Episode 255 – The One Where We Reroute Ourselves To Saint Guinefort

In episode 255 we let Saint Shea take the reins and spend the rest of the show trying to convince ourselves that next month is when things’ll get scary...

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while McAlister's hasn’t struck us down yet, they’re trying our patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that tattoo’s should make you more employable. It proves you can sit still for hours while having needles jammed in your skin, if that doesn't prove you can sit through a mindless meeting I don’t know what does. 

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Really didn’t wanna drink the cider this week

But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!

This Week’s Beer

Texas Tea from Bishop Cider Co.

Untapped Link: https://untappd.com/b/bishop-cider-company-texas-tea/2742498

UT Rating: 3.5

Style: Herbed/Spiced Cider

ABV: 6%

Aaron: 7

Shea: 6

Steve: 5

This Week’s Show

Round Table 

New Patron: EmpressMe ”!” well, here’s to hoping we do!

New itunes review

Love it! Want more!

Loving your show! Where can I find the earlier stuff before 178??? Stitcher doesn’t have them either :`( I’d love to hear y’all from the beginning!!

First off, thanks for the review! We’re glad you like the show. To the question, there are a few places and reasons. First, the feed is truncated for speed, freshness, and shame reasons. It took us a while to find our groove and some of the early content is, well, regrettable. That said, you can find it all on the website under the shows tab as individual downloads. It might not be ideal, but there ya go. If there’s a significant response to this I can investigate letting the feed go further back. The other way to get all our content is to sign up at Patreon. That feed goes back to the 30’s I think and includes all our bonus stories, segments, and shows!

Message from the excellent James:

Aaron recently commented that upon Jenn's story that he remembered Hyperborean from somewhere, I think I can fill that memory funk in.  Hyperborean was co-opted apparently, which I did not know, by the Lovecraftian/Clark Ashton Smith/Robert E. Howard universe. I had always heard Hyperborean from those three authors, I would actually be interested since they came later than Blavatsky, if they stole from her or if there is older "source" material, ie, myths, stories, folklore.  Sorry sidetracked, what most people will probably remember Hyperborean from though is that Conan the Barbarian is placed in the Hyperborean age, and he does mention it a few times in the books and movies; he is also from Hyperborea.

So there we go, mystery solved!

We have a few voicemails. First, Jonathon’s from areola

And from the craftally panted, Mr. Bible Pants

Thes short answer here is privacy. Spurred by your voicemail, today’s Patreon segment will actually be a slightly more in depth reply to this question but for brevity’s sake:

Since 2017 American ISPs have been legally allowed to collect and commodify all your traffic. That includes sites you visit and any unencrypted data you transmit knowingly or otherwise. All of this information can be (read, is) coupled with what companies like Google and Facebook already know about you, packaged, and sold to advertisers, the government, etc. The best way to avoid this is to make sure the information leaving your device or house is encrypted and tunnelled through a remote server via a VPN. It’s a pretty painless process and all reputable VPN services have quick start apps to get you ...