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In honor of Harper Lee's birthday this week in 1926, we discuss the lost art of leaving well enough alone, walking away while on top, and peacefull retirement from the spotlight. Things neither of your hosts will likely need to personally contemplate.

Death & Taxes: No point in getting too worked up about it... although Murff still is. On the podcast we discuss taxes, transperancy, Marsha Blackburns big hair and empty suitcase, and a modest democracy sucess story.  

"Only two elements remain undefeated, they are Mother Nature and Father Time." On the podcast we have a sober discussion about the preservation of small Southern towns in the wake of the tornado that tore through Faunsdale, Alabama - ironically just before a festival to raise money for its revitalization. 

For more information visit:www.faunsdalefoundation.org. 

Richard Murff has never willing watched an awards show in his life. David Seale can no longer be bothered to care. To wit, the 4717 Oscars episode. Where we discuss vote rigging, Meryl Streep's power of levitation, movies we've never heard of, much less seen, celebrities thrown’ hands and the future of the Oscars beyond Thunderdome.

Robots are here. Do they mean a laborless utopia or the world becoming the Terminator franchise? C3PO or R2D2? Or the sex-bot from the Finlandia vodka ads? Murff3PO and the Daviac5000 take a deep dive into the world of You, Robot.

A Shred of a Chance: Be honest, is there anything that you wished you'd shredded that came back to haunt you? A cunning and devious plan? Sentiments to an old flame? A promise you had no intention of keeping?

More crucially, is that sort of privacy a relic of the past?

The 4717 is back for Season 3! The topic: Vaccines - no we aren't wading into that one. If you could innoculate yourself (or others) from anything, what would it be? And how Hilter's flatulence medicine may have hastend the end of World War II.  So, choose carefully.

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Any activity that, by design, makes you take leave of your senses needs to have some established, external ground rules before everything goes sideways. That third cocktail will always whisper something a little too clever. Tread lightly here.

A wine snob, a liquor snob and a beer snob walk into a bar... who sends you screaming to the bathroom? All booze snobs are tedious, but not all created equal - the wine bore has a historical precedent, but aficionados of craft beer and cocktails  are making great strides in turning happy hour into an insufferable contest of insecurities. So... progress... 

Ernest Hemingway & Scott Fitzgerlad were two of the most iconic writers of their generation - even their century. They celebrated getting absolutely blotto, gassed and pie-eyed. But how did the sauce affect their work?Was it a muse or a coffin nail? Was it a fuel that ultimately got out of control, or do the young 'uns just have faster metabolisms?