We're back. It's a new semester. Nick Offerman was in town shooting a documentary so he stopped by to ask us some questions while we pitched him on some great and brilliant tv ideas. Don't steal them please.

Season finale featuring R.L. Stephens. Enjoy.

If you can make it through the first 20 minutes of our mindless rambling about the Reformation and Nonprofit-Speak, Elizabeth Catte has some good insights on a recent Reuters article about miners and coding.

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Here are the articles discussed on today's show:

-- http://iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2017_Fall_McCarraher.php

-- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-effect-coal-retraining-insight/awaiting-trumps-coal-comeback-miners-reject-retraining-idUSKBN1D14G0

Scary stories from special guests: Felix Biederman, Elizabeth Catte & Josh Howard, Emily Hilliard, Drew Nutter, and Sally Sexton. The second part to our two part Halloween special.

Tracklisting (Start Time):

Intro

"Sexual Hauntings" by Emily Hilliard (3:29)

"Bullseye" by Drew Nutter (10:29)

"The Gathright Phantom of Lake Moomaw" by Elizabeth Catte + Josh Howard (11:58)

"Virginia Haint Tales" by Tom + Tarence (15:47)

"Adactilydium" by Tarence (26:12)

"The Great Chicago Potted Plant Caper of 2006, a Psychological Thriller" by Felix Biederman (32:55)

"The Big Toe" by Sally Sexton (Tom's Grandmother) (50:26)

Outro: "Halloween Town 2012" by Dog Layer

In part one of our two part Halloween special, we talk about the real life horrors like cutting meat for minimum wage in Pikeville, Kentucky and rabies that should scare us more than the supernatural this Halloween.

Tanya makes a solo run to build up women and share feminist wisdom in the days of #metoo.

Friend and author Willie Davis stops by the show to shoot the shit and burn some books. Except the one he wrote, we didn't burn that one.

In episode 29 we talk with journalist Bill Estep of the Lexington Herald-Leader about Mr. Social Security himself, Eric C. Conn.

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Stand up comedian and friend of the show Brandie Posey (@brandazzle)stops by the studio to talk Hungarian villains, wi-fi networks in spy neighborhoods, and of course pet psychics.

In episode 27, the gang talks about the eventful week in sports with the FBI's probe into NCAA basketball and the NFL protests. Tom also has to reckon with the fact that the coach of his beloved Kentucky Wildcats, John Calipari, is coaching the Congressional Republicans in a charity basketball game, and is beholden to the evil coal industry.