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Do cherries float in the afterlife (Alex Fernie, Leonard Smith Jr.)

Rekha Shankar and Waleed Mansour Season 1 Episode 24

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On this week's episode, Rekha and Waleed discuss embarrassing deaths with former president, Zachary Taylor, and a former rapper, Silky Johnson. What are your thoughts on Kim Jong Goon?

Hosts:
Rekha Shankar
Waleed Mansour

Guests:
Alex Fernie as President Zachary Taylor
Leonard Smith Jr. as Silky Johnson

Edited by Waleed Mansour

Full episodes available to watch on Youtube 

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Welcome to another day of viewing on public access television. We hope you enjoy today's programming.

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I'm Reka Shunker.

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And I'm Louis Man's Door.

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And We're Dead. Welcome to Weird Dead, the afterlife's number one cable access show.

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That's right. We've been dead for about a year now, and we get a chance to talk to a bunch of dead people and see how their afterlife is going and how their death was, and you know, if they're at peace, maybe.

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I know. Have we met anyone that's at peace?

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It feels like everybody's got an axe to grind still. Yeah. Some people are pretty chill, though. Confucius was pretty chill.

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Confucius was on a whole other level. I could not believe how unbelievable. I mean, it it makes sense. I feel like if any vibe is to be admitted from Confucius, it's being chill.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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But the way he was chill. He came in in a fuzzy bucket hat.

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That was shocking.

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That's really shocking.

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Yeah, and even he was so kind of upset with like internet users for roasting him.

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Yes.

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So yeah.

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Speaking of the internet.

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Oh, yeah. Do we want to go through uh pull pull out a comment?

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Yeah, we recently found out that somehow we're on the internet. We thought we were just piping into your TVs via our popular cable access show on television. Yes. Uh, but we recently found out we're online on TikTok at Weird Dead Show, Instagram at Weird Dead Show, YouTube at Weird Dead Show.

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So we're just going through some comments just to pay homage to those that are willing to write some stuff about our show. Uh let's see what we got.

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Um, what the fuck? What's going on here? I accidentally droped into this video and can't tell what this is about. So we did tell me a lot of these were positive.

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Yeah, this I swear they're good. I swear there are some that I wrote that were good. What what WTF, what's going on here? I maybe this is good. This isn't bad.

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I accidentally droped into this video. Like, what's going on? And can't tell what this is about. I don't think there's a positive way to say can't tell what this is about.

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I can't tell what this is about.

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Like when I see a TV show.

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What if it's like this is crazy? That could be good, right? This is this is I actually dropped. I dropped I droped. They spelled drop dropped wrong.

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It's yeah, it's dropped.

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Droped into this video, and I can't tell what this is about.

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Okay, here can I comment on this?

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Sure.

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Watch the video.

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Yes.

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Then you know what it's about.

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Yeah. We stay up top, we're dead.

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Yeah. You droped in and then you're waiting for two seconds.

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Did you did you go through did you scro scrub? Did you scrobe? Did you scrobe halfway through and you droped right in? Well, start at the beginning. We explained.

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Or like, or like go to our page. Maybe we need to make more inscrutable and cryptic videos so that you go to our page to go, what's this about?

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Can you imagine clicking on a video, watching part of it, not understanding it, and then feeling the need to comment? That's a crazy thing.

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We can't even talk about it. I don't want to make people scared to comment.

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But I can't imagine. If you're confused, comment now.

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Yeah, actually, wait, it's good for engagement. Just write, I dropped in. What's happening?

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I dropped in. I dropped in and I'm loving this, maybe.

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But no, I simply, even in the afterlife, could never. My friend Mike Trapp, who is alive, which is a count against him, once told me he read a recipe once and someone commented on it. What is this? Wait, never mind. And I think when you write never mind.

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Never mind it.

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Never mind is the verbal delete, right? Just delete it. Just delete it. To close the page. You can never mind it. We don't ever need to know that it happened.

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You can always never mind a comment just on your own.

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Just just with that little backspace key. You can never mind it.

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Because it's very different than when I'm setting a text and I accidentally send one too quick, and then I give a never mind.

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Commenting on a recipe is very intentional.

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Yeah. Yeah. If it were a separate comment, if you're like, oh, I can't delete my comments.

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One and you go one second later, you go, never mind. I guess. I go, think before you act. I go think before you act a little bit.

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That's crazy. That's a crazy thing. Okay. Well, thank you for the comment. I guess.

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I guess it's good for engagement. I honestly, if you hate the show, you should comment. I think it's good for engagement.

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Yes, I agree. Please tell us if you hate this thing. Uh but and we appreciate you stopping by.

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Yeah. Speaking of stopping by, yeah. I stopped by a piano class.

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Great. Okay, excellent.

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Um, I didn't want to take one with Beethoven because he was a guest.

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Yeah.

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And it felt weird.

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It felt like it'd be embarrassing.

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Why do you assume it would automatically be embarrassing?

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It's like a power shift. I felt like here we're big dogs. We're kind of the big dogs. And then to go and now you're learning from Beethoven.

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Yeah. Okay.

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Yeah. You look like a noob. Which you are.

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Insane.

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How are you learning anything in particular?

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Well, I'm practicing scale, so you're just getting the like finger.

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Got any favorites?

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Scale?

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Yeah.

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C?

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C is the easiest.

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Okay. Well, I thought I was freaking sue me. I like the easiest one.

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Isn't C just all the white keys? And now I'm racist.

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What's going on with you?

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I'm just saying you could play, you could play it like this. Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do you know what I mean? Am I crazy? You're the one taking piano classes. It's been 20 years since I've played piano.

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And you okay, wow. Everyone did hobbies in their kid. And so I'm too late to catch up.

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What hobbies? You didn't have any hobbies as a kid?

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I drew a little. You do a little bit. I painted a little. Okay.

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I um Why don't you get into painting again? You can paint me. I've never been painted, I don't think. I drew myself. I remember in uh in eighth grade we had to draw ourselves. So I did that, but nobody's ever painted me.

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I cannot do abstract work.

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Okay. What are you using pointalism? What do you how are you drawing? How would you paint finger painting? That's me? Just a circle, and you're coloring in my beard and two dots for eyes. And I'm happy. That was a little happy face you drew. Okay. Well, that's nice.

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Oh yeah. Uh I guess that makes sense though. You you draw.

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I do draw.

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You don't get drawn. I mean, you're not drawing other people then.

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Exactly. I was I'm so interested in getting into photography. I love photography.

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What makes you think that you have the eye for that? If anything.

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Um probably all of my different art skills. Like I'm a graphic designer, uh, video editor, I'm an illustrator. Well, it's all in the same vein of visual things. No, am I wrong?

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I'm sure a photographer would take on Bridge with Thought, but sure.

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Well, you know, I'm I apologize if I've offended any photographers that are watching the show right now.

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Name a famous photographer.

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Uh Ansel Adams.

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I'm not an actor.

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I you're thinking of Ansel Algorg.

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Okay.

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And did you say something? You name a famous photographer.

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No, it's not my passion. I'm not trying to become one.

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Name a famous pianist besides Beethoven.

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A pianist?

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Yeah.

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Bach.

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Bach. Did he put you a piano? Bach, Bach.

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Bach, Bach Bach? What? Yes, of course you did piano. Why made me second gas?

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Bach, yeah. I'm sure he did.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Uh well, what do you want me to say?

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Uh nothing. Okay. I'm sure you're gonna be awesome at photography, and I'm gonna suck ass at piano.

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Is already what was I gonna say? I was re I brought up photography because what I was gonna say was something very interesting that I've lost now at this point. Okay. Because you distracted me.

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Uh was it what what your subjects would be?

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Was it how many Ah, yes, because I've been interested in getting into photography, but also I would love to have photos of myself. But it's like I feel like why do you want photos of yourself? Because for me, you know, for maybe uh marketing the show, something we should maybe do.

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You want to photo dress yourself to market the show?

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I mean, whatever. If it works, it works, you know? Okay. Okay, you could be in it too.

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Thank you.

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But it's hard to you know frame up pictures of yourself. When I'm trying to like figure out, oh, am I in the frame, whatever, and I'm in front of the camera and behind the camera.

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You need to get a photographer in the afterlife to kind of take up.

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But I don't want to pay them because I'm interested in taking up the hobby. You know what I mean?

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What if uh what if what if they what if you need an intern? Like you you promoted as an internship. You get a photography hopeful that died in the field.

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Hit up Ansel.

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Like, hey Ansel Elgore.

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Hell hit up Ansel Algore when he dies and see if he wants to take pictures of me. No, he's a creep, isn't he? They're all creeps.

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I don't know. I'm sure. I'm sure.

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Why are they all creeps? Speaking of creeps, are you dating anybody new?

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Okay. Uh, and no, and honestly, no, I don't even have a creep at my beck and call currently. No, because I got catfished again, Walid.

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You got catfished again?

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For third time.

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Break uh for the third time. Break uh Yeah. I thought uh shame on this is what this is past shame on you.

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Why? Because I keep putting myself out there. Oh, Walid thinks it's shameful to try to find love.

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No, uh the saying fool me one shame on me, fool me one shame on you, fool me one shame on me, fool me three times, I'm full of things.

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You're speaking in tongues, okay. I got catfished because I was trying to go on a date with Nelson Mandela, who is dead. People up here also forget that.

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And you're interested.

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And I'm interested. Okay, I'm interested. Um, but I got catfished and it wasn't him.

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Is that called the Mandela effect when you get catfished by Nelson Mandela?

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I think that would be if I thought I went on a date with him and he's like, no, you didn't.

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No, you didn't. That was Morgan Freeman.

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Heartbreaking. If I went on a date with Morgan Freeman, that's a Mandela effect because that's also heartbreaking. Because I'm not his granddaughter, so you won't date me.

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Uh but speaking of famous politicians, yeah, we have one. We have one.

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I think our very first former president, I am so excited to introduce President Zachary Taylor.

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Hello. Hi, Zachary. Thank you for having me. Thank you for being on the show. My favorite photographer is Robert Maplethorpe. Robert Maplethorpe, what kind of thing? That's not an actor. No, Robert Maplethorpe was not. You're thinking De Niro.

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Okay. What did you say? What did I say?

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Uh Maplethorpe took many portraits, uh and also especially extremely sexual ones. Extremely sexual.

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Interesting.

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Now, what's the difference between sexual and extremely sexual? Honestly, if you look it up later, it'll be so clear.

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Got it. Okay. And you, that's your favorite photographer. But when you were alive, which was what, like the mid-1800s?

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And early.

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And early, of course. Um, did you have a painting portrait in the White House? Oh, I'm sorry.

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Oh, of course, yes. Also, I've been I've had several daguerreotypes taken of me. A daguerreotype. Now, what is that? It's an early form of this wasn't how I thought this was gonna start. It was an early form of photography using a different system, uh, a different developmental system. But if you see people from my time photographed, it's often a daguerreotype.

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I think what I'm loving about this is I know a couple of things about you, Zachary Taylor. Um, and I'm loving that we're knowing that you're smart. He's like a very, very smart guy.

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That's a new piece of information for you. Well, I don't think it I don't think it counts as being smart, just being aware of the time that you lived. Okay. Yes. Okay, so you're not. You're so smart, you know what a car is.

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Okay, sure. Okay, so you're not smart. I don't want to put that on you.

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Honestly, no. Very I was a soldier first and foremost.

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I was the president. Actually, to be fair, a lot of presidents are not smart.

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It's true.

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Yeah.

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We're losing tallies in the smart column here. Um, Zachary, did you also is Zachary too informal? Do we have to say Mr. President?

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No, no, no, please. The uh term ends once you've passed on.

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Really?

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Yeah. They don't do that on oh, once you've passed the once you've passed on.

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I guess I haven't thought about what people call like Jimmy Carter in the afternoon.

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Yeah, if I were if I were to talk about Ronald Reagan, I wouldn't say Mr. President Reagan. That's right.

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I certainly wouldn't.

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And I certainly wouldn't.

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And I uh certainly wouldn't. Um so Zach, uh what uh feels wrong. Feels wrong? Is there something you want people to know about you?

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I want people just to appreciate my term in office. I was president for 16 months. Not the shortest, not the shortest. I beat Garfield because he got shot in the back by Gateau. Yeah, and of course I beat uh Harrison, who just died after a month. But I made it 16 months, that's pretty good. Yeah, I Harrison died from the flu because he got right it's unclear. Uh it was either the flu, it was possibly the flu, or it was just the open sewer system we had in the District of Columbia.

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Of course. So smart that'll get you. Um now that is interesting. 16 months. I don't typically think about president's terms in terms of like baby ages.

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You should, yes. My presidency was the size of a guava. If you use the app. Okay.

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I'm familiar with those ops, yes.

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Wow, and so uh I will say I'm unfamiliar with what cut you short.

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Uh I was laid low by the most dastardly of assassins. My love of cherries and milk. I ate too many cherries and milk. Really was expecting you to say a person. No. Okay. And I died. And you understand. You've all had cherries and milk, the two things that are always combined. And you thought, well, I can't just eat one cherry and milk. You have to eat many, many cherries and milk. And I ate so many cherries and milk uh that after a uh several weeks of illness, stomach-based illness, yeah. I don't I won't spell it out for you. Okay. Uh I did die.

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Were you feeding like a toddler or something? Like that.

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Feeding me.

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Okay.

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It kind of answers your question. Um does so but how does that kill you? How does that kill you? No offense. None taken. Uh in what way does that lead to a death?

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You eat too many of anything, it's going to kill you. Anything. Is that right? There's nothing that you can't eat too much of to die. This sentence, I just phrased didn't work, but you got the gist.

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Yeah.

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Even like cotton candy. Oh, yes.

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Even a whole pound of sugar. But it's a whole bunch of. Even a bag of cancer.

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It's mostly air.

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Okay. This is so shocking to me because cherries and milk independently are like healthy.

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Is that a pregnancy thing? Am I crazy? You are crazy. No, you're thinking of pickles. Are you thinking of pickles? Or are you thinking of strawberries and cream? Strawberries and ice cream or something like that?

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Strawberries and ice cream's for everybody.

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No, only pregnant people.

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Strawberries and cream does feel like a cousin of cherries and milk. It feels like the normal cosmic.

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Pickles and milk is a pregnancy thing, right?

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Pickles and peanut butter?

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I've never been pregnant. And when my wife, Peggy, was pregnant, I avoided her. You have children. Oh, yes. How many? Let's say six. Okay.

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That sounds nice.

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I have two. I have two. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Yeah. And uh when I was a father on Earth, it was at a time when I like paid a lot of attention to my kids. Yes.

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It was that was not the um vibe. Yeah. Uh in the 18s, 30s, and 40s. Yeah. I was busy. I was fighting an unjust war in Mexico and doing great, by the way. Unjust on what side? Oh, we just didn't, we just straight up invaded them. Yeah. We just said that the border was somewhere different. We said, now this is ours. And he said, no. And I said, okay, I'll see you at the Battle of Buena Vista. Wow. And then I became president for 16 glorious beautiful months.

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Now, I I gotta know the first cherries and monk night.

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We're talking about it. I am getting hungry. You're salivating? Okay.

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I don't want to make you hungry.

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Wait, so this was the first night. This was days you were doing this? I ate cherries and milk all the time. I just ate too many 16 months in. I believe in the 4th of July party. I can't remember. All the parties blend together. Good grief. Fourth of July.

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There are new dogs? Searching for food if that's the treat at the 4th of July.

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What a treat. Cherries and milk.

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Were there a lot of cherries about?

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Because then wasn't Washington chopping those down left and right?

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Cherry blossoms in DC.

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That's right. Yeah. There are cherries around. They're easy to transport.

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DC cows.

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So this is Washington is past his uh cherry cutting down prime. Yes.

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And is he even did he die by this time?

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Oh, extremely.

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Extremely died. Yeah. Yes, he's extremely died. Yeah. Okay.

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Okay. So the first time. Are you how you had it before? I want to take you through it. You had it.

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What you do is you take the cherries. Okay, and you're familiar with cherries. For sure. Yeah. And then you put them in the milk.

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Ah, like cereal. It's like cereal.

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I don't like cereal. This is pre-cereal. This is pre-cereal. And I have to imagine one of the reasons they invented cereal was because they were like, people keep dying of these cherries and milks. They're becoming addicted to these cherries and milks.

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It's what's crazy is the big difference with the cereal is I don't have to take every kernel of cereal and be like, uh-oh, a pit, spit it out, and then eat it.

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Well, with a blessed life you lead.

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That's my privilege.

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But the pits didn't have anything to do with your death. No. Sheer too many. Sh just too many or if there's just stuff on the cherries and milk. Oh, not watch. Yeah. Maybe the raw milk. Well, obviously, we didn't believe in washing then. Yeah, that's how Garfield died. They didn't wash his hands before they started poking around the bullet wound.

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Is that true?

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100% true. There weren't germs back then. That's right.

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Well, there were, but they were some guys like washing his asshole and then touching President Garfield's hole. Hole?

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Yeah. Bullet hole. Bullet hole. Bullet hole. And he didn't even make it believe it.

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That's you're trying to kind of make a campaign here.

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Can you believe that?

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You're like, oh wait, but that guy over there.

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But Harrison, whatever. He was out in the wet. Garfield's like, oh boy, you get shot in the back of the train station, the guy's poking his finger in your hole for a while, and then you just fucking drop dead.

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I gotta say something else additionally humiliating for Garfield to join you on the smear campaign. Is every time you've said Garfield, the first person I think of is the orange cat, which is our person.

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That's right. Very true. Yeah. Yeah. Uh so it so but you are trying to basically earn cred right now by saying your death is not the most embarrassing. It isn't the most embarrassing one.

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There's been so many more embarrassing ones. Oh, yeah. At the play? You don't make a noise like that in a play. It's humiliating.

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Everyone got so freaked because he screamed so loud. And I'm like, man up.

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It's embarrassing because he was an he was an inconsiderate audience member. That's right. They that's why they started doing the little speech before a play. Yeah. Like, no cabbies don't get shot in the fucking head.

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Yeah. Can you be quiet?

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Just for one moment. Patty Lapone will fucking tear you a new asshole if you start getting shot in the head at a play.

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Oh my god. Whoa, okay. I I may be silly on Lincoln side. I'm not fully convinced, I will say. No offense. Um, I too much cherries and milk, it's it's it is silly. It's not the first silly death we've had on the show. Uh do you feel that it's silly at all, or no? No.

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Have you had cherries and milk?

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I have never had cherries and milk. Well, together independently for sure.

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Yeah, no, then that's not the same thing as it's being like, oh yeah, I've had cake, I had egg, and I had flour and I had sugar. No. Is it a cup or a bowl with the spoons that you're doing? Whatever you want could just be a cupped hand. Simply a cupped hand with having the milk that's everywhere.

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That would be more deadly because these people are washing their assholes and then pouring milk in their hands and then eating.

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Or they're not washing their assholes.

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Sorry. Yeah, actually, their hands should be squeaky clean. Nobody's sticking their hand back there. Things are just flopping out and then they're not even addressing it.

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I don't want flopping out. Do you have you learned over time that like maybe we should be washing hands?

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Still, is that something that you or do you think in the afterlife it doesn't particularly matter? And I will say this I keep dying in the afterlife from the cherries and milk thing. So that's why I think it's too many. I can't because they have cherries and milk up here. Yeah, they do. But I keep eating them and then I die again.

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Sad.

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I know. I can't help it. It's an addiction.

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That is wild because it feels like once I I was gonna say earlier, it seems like you're speaking so positively of these things that led to your death.

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It's almost like like people will be like, oh, I threw up after having pineapple and now I can't eat pineapple. Like they have this bad association with it. Yeah. You not not for you, from dying.

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From dying, yeah. I ate the cherries and milk and I had straight up fatal diarrhea. Uh and we learned what the stomach thing was.

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Yeah. Fatal. Could have guessed, but we learned.

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Yeah. Well, you brought up throwing up. I was like, well, I don't want them to think I was vomiting as the president of the United States.

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Oh, that's embarrassing. Almost as bearing as being assassinated.

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Absolutely. Now, when you say fatal diarrhea, you mean fatal to you, not to somebody else, right? Well, I was gone. I don't know. It's affected people after I was dead.

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Whoa. That would be terrible if your diarrhea killed someone else.

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Yeah.

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Fuck.

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That'd be awful.

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You're like your wife sees it and has a heart attack.

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Yeah. But I I remember when I was a little kid, I remember one day. This was at a time when I was still liked apple juice. Yeah. And one day I was okay. Please continue with the story. We brushed my teeth, and then immediately after brushing my teeth with minty minty toothpaste, I took a sip of apple juice, and it was the most disgusting thing I've ever had. Going forward, that is what apple juice always tasted like to me. And to this day I cannot drink apple juice. Yeah.

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Okay.

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So that's different. Yeah, absolutely different than what I'm saying.

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So for those not watching, um, Zachary Taylor is has pulled out a bunch of cherries, put them in a bowl, and he's got sweet.

SPEAKER_04

And I'm not delicious red cherries. I'm not liking the ratio that I'm anticipating here because it's just a small handful of cherries. I have no idea where he's gonna go with the milk.

SPEAKER_02

You know, I don't know if this is crossing your mind at all, but before he pours this in, I'm wondering sink or float. And I'm curious if you have a use.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, oh, oh, oh. Uh, uh, uh, uh, well, it depends on how much how much of the milk.

SPEAKER_02

No, it's a density thing. Okay, okay. I think sink.

SPEAKER_04

I think sink.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, we're watching it. It's being we're getting some good foley work. And they appear to still be sunk. Let's see.

SPEAKER_04

And what's interesting is the stems aren't off.

SPEAKER_02

I think it's a sink situation. Hard to tell where they go. He he put just enough that we can't actually answer the question.

SPEAKER_01

I can quite tell if they're floating or sinking in this bowl. Because you know what? I was concerned when I saw the fabric of the couch. What would happen if I either spilled some of the meat or had some of my famous fatal diarrhea? And I didn't want to do that, so I put less than a little bit. Oh, that's very sweet.

SPEAKER_04

That's very do you need a spoon? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02

No.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Now I'm is anybody else curious where the pit's gonna go? I have a feeling it's gonna go right back in there. That's exactly where it went. It went right back into the bowl.

SPEAKER_04

Aren't pits full of like cyanide? Are they? You know, that could be a bit of a big thing.

SPEAKER_02

That's an apple thing, right? Isn't it like if you eat an apple apple seeds? They either one, grow in your stomach and you have a big apple tree in your stomach, or two, they kill you. Fuck, it's good.

SPEAKER_04

I I feel like though, it would make sense to me if this guy's Hork and cherries and milk like that, spitting the pits back in. It's bleaching cyanide into the milk. He drinks it like cereal milk after.

SPEAKER_01

That absolutely could be happening. My administration had a treaty with Britain about whether or not we could build a uh canal through Nicaragua. And well, we didn't get around to it, but we passed the treaty, which is one of our my main achievements.

SPEAKER_04

But the treaty didn't take effect. You just passed it.

SPEAKER_01

Well, it became a moot a bit of a moot point. Because of your death. Yeah. I actually don't know. Um, I don't think so. I think it was because Britain wanted to get involved in Central America, excuse me.

SPEAKER_02

Wanted to get involved in Central America.

SPEAKER_01

And then we said, no, that's ours. Because oh because you're closer. Just horrible. Horrible for the entirety history of this country. Yeah. Um, so we said no. And then we almost went to war again for the third time.

SPEAKER_04

In 16 months?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, in 16 months with Great Britain. Yeah, we've been in our third war.

SPEAKER_04

I think it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_02

Or because 1812 and revolution. Yep. And this would be number three. Yeah, that's right. Okay. But the treaty helped calm everybody's things.

SPEAKER_01

Cool.

SPEAKER_02

And to celebrate, you know what I did.

SPEAKER_04

Cherry's monk. You could have used a treaty in your stomach to calm things down.

SPEAKER_01

Why not just a cherry pie? Why not just a cherry? Or cherry ice cream. Or cherry ice cream. Well, cherry pie, good answer. I don't like the crust. Cherry ice cream, 1850. How are we freezing that?

SPEAKER_04

Oh, how are we freezing that is so accurate? You don't get used to it. So accurate.

SPEAKER_01

That's why we love this cherry's milk. We'd often put ice cream. This is your cherry ice cream. Oh my gosh, this is my cherry ice cream. And I've tried it in the afterlife. I've tried cherry Garcia and other cherry ice creams, and I'm like, too cold.

SPEAKER_04

Too solid.

SPEAKER_02

I know that cherry Garcia was a pun.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_02

What else is there to know about it?

SPEAKER_04

What else is it? What did you think it meant? Cherry Garcia. Well, it's just maybe it's one of the like a Hispanic cherry?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, one of the members of the cherry family of the Garcia family.

SPEAKER_04

So it's what, cherry Garcia? Peach Garcia?

SPEAKER_02

Apple Garcia.

SPEAKER_04

Cool. Um, I have a question.

SPEAKER_01

I have an answer, hopefully.

SPEAKER_04

What uh function does the milk serve? So, because right now, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you're dripping a lot of the milk. Yeah. I forgot how much of this is an audio medium, and I apologize. But I'm not going to stop because I'm locked in.

SPEAKER_04

It's also visual.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, it's very visual. What function does the milk have?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, it's almost like it's not that.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I'm not I don't want to be crass on your podcast, but I'm not poor. I'm not just gonna eat cherries. I'm gonna eat cherries and milk.

SPEAKER_04

Oh milk is expensive because it's something you have to consume in theory that day, because there's no refrigeration.

SPEAKER_01

In theory.

SPEAKER_04

In theory.

SPEAKER_02

I don't, of course, but yes.

SPEAKER_04

Well, okay. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02

Now I noticed you got ours from a cart you the milk you got is from a cart in. Back then, were you going straight from cow, or what is what was the you would take a cherry. Okay.

SPEAKER_01

There's a lot of ways to differ to it. Sometimes of course having it in a crystal bowl in the city. It's like having a chef. But the best way to do it is you take a chair. You put the chair in your mouth, and then you lie down on the ground under the cow, and you just take a couple squirts, uh, and then you spit the pit to the side. Okay, and then you go again. It was an hours-long process.

SPEAKER_02

It sounds pleasant to some. That's right. Was it a meal where you guys would you each go under one of the nipples and have four of you? Thank you for calling them nipples. They are nipples. Are they not nipples? I mean, they are, they are, but more most people would say otters, but I think I'm saying there would be four of you, one under each individual nipple.

SPEAKER_04

Each otter, yeah. Most people would just say otters, right?

SPEAKER_01

Yes, each of us would pick an areola of the cow, and then we would just go to the cow. Yeah, exactly. That's when you know it's getting serious.

SPEAKER_02

Because otherwise it's an individual effort if it's just one of you. But uh, you know, it sounds like it could be potentially be a family activity here.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02

Or even just uh with your council. I was gonna say small council, but cabinet?

SPEAKER_01

Cabinet, yes, small council.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, it's more of a game of thrones, though.

SPEAKER_01

It's more of a game of thones.

SPEAKER_02

Absolutely. How much do you feel like Game of Thrones uh is fed from real politics?

SPEAKER_01

From real politics? Probably a ton. I think that's why he can't finish the book because he has to see how politics ends. Oh, yeah. And it is ending, and it's gone down soon.

SPEAKER_04

I I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, so there's the other milk part of the trick.

SPEAKER_04

That's good.

SPEAKER_01

Well that was worse than I thought it would be.

SPEAKER_04

You think?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it was.

SPEAKER_04

I guess it's kind of like sometimes even when I eat dessert, because is this dessert or is this like a meal?

SPEAKER_01

That's a great question. That's a great question. It is a treat and a dessert.

SPEAKER_04

So you I've it's like British pudding and desserts though.

SPEAKER_01

Exactly. What's your favorite dessert?

SPEAKER_04

I love like a big chewy chocolate chip cookie with walnuts and salt on top.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, that sounds really good.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, what about you?

SPEAKER_02

Mine is a mint Oreo blizzard. Number one. Number one by a mile. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Mint or an ice cream. No offense. Not none taken. I didn't invent it. My favorite is cherries and milk.

SPEAKER_04

Of course. Of course. Of course.

SPEAKER_02

Now, how many times, because you've been dead for nearly 175 years. Um math. And math. And it's over, actually. Nearly as in either. Around.

SPEAKER_03

Two bitchy men talking about math. Good God.

SPEAKER_02

How many times do you think you've died of cherries and milk in the afterlife?

SPEAKER_01

Oh, how many stars are in the sky? Oh my god. Trillions? Count the grains of sand on the beach. You can't do it. I don't know. Because here, obviously, time means less. Yes. Um, without the progression of anything, we're all frozen in the moment that we are in.

SPEAKER_04

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Um, so I don't know. Uh but the the darkness keeps coming because I've eaten so many cherries and milk, and then I awake again on that same colorless, featureless beach where we all awake when we pass on, and I'm confused. And then now I kind of get it. I'm like, okay. And then I start the trudge of sins. Yeah. Um, and I get back to my home uh here in the afterworld, and I open up the cooler, and I just get different working.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, you dive right back in. It's it's like your destiny. It's like no matter what you change, yeah, you're always supposed to die that way.

SPEAKER_02

It's like a uh uh Sisyphus that you are choosing. Yes, Abby. Sisyphus if he's like, fuck, I love pushing this rock.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, it's like if a Sisyphus loved it. If a Sisyphus was a sub.

SPEAKER_04

I think Sisyphus is a total fucking simp for that.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, yeah, yeah. I think he would pay. If he wasn't forced to do it, he'd be paid.

SPEAKER_04

I think he'd be uh so obsessed with it.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, people are like, why are you doing it? He's like, God's making me.

SPEAKER_04

And you're like, no, he's fucking not. You like it. Stop being so fucking humiliated by your face. Don't make it roll back down. Yeah, don't make it roll back down. Sisyphus is a pervert.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I don't want to king shave him at all. Um, but absolutely because have you been to his mountain?

unknown

No.

SPEAKER_01

Have you seen him doing it? Rock hard the whole time. A whole way up. The rock is or his BS. And I don't know if that's part of the punishment because that would make it harder, just objectively. I think it's his art.

SPEAKER_04

I would have I would hope so. I hate to see a flaccid rock. And they're almost like it happens, and you're like, wouldn't that be lava? They're almost like it's lava. It's it's it's it's totally normal, and I'm like, it's not you, babe. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I know it's not me.

SPEAKER_01

You're talking about so much is what's making it.

SPEAKER_04

It's just like, I didn't say anything. You're talking about it. Okay. All right. Well, I think this is a good time for a commercial break. Um, I have to actually throw this entire bowl out uh because I can't look at it anymore. So we'll be right back.

SPEAKER_02

Look, one of them looks like a little butt. Are you dead and looking for a lawyer? Because me too, but I can't find any. I think they're all in hell. If you can find one, go ahead and call me at 123-1235. I'm dead and I need a lawyer.

SPEAKER_04

And we're back. We'll leave. I'm so excited for our next guest.

SPEAKER_02

As am I. As a musician myself, as we discussed recently, it's nice to have another one on the couch. Please welcome Selky Johnson.

SPEAKER_00

What a dude plus I've Silky.

SPEAKER_04

What is up?

SPEAKER_00

How we living? Wait. How we're gonna be able to do it. How we dying, how we dying. We're done. We're dying good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

How are you?

SPEAKER_00

Hey man, you know, I'm you know, I'm I'm here, I'm there, I'm everywhere. You know, when you're when you're in the afterlife, it's you got a lot of time to experience every type of emotion that you possibly can. Whoa.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, and I and I feel like it's fun to try and explore those different emotions, right?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, are there any that are hitting you right now?

SPEAKER_00

You know, I'm just you know, I'm I'm trying not to be upset. I'm trying not to be upset. It's okay to be upset. Big feelings like that. Well, depending on what it is, you know. I just I really thought the world was gonna end. You know? I didn't, I wasn't sure if the world was gonna end, but my goddamn hype man and my goddamn DJ, they said, listen, the Mayan calendar, it's gonna happen. We're where the world is gonna end. And I was like, well, why don't we just wait? And they were like, no, let's just fucking go on a bender and go crazy, and then we'll we'll OD, we'll die, we'll have, we'll be in bliss. The fucking world didn't end. I'm up here, I'm finding people are new people are coming that have been dead, and I'm finding out that the world didn't end.

SPEAKER_02

This is like some 2012 shit.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I died in 2012. Oh my god. Like two days before December 19th. December 19th was the the big 21st, but I thought the 21st. If we had just waited, 2012.

SPEAKER_02

1221, 2012. That was a big day.

SPEAKER_04

I am so sorry, and I hate to ask this question, but did your hype man and your DJ die?

SPEAKER_00

Apparently, they did not. That's bullshit.

SPEAKER_04

Is terrible.

SPEAKER_00

They survived. Bullshit.

SPEAKER_04

If you're doing a mass annihilation, you have the courtesy to also die. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02

Selfish. I'm so pissed. Is I I hate to jump to this. Do you think there was any like um Do you think it was purposeful? Whoa. Do you think it was purposeful? You died, they didn't?

SPEAKER_04

Oh no. In in 15 years, he hasn't thought about that. Oh no, oh no, oh no.

SPEAKER_02

You already said he was upset. He's gonna be really interested.

SPEAKER_03

Nearly 15 years old.

SPEAKER_00

You think they could have done it on purpose? That's I I don't know.

SPEAKER_04

If they're the ones that were it didn't seem like you were all that interested in doing it, right?

SPEAKER_00

I was just trying to part, you know, I was the man, I was their breadwinner. They couldn't have done that, you know. What is it that you did on Earth? Well, I was in a I was a rapper. Okay I wasn't I wasn't famous. There was a possibility. Thing is, I was getting some traction. Yeah, you know, I um I had I had a couple meetings with Bad Boy Records. Okay. Yeah. Who's in that one? Uh Diddy. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

You've been keeping up with anything?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I just recently found out. Yeah. Yeah. So I guess that kind of worked out my mind. Yeah, that was a good PR. Yeah, of course. I was very excited. Yeah, a big label. Uh, and I'm just upset because you know, I World War Z was about to come out. It had been taking years. I I can't talk. And I introduced I introduced my DJ DJ Dilly and my hype man, Big Man B, to World War Z in our book club.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And they got to go see it. And every time I talk about World War Z, nobody wants to tell me about it. They're always like, uh, you gotta see it. You gotta never seen it, so I can't tell you. I can't tell you.

SPEAKER_02

Oh I know Brad Pitt.

SPEAKER_00

It's not bad. Are they are they not telling me because it's bad?

SPEAKER_02

I what the only thing I've heard about it is that it's not a true uh it's not a good interpretation of the book, is what I've heard.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, that's a bummer. Yeah, I was so looking forward to that movie.

SPEAKER_04

I'm so sorry. I I just can't believe whether they meant to or not, your friends encouraged you to do something you didn't want to do. Yeah, and that, whether or not it's for uh self-annihilation, is bad fresh. That's never cool.

SPEAKER_00

That's never cool. I'm upset, yeah, but it's okay. You know, I've been I've been realizing the afterlife, there's a there's a multitude of possibilities.

SPEAKER_04

And you know what? I uh not to tell you what to do, but I think I've always been looking for new music in the afterlife. Yeah, yeah. Have you thought have you started any music up here?

unknown

I have not.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah. We've had a couple guests who have put out new albums. Beethoven put on a new album. Uh uh, there was another one too.

SPEAKER_00

Um it's just a little tough when you're not famous, when you're not the famous start famous.

SPEAKER_04

This is just like Hollywood. You have to start famous.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. But sometimes you do it for you, though. Sometimes you do art just for you.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, is there any any song you were like almost gonna release and then you died and and you wish it had been released? You can release it here if you want.

SPEAKER_00

No, I've actually just been working on I have it's it hasn't been music. I've been working on a little personal pet project.

SPEAKER_02

Personal pet project or pest project. Pet project.

SPEAKER_00

It's not it's it's it's just a little something. So I'm thinking, right? Okay, but we're in the afterlife. Yeah, we don't have movies here or shows here. We can't see what's being created in the present time. Yeah, we can't watch that.

SPEAKER_04

We can only make our own crap.

SPEAKER_00

So why don't we get the directors and the writers who are past and have them recreate the stuff that's happening on earth?

SPEAKER_04

Recreate a Hollywood, yeah. Recreate the best of it.

SPEAKER_02

Recreate the stuff that is happening, not create new stuff, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Recreate the exact what if we had David Lynch make the rest of Game of Thrones? I only saw the first two seasons, they were great, you know?

SPEAKER_02

That's a great idea.

SPEAKER_04

Oh David Lynch died.

SPEAKER_02

Oh no. Well, but oh yes.

SPEAKER_04

But oh yes.

SPEAKER_00

That's good.

SPEAKER_04

Wow, okay.

SPEAKER_00

How about a Stanley Kubrick season of Game of Thrones, you know?

SPEAKER_04

Everyone could do Game of The Own Thrones.

SPEAKER_02

Everybody does their own season of Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_04

Whoa, that could be huge. Orson Wells. Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_02

Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_00

Game of Thrones. Wait. The problem is I'm not famous. So I've been trying to get people together to get this idea, this thought process out there, and maybe like a collective.

SPEAKER_04

Tell the you know and Walid and I, to some have a level of fame.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, to a certain extent. But yeah, no, feel free to do that. Maybe we can make moves.

SPEAKER_00

Hey man, fuck it. Let's have Sidney Portier play Frodo Baggins, right? Yeah. He's not directing it. He's just playing Frodo in Game of Through. No, I'm talking, I'm talking crazy. We can do anything. Yeah, Danny Kubrick drives Wear the Rings and Sydney Portier and Frodo Baggins.

SPEAKER_02

That sounds great. That sounds good. I watched the shit out of Sydney Portier's.

SPEAKER_00

It's Frodo? Bro, it's the afterlife. We could do what the fuck we want.

SPEAKER_04

We could have every hot person that's ever died be the new like Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_02

Why they gotta be hot?

SPEAKER_04

I want everyone I would like a reason to watch Game of Thrones. You never watch Game of Thrones? I've seen the last two episodes.

SPEAKER_00

That's a that's crazy. What? I know. Wow. I've heard bad things. You haven't even Oh, you said you only seen the first two seasons. Yeah, they came out 21. And I saw the last two episodes.

SPEAKER_04

So together, we've seen about two seasons. Just a hair over two seasons.

SPEAKER_02

I I've seen the whole thing and it's it does end poorly. I can take a crack at the last season.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, you're you're putting yourself on that list. We said Stanley Kubrick, Sidney Potier. Um me?

SPEAKER_02

Why not? Why not? Okay.

SPEAKER_04

Why the fuck not? I guess if we're really in a why the feck not territory.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, if everybody's taking a shot, I'll take a shot at it.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, what would you do to Game of Thrones? What's your directing style? And I want to hear yours too.

SPEAKER_02

The directing style or the story?

SPEAKER_04

What am I What's the story?

SPEAKER_02

What's the story? How's it different?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Um, well, first of all, I think Jamie should kill Cersei. See, this means nothing to you.

SPEAKER_04

I know it's not landing on me.

SPEAKER_02

It's not landing for me either.

SPEAKER_04

This isn't landing. I I red light. I'm not interested. Silky, what are you what's your take on Game of Thrones?

SPEAKER_00

Game of Thrones, first two seasons great. Uh, I thought it was gonna be the greatest show ever, and then I keep hearing people saying that it was bad and it ended badly, and I'm like, how is that possible? Yeah, how's that even possible?

SPEAKER_02

Maybe let's torrent you a copy. I think maybe we could. Is it possible? Maybe we might be able to tell you.

SPEAKER_04

It might be possible to get you that and World War Z.

SPEAKER_02

Really?

SPEAKER_04

I think we could figure it out.

SPEAKER_02

Maybe if we find some dead hackers.

SPEAKER_04

Could call in if you have access to the MP4s of these things.

SPEAKER_02

Who's a dead hacker that we know? Oh, like Wayne Knight from Jurassic Park.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, yes. I was like, who's the WikiLeaks guy?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, Edward Snowden, he's still like. Or Julian Assange. Those are the same guy, right?

SPEAKER_04

I really confuse both of them because they're both white, like uh Scandinavians. Yeah, and if something we'll get you Julian Assange when he dies. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00

No, yeah, if somebody could go kill David Fincher, that'd be great. No, Finch. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

This is an interesting thing we don't talk about in the afterlife. Is sometimes when your favorite artist is still on Earth, and you're kind of like, how do I make them kick the bucket a little sooner so they get up here? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02

A little bit of possession, stabby stabby, you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Is the name Silky your birth name? Uh, yeah. My parents, they were jazz musicians. Were they really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

That's cool.

SPEAKER_02

What did they uh singing, instruments, brass? What do they do?

SPEAKER_00

Oh, my mother sang and my daddy played the upright bass.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, I love the case.

SPEAKER_04

Oh my god, and then you're a rapper, you're like a musical family.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, real musical family.

SPEAKER_04

Did they support you going into rap as opposed to jazz?

SPEAKER_00

Uh, unfortunately, they had passed before uh they my rap career began. Okay, and I haven't really had to confront them about it because they're in hell. They're in hell? Yeah, they are.

SPEAKER_02

I thought all jazz musicians go to hell.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, they were Jehovah's Witnesses, so yeah, they that stinks.

SPEAKER_04

Unfortunately, that stinks.

SPEAKER_02

And they go to hell not because of their beliefs, but because they bother people too much, right? Isn't that what it was? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

And they can't even get like a little welcome party down there because they don't like holidays. So you can't do anything to celebrate it.

SPEAKER_02

That's right. That's right. Because you are allowed to celebrate your birthday in hell.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

You're allowed to.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_04

Wow. Okay, so you can't even talk to your parents about your rap career. That well, you can talk to us. You can talk to us.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. You know, it was cool. It was great. I was uh, you know, I was making moves. I saw, you know, I was just out here. Uh see, I got the name, I got the the idea of getting a hype man and a DJ because I felt like like a jazz band. You need multiple parts. Like you most rap careers or rap artists is very front-facing on the one artist. Were these guys friends of yours? They were friends of mine.

SPEAKER_04

You were like a DJ B.

SPEAKER_00

DJ Dilly and Big Man B. I think that's what you said. That's what I said. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

But they they were like childhood friends of yours that came up with.

SPEAKER_00

They were friends I had met. They had they were friends I had met along the way, you know. A lot of the way. You know, I was smoking a lot of weed, yeah. I was selling a lot of weed. Yeah. And um, you know, we crossed paths.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And and one was DJ, and I was like, oh man, you know, that's cool. That's cool. And um, we had met we had met outside of uh a wing shop. I was going to get some wings. Yeah. And I was going to get a 12-piece lemon pepper flat. I was literally gonna ask what flavor is. Fried hard.

SPEAKER_04

Wait, what's a flat? Sorry.

SPEAKER_00

The flat is the drum is like the leg. Okay. And the flat is like the wing. Like, I mean, you know, it's it is the wing, you know, on the two portions of a wing. Yes. There's the drum with the the leg meat, and you know, flat is the water.

SPEAKER_04

I literally I'm learning a different culture. Yes, I truly have no idea.

SPEAKER_02

There are certain places where you can specify whether you want a flat or a plump uh DJ Dilly, he was DJing at the wing spot.

SPEAKER_00

That's incredible. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

The wing spot or the wing spot? At the wing spot. At the wing spot.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah. At the wing spot. And um, and I was like, man, these wings. And then you just start kind of like yeah, yeah. It was crazy because he also was the fry cook. He was good with his hands, you know what I'm saying? He was the fry cook and the DJ, you know?

SPEAKER_02

Damn. This is Big B. This is this is DJ Dilly. This is DJ Dilly.

SPEAKER_04

DJ Dilly sounds so delicious, by the way. Just like a big pickle.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, well, and a dilly is a type of bar.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, at Dairy Queen.

SPEAKER_00

I guess where you can get a dilly bar. A blister. Funny enough. Bitch. Funny enough, I accidentally hit Big Man B with a car out in a Dairy Queen parking lot.

SPEAKER_02

And that's Whoa.

SPEAKER_00

Was that funny to him? No, I was just saying, you brought up the.

SPEAKER_02

I guess it is funny. Coincidentally. Oh, he was okay. He was okay. He was okay. Now, but he was okay. He was okay enough to start working with you.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I I had to there's no animosity to be a good thing.

SPEAKER_00

No, there was no animosity because I was like, hey, hey, man, man, I'm sorry. I apologize. Yeah. I'm a little hot. He said, Oh, it's okay. I'm a little hot too.

SPEAKER_02

Did he say oh it's okay? Or is he like, oh, it's okay?

SPEAKER_00

At first he was like, oh, it's okay. Okay. But then he smelled them 10-piece lemon pepper fried wings hard.

SPEAKER_04

And didn't you say 12 piece before? Did you eat two?

unknown

Don't tell.

SPEAKER_00

I told him I got a 10-piece. And he said, you know what? I'll take the 10-piece. I said, hey man, can we split the 10 piece? Oh. Split the 10 piece. Let's split the 10-piece and a blizzard. Okay. And and and that sounds good. And I know you're astonished by this. But listen. Crap. That sounds good.

SPEAKER_02

That sounds so good right now.

SPEAKER_00

We are poor potheads at the time. Of course.

SPEAKER_02

So this was you know, I there is no amount of money that I could have in my bank account in which five flat lemon pepper chicken wings and half a blizzard sounds.

SPEAKER_04

I'm thinking about the vegetarian version. I'm like truly my my tongue getting heavy. Uh huh. Drown a ship right now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Absolutely. I get horny for these wings.

SPEAKER_00

And and and we became best friends, you know? Like, how could you not? You know? Wow. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_02

How can you not? Okay. Yeah. I just uh that I mean that's great. I'm glad that you guys hit it off so well. I just am so concerned that maybe potentially this start of a relationship is maybe what led to your own death or your own downfall. Maybe I'm reading too much into it. Yeah, he's never considered it in his whole life. He's never even considered it one time.

SPEAKER_00

I don't like it. Damn, hold on. Oh man. Yeah. Damn, if I had never hit him in that Dairy Queen parking lot, I might have been in the theater on the opening night of World War Z.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, it's a weird butterfly fact.

SPEAKER_04

Because maybe, but maybe also you wouldn't have even become a rapper without him, you know?

SPEAKER_02

That's very true. Right?

SPEAKER_04

Like, who's to say? I mean, maybe you stole it, so it's kind of like a probably not happen, actually. Uh, it's crazy. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. But you know, but haven't you come to the afterlife and been like, actually turns out it's better here?

SPEAKER_00

It is kind of better. You know, it's crazy because I've been here 15 years. I ain't never thought about this. Because it's crazy here, because you can masturbate as much as you want, you know? I spent years masturbating. I didn't even think about it.

SPEAKER_04

And people didn't like that on earth when if you did that?

SPEAKER_00

I couldn't do it on earth, not like you can in the afterlife. I'm talking about in the afterlife. The first, I think six years in the afterlife, I spent masturbating. Oh, yeah. That's called gooning. It's called gooning? It's called gooning.

SPEAKER_04

Gooning is when you do it a lot. And you like try to get to like and do that, we don't when does it cross the line into gooning? Okay. I listened to a podcast about this.

SPEAKER_02

Would love to know because and and we're a podcast that's gonna talk about now. Okay.

SPEAKER_00

This is a podcast? What's it?

SPEAKER_04

It's a and it's a young.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04

We found out that we're on the internet, and so we're on we're dead at social media. We're dead show. Sorry, now we're dead. Um so gooning, I think, crosses into m masturbating crosses into gooning territory, I think, because of the habitualness. And gooning often involves a lot of screens. You're like multiple screening, quadrants, multiple quadrants, and the the the pornography you're watching is almost like watching like a bunch of vines. Like it's really short snippets, and people spend like eight hours doing that. Eight hours? And I think it's not even necessarily for like to fruition all the time. I think it's like there's a lot of edging stuff involved. It's like a community of people, and and it's you do goon offs where it's like I I think it's called something too. It's like, I dare you to send me something that would make me cut. So I think Gooning is in that universe. This is so I want to know if you've crossed over into Gooning.

SPEAKER_00

I I haven't involved other people. But the multiple screens, eight hours. I mean, I did um uh I did masturbate for six years straight. So I guess you might as well just call me I guess King Goon.

SPEAKER_04

King Goon. King Goon.

SPEAKER_02

King Goon. Who actually is a character in my version of Game of Thrones?

SPEAKER_04

King Goon. King Goon.

SPEAKER_02

King Goon. I don't want to get into it too much.

SPEAKER_04

King Goon honestly actually sounds like uh Krab Rangoon, which also sounds delicious.

SPEAKER_00

Maybe it was very I'm thinking of the the dictator of North Korea. Oh, Kim Jong. Kim Jong. Or it sounds Kim Goon Kim Jong Goon. Kim Jong Goon! Yeah, Kim Jong Goon.

SPEAKER_02

Alright, we should probably cut some questions.

SPEAKER_04

Um, we will be right back. Come on down to the Afterlife Ren Fair. Get painting lessons from Leonardo da Vinci. Yay! Get painting lessons from Michelangelo. Yay! Get painting lessons from Botticelli. Yay! Get your blood. Yay! Only at the Afterlife Renfare. And we're back. We'll lead. As you know, this is my favorite part of the episode.

SPEAKER_02

That's right, where we get a chance to not just introduce these characters to you, but also introduce them to each other. So please welcome back to the show, Zachary Taylor and Silky Johnson.

SPEAKER_00

Oh shit, Zachary Taylor Thomas in the house. No.

SPEAKER_02

We tried.

SPEAKER_04

We tried. He's not dead. This is President Zachary Taylor. Oh shit. He was the 12th president of the United States.

SPEAKER_00

Do you know all your presidents? Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. In order to know, wait, wait. You die while in office, right? Oh yeah. Are you the cherries and cream guy? I'm the cherries and cream guy. Oh man.

SPEAKER_01

Cream is generous. It's just milk.

SPEAKER_04

It almost sounds better as cream.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it does, but like, no. You need it to be waterier.

SPEAKER_04

So this is nice that you know about.

SPEAKER_00

I know about him because like I like. Nah, I go to this place called Cookout. It's like a cookout, it's like a little um fast food place in the South. And they're known for their milkshakes.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And I love to get the black cherry and chocolate milkshake. Yeah. I would get it every day. And this, and then this dude at the at the at the cookout would call me BZT. And I was like, why are you calling me BZT? He's like, oh, you the black Zachary Taylor. And I said, What? He said, You better stop, you better stop eating these damn cherry and chocolate milkshakes every day. I'm telling you, it's gonna kill you. Did you have any on your bender? Um, did I have you on my bender? Oh, I had a lot.

SPEAKER_04

I have to say, if a fast food employee told me what I was ordering would kill me, that would be so scary.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it wouldn't be. But you but you It was a dark time, a dark period of my life.

SPEAKER_04

No, I think this is awesome. You both have no fear when it comes to what you want. No, you love cherries and cream, uh, sorry, milk. No, you love this this milkshake and chocolate milkshake, and you both went for it despite the warnings.

SPEAKER_02

I and you're saying you had a lot while you were on your bender. Yeah, it would be kind of funny if it was what killed you, if we're being honest. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_04

But what killed you, you said was a self-annihilation thing where you guys OD'd.

SPEAKER_00

Where I we just did everything we could. Yeah, and I had a lot of black cherry and I had a couple blizzards. You know, I love dairy.

SPEAKER_04

That both of these men died from the same thing.

SPEAKER_00

My stomach is killing.

SPEAKER_04

I I really can't have it be that both of these men died from the same thing.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, maybe we should do a segment to distract.

SPEAKER_04

I'm gonna be sick to my stomach.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, we got these little segments because I'm trying to market the show a little bit better. Um and we can just try one of these, they're very fun little games. You just want to pick a random and give it to me, and I can read it. Here we go. All right, this is called The Guests and the P. And you just need to guess what is under your cushion. There's something hidden under your cushion. Use your ass to figure it out. There's something under there. I did hide something under the cushion.

SPEAKER_04

Really get in there because you don't want it to be that there's something really obvious under there and you didn't notice.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, and you guys both get to guess, and even Reika, you can throw in a guess if you want.

SPEAKER_04

I have to throw it in without having a cushion. Hold on, hold on. And you gotta use the grip strike of your ass.

SPEAKER_00

I think I got it.

SPEAKER_02

All right, so key. I think it's a stalk of celery. Celery stalk. Okay. Z T. Uh WZ. You think it's a Bible?

SPEAKER_03

Okay, it seems like a wish more than what it's actually feels like.

SPEAKER_02

All right. Eureka.

SPEAKER_04

Um, just feeling briefly. I think I'm gonna go with a notebook.

SPEAKER_02

A notebook?

SPEAKER_04

What is the Bible? It's not the Bible. If it not I feel like there's writing in it.

SPEAKER_01

You guys both think it's books. Do you think a notebook stops being a notebook once you've written it?

SPEAKER_04

Then it's a book. When I when I have one. When I'm putting my notes in there, it becomes a bestseller.

SPEAKER_01

First draft Rika, that's what they call you.

SPEAKER_02

Uh I don't know who to award this to. I think Reka, you might be the closest, but uh Zachary, but per personally for me, I think Zachary might be closest. Do you want to fish around in there and pull the? I'll go ahead and uh lift up the cushion, Silky, and let's see what we got.

SPEAKER_04

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01

It's a wedding, which in the context of you being dead is very sad.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, it's oh, hey, ZT, not all that sad. Our buddy Walid is cheating on his wife. I'm not cheating on my wife. Does he bring up that he was married and I wasn't on Earth, which is so annoying? He does this literally all the time. Fucking fucking buddies send this to my house or whatever. Also, he's cheating on his wife.

SPEAKER_01

Look at the back.

SPEAKER_02

Beautiful. So it's it for those uh not watching, it is a uh the photo album for my wife and I's wedding. Uh and I didn't even think about you're cheating on. And I'm not cheating on her. We when we died, our marriage ended, and thus I can now have sex with other people. Disgusting. Yes, everybody agrees with me but you. No, they don't.

SPEAKER_01

I appreciate you looking too. We had a daguerreotype taken at Peggy and my wedding. Uh it was most of the wedding. Were there the Dirgatroids or whatever they're called? Daguerreotype.

SPEAKER_02

Diguerotypes, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Dirgotroids sounds awesome. Oh my god, that's so delicious right now.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I almost got married. You almost got married. I'm kind of happy I died, actually. Yeah, I was I was engaged to Tila Tequila.

SPEAKER_02

Did you win the show or was this pre-show? Pre-reposed.

SPEAKER_00

I was I was a PA on the show.

SPEAKER_04

And so you were engaged on the show?

SPEAKER_00

No, no, no. Well, we had to keep it a secret. Oh we fell in love on set. Is she dead?

SPEAKER_04

She's no, she's currently a Nazi.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_00

So again, that's what I'm saying. I dodged a bullet on the Tila Tequila.

SPEAKER_04

You dodged a Diddy bullet, you dodged a Tila Tequila bullet. Yeah. She's dodging a lot of bullets.

SPEAKER_02

Maybe I'm I don't want to assume anything. Fucking disgusting. Maybe somebody told me this. I'll just tell it right here. Um, maybe somebody told me this uh out of pocket, but wasn't she not bisexual, and they kind of just did that as a way to market the show better. What are you talking about? Yeah. Because the Tila Tequila show. She had a show. She had a show where it was a dating show, a shot at love with Tila Tequila, and there were both men and women on the show.

SPEAKER_00

But I heard Yeah, I don't think she was a real thing. I was really trying for a threesome, and she just it wouldn't be a good thing.

SPEAKER_04

You don't think that's just because you didn't want a threesome? No, no.

SPEAKER_00

I think she was I think she was faking the funk.

SPEAKER_04

I always app bisexuality is be by with me. Be by with me is kind of how you say be straight with me, to be like a little more inclusive.

SPEAKER_01

That's good. You just want to be a little more not a lot, because then it turns people off. Were there bisexual people in your mind? Can't tell you something? It's like around 1890, people start being like there's no bisexual. Before 1890, everyone was. Really? You only met like six people in your life. Uh huh.

SPEAKER_04

And honestly, I think that's so fair. Like, I think people are lying to themselves when they're like, Oh, I would never date a woman, I would never date a man. I'm like, you don't know anybody. You're probably the fucking loser.

SPEAKER_02

So fair. It's similar reasons for like racism and stuff.

SPEAKER_00

Uh I tell you, I couldn't, I couldn't be around living in today's time.

SPEAKER_04

Really? Wait, it's not so 2012 to 2026.

SPEAKER_00

Well, there's the the Instagram, you can go online, you can see a beautiful woman in five minutes.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, back to Gooning.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I just it would be too much. It'd be too. I'm only one man. It's overstimulating.

SPEAKER_04

ZT, did uh people do a practice? Oh, you're the white Zachary Taylor. Yeah, WZT. Did you we want to be inclusive?

SPEAKER_01

Just a little.

SPEAKER_04

Just a little. Um, did you have a thing in your time where people would pleasure themselves like all day?

SPEAKER_01

Onanism. Organism? Onanism. Onanism.

SPEAKER_04

Omenism?

SPEAKER_01

Nope. Onanism. Onanism.

SPEAKER_04

And is that what's that?

SPEAKER_01

It's exactly what you think it is. Uh onanism, of course, it comes from uh, I think a person in the Bible. Uh, and it is a self-pleasure. Uh is that what you're describing? Yeah. Self-pleasure. Yes. Men would do it all the time. Okay. And women were not impossible.

SPEAKER_02

Impossible. Just impossible. It's just impossible. It just wasn't possible. Yeah, because it's impossible.

SPEAKER_03

It just wouldn't be able to have one.

SPEAKER_00

It just impossibles. Damn, I it's it's a it's I'm an onanist. Didn't know that. You're an onanist.

SPEAKER_04

O-N-A-N.

SPEAKER_01

N-N-I-S-M for onanism.

SPEAKER_04

And they're they're calling it, they're calling it onanism and your kids are doing it. And your kids are doing it right now. Um, so they called it onanism. When did it become Goonanism? Goonanism or masturbation.

SPEAKER_02

I only heard the term gooning starting last year. True.

SPEAKER_04

Gooning has been time. You couldn't goon back then.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

In 2012? You couldn't goon back in ZT time. Oh, no way. You kidding me?

SPEAKER_01

Too many things to do.

SPEAKER_02

Crops. Crops. Because you had to hunt for food back then. Present. Yeah, yeah. Present in.

SPEAKER_04

And you're affected by daylight, I guess? Daylight.

SPEAKER_01

Well, we all are.

SPEAKER_04

Well, in a way that my- Sure.

SPEAKER_01

I had sad, of course. Seasonal effective disorder. We all did because when the sun goes down, you go to bed in 1840.

SPEAKER_02

People were just depressed back then and nobody knew what depression was.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, that sounds right. Okay, cool. That sounds right to me.

SPEAKER_00

I still think people were happier back then. You think so?

SPEAKER_02

What's what do you think is a major difference?

SPEAKER_04

In which people?

SPEAKER_00

Uh I think even mo a lot of people. Okay. I think people weren't overstimulated. I don't think people were overworked. I think people uh they had to find joy where they could and they were appreciative of things.

SPEAKER_04

And you don't feel in 2012, like even though you were not in the Instagram Twitter verse that like you and your friends were were truly happy?

SPEAKER_00

I think I think we were we were happy maybe about a few years before. I think we're slowly creeping into unhappiness. Unhappiness.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I think in 2012, if you put out a delicious bowl of cherries and milk, they would be like, I don't want this. When's the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie coming out? That's what I mean.

SPEAKER_04

When's the next post on my phone?

SPEAKER_02

In 2012 people were yearning for Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Yeah, probably around the third to the fourth one.

SPEAKER_04

What was that for?

SPEAKER_02

After the third one.

SPEAKER_01

After the third one when they did that fourth one without uh without Johnny J.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, that's right, that's right. Right there was mermaids on Stranger Tides.

SPEAKER_04

Right. Are they are they like, let's talk about the artist? I don't want to eat cherries and milk.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, the artist is good. Artist, yeah, that was right around then. Yeah, you missed the you probably missed the artist. We get them so late up here. Yes, down here, wherever we are.

SPEAKER_04

Well, it's tough because you have to torrent, it's like it's really you don't have to be a bad thing. You gotta find a hacker. Gotta find a hacker. Okay, wow. I I'm sensing a bond between you two. I think WZT, you were able to find ways to be happy in your life that were very bad for you, but still made you happy. BZT, or maybe even just ZT. Um we it's clear you weren't able to be happy. Yeah. And and now you don't need social media and all these. Maybe maybe you can take some cues from WZT.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I think so. On happiness. I think so. I think I'm just gonna have to find one thing and allow that to make me happy, and let that be the only thing that makes me happy.

SPEAKER_02

Is that what you're saying? I wasn't. Sounded like it to me. That's what you were saying, right? That's all I like to do.

SPEAKER_04

I think a lot of things in a lot of people, you shouldn't pour everything into one bowl.

SPEAKER_01

That's opposite of what you said before.

SPEAKER_00

You should pour it into a glass. Yeah, what should you pour into a bowl?

SPEAKER_01

A bunch of channels, no, that's not that's five to six cherries and a bunch of milk. Not enough to know if they float or not.

SPEAKER_00

It's like a wicked. Wait, wait, wait. Put the cherries in the milk like cereal? Yes.

SPEAKER_01

And then you deposit the stems.

SPEAKER_00

The first ooh.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, we were doing a lot more ewes. Yeah, not. What if you put some cool whip on top? Now, see, cherries and cool whip.

SPEAKER_04

Cherries and cool whips sounds awesome. I again ask, what is the purpose of the milk? Because the cool whip is just so it helps it all go down. Can't be true.

SPEAKER_02

It thickens it up.

SPEAKER_04

Or it just it makes it more uh contentious going down. It's like slipping and sliding. I can't control it. It could lead me to die.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Well, no, the sheer amount was what led me to die, not the milk. Um, I'm sure I could eat just that many cherries and also die.

SPEAKER_02

Do you when you say sheer amount, do you mean that your stomach was so filled that it was coming up to your esophagus?

SPEAKER_01

Or do you think your body was just overwhelmed by cherries? I believe that my body rejected it, and after in this afterlife, my soul keeps rejecting the amount of cherry smoke that I'm eating.

SPEAKER_00

It must have been a built-up over a time, because once I had like two pounds of cherries and I took a picture of it, and I posted You took a picture of what? The cherries. Two pounds of cherries. And I was like, I'm so hungry, I'm about to eat all these cherries. And everyone was like, do not eat that amount of cherries. Don't eat that amount of cherries. You're about to eat. It's gonna be bad for you if you eat that amount of cherries.

SPEAKER_04

Was it the same fast food?

SPEAKER_00

Well, apparently, I was gonna shit myself. That's apparently if you eat that many cherries.

SPEAKER_01

And you tossed two, three quarts of unpasteurized milk on top of that. Oh baby. You gotta have a great hour and then the worst 14 hours after. Fatal diarrhea.

SPEAKER_04

You you truly like you'd like lose 15 pounds.

SPEAKER_02

Now, I haven't had to use a bathroom since I've been in the afterlife, but I gotta imagine, are you still having fatal diarrhea?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. In the afterlife, I'm basically as I was when I died. Because we're all stuck in that end as we know. Yeah. Jeez.

SPEAKER_04

Well, did did we establish I want to make sure we established a connection between these two. Well, I feel connected.

SPEAKER_02

You feel connected? I mean, we're calling them WZT and BZT.

SPEAKER_04

Which sounds awesome. And honestly, actually, hold on a second.

SPEAKER_02

Are you gonna pitch them as a rap duo?

SPEAKER_04

Why are you fucking taking my ideas right out of my mouth?

SPEAKER_02

Because it's a bad one.

SPEAKER_01

Wow, he said it loud, and I liked that.

SPEAKER_04

Because, because, excuse me, BZT is looking. He was scorned by his hype man and his DJ. WZT, we don't know his musical prowess. It could be awesome. What if they were kind of like a little duo?

SPEAKER_00

Quick question.

SPEAKER_01

Quit. Am I the hype man in this situation?

SPEAKER_00

Quit figured out. Hey, hey, quick question. Hey, hey, hey, I got one thing to ask, Mr. WZT. Will you have a 12-piece of wings with me? I got one question for WZT. Will you have a 12-piece wing with me? I'm about to shit myself.

SPEAKER_04

Sounds like a hit to me. Well, they say you only live once and then thirsty afterlife. I'm Reka Shunker.

SPEAKER_02

And I'm Believe Mansur.

SPEAKER_04

And we're dad.