True Deception - An Improvised True Crime story

We did it. We solved the case!!! ***WARNING*** If you are not caught up, DO NOT start with this episode. However if you are caught up, we present Brian Lind (Seth Morris (Big Mouth, Love, VEEP, The Good Place, Broad City)! Thank you for your help with this case. If you have a case you need solved, please let us know!

Rob Van Winkle (Ian Gary) Brooklyn 99, Groundlings)) owns Tyson Corner's #1 Extreme Sports apparel store and he used to eat Arby's with Brian, among other things. He feels Brian is misunderstood and while he gives the reporters no leads, he does open up and that is a rich tapestry in and unto itself.

Owen and Clark talk to a man untethered from the earth and possible his own sanity, Dax Todd (Mark David Christenson (Ah Crap, A Hellboy Podcast, Conan, UCB)) a self-proclaimed sky-diving bully who lives out of a cigarette shaped RV. He doesn't seem to have had anything to do with Brian's disappearance, but then again he's a bully trying to untether folks so who can really say? Certainly not our hosts.

This week Owen and Clark talk with Brian's first kidnapper, Crime Central (Anisha Jagannathan (Shameless)) as she explains her early friendship/hostage-ship with Brian and her plans to kidnap Clark and hopefully Owen. As Crime says, you don't know the end or the beginning or the end of this story friend.

This one leaves us with more questions than answers, but we do get to talk to Mr. Explorium the owner of the town's Wonder Emporium!

Owen and Clark interview Brian's improv coach, Stan Tingle (Will Hines, Greatest Improv School, How to be the Greatest Improviser on Earh, Wrecked) who worked with Brian for six months. In those six months Stan and Brian had a big impact on one another. Brian was pushed to brawl and become more insane through Stan's tough notes and Stan got into cocaine and a mayoral campaign.

Owen and Clark interview Bloop, Brian's stalker/client about how long he lived in Brian's attic, what he witnessed, and where he thinks Brian may have went. They also learn how many shrews can fit in a shoe and they cut a deal for some privileged information that may compromise what integrity they have left.

Clark and Owen sit down for an intense interview with FBI agents Wind and Airhard (Chynna Fry (Gossamer, Parliament) and Katie Barsotti (The New Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley, Parliament)). Who is playing who for information? Do the agents have confidential information they're willing to let our reporters see regarding Brian's ties to underground drug and torture rings? Do Clark and Owen have microphone secrets for podcasting they're willing to share? Only this episode can say for sure.

Brian was into dancing, or at least hanging out with Blanket Thompson and The Dementors, a gang of misfits possibly genetically engineered after their parents watched The Boys of Brazil. Obviously this leads to more questions than answers.

Brian was kidnapped or so Yost (Andrew Grace (UCB)) would lead us to believe. Yost has been carrying around the guilt of a prank gone wrong, or right depending on who you ask. He unloads his burden on us and gives a lead on Brian that might place him somewhere around the North Pole.