Pope resignation, church scandals, Paterno cover-up

Welcome back to the Ken August Show. We are live at Skid Row Studios. Real radio on the internet. That is fantastic. So, the man with the large hat stepped down this week. Abe Lincoln? I thought he was dead. He is, and he died, I believe, killing vampires. I saw a movie recently. He was killing some vampires. Surprised Spielberg made that movie. So, the Pope. I don't know if you guys have heard this story. Yes, different hat. Same size, different hat. The Pope. 85-year-old Pope Benedict stepped down. Let's listen to this from Newsy. Pope Benedict XVI announced that he will resign at the end of this month, citing his age and his physical fatigue. USA Today says, Pope Benedict, whose real name is Joseph Ratzinger, has been considering stepping down for months, sourcing the Pope's brother. Okay, so, by the way, that's the Pope's older brother. That is true. Older brother. So, they're sourcing the older guy to find out why the younger, spry 85-year-old is not feeling so young. So, the Pope stepped down, claimed he was feeling a little old. So, eight years after they made a 77-year-old man Pope, the Pope feels old. I feel like somebody should have seen this coming. Yeah, like everyone? Everybody should have seen this coming. He is the first Pope to voluntarily resign in almost 600 years. Good. Voluntarily, by the way, because apparently the last Pope to resign did so because there was multiple Popes. Can the Popes just resign in general? Can we just, like, have Pope be resigned as a whole thing? No. They don't want extra Popes. They don't want extra Popes. First of all, do you have any idea why the Pope changed? Why does somebody change their name when they become Pope? I don't know. It's a stage name. Stage name is nice. When you get to wear the Technicolor Dreamcoat like that, you might want to go with the stage name. Like, why does Jay-Z go by that instead of Sean Carter? Because no one wants to yell, Sean Carter on a rap track. And when you're sitting there going, let me throw around the incense, you don't want to go Mr. Ratsinger. Let me congratulate you on finally doing a voice that wasn't an old Jewish lady, by the way. Congratulations on not making the Pope an old Jewish lady. That was great. I could have. I'm going with, in this specific case, in Ratsinger's case, it might have been, he might have changed his name to stay one step ahead of the police. Right. That is my theory. But otherwise, most entertainers, when they take a stage name, weren't nominated to the stage name. Like, I mean, they didn't get nominated to be an entertainer and then go. That would be weird, though, wouldn't it? How so? If we nominated our entertainers, we're like, you know what? This week, I want Ken August to be our country singer. That would be a horrible decision. That is a horrible decision. I don't know who's doing this voting in your head, but that is a fucking horrible decision. Just me. Yeah, you should fire that person. I'm done. Some people think, you know, some people think he's stepping down for other reasons. When I say some people, I am among those some people. I think, have you seen or heard anything about the documentary that just came out? It was already actually at the end of last year. It was in limited theaters, and now it came out. I believe it's called Mia Maxima Culpa, something along those lines. And it is, it is... Basically, deals with the church scandal and the cover-up of all the molestations, or some of the molestations. So it's a comedy. It is, it is not that funny. As a matter of fact, I tried to... Mia Maxima Culpa, that is the name of it, and it just aired. It was an HBO documentary. And it deals with certain cases. Specifically deals with one starting in the 50s with a priest who is molested, has molested and admitted to it over 200 deaf children. And it's a comedy. And it's a comedy. And it's a comedy. And it's a comedy. And it's a comedy. And it's a comedy. In a specific school. He didn't just go around looking for deaf children. It was in a school where these kids specifically were. That'd be so weird if that was his thing. It's like, well, it's easy to sneak up on. Oh, there you go. At least you made him German. That seems more accurate. At least from my Jewish ears, that seems more accurate. I mean, yeah. No, first of all, this guy, this guy was, besides being fucking horrible, he was preying on these kids that were in this, you know, these kids with this handicap. At that point, he was like, at that point in time, that were in this school specifically for kids with hearing problems. And some of these kids couldn't necessarily communicate. Some of them could. You know, some of them knew sign language very well. Other ones were not very good at communicating yet. And he would prey on these kids. And it was known. I mean, there had been, there had been actual priests. When this guy would leave, somebody else would come in for a while. If this guy had a week off or whatever, somebody else would come in and the kids would tell this person. And this person would go write a letter. And this person would go write a letter. And this person would go write a letter. To the Vatican. And they would be like, well, maybe we should do a private investigation. And maybe we should keep it quiet. And we reserved the right to, you know, not tell the police. Did they tie it back to Ratzinger specifically? Well, here's what ended up happening. I'm not positive about that case, although I believe that case, yes. As a matter of fact, yes. Here's what ended up happening. They ended up writing, someone wrote a letter requesting they get this guy the hell away from children. And Ratzinger, Ratzinger didn't answer. Now, under Pope John Paul, Ratzinger became the cardinal in charge of basically all these cases, all disciplinary action. So all molestation cases went to Ratzinger. And he came out with, first of all, for this specific case, they wrote a letter at least once asking to deal with this guy. And Ratzinger never responded. Months and months later, the second in command in his office responded with, keep it quiet. Do your own investigation or have the church do their own investigation. Don't tell anybody. Keep it in house. And we'll figure out what to do if we have to remove them. Then, in response to that, and I can pause if you want to express some sort of disgust because I had to walk away from the movie for a little bit because I was just so fucking outraged. They end up, they second in command again. Still, Ratzinger writes nothing. There's no way he doesn't know about this because it's being sent to his office. So, his second in command, you know, writes, okay, keep everything private and we'll figure out what we have to do. The actual accused priest then writes a letter to that same office pretty much admitting it or admitting it and saying, look, I'm old. I would just like to die with my dignity as a priest and my reputation as a priest. So, you know, just let this go and keep it quiet and let me just retire. You mean die with your Jimmy cut off? Stuff down your throat? Sure, I'm happy with that. Yes. And they decided that was a fair, fair plan. Let this guy die. Let this guy who's been raping children die with his dignity. Let Christopher Dorner released into Vatican City and I'm fine with that. I mean, how fucking disgusting is, it is so outrageously disgusting and the thing is, it's bad enough that there's horrible, horrible people doing these horrible, horrible things. But, now it's being covered up by the people at the top. At the very top. So, first of all, for me to even assume and I know people dig in their heels when I, you know, I'll bring up my buddy who I used as an example the other day when talking with someone. I have a friend who, he's not a very religious man. Grew up, I believe, Catholic. But not a very religious man, you know, at this point in time. He's more of a logical thinking individual. When I say that, I am not saying that everybody who's religious, but I'm saying, it's not logical, but I am saying that if you brought up miracles or things along those lines, some of the more mythical stories that you would hear in the Bible, this guy's not buying that word for word. He doesn't believe they got two of every animal and put them on a boat somewhere. He doesn't believe shit like that. However, whenever a scandal comes up and it gets anywhere near the Pope, that is where he wants to draw the line. I mean, you can be watching this movie about all this other shit going on, and all the coverups. And once you get to the Pope, and it started back before John Paul left. I remember, you know, I'll make, once a scandal comes up, I'll make my share of Pope jokes. And I don't, certainly don't think it's just one religion that's crooked because I can tell you, you know, the cantor in my temple is in prison for doing something very similar. However, I made a Pope joke. Shit ain't funny to him. Right there, he immediately, doesn't matter. He forgets all the facts that he already knew and goes with, no, no, he's a good man. He's a good man. Be careful with the Pope jokes. I'm like, don't punch him in the face. If I meet you, friend, I will happily at least pinch you, pinch you hard. You got to be careful. In this town, that's easily, a lot of people would like that. So, he may specifically get a pinch out of the deal. But, for some reason, there is always a desire, even though people logically know, hey, you know what? This has been, there's no way you're getting all the way through the higher ups of the church and not knowing that these people have to be aware of this problem. This is not a one person problem. This is not a, well, there's been those two priests over the histories. You know, this has been an ongoing problem that has been covered up by the people at the top. Yet, there is a desire somehow to try to, I think, I think it is a natural instinct to protect what you grew up believing by saying, well, no, the guy, the guy in charge is all right. He's good. Like, no, no, he's not. Yeah, clearly the head of Blackwater, he's, you know, has no problems with him whatsoever. Well, the president of Monsanto, that guy, you know, he actually, he just likes growing food. No, well, it's not the president of anything. It is, he grew up, you know, he grew up Catholic. So, when all this horrible shit happens, he can't deny that this horrible shit happens, but he wants, he grew up at least revering the Pope. And so, the only thing I'm assuming you can hang on to, and this is nothing that, I brought it to his attention. I said, you realize, you'd always draw the line at the Pope. No matter who the Pope is, you like to go, the Pope's a good man. I go, let me tell you right now, and I don't have a lot of facts on John Paul, but I would bet everything I have that he knew what was going on as well. Because the man right below him knew, Ratzinger, the guy who's now Pope, certainly knew. And here's another disgusting thing that he did as Cardinal with this position that he had of being in charge of all these molestation cases. He put out a decree. He specifically put out an order that every, single case like this has to be kept secret until 10 years after the victim turns 18. What, what sense does that make? Well, do you want, what real sense does that make or what sense could he pretend that makes? Well, first of all, I think the whole reason is it's much easier if you have a kid that there's pictures of versus you have a 28-year-old man there's a picture of. You don't care about, let's be clear, no one cares if a 28-year-old man gets molested. Well, I'm 28. You saw pictures of me. You're like, that guy got molested. He'd be like, and whatever, he's a weirdo. Yeah, why would he not just walk away from it? No, no, he's not saying there's nobody accusing any 28-year-old of anybody molesting a 28-year-old. What he's saying is if you are 18, he's saying if somebody was molested when they're 10, that stays secret until he is 28 years old. What is their reasoning behind that? Do you know the reason they said that? The reason that they gave that was this is an in-house matter and we will decide how we need to deal with it and it is, and I mean, basically, he worded it in every other possible way than to say, hey, that's when, you know, that's when perhaps a lot of the expiration dates will, on this crime will be up. Religious exemption is a guy out the window. A religion is not a non-profit 5013 see-a-bull thing. It's garbage. Now, if religious group has a charitable organization that does charitable good, charitable work, great, but the actual thing just being, hey, no, we don't, you guys are just, you do your own whatever and we have nothing to do with you, tax those dudes and just punch, just, I would head kick Ratzinger if I could. I'm not, I can't because he's in a nice little box, but if you put me in a cage with Ratzinger, like, I'd give him a couple head kicks and then choke him out. I do believe, and choke him out. Who's like, who likes MMA more than you? I do. I believe that he gets to keep his Popemobile, but he has to return the innocence of the children that he liked, right? I mean, so dumb with it. It is, it is shocking that somebody like, I mean, it is known. There's things that are known or these things that are, we know that he made that, there was a letter from him that says, keep this inside. How powerful is your organization when even though the police have a letter of you saying, hey, I'm not, I'm not going to obstruct justice until it's too late for them to do anything about it. How fucked up is that when the police still can't do anything? Like, well, he's high up in the church. Throw him in jail. Let, let the prison system, let that internal, what they do to the, to the kid rapers in prison, let them work it out traditionally. Then your buddy who's like, well, it stops at the Pope. Guess what? He wasn't always the Pope. No. You have to work your, they promote from within. They don't just go out and like find like, hey, you work at Kmart, want to be our Pope? That is, yeah, that is why there's just, there's too many cases of not only it happening, but of coverup. And that, that is where you have to go. You can't get that high up without knowing what's going on. I mean, if it was an occasional case of this person does something horrible and then they found out and they got rid of him and this person did something, even if it was scattered cases here or there, the church has been around for thousands of years and it contains so many people that you go, there are going to be some horrible people that have infiltrated your system. Fair enough. But the people that are supposed to be preaching these morals, these are the people that are covering it up. And that is, I mean, I don't know another way around that. I have no idea. Now they got to pick another one. Tough job to come in as this Pope. People will say too that, oh, hey, well, I'm a Catholic. It's not Catholicism that's bad. It's these people that are bad. Well, when the head of your church, the number one guy, the anointed by God, when that man specifically has documented, has been documented covering stuff up, how do you then go, well, you know, the head of everything was covering up child molestation, but Catholicism is okay. It's, they're not, people want to disconnect the religion from these people. Well, in this specific instance where the Pope is the word of God, they're not disconnected. The Pope is not supposed to be infallible though, is he? Isn't that the whole, isn't that the whole reason why everyone was afraid of Kennedy being president? They were worried he would take orders from the Pope. Yeah. Yeah. And he specifically had to come out and say that will not be the case. But yeah, that was one reason, yes. That's, I mean, that's, isn't that the basic idea? The Pope says, this is what the word of God is through my holy, whatever the dealie. Yeah. Well, whatever the opposite, this guy is leading the league infallible as far as I'm concerned. All right. When we come back, we're going to talk about what the hell an ex-Pope does with his time and where he's going to stay. And does he have a talk show coming up? That'll be, that'll be interesting. You are listening to the Ken August Show live at Skid Row Studios. Real radio on the internet. Listen, to Skid Row Studios anytime, anywhere. With the Skid Row app on your smartphone. Skid Row Studios. Real radio on the internet. Man, it's smoky in here. It's like a fucking hot box. I can barely see my own face. I can barely see your face. That's because, uh, we are in the hot box, actually. And we're going to be in the hot box every Tuesday from 9 p.m. Pacific time to 10 p.m. Pacific time at www.skidrowstudios.com. Yeah. Please come get high with us. We'll be back. We'll be back. 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Real internet radio. you're listening to skid row studios.com this is keith coogan tune into the call sheet saturday nights 8 to 9 p.m and i promise to sound like i'm always on quaaludes welcome back to the ken august show live at skid row studios real radio on the internet so we're talking about the pope and uh what does a pope do what does a former pope do there haven't been really a lot of uh i think he's the second pope third pope maybe ever to resign is how many popes has been by the way uh too many popes 265 i want to say it's a lot of popes 265 recognized popes i guess there were a few there was the masked pope the unknown comic pope that was he was a good one uh they i was looking up how they select the new pope which basically i pretty much only know stuff like that from like dan brown novels okay um they do do the uh the lock the pope lock the cardinals into into the church and then basically say you can't come out until you get two-thirds of a vote for who's pope it's like it's like making the hall of fame i think oh yeah that sounds fantastic that must be the most wild party guys we're gonna lock in here and discuss who gets to wear the hat can you you know here's the thing is you there has to be crazy politicking going on back there i mean you like to think of it as just well here are a bunch of older gentlemen who in theory have the you know the church's best interest in mind on the other hand you know there's not going to be an american pope anytime soon because other countries don't have a pope in america they're watching like videos like how good is he at lying about the kid touching he has a good look put on his reel put on joe schmoe's he's good real joe schmoe now if his name was joe schmoe i would understand why the pope would change his name that would make sense carl you can't have carl the pope no marcellus i want a marcellus that would be nice pope marcellus is pretty cool sounding guys we have pope carl johnson in studio hey fellas how you doing god and you know there's a trinity this is fantastic thanks for having me so they do the smoke thing as well somebody they pull the bong out and uh when they vote and they don't get two-thirds it's like black smoke i think and then when they do they put the white smoke out how great would that be if that actually what the white smoke is it's just them being like we win and then it's a victory smoke then it's all take a massive grip yeah yeah you hear that that would be nice that would be very very nice i would have so many less problems with the pope getting high than the pope covering up half the shit he's covering up it would explain the clothes i'm not sure it would i'm not sure it would if you if i was baked that i was super baked and you were like hey check out these weird robes and there's gold stitching and you have to wear like a giant hat that looks like a carrot i'm like yeah dude um whatever bro the hat i can see you with the hat but i'm pretty sure i've seen you you would go allegedly you've allegedly seen me crazy high yeah let me rephrase that i've seen you wear in my head you were crazy high and i could see you putting on a huge hat i was pretty high i always assumed that was why john paul leaned forward so much was not because he was old and at parkinson's was because the hat was too heavy oh he was like bro seriously this hat is ridiculous guys bro come on really i have to wear this thing stoner californian you get to wear a little skull cappy thing and i have to wear this giant cap and i have to wear this giant cap and i have to wear this collection do you have any idea how much gold can i can i get away for this is starting is this your high pope this is the high bro this is nice high pope what do you think's in the incense bro that is that is uh that's what the cover-up was they were just like dude molest you're killing my buzz man with all this molesting it's just what just tell them it wasn't a thing it would not be the first thing that the uh that the church has killed there's but they have killed plenty plenty of people he's staying this pope is staying and it's a lot of pressure for the next pope is staying in vatican city i think part of that is because you can't prosecute the man if he's in vatican city although it would be awesome if we declared war on vatican city uh that is which is technically its own country which doesn't really make any sense yeah that's fine like luxembourg versus vatican city let's have that war that'd be nice that'd be like fox's celebrity boxing perfect that is great uh he is staying uh so does he change his name back from pope benedictine does he go back to ratzinger oh interesting i mean does prince go back to being whatever like the sign yeah he's like prince to the sign to priest prince again right he's prince again so the pope can go back to joe this does pope have to get out of a record contract it's not impossible that is not that is not impossible that's so weird they're like the next day like hey what's up joe he's like i'm the buzz you're right i am not him i would not be surprised well i would you be surprised if all of a sudden like on on the opera network there's you know dr pontiff he just has you know right now he just has to learn how to say uh baby daddy in latin and otherwise he's got a show oh man that would be great that would be great i would actually watch the midday talk show with the pope would you really the popera yeah popera oh man that would be nice that would be very very nice i mean i just wish i really wish that they could just here's the thing is do you think i mean and they already kind of can but do you think if they could if the police could do something about it could specifically tie some sort of child molestation case to the pope specifically tie it right there boom you either knew about it or you were jerking off to it in the background or you covered the guy up would anybody how many people lose faith in the religion itself or if you still actually have faith in the religion you're going to find another way to keep it i think that people are so entrenched that you i mean you could i think you could show a video of pope joe ratsinger and that's his name now pope joe ratsinger from germany popey joe popey joe you could show a video of him rolling around a chucky cheese ball pit with six-year-olds naked and people would go well you know it's but there's still they would still be catholic they would still like to for catholic catholicism who catholicism jesus i can't who is uh spoken like a true jew my man spoken like a true jew by the way i'm pretty sure jeremy you would get drunk at a place called uh popey joe's you would get shit-faced at popey joe's yeah and it sounds like that place should have like potato skins and stuff yeah absolutely a great bar menu at popey joe's lots of sour cream oh yeah that is sour cream on that thank you that is uh it's horrible i'm a professional yeah yeah jeremy would still start a tab ladies we're gonna meet him over at popey joe's in about uh 10 minutes guys it's open mic night at popey joe's come on out and give us your opinion on that i'm gonna be a little bit more your best latin hymns oh man he is i mean here's my question i just i don't understand like and we talked about this a little on the last segment where i don't understand if you're keeping your faith fair and fair enough if you if you're one of those people who say i i believe in this and i don't want to i mean there is a human i think a human reaction to that's why politics and religion it's usually it's it's great to talk about but if you go into a conversation with somebody and expect to change their mind you're you're kidding yourself because people haven't generally gotten this far in life with their thoughts to have one conversation and go huh i guess everything i've been thinking is wrong up till now well except for hold on hold on but then how does that explain cults or born again or people searching eyes people searching for something those are not people that already were i'm i believe in this those are people that are looking for something that is quite often why when somebody has an addiction or something along those lines they just fill it with a different addiction which i also blame religion on quite often have you heard uh doug stanhope's material on dr drew i have not but i'll but tell me because i rip on i rip on doug stanhope's album before turning the gun on himself he has a 10 minute rant on dr drew and uh how bad the whole aa system is it's fantastic oh that is great i had i i lived with a girl who was in aa for a while and she was like i'm not gonna do that i'm not gonna do that i'm not gonna do that i'm not gonna do that i'm not gonna do that i'm not gonna do that i'm not gonna do that and uh i don't know how much you know about aa but she would i know it's annoying she called me up from rehab at one point in time which by the way makes for a great makes for a great relationship when your conversations are between you and her time on the phone in rehab but we were speaking and she they basically wanted her in this you know in aa and as well as some other things and that she was dealing with and she would read stuff to me and a lot of it was hey you have to give up you have to acknowledge that you don't have full control over your life you got to give it up to god and it's all in god's hands and you're like that doesn't make any fucking sense to me yeah aa stands for annoying assholes i mean i don't understand you're telling me that this is all so can i blame god for me being shit-faced the whole time because if you want me to give him credit for stuff then whose fault was it that he that i was born with this addiction in the first place can we have an aa for catholicism we should we certainly should but now how do you believe in that give yourself up to yourself for taking responsibility for your actions yeah that is that is right now look how many people do that they will they will replace an addiction with and a lot of people in that aa would do that they were they were constantly drunk so now to acknowledge that jesus also exists outside of catholicism they go they they uh oh nice i mean they would specifically say you know hey this problem is out of your hands give it up to god and you're like i don't that doesn't make any fucking sense to me you're like i don't know what to do with it you're like i don't know what to do with it you're like i don't know what to do with it you're like i don't know what take responsibility. But it's, you know what, I think in that situation, it's easy. I think it might be easier to transition away for many people from that time period if they can disassociate and say, you know what, that wasn't me. That was something that wasn't me. And now I'm going to get back to me. I think that it's much harder to acknowledge, holy shit, that was me. And I have to fix, I have to really fix me. I think that might be easier. And if that helps you not, you know, drink and drive and, you know, beat people, sure. Well, yes. And if you need to do that to come up with something like that, then that's, you know, if you need a way around or a way to think around certain things in order to have yourself behave correctly, then so be it. But when you are replacing your reliance on one thing with a reliance on something else. It's all different types of crutches. Everyone has different types of crutches, whatever it might be. Like I used to eat Del Taco three nights a week. I still do that. Yeah. I mean, Henry and I were good friends. He, I went on vacation to Vegas, went to the Del Taco drive-thru and Henry said to me, hey, Rich, how was Vegas? That's an actual sentence. And I said, it's going okay. How's your, how's your degree in radiology coming? This is the conversation you have at a Del Taco? At the drive-thru. That is. At two in the morning on a Wednesday. That is disturbing. So I went from that to other things that I replaced it with. You all have your crutches, but I think that's the same thing that happens here though. With Catholicism, you can look, you can stare all this stuff in the face. You can see how things are bad, are, how certain things are bad about it or bad for you. But eventually it's going, you know what? I need something else other than myself, a place to put my burden and to put my responsibility. And I think that once you, when you've built so much of here's where my burden lies into one thing, even in the face of, hey, even the guy in charge knows about people touching children, the entire foundation of where you place your burden relies on that. And I think that's hard for people to disconnect. I think it's very hard. I think it's very hard for people to disconnect, but I still think. They should. Yeah. I mean, here, my problem is, is if you have to replace one thing with another, okay. But if you're relying on that replacement as much as you were the first thing, eventually that's going to be a problem also. I mean, if you're saying, well, everything I did that, you know, that's not fully my fault, but now, you know, I follow God. Well, that's great. But now you're relying on, on something else to, to take you from one thing to the other. I think it can solve this in time. Yeah. I think it can solve this entire problem with, uh, with between AA and Catholicism when it comes to this scandal and all these different things together. Here's the solution. All of us go to Joshua Tree this weekend and do mushrooms. Come back from that. Everyone will go, oh, oh no, no. You probably shouldn't touch the kids for sure. And, um, I, I see that we're all one together in this great universe. I can see the lines connecting you and me. Let's go out and be friends. So what you're saying is you think the whole church scandal could have been solved with bringing all of those people to shroom at Joshua Tree. Yeah. You were a simple man. How, how, okay. How would Joseph Ratzinger or anyone else involved to be able to continue to, it's hard to stomach doing anything negative to other human beings when you've had your third eye open to the connection between all in the universe. So if you take Joseph Ratzinger out there, you give him just a bottle of water, some carne asada and, uh, and some mushrooms for a night out at, out, out at Jumbo Rock and Joshua Tree, he's going to come back understanding the world. He's going to go, oh, maybe it is problem. What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? What is the child molesters have ever tripped? Mushrooms. Really? Really? You're sticking with that theory? Yeah, I'm going with it. You know what? Here's what I say. I think that the ones that still convince themselves that they're not wrong are the ones who haven't done mushrooms, the ones that have done mushrooms. If there's anyone who's actually repented from child molesting, really within their heart, it's the ones who've done mushrooms. Oh, by the way, the repenting, that was the part of the line that that crazy priest that we were talking about who was molesting the deaf children, that he put that in his letter as to why they should just let him retire. Because he repented? Yeah, he said, I already repented. What? What the fuck are you talking about? I already repented. So just saying, oh, my bad. He thinks repent means pat short on the butt. He was very confused. Then he did. He repented often. Yeah, he's all about repenting. I mean, I don't understand. If you were, if you have faith, and again, this all comes down to, I'm a person who's a big believer in show me. So I'm going to have a hard time with religion anyway. I reserve the right to change my mind if God or Jesus or somebody walks across the ocean and goes, oh, hey, by the way, I'm here. But until that happens, that doesn't make any fucking sense. Yet, if there were aliens here, and I've had this example before where if you had aliens that right now, they're invisible and they're flying over our planet, checking us out, going, what the hell are these people doing? What is this species? He's doing. How much land would they see that they would go? What are all these buildings? Oh, that's places where these people like to show up to pray for eventually when the being they think made their world is going to show up again someday. I mean, that's a lot. We have a large portion. Forget just Catholicism. We have a large portion of this of this species. But I mean, supposedly actually educated people who go, all right, well, let's not fuck around with religion too much. But here's the thing is they would go. That's so weird that these people go to these boxes to pray in. All right, guys, time to go to our break. Let's all go to the room where we shove small animals up our alien anuses and that'd be normal. They'd be normal. I'm sure that every species in the universe has some weird, creepy thing where we're like, hon, you guys, you guys every day at the same time of the day, you take a small reptile from your planet and you shove it in your alien anus. Well, and don't get me wrong. I am. Sure. Everybody or every species has their own weird thing. We like what the hell is that? But I don't think as a species we get past a certain point. If a majority of people still believe in a magical being. That is my that is my philosophy. You can look at people having sex on your phone right now. I can bring it up and show you people having sex and you should. Yeah, I know I will. But we've gotten to a certain point. I don't think religion stops because I don't think because we still have we still have that monkey thing. We're like, get to the top of the tree. We have that whether you believe in a mythical being or a god or an alien or whatever. Right. Well, and we do have that. The problem is, is that brings us with technology that doesn't seem to balance out with our logic. I think we're shifting. We're getting the ability. We already have the ability to blow this planet up numerous times. And we're terrified that other countries who seem to think it's not a bad idea to have some people blow themselves up because their god thinks it's a good fucking idea. So, I don't find that balance all that ensuring to go, you know what? Well, here we are. We have a bunch of people that think there's a god that needs them. This being made the world, but he needs these humans to fight for them and to kill other people for them because apparently God's too busy to do that shit himself. But the world's still changing. Think about this. The stuff that we said right now, if we said this in 1955, we'd have Joe McCarthy knocking on the door going, they must be communists if they're not on the god train. So, the world is shifting and fast. It's changing quickly. And I think that by the time that our kids are growing up, who knows what's going to happen? He might be in the road warrior fight for gasoline apocalypse. Yeah, I mean, that is crazy shit. 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I want to make a slight shift and talk about the Pope of Penn State, Mr. Joe Paterno. I'll take the Mr. out because that shows a sign of respect that I do not have. He does look like a Pope though. Not anymore. Well, I mean, he looks like most of the Popes now. That is actually sadly true. That is actually very true. So you remember the free report that came out that basically was these people were hired by Penn State to do a huge investigation into the whole scandal and they found that Joe Paterno as well as three other higher ups at Penn State or as they refer to it, the four most powerful people at Penn State actively covered up the Sandusky scandal in order to protect the reputation of Penn State. I have no remorse for your sadness and death. That is nice. That is nice. Now, one of the stranger parts about that whole story is that Joe Paterno never seemed to be ready to actually retire. He was going to keep going and then all of a sudden he got fired and he died months later. He went to the hospital. He went from, I mean, that is one of those cases of humiliation or broken heart or whatever you want to say, whether you deserve it or not. That is one of those cases you can point to that and say this man's life got shattered and he died shortly after when he didn't seem like he was on his way out before. He died of shame. He should have. I believe I had done a story once for him before where I said I wish he was alive today because this would kill him. So, you know, Penn State obviously, similar to the church, put their own reputation ahead of the welfare of children and Joe Paterno's family decided that that was and I can understand the desire to protect your deceased husband and father and he was an icon in that area and then right before he dies he goes from icon to man who protected child molester. I can understand therefore the desire to try to vindicate him. However are they making it worse? What they ended up doing was they paid somebody else to put together a commission and let me put it in these words. The commission that was hired to find that Joe Paterno didn't do anything wrong found that Joe Paterno didn't do anything wrong. Of course. Shocking. Yeah. So, for some reason, for some reason and I don't know why, I mean I know why they would want to do that but are they making it worse? making it worse? Are they keeping the story? Because is there any way they are going to find out or are they going to change public opinion? No, not at all. Change your last name is what you need to do. That is a better idea. Just go to Piscopo, anything. Richard Thornburg, who was a former United States Attorney General, was hired to do a 238-page report. And that report was not to reinvestigate everything the free report did. It was just to investigate the free report and find things incorrect about Joe Paterno. That was the whole purpose of it. Sure. So the actual title, I'm trying to find the title of the thing, but it was, I believe it was called the Rush to Judgment. Here you go. The Rush to Injustice Regarding Joe Paterno. That was the title of the report. So. The Rush to Injustice. Regarding Joe Paterno. Wow. So, I mean, here's the thing is, if that's your title and then you don't find that the free report was incorrect, your book sucks. The level of hubris, the rush to injustice. Yeah. I mean, $60 million fine, a loss of scholarships, four-year post-season ban, that's some of what, some of the penalties that Penn State accepted, readily accepted. So the free report came out. Yet their governor. Their football program should be dead. I don't have a problem. Dead. Here is the argument that they make. Well, let me rephrase that. Not the ones, I'm not even going into the Joe Paterno is not. I mean, basically what this report did was it took every gray area that they could with Joe Paterno and said, well, you don't know his motivation. Well, Sandusky fooled a lot of people. And here's my favorite part. They hired somebody, trying to find, they hired somebody. I think a, some kind of psychiatrist who basically look over Joe Paterno's last few years of his life and decide on their own. Oh, he acted reasonably. That seems nice. Cause you know, no good investigation is complete without a, a completely biased report. You know, of course you have to have it. Uh, we all know Kennedy was killed by one guy. One guy. Uh, one guy who, who can shoot from three angles, by the way. He can shoot and really fast. Uh, so I mean, I, this seems to be working counter to what they would want it to do. They obviously want to vindicate their dad's name. They have the son who is, was an assistant coach, uh, Paterno's son. They have him, Jay Paterno going around basically saying, you know, he was an older man. He didn't fully grasp what was going on. And you're like, yet when he was alive, these same people would go around going, look, don't let his age fool you. He's winning football games at a top level. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Screw you, Jay Paterno. Yeah. Dude, I will, I will, I will slap you hard. Just go around and say, uh, my dad's a dick. Just go around and say, my dad's a dick. And it's probably good that he's not around being a dick anymore. Go ahead and do that. Then you'll not get shunned. I hope that Jay Paterno needs something from me at some point so I can deny it to his bitter, ugly, stupid face. You would not recognize him. You don't know he's ugly. I'm going to find, I'm going to give his, I'm going to look at this picture right now. Jay Paterno, I'm figuring out what you look like right now. So that when you say, hey, what's the time? I say it's time for your dad to, oh, he is dead. Good. Fucking asshole. Yeah. No, I mean, that is, it's disgusting. I mean, I understand it. So my level of disgust is minimized by the fact that I understand this guy's trying to defend his father. Oh, Jay is ugly. Oh, you look at him. He's awful. I don't know. No, you know, we just started talking. We were talking about the Pope. We were talking about the Pope earlier. So I don't know. I guess ugly is a sliding scale, dude. Ratzinger is ugly. No, you know what? Jay Paterno would be a great person to take over for Ratzinger. It wouldn't be that big of a shift. No, it really would not be that big of a shift. I mean, it is embarrassing and it's a horrible thing for a family to have to go through when you're not responsible for it. And you have to live with, hey, right before your dad died, everybody assumed that he was protecting a child rapist. Yeah, and he was. Yeah, and he seemed to be. Yeah. So that is. I can understand your desire to clear his name, but you're making it worse. You're not going unless you can find footage that somehow completely clears him of anything. Everybody knows and it is common knowledge that it was reported to him by an assistant. Hey, we just saw a rape going on in the shower. And Paterno and his higher ups, his supposed superiors, all decided, you know what? Let's not. Similar to the priest that we were talking about. I mean, was it a spelling issue? Was Joe going like, did he just, I don't make him Jewish again. You're good, make him Jewish. He's going, he thinks that they said, oh, you know, there was a rap in the shower. It was Jerry Sandusky and a kid rapping in the shower. He's like, I don't understand the kids today with this beat music they do, but sure. It was that, like, what excuse could there possibly be for not understanding there's a molestation rape happening in my building? Well, Paterno said, I understand. And I'll go on. Thank you, son. 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The defense of Joe Paterno, who, by the way, had an opportunity, and this is something that Free, before he put out, well, just recently, he hasn't responded to almost anything, any criticism about the Free report, until this report came out, in which case he basically said, I stand by our assessment that the most powerful people at Penn State decided to protect their reputation as opposed to the children. His son is going around. Joe Paterno is going around. And Free... Jay Paterno, I'm sorry, is going around protecting his dad. William Free made it clear, though, that Joe Paterno, before he died, had a chance to speak with the investigators and decided that they weren't going to. He didn't speak to the investigators. He did, however, speak to his biographer and his own representatives, but didn't want to talk to investigators. And then after he dies, the family was like, wow, he didn't know anything. He was old. Yeah, sure. He was old. You know what? And here's the amazing thing is... The L.A. Archdiocese scandal where they paid off, you know, Cardinal Mahoney just got, you know, reamed again, no pun intended, for covering all this stuff up. And, you know, things along the lines of, know that there's a molesting priest and gives him two-day warning to flee before they tell the cops. Things along those lines. But, of course, he's a cardinal, so he's not going to get put into prison. If he wasn't involved with the church, he would be in prison. But this guy, in his excuse, said nothing in the books when I was learning and studying prepared us for this kind of incident. I was unaware and naive about these type of things. And you're like, look, you don't need any special schooling to understand that child rape is not good. There is no fucking schooling you have to go to to go, oh, huh, okay, I got you. I understand now. I should stop this. That's not even a full... That's not even a full... If there was a class on that at university, the class would be, hey, everybody, guess what? How about you don't sex the kids? You don't? I like when you use sex as a verb. Right. That is nice. That was well done. I mean, yeah, and the fact that that's even used as an excuse and no one goes, wait, that's... Like, if I used an excuse that stupid to my parents when I was younger, I would get yelled at. Like, don't... You're obviously fucking lying to us. But to go as an adult to say, well, I did not realize the ramifications of letting this child molest... molester do what he's doing over and over and over again. I'm sorry. You don't need to... Considering how willing the Catholic Church has been throughout history to kill people for the most minor of offenses. Oh, like, for example, saying that the earth goes around the sun and they're... Like, they'll kill people like, hey, you're a moor. We're going to kill you. Like, they just kill people for anything. And then they're going, yeah, but you know those guys who like to diddle the kids? Like, we don't get that. We're not sure. It's kind of a 50-50 prospect. But, no, you want to dissect a human body, no, no, you're dead. We hate you. Yeah. Abortion, that we're clear on. Child rape, you know what? I didn't have a chapter. I didn't have a chapter in my book. I had a chapter in my book on how to hide that fact, but not on how to stop it, which is always, you know, that's nice. I'm going to buy them a copy of Megan's Law for dummies. People are absolutely horrible. All right, like I said, when we come back, the other big news this week was the State of the Union address. That even happened? That did happen. I don't usually pay attention. I don't usually pay attention. I don't usually pay attention. I usually just know that that is the speech that happens between all the clapping. But, yeah, we will get into that and what Obama said and why the Republicans hate everything about it, even on the things that they already agreed with. We'll talk about that when we come... Okay, we will talk about that when we come back. And, you know, I mean, the whole thing, this whole thing is disgusting. I'm going to have to take a shower after this topic, but we'll talk about the State of the Union when we come back. You're listening to The Ken August Show live at Skid Row Studios. Real radio on the internet.