Peanut Butter and Whiskey

Opening: the Altoona racetrack gripe, city stick pickup, and studio chaos

• Why can't you blow your grass clippings into the street?

A host opens the show introducing himself on-air as "Ben Foost," says the regular crew is back in the studio, and grumbles about having been misled by the city of Altoona's propaganda implying a NASCAR racetrack exists there. Dan is called out by name for texting on camera, which derails the story. The hosts then trade grievances about the city picking up bundled sticks only to leave them strewn in the street, and a warning about grass clippings clogging wastewater.

AM radio's false local-weather boast; "Open Forum" with Brother Camping; political talk radio

The host returns to his AM talk radio story: the station claimed syndicated national talk stations can't deliver local weather, which he says is a blatant lie since the local FM talk station cuts in with weather every 30 minutes. The crew riffs on "Open Forum," the call-in Bible show hosted by Brother Camping, whose catchphrase "and can we take our next call, please? Welcome to Open Forum" one host performs about fifty times an hour. They compare notes on political radio listening, including WHO and Steve Deace.

Equipment trouble, mowing philosophy, and the 5:30 AM noise complaint

• Is there a city rule against mowing your lawn at 5:30 in the morning?
• Have you ever had the police called on you?

After a botched music restart, the hosts trade lawn-care habits and stories of city codes: one host had the police summoned for riding his mower at 5:30 in the morning so his father-in-law wouldn't see an overgrown two-thirds-acre lawn. They debate whether noise ordinances specify decibel levels and rib each other about souped-up mowers, subwoofers, and the one who blows his leaves into the street.

Band-rehearsal police call; the abusive-neighbor intervention; rental-house neighbors

Asked whether anyone has had the police called on them, a host recalls the early days of Pathway, when the band rehearsing in his garage earned a police visit. Another host recounts confronting a neighbor he believed was abusing his spouse, warning him to keep it inside his walls and telling the woman she had options. The crew then trades rental-house neighbor stories, from the considerate Mexican neighbors who hauled his trash cans to the meth dealers who trashed his rental.

Jury duty on a meth case and the Virginia Slims cigarette forensics

A host describes serving on a jury in a meth case involving the dealer's girlfriend, the jury-room dynamics, and his vague-answers strategy for getting seated. He explains the four counts, the failure-to-obtain-a-drug-tax-stamp charge he initially railed against before admitting a juror's job is applying the law as written, and his amateur-detective breakthrough: identifying Virginia Slims in crime-scene photos as proof the girlfriend still lived in the house, since men do not smoke Virginia Slims. The segment devolves into Virginia Slims lore, pipe-smoking dreams, and Popeye.

The Wales pipe-smoking experiment and the Popeye/Bluto debate

The Virginia Slims thread leads to one host's failed attempt to take up pipe smoking with a pipe bought in Wales, which he could never keep lit, and a home video of him in a Scottish wig in front of a fireplace. The crew then debates Popeye lore — whether the villain is Bluto or Brutus, Olive Oyl's charms — and tests whether oil can be lit on fire, before recapping the show so far: smoking, lighting fires, and dumping chemical-laden grass in the sewer.

American Indian smokes, e-cigarettes, candy cigarettes, and Joe Camel

The hosts compare tobacco forms: additive-free American Indian smokes, early e-cigarettes (a nicotine water-vapor inhaler one host calls 'the bee's knees'), and candy cigarettes — one host felt guilty buying them for his seven-year-old brother-in-law. They debate whether Joe Camel actually sold cigarettes to kids or whether marketing to kids was the excuse for advertising restrictions, noting the double standard with a Miley Cyrus video, before recapping the show once more.

Owl pellets, Facebook name twins, and the "81% have something better to do than drink" billboard

A host's daughter corrects last week's owl discussion: you dissect owl pellets, not owl poop. The crew discusses finding Facebook profiles of strangers who share their names after the break. Then a host dismantles a youth-services billboard claiming 81% of city youth have something better to do than drink — which implies 19% don't, and hands would-be drinkers a majority to join — questioning who was surveyed and how the statistic was gathered.

Dan's Kentucky drive and road-stop bathroom etiquette

Dan, addressed by name, confirms he drove to Kentucky and back — twelve hours straight, arriving home in the wee hours. The hosts then press him on where he 'facilitates' on the road versus at home, settling into a riff on motel bathrooms, cold seats, and the things people leave behind. Dan defends preferring home field or a motel where nobody has been in the last ten minutes.

Childhood gross-out stories: the Band-Aid, the pool balloon, and the dirty magazine

One host tells of pocketing a used Band-Aid from an ER waiting-room chair at age ten after his mother's halfhearted "I touch a Band-Aid!" Another recalls his brother finding a floating prophylactic in a public pool and blowing it up like a balloon while he begged for a turn. A third remembers finding a dirty magazine in a park with a shady friend-of-a-friend, then being mortified when the kid brought it up at the pool in front of his mother.

Johnston Junk Week, Trash Day finds, and the lost Captain Morgan stand-up

The hosts celebrate Johnston Junk Week and Trash Day: a 27-inch TV that works with a taped-on remote, a garage back door that fit exactly, and an old Coke freezer. One host describes the 'magic curb' on the south side where anything marked free vanished in under an hour — except his own push mower once vanished with no sign at all. The crew's band once staged shows with a six-foot Captain Morgan stand-up, which was lost on the road when Pants failed to strap it down; they also lost an $80 hand truck the same way.

Pants calls in: his defense, the "Open Forum" impression, and a live show-open read

Pants calls in to dispute the hosts' version of the lost Captain Morgan stand-up; Mike, addressed by name, is asked to tell the hosts' version first, and Pants counters that the Captain went on a smoke break and was simply never picked back up. The hosts then have Pants perform his dead-on Brother Camping "Welcome to Open Forum" impression and cut a live "You're listening to Live From The Path" show-open voiceover, trying lower deliveries until it lands.

The Pirate Eye Exam T-shirt business and other joke shirts

The crew discusses the random T-shirt business one host started with a buddy: his "Pirate Eye Exam" design (a pirate reading an eye chart, all 'arr's) sold, while "I Kissed Philippe" — a donkey — did not, though he bought one for the baby. The best seller was a bear with deer antlers captioned "beer question mark," and there's also a Barry Goldwater "I am the business" shirt. They debate who actually invented the Pirate Eye Exam design.

Hollowed-out books and the failed secret smoker

The hosts discuss carving books out to hide valuables — hollowed-book safes, hiding spots in toilet tanks and under engine covers — after one host confesses a plan to become a 'secret smoker' by hiding cigarettes in three places when he was trying to quit. The plan failed immediately: smokers can't smell themselves, cheap cologne gives them away, and hiding the habit means never smoking enough to be worth it.

Smokers are unfairly taxed: cigarette taxes, smoking bans, and smoke-hazed bars

One host, identifying himself as a smoker, argues smokers are unfairly taxed while drinkers get away with everything, questioning why Twinkies and French fries escape the moral targeting. The crew debates smoking bans in restaurants and bars — one host holds that owners, not government, should decide, and mourns the neon-and-haze mystique of seedy bars now revealed as ugly dives — and attacks lumped-together health statistics that blame single causes.

Is health a barrier to Christian witness? The "get over it" counseling debate

• Is health a barrier to Christian witness?
• Is telling someone to "get over it" appropriate counseling?

A host relays a coworker's theory that poor health — mainly being overweight — saps Christians' confidence and thereby their witness, possibly a way for Satan to interfere. The crew pushes back: one host says anything can be an excuse not to witness, and recounts skipping a church visit because he smelled like smoke. Zach, addressed by name, defends the legitimacy of self-esteem struggles against the 'get over it' response, arguing real issues need real help, not dismissal; others counter that at some point 'get over it' is exactly right, comparing it to grief that must eventually move forward.

House on TiVo, Hulu's eight-day delay, and the whiniest people on earth

• Why does Hulu take eight days to post new Fox episodes?

The 'get over it' debate continues — one host admits he's a horrible counselor whose advice is 'get over it,' sometimes 'get a job' — interrupted by a tangent about watching House: TiVo skips commercials, Hulu delays Fox episodes eight days (they theorize it's to protect live-TV ad revenue). The conversation turns to Christians being 'the whiniest people on earth,' cueing the next topic: the local Christian radio station's prayer-line testimonials.

Christian radio's "uplifting song" testimonies; why Bibles cost $20

• Why are Bibles still so expensive?

A host complains about the local Christian radio station's 'uplifting message of hope' tagline and its prayer-line clips of callers lifted from despair by a single song, arguing Christ-followers have become beaten down when they've been saved by grace and are children of the most high God. The crew agrees not all Christian music is good — 'three dudes, a ukulele, and one tenor saxophone, you are not a Christian band' — and wonders why plain Bibles still cost $20 when the authors died centuries ago.

Strength, servanthood, and not coddling weakness: the Israelites and "what credit is that to you"

• How should Christians stay bold and strong instead of beaten down?
• Is it selfish to enjoy the attention that comes with up-front ministry leadership?

The crew asks what keeps Christians bold: be in the Word daily, be thick-skinned, quit looking for reasons to be offended, move with strength. One host defines strength as God-powered servanthood — a servant, not a slave — and another cites the Israelites as people who had everything in front of them yet grumbled, like modern believers. A host paraphrases Jesus' 'what credit is that to you' teaching on lending at interest to puncture ego over doing basic obedience, and another honestly examines whether enjoying attention in up-front ministry leadership was selfish.

Lord Jesus Christ of Northampton gets run over; the name-change debate

• What do you make of a man legally named Lord Jesus Christ?

A host reads a news story funneled by Pants: a 20-year-old driver cited in Northampton, Massachusetts, after running down Lord Jesus Christ — that is his legal first, middle, and last name — in a marked crosswalk; he was treated for minor injuries and released. The crew riff on whether the driver aimed for him, his church name tag, and whether he's mocking Jesus. Dan, addressed by name, says he'd never change his; Zach, addressed by name, admits he'd have sold out for Hollywood and reveals a DJ alias, 'Ace Cooler'; Mike, addressed by name, says he'd never change his.

Mike's forgotten alias; Bernie the jackass, Feldman the sheep, and Hubert Montgomery the pony; the rental-house proposal

Mike, addressed by name, tries to recall an alias he once used — Ferdinand? Fran? — then remembers it started with a G. The animal names follow: a sheep named Feldman, Bernie the jackass, and Hubert Montgomery the pony from the barn at the house Mike and Ben once lived in. One host recounts proposing to his wife in that rental house while the dog had dragged in a dead deer leg, and the crew promises farm stories next week.

Sign-off: Pathway Church in Johnston and the closing sauna video

The hosts close out: they are all from Pathway Church in Johnston, meeting Sundays at 10 a.m. at Wallace Elementary, welcoming anyone looking for a church body. They tease next week's rental-house stories and play the closing video: a fully clothed man in a sauna growing his mustache until the world understands him as a well-educated man who gets all his information from Live From The Path on Des Moines Amplify.com.