This is the second episode this week, as we have fallen behind due to life events. But oh boy this is a doozy. We start by apologizing... A LOT.... for the singing and the religious stuff at the beginning of Episode 4. (We aren't really sorry). We also apologize for letting AI create a new religion. (We aren't really sorry). Then we apologize for making the start of that episode sound like Sunday Mass........ Do I need to repeat how not sorry we are?

Then...... All hell breaks loose. Dan and Ryan read each other's obituaries, Ryan makes everyone on the planet prefer his mom's meatloaf to mozerella sticks, and we find out that Ryan just realized his mom hears EVERYTHING he says on this podcast. EVERYTHING!!! EVERYTHING!!! Do you hear that Ryan? EVERYTHING!!!

It's Repressed Humor Issues Season 4 Episode - The moment Ryan regrets all his life choices, and Dan nearly wets himself laughing at Ryan's discovery.

This episode is EPIC. End-to-End. Seriously. If you stop listening too soon, you get to miss Ryan's existential crisis over his mom listening to this podcast.

Ryan's Mom........ Ryan came up with the title.... Seriously... Dan had NOTHING to do with it. Ryan may act like he's sorry, but he isn't. Dan is VERY sorry, and would like you to email him at repressedhumorissues@gmail.com so you can come on the show and publicly admonish your son for his behavior.... to our 1.5 listeners.

So life got in the way of us taping for a bit, so to make up for it we give you a two-for-one special: Two episodes launching at the same time.

In this episode of RepressedHumorIssues, Dan and Ryan go to far with the jokes about the Gas Station Snack Food Religion, pissing off the evangelicals and our 1.5 fans.

Then we.... WHO CARES!!! GO WATCH THE SHITSHOW THE NEXT EPISODE BECAME! I literally would never recommend not listening to an episode, but Episode 5 is EPIC! I mean, Ryan making anitomical kink references that would make a Tiujana Pong Pong Ball Hooker blush. Then come back and listen to whatever crap we said here.

That's right.......... Episode 5 is the shit... This episode? Meh... Judge for yourself. I mean, we don't own you. You can do whatever you want. You're allowed, just like Shelly from Sheboygan is allowed to continue eating at Ponderosa even though her queefs after the all-you-can-eat brisket have been labeled a war crime.

Seriously Shelly, get help.

"Holy Crap" doesn't even begin to sum this one up. Season 4 Episode 3 of Repressed Humor Issues — Holy Hotdog Hymnals — starts innocently enough with a conversation about Ring Doorbells and the unhinged things they capture at three in the morning, and then spirals into the kind of episode that offends roughly every demographic on the planet.

By the time the exit music plays, Ryan and Dan have managed to anger Ryan's mom, the entire city of Akron Ohio, women everywhere, Whole Foods shoppers, the gay community, Christians, Heinz, Oscar Mayer, alcoholics with home security systems, and the candle industry. That's not a bit — that's the actual list.

Congratulations to Ryan and Dan for achieving a new personal record in offending the maximum number of people per minute. This is the episode where Repressed Humor Issues truly earns its explicit tag, and that's saying something for a show that once dedicated an entire segment to Puppet Penis Poetry.

The episode also marks the return of two beloved recurring characters from the Season 4 universe. Shelly from Sheboygan — who made her unforgettable debut in Episode 2's AI-scripted disaster — is back with an update on her ongoing downstairs situation, and the update is exactly as uncomfortable as you'd expect. Then there's Todd from Akron, who apparently sent the hosts an email so idiotic that it warranted being read on air and roasted in real-time. Todd, if you're listening: this is what happens when you email two men who have zero filter, zero compassion, and a microphone.

But the undeniable centerpiece of Holy Hotdog Hymnals is the moment when Ryan and Dan, two men with absolutely no theological credentials, no spiritual authority, and questionable morals at best, decide to create their own religion. From the ground up. On air. In real-time. What starts as a joke quickly evolves into a disturbingly well-thought-out framework involving hotdogs, hymnals, and a belief system that manages to simultaneously parody organized religion while also being weirdly compelling. It's not a cult. They swear. NOT. A. CULT.

The hosts insist on this with the kind of desperate energy that suggests it is, in fact, becoming a cult. This is also another AI-assisted episode, continuing the Season 4 experiment of letting artificial intelligence contribute to the show's creative direction. And once again, AI has proven that it has learned far too much from consuming hundreds of hours of Repressed Humor Issues content. The AI's contributions are responsible for approximately 80% of the groups offended in this episode, which raises fascinating questions about whether artificial intelligence has developed its own sense of inappropriate humor or whether it's simply reflecting back the worst tendencies of its source material.

Either way, the results are hilarious, horrifying, and absolutely not suitable for work, church, or any environment where human decency is expected. If you thought Season 4 was going to be a kinder, gentler Repressed Humor Issues, Holy Hotdog Hymnals is here to aggressively disabuse you of that notion.

This episode is the show at its most chaotic, most offensive, and most unapologetically funny. It's the comedy podcast equivalent of watching someone light a firework inside a cathedral — you know it's wrong, you can't look away, and somehow it's the most entertaining thing you've seen all week. We're sorry. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio, and everywhere podcasts are found. Visit repressedhumorissues.com for merch featuring every episode's AI-generated cover art on t-shirts and hoodies.

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