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The Wildest Death Row Meals Ever Ordered | Ep. 152

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What do you eat when you know it’s your last meal on Earth?

In this episode of Arsenic Culture, Matt, Jason, Drew, and Kendra explore the darkly fascinating world of death row last meals, from the bizarre to the strangely poetic. We break down famous final meal requests, the psychology behind them, and what they say about guilt, comfort, and humanity’s weird relationship with food and death.

Morbid curiosity meets midnight snacking.

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Matt:

They're gonna put you in the firing squad, but you're gonna do it like weekend at Bernie's style. put sunglasses on you and two guys are like holding you. They're like pushing away. He be like, don't shoot me.

Drew:

or We're gonna prop him up. And then Doug prop him up.

Matt:

throw him up and you gotta shoot. Welcome back to Arsenic Culture. I am Matthew. I'm

Jason:

Jason. I'm

Drew:

Drew.

Kendra:

I'm Kendra.

Matt:

And I got a question for you guys.

Jason:

Got an answer.

Matt:

I'm gonna kill all of you.

Jason:

I'm Good.

Matt:

But I'm gonna let you get, I'm gonna let you eat one last time. What's your, what's your last meal?

Jason:

Oh, God. That's a Tough one man. You want me to go first.

Drew:

I feel like

Matt:

I love the, the very, no, like, oh man. I have to think really hard about this. Wait, I got it all written down a lot. Yeah.

Jason:

I

Matt:

been

Drew:

thinking long and hard about this.

Matt:

Yeah. Go first. What?

Jason:

I think it's tough, But I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go steak. I want, I'm gonna a New York strip. That's probably my, that's probably what I'm going. for. A medium? I Like medium? I don't. I don't Medium rare. Can be a little, I don't know. It can be a

Matt:

I mean, you're gonna die, so like

Jason:

so like Yeah, but I want medium. Okay. Um, I also want lobster tail with that. Gotta have

Matt:

Yeah. A little surf and turf action. Hell

Jason:

going, I'm going twice. Baked potato. I think it's like best of both worlds. You know?

Drew:

I, feel like we should just have this. meal together and then just,

Jason:

Yeah.

Drew:

you want Sharon? Yeah.

Matt:

Death row

Jason:

I'm going, I'm going. No. vegetables. So screw, all that. I want mac and

Matt:

that's bad for your health. You need those? Uh,

Jason:

I want mac and cheese. I want that As well.

Matt:

okay. We, we dive into that. What kind of

Jason:

cheese?

Matt:

and cheese? You're not getting craft

Jason:

Oh hell no. I Want home. I want those cava, toppy noodles? Like the little spirals

Matt:

the little spiral

Kendra:

The fancy ones.

Jason:

got, It's gotta have like 18 different cheeses in there. You gotta have some goa Little smoked goda somewhere in there too. Gotta Have the crust on top of the panco breadcrumbs. And then I want cheesecake For dessert. No, no toppings. I, I, I could have, I could have some really good blueberry topping. on the side in case I wanted to get a little bit, but it's probably just cheesecake. yeah, To drink. I don't really care.

Drew:

And you

Matt:

Really? So you wouldn't to go with

Jason:

like water cool

Matt:

or something?

Jason:

Oh, oh shit. It's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Hell yeah.

Matt:

what the hell?

Jason:

out. Time

Matt:

See, honestly, mine would just be like a whole bottle or like a fifth or something, you know? And then I, I'm not gonna know anything after that

Jason:

I want, I want a, I want a Seventies bottle or maybe eight. Ball, a cheesy gold foil from wild Turkey the 12-year-old. That's, That'd be a nice one. And then Booker's eye just Remember Me too. Mm-hmm.

Matt:

Yeah. That's your last meal. Get whatever you want. Yeah. Yeah.

Jason:

Let's go. What's where Where are we getting it? Come

Matt:

yeah, I'm ready to die

Drew:

when I feel like You're gonna have a heart attack if it you don't, you're not, you know, gonna get executed. It's like, well,

Matt:

I'm, gonna

Jason:

on you

Matt:

way or the other. Yeah.

Jason:

Anyway,

Matt:

What about you? Is that about basically the same?

Drew:

so I'm a steak in either like king crab legs or lobster. Um, yeah. like a, a loaded baked potato probably.

Jason:

I almost went with that, but like twice baked gives me that too.

Drew:

Um, that, and then for dessert, if I could find somebody who could make it my grandmother's chocolate chest pie. was Unbelievable. Um, I

Jason:

trade you a part of my cheesecake or something.

Drew:

And then, uh,

Kendra:

Y'all can dine together.

Drew:

exactly. and then, uh. probably, probably some. bourbon, you know, some, I don't know really what, but

Jason:

You can, You can share my bourbon. That's, that's very good. I'm telling

Drew:

Bring me the bottle of it. and I'll Just get blackout and

Matt:

then

Drew:

we can do with me as

Matt:

do what you'll, to me? Yeah.

Jason:

We'll take it by The ah, Hirsch too. We'll take a

Matt:

There you go. Yeah. They're gonna put you in the firing squad, but you're gonna do it like we get into Bernie style. Put some sunglasses on you and two guys are like holding you. They're like pushing away. Like, don't shoot me.

Drew:

or we're gonna prop him up. And then Doug,

Matt:

we're gonna throw him up and you gotta shoot. We're gonna jump off to the side. Yeah. What about you, Kendra? What would be your last meal? If you got anything you

Kendra:

fancy like them. I'd probably stick with something from my childhood. Like, um, really? Macaroni sausage. Oh, no, no.

Jason:

what'd you say?

Kendra:

I

Matt:

Vienna sausages.

Kendra:

I'll starve before anything.

Matt:

kill me now.

Kendra:

No, I'd go with, uh, macaroni and homemade tomato juice and, um, some potato chips.

Matt:

That would be your last meal ever.

Jason:

Hmm.

Matt:

Okay.

Kendra:

Okay. That's my like, super comfort food. Yeah. I'll be honest, I don't need

Jason:

I, can see

Matt:

I kind of feel that like mine would be something that I, that my mom made growing up. You know, I do some spring rolls. I do like a, a bowl of fu and maybe like a bon me sandwich or something like that. Yeah. Get some like real pate or maybe some, uh, some SALs, some pot meat. Spread it on there. Um, yeah, I would love like a really good, authentic like Vietnamese meal. Um, and then a pizza

Jason:

Yeah. Little Caesars. a, little Caesars. yeah,

Matt:

just like a, like a little Caesars pepperoni pizza. Yeah. On

Jason:

Hot and ready, five Hot and ready.

Matt:

Yeah. Uh, but yeah, I mean, I, I get like a, you know, a whole bottle of like maybe Van Winkle Rye. Okay. And I just chug it. I mean, seriously, you know, what, what's the worst that could happen? I could die. Yeah. Oh no. Honestly.

Kendra:

Y'all are gonna have to be cremated. The

Drew:

pump your stomach. Don't worry. No

Matt:

No need, sir. Yeah.

Drew:

but you, but you could die.

Matt:

know. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Um, well, I went through and I thought this was really interesting looking at some, um, famous, um. Inmates. Yeah. People that like you get like the last meal, like what did people get? And there's, it's kind of interesting because, um, depending on where you are, the rules vary. So like in other countries, um, they don't even, like, they won't, don't even give you that option. Like I think it's Iran. Um,

Jason:

I'm sure they

Matt:

Yeah. In the, in the middle, middle Eastern nations, uh, meals just follow religious guidelines, halal, uh, and they're just identical to like normal prison food. Um, in Japan, the inmate is informed of the execution only hours beforehand, and they're just given whatever's like for lunch that day. So they like

Jason:

you. got got fish sticks. You got fish

Matt:

Yeah, exactly. And then they're like, surprise, you're dead. I mean, that's, that's kind of crazy.

Drew:

some rice and some seaweed paper.

Kendra:

yeah,

Matt:

yeah, exactly. Um, something like China, it's like the standard local food, but you're allowed to have cigarettes and alcohol if the guard lets you, you know, um,

Jason:

I'm pretty sure they would

Kendra:

better than nothing.

Drew:

So how, how common, I mean, may not have found this. How common are. those executions in places like Japan, and I would imagine in the Middle East it probably happens more than

Matt:

Yeah, and they're probably by like

Jason:

people right? shit.

Matt:

Oh yeah. And they're quote unquote, probably more like inhumane

Jason:

Yeah. You probably don't even hear about, 90, even some of 'em just like, eh.

Matt:

I don't, yeah, I don't, I'm not, I don't wanna sound like, you know, uh, a biggie.'cause I don't know, like, I don't know if they're cutting people's heads off or they probably still do Firing Squad, I'd say that was a pretty common thing,

Jason:

would assume so.

Matt:

Um, but like in the UK United Kingdom, they actually abolished capital punishment. So you don't. Die anyway, so, um, but like in Florida, Georgia and Alabama, they cap your, your meal cost between 20 and $40. So, I mean, yeah, you're getting your steak and then like maybe the like tip of a lobster

Jason:

Get the kids steak.

Matt:

Yeah. The kids

Jason:

That way I get more.

Matt:

get more. Yeah. Can I get the, the petite New York strip? Yeah.

Jason:

Go go at happy hour. so I can get two. Two for one.

Matt:

Oklahoma and Indiana, they, uh, allow outside food only if it can be locally sourced, under budget. Like it's so vague. It's

Drew:

Wow, they're really farm to table. there, aren't they? They're like, Yeah, exactly.

Matt:

Um, in California it's discretionary. Uh, it can be up. A lot of 'em go up to like $50. It doesn't sound like a lot.'cause you think like if you went to Tony's and you got surf and turf, I mean that's a fricking $150 meal.

Jason:

over, you're over one 20 on just those two items. Not even

Matt:

Oh yeah. Yeah. Most of these cases, alcohol is not permitted, which I thought was kind of weird. Um, but maybe it could have some sort of effect with whatever the execution process is. I don't really know or make you belligerent.

Jason:

I

Drew:

think it makes a difference. Gas chamber, probably doesn't make, uh,

Jason:

lethal injection, it makes, it, Makes it better. I don't know.

Matt:

it might. So, um. But, uh, yeah, I'm gonna go over some of these more famous ones from some of these inmates and Drew's gonna make us a cocktail over here at the same time. Correct. What are you making for us? Uh, this is our last meal cocktail. I guess we don't get an option. Yeah.

Drew:

So this is,

Jason:

it's in the budget.

Kendra:

Yeah.

Drew:

is called the Golden Hour Sour.

Matt:

Oh,

Drew:

And ironically, since we're talking about last meals, we're gonna use our never say Die bourbon.

Matt:

These are our sponsors. Um, never say Die. Age, partially at sea on its voyage over to, uh, not New England, regular England.

Jason:

England. The

Drew:

England. The original.

Matt:

the original England. Uh, yeah. And then it comes back to the States is always a good pour. Uh, you can check them out at a liquor store near you. Never say die bourbon. And they have a rye also,

Jason:

They do.

Matt:

good. Which might have been better with this one. I should have,

Drew:

maybe, but that's Okay. And, uh, and we're going to use also the see the elephant.

Jason:

Tomorrow, which we'd never heard of, or I, we hadn't until today. Except Drew, this, we had a little sample. It's

Matt:

this up. Yeah.

Drew:

Yeah. We had a bartender, Um, we went out to an event downtown, um, a month and a half ago or So, And, uh, bartender, at one of our local restaurants, um, we were just talking about tomorrow. Yeah. And he overheard us having a conversation. Michelle and I at the bar. and he Just reaches up and puts two little glasses over there. And I was like, dude, That's awesome. You know, like, thanks for paying attention. We've had the conversation about bartenders. before, but it's like. Wait, just to be alert and listen and then give us something new to try that we'd never heard of. So it Was really cool.

Matt:

that at, was that at three 10? three

Drew:

three 10? Three 10? Yeah. That's good Yeah. So, um, yeah. Anyway, so we've got, uh, bourbon. Some see the elephant, uh, fresh lemon juice, which I've already squeezed. and us Some simple syrup. so, Okay, carry on. then, friend.

Matt:

All right, so here's what dead people eat. Um, uh,

Jason:

it's, it's in the episode.

Matt:

yeah, know they eat nothing 'cause

Drew:

what eats them. Yeah,

Matt:

exactly. Well ask Ted Bundy here, um, Florida 1989, uh, you all know who Ted Bundy is, right? I

Jason:

I do, yes, I know of him.

Drew:

I used to study serial killers. I, I did you really? Yeah. In college. I

Matt:

like you had to, or you

Drew:

I was a criminal justice. double Major. So we had a class. at, um, at the university just called Serial

Jason:

I've watched a lot of like, Netflix shows. and

Kendra:

Me too.

Matt:

I actually listened to an audio book about, uh, serial killers. It was pretty crazy. So, um, but yeah, he was an American serial killer in Necro file, confessed to 30 murders across seven states. Uh, he was executed by electric chair. He actually, for his last meal, he declined a special request. He ended up being offered steak, eggs, hash browns, toast, milk, coffee, and juice. He ate nothing.

Kendra:

Huh? Yeah, Huh?

Matt:

I just burped it. And that's a,

Jason:

He's trying to keep it clean.

Matt:

I guess. I, I feel like it's more, um, like maybe he was like trying to protest. It feels like a

Jason:

it's probably, it's probably The only thing of control you have left. Right.

Matt:

Right, That, that's a good point. Yeah.

Kendra:

yeah, he was definitely a narcissist, so

Matt:

Yeah, that's,

Kendra:

he's like, fuck you, I'm not gonna eat

Matt:

yeah, exactly. Um, John Wayne Gacy, you ever heard of

Jason:

Fried chicken?

Kendra:

Yep.

Drew:

John Wayne Gacy. uh,

Matt:

Yeah. 1994, the infamous killer clown murdered 33, uh, men,

Jason:

It was in Chicago, right?

Drew:

Uh, Illinois.

Matt:

Yeah, yeah, His last meal was 12 fried shrimp, A bucket of KFC fries and a pound of strawberries. Yeah. Which I think a pound of strawberries and probably not that much,

Jason:

probably like a container quar, I guess

Matt:

like two of those little containers you get from the, was John Wayne Gacy a big dude?

Drew:

he, was a big

Matt:

he was, wasn't he like a massive guy? Okay.

Drew:

Yeah. And he Owned. um, the way he found a lot of his victims was he owned some restaurants in that area. like Fast food chains. And So it was his employees, like he would hire these, High school age, like young college kids. um, and then had like, Hey, I need you to come help me do some work on my house.

Matt:

messed up, dude. they

Drew:

Killed

Jason:

they? were all dudes, weren't They They're all guys. So I

Matt:

They say young men and boys. So they're all young too.

Drew:

then He uh, buried them in the crawlspace of his

Jason:

think I remember

Matt:

Yeah.

Drew:

Yeah.

Jason:

There was a, there was a podcast I think we was talking about earlier, so the 2K two bears, one cave with Tom Seger and Burt er. But they talked about him on there too. And I think what it was. How he would get 'em is when he got 'em to the house or something. He would show' em with these handcuffs. I think he was a guy. and the handcuffs that he had, he could take on and off and he would switch 'em and put theirs on, and then theirs couldn't come off So he's like, yeah, yeah. That's pretty

Kendra:

That's terrifying.

Drew:

man. It's like, uh, an Illinois finger trap is instead

Jason:

Yeah.

Drew:

trap. It's like the Illinois

Kendra:

trap.

Drew:

Damn it. He got me again.

Matt:

We're laughing about this, but I mean, yes. It was a long time ago. So, uh, Timothy McVay, y'all know who he is. Uh, that's a Unibomber, right? Yeah,

Drew:

no, Tim m McVey was the, uh, Oklahoma City

Jason:

Oh,

Matt:

That's right. Yeah.

Drew:

Ted Kozinski was right.

Matt:

Yeah. He killed 168 people with that truck bomb. Um, outside the Alfred

Jason:

Man,

Matt:

mur Federal

Jason:

He's the one had the manifesto. or manifesto. Right. I think so.

Matt:

think so. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Um.

Drew:

anti-government.

Jason:

Yeah.

Matt:

Uh, his last meal was two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream. That's hor like, I guess, you know, you got your thing, but

Jason:

that's a hard no

Kendra:

No.

Drew:

hard no for you.

Matt:

of mint chocolate. The thing is, I can go through like half a, I could probably go through a pint and I'd be like, I'm done with ice cream here.

Jason:

don't like, I don't like mint with ice cream.

Matt:

I actually like mint chocolate chip, but I

Drew:

I do too.

Matt:

two pint of

Drew:

Yeah.

Matt:

Of all the things you could have.

Kendra:

I mean, it must have been his jam though.

Matt:

Yeah. It like reading stuff like that, it kinda makes you wonder. It is just like whatever you're in the mood for at that given

Jason:

moment, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um,

Matt:

Victor, uh, ware.

Drew:

FEG

Kendra:

ware

Matt:

1963 kidnapped and murdered a doctor in Iowa. Um, he was the last federal prisoner executed before a 38 year moratorium. His, this is actually pretty famous, uh, even though his action, what he did wasn't his last meal was one olive with the pit saying he hoped an olive tree would grow from his grave. Like a peace offer. Yeah. Okay. It's kind of weird. Yeah. And so like he kidnapped and murdered a doctor, but. I don't, I didn't really go into depth about like the reasoning behind this. I didn't know if it was like he was crazy and he wanted to eat the doctor's body, or maybe like he was a, you know, suffered from like some malpractice medical billing th something and he wanted to revenge. I really have no idea. But that was like a very kind of like cool thing that he did. Honestly. It is weird. Yeah. Very uh, symbol, very symbolic. Yeah. Ricky Ray Rector, uh, not,

Drew:

Triple R. guy?

Matt:

that a crazy name? Yeah. Uh, he murdered a man in a nightclub and later a police officer. He shot himself in the head during his capture to kill himself, but he survived. He caused, uh, partial lobotomy, like brain

Drew:

damage Oh God.

Matt:

to himself. Um, so then he ended up, uh, being put to death. His last meal was steak fried chicken cherry Kool-Aid, uh, and a pecan pie, which he quote, unquote, saved for later. Isn't

Jason:

I like that I like

Matt:

eat it. No. He

Jason:

he said he'll save it for later. It'll come back

Matt:

that kind of funny? Yeah, that was kind of famous. That too. Uh, Eileen Enos, you know who that is?

Kendra:

yeah.

Jason:

I don't, I don't Who's

Drew:

do you know that is.

Matt:

tell him who it is.

Kendra:

Um, she's a serial killer that, was she a truck driver? Uh,

Jason:

was that the one char

Kendra:

Oh, she killed? Yeah, she killed, she killed.

Jason:

truck

Kendra:

Truck drivers.

Matt:

She, I think she, was she a sex worker and she killed Johns? Yes.

Drew:

Okay.

Kendra:

Okay. I totally fucked that up. Yeah.

Jason:

Was Mon Was it Monster's

Matt:

Yeah. Yeah. It was

Kendra:

That movie was crazy.

Jason:

Watched it. I know what it is Is

Matt:

the one with, um, char Theron? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That was crazy. Um,

Jason:

hey Matt, that movie's got Charlize Throne.

Matt:

Thanks. Yeah, thanks man. Uh, that's Charron, right? So, uh, she actually declined a special meal. She ended up having a cup of coffee.

Jason:

Mm.

Matt:

It's kind of weird too. Not nearly as symbolic as a olive, but yeah, I think she was crazy. Wasn't, wasn't

Jason:

I'd Say most of these people are not mentally stable.

Matt:

I say most of 'em are not.

Jason:

Safe bet.

Matt:

Ronnie Lee Gardner. I think it's funny how many of these people have three names.

Jason:

That's what I'm saying the serial killer. Three names. yeah,

Matt:

Ronnie Lee Gardner, uh, Utah, 2010. He killed a man during a 1985 courthouse escape attempt. Chose to die by firing squad, which I didn't even know you could do that in 1985, or, no, this was 2010

Jason:

let's say what the state? Like Texas, maybe. Oh, Utah. Okay.

Drew:

Yeah.

Matt:

got, he died in 2010. Yeah. I didn't even know if they did that. Like that was 15 years ago. It's

Drew:

crazy. I think Utah would be one of the only states that did firing squads like that point. Yeah.

Matt:

That's crazy that it's, I guess cool. They gave him the option and be like, yeah, you wanna die. Um, his last meal, here we go. Steak, lobster

Jason:

Oh yeah.

Matt:

Apple pie, vanilla ice cream, and a seven up.

Jason:

That's an awful

Matt:

you hear a lot of these and it's like, okay, okay. And then there's something at the end, it's like, really? Mint chocolate chip fucking ice cream.

Jason:

Yeah, I think seven. You gotta make a better

Matt:

Yeah, but here's the kicker. Um, he spent 48 hours fasting and part of his last meal was to watch all of the Lord of the Ring's trilogy.

Jason:

Mm. So

Matt:

he like, wow. Which is, I mean,

Jason:

a good, there's a good nine hours.

Matt:

I know. That is seriously, that's like seven, eight hours of like movie watching. So I don't know if he prolonged it for four days, but yeah, that was actually part of his, and they gave it to him. It's kind of crazy.

Jason:

Um,

Matt:

Workman 2007 in Tennessee. He shot and killed a police officer during a 1981 robbery.

Kendra:

robbery.

Matt:

It was executed by lethal Injection. He refused his last personal meal, but this is kind of cool. He requested a vegetarian pizza be given to a homeless person. Um, the state refused, which is kind of shitty. Um, but word got out of what he was trying to do. And, uh, a bunch of like citizens, civilians, um, local civilians ended up donating hundreds of people, people pizza to homeless people.

Jason:

What was he, what was he in jail for? What was he?

Matt:

He He shot and killed a police officer during a 1981 robbery. Um, so yeah, I mean, not a great dude, but I guess he was LA last

Kendra:

trying to give back.

Matt:

thing. Yeah. Um, another three named Guy Lawrence Russell Brewer, Texas 2011. He was a white supremacist supremacist convicted in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. In Jasper, Texas. This is the, this is actually a pretty famous last meal 'cause it broke Texas. Um, he ordered. Chicken fried steaks, triple meat, bacon, cheese, wait, triple meat, bacon, cheeseburger, fajitas pizza, barbecue oak or ice cream. He ordered like so much. He ordered enough food to feed like 20 people. He didn't eat any of it. It was basically like a final. Fuck you. He sound, honestly, he sounds like he's a piece of garbage. He actually sounded like he was a horrible

Jason:

white

Kendra:

why there's regulations on it now.

Matt:

No, because of him, Texas did away with final Meals. He's, he ruined it for everybody.

Drew:

He fucked it up for all of

Matt:

Yeah, exactly. So like yeah. He's a really,

Jason:

get put to death in Texas. Mental note.

Kendra:

Yeah.

Matt:

Um,

Drew:

we're also more likely to be put to death in Texas, any place else. so

Matt:

probably

Jason:

point too. Yeah.

Drew:

Don't at your

Matt:

They're like, why are we wasting all this food and money on these people? We're just gonna kill'em anyway, so, yeah. Um, yeah, those are the most famous ones. I got a few others on here. Um, how's that drink?

Jason:

It's very good. Very good. The Amro, The Maro really, really shines through in it too.

Matt:

Yeah. Um, this guy Thomas Jay Grasso in New York, 1995, he strangled an elderly woman with her Christmas lights. That's pretty messed up. Uh, this is pretty funny though. His last meal, he ordered two dozen steamed mussel, two dozen clams, a Burger King, double cheeseburger, half a dozen ribs, two milkshakes. Pumpkin pie and spiced strawberries. I don't know what spiced strawberries are. His famous last

Jason:

heard of that.

Matt:

apparently he ordered SpaghettiOs. Um, his famous last words. I did not get my SpaghettiOs. I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this. That's, that's what he went out saying.

Drew:

They're like duly noted.

Matt:

Thanks buddy.

Drew:

Thomas, whatever his name. or whatever.

Matt:

Yeah. I wonder if like, at that point they strangled him with some Christmas lights to like put him down. Um,

Kendra:

they should have killed him with just cans of SpaghettiOs,

Matt:

just like kept

Kendra:

murder by

Jason:

That'd have been good. Yeah.

Matt:

Uh, didn't isn't that like a movie? Where is it? It's seven. It's the movie

Drew:

Yeah.

Jason:

Yeah. Gluttony. The

Matt:

guy that dies by gl. That's how he dies. It's SpaghettiOs,

Jason:

I don't

Kendra:

You almost did that once. Remember I

Matt:

I did one time in college. I almost killed myself. I I ate a can of SpaghettiOs

Drew:

Were you Inspired by the movie. Yeah.

Matt:

I ate a can of SpaghettiOs. I mean, it's college,

Jason:

What's in the box?

Matt:

Uh, I ate the whole can and I was like, I'm kind of still hungry. I probably couldn't do another can of SpaghettiOs, but I kind of want to. So I made a second can of SpaghettiOs and I ate the whole thing. I got so full that I couldn't move. I ended up having to induce vomiting just to like, yeah,'cause I was so uncomfortable. I

Jason:

slow down. You ate Two cans of SpaghettiOs. And it made it made you feel like that. Yeah. That's like lunch. over here, buddy. That's lunch. Come on now.

Matt:

Oh yeah. But I did, I did get my SpaghettiOs.

Jason:

you ain't gonna get your last meal with mine. Get away. Get away.

Matt:

Um, this guy, David Leon Woods, another three namer, uh,

Jason:

know, you think that some point they'd have been like. Quit acknowledging these people you

Matt:

with three names?

Jason:

well, No. Just be like, inmate three, you know, just Quit using their name. You know what I mean? Don't give 'em any like Fame you know?'cause I feel like a lot of that back, especially like, we've not

Matt:

like you're

Jason:

had it. is we've not really had serial killers. We've not had really a serial serial killer brought to light that much in the past, What decade?

Kendra:

the one in California. California,

Matt:

Which one? In

Jason:

older guy they caught

Kendra:

Yep. Through

Jason:

they kind of started like tying him to things, but yeah. Was he it's kind of

Matt:

But he was that from a long time ago

Kendra:

he was caught up.

Matt:

up to him. Yeah. So it wasn't even like,

Jason:

they caught him. through like Ancestry, was that what it was? True? Or something like that? Yeah. Yeah.

Matt:

That's crazy. Yeah. Um, he murdered an elderly man during a burglary. Um, his last meal was pizza and a birthday cake.'cause it was his 42nd birthday.

Kendra:

Oh,

Jason:

he got killed in his

Drew:

room,

Matt:

Well, yeah, he got put to death on his birthday, so he ended up getting a cake. So

Drew:

Blow out your candles. We're gonna blow out your brains.

Matt:

Uh uh, James. James Edward Smith, uh, 1990. Uh, he was a former voodoo practitioner who murdered a coworker. He's messed up. He's just into like weird witchcraft stuff. His last meal was a lump of dirt to perform some sort of like pagan voodoo ritual.

Kendra:

Oh my God.

Jason:

That wouldn't

Matt:

prison refused and gave him yogurt.

Jason:

Yeah.

Matt:

There. There's

Drew:

Some probiotics.

Matt:

he is like, it's good for you. You know, it's,

Jason:

that's like

Kendra:

you imagine being the person who had to put him to sleep? I'd be terrified. I was getting some voodoo spelled

Matt:

like this guy

Jason:

what was his Name again.

Matt:

Uh, James Edward

Jason:

Was that the Chucky guy? Based on remember that. Remember that dude at first like.

Matt:

what?

Jason:

Remember the first Chucky movie? Yeah. Yeah. Wasn't it a guy. that was like,

Matt:

Oh, I don't, I know what you're

Jason:

he was trying to do Like some kind of like ritual. I think his name was something

Kendra:

that.

Matt:

It very well

Jason:

shit. I think it

Matt:

the movie. Chucky

Kendra:

I don't remember. I

Drew:

it all together for us? Jason? Yeah.

Jason:

that's the next level right here. That's

Matt:

That's pretty cool. Um.

Jason:

mean, I'm just thinking.

Matt:

Yeah. Uh, some of these other ones are, are some of these people I don't want to, like you said, I don't want to give them any glor glorification here. Um, oh, here's one more. Velma Barfield, North Carolina. You don't see a lot of women

Kendra:

Barfield? No.

Matt:

like in 1984, she was a devout Christian grandmother who poisoned six people with arsenic.

Kendra:

Oh, was that recently?

Matt:

uh, 1984. So this was like I almost said 20 years ago. This is like 40 years

Jason:

I think that every day, 20 years ago. 84, She

Matt:

was the first woman executed after reinstatement, whatever that

Jason:

Oh,

Drew:

after reinstate the,

Jason:

it

Matt:

oh, after reinstate death. I gotcha. Her last meal was a bag of cheese, doodles and a can of coke.

Jason:

Okay.

Kendra:

Keep it simple.

Matt:

Yeah. I guess

Drew:

go to the vending machine down the hall and like

Matt:

like, are you

Kendra:

They're like, you can have 75 cents,

Matt:

$2 and 50 cents. Yeah. Actually back then it was probably like 99 cents. Yeah. Uh, yeah, those are some of the, some of the big ones. So, um. Yeah, I, uh, hope I don't die, but, um, if I do, I'm getting, I'm getting me some Vietnamese food and

Drew:

two cans of SpaghettiOs,

Matt:

I'll just, yeah. Honestly, gimme three cans and I'll, we'll just die from eating food.

Kendra:

Take care of it yourself. Yeah.

Matt:

Seriously. Yeah. Y'all got anything else?

Drew:

Save the bullet. Save the chemicals. seriously? Yeah.

Matt:

Gimme a spoon and a can opener and, uh, I'll do it.

Drew:

6 99. for three cans of SpaghettiOs

Matt:

gonna save you all kinds of the taxpayers

Drew:

bring a hot plate in here and I'll

Matt:

Yeah. But I thought that was

Jason:

interesting. No, it's very interesting. Yeah. I mean.

Matt:

Like random. You

Jason:

also thinking about what ours are, right? So our last meal, I mean, hope, hopefully none of us are ever in that spot, but if we were, we're well prepared now.

Matt:

Yeah. But don't forget or remember you can't actually ask for alcohol, which I think

Jason:

I won't, but I'm gonna

Matt:

I'm still gonna try.

Kendra:

him for you, maybe.

Matt:

Yeah.

Jason:

gotta make friends with'em, you know, make friends with

Matt:

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Matt:

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