Coming Down

Glen's dream as a young man was to be in radio. He lands his dream job in Spokane, working with a rogue's gallery of men with ridiculous names. One fateful night, he takes artistic liberty with a coworker's property and disaster ensues.

While enjoying a number of drinks after a show, Nathan makes his politics clear to the locals. They don't take kindly. He and his friends are forced to run the gauntlet to avoid a mob of angry rednecks. Amid a hail of curses and crowbars, they barely make their escape.

World Youth Day. A time for the pope to press the flesh. Matthew and some of his family make the long trek from Bend to Colorado with their youth group for the ceremony. Matthew claims he got close enough for John Paul II to sweat on him. He and his people manage to survive a potentially life-threatening infrastructure boondoggle amid record heat in Cherry Creek Park.

A young man by the name of Joshua makes a series of increasingly poor decisions that eventually bring him under the purview of the local constabulary. After a fair quantity of judicial malingering, he flees across state lines to the midwest. It is there that he is recruited as a part-time merchant of locally produced artisanal bathtub rocks.

Due to youthful sloth and a marked lack of legal knowledge, Nathan manages to commit what has been referred to as the dumbest series of barely criminal acts ever committed. The dude manages to bumble his the way to the big house on some truly frivolous bullshit.

One day, Matthew went to bed with a stomach ache. Two days later he was in the Emergency Room waiting for surgery. Broke, unemployed, deep in loan debt, and late on rent—Matthew is in a tight spot.

This week we put aside our crass chicanery to celebrate a very important person. Without her, none of this would be possible. Not only is she literally the progenitor of this podcast, she is also our first sponsor. Today she tells the tale of the bravest thing she has ever done: escaping from a cult called the Church of Christ. Twice.

Pizza Pipeline. A business that began in Spokane as a money laundering operation for drug smugglers. Though the name was a bit on the nose, it quickly became successful despite itself and branched out into other small college towns. What follows are a few of the many, many ridiculous stories that were forged in that strange crucible of pizza delivery.

Sex Glove. An award-winning band from Fort Collins, Colorado. Their fans describe them as misunderstood genius, their critics call them dangerous criminals. One thing everyone can agree on is that they peaked early and it all went to their heads.

If you read the title and assumed this couldn't possibly be another story from Matthew, prepare yourself for disappointment. Despite falling down a hill and winding up in the hospital in Episode 9, Matthew clearly did not learn his lesson. It takes an altogether different type of sadness to make him swear off the devil's dandruff forever.