Dumb People Town - DPT Mini - Rev Dr. Christopher Stackhouse - The Golf Ball Plague
Episode Date: August 21, 2020This week Daniel, Jay and Randy welcome Rev Dr. Christopher Stackhouse to town to hear a mysterious story of someone is leaving surprises all over a town....
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Skypains Avenue Hey, townies.
Welcome to a Friday episode of Dumb People Town.
Population U.
Population Stackhouse.
Dr. Reverend Christopher Stackhouse, a.k.a. Stack.
This is a long time coming, my friend.
I'm so happy you're on the show with us.
I'm smiling ear to ear right now.
How are you, sir?
I'm great.
I'm great.
I'm excited to be here.
Listen, I was trying to get my little beats to work because I felt like if I had these
big headphones, I would stick out.
But boom, boom, boom.
We all got big headphones on.
We're ready to talk to you.
For those who maybe don't follow necessarily.
I think we need to tell.
Normally, we would get into this like after the break of this story.
But it's our show.
It's our show.
We can do whatever we want.
I want people who might be like, who is Christopher Stackhouse?
And I'll tell you, we'll explain to you.
And actually, let's do it together.
So how we can do it in a certain way.
So I spoke about this and I think we spoke about it on this show too.
I think we did it on a Patreon. Yeah. I think we did it on a Patreon.
Yeah.
I think we did it in the actual one.
So,
so Randy and I were hipped to in,
it was the George Floyd Memorial in North Carolina.
Well,
it started before that when my daughters wanted to do something,
they felt like we got to do something about what happened to George Floyd
and just the injustice in this world.
We have to use our voices. We want to figure out a way, but we don't want to go out in a protest
with large numbers of people. So they said, can we make signs and hang them up on the reservoir
around Silver Lake where I live, which is down by my house? And they did. And the signs got ripped
down two days later. And we were like, what happened? And they were very sad. And I said,
go back, make a bunch of signs, and we'll put them up there together again. We cannot be silenced.
And then we found out that somebody was actually ripping the signs down.
It wasn't the city.
And, you know, we found out on nextdoor.com and my wife said, that's terrible.
And then someone was like, oh, great.
Your kids are virtual signaling.
And, you know, great that you could take your pictures for Facebook and Instagram of you standing in front of her. Well, basically, the woman was insinuating that the only reason why you were having your daughters do this was so that you could take a selfie in front of it.
So then I joined Nextdoor.com and then I went off on this woman.
And then on our podcast, our daily podcast, I read all the things that I said, all my interactions with this woman on Nextdoor.com.
Unloaded.
Unloaded just to see if I was overreacting or not.
So that made it, so that's
what we did. And that's all I heard until the
weekend of George Floyd's memorial,
which he had a beautiful memorial
service in North Carolina.
I think he had one in Houston. And was there one in
New Orleans or no?
Yeah, Houston, Minneapolis
and Houston, South Carolina. Okay, Houston,
Minneapolis, North Carolina. And someone who
was listening in North Carolina once said,
hey, texted another friend of ours,
said the Sklar brothers just got name-checked
in George Floyd's memorial.
And we went back and found it.
And I was there with my kids and we listened to it.
We watched your whole speech.
And I'm just going to say, first of all,
it made them feel so good
because now I'll let you tell your side of it.
But when I heard our name and the way you spoke it and the speech is so beautiful, I ran around the house like we just won the NBA championship.
And you kept yelling, this is way better than that selfie.
Right.
I was like, thank God I get to do a selfie.
So here it is.
I don't know how I found the Dumb People Town podcast.
When I found it, I loved it. Yes. And then coronavirus hit.
States were shutting down. I had a lot, you know, that I was dealing with, with with the church and other responsibilities.
Wife pregnant with twins. And so in your uh dumb people town podcast you told
me that you know you told the listeners that you were having a new podcast every night so i was
like all right cool so i started listening to it every night it's kind of my last kind of wind down
of the day and um and so as i was listening to it, I was hearing your description of what happened with with your daughters and the size.
And this is also the same week that I'm getting ready to do the eulogy for George Floyd. who is trying to show solidarity with people who they don't know, haven't met, but still feel an affinity to because they understand, you know, that we're all human and that we respect each other. that somebody would tell you who's doing the right thing that no you're just virtue singing like how
dare you try to get on your high horse and tell me that i i'm wrong for tearing the kids
size down that's right so it just didn't sit it didn't sit well with me and i said i think what
we all want to know is that we that our voice matters, particularly when it comes to to change, you know, things that are substantial.
So I said, I don't know, I'm all the way on the other side of the country.
This may never even get to their ears or whatever.
But if there's some way for me to let people in a broader way know that small things matter yeah don't let people
convince you that they don't that uh so and that's and that's how i came together so i i put it in
in the eulogy um and then and then i got on twitter and i was like hey just to let you know
because i wanted your daughters to know i wanted your daughters to know. I wanted your daughters to know that small things matter.
They do. The moment
we think small things don't matter,
the moment... We're in trouble.
Yeah. Hate wins.
So I was like, no.
And then we started this
conversation here, but
it was a good
moment for me to hear that you
and your daughter and people from over there cared about people that they didn't know about.
So I felt like the least I could do was reach back out.
I mean, we put it on our Twitter page.
On our Twitter, it's our tag tweet at the top.
It's got almost 20,000 views, people watching that speech.
The speech was unbelievable.
Because the speech is about, and I highly recommend people go back go back and watch
it you can watch the clip of the shorter clip on our thing and then it'll inspire you to watch the
whole speech but the section that we were mentioned in and your girls were mentioned in words was all
about in this difficult moment this difficult time and i think this is why we connect with you and
why you connect with dumb people town is the moment where we talk about hope. How do we have hopefulness in a time? How
do we look across the desert and see just tiny little things that are letting us see, okay,
now there's maybe a little change going on here. Now we're heading into maybe a new way and a new
way of life. And I feel like to be part of the hopeful part of the speech is like, that means
we achieved everything we've always wanted to achieve. And you kept on saying, I just, I looked in the horizon.
I saw God's hand coming this way, moving this way, doing a little thing.
It wasn't huge.
It's a small thing, but I saw it coming this way.
The small things matter.
And I so badly wanted to go back on nextdoor.com and tell the woman who was yelling at me,
you better duck because God's hand's coming this way.
But I did not say that because...
Okay, I mean, I wouldn't be mad at you if you didn't.
I'm actually surprised that you didn't.
No, I was like, sometimes God reaches out with a hand,
sometimes he reaches out for a clothesline.
Either way, you'll feel it.
You will feel it. So i just love it so much and so we started
dming each other then we text each other and i told that story on my thing and you said you know
your do you say your mom saw it the the yeah my mom church members uh the radio show that we do
i've been sharing it with with everybody because i i think everybody because I think it's worth sharing. So like you said,
it is a story of hope. And so this to me is the culmination of all of that, which is,
this is us doing Dumb People Town with you, reaching across the country. I said this to
people, and this is the truth. I feel more connected to you, a preacher, a black preacher in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
In the South.
In the South than I do with older Jewish relatives who vote for Trump because they think he's
pro-Israel, which he's not.
But the point is that this is the example.
We are just people, and this connection is deep, and we are friends for life now because
of this experience
i love it i love it absolutely well should we get into a story uh let's take a quick little break
let's take a quick yeah and then we'll take a quick break and then we'll okay good good good
we'll be right back with with dr reverend christopher stackhouse aka stack we'll tell
you how to follow him you gotta follow him on twitter i want to see his twitter just we told
it and he rose up uh on the side of the screen. Stick around.
Make a sound.
There's more Dumb People Town.
Hey, guys.
Welcome back to the show.
We are back and we want to mention to you guys.
I don't know.
Is this coming up before a thing?
I don't know.
Maybe not.
I'm not sure either.
Either way, we're going to start doing a bi-monthly live show which means the date's probably been announced so if we've announced right now you
need to go find out because if you've learned anything from our first show on the 15th it goes
fast tickets go fast uh you of course can follow dan and his night the good night show is a nightly
podcast he does uh the way we got connected uh was dumb people town but then the way dr stack
reverend stackhouse got connected with our story was through our daily podcast, Gladbroke Country, The Virus Edition. Check that out. Stack, how can people follow you on Twitter and whatnot?
I want to make sure.
Yeah, and I got my tickets for Dumb People Town on the 15th. I love it.
Can not wait.
Can not wait.
I want to hear you laughing on this thing.
Well, now you get to be a part of it.
And can they listen to your radio show, too?
How can people listen to your radio show?
Can they just get it anywhere, or how do you get it?
Well, I think they have to go to my Facebook page in order to get that.
You just found my Facebook page. Yeah, uh, to my Facebook page in order to get that. And that's just a doctor.
Just find Facebook page.
Yeah.
Uh,
Christopher Stackhouse on Facebook.
Not hard to,
uh,
to find.
So it is at DR underscore Stackhouse on Twitter.
Follow that immediately.
What's he at?
What's he at?
Cause I remember we came to him and he's like,
he's like,
he had 30 followers on,
on,
he's got a big radio.
I didn't have 30.
I think I had,
uh, 17 or something like that.
Yeah.
And then how's he doing?
He's at two 32,
but we can get them over a thousand.
We can get them over a thousand.
We're going to do this right here and right now.
So you guys follow him.
This is a good person to follow.
He's just a good person to follow in life.
Now let's go make fun of some dumb people.
All right.
You ready?
This was sent in by Jake Gr groney at love this jake groney jake uh hashtag dumb people's home uh at daniel van kirk
is how you get them into me all right here we go this is just a weird this is one of the weirdest
stories with well we'll find out okay it's like the love child of Arnold Palmer and the Easter Bunny has been living secretly in Palmyra for the last two years.
By the way, who would combine those two things?
I was thinking the same thing.
I'm trying to...
Because I was thinking, is Arnold Palmer the drink?
The drink is...
It's icy and lemonade.
So I'm thinking of a giant chocolate bunny like you have on Easter,
and then inside of it is like lemonade iced tea mix.
Okay, good.
Right.
Well, no, this would be the guy.
Okay.
Which is even weirder, maybe, if you combine the guy with the Easter bunny.
It's so bizarre.
If you don't do that, then who has been leaving golf balls on the streets of Palmyra for the last two years on streets, lots, and lawns all throughout the town?
So this is a town that for two years, people have been waking up to dozens, if not hundreds, if not thousands of golf balls throughout their town.
So it's not bad.
It's not mean.
Is it?
It's just, What does it mean?
Could this be an act of God?
This is one of the plagues.
This got cut when they made the edits for the King James version.
They took out the golf ball plague.
It seems like this is a team effort.
I know we haven't gotten into the story yet,
but I'd be hard-pressed to think that there's one guy.
This is a conspiracy.
This is more than one.
He's got a street team.
I have no idea.
Honestly, it's been an ongoing thing.
Scott Ryan said Wednesday.
Ryan.
Scott Ryan.
Right.
That's a guy who hasn't laughed in like eight years.
It just makes me think of somebody who's like the Ryan Auto Group.
I don't know that they have any affiliation with the selling of used cars so stack there is a building right by lax here in los angeles uh at its own it's like it's like
you see it every time you drive to the airport every time we drive to the airport on the 105
freeway and it's called the raytheon industry, which to me sounds like the company that a bad guy in Beverly Hills Cop would own, Raytheon Industries.
What do they make?
I don't know.
It sounds like you don't want your car to break down anywhere near there.
Evil rockets.
Evil rockets is what they make.
As quickly as possible.
That's right.
Drive by and get out of there.
I have no idea.
Honestly, it's been an ongoing thing.
Scott Ryan said Wednesday, it's crazy.
Ryan is the manager at Click Lewis.
Guys, I swear to God, I did not remember.
I don't know what this is.
Click Lewis, a new and used car dealership.
I did not know that when I read that through.
Click Lewis.
Yeah, Click Lewis.
Click Lewis has
one handicap
if it's a guy or a woman.
He plays golf every day. Is Click his first name?
I think so. Is that two last
names? I don't know. It just says manager
at Click Lewis. Yes, David Click
and Michael Lewis have their own
car dealership. Click Lewis.
And how did they decide that Click
was going to go that's right might be
lewis click he said golf balls started appearing on the car lot and surrounding streets 18 to 24
months ago and it hasn't stopped there's been no damage it's not an issue it's not a problem
of vandalism they just randomly appear this to me could be a new M. Night Shyamalan movie, right?
And we're all living in it.
Yeah.
This is like golf ball crop circles.
I think we need this.
You think we need this?
I think we need this.
Listen, I think we've gotten bored with the Loch Ness Monster.
That's right.
We've gotten bored with Chupacabra.
That's right.
In 2020, we need something new to obsess over.
This is it. Yeah. Can't hurt anybody. The golf ball Arnold Palmer Easter egg. That's right this in 2020 we need something new to obsess over this is it yeah the golf ball arnold palmer easter egg that's right that's it we got it i'm sharing my screen with you right now
dr stackhouse this is what they want when they get to work there's just golf balls
now look guys they're randomly placed. Yes. There's no order.
It's not like they're in the shape of a smiley face.
I'm going to say this.
They are hail-sized golf balls.
There you go.
We always say it the other way around.
Golf ball-sized hail.
These are hail-sized golf balls sitting on the lot.
Just randomly on the ground.
I was imagining one or two.
No, no.
There's like 30.
And this isn't just here, friends.
This is throughout the whole town.
Imagine every town has one, at least one.
These days, it feels like every town has seven conspiracy guys in town.
Imagine if you're the local conspiracy guy.
This is validating everything you think about chemtrails.
Goal rush.
All of it.
Goal rush.
This is the goal rush.
You've hit the jackpot.
Right.
This is your golden age of golf ball.
It's all coming to happen.
It's all coming to the 10th green.
The balls appear overnight and are there when employees arrive in the morning, Ryan explained.
Someone has to clean them up, and that's not nice.
Yeah.
Listen, once again, one, this is somebody or some people who are rich because golf balls are expensive.
Two, I feel like this is a blessing in disguise.
You can flip that.
You can start to sell all of those golf balls.
I mean it.
I mean, put this on the pamphlet.
Come to Golf Ball Town.
You never know what you'll wake up.
Play through.
Play through Golf Ball Town.
Play through our town.
Yes.
Yes.
Okay.
I'm going to ask you guys.
Between last Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning,
how many golf balls were scattered around the dealership?
See?
In two days.
So what I love is that Stack on his own radio show,
you know this,
he does Guess the Age.
He did start doing
Guest the Age, right?
Okay.
Yeah, I did.
And, uh,
okay,
this whole thing is surreal
because I never thought
I'd, you know,
be talking to y'all,
meeting y'all,
that you'd know
that I was doing
the Guest the Age thing.
I love it.
So, uh,
so, yeah.
And it's fun
because you just put
a little bit of stakes
and all of a sudden
you're so happy
with yourself
when you get it.
When you get it right.
It's like a little victory. My father got
the answer right today. He
grinned like he just won a new car.
I bet he still
feels great. I'll say this. Kevin
Pollack, the actor,
we did two of them in one
episode and he got both of them
on the nose.
I don't think I've ever seen him that happy.
He said this was as good as landing the role
in A Few Good Men.
Maybe he didn't say that, but okay.
We call that A Few Good Guesses.
So between Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning,
how many golf balls do you think were scattered around
Click Lewis dealership?
Come on down, get yourself in a brand new Honda Accord today.
Click Lewis.
You are our guest, Dr. Stackhouse.
Do you want to go first, Tig, or third?
Tig, go. Tig, Tig third Tig, go I'll go first
I love that he picked Tig
of course he picked Tig
it's not even a question, he was like Tig, go
I'm going to say there were
475 golfers
475
it's two mornings
alright Stack, what do you think
two mornings, I'm going to say 136.
Yeah, that's good.
Is that 475?
You said, I'm going to say 87.
87.
Okay.
I'll tell you this just for fun.
One of you is only three off.
Oh!
Oh!
So let's go.
That's me.
So you think it's you?
What'd you say?
132?
What'd you say?
Yeah.
132. No, I'm going to? What'd you say? 132? What'd you say? Yeah. Yeah.
No, I'm going to go.
Yeah.
No.
132.
Yeah.
Yeah. 132.
I think it's him.
I think it's up to 135.
That's what I think.
But what did I say?
475.
Okay.
I'm going to say 90 because I said 87.
Between Wednesday and Tuesday mornings, there were 90 golf balls.
Okay, all right.
Some mornings, there are only three
or four golf balls, Ryan said.
The most he's found in one day.
Do we want to guess that?
So now you know
that you had 90 over the
span of two days. Some days he's only found
three or four. What's the most you think he found
in one day? Jay, you go first, then he'll go he'll go and then 100 okay 100 stack what do you think 42 42 jackie
robinson i don't blame you uh i'm gonna say 70 okay the most he's found in one day was 65. Oh, wow.
Randy, I'm on it.
He said, it's become a joke.
Every morning we go for a walk to look for them.
This is what Click Lewis is now doing instead of their sales meeting.
Everybody needs to start coming in 10 minutes early to pick up these golf balls.
That's right.
But do they have a big bowl?
Like, you know, they should put a giant tube of them and say,
if you can guess the number in the tube.
You can guess the balls.
You get free financing on a Click Lewis Ford.
We take off the dealership price.
Right.
I think somebody needs to look into Click Lewis Pass.
Yes.
I'm sure there's a disgruntled
golf employee
somewhere. Somebody got fired
for playing golf. Someone got fired for playing
golf and this is just getting back at them.
They don't want to damage anything. Or I would look
at the local golf course. Or someone
who lives near a lake near a golf course
because you can just kind of drag that thing
and get tons of balls anyway. Or just start playing golf
because someone's going to brag about this.
This is not something they're going to keep to themselves.
They're going to be out on the course.
This has been going on for two years.
See, doing this for a day, doing this for a day, even a week, is a prank.
Doing this for two years, every night.
You're hurt.
That's a lot of pain.
Yeah, somebody needs an apology.
That's right.
Someone needs an apology.
If you work at ClickLewis, you just need to start an apology. That's right. Someone needs an apology. If you work at Click Lewis,
you just need to start apologizing to everyone.
Everyone.
Anyone in golf pants.
Sorry.
Welcome to Click Lewis.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry for whatever we may have done.
So far, nothing has been caught
on the dealership surveillance cameras
that shows who's putting them there,
Ryan said.
He noted that there aren't any golf courses
or driving ranges close by.
Oh, my God.
This does feel like an act of God.
I'm sorry.
It's like, weirdly, there is no malice in it.
It is not bad.
This is like the clown who stood on the corner and just waved to people.
He's not being mean.
But he needs to stop.
It's not being mean, but it's enough.
It's gone on long enough.
The bit's over.
You made everybody's day now go
home you gotta get them out of the quote or the next line here it's been going long enough that
ryan posted a message about it in the palmyra facebook group about a month ago we got a lot
of responses he said it's just all over palmyra it's a phenomenon so it isn't even just the
dealership dude balls have also turned up in surrounding areas,
including Cherry, Maple, Forge, and Prince Street, Ridge Road,
West Main Street, and Horseshoe Pike, Ryan said.
Residents of the area were quick to chime in,
either with questions about the issue, theories about the ball's origins,
or stories of their own golf ball encounters.
This is insane.
It's like aliens.
It's bringing people together.
It's bringing people together, Stack.
It's getting a little chippy.
I think it's a truck.
I think it's a truck.
A truck that rolls through town.
And they load up the truck,
and there's a hole on the side of the truck,
and they just feed them through.
Feed them on through and just let them drop out.
Golf balls have a lot of bounce.
Yeah.
Or like one of those,
I don't know if you've ever seen garlic drive across the country they put them in those things what if somebody
does have a little plane a lot of farms in where i'm you know rochelle illinois have tiny planes
yeah because they cropped us their own fields but like i wonder if somebody's just driving over the
town at night and just drop it there's no damage yeah that's there's no damage if you drop these
from a high level and they hit your car there'd'd be dents. There'd be dents on the cars.
We get golf balls in our yard over on the other side of town
on Lingle Avenue, wrote Megan Escobar.
It's so strange.
So I like that this is one of those things
that forces the town to talk to each other.
So look, no matter who you are, you could own Click Lewis.
See, the bad thing is, Chernobyl brought a lot of people together too.
Everybody went down to the bridge to go look at this, look at the fire down at the plant.
Not good.
It's not always good.
Not always good, but this is not a bad thing.
I mean, just to get people talking about stuff, like at the local diner stack, there's two
people sitting around going, did you see the goal?
How many would you have in your lawn today?
Five?
I had six.
Now we have some.
If 2020 has shown us anything, we
will take anything to
fight each other about.
There's also people in that town
that are blaming each other
for these golf balls.
They're like, I know it's you. I know
you're the golf ball.
I don't know.
What would it be called? The golf ball bandit?
The golf ball bandit.
Because they're not stealing it.
They're not stealing it.
It's just like the golf ball goblin.
The golf ball bunny?
The golf ball bunny or the golf ball goblin is pretty good.
The Easter Palmer.
The Easter Palmer.
The Easter Palmyra.
Yeah, there it is.
They're all over town, agreed.
Oh, no, here's another quote. I'm doing this in order.
I live in West Cherry, down by the
cemetery. Nobody asked you.
Nobody wants to know
how close you are to the cemetery.
You know who said this to?
Nicole Melissa. Not two people.
Nicole Melissa. She's the
Click Lewis. Nick Mel. Nick Mel said
they are in our yard
all that was caps the time.
Where are they coming from?
Tracy crossing
said all over in town. Every
time we take a walk, my dog comes
home with two in his mouth. The
dogs. This is a problem for the dogs
or it's a heyday for the dogs. There's balls
everywhere. Dogs. Do you understand
somewhere? There's a police chief who's coming home every night.
He's got a cork board and he's got string attached.
He takes his hat off.
He wipes sweat.
His wife comes over and she's like, are you any closer to solving the case?
Yeah.
And that, by the way.
I don't know. It's a point of contention in their entire
household dude somebody who hates golf is it somebody who loves golf too much but stack is
right because the wife comes home and says are you any closer and he would say to her does it
look like i'm any closer and now there here we go now they're in a fight now that's a fight. Now that's a fight. WTH is this, asked Keith Reh, R-E-H, who said the phenomenon could be explained once or twice, perhaps.
Oh, this is what he wrote.
This is what Keith Reh wrote.
Once or twice, perhaps.
Once or twice, perhaps, aboard group of teens.
This is getting worrisome, considering there are houses right behind the dealership.
Vandalism might be next.
I'd say, Keith, slow down.
It's been two years. Nobody
started vandalizing anything yet.
This isn't the Golden State Killer.
Keith is one of those people that's always telling you
it's going to rain. Keith is supposed to rain
tomorrow. No, it isn't.
Thanks, Keith. But where
does one get so many golf balls
to play this prank? Arisa
Farmey
wondered. Shane
Southerly said, okay, I'm
camping out. This has brought the whole town.
The whole town is together.
Golf Ball USA.
Okay, I'm camping out. Mystery
needs solved.
Shane Southerly didn't have time to write a complete
sentence. Shane needs articles.
Shane needs full sentence.
It's a mystery at the municipal offices, too.
I don't know anything about it.
Palmyra Bureau Manager Roger E. Powell said Thursday,
it's the first I've heard of it.
So Roger's been in denial.
This has been going on for two years,
and you haven't heard about golf balls in town?
Okay.
Impossible.
So maybe.
Impossible.
Matter of fact, he's not a prime suspect.
Yes, I would agree.
Thank you.
Thank you. Completely.
So you try to do work.
The red tape downtown.
You yourself are trying to get a slave auction house removed from downtown.
That takes a lot of work, and you've got to cut through a lot of red tape.
And I'm sure people are like, we didn't know it was that.
You know what I mean?
Yes.
Yes, they do.
You're knee deep in it.
Roger Powell knew.
Powell said he asked police and they're aware of it, but we've never had any official reports made. There's never been any reports of damage or anything like that.
We're really just as much in the dark as everyone else because Roger's doing it.
Yeah.
He said anyone who sees or suspects anything about the mysterious golf golf balls should call police quote.
And maybe they can figure out what's going on there.
He's very hands on hands off.
That's all I'm going to say about Roger Powell.
Maybe they can figure out what's going on.
Qualifiers also depends where he put the emphasis on maybe and maybe they can figure out what's going on.
Right.
Yeah.
But also like what can they do?
This is not a crime.
Back to our guy ryan he said
he's going over at click lewis he said he never reported the matter to police because no crime
has been committed no cars have been damaged no windows no doors nothing he said it's like they
just appear thank you in fact he said if the phenomenon stopped i'd be upset want to know why
quote i'm getting free golf ball there Yes. Yeah, I told you.
Exactly.
I told you.
There's a positive.
And once all this 2020 COVID stuff is over, this will probably increase tourism too.
That's right.
I'm telling you, people are going to come to town to figure out the mystery.
You might wake up in the morning, golf balls all over your Airbnb.
So shouldn't they open up a driving range in this town?
Why not? That could be a new business for these guys in this city if this city needs business.
So in fact, so Ryan, I think it was Tom, I'm not sure,
but he said he'd be upset because he's getting free golf balls.
Thousands, in fact.
Ryan said employees at the dealership collect them in a large box
and put them to use mostly for practice, he said,
because they're not always in the greatest shape.
But sometimes, he noted, they end
up on the links. Quote, I'm an
avid golfer. My colleagues are
also avid golfers. And some of them
are Titleist Pro V1 balls,
which are cream of the crop, top of the line.
That's an expensive ball. That's a good ball.
Maybe he could hit it. What was her name? Melissa?
Nancy Melissa? Melissa Nicole Melissa?
Nicole Melissa. Maybe he could create a
driving range down by her house
i mean as long as as long as she doesn't live by a cemetery oh wait no she does she does she
told us she lived by a cemetery somehow top golf needs to sponsor this mystery a top golf would be
so good down in this town open it up jobs jobs so i don't golf but so title is pro one v pro
there's a good ball.
That's a really good ball. Yeah.
And some of them are broken up, he said.
There's no consistency in the type of ball, however, he said.
Some have Palmyra Cougars imprinted on them.
So that's like the high school?
Yeah, maybe.
This is like a mystery, like an unbelievable, this should be a movie.
I know.
This is like a Hardy Boys mystery.
I'm telling you, this is more than one person that's right i think so conspiracy and i don't know what city i
can't remember the city but this is tourism paul myra paul myra paul myra's tourism is about to go
through through the roof wouldn't that be the best prank? Unfortunately, he added, most of the golf balls are junk.
They've been hit by cars.
Some have been run over.
They get wedged into drains on Prince Street.
Well, that's going to be a problem.
Ultimately, Ryan would like to see the mystery solved someday.
Quote, he says,
everybody is to that point.
It's not damaging anything so far as the business goes.
We don't really care,
but we'd love
to know where they're coming from it's a great it's a great great mystery unsolved mystery i know
sometimes an unsolved mystery is a good thing yes do you agree i do i i do um nobody wants to know
everything and nobody likes to know it all right there's a mystery to it that's right the fact
that somebody's been doing this for two years
Is they're not even interested in
No
They're just enjoying the long play
They're like the Banksy of golf related pranks
100%
They're the Pranksy
All you gotta do is set a camera up
But they have a dealership
And they've never caught them on camera
Which lends me to the idea that it is
We're turning into this sheriff we're turning into this sheriff.
We're turning into this sheriff
who's going to be weathered from this.
Keith Morrison's going to have to do the most harmless...
Someone is going in and scrubbing
all the videos. What about those golf balls?
Two weeks
from now, y'all going to be still.
Y'all are going to be late
at night, racking your brain,
trying to figure it out.
Somebody's going to ask you, are you any closer to solving it? You're going to be
like, do I look like I'm any closer?
Honey, I'm not. My wife's going to be like, what's wrong
with you? I'm going to be like, I'm trying to solve this golf ball thing
in Palmyra. I'm sorry. I'm really, really freaking out.
Come to bed. No, I got it. I'm just
three more. I need
three more photos I need to put on the board.
That's hilarious. Well, there you go.
That's the show.
We just did a Dumb People Town mini with our good friend and friend of the show,
Dr. Reverend Christopher Stackhouse, aka Stack.
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Let's get him over a thousand.
Let's do it. Follow this man just in life because he's smart.
He's funny.
in life because he's smart. He's funny. He, he knows he he's connected and you know, you,
you are a friend across so many, you know, states and other things, religions and all that stuff.
You're now connected to us and I love it. All right. I appreciate it. Listen, this has been,
uh, this has been surreal for me. This has been a dream come true to listen to the podcast and through the chain of events that none of
us saw coming to be able to be
a part of this. It's been great. It's been
fantastic. Thank you, Dan. Thank
you, Jason. Thank you, Randy.
I'm going to say, oh, you know what?
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