Talk About That - Dog Mayors, Hockey, and Fools

0:00I'm Christi Graham, host of On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse, and I recently interviewed one of our pilots whose plane was hijacked in Africa. I encouraged myself with that reality, that at some point this is going to end in two hours. It'll end good if I'm on the ground somewhere walking around with the testimony. It'll end great if he pulls the trigger for me, it will end great. That day, Jim, experienced the power of prayer and witnessed just how mighty the name of Jesus is. If you want to hear this full story, tune in at Samaritan's Purse.org-flashlisten. Life audio Today I'll talk about that. John has no idea how ice hockey works and ponders if a cat could get elected mayor. Meanwhile, I wonder if a big butt helps you or hurts you with a hula hoop and tell you the creepy story of the first power-practor. Plus, the conversation about oversimplification and why critical thinking is more rare than ever. Today's episode is not sponsored by stools, when you need to sit down but also want lower back pain. But first, award for my actual sponsor.

1:04I'm Kristi Graham, host of On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse, and I recently interviewed one of our pilots whose plane was hijacked in Africa. I encouraged myself with that reality, that at some point this is going to end in two hours. It'll end good if I'm on the ground somewhere walking around with the testimony. It'll end great if he pulls the trigger for me. It will end great. That day, Jim, experienced the power of prayer and witnessed just how mighty the name of Jesus is. If you want to hear this full story, tune in at Samaritan's Purse.org-flashlisten. Health insurance rates in America are surging, leaving millions without affordable options. But Christians don't need to waste money on a broken system. Christian healthcare ministries is an alternative to health insurance at half the cost. With CHM, fellow believers contribute monthly to help pay each other's medical bills while lifting one another up in prayer. It's financial and spiritual support when you need it most. Join CHM today by visiting CHministries.org-flash-wellness.

2:05That's CHministries.org-flash-wellness. Johnny, it's a banter town time. Let's talk about that. Hard to say to you, my thing. What a banter city. We're big enough. We're small municipalities, really. But town already was a stretch. An incorporated area? Right. We've been in the uncorporated areas. Oh, I've driven through many. They don't even have a water tower. You make sure you wonder if you're with it enough to have a sign. Maybe you are incorporated. You know what I'm saying? I get it, you're not a corporation. But to say unincorporated, but then to put a sign up, you're going a long way to say that we don't have anything. Yeah, we have enough to have a sign. I went to my buddy, Josh Need. He did a show last night at Zainey's and we had lunch together. He worked with me when I was hosting.

3:07Back in my hosting days, at Side Splitter's Knoxville, 2010 or 2011. So I was brand new going there to go into Knoxville for 25 bucks a show. And he had his Comedy Central presents out and so I really liked his comedy. So it was cool to get to work with him. And he was so nice. But anyway, we hadn't touched across paths since then, but we touched base on Instagram and stuff. He remembered me, which was really cool. But we had lunch yesterday and then he said, come to the show. Well, anyway, one of his jokes last night was about doing shows in tiny towns. He goes, I did shows in a town that was in the south and they had elected a dog, the mayor, or four terms in a row, a different dog for it. He goes, that means that somebody along the line goes, that town's old and poor generations. That means somewhere along the line, like somebody lost to a dog. How bad are you? Apolitics are like, you know what? We're going to get fickles of chance. Right. You don't bother. You're out pickles.

4:08I want to see. I want to see. Wow. Let's see what Shelton has. Yeah, it's a, it's a whole different thing. But yeah, so that's true. Like we have, what's funny is we have somebody that runs for some city council thing. And she's run twice. I think it's a woman and she has her big dog in the photos on the thing. And I bet it gets her votes. I bet it's like, look at that dog because you kind of sort of go. First of all, you think even if it is her, not, I mean, not that I think it's the dog, but I'm saying even if it is really just voting for her, you go, well, she has a dog. She must be a good person. Right. You don't see anybody ever sent him out with their cats. Right. They might lose your votes. I mean, no offense to everyone listening. No, but Yikes. Norm McDonald, me, Norm McDonald has a special called Hitler's dog. And the whole idea is like, Hitler had a dog that loved him. Even though he's this monster, he had a dog that he did. He had a dog that dog probably was like, that's a pretty good guy. Yeah. I'm always excited to lick his tiny mustache. Right. What a weird, what a weird thing to think about, but it's true.

5:10I don't know how we got into that, but here we are. That's our show. I am. Johnny, I feel like the need for speed that you are traveling more. And I know people don't want to hear all about travel all the time. No, but this is a little excessive now. It's getting out of hand. To the point where I told you today, I was like, I need to start blocking off some chunks of the calendar, which there's a great problem to have, I guess. When you start doing comedy, you're like, I just want to be busy. And now it's like, we, we've gotten really busy. This was the second weekend of this past week. It was the second weekend of the live and laughing tour, which is my bus tour. Right. We're doing these big churches. And Curry gets to come along. She, she's tentatively like sure. And you know, we got the little back cabin. Yeah. In these buses, she has a little, we have a little privacy, but it's still, and we're right over the wheel. So it's so fun, like trying to sleep when the bus is moving. Like, you're not. Yeah, I thought about that. You know, there's a couple times where it's like, are we driving through a field? Like, what are we doing? You know what you mean?

6:11You need almost like a makeshift square, almost like trampoline. Something that gets up off the floor. It's just suspension. Yeah, so that it's suspended above so that it doesn't, I bet you this has already been thought of and disproven. Bus somebody who rides in a bus all the time. Somebody's already thought like, I'll build my own suspension system within the bus. Yeah, maybe not though. I don't know. Look, even the zero gravity chamber or something. Yeah, somehow that the road, I mean, because you are over a double axle. Yeah, right. So. And I'm performing a double axle, which is going to be huge with the East German judges. A triple sound cow. If you will. Why don't we even talk about the fact that the triple sound cow sounds like a horrible like medical experiment gone wrong of like animal husbandry. We've made a triple sound cow. Run. If we and terror. We don't talk about the fact that the USA women's and men's

7:12hockey teams won gold. It was a great moment. And what's wild is the men were playing against a superior team. They just had a hot goalie. Like the shots on goal were insane. I think the Canadians had 42 shots on goal to our 27 or something. And we some of those blocks that got did were insane. It was like Jedi. Yeah, he just reaches back and like last second deflects it. And we just got it. We've got hot. We had a hot goalie. And then in the overtime period, we just got a freak play where we, you know, it was three on three in overtime and the Olympic rules, which a lot of people don't like. But we got to get eventually. You got to get to the end of the game. Right. So what was the final score? Two to one. Two to one in overtime. Again, I'm going to be that guy. You think these goals should count seven points. People would be more interested. Maybe if you had like seven. So the first one goes for six. And then you get a free shot in the goal for an extra. Or you can go with the goalie for three. Again, think about it. Hockey is a very popular sport now. No, I'm not. I'm not missmarching hockey.

8:14You said missmarching. Busmarching. Beesmarching. I'm not missmarching hockey. I just made up a word. I'm missmarching the English language. No, I just think I always prefer sports that have a little more scoring. With the final score is zero to zero or whatever. I'm like, man, well, it can't be in a gold medal match, of course. Right. But it could be in a regular match, right? No. Well, no, that was it. They always have overtime. So you have three scores. You have win loss. I guess there is a tie. No, win loss overtime loss. I think they go into you have a win or a loss. Maybe the Olympics are probably two. But I think in the do they win lost tie overtime loss? Can't you tie in the NHL? Maybe. What do they do? They just send you home. We need to look that up because we're going to get people screaming. No, I like this. Let's leave it. Let's leave it hanging out there. Guys, if you're feeling enraged right now, in NHL games result in a tie. I'm asking the phone here. I don't want to know the NHL schedule. Do you want to ask Claude? Because you don't know what you're doing over there. Yeah, do something. You tell me, by the way, that you have no idea about AI

9:16and we have a lot of work to do. Do you think this podcast will be more successful if we relied on AI more? No, listen, you have to know. You're like, nothing could make this thing more successful. Nothing. We are pinnacle of what have you. Here we go. Watch this. Watch this. Do NHL games go into ties? I think it does. Can't NHL games go into tie? How do I tie a tie? The wins are not. It's going to give you a. That was not. Yeah, you're going to educate my world. The world's artificial intelligence, am I right? No, they cannot. Since 2005, six seasons, every regular season getting a must have a winner. Yeah. See, that's what's wrong with America, man. See, that's all the winner. So there are three. There's still three scores though in your record, though. Okay, so there's three numbers in your record. There's win, loss, overtime loss. So overtime losses count differently. So it's almost like a tie. So overtime losses are a little bit

10:18I don't know how it works, but there's no way to know. We've already asked AI all that we can ask it. I'm telling you, if you're a hockey fan, you've already turned this off and you've decided never to download it again. We are done. But I will say it was a moment of pride, even though, you know, the US or whatever, is like it's, I don't feel this all like acroony towards Canada. Like good grief. Come on, it's Canada. But I will say like, Canada considers themselves like the hockey country. So if you beat them at their own game, it had been 46 years. Yeah. Since we won the gold hockey. It's wild. Yeah. The women have won way more recently than the men. Last time the men won was Miracle on Ice. That's how long do you leave the miracles? Yes, I do. Al Michaels, what a legendary call. What a legendary call. Anyway, congrats to the US man and women. And are we the greatest country in the world? By the way, if you have the points about our episode so far, how would you send those to us, Johnny?

11:18Hello. I talk about that podcast.com. Also, if you go to, if you go to talk about that podcast.com, just the last point. That's where you find all of our archived episodes. Almost 400 episodes for you to choose from and just have that nice spring break trip coming up and just binge to your heart's delight. And if you're never going to listen again, send an email to goodbye. Goodbye. Talk about that podcast. I still want people to send me some street jokes, like some old jokes, what's your favorite old joke that you tell in your family? Not a dad joke, but some like a story joke or something. Because I'm still looking for, always looking for content for joke about that. So I told a dad joke this morning. What did you tell? It didn't. I wouldn't say it landed great. Did your family ever laugh at you? Yes. Like mocking you. But I'm saying, they ever go, aha, dad's funny. Yes, sometimes. This was more like, I know what was it. I think I made something I wrote in Rick Roberts class. Something like something about, I thought about buying some ancient armor, but it really wasn't my strong suit.

12:20You know, that's about what I got. That's brutal. And then I said, oh, if Johnny would have said it. No. You know, I'll be freaking out. And Laura goes, if Johnny would have said it, everyone wondered why he's a professional comedian. Anyway, you were a part of our life this morning. Life's a strong suit. Guys, it's not my strong suit. I'm known as a great sumo wrestler in certain circles. All right, let's see now. This is where we move on, John, to the ad portion of the show. Let's hear from a few of our fine sponsors. I'm Christy Graham. Host of On the Ground was Samaritan's Purse. And I recently interviewed one of our pilots whose plane was hijacked in Africa. I encouraged myself with that reality. That at some point, this is going to end in two hours. It'll end good if I'm on the ground somewhere walking around with the testimony. It'll end great if he pulls the trigger. For me, it will end great. That day, Jim, experienced the power of prayer

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14:26That's CHministries.org slash wellness. I want to say, too, though, if you're interested in coming to one of my shows, we have dates popping up. Every day, it feels like we're adding new cities. But I am in Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 8th this weekend at the Looney Bend, which is a comedy club. These comedy clubs got real whimsical names and then Perseboom, you know. The Looney Bend. The Chuckle Hut, the laugh bucket. The laugh bucket. The laugh stop. There's a lot of those. Zany's was a big one, you know. Zany's has clubs here in Nashville and in Chicago area. But anyway, I'll be at the Looney Bend also on March 8th. Come see the Githos tickets. That one is close to a sellout, so you left, though. Do you remember when you first met something you told me about that if you were ever going to open up

15:27your own psychic reading location, what you would call it? The happy medium. Yeah. So if you were open to a comedy club, what would you call it, they'll wonder? I don't know. Gut busters. I mean, I don't know, like. Gut busters. Gut splitters. Side spl- There's already a side splitters. Side splitters is already there. But that's, that's great. Gut busters sounds like the food is going to be. Well, if you ate it crystal. Yeah, or something. We serve sliders. Try not a sponsor. Not a sponsor. Maybe they are, though. Well, let me awkward. I do like a good sack full of crystals every once in a while. Every now and again, you do. You crave them, and then you immediately go, what am I going to do with that? I don't know. I don't do that. But they're. And I got to get to the rest room. Yeah. That's, anyway, fun times. Hey, guys, it's that time. Oh. Yeah, it's my segment. It's one we call they talked about that. I actually shared this in my sermon on Sunday.

16:28We're doing a series called The Versus Versus. So it's about proverbs. So the fool versus the wise is the general. But that's not like we all want to be like, that guy's a fool. But the truth is circumstantially scenario-based wise, proverbs would say that you can be foolish in one part of your life. You can be wise in another. It all depends on how you show up. So we're always in process involved in the fool. Yeah. So it's easy to be someone who's like, maybe you're wise in relationships, but foolish in money. Or maybe you're foolish in the way that you react and anger, but you're wise in the way that you have empathy towards others. So we all want to be one thing. And that's just not really how it works. And so proverbs would say that. So you have these two things that are versus one another. And I was talking about the simple versus the anchored. So the proverbs talks a lot about the simple person. Which sounds very insulting to us. So I really went through like what that means in the scripture, which it talks about being naive and gullible,

17:29but it also talks about it being intentionally uninformed. Oh, sure. So like, I'm choosing here not to challenge or to question. And as we talked about the idea of anything, like you don't have to be insecure about the things, the things that are worth believing that are strong, they need to be scrutinized. Right. And it's okay to let them stand without just la, la, la, la, you know, covering your ears and remaining intentionally simple minded about something by not hearing another side to it. So let the right thing be the right thing regardless. So anyway, you can always hear those, by the way, at church at pleasantgrove.com. If you wanted to hear something from somebody. Doing guys. Yeah. But I quoted Dietrich Bonhoeffer, which he wrote this in letters from prison. So he's in prison before he dies. And he's talking about, this is just interesting. This exact kind of, our person who's caught in this exact kind of foolishness. He says in conversations with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person,

18:32but with slogans, catch words, and the like, that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the foolish person and the definition here in German would be one with ideological dependence and blindness. That kind of person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. You can talk about somebody as a front row seat for that kind of thinking. He's actually going to lose his life from that. But I think that what we don't always see is the downstream effects of being unwilling to hear more than one side. And I made the joke about sometimes on Instagram of how, back in the 90s, we had this crazy, it's not going to think it's nuts, but this crazy thing that we used to do. And I mean, I wouldn't even know if people today would freak out about it, but it was called critical thinking. And that is that we would listen to more than one side and then try to weigh and base upon their merits

19:33and not just hear the one side that we wanted to hear the most. But the simple are those, and I think we all do it. It's just simpler, and I talked about why we do it. I think we do it because it creates a false sense of both safety and rest. Yeah. It means like, I don't have to deal with that worry some idea that maybe there's something here I'm not seeing. I don't have to keep looking. I don't have to keep digging. Was the purpose of digging anymore? Since I already know what's under there. Yeah. So I don't actually go and look for it. And then I just think we're tired. So it lets me have rest. I stop being intellectually engaged on the issue now so I can rest. Yeah, we're the most overexposed information generation that's ever been. Until the next one, which will be. Right. It's like a fire hose coming their way. But we, we know everyone's opinion around us. Every family member, we know every political opinion, we know. Yeah, I remember when the first goal four happened and we could see like,

20:33missiles going over into other countries. It was a televised war 24 hours a day. And even then people were like, this is doing something to us. You knew like this is going to make things weird. And it did. But now it's just like, people watch murders on Twitter now. It's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, we just know too much. And so yeah, it's like you said, as a defense mechanism against that, we have to protect ourselves by trying to make the world feel simple. And so we oversimplify very complicated things. And what that does to me is it otherizes people. It makes there's an out group that is, you know, we've drawn the circle now. I figured it out. If you don't get it, you, you're other. And so that's simpler, but it also gives us what we have. Yeah, I was, I told them out of conversation with someone and I won't say the exact words, but I, of course, I said a few things and they go, oh, you sound like a, and they labeled me something I'm not. And I was like, interesting.

21:34So you think anyone who has this minor idea must fall into this major category. Right. Without any of the other considerations for all the other things you already know about me. Yeah, yeah. And I think again, those things you, you could insert you sound like a right winger, you sound like a liberal, you sound like a, you know, whatever. I mean, so how fast it is that that label simplifies. Yeah, that's, I mean, it's a stereotype stakeholder and how labels just, they're like time savers for people. Yeah, I can put you in this box. It makes you bite size for me. I can just be done. We can either decide to move on with our friendship or not based on this thing that I put a little sticker on you. Well, I can fast speaking of stickers that I have to fight. Sometimes I'll see a bumper sticker and it will promote something that I do not agree with or believe in. Yeah. And it is hard for me not to make, I guess, derogatory inward sort of conclusions,

22:35like roll my eyes, huff a little bit at that quote unquote person as opposed to just, you know, that is at that inward battle of like, competent conclusions about people who also have the image of God, like if we believe that they're maybe someone else is participating in dehumanizing language, but now your temptation is to be humanized them. Yeah. Because they're participating in that. What's hard though is certain things, and I think this is where the tension is, there are certain things that cross a line in society to the point that they're very, they're very way of doing it shuts down, again, critical thinking and co-mutual conversation, meaning like you can't, again, you can't negotiate with terrorists, right? Yeah. If they're a goal is to blow you up, you're not in good faith in a conversation. You can't ever know if you can trust. I think there are certain ways of being, if a certain ideology is for the purpose of hating,

23:37for the purpose of only dunking, only putting down, and basically, if you can ask people like, hey, is there anything I could say right now that would cause your opinion to be different on this? And they go, it doesn't matter what it was. I don't care I would never. Then we're not in good faith. There's no, like at that point, I don't need to dehumanize you. Also, I'm not going to, I'm not going to get us anywhere through the methods that I believe in. And that's where a lot of people today struggle. Because then you end up being silent when you don't want to be, you should be speaking out. I feel this way about social media. I'll just confess that. There's a lot of things I could say on social media. A lot of things. And, you know, it's not because, I mean, everybody's got their research. Everyone's got their things. I really try to read a lot of articles about the actual things or read the actual speeches someone made or whatever. And yes, I have social media as well. But trying to let me my primary source. But like, who do I, and I want to be a part of the grander conversation, right? I want to affect change. Maybe that could help people if we talked about it.

24:38At the end of the day, I know that's not a medium in which that's going to be received. It's just going to echo into someone's chamber, whether they want to hear it or echo into their chamber. As now we all know that John is X, right? And... Sir Well, John. Yeah, yeah. Rest in peace. And so like there's this, for me, that's one of the reasons we started the podcast is to actually be able to have real long-form conversations. And I think sermons are the other way for me like, hey, you know, not many people are going to hear this. But this is the right time for us to search the scriptures. I'm going to end the sermon for me. Is it... There's an idea that I need to be true to that calling, right? I don't need to just take off my gloves and start punching here. I need this as supposed to be the gospel. And so that causes me, and that's what the gospel is supposed to do. It forces me then to not take just what I want to say, but to try to find out what Jesus actually says, right? And try to make that the content of the gospel. So I know that's not what you do when you preach. But for me, it's about what Jesus says, Johnny.

25:38And I think... I'll work on it. Yeah, well, that's why we've called you here today. Oh, do you better, so... John, let's do my segments to wrap up the show. Let's start with old jokes. Call it joke about that. John, a guy is out golfing with his buddies. One of them says, Bob, you're 60. You're not exactly Brad Pitt. And your new bride is 25. Gorgeous, funny, the whole package. How did you pull that off, Bob? Shrugs and says, I told her I was 85. I think that's a good idea. Because I mean, if you're... If you're 60, but you tell... Great. Nate has a joke on one of his specials years and years ago that said he's out of shape, but what he has been telling... What he's been doing is telling people that he used to weigh 300 pounds. He goes, because I don't look good, but I look really good for a guy who used to weigh 300 pounds. And that's someone he used to weigh 300 pounds. He's right. It is a good gimmick. John, a husband is talking to his friend about the vacation. He and his wife just got back from.

26:40Oh, you should have seen this place. It was absolutely gorgeous. Where did you go? Well, it had this beautiful beach. Just outside the hotel. The sand was almost bright white. But what was the place called? I mean, it had a huge swimming pool, a spa, and everything. Yeah, but what was the name of the place? Hang on, it's just the tip of my tongue. Something flowery. Name a flower at Rose. No, not Rose. Something else. Tulip. No, keep going. Lily. Lily, that's it. Turns to his wife. Hey, Lily, what was the name of that place? That's so stupid. It's like a... It's like an old Bobville sketch. Yeah. And that one, that's a definitely... It was on first, because... Finally, John, I was getting a haircut the other day. And the barber kept asking me the same question over and over. As he's cutting my hair, he says, So how's your mother-in-law doing? I shrug and say, she's fine. Five minutes later, he asks, How's your mother-in-law? Now I'm getting annoyed, and I answer. I told you, she's fine. A few minutes after that, he asks, yet again. How is your mother-in-law doing? I finally snapped. Dude, I already told you twice. She's fine. Why do you keep asking about my mother-in-law? He chuckles and says, Oh, don't worry. It's not because I actually care. Every time I mention your mother-in-law, your hair stands straight up, and it makes it a lot easier for me to cut.

27:44That wouldn't apply to you for a two reasons. You love your mother-in-law. I don't have any hair. Oh, come on, y'all. Yes, yes. Let's do this week in history, John. We call it talk about, then. John, this week, 1989, Michael Anderson, Godwin, a convicted killer, once sent it to the electric chair, accidentally electrocutes himself to death while sitting naked on a metal toilet. Repairing a set of earphones connected to a plugged-in TV set, sentenced to the electric chair for murder, Godwin got his sentence overturned and appealed on appeal and commuted to life imprisonment. He was spared the electric chair only to die on an electric toilet seat. Unbelievable. That's one of those like. Dude, you can't. You can't. That's one of those like ball-don't-lie situations, right? You know, we said you may have been commuted, but you didn't, did you get commuted? You know, I- Electrocommuted.

28:44I am. John, electrocommuted. Okay. You know, there's bad calls all the time in volleyball. Yeah. And so the next place, so that I happen, and people will say, the ball don't lie and I'll lean out, go guys. The ball lies all the time. So let's not. Yeah. I think it's just a big coincidence that this guy got electrocuted on the toilet. Could be, and be careful when you're repairing your own headphones, I guess. Yeah. Now it'd be Bluetooth, so there's no way you could really. That's true. You couldn't. You can't get too many. Maybe a little shock. It's a man ahead of his time. John, this week, Adam Rainer died in 1950. The reason he makes the list is, he was an Austrian dwarf slash giant. I had no idea of this guy's history, okay? So this is wild. At age 18, he was only four feet and one quarter inch tall, qualifying him as a dwarf. Then a sudden growth spurt, probably due to a pituitary tumor, caused him to reach a height of seven foot two inches

29:45by age 32. By the time of his death at age 51, he'd reached a height of seven foot eight inches thus making him the only known person to have been both a dwarf and a giant. However, sudden growth left him with a host of health problems making it difficult for him to stand. So he went from a dwarf to a giant in. How many years do you live? He lived to be 50. Wow. He still lived to be 50. Yeah. Because I would think that would take a real toll on the old body. That's what it basically says in 50. Yeah, that's me. So he lived a life at a dwarf. That's something else. The cause of the thing I remember to that would be other than I used to watch Ripley's believe it or not. All the time as a kid with Jack Pound Ripley's believe it or not. That guy, I remember that show. Okay. But then I remember like when I was a kid, I was a fan of the NBA, my whole life. And the Washington Bullets when I was a kid, what a horribly named team. They changed their name when Washington DC was the murder capital of the US. They were like, maybe bullets. Let's go with wizards. How about wizards? No. Now it's the witchcraft cap. No, it's not. But the Washington Bullets, when I was a kid, had the tallest

30:46and the shortest player in NBA history on their team at the same time. They had Muggsy Boogs who was five foot, something. Five foot, two, a minute ball. Who's seven foot, six or seven. And at the same time, can you, and they always post for pictures together. And it was a wild sight to see them in a picture together, obviously. But yeah, a dwarf and a giant in the same life. It feels like a book. Yeah, I can't believe you've never heard the story. Yeah. Adam Rainer. My great big little life. Yeah, wait. John, you need to come on in. This needs to be a project. I think I just need to drop whatever else you're doing. Get on it. I've done, I just sent an email to my agent. I quit. You're going to get sued by the families of this person. Okay, John, the Hula hoop was patented this week, 1963. Did you, were you able to do a Hula hoop? Could you do it? I could do a Hula hoop for a minute. I could never get it going. I don't know what it is. My daughter could go for like 35 minutes. Maybe that's like, I got no rhythm. I got no. You got the blues though. That's the thing you would think like, I've got kind of a big butt. Like you would think the butt would keep it, keep it going.

31:48But meanwhile, your daughter's so thin and she's able to just, maybe put it on your butt. Maybe you put on your hips there big. You do, but I'm saying like you would think like, your butt hips would help. I got down here in my thigh. You know what, Johnny? 1957, John, uh, John Anderson brought back a bamboo exercise hoop, quote, from Australia. So this was already a thing. The exercise hoop was already a thing and she called it a Hula hoop after the motion used by Hawaiian dancers. Her husband showed it to Arthur Spud Mellon of WAMO and they agreed on a gentleman's handshake. They would share in any profits. However, the company would cut them out of the deal and they got nothing. This feels like a WAMO. WAMO is right. Hup don't lie. Situation because they technically took it because it was already an exercise hoop from Australia. They come here and be like, are we calling it a Hula hoop? Did you change anything? No, it's just a round. Right. Circle of plastic. There's was probably made of bamboo. It's kind of like a complete boomerang and just keeps going around the person. That was the whole,

32:48as they call it a boomer hoop. It was what they called it in Austin. The FAD toy began, the FAD for the toy began in July 1958 with 25 million plastic hoops sold in less than four months. And they probably cost a penny. More than 100 million units sold in two years. Mellon later claimed he invented it and applied for a patent in 1959, which was granted March 5th, 1963 again. The WAMO guy? Yeah. This feels... Yeah. Let's see, Mellon claimed the patent. Even though he had an invented it and the other guy took it from Australia. This feels, this is like, this is almost like that thing for your watch the founder, the McDonald's guy, and how it was kind of shady, the beginnings of McDonald's. I mean, this feels like that where you're like, all right, dude. I mean, that's the thing too about when you're supposed to be pro-big business. There's no referee. It's just like, well, look, the market decides it does it. No, there's all kinds of near-do wells in the mix. I'm gonna have some integrity, guys. Come on, guys. Let's have some ethics here.

33:50John Leather Burbank. Not Leather. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I got to get these glasses prepared. I got to get my contacts in. Luther, John. I'm a named Leather. That would have to be a great, I'm naming a child. Fire have a child, which the odds are really low right now. It's not looking good for you. Luther Burbank, John, was born this week, 1849. He was an American naturalist. He created hundreds of new breeds of flowers, plants, and trees, including the Russet Burbank potato. In 1873, which launched the Idaho potato industry. So this is the father of potatoes, as GMOs, meaning he can have constructed a new potato that had dark brown skin and few eyes. So that's what it was all about, because a lot of these potatoes come in, you got to cut them all out. There's a lot of damage to the potato as far as the edible portion of it, I guess. It's the most widely grown potato in North America still. It is good for baking, mashing, and french fries. So we have Luther, not Leather, Luther Burbank, to thank for those delicious french fries that you love.

34:53I think you can hardly count a potato as a vegetable at this point, the way we eat them. It's covered with butter, salt, it's fried, it's, I mean, it is delicious. When people go, well, I had my veggies, did you? That's not. No, I don't think any of the potato is veggie. What is a vegetable? What's your favorite kind of french fry? I like a good shoestring that's fresh cut, and then put in peanut oil. They used to have those. Remember the steak escape fries? Did you get it at the mall? Yes. Okay, yes, I like those. And it's Charlie's steak. Steak sandwich, company, whatever. Well, those are the kind of the same kind of fries they have at five guys. Yeah, five guys. So five guys would be the more our broader audience would know them. Five guys. I like five guys fries a lot. I think it's the best. And they give you a lot of them. Oh, they feel different. Don't ever go to five guys and order a regular or large. What are you doing with your life? Well, we'll do it for the whole family. Let's, okay, yeah. We're going to get a small, it's a pound and a half. But it's hard for me to be a good crinkle cut, too. That's true. We talked about that the other day

35:54about how it can hold the salt, it holds enough catches. You get the sauces on there. They don't have a good waffle, too. They hang on there. It's like having a big butt with a hulu. It hangs on to all the sauces and the salt. Just like that. Yeah, it's not because it's counterintuitive because hulu just drops to the ground when I can. I can't. Johnny, you would think so. You'd see me dance. I'm a great dancer. I couldn't believe it. I've seen the rhythm. Maybe I need to involve a potato or some kind. John, finally, this week, Daniel David Palmer was born. A lot of births and death on this episode. I apologize. It'd be morbid, but he was born. So we celebrated the birth here. He was the founder of chiropractic. And this is why he makes the list. He's Canadian born American magnetic healer. Founder of chiropractic treatment in 1895. Palmer claimed to have received, quote, received chiropractic from the other world via a deceased physician named Dr. Jim Adkinson. So if you thought chiropractors were quacks before.

36:55Now that I tell you this, that the guy who invented it said, I heard about it from the other world from a dead guy. He believed that the human body had natural healing power transmitted through the nervous system. And that if anyone organ was affected by an illness, it was merely not receiving its normal, quote, nerve supply, which he dubbed a, quote, spinal misalignment or subluxation. Now, listen, I think chiropractory has a use in our culture. But also, you always meet these people who think that everything is cured by an adjustment. It's almost like the oils people. Oils may have a use, but like people that go like, I use these oils and Dustin Nickerson has a bit like, I found my biological father. Thanks, Elderberry or whatever. So yeah, there's limits. And now that I know that he discovered it by, you know, some weird conjuring. So say he goes to chiropractor like, for all her shoulder and back doesn't play. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, understanding her if she has strep throat, no, you know what I'm saying? Like that, we treat ourselves.

37:57We, with some other elderberries. Right, here's some bleach. No, yeah, I don't know. I think that there's, I think there's, you know, when I was... It's all things in moderation, right? And that's what we're talking about, yeah. And yeah, when I was younger, I'd have been way more like traditional medicine. My wife works, you know, worked in the ER and all the things. And I think we're both kind of the place of, yes, traditional medicine, yes, especially for emergencies. Also, there's a lot of homeopathic or a lot of chiropractic or other things that could be beneficial to you in a holistic way. Well, it's always at the opinion of like, if you're in a mall and somebody is giving away something free, if you'll just fill out a survey with a clipboard that he's holding, I'm immediately suspicious. Right. And that's what chiropractors did for years in years. I mean, I don't think they still do it, but like for decades, they'd be in the mall. Yeah. Hey, you with the hunch. I've got a hunch we can help you. Hello. Hey, now. No, my buddy used to have a bit about scoliosis. He would be like, scoliosis feels like, it would feel a lot more whimsical if it had an extra only.

38:59Like if your doctor's like, you've got scoliosis. You'd be like, well, that sounds bad. Anyway, shout out to Gary Fletcher, who's, yeah, that's a great joke. That's funny. It's true. You do an extra only and you'd be okay. Yeah. That's scoliosis. Scoliosis. Scoliosis. Anyway, that's it for the history, John. That was good. Yeah. It was very informative today. No, you think it is an educational piece. We give you some laughs. We give you some learning. We give you some literature. Little bond offer today. Uh-huh. Yeah. It's a good day. Yeah. So I didn't try to pronounce any of the German words. You did the right thing. I don't do German well. Sounds harsh. Three. The tag we've spoken, it's very. Right to us. Very harsh. And that was like someone's wedding vows. Yeah. Right. Yeah. It's like, do you take this man? It's like, ooh, shouting. I don't know if I do. I don't know if I do. Yeah. So, hey guys, thanks for always being a part. You should check out more episodes that talk about that podcast.com. Send us an email as always too. Hello, I talk about that podcast.com. And as always, you should go to Johnny W's website. J-O-N-N-I-E-W.

39:59dot com where he would love to see you at a show. You can love it. So many shows. We would love it. Live and laughing tour. Go to my website, Johnny W. Become or AwakeningFoundation.com. That's where you can find just those two days where it's going to be me and a couple of other conversations on the old bus tour. How do people not know that it's live and laughing? Live and laughing. How do they know? How do they know the difference? Laughing is living, John. That's so stuff. What if I come and I wanted to be live and laughing? Will I be turned away at the door? Dead and weeping. Dead and weeping tour. Just one of the areas. That's the cross the street. Yeah. That's if we can't sell tickets. We're in a dead week. Sorry about that. Well, guys, there's a lot of fun, man. Thanks for all the times. It really means a lot to us that you guys join us as we approach, by the way, episode 400. So thank you guys for going to the journey with us. Let's do the part of the journey again next week, Johnny Hero and talk about that.

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