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Ep. 46-The "Candy Man" Dean Corll
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The shadowy corners of American true crime history hold stories that still have the power to shock us decades later. Among these, few are as disturbing as the case of Dean Corll—a name that deserves to be as infamous as Bundy or Gacy, yet somehow faded from our collective memory.
In the early 1970s, Houston's Heights neighborhood was terrorized by a predator hiding behind the most disarming façade imaginable. Dean Corll, who earned the nickname "The Candy Man" from his work at his mother's candy shop near an elementary school, methodically lured, tortured, and murdered at least 28 young boys between the ages of 13 and 19. His reign of terror went undiscovered not because he was particularly clever, but because society failed these children—dismissing them as "runaways" when they disappeared without a trace.
What makes this case particularly haunting is how Corll manipulated not just his victims, but teenage accomplices Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. and David Brooks, who he paid to bring him fresh victims. The psychological manipulation was so complete that it took years before Henley finally snapped, shooting Corll dead in August 1973 and revealing the horrifying truth to authorities. The discovery of mass graves at a boat shed and various beaches around Houston shocked the nation, though the story was quickly overshadowed by other high-profile crime cases of the era.
Perhaps most disturbing is the revelation that Corll's crimes weren't isolated incidents, but potentially connected to John Wayne Gacy and a nationwide pedophile ring operated by John David Norman—a chilling reminder that even in the pre-internet age, predators found ways to network and share their depravity.
Join us as we examine this forgotten chapter in American crime history, paying respect to "The Lost Boys of Houston" whose stories deserve to be remembered, and whose tragic fates remind us of the vital importance of taking missing children's cases seriously, regardless of assumptions about them being "runaways."
https://archive.org/details/DeanCorllAutopsyReports
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Ep. 1: “The Candyman” – The inside story of Dean Corll from The Clown and the Candyman on Amazon Music.
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By Emma Henderson Vaughan
08-07-2023
https://www.missingkids.org/blog/2023/candy-man-victim
Aayush Sharma
Tue, December 12, 2023
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/candy-man-killer-dean-corll-085614977.html
By William DeLong | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis
Published January 17, 2022
Updated December 27, 2022
https://allthatsinteresting.com/dean-corll-candy-man-killer
Introduction to the Candy Man
Speaker 1Today we're unwrapping the truly chilling story of Dean Corll, the man they called the Candyman. This is, Hold my Sweet Tea. You know what?
Speaker 2Today I was a little brought down because I thought you were the candy man, but I'm Holly and I'm Pearl and I'm the idiot who uploads the wrong episode file and then never checks it.
Speaker 1We always listen to our episodes and it's been just a crazy, crazy time at work and this one we didn't.
Speaker 2yeah, it accidentally got uploaded wrong, yeah so some people got to hear the raw file from my part two of right Derek todd lee, you got to hear me go hold on, I need to stand up, let's stop recording for a second. Yeah, I don't ever stop recording, I just right, edited it out.
Speaker 2Yeah, we just edit out until today we're actually recording this episode on the thursday, where an episode released so yeah, so this morning I'm like driving down the road got the episode playing, just because I always listen the first day, just to you know, re-verify it's right thank god, just on the way to work and I'm like look, I hear like a part.
Speaker 2I didn't even notice there was no music because I'm just so used to it. Yeah, I didn't even notice that part. That didn't go. Hey, ding, ding, something's wrong. Yeah, there's a gap of silence in the beginning where I know like I was like kind of readjusting my notes and and I was like what the hell?
Speaker 2and then I went and then another thing happened that I know I edited out, and I was like something's wrong, oh no. And then I'm like now I don't even know where I'm at because I'm like driving right, my brain's off somewhere else, I'm like on autopilot, and so then I'm like where am I? And then I'm like dollar general parking lot replace audio.
Speaker 1I'm like you know today's adhd like bad episode and and sleep deprived episode is brought to you by holly and pearl, and hold my sweet tea yeah and oops, my bad, oops, she didn't do it again, she did it once only one time.
Speaker 2well, let's hope I never do that again.
Speaker 1You will not Cause no, because now I'm going to be like hyper vigilant but always, always, always. But yes, we're getting, we're trying to do it, we, we're getting there, we're almost done.
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Speaker 1You have to work, but I like it because during the holidays we can take time off and it's really nice.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1That's the only plus. But summer's brutal for us, so yeah, enough of us complaining.
Speaker 2Complaining about being tired. I'm tired of complaining, right.
Speaker 1We're sorry that we have to put all of our trauma on you, but it's the podcast, the morning dump.
Speaker 2Oh my gosh, okay, so candy man huh, handyman, this isn't the candy man can, because he mixes it with love and makes the world go round. Sugar Mixes it with sugar.
Speaker 1Right, no, not that Candyman. But this episode does delve into extremely graphic content, so listener discretion is strongly advised. This is the Candyman of Houston, texas, the Heights, which was a really nice area and things like this didn't happen in that area ever, but it did. Yeah, never say never, never say never. But I'm going to go into who the Candyman is and a little bit about his early life, because you know, we always got to find the trauma point of what made him the way he is and you can't say, like you, you can blame the parents every time or their upbringing, but he did have kind of a a weird upbringing with his father and stuff. But we'll, we'll get into that.
Speaker 1So today's case is a case that remains a horrifying stain on American true crime. Not a lot of people have heard of the Candyman. I don't think Dean Corll is talked about as much, because this time frame is when a lot of other sinister serial killers were doing their thing. One of them was John Wayne Gacy, but there's a connection to Gacy, so we will get into that later. They weren't both clowns, were they? No, one was a candy man, one was a clown.
Speaker 2One was like here's some candy little boy Right and ha ha ha, I'm a clown.
Dean Corll's Early Life
Speaker 1Here's a balloon animal to go with your candy right. So, dean coral, I think to like truly comprehend the monster like. Let's look into like who he was. So he was born december 24th, christmas eve, 1939 in fort wayne, ind. Indiana. His early life was far from stable. It was marked by a tumultuous home environment. Like I said, his parents, mary and Arnold Corll Corll every time I hear that I think of the Walking Dead. I can't get it out of my brain. They had a volatile relationship. They were married and divorced twice. His father was in the military. To each other, right, okay, to each other.
Speaker 2Yes, yes to each other.
Speaker 1Sorry. They married, divorced, married again to each other, divorced Okay so, but it was very volatile. There was lots of abuse. Mary said that Arnold had never abused the boys but her. So why would you take that and why?
Speaker 2would you take it again? That is still abuse to your children, because you think they don't know or they don't hear, they don't see, but they absolutely do, absolutely.
Speaker 1So this instability undoubtedly like impacted young dean. Apparently it didn't impact his brother because his brother didn't go kill people.
Speaker 2but I'm sure it impacted him just in a different kind of way, because I feel like, like me and my brother, chicken voldemort yeah, his name is joe, all right, it's.
Speaker 1Joe, it's so plain. Chicken Voldemort sounds better. Yeah, we're legally changing it.
Speaker 2So, anyway, like our parents were bad for each other, and I feel like it affected me way different than it did him, so yeah, neither of us are killers.
Speaker 1Yet yeah, way different than it did him. So, yeah, neither of us are killers, but yet yeah. So dean coral was often described as a quiet, introverted and somewhat withdrawn child, frequently overshadowed by his younger brother. The family's frequent moves due to his father's military service prevented him from establishing lasting friendships or a consistent sense of belonging. After his parents' final divorce because I said there was two Dean and his brother moved with their mother to Houston, texas. So there was a time when he went to stay with his grandparents during the summer and that's where Dean's little brain learned how sexual activity was, because his grandparents had a farm and he got to watch the animals procreate so fun times. That's where he was learning his sex education from.
Speaker 1But when he got back, his mother, mary Coral she was a very resourceful woman. She purchased and operated a small candy store, so Dean, being the dutiful son, frequently helped out. He worked behind the counter. The candy store was across from an elementary school, so Dean became known as the Candyman. A seemingly harmless nickname would become tragically ironic, of course, and forever linked to the unspeakable horrors he would inflict. It wasn't little girls that he was giving candy to. It was little boys, but it wasn't little girls that he was giving candy to. It was little boys, so he would groom these little boys, give them free candy. In the back of the candy store he put a pool table.
Speaker 2He would invite these young.
Speaker 1Oh, he made a whole room. Yes, he started out with, you know, the cool hangout room. So all these little boys getting out of school, free candy pool table, hanging out some cool black lights in there, like it was the place to hang out and it's all free, for free, for free. He was grooming, yeah, but also he was innocent looking to the parents because he was good old Dean the candy man.
Speaker 2They just thought he was being a nice guy.
The Candy Store Grooming Operation
Speaker 1Awesome guy. Wow, thanks for being so cool to our kid. So he served in the US Air Force. He received a discharge because his mother needed him back home to help with the business. She was having, you know, time doing it by herself, so he was discharged for that and he even had like a really brief, ill-fated marriage that quickly ended in divorce. So he, you know, that's not something that he wanted. He wanted young boys, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1So beneath the surface, like he was grooming these boys. One in particular that he was grooming was elmer wayne henley jr. He would favor him, he would always do things for him, he was attracted to him. I got you this young boy it was. It was crazy at the things that he would do, to go to the lengths that he did. So when he groomed them he would, like I said, gain the trust of the parents. He also bought Henley a car. What, yeah? When he got you know teenager, he bought him a car. Wow, okay, got a you know teenager. He bought him a car, wow, okay. So he had moved into this apartment Again, had this cool room set up in his apartment.
Speaker 2All these boys would come back. Oh, now it's in his apartment, oh, it's in his apartment.
Speaker 1Yes, these boys would come back to his apartment. He would, you know, just having a good time at old Dean's place.
Speaker 1I mean at old yeah, dean Coral's place Sorry, there's names swirling. So he got the trust of another boy named David Owen Brooks and he would have them come over and they would bring friends and things like that. Well, one day Elmer Henley was going up to the apartment. He always just went in. Well, he went in, was going up to the apartment, he always just went in. Well, he went in and Dean was in the apartment sodomizing two young boys and Dean yelled at him get out. So he was like bruh, he backed away and he went out of the apartment.
Speaker 2So I would never come back, right, I would take my my perv bought car and disappear and be like bye.
Speaker 1So you know, he's like a little later he contacted him and he's like hey, you know, sorry that you had to see that this is what happened. He's like what happened to them? He's like I shot them both in the head.
Speaker 2He freaking told him that yeah, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1So he's. But he's gained this boy's trust. He's groomed him, you know, to do this, and he knew that Dean Corll was homosexual, but he didn't know that he was a pedophile. Okay, so he said I I'm gonna make a deal with you. I will give you two hundred dollars for each boy that you bring me.
Speaker 2Oh, so now he's making him complicit in his crime.
Speaker 1So henley being the teenage boy, $200 for each. Okay, so he made him an accessory. Well, henley also got his friend David Owen Brooks involved. He started getting $200. So within the span of 1970 to 73, they started bringing boys to him Both of them yes, both of them. Dean Corll, like I said, he was a master manipulator. He played on these kids' vulnerabilities. He also did which I thought was funny John Wayne Gacy would play the game of. I bet you can't get these handcuffs off.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1Dean Corll would also do that. So they would all be sitting around and he would, you know, get them to do the the handcuff thing. He would lure the boys in with like promises of drugs, money, a good time, alcohol. I mean, you're a prepubescent to like yeah, I was gonna say every little boy teenage boys.
Speaker 1They're like, yeah, cool, I'm gonna do that. Yeah, so he rented houses and apartments all over houston heights. He did not stay in one very long because he didn't like want to get caught pretty much so he would move that. He would also have these boys huffing paint, acrylic paint, spray it in a bag and huffing it and stuff. So these little kids are out here huffing paint. It would knock them out. Yeah, that was easy for him to get to them and and do what he needed to do, right. So once it like I said, once it is they were subjected to prolonged periods of unimaginable torture, sexual assault and ultimately, murder. The exact number of victims linked to Coral is 28 confirmed. There is one that they never confirmed. It was a John Doe. He would use different methods of killing these boys and torturing these boys. He would use a .22 caliber pistol to shoot some of them. He would strangle some of them, stab just anything Like, any ways, most.
Speaker 1Of these boys were like crying out for their mothers.
Speaker 2I was like, if they're high as hell, right, I mean.
Speaker 1Just the most sadistic way possible. Yeah, he also had a torture board so it had handcuffs on it. It was like a plywood board. It had shackled handcuffs and stuff. He would shackle them to this board and at the time, like his mother's candy company kind of went down so that it wasn't open anymore. He was working at a lighting and glass place. He would take glass filament like rods and he would shove these up their urethra and break them off.
Speaker 1Oh my God, yes, oh, disgusting. Oh, so this is like, like I said, he was sadistic, he was disgusting, but where was he disposing of all of these bodies? He had all these little kids' bodies that he's like killing Right, so they were meticulously concealed so he could, you know, evade detection. He moved a lot and all that stuff he would bury them in. There were, like, some beach areas, but the most like burial site, the biggest burial, site that they had, the most prominent one, the prominent one was a boat shed.
Speaker 1So he started deep burying these bodies. He would cover them with lime and then bury a couple more bodies in different spots, cover them with lime. So when the police went in and found these, they knew when they hit lime there was a body because it had, you know, I guess, hardened a little bit. So they knew, like when they hit the white stuff, like there was there was another body and they just kept finding them.
Speaker 1So he um a lot of these boys in that area back then. They had a lot of runaways. So the police, they literally just kind of brushed them off because there was all these missing boys. They're like, they're just runaways, they're just going somewhere, they'll come back. They brushed a lot of these cases off.
Speaker 2I hate that runaways get brushed off in general. I mean you should track them down.
Speaker 1anyway, they're missing children period.
Speaker 2Right, I don't care. Yeah, go find them.
Speaker 1I don't care if they're 15 and they're mad and they ran away from home. Figure out where the hell they are anyway. Absolutely, I mean it's. I don't understand the mentality of the police going he's a runaway, we're not going to go look for him.
Speaker 2He's missing, yeah, like run away or not, he's missing.
Speaker 1So they became a lot of. These became known as the Lost Boys of Houston because they just they never came back. I'm going to leave a link in the show notes of like, if you want to look up the autopsy reports of all of these boys, all 28 of them.
Speaker 1They are in this link, every single one of them it tells you exactly how they all died, but we'll go through some of them, like in the boat shed. They range from 13 years old up to 19 years old, which was just crazy. Frank Aguirre he was around 18 years old when he disappeared. He was lured by the promise of a party. Mark Scott he was 15. He was one of the youngest. There was a 13-year-old. Henley said that Coral forced him to participate in Mark's strangulation and also, you know, in some of the sexual parts of it.
Speaker 2That's his way of making sure that you're not going to say anything.
Speaker 1Right, that you're you know.
Speaker 2Okay, now I'm like really into this His insurance policy yeah.
Speaker 1There were several, like I said, 15, 17, 18-year-olds that were involved in there and beyond the boat shed there were four more victims found buried near Lake Sam Raybourne. This was Donald Scott Linus, michael Allen Buloch B-A-U-L-C-H I don't know and his brother Billy. So brothers got both of them. Joey Franking was a 17-year-old found on a beach in Jefferson County, so that was another place that he buried them. There was Bouleivar Peninsula. They discovered it was another beach. I'm like. So now you're on a beach, all these beaches. I guess it's easier to dig in the sand than it is in the dirt. So you know he's dumping them here.
Speaker 2It's a little faster, I guess.
The Horrific Murders and Torture
Speaker 1Yeah, and this is where they found James and Raymond Stanley. They were brothers, a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old, and then there was a few more that were also buried there. But, like I said, I'll put that link in the show notes. You can see every one of their autopsy reports because there were so many of them. Ay-yi-yi, it's crazy, but one of the victims recovered from the boat shed remains a John Doe. Like I said, he was an unidentified male between 15 and 18 years old. A lot of these parents are people who had missing boys After this case broke, didn't want to come forward because they didn't want to think that their son was homosexual. I'm like he was not. This man literally did it to them.
Speaker 2Yeah, they were just going over there for like fun, and not even.
Speaker 1Some of them probably didn't even go for drugs. They were just like, oh, this guy's got some cool stuff in his house, some black lights and some cool music. It was the 70s.
Speaker 2They were convinced by other things, not sexual encounters they probably had, I mean.
Speaker 1I doubt they had any idea that that was what was really going on over there. So you know, dean Corll's reign of terror came to an abrupt and violent end, though Not by police but by the hand of one of his own accomplices. On August 8th 1973, elmer Wayne Henley Jr shot and killed Dean Corll at Corll's home in Pasadena, texas. Good for him, he was like because he had forced him to do something and he was like I cannot do this anymore. And at the time Henley had a girlfriend. So when the police got there it was Henley and his girlfriend and Brooks. They were just sitting on the sidewalk with the gun and they were like we shot him.
Speaker 2Yeah, so it's like, do you arrest? Him or do you congratulate him for taking the scum off the street? But they didn't even know at the time.
Speaker 1So, yeah, like he, you, you know, he was arrested and everything. Um, henley later claimed that he acted in self-defense because he did have him. Like, coral did threaten to kill him and there was another young man that was there at the time and his girlfriend so, and he was groomed and brainwashed. Groomed and brainwashed, yeah, groomed and brainwashed. But he was like, oh just, it's fine, you can. You know he had him handcuffed, he's like you can take him off, I'm good, we'll do this and everything. And then he grabbed the gun and shot him. So he was like he was smart in that aspect. He finally had enough. He broke up Right. So it was Henley's subsequent confession to authorities that blew the lid off the entire horrifying saga. He led police to Coral's boat shed and to other burial sites, revealing the mass graves of the young boys. The discover of 28 bodies shocked Houston.
Speaker 129 bodies because there was a John Doe, shocked Houston and indeed the entire nation, finally bringing the terrifying truth about the Candyman Dean Corll to light. In the aftermath, both Elmer Wayne Henley Jr and David Brooks faced justice. Henley was charged with murder. He actually he got, let's see, six counts of murder and each one of them was a um 99 year life sentence. So nice sentence. David brooks got one count at a 99 year life sentence how did they decide on six is what I'm wondering. Like, is it?
Speaker 2just like counting some of the kids he admitted to having to participate in. Yeah.
Speaker 1That's the ones he said that he was. So at first he was like it was all coral, but then Brooks was like no, I'm going to tell you the truth. He turned himself in. He's like I'm going to tell you the truth. This is what happened. This is what Henley helped with, this is what I was forced to help with, right? So he told the truth, I gotcha, and that's how the sentencing came down in the trial. Henley is currently incarcerated at the Telford unit in Bowie County, texas. He has repeatedly sought parole, but these attempts have consistently been met with fierce opposition from the victim's families. His most recent compassion release request was denied in 2022, and his next parole review was actually last month, in 2025, and he was denied again.
Speaker 2Yeah, I would hope that even with all these denials, there has been some sort of mental health assistance provided to these guys right and I'm sure, yeah, there had to have been brooks.
Speaker 1He served 45 years of his term before he died on May 28th of 2020 at the age of 65, due to COVID-19. So the vid took him out.
Speaker 2Which I mean I guess makes kind of sense because he's in a place where there's limited contact with so many people from the outside that you bring in something strange, it's going to affect them a little bit different, because he's been there a long time, yep.
Speaker 1So this is where kind of like the John Wayne Gacy aspect of it comes in. So this case happened the same time around Gacy when his stuff was happening up in Illinois. Gacy's kill number was 33. And it was like between 72 and 75 when he was killing. So like Coral's thing kind of got pushed away and Gacy's like took light. So and then Gacy was the clown. He was a family man, so it kind of took more meaning because his name is more mainstream as a serial killer than Dean Quarles.
Discovery of Multiple Burial Sites
Speaker 1In total, at least 61 young men and boys lost their lives at the hands of these two sadistic madmen. Crazy, but the thing is that both of them were linked to a man named John David Norman, who ran a massive pedophile ring, not only in the Houston area but across the United States. So it was like Illinois, everywhere With no internet, with no internet back in the 70s. So this man, I don't know how, like we were talking earlier, I don't know how he's had so many like arrests and things like that. But John David Norman, it's these government names.
Speaker 2I swear.
Speaker 1Let's just call him Norman. Yeah, he has been arrested and convicted numerous times, between 1960 and 1998, on charges of child molestation, child pornography. How do you keep letting this?
Speaker 2man this repeat offender, do these things.
Speaker 1Just be out there.
Speaker 2I don't understand so I really I am, I am really big on tougher yeah punishments for pedophiles absolutely convicted of things like this. It is ridiculous the tiny amounts of time that gets handed down, and then they're like oh well, you were in jail waiting for this case, so we're going to let you be out on probation. Yeah, I'm going to let you out there so that you can go touch someone else. Oh, he was just touching a little boy.
Speaker 1It's fine, he's good. Let him out. We've got this other guy over here that needs, you know, more time. Throughout his life, norman operated various direct mailing services dedicated to distributing child pornography and arranging sex trafficking. Among these operations were the Odyssey Foundation, based in Dallas, the Delta Project, creative Court and MC Publications of Chicago and Handy Andy from Pennsylvania. That's just gross. Yeah, how handy was Andy? So, like I said, he is known for his alleged links to Dean Corll and John Wayne Gacy, so they were in the club. They were in this club, they were in this ring of stuff.
Speaker 1So Corll was actually in his belongings. They found a plethora of photos of young boys being molested, nude and just sadistic things happening to them in these photos.
Speaker 1It was disgusting, but, norman, he was eventually arrested for the last time in August of 1987 up in Illinois, and he spent the rest of his life in state custody. He died in 2011 at the age of 83. He should have died Way before then, in 1960, from the first one. Yeah, I'm just saying it. I don't know how, like you said, how these people get away with this stuff. It's beyond me. So, in terms of dean coral's psychological state, it's crucial to note that he was never formally diagnosed with a mental illness during his lifetime, because he was just this good guy. Everybody thought he was this good guy and, of course, he was killed before he could be apprehended by law enforcement or subject to psychological evaluation.
Speaker 1However, his actions are highly indicative of sexual sadism disorder. It's a disorder characterized by reoccurring and intense sexual arousal from the physical and psychological suffering of another person. The core signs include persuasive fantasies, urges or actual behaviors of inflicting pain, humiliation and other forms of harm for sexual gratification, especially when acted upon with non-consensual individuals. So you don't want to get it like confused with, like bdsm, because bdsm, yes, you're doing things, but it's consensual to consensual adults, adults, yes, sexual sadism is non-consensual and even if it's an adult or a child, yeah, it doesn't matter at that point.
Speaker 2It's wrong. It's wrong absolutely.
Speaker 1And it is a mental illness. And yeah so. His meticulous planning, manipulation, the sheer brutality of his acts align with the characteristics seen in severe cases of this disorder, often reoccurring with traits found in antisocial personality disorder or psychopathy, which contribute to a profound lack of empathy and remorse. So Dean Corll's case remains a chilling testimony to the darkness that can lurk beneath the surface of a seemingly ordinary, just person.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Well.
Speaker 2I mean, don't they all just seem?
Speaker 1ordinary on the outside, just ordinary Hiding some deep, dark, nasty-ass secret Right. And you see, like all of these you know I watch a lot of horror movies and things like that there's the ice cream man in his truck and he's just this good guy, but beneath the surface he's got children locked away in his cooler or women, women or something like that, and he's just this sadistic fuck that is nasty behind closed doors.
Speaker 2The places no one can see.
Speaker 1But I mean, like I said, they still consider these the lost boys of Houston. That's really sad their families still had to suffer, and knowing what happened to their boys is really sad.
Speaker 2It is Because I know that I'm one of those people who I will like put myself in. Like in my head, I put myself in that sort of situation. How would I feel if this happened?
Speaker 1yeah to me and it's crazy, it's horrible. And there is a documentary on id, the candy man and the clown. It goes into both of them because, like I said, they were linked. So it is a must watch if you want to hear, like, more about it. And I mean a lot of people know about john wayne gacy and things that he's done and all of his nastiness and stuff, but sure, like to listen to this and them together they did a lot of the same things but come to find out they were kind of linked in the same pedo ring.
Speaker 2Yep, crazy. I just said kind of linked in the back end. Ew, I just like I went wait a minute and this is. And I didn't do that on purpose, y'all, I ain't trying to be funny, and I literally just realized that didn't sound right this is old norman when he right before he died yeah, oh my gosh, looks like a pedo right abso-freaking-lutely does.
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Connection to Norman's Pedophile Ring
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Speaker 2Go fix your stuff, because if you started listening to it before I fixed it, it's going to be stuck on the old version. But I did refresh the feed, yeah, so Cool deal. Sorry again, but share our links. Yes, share our Facebook page. Share our Instagram, our TikTok, our YouTube. Go subscribe. I think we're at like 64.
Speaker 1Yes, can I get a hell yeah testify to 64.
Speaker 2That's not that exciting. We have like 398 followers. I think on on Facebook so like go subscribe to our YouTube channel while you're out there, but because, like I said, after summer and we feel like we have enough time to look presentable in the mornings. Right, we'll do some recordings, do some stuff with our faces in it, right, oh, and we did get a listener in Poland and Finland right and Sweden and Sweden. I forgot about.
Speaker 1Sweden. Sorry, listener in Sweden, but yes, yeah, welcome, welcome, welcome y'all. Yeah, super exciting.
Speaker 2And we might launch into a international story. But, yes, yeah, welcome, welcome, welcome y'all, yeah, super exciting and we might launch into a international story.
Speaker 1So, countries that are listening to us, we might pick one from your country.
Speaker 2Grab something from over there. If you have one you'd like to suggest to us, reach out. Yep, yep, because I mean you live there, you probably know the better ones to cover. But well, if not, we don't hear anything. We're just going to go look for stuff ourselves and do it. Yep, absolutely.
Speaker 1So yeah, give us a little out of the South branches here and there, but I mean our Australian listeners in the South of Australia.
Speaker 2Well, they're South anyway, right, the whole continent it's south. So it's fine Technically, there we go.
Speaker 1Dingo's eating babies over there. Shrimp on the Barbie. I'm so sorry, I said that.
Speaker 2If you're even listening this far, Every time I hear that I literally see a Barbie doll with a shrimp. Yeah, so stupid. This is how dumb we are in America, I swear, but then again my brain is like Literal. Yes, very it's very literal and most of it's pretty funny, but in a really dark way sometimes, I guess. Yes, but anyway, like I said, share all the links, message us. We have an email, steve at. Holdmysweetteacom.
Speaker 1Use it, yes, and Hold. My Sweet Tea is a Drunken Bee production and you guys stay safe out there. And just because we're dipping doesn't mean you can't keep sipping. Bye, bye, thank you, hey.