This is I.R. Glass, the host of This American Life. So much is changing so rapidly right now with President Trump in office.

It feels good to pause for a moment sometimes and look around at what's what.

Just try and do that. We've been finding these incredible stories about right now that are funny and have feeling and you get to see people everywhere making sense of this new America that we find ourselves in.

This American Life, wherever you get your podcast.

Welcome to Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. My guest today is Danny McBride. His latest show,

The Righteous Jim Stones, just finished its fourth and final season. It's a dark comedy

about a rich Southern family of televangelists who talk about

salvation on TV, but behind the scenes it is all dysfunction, greed, scandal, and sometimes even crime.

We've watched throughout the show's run the most ridiculous antics, a mass baptism and a wave pool

going wrong, a full frontal parking lot

scene that's a fight, and the gospel banger misbehaving. At the center of the Jimstone family

is Eli Jimstone, played by John Goodman and his three deeply flawed adult children who are

constantly caught up in rivalries and schemes to keep

their religious empire intact. In the scene I'm about to play, the three siblings, played by McBride,

Edy Patterson, and Adam Devine, are all trying to convince their dad, Eli, who is retired as the

head preacher, to come back to the church for a fundraising event

to honor their late mom.

Goodman's character, Eli, who speaks first in this clip,

has left town on a boat to escape the church and the family.

What can I do for you kids?

Ain't nobody heard whether you were coming back

for Mama's birthday celebration telethon.

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