I’m not gonna lie, reading about all this unhinged stuff kinda makes me feel patriotic.

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"For this, they put plywood on top of the pool table with a numbered grid painted on it and chicken wire encapsulating it. For $1, you get a numbered ticket and wait for the chicken that is in that bingo board cage to shit. And if that shit hits your number, you win. The look on this poor man’s face of the sheer, overstimulating Americanness of the situation was worth it. He was game and joined right in, but you could just tell he was thinking what the fuck am I doing here?"