To start, Greg is obsessed with the Game of Thrones theme and opening sequence. It makes him want to quit everything and travel the country as a permanent fixture on the Renaissance Festival circuit. Perhaps as one of the dudes who viciously roasts passersby from high atop a wooden wall whilst they attempt to throw rotten tomatoes at him.

Here Greg copies a “Pumpkin Snap,” from House of 1000 Beers. It’s a beer cocktail consisting of: Southern Tier Pumking, Crabbies alcoholic ginger beer, spiced rum, and bitters with a rimmed beer goblet. (Coarse brown sugar, cinnamon, and ginger, if you please.)

Here Greg creates a “Kentucky Pumpkin Pie” using Kentucky Pumpkin Barrel Ale, Wild Turkey Spiced, Crabbies, and spiced’n’boozy not-so-simple syrup. (If you want the specific recipe, just ask. As a general note, these are all very similar to recent beer cocktails I posted on the Cocktails, etc. page.)

Here we meet two new gym characters. 1. Oxygen deprived Cro Magnon Sub Zero/Scorpion/Bane Heavyweight Champion of the Psych Ward. (Don’t look this motherfucker in the eyes…as they are void but for the apparent visions of murder and dismemberment.) 2. The pig-tailed age-ambiguous selfie-obsessed look-at-me stripper-in-training. (You really don’t want to look this one in the eyes either. But watch out for flying fitness bands. Oy.)

Here we meet Jenny Defreitas, who is not real. Well, there might be a Jenny Defreitas out there in the world. Likely hundreds. However, the Jenny Defreitas who has popped up on many a Facebook page of Shaler-graduate and Shaler-graduate-adjacent people, who inspired a memorial wall after having allegedly died in a factory fire in her knock-off cologne and sunglasses business, and who now is a real life person (…it’s my wife, people…); THAT Jenny Defretas is a fun little internal joke that somehow catfished more people than I could have imagined.

It is now clear how Ponzi schemes, rich Nigerian princes in need of your social security and bank account numbers, and actual catishing work. First, people (…for the most part. Yes, MOST part…) don’t actually read beyond headlines. Second, we are all, or at least a vast majority of us are, likely to accept anything from a person or people or outlet that we like or trust…regardless of their history of smartassery, asshattery, or other shenanigans and shades of bullshit.

One more time…Jenny Defreitas is not real. However, you should find her her on Facebook and also her memorial site. For a good laugh. Or not. Comedy and wit are a personal, subjective thing. It’s our cup of tea…it might not be yours. Give ‘er a shot though.

We end this whole thing with a lovely piece from the Decemberists from their release, “The Hazards of Love.”

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