So apparently they had created a bit of a man cave down there. It had a microwave. It had a refrigerator. Travis had a lot of problems with us calling in a man cave just because it was underground. And he said it's more of a break room.
Starting point is 00:50:29 Travis Morningstar, of course, finding a way to be critical, very intriguing. So the investigators found wooden cabinets that appeared to be specifically designed to conceal the TV and futon along with a pullout cot sitting just outside the room. That's cute as hell. And a half empty beer sat in the fridge. So MTA workers, just for being you, you get here of the week. And then this week, just lastly, I can even read this off from here because our listener email and hero have sort of combined.
Starting point is 00:51:00 Yes. I'm just going to do this letter from the listeners because we did a whole episode of them last week and we're going to be doing a fuck ton of listener bosses at the end of the month. Send them to outside stories LPOTL at gmail.com please because we're getting smoky this month. We want to hear your shit. And I love the stories that are closer to being real than not. Yes.
Starting point is 00:51:20 To be honest. But this is a story that's a real hero. This is a we got reached out for somebody who works at a place called vehicles for change, a nonprofit based in Hale Thorpe, Maryland. And Hale Thorpe, Maryland. I know I said that incorrect. It's got to be close. Hale Thorpe.
Starting point is 00:51:38 It's almost Baltimore. Since 1999, we have been empowering families with financial challenges to achieve personal and economic independence through vehicle ownership and technical job training. That is so crucial vehicles. We forget we take it for granted. If you don't have a car, you don't get to go to work. This is a really important thing, especially in a place that doesn't have like an extensive mass transit program.
Starting point is 00:52:01 The long and short of it is that what we do is we take in donated vehicles, fix them up at our auto repair training program full circle, which is so they train people to work on cars, which is incredibly important and then award those vehicles to hardworking families referred to us by social service organizations. We've awarded over 6,000 subsidized vehicles, 75% of those recipients report increasing their yearly earnings by $7,500, like $7,500 within 12 months. Nice. It's really, really cool.
Starting point is 00:52:29 What's the name of the organization again? It is called Vehicles for Change. Our auto repair training program full circle serves men and women who have had an interest in the field, who have had faced barriers in their education. 91% of our full circle graduates are formerly incarcerated citizens, 100% are placed in full time positions and less than 2% have returned to prison. That is incredible. Great work.
Starting point is 00:52:52 Those are the stories we need to highlight as well, and we didn't get $20 million to call it good news, did we? Remember that? What's his name? You know, I don't even think that show is coming out. I think that after the fallout from that and then he just took that money ramp. I like John Krasinski, but it wasn't difficult. It's hard to just sell the concept of good news.
Starting point is 00:53:11 Yes. Vehicles, so vehicles for change. So yeah, support this nonprofit. So yeah, we at VFC need support from the community now more than ever because we want to help manage the economic fallout brought on by the pandemic. The vast majority of the vehicles we award actually come in as tax-deductible donations and the pandemic has been a hard challenge for many nonprofits, which is true, which is why we're doing every Saturday on your house, twitch.tv, slash, last podcast network.
Starting point is 00:53:39 We come and watch us host a hangout, watching horror movies all October, trying to keep it spooky, but also we're trying to raise money for various charities. And the first one is hashtag be an arts hero, which is more, it's not fully a charity, but it's an organization that is working towards generating legislature to help the theaters across the country that have been destroyed by the pandemic. These are people that are really trying to help anybody within the performing world on all sides of it because theater, as you know, it is going to be drastically different in a couple of months.
Starting point is 00:54:14 And I'm talking about comedy clubs, bars where there are performances, anything like that. And of course, you know, when you think about theater, you think fancy boys and the girls on stage, but the people that make these theaters run are just working class folks who are just like, they're just, it is so funny. Actors don't make a lot of money. People that work in the theater, people that work on all of these levels of theater don't make a lot of money.
Starting point is 00:54:37 So we need to help out all the working class people out there, putting all these things together. And yes, as Henry said, we will be helping out a different charity every single week and as well, we'll be hunting your home, which is going to be super exciting. It's something to do on a Saturday and gets his drunk on the inside. You're going to see it's be as spooky as possible, trying to keep it spooky or monthly. Can we say what the first movie is? Yes, we're doing it is their first hosts are the hosts of last podcast on the left with
Starting point is 00:55:03 our significant others, each one of us, Puffin and Jerry, and we will be watching the movie White Zombie. This movie is classic. It's been a long time since. I love Bella Legosi. Oh, he is the best. See and he was tall, so he was viewed as very attractive. Yes, and he was wasn't he is, you know, all right, everyone, thank you all so much for
Starting point is 00:55:24 listening. You had to live every day knowing you get up tomorrow, man, October begins. So at least we got October. It starts tomorrow. Two days. Two. I don't know. Tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:55:34 It's amazing to me that we're in October. Honest, live your October life. There's some people that don't keep it spooky, but you know what, keep spooky working KSW this October. Basically, this is the month where COVID is cool because it's not really because it destroyed all of our plans. Right. Right.
Starting point is 00:55:50 Right. I want you to love. All right. Love knowing that we are carrying the black flame of Halloween deep inside. And yes, it's difficult to really just subject it onto people like we normally do each month, each normally each October. But now the goal is to project it from behind the mask and then just laugh. Laugh outside your window maniacally once a day, honestly, do that to keep your neighbors
Starting point is 00:56:14 on their toes. And then if people yell at you, you can say that you're doing it for essential workers. Yep. Yep. Yes, indeed. They used to do that in Brooklyn. They used to just bang a bunch of pots and pans at 7 p.m. when all the nurses got off work.
Starting point is 00:56:27 And they're probably like my head hurts. I've been working on that. I don't know if it really worked, but it was a good sentiment. All right, everyone. Thank you so much for listening. Hail yourselves. Hail Satan. Magus Dalatians, everyone.
Starting point is 00:56:36 Hail me. Yes, indeed. Thank you. Thanks for being here. Thank you all for the tall fighters. That is Henry Zabrowski saying that. So they're very nice of you, Henry. I didn't say that.
Starting point is 00:56:44 No, man. Okay. This show is made possible by listeners like you. Thanks to our ad sponsors, you can support our shows by supporting them. For more shows like the one you just listened to, go to lastpodcastnetwork.com.

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