Dumb People Town - Neal Brennan - Jacqueline Be Henson'

Episode Date: March 21, 2023

Neal Brennan joins us as Randy describes a corn theft, Daniel warns against licorice mistakes, and Jason pleads with you to not visit sex workers on your honeymoon, and so much more! This episode is #sponsored by BetterHelp. Try online therapy at betterhelp.com/DPT

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Cause when the music gets the funny hits We are gonna take you down Stick around, make a sound Punk or down, it's Dumb People Town Hey townies, welcome to another episode of Dumb People Town Population you mean Population Brennan!

Welcome back. You've done studio versions. You've done live versions of this show. This is the cutest version I think I've ever done. It's adorable, right? People Town sign. Really nice. A lot of people, neon's hard to find, but somehow you guys tracked it down.

Neon is one of our most precious resources. One of the seven neon stores near my house. Yes. Yes. Congratulations. Isn't it crazy that none of those stores have neon signs to promote their own store expensive it is why would they you don't you don't spend the the company money 82 of all businesses in la are just uh money laundering is that what

it is don't you think i don't know there's a peruvian there's something with like a real stat i like that as like a mo though you You go like 73% of people are. If you start with the number, people believe whatever you say. And then you're like, wait, I thought it? I thought you just said it. You said it. I'm just out here. Well, you're implanting.

This is how misinformation gets out. There's a Peruvian restaurant by my house no one's ever walked into or out of. And it's always open. And it's behind a 7-Eleven. They're just, money's going in and money's going out. It's my a 7-eleven so they're just money's going in money's going out it's my favorite restaurant i wish it's a peruvian restaurant slash pokemon card thing i hope so machu picchu okay all right let's stop it shall we get into a story because the world's getting dumber shall we please all right and we'll talk about neil special which jay and i saw the

we saw it live in montreal we'll talk about it later why are we talking about it now we'll talk about Neil's special, which Jay and I saw the... We saw it live in Montreal. We'll talk about it later. Why are we talking about it now? We'll get into it later. All right. You ready? Here we go. This one's sent in by our good friend, Jake Groney. We have a few people who sent in...

At Jake Groney, too. At Jake Groney. The way to do it is just at Sklar Brothers, at Daniel Van Kirk on Twitter. Yes, we're still on Twitter. It's ridiculous. I don't even know why. And then hashtag Dump People Town. And then it's in an order.

And we have a backlog of stories. You ready? why uh and then hashtag dumb people town and then it's in an order and we have a backlog of stories you ready greenfield woman accused of stealing a certain amount we'll we'll guess that amount but you'll tell us how much it was don't you think no motherfucker 87 800 bucks accused of stealing a certain amount of money from corn stand over several weeks so this is like a a plot like someone still has a corn stand where are you from don't worry about it okay well i don't know if this will be relatable i'm just here to podcast bro i'm not here to make a friend well i don't know if you'll relate to this i'm from philly outside philly okay do that i don't know if they

have this outside philly they have a corn stand Corn stands? Corn stands. A lot of places where we're at. Yeah, corn stands. And on your honor system, whether it's like firewood or vegetables. Throw the money in the can. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the 1800s, yeah, we had that. The only time I ever saw one was in Peru. If you want to go back to the Peruvian restaurant, the giant corn with the very thick, enormous- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like that was a take it from this thing and throw the money in. Driving up to the cabin in Wisconsin, you pass at least a dozen of these, whether it's firewood or fruit. I think in small communities it works because people are like, they feel reassured.

There's honor. Places where there might still be honor. Or they need it. They need there to be honor. They're like, this is basically all we got is that we can trust each other. Yes, it they need there to be honor they're like this is basically all we got is that we can trust each other they still need to yeah they everybody we need honor too we just don't have any no we don't that's the problem they for them this is like i'm gonna drop my dollar in and this is what's keeping us from the purge and this woman and this woman is

trying to bring on the purse she is breathing it on she's like i'm gonna now take advantage of that right this crazy woman han Hancock County, Indiana. A Greenfield woman. I love that. Hancock County, Indiana. But this woman is from somewhere else. She's like, I'm going to a different county to go find a couple of corn stands. She's crossing county lines.

Can that be like a, can you bump up the fence? Over $6 in corn. We'll find out. A Greenfield woman is accused of taking money from a self-serve corn stand over several weeks. So that's the other thing to me is that this wasn't just a, I got this idea right now. This is a plot over time. Several is at least five. If I just take a little bit.

And she doesn't need it to survive, right? Like the money? We don't know. Resulting in a substantial loss for the business owner alleged court documents the police investigation began on september 4th when the hancock sherry sheriff's i'll never forget nine four we'll never forget i'll never get where i was the owner told police that she runs a self-serve stand with her family and again the people are like this is the question that they have to ask themselves do we continue running a

self-serve stand or and are you running it are you technically the other thing is the amount of don't animals get to it i would think that i would think that the amount of like fencing and maybe electrify the fence yeah and then maybe you hire a security guard and then you just have a store just you should have just opened a store. How about one sniper trained on the money thing from far away? That's right. We can't see it. You think no one's there.

It's Bradley Cooper. Lift up your thing. What was that movie? American Sniper. I'm really surprised. Chris Kyle. American Sniper. I mean, I thought it was on. It was on target. Chris Kyle. Fucking American sniper. I mean, I thought that. Sign me up.

It was on target. All right. So the owner told police that she runs self-service stand with her family in front of their home on the country road of 600 North. Put that on the walking tour. If anybody lives near this, you got to go and take pictures of this thing. What state are we in? This is in. Greenfield.

Indiana. Indiana. Hancock. Hancock County. Yeah, yeah. Hancock County. Hancock yeah. Hancock County. Hancock. Well, she's somewhere else.

All right. The stand works on the honor system with customers expected to leave cash inside the money bin in the mailbox. All right. So, Teresa Kenner, according to a probable affidavit, the owner told police, caught a woman taking money. So, you got to, I guess, video it, right? That's what Neil's saying.

That's what I'm saying. The amount of infrastructure you need to have a self-serve right corn stand so you're giving your it's a 30 cent value of the thing you're right people are exchanging for yes just just open it just walmart hire a worker right someone there yes put someone there and if this ends up being a lot of money that means your self-serve stand was doing great you want to do the over under on how much money it will be oh we're gonna probably try to guess exactly but i'm saying if it's a lot where do you what do you think it is now over how long weeks several weeks several weeks what do you think it was probably ten dollars for a dozen six ten dollars a dozen i'm to say that these cheat case this joint.

I'm going to say $2,000. $2,000. What do you think? Yeah, I'm going to think it's a lot. I think it's like $6,000. I'm not kidding. We're just going to keep all that in, and then we'll get to it later. I'm crazy, but I might be right.

Do you want to answer this? Are you guys from a corn economy? Where are you from? This is over several weeks. It depends on how- He said $16. There's no way the owners would be- $16, right?

The premise of the show, dumb people- I know, but affidavit and court and shit? That's unfair. Court dates taking this woman to prison? Let me just say that- It's about the principle. Go ahead. You said $16.

You said $2,000. You said $6,000. One of you is exactly right. What? It's me. You think it's you? 100%. Do you think it's you? I think it's me. He obviously thinks it's you. Dude, you know what? Split. You know right what it's me you think it's you 100 do you think it's you i think it's me you know what you know i think it's dumbledown do you think it's you yeah let's do it you know

i think i all right give us the answer right now the answer is two thousand oh damn it do i know the premise of this show it's more it should be what neil said all right so the owner barely enough for a dozen years of corn the owner put the woman's photo on facebook that's when you're like i have no other recourse but to get someone's racist uncle involved let's put it on face it's like interpol for for dumb people yeah it is dumb interval in some communities that's that's made it to the diner before you yeah that's like it's the diner before you even go yeah that's like it's literally what facebook marketplace you've seen this like that's what someone walks in they're not even holding up a paper you've seen this and they know what they're facebook yep we're the owner told

police kinder herself uh told police kinder herself called her this just came through on facebook go ahead and they printed it out she definitely breaking Facebook pages. That's good. That's Denver third and asked for her picture to be taken off. So this. So she chimed in, called the owner. So kinder called the owner who put it up.

I can't be having my name be smirched on Facebook. Why are you putting my picture on Facebook? And again, I think again, the, her accusing the owner of doing something wrong, coming in hot is like going're gonna try and throw her any relationship you've ever been in if you get into a fight and they call you on something you did wrong you fight fire you double you you make it about something

else yes yes it's called gas well your corn sucks what the most good relationships are built around it is the basis of every great relationship. Probably never heard of it. Idiot. So she reportedly. G-A-S-L-I-G-H-T-I-N-G. She reportedly denied taking the money at first and then told the owner she returned how much money back in the bin. So she's like, I didn't do it.

And then she's like, you know what? I returned. Actually, I took it and then returned how much. So now you're definitely not what you're willing to admit exactly this is what this is about how many beers you have tonight sir one two one two my kids went to a party and they were like recently and i was like how much did you have to drink and they're like one and then later as i am talking to them later i was like okay so how many later as you have them chained to the radiator. Yeah.

Just know I'm like later, we're kind of at, so how many do you have? Yeah. No, like two. Two. Two. Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm.

So we're at four. Like, change. You just got to keep talking. Yeah, for sure. Keep the conversation going. Then it's like two beers and a truly, okay. Then you leave the room. Your wife comes in.

Good cop, bad cop. Good cop. Like, dad's been on one. I don't know what's going on. Just tell me the real number, and then he won't come back in. He can't take it. She comes back in, and she's like, three beers and two Trulies. I'm like, son of a bitch.

All right, so how much did she admit that she put back in the bin? This crazy. $300. OK, what do you think? I think like $500, and she thought she was a saint. $1,100. So she's, OK. Because then she goes she thought she was a saint $1,100 So she's Okay I didn't even keep $1,000

You're going to learn so much about her when I tell you how much money She admitted to the owner that she put back $30 $90 This woman is thinking she's getting away with all of it $2,000 And she's like I put not even

How much money are they making000. And she's like, I put not even- But how the fuck are- How much money are they making on this corn scent? I know, exactly. Well, if it's sweet corn season, and they're putting it out there every single day, around at least $10 to $20 a dozen. If you're taking corn, I don't know, Indiana prices. Taking corn on the grill, all right? You grill it up, and you get some of the dark grill charred marks on it.

Yeah, yeah. We're talking- Cut it off into a frying pan with butter. Oh, yeah. A little salt, garlic salt on it. And you make this very delicious platter thing. And you sell it for $2,000 a bowl. At like the French laundry, that's $2,000.

Fine, all right. So they say that they counted 18 instances from August 28th to september 3rd where she allegedly took corn from the stand and then helped herself to the money by august 28th to september 3rd that's one week yeah 18 and two thousand dollars two thousand dollars 18 that's once they get hired two snipers yeah that's once they set up the camera right you pay a sniper 50 bucks x fucking marine you want to go get 50 bucks to knock this like shooter do joe rogan security on the side shooter

handoff just shooter handoff you don't have to kill her like 24 hour security let's see how good of a marksman you are benefits like not they only work 25 hours a week they're fresh dental this is gonna be a name drop randy and i had a meeting with Steven Seagal once. Comes into the meeting, finds the chair, like a chair that he thinks in case he has to pounce, which is what he said. He needs a chair in case he has to pounce. Yeah, in case I need to pounce. Coming with him is like

a five foot seven German guy. Doesn't speak a word of English. Strapped with a backpack. No, it's a backpack that should be on the back, but he's wearing of English. Strapped with a backpack. No, it's a backpack that should be on the back. But he's wearing it on the front. Like a parachute. Yeah, but also so he can have... Still the wrong way.

Still the wrong way. Out of the relationship. But I mean, and we're like, that guy has... How many guns or grenades does he have in there? He has guns and grenades. There's shit in there. This is the guy. And I guarantee you, Seagal wasn't paying him anything.

No. 50 bucks a day, maybe. He just wanted to be tough. He's like, I'll is the guy and i guarantee you seagal wasn't paying him anything no 50 bucks a day maybe he just wanted to train you i'll train you life lessons priceless life you can't put a price tag on the life lessons he's given this guy so the the the joy to play with the toys so like you're saying 50 bucks a day you can get a sniper to take out so this is what the police said i watched the videos and on all of them security videos you can see what happens to be what appears to be Teresa Kiner. Come up, grab the corn, place it in a plastic bag, and then put her hand in the mailbox with the money

and on some occasions looked like she was making change. Oh, yeah. So she's going through the motion. She didn't even know there was a camera there. Right. Oh, the old, like, oh. Yeah. Yeah, great.

Bad magic. Does it make a little thing little thing in one video the woman can be heard look at her thought she could be heard counting pretending to do math puts on a fucking green visor yeah green visor she has a change belt yeah exactly really going for it she'd only been she said she'd only been to the corn stand three times in 2020 this is lying every one week right she told police that her picture was on facebook falsely accusing her of stealing it uh as after the question most concerned about yeah no no uh so after the questions uh questioning continued investigators say kinder told that she might have that she might have dementia so she got questioned enough i don't believe this i'm

telling you i do not believe that i might have dementia i might have dementia how would she know can i tell y'all something that yes how she that you know that's what she said before she said i got serious i could have dementia can i be real with you? Can I be real? All bullshit aside. Can I be real with you? I might have dementia. I didn't even realize. I didn't want to say this to you guys. Because I know y'all got a lot with Facebook and everything. I could have some dementia. Yeah.

Just FYI. And I don't even know if I've already told you this. I might have said this already. I might have told you this twice already. I don't know. There's no way for me to know. Oh, my God. Sniper.

I don't know. There's no way for me to know. Oh, my God. Sniper. This is where you hire Seagal's German guy to snipe the hell out of this thing. Snipe it. Owner said after looking at the numbers, they believe that the total loss of missing cash and corn. So they're going to put corn and cash together. I should have told you that was around $2,000.

But could possibly be more. Well, of course, if she hit 18 times in a week and that's only when they videotaped her she'd been hitting this for a while so she was charged with 18 counts of theft i'm going to show you her picture and then we're going to figure out how old do you think we get to guess her age after we look at her i love it no i love it because sometimes i'm so much fun sometimes the picture can mess you up i know she's gonna be white so i'm very comfortable about the age okay this is, and we'll put this on our. Pinch, zoom that out.

And let's decide if she has dementia or not. Just looking at her. I mean, what do we think? Okay. She is. You don't. She has. I don't think she got dementia.

She does not have dementia. She got Betty Davis eyes. She got them. She got her hair colored. She got them bangs. She has cult hair. is she has you told me she was a leader of the cult where everyone put the purple shoes i don't think she'd be the leader i think she'd be the right hand woman this is right like the enforcer like they called her mama osha osha osha osha's god i watched that shit who's still

apparently doing a law doing lawyer. He's like a lawyer. Oh, no. The lady. Oh, the woman. Yeah. The woman.

I can't remember her name. I want to say Rita, but that's not why you're in the wheelhouse. Yeah. You're directionally. That gal. She was like, great.

I mean, nuts in the, Oh God, she was ruthless. Ruthless. She's still doing it. Neil saying my non Sheila, my non Sheila.

Very good. I was like Rita, Sheila, something. It was like a woman who used to work in an office in 1986. The front office woman. Talk to Rita about it. Talk to Ma'anan Sheila. How old do you think she is? 66 years old.

In her 50s. Say it. Give me a number. 58. Okay. 66, 58. I i'm gonna say 62 one of you or we are one year off one of you is one year off so you go up or down i'll go down to 65 okay what are you 63 59 59 okay get your answers in town he's first story down the books we're gonna talk about neil

special right after the break this gal theresa kiner stole nearly two thousand dollars or maybe more of corn and cash definitely smokes 67 years old all right first story down in the books hot today we'll cut dan you're next you're next you guys doubt me about money laundering percentage in los angeles we never we're crazy we will take it all back all right we'll be right back with more dumb people town and neil brennan right after this stick around make us down there's more hey y'all welcome back to the show uh y'all i might have dementia we may have said this before but in case we didn't uh neil brandon has a beautiful special uh it is uh stand-up one-man show it's got i saw it at a four or five hundred seat theater in montreal and the best thing i saw at the festival yep i

loved it so much for you ran it at moon tower too right i think so yeah without the props without right the wall is beautiful and you said like though they fucked up the wall when we did the thing that we did there was like one performance oh yeah there was good up it didn't matter it was beautiful it's called blocks and then there was a subsequent podcast called block. Subsequently, subsequently, come to find out, turns out I'm making a podcast.

So it's a B it was, you know, it was what I loved. And I told you about this at like the after party, but I'll just say it out into the world right now is that it was like one of those shows, a one man show done where the comedy is on the absolute highest level of the stand-up bits and whatnot but it was fun to watch you take your time and not have to like dance what

else what else what else dance for a stand-up audience and actually take your time and talk about what's behind a lot of this stuff to me was like, that was equally as fun and deepening. And it was just really cool. I was like, this is such a great way for you to present what are brilliant standup premises, but then to go deeper into the stuff. And of course, mental health being a backdrop of it, I was like, this is so relevant, so good. So I'm very excited that it's making its way out to the world it's on netflix and it's um yeah it's out now it's out now and the podcast so the blocks mean like things that make me feel like something's wrong with me

like yeah emotional blocks mental blocks whatever right and uh so i have other people come on the podcast and tell me what their blocks are and that's been great because it's people that I don't like. I know Sebastian pretty well, but I don't know what his problems are. Oh, I love the clip where he's talking about blocks of people that have pictures of themselves. Oh, yeah. Like why we have people who have one of his blocks is he doesn't understand people have paintings of themselves in their own house of themselves. Letterman did it. Nikki Glaser did it.

Taylor Tomlinson. Bobby Lee was great. So I've had good people on. And and yet it's yeah. So I got a special and I got up. I got a podcast. I love it. And it's worth watching again.

Like I'm gravitating more towards this type of performance in general. I, we love stand up and we're way into it, but I like seeing, I like seeing it pulled out. We're old and we're like oh that's very inspiring and maybe there is sort of whatever is important to us and version of what we're doing that would fit into that for us people have a more of an appetite for interesting shit like everyone does stand-up right they can get stand-up anywhere so if you give them like stand-up plus a little something else and also once you frame it that way it gives you that permission to not be like i haven't said a joke in a minute and a half yeah people are like what the fuck is going on but once you step away it allows you that that's what i mean burbiglia like that's yeah he was like well i'm gonna

i went to um i went to his opening night uh here in town. Which one of you guys went to? I did too, I think. Okay. And I looked around the room, right? And it was all of our friends and all these people we know. And I thought to myself, this is the difference

between theater and stand-up. Because if this was the night of his special being taped, none of us would come. Yeah, it would all be his. We would support and we would love him. We'd tell everybody in the world from the mountaintops to go see mike's thing i put i'd post

a story yes but we'd come and hang backstage maybe right i'll be there at the airport what time are you guys doing it i'll try to swing by but we wouldn't go to the show but once you say that and and and i felt the same way about yours too it's it's oh this is going to be a an artistic expression beyond just stand-up, which we already do. And so I want to see what this person's theatrical interpretation of their words are. And part of it is like, what the fuck are you doing? But the other part of it is like, what the fuck are you doing? There's a little of that.

But nobody would go to a special. But everybody wants to go to an opening night of a show. Yeah, maybe get your picture taken. And you feel like a cool you feel cool it feels sophisticated it does because stand-ups you know still got like a sticky uh sticky uh reputation which it needs a little bit well but yes yes i agree i agree that you there are if we go up with you at the comedy store we go up in the main room still and you follow like headliners and you follow people who do a whole character and a shtick and a big thing and a lot of people come see them

and you do have to step up and you have to deliver jokes on a pretty rapid basis it's hard to like 100 take your time and just like oh your payoff if you're an explorer if your payoff has to be miles beyond whatever this weird slow burn was i I would say if you don't hit them right away in the first 20 seconds at the comedy store, if you don't accept, if you say anything unfunny, they will never forgive you. They're done. Yeah. You like, you just are going to waste 15 minutes of your time. That's it.

And part of the reason they're done is because they know you aren't going to be up there for very long. You're 50. They don't have to reinvent. Oh good. I'm going to run to the person they're coming to see is maybe after you. Yeah. And it's very dark in the room and there's no,

like, why would I even be nice to this person? That's right. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. Unaccountability. Anyway, super psyched about blocks,

blocks, podcasts, blocks, the special. I love it. Daniel, people can see you. Daniel van Kirk. Yeah. Go to. Blocks the special. I love it. Daniel, people can see you. DanielVanKirk.com.

Yeah, go to DanielVanKirk.com. I got my monthly that I do in Houston where I'm also working on new stuff. And then Irene, too, and I have our show at the Lyric Hyperion Theater. It's the Lyric Comedy Hour every Wednesday. I'll be at Moon Tower again this year doing stand-up and shows. I think we're going to do a Dumb People Town there. We are going to do another one. That was so fun that we did with you last year.

When is Moon Tower? May? April 21st to the 23rd. There's one weekend before and then we're in the last weekend. That was great to see you there last year. So fun. And we're going to do Tag It, that show that we do. Do you ever do that show with us? Yeah. It's so

fun where you go to do stand up and then we just pitch you a bunch of, we're writing tags and whatnot. So much fun. We might actually start doing that at the comedy store like up in the belly room and then kind of working and then so say to people who are like you who are coming to do a set like come bring up like eight minutes you're working on and we're going to just write tags for you great it's basically the fuck around part on stage after the set is so fun so it's basically taking what we do in the hallway up to the belly room, like outside. So we might do that.

So anyway, superschoolers.com, check all that stuff out. And again, still waiting to hear if we're going to do another season of the nose please, which was like a cheap seat show for UFC. Stick around. Make it sound.

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We believe in it, guys, and we know you will, too. Stick around. Make it sound. There's more. Don't people town. Daniel is jumping in. Ready? Story number two, sent in by Matthew Friedman at Not Your Average Matt.

AVG Matt. Thanks, buddy. Here we go. A man died after eating a bag of black licorice every day. So I'm getting older and I like black licorice. Are you for real? I'm admitting that shit. That means you're old.

This is a sign of. Did you. I like Fernette, but that's. You didn't like it as a kid. Did you. Hated it as a kid. And something happened to your mouth. I think. It's a sign of you. I like for net, but you didn't like it as a kid. Did you hated it as a kid? And something happened to your mouth. I think it's like physiological.

Yeah. Like what happened to your mouth? It's like, you know, like someone has like a stroke and then they can speak Italian. That's sort of what happened with like black licorice for me. And I raised two kids and ate black liquor and I raised the goddamn kids. And all of a sudden I'm like,

what's this? And I, it has to be, did you think you were going to like it when Dan, it has to be, it can't be, um, like stiff and like,

it's gotta be really chewy and fresh. I, while you're chewing, that's fresh. How fresh is that? Licorice? It's so good. I'm not saying,

but Jason's over here printing out Facebook pages. I'm in a group called Black Licorice Jay will be chewing on his Black Licorice And telling me about Colonial Pages I'm in a Facebook group called Black Licorice Matters And look the point is No I'm telling you I know

Absolutely not I love it So much and it is You love it? I love it and i was at gelsons okay drop and i was like i'm getting this i'm getting this for my house get your hands off me i'm no no i'm getting this and knowing that no one else in my house how funny is it you reach for it and three people come sir that's for much oh i was gonna say once you're much older once you walk up with black licorice they they assume you do not want to mess with

self-checkout right like you don't understand it they're like oh that's not for you sir do you have any coupons you want to use uh rosemary my 92 year old grandmother loves black licorice your grandmother that's who i became she would recommend the trader joe's which is what i buy her jay you're the matriarch of a family. No, mine is just Australian. So you're not on this. I like it. I think it's okay. I wouldn't reach for it ever.

I mean, give me like a weird. When did you even bump into it? So I think I. Who had it and that was the only thing you ate. Who's retirement party? Who's 10 a.m. retirement party were you at? This is the only. It was in a basket at something.

Either a comedy festival or something. I broke it out because I was really hungry the arp comedy convention a i was like probably a good game because they know that kind bars are too crunchy for old people's teeth that you don't want i cracked it open i don't know what it was there for i tried it and i was like wait a minute do i like this now who am i anymore question everything and then I'm like, you know what? I'm not going to fight this. It's like weird.

It's like, you know what? So I like that. By the way, I discovered that you like someone putting a thumb in your ass. This is Jason's episode of blocks. No, no,

no. Have you ever spoken to a psychic before and had any work done with a psychic? Yeah. Yeah. So I am. It's not something I pay for myself we turned 50 last year and someone got it for me as a gift i'm like this is the best you don't buy it it's the best

most indulgent gift it's at a party somebody left it it's at a party someone hired a tarot card but i love that jason's having his own like a black liquor's version of an ayahuasca trip where he's like well no that's what i'm this is who i am as a person this is my fucking burning man without me having to announce it so i became an episode of vlogs no but i so i when i talked to the psychic at the beginning i didn't want to give her too much because i just was like i want to see what this woman comes over but i said let me just tell you from the jump i do not believe that this is going to work. However, I'm open-minded enough that I hope something happens. Yeah, just be open. And if it does, I'm not going to deny that it happens.

Yes, be able to receive the energy. Jay was open to receive the spiciness of it. Why do we have to say no to this based on the fact that it's black and it's not? Would you eat a bag every day so that you die like this dumbass? No, I didn't. That's my worry for you. This is now a cautionary. He had no history of heart problems.

He walked his dog regularly and worked a physical demanding job as a construction worker, according to his doctor. That's the same thing as me. This is my life in a nutshell. So no stress whatsoever. I mean, construction is about as easy as it gets. Well, I think we're going to end up. They kind of lay some stuff in here. They're like, you sure it was a black liquor?

We'll get to it. Then in January 2019, he at a mcdonald's and died well okay first off first of all he's at a mcdonald's not driving through inside walked in yeah so i think we uh there's a window into his life he had just dropped his trash in the garbage and was going back for a second yeah okay he brings his own... But blame Black Lake. They're always blaming black stuff. They are. He brings his own gold ashtray that they got rid of 25 years ago.

Black Lake was sitting there like, David, do you want the usual? Like, that's how much McDonald's knows this guy. Do you guys remember the gold ashtrays at McDonald's? Of course. Yes. And it was always bent out of shape. Always bent.

Absolutely. Always bent. You probably were meeting there for coffee with your friends. Did you guys smoke? Did you guys talk about the war? No, never smoked. I smoked for 10 years. Absolutely. Always been. You probably were meeting there for coffee with your friends. Did you guys smoke? Talk about the war. No, never smoked. I smoked for 10 years. Wow.

How'd you? For 14 to 24. How'd you do the book? Was it the book? Hypnosis? That made me quit? Yeah, yeah. No, I just decided I had to quit.

What? That's great. That's incredible. Neil, that's very Carlin of you. I like quitting things. Yeah. I like creating creating except marriage no relationships no that especially i know it's so yeah i like like white knuckling yeah i like going

cold turkey i like that's my favorite kind of turkey you like black licorice i like no hot turkey for this um and um and yeah so i quit wow that's my wife used uh hypnosis to quit and it and it worked she's she's described it to me in a way of like you know i go to a party and smoke but then after she did the four sessions of hypnosis with this guy carrie gainer who was here who's like done it for a ton of people every time she hears a car honk, she jumps out a window. But besides that, she doesn't smoke anymore.

It's a weird side effect. That's okay. But no, but she sees a cigarette and she's like, oh, disgusting. Yeah. Just,

just that. He did it on his own. That's, that's miraculous. I hypnotized myself. Wow. But you did mentally just shut the door and then left. Cause if I smoke one,

I'll smoke 40,000. So just, I just, well, this guy who people offer you have they offered since have you been around at a party and been like haven't seen one yeah people off yeah they're sick i live in a world with cigarettes yeah but when people smoke i'm still like you smoke it's so crazy to me yeah that's amazing you put that idea in your head um okay so he's in a mcdonald's which i'm sure has nothing to do no it's all black salad you see mcdonald's just walking like this hey yeah yeah uh we just found him

checking for black licorice the likely culprit they say black licorice according to the doctors who treated him and who published their findings in the new england journal of medicine what the report said the man from massachusetts had consumed one to two large bags of licorice a day for how long? How long do you think it took him? I'm not there, Dan. I'm not there yet. How long do you think it took him? One to two large bags.

Every day for how long before they say it killed him? At what point does he go from just a handful to a large bag? I'll guess first. I'm going to say 10 years. 10 years. Were you going to say that? I was going to say nine years. Say it.

Don't do it. Nine. It's fine. Okay. I'm going to say 15 years. 15 years. Were you going to say that? I was going to say nine years. Say it. Don't do it. Nine. It's fine. Okay. I'm going to say 15 years. 15 years. We popped off an Eimer. He consumed one to two.

The cause of his death is reportedly after consuming one to two large bags of black licorice every day for three weeks. That's it? That's it. Wait. Hang on a second. We're talking. So I'm dangerous.

We're talking about licorice. Jay, you're screwed. Jay, I we're talking about liquor jay you're screwed jay i i'm writing checks you're right that's right your mouth's writing checks black licorice i don't even know what to do i'm like i'm partially panicking right there this you better really love this stuff i mean i do obviously i'm gonna keep doing it i have a good life insurance policy black licorice as like an old person's black mirror. Yes. It's on the Hallmark channel and it's all technology that's already out but that they don't know how to use. Also, if this

wasn't a plot on murder she wrote, I don't know what was. Also, I don't fault you for doing this, but if you're not watching this show on YouTube, Neil transformed into a Sith Lord a couple of seconds ago. It's cold in here. I know. I agree with you. I said I don't fault you for it. I went full seance and my hood is up, and it's black.

You're going to leave him on his... I feel like the acoustics on my mic have changed. Oh, I know. They're good. They're 100% now. They certainly have changed in my ears. Softer. The reason why it got colder is because when we start talking about black licorice, spirits

of old dead people now enter the room. Gather and walk through the studio. So there's a cool pirate card. The habit of eating black licorice for only three weeks caused his potassium levels to drop precipitously wow prompting a cardiac arrest according to the study he never regained regained consciousness after his collapse and died about 24 hours after he arrived at massachusetts general hospital maybe this is what to happen to demar hamlin we almost didn't we almost ask our brothers we almost didn't believe it when we figured it out, says Dr. Jacqueline B. Henson.

Yeah. Heir to the Henson. We were shocked and surprised. Aspiring doctors are taught in medical school that black licorice contains. Jacqueline B. Henson is definitely a 90s sitcom that never materialized after living single. Jacqueline B. Henson. You know how Henson. Jacqueline B. Henson. You know how Henson, Jack, Jacqueline B. Henson. Baby Hensons.

Aspiring doctors are taught in medical school that black licorice contains, I'm trying, glycyrrhizic, I don't know, acid, a plant extracted naturally. Jacqueline B. Henson keeps asking if we can be friends on Facebook. For sure. It doesn't have a profile. I haven't checked it in four years. You're like, how do I know you? We have three mutual friends, but how do I know you?

Hey, Neil! I got a great opportunity for you. N-E-I-L. Yeah, exactly. Hey, Neil. Hey, Neil, I got a great opportunity for you. Miss you. Miss me. When were we ever? Good seeing you again. When did we see each other? It's a plant extract. We gotta catch up. Miss me. Miss you. When were we ever? Good seeing you again. What are you missing? When did we see each other?

That's when. It's a plant extract. We got to catch up. That acid. We got to catch up. It's been too long. It's often used as a sweetener in candies and other foods and can lead to dangerous low potassium levels if consumed in high enough doses, but it is rare to see a case of someone

dying as a result of ingesting too much of the candy. So what is the point of putting that in the New England Journal of Medicine? Remember, they're telling you this is the only reason he died. But they go on to say the man in Massachusetts had a poor diet and smoked a pack of cigarettes a day. Okay! There you go. I also like the idea that the New England

Journal of Medicine is like, alright, we need a fun one. Let's go with like a fun story. This is the squirrel on water. Let's do one for us. Let's go with is a squirrel on water let's do one for us like go with a wacky one let's do one for mass general see if they got any things up the butt or stuff like that yeah we we know that everyone knows about smoking we need to bring this one out yeah let's bring the poor diet he smoked a pack of cigarettes a day again it's all on licorice though is it mcdonald's according to his friends and family you guys want to ride on this black

licorice thing let's go let's go but it was a to ride on this black licorice thing? Let's go. Let's go. But it was a switch from red to black licorice three weeks before his death that doctors said proved fatal. I, on record, have never liked any form of licorice. Really? I love licorice. You gotta stop. You literally have to stop. I'll stop.

I'm now concerned. I'm like, you gotta stop. But you're more concerned for the career. Yeah. I don't want to fucking be a judge. You guys are licorice guys, I assume. Are nibs still a thing? They are still a thing.

And they haven't been canceled for that name? Yeah. Doesn't it feel a little fun? A little. If they started a nibs please campaign, you can't do that. You can't do that. I don't think you can.

So let's see. Where did we say this? He was doing cigarettes. Yeah, cigarettes, bad food. Dr. Henson said she interviewed the man's friends and family members ran multiple laboratory tests that confirmed the man's potassium levels were below normal the study oh they also studied his medical history which included heroin use okay but again again this is not was he shooting the black licorice in his veins this is my life

to a t i am freaking out right now. You got to stop all of it. The heroin, the smoking. Once he's heroin, smoking cigarettes. Quit the black licorice first. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the gateway to all this other shit.

Keep the black tar heroin. Did heroin... What was it? The study of his medical history, which included heroin use, they thought that he... Though he had not used opiates for three years, I would still say it's probably still very hard also congrats to him for getting over it but

definitely knows what hung with you convincing people that it's black licorice yeah it was black licorice that was his final word don't look any further like the onion headline is man man with heroin addiction dupes the new england medical journal of medicine that it's licorice that is very true uh there's no family history of cardiac disease we had no other clear cause for why his potassium levels were so low so we picked one that was stupid the case quote raises a public health issue that consuming large amounts of black licorice can be hazardous to your health. One of the authors of the study done, Dr. Butala, said consumers need to be informed by the candy and other food manufacturers

of the level of this acid in their products. He also reported the case to the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA warns people who are 40 years old or older. You better stop, Jay. That eating how many ounces of black licorice a day for at least two weeks can cause heart rhythm or arrhythmia. Wow. Wait, I'm going to ask you. So they say if you eat

black licorice for two weeks, if you eat it for two weeks, you can have arrhythmia. How many ounces a day are they telling you? If you're eating this many, you can stand up with heart arrhythmia. Twelve ounces a day. Twelve? Jump in with us. Guys, I've been wrong all day. I believe in you. I believe in you right now. The hood is going to help. with heart attack. 12 ounces. 12? Neil, jump in with us. Guys, I've been wrong all day. I believe in you.

I believe in you right now. The hood is going to help. The hood will help. 20. Okay. I'm going to say eight ounces. Well, two ounces. That's it?

Two. Jay, you are fucked. Dude, you better stop eating. I'm messing with fire. This is Jay's intervention that he didn't do. Yeah, this is blocked. You got to stop eating the black licorice. I know.

I know. Dr. Henson said people like to eat licorice. An occasional piece of licorice should not be alarmed by the case. Black licorice is not a poison, Jackie B. Henson said. Next, they're going to, if they go after hard candy, these motherfuckers. Butterscotch?

Dude, if they touch butterscotch, if they go after Werther's at all, from my cold, dead, overdosed, I'm right. How about tiny root beer barrel candies? The Werther's at all. From my cold, dead, overdosed liquor. How about tiny root beer barrel candies? The Werther's that start out crunchy on the outside and then have a

soft caramel inside. They can do whatever they want as long as they don't have old people. Reese's Pieces alone. Am I right? Old people. Is he right? Is he right? How old is the Massachusetts man that died from too much licorice he's still working construction i'm gonna say 58 okay 67 to go with the people not looking at the evidence

119 we'll get out of here here and then we have story oldest man in the world dies of black licorice the massachusetts man who uh kicked heroin heroin i hope it seems but still loved to eat a mcdonald's and smoked a pack of cigarettes a day sure and worse construction with like asbestos and whatever whatever dust is but we're going after big black licorice right where he cleaned up super fun sites worked at three mile island yeah was there on 9 12 to help yeah exactly uh he was 54 years old wow what did you say i said 58 wow what'd you say 119 i had a 60 Jason's up for our third try give us a little taste of what we're gonna see in uh in segment uh a dude uh on his honeymoon does dude things to the highest degree.

Okay. Got that on the other side of the break. Neil Brennan's special, which is on Netflix, is called Blocks. And his subsequent podcast is also called Blocks. Check all that stuff out. You can do it in the break. Subscribe to it in the break. Put it on your I love this and send Netflix a message saying it's a great.

Please send them a message. We'll be right back with more Dumb town and neil brendan right after this stick around make a sound there's more dumb people town hey guys welcome back to the show i'm gonna bring us home here's the headline last story man arrest taking me home yeah i'm taking home taking all the way home i have black licorice in the car. Man arrested during prostitution sting snuck away from sleeping wife on honeymoon. I mean, that's bold. He didn't get a bachelor party, maybe. Also, where are you?

Not that you can't find prostitutes or sex workers. Anywhere. I mean, anywhere. This was sent in by Jank Gyllenhaal at jank at small batch underscore you don't see a lot of underscores following the name just a flat out on the name of the service no this is our underscores should have never been underscores i'm gonna go on the record to say you're gonna underscore that i can't underscore i can't underscore that what was underscore serving before handles on

the internet what was the use you used to underscore something important but that would be underlining it you go under the word yeah you go under the word it was never like go like this just what was an underscore serving grammatically it was if you would maybe it was for like fill in the blank for it yeah it was malice but it's also like maybe in a thing where you're not allowed to do a space so you needed that to fill yeah i wonder if it's a holdover from dos i don't know who knows stupid all right here we go you're talking about the next what is it at this point right what am i a holdover from dos yeah go on what did i just brand a woman during a volleyball tournament? What am I? Speaking of dust. Don't you dare bring, this is where my COVID. Don't you dare bring Keith Raniere into this.

You leave him out of it and his giant glasses that are too big for his face. But it's perfectly sized headband. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, the headband works. And the short shorts work. Did you ever hang out with people when you weren't laying down on a couch? Also, put some fucking shoes and socks on you monster

you know that like Karch Karai probably got a phone call like for Steve Timmons I'm doing two Olympic deep US men's low hymen like we're getting a Roddy what was his name fuck Sinjin Smith

they get a phone call and it's like, what about you? What's your connection to the next year? What? I just played volleyball for the U.S. That's how much he's ruined. You know how Cosby ruined the colorful sweater? Not to you, he didn't. Folks!

Guys, go on YouTube. This is going to be worth it just for that joke. Cosby ruined the colorful sweater for everyone but me. Keith Raniere ruined volleyball. All right. Police in Florida say a man was arrested during a prostitution scene while his honeymoon. It looks like a Cosby sweater that you bleached. Yeah, it is.

You're trying to whitewash a Cosby sweater. Look, I'm trying to make it useful. I'm not throwing away $110. Only because 30 women got sexually assaulted. I mean, what am I supposed to do? I didn't didn't do it sting on his honeymoon as his new wife's now i gotta suffer yeah the i don't think you wanted to get married i won't tell you how old he was we'll guess in the end allegedly thought he was going to meet someone to pay for sex but instead was

met by an undercover police officer so he's mad that he got caught. Hey, guys, I was just going to meet a woman to have sex. I didn't realize it was going to be a sting. Now I've created such shame on my family. If this wasn't a sting, if the dumb police wouldn't have tried to sting people, everything would be fine. If I know women, she'll only stay with them for another four or five years.

I was going to hope for the other one. I'd be like, honey, at least you can get in and know him very easily. Is she saying on some level, I can fix him? I can fic him. I can fic him. I can fic him. According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, which operates in an area that includes Tampa, Florida.

So now we know where we are. We know you're in Tampa. That's the honeymoon? Yep. The man was part of over how many arrests that that's exotic in the honeymoon to me i think like if you're going to tampa you live in jacksonville so in in our world like in our neighborhood you live in a tunnel right sure in alabama in pensacola people shit on mackinac island in the dells way better than no mackinac is nice tampa has a you like 68 degree water oh yeah in the in the summer summer

so in our neighborhood when the cops need money they just put a cop you know down behind the country store on laurel canyon and then just ring it up and then they just we need to we need to make some money have you seen people get pulled over recently i on laura i was running yeah stop signs on them on a canyon yeah i don't want to say which one no and uh come on i'm like and uh and i haven't thought like i haven't seen someone get pulled over in so long oh my god i've just on the way here saw someone i've seen a ton and i think that's just how they do it in florida they're like get out the prostitution ring. Yeah. Because I want you guys to guess how many arrests were made by the Department of Human

Trafficking squad in the Miami Herald reported this. In this ring. In this ring that they were, in this little run. How many people did they arrest? 134. Oh, I was going to go 119. 119, 134. That was his age.

I was going to go 119, 34. Come on. Give me a guess. 110. 110. Get your answers in. This man was part of 170 arrests. Wow.

In how long? Probably in a day. Not a day. No, no, in a couple weeks. Yeah, maybe a month. They set up a little task force. It's unbelievable. Sheriff, a little task force, some some cute little outfit we'll try a little truck windows down in the car and

let's drive over windows down ac on a little photoshop let's drive over here we go hotel slash on august 25th news conference sheriff chronister walked out onto a stage with easels holding up in large displays with the grid of mugshots of arrested people. Do you think they just cropped his save the date? No. It was unclear if any of the people in the mugshots on display had been on trial or had retained a lawyer. That does feel a little civil rights issue.

I don't know if you're... A call was placed to the Hillsbury County Sheriff's Office, but details about the cases weren't immediately available for release, citing ongoing proceedings. They displayed the name mugshot alleged details of the man arrested on his honeymoon and the full screen of the department's press conference and posted on facebook so of course the wedding already happened you're in for the so that's why she's going to stay with him for a little because they already spent the money on the wedding and she's in too deep she's in too deep i can pick in too deep. So listen to this guy.

I can thick him. Listen to this guy. Go call him a song as well. Here we go. Chronister at one point. This is the sheriff. Chronister. During the press conference, spoke in a stern tone and said, quote,

Wait, he's pissed. If you want to traffic another for sex, if you want to purchase another individual for sex, if you want to prey on the children of our community, go to another county so he's not even saying don't do it he's not opposed to it just he doesn't like it around i don't want to have to deal with it this guy's an idiot it's not i mean i appreciate what he's trying to do but i'm not saying don't do it right just don't work for us i appreciate what he's

trying to do but how about all counties we didn't change you change we we changed we didn't do this right because the odds are against you that your photo is going to be on one of these boards. He says gesture. Too many double negatives. Yeah, I know. Odds are against you. He hit him with a chronister. The odds are against you.

That's called chronistering. He chronistered that sentence. Chronister the hell of it. We're going to get out of here on this. Okay. How old is the man who left his sleeping wife on his honeymoon to go pay for sex and it turned out to be an undercover cop under 25 or over 35 all right okay so pick one and go with it pick two you he you can either you heard you heard me yeah under 25 or over 35 i've been wrong

every time it doesn't matter all right so you're say 24 and 36. I like that you're the guy at the roulette table just betting in both sides. Yeah, you can't follow. You don't know if I'm up or down. You're voting red and black. He's voting red and black. I'm going to go 32. 32? Yeah.

You said I'm going to give you 36. What are you? Or 23? Not taking it. Under 25, over 35. 24 or 36. So, yeah. I like that.

I'll go. What did you say? 37. 32. I said 32. 32, 27. Under 25. Under What did you say? 36. 27. 32, I said 32. 32, 27, under 25, over 35. 16. I changed right to mine. 16?

All right, this dude, unbelievable. They didn't give his name. They did stick his picture up. They put his picture up. Get out of here on this. As we said once again, subscribe to Blocks. I'm promoting your shit. Subscribe to Blocks and watch Blocks

on Netflix you will thank us for it this dude was 34 years old there you go Daniel right under where he said hi we're on the cusp

I was wrong twice no no well you were kind of right like you were very much on the edge I was 0 for 6 today guys 0 for 6 and we only guessed

3 times Neil Brennan thank you for joining us on D for 6 and we only guessed three times neil brandon thank you for joining us on dumb people town we love you dude and like every great writer's room that you've ever been in where you fucked around before you had to go to work you're like oh shit we gotta get back to work stick around make a sound there's more