#154 - Reading About YOUR Hometown Drama

- This is my impression of a Russia, hey, it's okay. - That's a very good impression. - I'm sorry, I only see kindness there. I don't see any mystery. - Okay, King. (laughs) - Hi, welcome to Smoshmouth, I'm Shane. - And I'm Amanda and we have a wonderful guest for us today. She's wearing a hat, but if you couldn't tell, it is a Russia. - Hi, I'll just tip that up so you can confirm my identity. - No, we got it. - I think it's clear, thank you. - And you're wearing a guy's shirt, you said, but honestly, it does not need to be a guy's shirt, it's so freaking cute. - I go, that's a nice shirt and you go, well, it's a shirt for God. - It's a man's shirt. - Which is crazy. - Well, I've been doing a lot of cross gender dressing, actually. - Okay. - I've been doing a lot of like, like, callers, like, ties. I've been really, is that not a great, is that not a good thing? - I don't know, I think it's awesome. - I think it's fantastic. - Yeah, I think it's great. - I don't know why Amanda has a problem with that. - I know, Amanda, clearly you don't want me to dress like a man has. - I don't know why Amanda's okay, I think it's really great. - I said I had the giggles. - You did, just like, I think women look so cool when they wear, like, the shirt and tie look. - Me too. - I think it's awesome. - Yeah. - I think it's a really cool look. - Me too, I've been watching FIFA and I'm like, I get that these women want to be in like, tight ass dresses, but damn, put on a suit, lady. Maybe that's just me, hey, they look incredible. But like, I don't know, I want to see these FIFA announcers, all the men are in badass suits and like, girl. - I mean, listen, I love a tight dress moment and I will be doing that as well. I think what's fun for me is the duality of that. I love being in a suit and a tie, but then I also love being in a tight little number. - Yeah, a look that's been really popular and I think men and women both look really good in it is the Oxford shirt with shorts and then loafers with the high socks. It's a cool look, it's like a business casual look and I think- - It's a Princess Diana look. - Yeah. - Sorry to bring it up, but like she, she literally, the, - No, she had some cool looks. - Shorts with the big oversized sweatshirt. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Like sneaks. - Uh-huh. - Like sneaks, yeah, yeah, yeah, amazing. - I love it. - Anyways, today, we are going to be reading people's hometown drama for weeks now. - Selena has been accruing submissions of the hometown drama. - Hell yeah. - Selena, where'd you get this idea from? - We asked for it on the Smosh subreddit. - I know, but you, you just suddenly one day were like, I'm gonna get people's tea. - Oh, Donna was telling me about some drama in her like in the Facebook group of like the town. - Of the town. - Do you know what's weird though is we were talking about it at lunch. I don't know if it's when Rory was directing, but we were talking about our own hometown dramas and we were like, what? - Home town drama is some crazy shit. - It's pretty juicy. - Oh, everybody's got stories. - I mean, that's, when I listen to date line, sorry to say it, but it is all ignited from hometown drama. - Totally, I think also that sometimes can shape us, right? Like whatever we experience or see in our hometown. - Yeah. - So you either are like, that's crazy. Or you're like, okay, that's how the world is. And then if you do go outside of that community, then you sort of bring that story with you. And you're like, well, this is what happened where I grew up. - Yeah. - And you might think it's like normal. - It's normal, it is, and I'm sure it's still the same, but like back in the day when you're a kid and something happens around the town, you learn about it so slowly that it adds to the like, the intensity of it. And like everybody's aware, but they're slowly getting the details. It's always fascinating because it's never like outright. It's not like a big explosion of something happening. - Yeah. - It's like, did you hear about this thing? - I don't. - I agree with that. And also my mom was a teacher. - Oh, so she knew everything. - She would sit on the edge of my bed and I would wake up and she'd go, did you hear, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like she would always, she always knew. Teachers know everything, right? And did you guys want to know the drama? Or were you like, I just want to stay out of it. I just want to be a kid. - I don't think I was like actively seeking it, but you just learned about everything. - You just knew. - You just found out. - I don't think there was ever that option that I have a choice to go, no, I'm gonna set my boundary and not listen to this. It was like a part of my life. - Yeah. - You had to just, you had to know. - You were just in it. - You're just in it. - Oh, especially Boston. - Oh my gosh. - Stuff was happening. - So. - Fights in the hallway. - Yeah. - Unches. - Whoa. - Yeah. - Fights and unches. - Oh yeah. - I think my hometown, I don't think I was including very much of things. And I also think it was boring. I mean, Arizona, like in a suburb outside of Phoenix. It was there wasn't like too much exciting stuff. I think that the things that happened would always be depressing. - Yeah. - Like oh, this person died and you're like, oh my God. - Yes. - Whoa. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - But not too much, I don't know if I knew too much did you see like drama that was like fun and exciting. - Were you ever a part of any of the drama? - No, I was, I was a boring-ass kid. I was really boring. - Like I was- - Let me tell you Shane, your fun days are coming, honey. - Oh, I think they're gonna hit. - What the fuck are you doing? - Shane's soon enough, you're gonna be so fun. - I'm talking about my childhood. - Listen, you're dissing my entire adult life. - No, no, no, no. - I'm talking about Arizona. - Well, something wild is gonna happen. You're gonna get caught up in some environments. - Oh, I've been in wild shit. It just was after I was an adult here in California. See, I then became a child actor. - Yeah. - And then all the weird shit happened. - Pretty juicy. - But that wasn't hometown drama. That was I'm in the acting industry where everything's fun. - Drama, drama, drama. - Arizona, it was just me and my buddies would just be like, "You wanna walk to Burger King?" And we would walk to Burger King. And they'd be like, "Do we wanna go to this guy's house?" And play video games, like, "Yeah, let's do that." And that was most days. - That sounds awesome. - That was great. I'm not complaining about it. - Are you thinking it boys? - My dream days. - Arese was like a Wendy's hang. - My virginity was like, "I'm good. I'm here. Nothing could ever get close to me." - Okay, so you're gonna want to cut that. - Wow. - And then now he's gonna keep it. - I'm gonna do you assault right there. (laughing) And I'm gonna say, we should cut that. - No, keep it. - Keep it! Keep it! - I changed virginity. Keep it. - Keep proud. - When I was a teenager. - Totally proud. - Yeah. - Of course. - And then I don't like my virginity. I was like, "You know what, we're still doing okay." - We're fine. - You're going on your own journey here. I'm staying quiet. I said the one thing and now I'm like, "You know what, I'm in a shot." (laughing) - Arasha, did you have hometown drama? 'Cause you were in Texas. - Definitely. - You know shit how this. - Yes, definitely. - Everything's bigger in Texas, including the drama. - The drama was big. It was, there was a lot of shit going on. For me, I was just, unfortunately, on the outside of it because-- - That's where you want to be. - Yeah. - You wanted to be in it? - No, no, no, I just wanted to hear about it. I wanted to be more in it. And I don't think that I relate to you guys in that it just sort of happened. And I would hear about it. I actively felt like I needed to seek it. If I wanted to find out. - Really? - Frankly, just-- - By the way, I'm saying when I heard about things, it was usually like months after it happened. - No, mine was like, it just happened two minutes ago. - Oh. - It's happening now. - I had older sisters, my mom was a teacher. - For sure. I think my brother and I played a very similar role in our schools because he was, he's only two years older than me. So we went to the same high school for a couple of years. And we both, I think, were just really, unfortunately, a little isolated. We were very different than the people that we went to school with. So a lot of the stuff that was happening, unfortunately, we were kind of left out a lot. So we would hear the drama from like our very small specific friend groups. But at that point, similarly, it had already happened. It's good, it's kind of a burden sometimes. Not saying that I was in the drama at all, but I felt like I couldn't escape from it. - For sure, if it's heavy stuff in a way and you are just kind of trying to have a piece, I think that is fine. It's, for me, I think the reason I find drama so interesting in my adult life is because it, maybe in a sad way, it just kind of helps me feel a little more involved. - Yeah, you felt isolated. Like, as you're saying, and when you're a teenager, that can be the worst. - You want to feel connected. - You'd rather feel like, oh, intense emotions and oh my gosh, drama, but at least you're alone. - It's just, what it is is like, it's information, right? And nobody likes to be the one who's unaware of what's going on. Everybody knows the secret or everybody has this story that is circulating and you're like, wait, what's happening? Who said that? What happened? - I feel like I kind of love it being like, yeah, I don't even know what's happening. I like that right now because I think it's like, a kid and a teen. - Oh, in my thirties, in my thirties. Sorry, I'm dying, 'cause I'm in my thirties. - Right, yeah. - No, oh, you get over it by a certain point. I do remember when I was a teenager out here in LA, this is like, actor kids, that's really, - Yeah, oh. - The stuff you would do. - Too much. - And I would hear the stuff that then would be like, on TV later, right? If like, these child stars, like, what's going on? - Yeah. - And I did sometimes feel like, oh am I boring and not part of it because I'm not hearing about this until later on. Everybody's my informant, 'cause like, everybody's aware of it, except they're telling me, but I'm not aware of it. - For sure. - But, I don't know, now it is, my God. You don't want any drama. - I really, I'd really rather come in and be like, "People, did you hear?" And it's like, I didn't. Peace. I feel like more and bliss because anytime I go home, it is like, "Did you hear?" - Well, that's, oh, 'cause I was gonna say that's maturity, but you're saying you go home to visit your family. - I don't know what it is about my town. I think it's a small town and they experience winter for many, many months. And let me tell you, drama just occurs. - Yeah. - And so I like to escape from it, whereas you like it 'cause it makes you feel like included and involved. And there's a part of me that is still like, "Oh, that would suck if everyone knew about it." It's like, I didn't hear about it. - Yeah. - There is a feeling of being included. - I think there's also a part of it that makes me feel better about it and in my adult life, whether I'm involved in the drama or not, there's a big, there's sort of like this advice, maybe this like affirmation or this like, just thing that I've really fallen back on. I feel like I've told you guys this as well, but it really, it just sometimes boils down to, whenever shit is going down, at least it's interesting. - Oh, yeah. - Like, it's just, it's in a way, like Burger King and, you know, and not really doing much. It's like, no, no, it's like, I understand it and there has to be a balance with it, but at the same time, if my life is exciting in that way and it is like, whoa, that's crazy and if I am going through a lot and it's, again, a lot of drama, I really try to remind myself, at least. - Living life, it's interesting. - At least it's interesting. At least people are like, whoa, what the hell is going on with? - Yeah, but Burger King has the, have you had the chicken fries? - No, I haven't, or the spicy chicken fries. Have you had those? - Okay, well, that's what I want. - See, that's the drama I was living. - Yeah, okay. - No, I completely do what you're falling for. Also in my school, in like, 'cause I didn't go to high school and by the time you're a teenager, then I think that's when drama really starts to, but, I mean, I was a round actor kid, so I had a weird different high school experience, but I don't know why, my head just, I remember this, like in fourth grade, third grade. I remember like, you kind of believe anything when you're a kid, 'cause you're just like-- - Of course, yes. - And I remember on the playground, someone was like, dude, Ricky kissed Britney Spears. And I'm like, no way, and they're like, yeah, he did. He was on vacation and he kissed Britney Spears. And I'm like, that's, there's no way. (laughing) - And Ricky just walks on the playground like, what's up guys? (laughing) - That's awesome. - Just a lot, like that's also the tough thing. I don't know what was lies or not. - Oh, it was probably all lies. - 'Cause like, you-- - No, Ricky definitely kissed Britney Spears. - Definitely kissed Britney Spears. - Well, that's true. - For sure, for sure. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. - Yeah, that's clear. - Yeah. - Britney hasn't said anything to make me - No, no, I haven't read her memoir, so I know that's probably in it. - Oh, I haven't. - Yeah. - Early parts that she kissed Ricky, but anyways. - Yeah, that's so funny. - Yeah, you do believe, you do believe that. - So I'm also like, what hometown drama is real? - I definitely think that's the game of telephone. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a game of telephone, and it definitely was like kissing. Like people were like, oh, blah, blah, blah, kiss. - Well, and you know what the hometown drama is now that I think is a shared experience among all of us is when you grow up and a lot of the times the people that leave the hometown, then you go back on Facebook and two people from two completely different circles in high school are getting married. - Yeah. - Which is always so crazy, 'cause you're like, but he was, yeah, football team and she was in your book. And they never talk to each other, but here's photos of that, that's the reception. - That's the best hometown drama is just like, they're keeping it a secret. What's funny for me is now that I'm thinking about it is like a lot of my hometown drama was like, pranks, like in the neighborhood. - Oh, that's awesome. - Oh, and I was definitely a part of it for like a little bit. - Okay. - We would like, you know. - What were the pranks? (laughing) - We had fun where it was like someone's TV, wanted to get trash and we would leave it on the front door step and ring the doorbell and run away and hide. And it got good. - And it got good. - Who did this? - You just have a TV on your porch now? - Yeah, something that doesn't mean. - Someone else's porch. - So they put it on the curb and you guys just moved it to the front door. - Yeah. - Oh, you just massively inconvenience them. - Or we do man hunting like hide out when someone's backyard while they were sleeping. - Okay. - Like we would just do weird neighborhood pranks 'cause we all lived like running distance from each other. - Sure. - Ding dong ditch. - Okay. - I would never do eggs. - No, I would never mess with cars that were driving by. - I think more. - No, no. - Did our house get egged? I think our house got egged one time. - I don't think we ever did T.P. houses or anything. But we did like ring the doorbell and we would prank call. - I told you we called Prince Prank Call people. I told you that right where I'd call someone. I would put someone on a three-way conference. So I would be listening with my friends and I would call like you and like a teacher and you'd be like, hello? Hello? Hi. You called me? - No. - Oh. - Wait, that's really good. - That's pretty good. - I love that. - I'm listening and you'd listen in. - Yeah. - Okay. - I'm sure. - Drama, honey. - Or like the pizza, you know. - You were teeing it up like you will not believe the drama so sometimes we would call people and we would just be really quiet. - Well, I have a lot of hometown drama that I will move the drama. - Yeah, this is stuff you cannot say. - I will not be discussing. That's the stuff that's safe for work. - Yeah. - Well, we have a bunch of hometown drama that was submitted to us. - Cool. First of all, I want to say thank you to the fans who listen to Smoshmouth, who like get involved with things that we ask you. You guys are incredible. I'm so grateful and I'm so grateful for these guys. - Thank you to everyone. Got apparently so many submissions. - I have to do a part two. - Selena curated it for the ones that we feel are safe to read here. - And you're gonna read them. - And I'm gonna read them. - He's gonna read them. - So the first one comes from-- - He passed it off too. - We can. - I'll read one. - I'd read. - Okay. - I'll read the first one then. The first one comes from Grouchy Impress, 10-11. Football team was the Bears and someone took the time to make the hedges say Bears. Well, someone else did their own landscaping to make it say penis. Got a love small town. So there's a big hedge on the side of the school. And you know, you can trim up hedges to make shapes and stuff. Like how at Disneyland, it's a Mickey Mouse, whatever. So it said Bears and then someone really, really in a well-done manner reshaped it and it just says penis. It's just a big-- - Oh my God, it's so good. It's well done. - Whoa. - That took time and effort. - Wait, I like, I feel like I would keep that as the mayor of the town. - I love that. - Yeah. - That is perfect. - I'd be like, I'm the mayor and this is, I have a penis. - And this is-- - And in honor of my penis. - You have to have a penis to be a mayor. - Of course. Are we taking a hometown drama? Da, there's a woman mayor. - Exactly. - That's a good friend. - Joking. - Oh, oh, 100%. - That's the prank. - The mayors have penises. - Of course. - So it's only right that they keep the hedges trimmed. - Okay. - Yeah. Are you not on board with us? - No, I guess I am. I guess I am. Okay, let's rate all these hometown dramas scale 110. - Okay. - I think that one's a solid like-- - Two, three. - Two out of 10. - Three. - What's your scale like? What are you ranking it on just like? - Juicy. - Juicy, okay. So it's not, 'cause that's hilarious. - That is funny. - But that's not, that's not too wild. Like nobody died, nobody's, no affair happened. - Yeah, I wanna do like a rating that's like a package deal. No pun intended. - Okay. - Sort of like effort, comedy. - Well, this took a lot of-- - Juiciness, like yeah, all of it. Intelligence. And for that, I would maybe say it's maybe a four. - Okay. - So yeah, so we're just guessing the package deal. - So it's comedy. - Comedy, effort, intelligence. - All of it is a four. - Yeah. - I think all together. - And there's an element of mystery, which I think is also very important. Nobody knows who did this. - Anonymous. - Like, if it's like, oh, it's found out it was this guy who did this. It's more fun. It's like, we don't know who did this. I love that. - That's really really fun. - Yeah. - Should I pass this off? - Yeah, pass it off, honey. - There you go. - Okay. - I guess I should do this one. This comes from glam phibian, a lady had a lion. - Okay. - That's it. - That is pretty crazy. - We have a photo of the lion. - A lady had a lion. - I guess that's real. A lion just chilling in a house. - I'm so sorry. What? How do you brush your teeth and go to bed at night? With a lion there. - Very sweet. - Well, do we think she's telling the truth, or is she loving that picture? - Do we think that photo is AI? - No, let me see. - They were just like, "Yeah, let me just generate some drama." - Hey, March. Hey, are you coming back anytime soon? I'm hungry. - March? - That one's awesome. - Wow. - So someone had a lion. All right. - Yeah, as for drama? - I don't think that's drama. That's just like 76 of us. - That's more of a weird fact. - Yeah. - Every town has like the quirky person. - Yup. - It's like, "Well, that person's there." - I'm gonna give that one like a two. - Because it does make me. you know, think about it for a second. - I'm gonna give that one a three. That woman is facing death every single day of her life. To have a lion stick his head out the window. - What? - Yeah. - That's crazy. - Yeah. - But it's not real. - It's not drama, like that's not like a story. - It's not drama, it's a fact. - That's not an event that someone just had that. - Right. - And that's a thing. - But it's kind of drama that it is. - Sounds like the lion was perfectly well behaved. - It sounds like everyone knew it. - Like they didn't follow that up with yeah, and it killed someone, it was just like she had a lion. - Yeah, thank you for submitting that. We, yeah, that's what we wanna say. Is that like, it sounds like it's just there. - Is she chilling? - Yeah. - Okay, this one, pretty fun. Pickleball Mafia. - Ooh, okay. - Magic Head 23 with two underscores. My neighborhood has been undergoing years of drama related to a tennis court that was hastily converted into a pickleball court. Bypassing, adding any noise, reducing walls. The court is located right next to several homes, one of whom complained incessantly about the annoying noise caused by pickleball players. It got so disruptive that the homeowners decided to move, but struggled finding buyers due to the location of the court directly in their backyard. Okay, that does suck. This issue then snowballed when the homeowner threatened to sue the HOA, many of whom were avid pickleball players and refused to see any issues. It got so heated that finally the HOA decided to temporarily remove pickleball access and then all hell broke loose. The pickleball Mafia, which is what our neighborhood nicknamed them, lashed out via anonymous notes to anti-p pickleball HOA members, accusations of social media bullying and sabotaged during HOA elections and endless complaints. A pickleball committee was formed to investigate what should be done about the court. After a $10,000 noise study, it was determined that the pickleball court violated health and safety guidelines about the proximity to houses and the HOA opted to convert the court back to regular tennis. The pickleball Mafia did not like this and sent threatening notes to most outspoken anti-p pickleball HOA member on his daughter's birthday. He responded by bringing a jar of pickles to the final pickleball committee meeting, declaring, "I will not be intimidated." Most recently, there were elections for several HOA spots and they had to ask all candidates what their pickleball stance was as residents refused to vote without knowing. The pickleball Mafia has now decided to sue the HOA. We'll see what happens next. Oh my God, I love this one. Coming with a pickleball jar, what? I will not be intimidated. I need to know who side you guys are on. Okay, I love this. This is, see, this to me is good drama. This is good drama. It's because it's hilarious 'cause it's pickleball. It's inherently just like dumb, right? There's no need to know. I'm not disrespecting pickleball. And yet somehow I'm heated. It's just like, yeah, heated rivalry. Ooh, pickleball. Actually, it's a little bit more challenges. Imagine challengers, but pickleball, the two nerdiest Silicon Valley guys. I don't know. Cut it so we can make it. I don't need it. Okay, whose side are you on? It's either the choice or not. This is really tough because if this was my back yard and all I heard was like, yeah, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh. Pickleballs, little bit more like, ugh, ugh, ugh. You guys, she's not like John Travolta and Reese. Hey, um, oh, that's an old guy. I like that. I guess is pickleball that much louder than tennis? Anything could have gone in the back. And if it was making noise, it would have been better. How often are they playing it? Are they playing overnight? People? Play pickleball. Pickleballs. It is. Yeah, no, I feel pickleball is huge, but I mean-- But I think people are playing pickle all day. The time hours. They're playing all day all night. Time? Well, especially if it is so popular and there's only this one court for the community, they're probably trying to-- Yeah. Putting it right next to a house, that sucks. In their backyard. I mean, it must have been terrible. The homeowners moved and no one will buy it. You literally move in this-- in this economy? Yeah, so I'm on the homeowners side, 100%. You're on the homeowners side. Yeah. I think demolished the pickleball court. I hate the H.O. demolish. I just think it's like-- No, I can't. They can't leave that where it's like a pickleball court. It's like, hey, man, there's-- You got to find a way to have another pickleball court. Yeah. I'm stereotyping in my head, right? I'm stereotyping my head that I'm like, these pickleball players-- I have a hard time imagining these aren't just rich white people. And unfortunately, I am unfortunately picturing-- Unfortunately, yeah. I'm picturing the types of guys that I know who play pickleball the most like-- They're called the mafia. Oh, wait. The neighborhood called them the pickleball mafia. I don't know if they-- If they called themselves the pickleball mafia, I think they should be killed. They deserve to be killed. Yeah, they didn't call themselves that. The neighborhood nicknamed-- No, I actually have a lot of friends who play pickleball. It is huge. It sounds really fun. But it's just like-- for them to intimidate a homeowner, it's just being like, hey, man, I can't sleep. I think for me, it just reads as entitlement, because it just feels like you are only saying what you're saying, because you are not in the position that this other person is in. If that was you, if that was your home, you would be advocating differently. What happened? So I just hate when people aren't able to consider other people's position and are just working in the interest of what they want to do, which is something as silly as getting to play pickleball in this one court. This is not the only place-- It's not another place we can find to build a pickleball court. Well, they're dropping 10k for studies and stuff. It's like, hey, guys, what if we as a community figure out-- But the H.O.A. is never going to put money where it belongs. No, that's also true. And also, like-- They are also-- I don't really like a lot of people in this story. If the H.O.A. is listening, we have to somehow reverse block that. What do you guys do? I hate them. No, but also, this wasn't even silly anymore. They were sending threatening notes during the Daughters' birthday party. Yeah, no. The pickleball, they are operating like a mafia. On the day of his daughter's birthday-- It was probably Marm, I think, too. How awful is that? Oh, gosh. But he brought that pickle jar. I love that. That's also what I'm going to say. It's easy to not be intimidated by a bunch of pickleball players. I just think it's-- I like that this person is trying to-- I'm not feeling too nervous. I like that they were like, I am not backing down. That's what I can respect about the person. A bunch of lanky dudes and little shorts coming in. No, I'm down to-- A bunch of pickleball players try to intimidate me. I want to be like, hey, man, stop. Back off. But if it was like, oh, they're playing rugby in your backyard. I'd be like, hey, guys. Do you guys want ice tea? Gatorade, anybody? Anyways, you guys are being-- Oh, it's a little loud. I want to just build a ball in a jar and brought that. And been like, this could be your ball. These are your balls that I pick old. That's awesome. OK. Yeah, come for me. We'll see what happens next, dot, dot, dot. So far, this is my favorite one. Me too. I think I give this like a-- Five. Six. Oh, you are. You are harsh. You are harsh critic. Thanks. Six. What were you going to say? I was thinking more closer to like a six or seven. Of course, you were. I was thinking-- Excuse me? It wasn't until that meme that I realized how often I say those numbers-- Totally. What numbers? You know. Above average. OK, so you would give it a seven. Seven was in my head. Or a six. I-- Seven. So I'm like, of course, it can be juicier. But like, this has all the components. Agreed. But like a five. What it needs is like, it needed two individuals to face off. To kiss. Like, it need-- No, like, he brought the pickle jar. It needed a fight to actually have-- But the fight to be like kind of pathetic. Yeah, and end in-- It's like, oh, they actually got in a fight on the pickle ball court. But like, they kind of were just like flapping each other. They just kind of fell to the ground. I'm with you. I'm going to lock in seven. I like that. I'm going to lock in five. OK. Yeah. But I agree with you. It could have been a little bit more sexual. Yeah, you needed it. I just needed someone to kiss someone's husband. And then it's just like, excuse me. I will not be intimidated and get your hands off my wife. What am I saying? It needed an affair, or it needed-- Yeah. Do you mind if I read two, because this one's really short? Yeah. Yeah. Mine was really long. You can read it. You did just have like-- No, no. I'm totally kidding. Yes, it's too. Read it. OK. Walmart Tomales. Weird cost player submitted. In my town, we have two guys who show up in Walmart parking lots selling Tomales in Ziploc bags. And you always have to get your Tomales from the guy with the nice teeth because his Tomales are better. OK. That's not-- So that's the end? That's not drum. And that's a-- hey, there's guys in the parking lot that sell Tomales, and one of them is really good. And they're probably delicious. I want to give this a negative 10. These are-- well, this is OK. I'm not going to give it negative numbers, because it is still valuable information. But it's not drama. It's not drama. It's not drama. What if the two guys are beefing? Well, we don't know that. We only know that the beef is in the Tomales. What we only know is, like, yeah, the guy with the nice teeth has better Tomales, I guess. OK. What does that mean? Yeah, what does that mean? Zero. I'm going to give this, yeah, a 0.5. I just got hungry hearing. I'll give it a 1 because I love Tomales. Whoa, that's awesome. - Awesome. - I'm obsessed with tamales. - That's so great. - Thank you. - I genuinely mean it, but I don't know why I kept double-downing. - What kind of tamales do you guys get when you get tamales? - I don't know. - Meat. - Which meat? I think it really matters. - Does it? - Oh yeah. - Beef. - Chicken. - Oh yeah. - There's a-- - I got a chicken lady. - Oh man, I got this one that's like blue corn and cheese. - Yo. - With some tamales, the like vegetarian ones are the best one. - Yeah, I agree. - Like cheese and like corn and stuff. - So we have to move on. - Yeah, we have to move on, I am getting very hungry. - So. - That's the drama. You guys just made us hungry. - All right, so we read that fun fact one. Now it's time for some drama. Balls to the walls, a sexual rhino. Sorry, I just read it names. - I'm so glad you're reading this one. I'm so glad you're reading this one. - Okay, so we're not into the drama yet. - Uh, so they have this rhino. - There's these sexual rhino. - And there's a lady with a lion. - There was an openly gay man who lived in a big house near the school. The location is important. This man had a cast of his lover's testicles bronzed and then hung it up on his front door. - I love this. - That's amazing. For many years, all the middle and high school kids would walk to the house after school and take turns hiding behind the fence, darting into the yard and up to the door, rubbing the balls and then running back. It happens so often that the balls started to get discolored the way statues do when they're touched in the same place over and over. The guy would sometimes come out and yell at the kids and they would scatter. My mom suspects that the guy actually thought it was funny and was yelling at them as part of the game. Eventually, the balls were removed. My parents. Oh, no. - No. So sorry to hear that. - Sorry, your front door was neutered. - Sorry to this man. My parents can't remember if they died or moved on or what or moved or what, but the balls had been there so long that you could see their outline on the door for a long time. I used to think my parents were fucking with me and had made up this story, but I work with a lot of people now who went to school with my parents and they all have the same story. I realized now that this isn't really a drama, but I think it's still a good story. There was definitely drama with some parents complaining to the school and the people and the couple. And certainly a lot of kids would have to then run back to school afterward so they could still get a ride without their parents knowing. That's just a really fun fact. The kids just wanted to touch the balls, let them. What is the problem? I mean, he had to have been, okay, something that's coming to my head here is like he's getting mad at people for touching these balls, but he put them on the front door as an offer. - Totally. - If you're making a set of nuts, the thing you have to grab to knock on your door, people are going to come up and grab them. I think it's hilarious, but you people are going to come up and grab them. - They're going to grab them. - But they've been really grabbing them. They're getting discolored. - Yeah. - They've been rubbed. They've been rubbed. - And these kids are like, do you want to go touch the balls? Yeah. And they are like doing all these things and not telling their parents. If that was my kid, I'd be like, so like, what was it like? Did you like, why did you want to go touch the balls? - Well, I want to know why they're so aggressively wanting to touch the balls. - I actually don't think that's a mystery at all. I think it makes so much sense to go to the balls on the door. - It's hilarious. - It's hilarious. - What? - Wait. Sorry. Okay. Go on. - I'm sorry. I need us to just hop back to when you were a fricking kid and something as funny and unexplored as balls are on somebody's door. - Oh, I think it makes perfect sense from the kids' point of view. - It makes a source sense. - You and your friends are going to be like, let's go rub the shit out of that. - Which is why as a parent, I'd want to go like, tell me, like, tell me whose idea was it? Why did you want to do it? Like, I just want to hear from them. - And I'd be like, whose idea? It was all of our idea. - Yeah. - There's a parent that's on a door. - You know, it's Ricky's. Ricky Spears. It's his idea. - You got to do it. - Yes. - I think he shouldn't be upset. But it also was a good argument that it is still technically his property. My favorite part of it though is if he's just acting like he's like telling the kids to scram as a part of the game, I love it. - That's very funny. - I love it. - Get off my lawn. - Get off my lawn. And then they run away and he just kind of smiles for a second. - 100% there. That would be 10 out of 10. - Pretty good. - Yeah. I'm going to give that one a six. What? That gets a six. - It's not that. It's not really the drama. - He literally says it's not really drama. I guess. Yeah. He literally says. - I was just saying I gave it too high. - You said, yeah. That got a six foot. - Oh, sorry. Sorry. Jesus. Three. - Okay. - Fine. Would you like to read the next couple? - Wait, wait. Before we move on, I do have to tell this quick little story that just popped in my head. - Is it about balls? - Yeah, it is about balls. - Yes. - It's about tennis balls. I'll never forget my front lawn. I don't know why, but we would always plan on my front lawn. This is going to sound creepy, but it's not. We're fine. This man would, you know how tennis balls came in like a pack of three? - Yeah. - Randomly, he'd drive by, slow down and throw a pack of three tennis balls. It would hit me or hit my sister or hit our front stairs. - That's expensive. - What would happen all the time? So you would drive really fast. - I don't know if he got, he hates you or if he's giving you a gift. - And then he'd slow down and go and chuck the pack of three and we'd be like, "Oh, do you don't know who this guy is?" - No idea who he is. It happened for-- - No, no, no. We-- - How many balls did you guys collect? - Many. Many, many, many. Many. And we would never tell my mom 'cause we were like, "Oh, we don't want to--." - Your mom didn't know about this? - No. So we would just tell my sister, it's like, "That guy just threw those balls at me again." - This is the most insane thing you've ever told me. - Well, I forgot about it. It was deep in a memory box. - What? - And then it just unlocked. - Were they fresh packs? - Fresh packs, unopened, okay? - He must have had the wrong address. - And he would drive by and be like and chuck them as hard as he could. - Okay. - They would hit me. - What kind of car was he driving? - Like a Honda Civic. He was an older guy. And so then finally, like I'm talking weeks of this. - Oh, this was an isolated incident. - This wasn't over the course of a year. - No, no, no, no, no. - Just suddenly he was doing this. - Weeks, weeks. - Okay. - It could be like three months. - Okay. - And I was like, "Why is this happening?" So then finally I was like, "Mom, this man keeps throwing packs of three tennis balls into the yard and it would constantly hit me." And she go, "Oh, that's Ira." She knew exactly who it was. It's one of her, one of her, my mom was a masseuse, also on top of being a teacher. - Of course. - A massage in the house. It was one of her massage clients. She was like, "Oh, he heard that you guys started playing tennis." - So he wouldn't even say anything to you. - Nope. - Just throw him out. - He would go slow down and chuck them as hard as he could at us. And that was his way of saying, "Oh, the girls are playing tennis." - Let me chuck tennis balls. - Like a nice three pack balls. - Those are truly, I think they're pretty pricey. - Yeah. - Oh, my God. - There's a whole other world of me where my mom had a bunch of massage clients and they were all the most ridiculous characters ever. - Right. - And I'd always be like, "Hello?" And they'd be like, "Your mom here?" My whole life was just random people in my house. - Totally. - Only in Boston could someone give a gift in a mean way. (laughing) Like, really? Like, it's a very nice thing that he's doing, but the way he was doing it was a soul. - And if you know-- - Yeah, he was really throwing tennis balls. - But I had a good excuse to hit him. - But my mom's like, how generous of him. That was very kind of him. - Did you thank him? - Did you thank him? - No, and I was like, "I couldn't because he did a drive-on." - Has he drove fast? - I want that so bad to be the next stem. That's Ira. - Oh, that's Ira. - That's Ira. - Oh, that's Ira. - That's Ira. - The girls were playing tennis. He's doing a nice thing. - Oh, that's Ira. Only you'd be like, of course. - Right. - No, that is classic Cindy. - Anyways, this is a classic Cindy, but those ball, all those ball stories. - We got a lot of balls. - I love it. I love it. - It cool balls. - Anyways, we can move on. This is not really a hometown drive. - I'm going to give the balls on the door two out of ten, one for each ball. But I'm going to give Ira ten out of ten. Because-- - Love, love, Ira. - I like these character stories, though. I do appreciate of the interesting characters in these small towns. I love them. - Yeah. - Okay. Next up, we have from IC-Engine 2592. We could have been BuzzFeed. When I was in high school, the administration got rid of all school dances because there was too much inappropriate dancing happening at them. It caused quite the stir in town and was covered on local news. I didn't ever like school dances anyways, so it really didn't have an effect on me. But I remember finding out there was an article written about it on Smosh.com. Yes, back when Smosh Pit had articles, and I thought that was probably the coolest thing my town would ever do. - Smosh Pit had articles. - Well, Smosh.com did. Because Smosh.com was-- it started as a website. - It was like a blog. - It had a bunch of stuff. That's where they would upload their videos at first. Anthony would make games, like flash games on there, and then yeah, they would just write post articles and stuff for a long-- actually for a long time. There was even up until when I was working here, the website was still active and would still have posts. and things. What's a flash game? Oh no. My beard grows out. I turned into a skeleton. Games that used to play on like web browsers back in the day were called flash games because they ran on flash software. So like ebombs world and newgrounds.com. All these websites they would have flash games. They're very like cartoon looking games. So it's called flash games. I see. But you went to college during COVID. Yeah. You are two years old. Yeah. Did I mean to tell you I like ruined the vibe in here? She ruined the vibe in a game. We were just all talking about college and everyone was like, yeah. And like a rush like, what was this year? Like, how is that? And I was like, oh, that was the year that COVID happened. And everybody just started shitting on me. I didn't shit on her. Everybody started throwing tennis balls at me. That was Ira. Oh, that's Ira. Yeah. I also think it must have been like, you just did play games on your computer much. Well, I played Disney Channel games. Okay. I had to get the pizza boxes so that Carrie could sing in the hotel. And Zach and Cody couldn't get caught by Mr. Mosby. Those are flash games. Whoa. Hey, look at you. I just didn't need a flash drive to play them. So well, you don't need a flash drive to play flash games. We have to move on. Actually, you know what, this is fun for me. I feel healed. Okay. Let's have the spotlight on a rush. Great. I think this is a perfect one. Selena titled this the most whole something on here. But wait a second. So let's break down this story. So smash. Oh, oh, yeah. Literally, we just saw this local story and then wrote about it. Yeah. I don't know who was writing the articles whenever this was this happened because, you know, Ian would write a lot of the articles in the beginning of Smosh.com. But I think they had multiple people working on it for a long time. So they essentially had a bunch of grind lights and they cut it down. Grind line. Well, it was just it was just what's the what's the movie. Put loose. Yeah. They just cut out the dances because the dancing was getting too. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The town. Yeah. Did you guys go to school dances? Yeah. Oh, yeah. We talked about this. Oh, I've been a part of grind lines and chain. You've been a part of grind line. Yeah. Everyone like my time. Yeah. My town was a bunch of dancers. Okay. No, I don't know. Everyone was a part of grind lines. I wasn't like the one in the grind line. It was like me and all my friends. And I'm and we're really happy for you guys. It doesn't make me cool. Okay. What does that look like? Everyone's like, oh my god. Grind line. It doesn't make me. But you were popular in school. Yeah. So you're like, you're standing. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm just saying, yeah, but you were popular. I was popular. In school. I don't know. There's nothing. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. I was popular. And I was in the grind lines. Hell yeah. And so that means somebody was standing and a bunch of your friends were not a grind line is no. All right. A grind line is like a very. A rush is just graduated high school. I just started grinding on each other. So essentially, I don't grind this. Yeah. Someone dances behind you like this. And someone's in front of you like this. Oh. And then someone dances in front of them like this. It's like a massage. It's a it's a forny congeline. Yes. Okay. Yeah. So there's just like yours despise it. Right. Yeah. Because there's more contact. It's more rubbing. You're rubbing because they're forming a phalanx. And you can't. Do you? We're the human centipede, but grind it. You're all just grinding on each other, but everybody's standing. Nobody's bent over. People can be bent over if they want. If you're in the front, that just if you're in the front, what happens in the grind line stays in the front. You're in the front. You're getting it from all. Oh, Jesus Christ. And if you're in the back. You're in the back. You just you're just you're the back. You're just going. Anybody want to. Anybody want to jump on. Okay. Okay. So we think that maybe there were some grind lines at these. I don't know. I don't know. We don't actually know. It just says too much inappropriate dancing. Look, some schools are harsher than others. Yeah. For sure. Any physical contact. Like I said, all of our dances were at an old vet hangout. And so the vets couldn't really do much. They just watched. Yeah. We had a lot of veterans. So it was like an armor like a veterinarian. Yeah. I was like, you guys went to dance with the animals. No, no, no, old vets, old vets who played cards and drank whiskey and talked about war. And they had like, what's what's one of those, those old school tanks? A tank. They had. I know that you met something more specific. Shut your mouth. They had a tank. They had a tank. There were two fat spots. They had a tank. They had a tank and they would always go, do you see the tank out there? And you were like, yes, I did. Can I get back to my grind line old guy? I was in the battle of the bulge. That's great. I got to go grind. I got to go grind my bulge. I remember grinding on the front lines. The veterans were the shaperones. Okay. Listen, Arasha, I'm picturing the most intense World War II veteran just sitting in the corner. No, that's what they works. But they were like selling candy and soda to us. And they were like, they were always so mad. They were so mad that we were there in their place. But they had no choice. They had no choice. They were like, this is our hangout. I'm so mad you guys are here. And they would just be like, and if your mom was late to pick you up, it sucked because you had to like stand with one of them. You're outside like this. And you're like, you think this is cold? I remember best tone. All right. Okay. Sorry. We derailed there a little bit. Sorry. I had to talk old times. For sure. For sure. Go on. Do we feel good to move on? Yeah, I think you guys want to rate that one. Yeah. That was that was a school day is getting banned. That's that's two or three. I mean, that's that's very part of the course. I remember our school, our elementary school band. You weren't allowed to run during recess. We were there. Why is that so? A kid a kid ran into a pole. And I think the parents threatened to sue this happens. They're kids in dumbass. Oh, Arizona. You have to imagine Arizona, Arizona, Arizona parents are like that's that's Karen Central. The heat condenses the carons into like a tougher mold into one car. The school constantly got threatened to be sued. So we over the course of my time in elementary school, we had less and less things we could do. And I remember when it finally was like, you're not allowed to run at recess. You're not allowed to run. And it was because a kid had run into a pole. And it's like, you know, the school, the school should have got a school should have issued a statement. Just like skill issue, man. Like look ahead front of you. Wow. Yeah. So no running. I think I had that too at my school in elementary school. They tried it and then they failed. And we went back to something else. What? Because then it was like, you know, the speed walk. You'd still find ways to sneak a run in. They're like, Hey, teachers are looking. Run around love. I love sneaking runs in. Like you're not supposed to run in the hallways, but you would always be like, Oh, yeah, but I can get here awake. I snuck a run in this morning. That's just like a run. Well, no, I meant diarrhea. Okay. Why? Why? Why? Why? Here's the hometown drama in Smosh. You talking about poop consistently. I think it's good to share. I don't. I think it's I think you can talk about poop. It sounds like maybe you need to change up the diet a little bit. Sounds like you guys are jealous. Not at all. I am quite jealous. Not at all. I would love to poop multiple times today, but it's not possible. My GA track is fucked. Okay. Amanda, that's really crazy of you to bring that up. I'm having fun. That's so gross. I'm having next drive. I'm having a good time. Having a good time. I'm going to give the school dance 101 only because the fact that it was also an article written about it, that's the only part that's interesting to me. So the next story is from a user called Shar Chomp. That's a good one. Shar Chomp. That's a good reddit name. So I grew up in a small town in India. Growing up, one of my dad's colleague was a bachelor and a true gem of a man. Let's call him Vee. Vee would always help people participate in local festivals and holiday celebrations and was a very jovial fellow. He was also the first person in my town who would give free tuition to the poorer kids on Sundays and Saturday evenings and buy them school supplies, new clothes and even pay for this kid's school fees so they didn't have to drop out. Four years ago, in 2022, he had a sudden stroke while on an evening walk. He was taken to the hospital and he was diagnosed with a stroke that had affected both his heart and his brain. I'm not a medically inclined person, so I'm not sure of what the condition was. Essentially, the cost of surgery and recovery was far more than what he could afford at the time. But for a small town, people rallied behind him. For the first time, I saw people of my small town, even those who were the bad, natured people, come together as a community to raise the funds for his surgery and post-care. They organized a full, raffle sheet campaign targeting people from neighboring towns. People donated money from their own savings and And at any given time, there were so many visitors to his hospital room. Every day someone would make him home-cooked meals for him, so he wouldn't have to eat hospital food. When asked, I remember one of my parents' friends said that V was a man who would lay on mud and let people walk all over him. If it meant someone else's shoe, wouldn't get dirty. Whoa! He was a man that was the reason why so many poorer families had a future now. Because he gave their kids a chance to succeed in life through education. The town truly believed in the kindness of this man and came together to save him. V didn't survive post-op and passed away. His funeral had over 2,500 people walking to the cremation ground and everyone wept. One of the kids he taught has since started a school in his name in the town and has become a teacher to the other kids. He was a hero and he inspired so many people to be better and kinder. Oh! Wow. This should be a novel. Yeah. So. Rest in peace, V. As far as drama goes, zero out of 10. As far as absolutely beautiful story, 10 out of 10, no, there's no, that is the fuller opposite. That is the sweetest. Truly, truly. That is the great story that fills me with hope and joy. Good. Wow. What an incredible man. Seriously. Wow. This reminds me of my late grandfather actually because he was similarly like such a giving man and he had this thing too that like in his pocket, he always had just like these like candies and everywhere he would go. He would just give like random people like these like candies and stuff like candy. Kind of candy. It was like a little Indian sweet. They were like wrapped up individually and he would just like give them out. He'd always have them and similarly like anytime he had like money in his pocket or anything like, he would always just like randomly be giving it out to people like. So sweet. It's just such a, it's such an incredible trait to have the ability to not care about what you have at all and just want to be at its most extreme, just generous. Yeah. Also candies, man. I don't, I don't know what it is about older people, but my, my, like my great aunt would have bowls of candy and bowls of all different candy. I didn't know how long the candy was out or how long it'd been there. Totally. Sometimes you try it and was like, my pop it said always had those lemon. Orders? The lemon, the lemon heads, not lemon heads, it was, they were like a little more coated. The lemon heads are like smooth. Yeah. You know, these were the other, but they're like a lemon sour candy and then or peppermints. Peppermints. There was a time when we were driving, he was, he had to drive, right? He was too nervous to, he, if he wasn't driving, he'd be in the passenger seat behind the driver's seat, like gripping, um, and, um, but one time, uh, he was driving us and was my mom, my brother and I, and I just somehow didn't notice, but you know, he was smacking on peppermints, the entire drive. And at one point I turned, I just see my mom and she's just like, she's so innocent. I mean, he's smacking on those peppermints, he truly, he truly, in like the, like, basically one of the cup holders, he just always had like a big thing of like candies. Totally, totally. Um, diet, Dr. Peppers and candies all day, every day. Oh, wow. Yeah. He's rocking on those things. So sweet. Are those like Seagrums, Gingerale and Wurthers? Wow. Yeah. Yeah. But people like that from this story, really like, it sucks that they are so rare. Like, like, really to hear those people who are just super selfless, agreed, agreed. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's why they're called gems, they're absolutely, um, but I think what's really beautiful too is that the fact that like what he was maybe think or like what other people could have maybe said about him is like, Oh, especially when it's just like what we're kind of sharing of like, you know, giving out candies, it could feel like such a small little thing that this person is doing. But then when something happened to him, the fact that he was able to bring together this entire town and community in a way that further shaped them, like solidified this community, whatever happens now. I think like, he changed. I mean, it's such an impact on it. Yeah. So it was glue. Yeah. That community. V. Wow. V. V. V. I'm giving that a zero to 10 as a compliment. Agreed. That I'm like, that's not drama. Yeah. Because a drama, drama rips a town apart and he did the opposite. Yeah. Yes. It does. There's always sides. Okay. Here's one. A great follow up. A shit and run. Excellent title. Whoa. Alyssa K. Sing. In September of 2020, a man broke into a home, shit in the dishwasher and left. He didn't even steal anything. He just hung a dump and bolted a shit and run. I don't think they ever caught the poopy perp. But this made global news. Let this-- Global news. Let this story be reminder to lock your doors before bed. I love that it made global news. Like in China, they're like, you will not believe what happened in Sacramento. Global. Not hung a dump, like we're talking second row. Hunger. Yeah. Yeah. That's a very inconvenient place to poop. So that someone had a vendetta. That is good because it has mystery. It does have a crime, but the crime nobody got like super hurt, massively inconvenienced. Why in the dishwasher? So that way when it runs, it's like poop water all over the business. No, that's-- Like God, they fucked up the dishwasher. Yeah. It's like, it's truly like the evolution of a double-decker, right? Like you're really, you're really putting some effort. Did you ever--done--a double-decker. Did you have your hanged a dump in the dishwasher? No. So-- I've never heard of doing it in a dishwasher. If you know what an upper deck is, what's a double-decker? Double-decker's what you do both. A little bit down there and a little bit on top of that. A little bit down there. A little bit on top. A little bit on top of that. I'm going to get rid of that dish. Hopefully it was like one in each of like the utensil like hawkets. We don't need to speculate like that. Anyways, I just mean you with everything. I'm giving this to 7.5. I'm trying to think of my package deal. I'm trying to think of somebody in my hometown. came to mind. This sculpture went up by the port and it caused quite a controversy. The artist Donna Dodson and the Taurus Lee beloved seagull Cinderella. I don't know if I remember this, but it's a seagull with two cans of boobs and her two cans are out. Okay, and she's at a whaling museum, matching with the two cans. Yeah. Guys, I don't remember this. I don't remember this. I probably would have remembered this if I saw it. Is that a seagull? Is that a pelican? I guess it's a seagull. How dare you? It's a seagull. Look at her. She's posted just a wow. And look, their two cans are out. I really can't pull my eyes away. She's loud and proud. Okay. Okay. That is epic. Yeah, whaling museums were a big part of my life. They're really intense. Yeah, sounds like it. They're like a lot of Portuguese fishermen. That's what they did. And they're like museum field trip when you're a kid and you're like the saddest museum I've ever been to. Thank you for the shout out. I don't remember this this seagull, but pretty freaking epic. Look at her. She's got a long skirt on too. Right. Yeah. Also, also drama there. Yeah, also not feeling super, super dramatic about it, but it is. But I love it. Yeah, they're trying to jog some memories about your hometown. And that's the drama. Yeah, a drama is no kid should go to the whaling museum. That's the drama there. Yeah, sure. Do you want me to read this last one? Yeah, you can read it. All right. Here we go. Take it home. Here's our final, our final hometown drama. That's an expensive curse. Zero side rights. How about the time my city, Spokane, Washington got put under a $1.4 million Romani curse because of a rogue police raid. Basically, back in 1986, the local cops went completely rogue and launched this massive hyper aggressive raid on the homes of Grover and Jimmy Marx, who were leaders of the local Romani community. They were looking for stolen jewelry but ended up ransacking the place, ripping through babies diapers and taking millions in cash and early. Hey, those are expensive. Shocking absolutely no one, the courts later ruled the entire raid was 100% illegal and a massive violation of civil rights. But instead of just filing a normal lawsuit and waiting around, Jimmy Marx decided to wage absolute psychological warfare on the city. He walked straight into a crowded city council meeting and placed a formal public curse on the city and everyone in charge. The best part is he didn't just say it and walk away. He spent the next 15 years trolling city hall. Every time the city had a budget crisis, a terrible winter storm or a political scandal, Jimmy would show up to council meetings to mock the officials and remind them the curse was working. At one point, he literally parked a curse right outside city hall through the doors open and told everyone he was unleashing his dead father's spirit to haunt the building forever. The city officials got so completely rattled by the endless bad press that they eventually just broke. In the late 90s, they cut the family a $1.43 million dollar settlement check just to get him to stop. Jimmy took the cash, but he passed away a few years later without ever officially lifting the hex. To this day, whenever something bizarre disasters happens in local politics here, everyone still jokes that the building is cursed. Whoa. That rocks. That rocks. There's no governor involved or making out, but I did not consider that a curse putting a curse on all the officials of a town that's that's not just hometown drama. That's legend status. They're talking about that for a hundred years. They're still talking about it. That's awesome. And he died before the hex was lifted. Oh. Did he die before he could spend any of that money? Maybe he, I don't know. He wasn't about the money for. It wasn't about the money. No, it wasn't about the money. It was about having the power and control over these people. And the principle, like, what a great reason to put a fucking curse on that. Well, they robbed the town robbed him. Insanely so. That is a crazy story. Why did they rob him? They raided the I mean, they basically just had this like illegal police raid. Yeah, they ripped through diapers. The local cops went completely rogue and launched this massive, hyper aggressive raid on the homes. And they were looking for stolen jewelry, but ended up ransacking the place. I mean, this type of thing. I love that. I love that he's like, I'm going to get back at you by putting a hex on all of you. Oh, yeah. And every time something bad happened, he stormed back in and would just be like, reminder that this is because of me. Yeah. By the way, this, all this happened. All this. It's my curse. That's the hacks. I love it. I love it. I'm going to give this like a nine. Yeah. I think that's a nine. That's, that is stellar. And it goes on for 15 years. He parked a curse outside of city hall. Like that's dedication. Although if he was like my husband or brother, I'd be like, you got to stop. Right. Right. You know, I say constantly like I am a skeptical person, but if someone was like, I'm cursing you, I'd be like, I believe it. Hey, man, can we, can we figure this out? Right. I agree. I'm in the nine zone as well. I think I want to give it 9.5 because I also wish he just like kissed someone. On a fair still. Yeah, some sort of a fair, if it turned out that the raid happened because the mayor raided his place because Jimmy was having sex with his wife. With the mayor, with a penis or with the mayor was a woman who has a penis. Yes. Okay. But I just sex needs to happen for it to hit the 10 mark agreed. Agreed. Agreed. And maybe it did. We're just not hearing about it. But I bet Jimmy. I doubt it. They were looking at watching. Nobody's having sex. Yeah. Jimmy was. Jimmy was. Jimmy was. Jimmy was the only one fucking. I think you would go a town over Jimmy definitely want a town. You drive down to Eugene Oregon. Yeah, because they didn't know about him. I mean, a guy putting a curse is kind of like a bit of Washington in Oregon. When shit happens up there, it's not just like, oh, a little bit of drama. It's like, no, people die. People die. Those states do not mess around at all. Yeah. They really don't. It's pretty epic. Twin Peaks was filmed there. Yeah. It's pretty epic. No. Wow. So this was our, this was our highest drama story. And we apparently have a lot more hometown dramas. So I kind of think we need to do a part two. Probably. Probably. Wow. Guys, thank you so much for submitting all these. This is amazing. Yeah. And thank you. A Russia for joining us. Yeah. Oh, thanks for having me. You know, I love the drama. Yeah. Well, now I know why. So you can be connected and included. Yeah. Yeah. And it's interesting. It is very interesting. All of these were interesting. Very interesting. I will give them that. Yeah. Whether we rated it high or not on a drama scale. Right. Because I mean, they're not. I will never forget about the balls knocking on the door. Never forget about the balls. You know, before we go, I mean, I love drama. We love, we love people's wild stories. A Russia. You have a podcast. It's all about that. Yeah. Entirely so. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. Pretty much. I have a podcast called Fest Pool. It's on YouTube and also on all podcast platforms. And essentially, it's kind of like what we did today, except people submit them anonymously via voicemails. And so we sort of get to hear from people's actual voices what they want to share about anything. They're confessing. They're confessing a secret. It could be it could be drama related. It could be wholesome stuff like that. And similarly, it's tough because we always want more information. Yeah. It's always like, oh, I don't know all the details, but we just kind of have to go off of what we hear. But they're leaving voicemails. They leave voicemails. They're listening and then responding to it. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like a call-in confession show, which I need both of you on the couch with me. Oh, I would love that. So this is your official invitation. Oh my god. And I've been waiting for it. I've been waiting for it. And here it is. My mailbox. Yes. I would love that. I would I would love to join. Let's pass. Okay. It's it gets dirty. Let's pass. Right. Short for confess. Right. Exactly. And it rhymes with cesspool. Yeah. Which is like dirty bacteria like dirty little secrets. Of course. A bit of a scientific vibe. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Well, we're in a go watch festival. It's I've already watched some of your episodes. It's very funny and very juicy. Oh my god. Thank you very much. That's that's that's the thing is it's interested. It does not take much for people to confess things. Yeah. I'm like, hey man. All right. Before before people even knew what I was doing with their confessions because we needed confessions to start before the show even was announced. So I just sort of randomly haphazardly just made a video asking people to just send in confessions. And people just call them be like, I killed a man. I killed. I burned down a house. We got 10,000. We got 10,000 calls like. People want to get things off their chest. They do. And if it's anonymous, they can get it off their chest without having to. You're doing a good you're letting people lighten the load. Right. And we're also letting us all enjoy the juiciness. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. In the hopes that there will be some sort of redemption forgiveness. Like that's, you know, that's the undertone of it. But at the end of the day, a lot of people just end up being like, it feels good to get this off my chest. I love it. Well, I can't wait to be on festival. Thank you so much for watching hometown drama. Hopefully part two. Yeah. All right. All right. See you later. Bye. Bye.