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Welcome to Interesting If True, a weekly comedy podcast that will hold your interest, if not water… I'm your host this week, Steve, and with me are our panel, Shea & Aaron.

I'm Shea, and this week I learned how much my wife truly loves me. I woke up last night with her pushing a pillow against my face to keep COVID-19 at bay. I'm #blessed

I’m Aaron, and this week I learned that being invisible would also make you blind because light would pass through your retina… I’ve been watching a lot of quarantine-anime…

I’ve also been boning up on true crime, so…

Wouldn't Say I've Been Missing Him...

Diving into this story, first, I need to set the stage.

The year is 1929—which started on a Tuesday, that's a true—it was the end of the Roaring Twenties. Soon Wall Street would kerplunk ushering in the Great Depression, Hooverville, and of course the Dalek occupation of the Empire State Building. Followed shortly thereafter by the invention of the color TV by H. E. Ives at Bell Telephone Laboratories, which totally wasn't playing with recovered alien technology.

Meanwhile, the American south was... sweaty and smelled of Elder berries and gin stills. Also bigotry. It smelled like bigotry.

Amid the hustle and bustle of the southland [cough], there was a man. A myth. A Legend. Ok, a legend of a ghostly man who might be a myth, but that's close to the same thing.

Connie Franklin was his name and splitting lumber was his game. Apparently.

Born in 1895—which started on a Wednesday, just FYI—he would grow up in obscurity. The first real mention of Connie was January of 1929 when the now #SourthernMath 22-year-old (by his own account) set out toward the town of St. James in Stone County, R-Kansas.

Now, the interesting thing about Connie Franklin is that he either played the harp or was brutally murdered.

Setting into town Connie found employment as a hired hand splitting wood and doing manual labor. As was his way. He soon met 16-year-old Tiller Ruminer...-ish.

There's some disagreement on her name. It could have been Tillar, Tiller, Tiler, or Tillie. Stories vary. I'm going to use Tiller because that's how she's called in the March 11 edition of the 1942 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, one of the nearest-to-contemporary sources I could find.

Connie quickly fell for Tiller. She was sixteen, had great—milk-free—legs, and was polio-free. What more could you want? The two quickly fell in love and for a while life was as less-terrible as it could be in 1929.

On the 9th of March, they eloped. Or tried to, anyway. They'd gone to see the local magistrate... or umm... lord, high hibildy-piboly maybe. He who had the most teeth and therefore wed people. But alas, he was out woo-ing Jenn's Great-Gran mother with that very same pearly white. Singular.

Just kidding Jenn, we miss you!

Anyway, Connie and Tiller, having never made it to the altar began the long, and I assume swampy, journey home.

But he would never arrive!

Local Sharif Sam Johnson investigated but found nothing. Most folks just assumed Connie got cold feet and fled Arkansas.

We need to take a moment out of this entirely reality based rom-com and introduce a woman actually named Bertha. Bertha Burns. She fancied herself a detective and, not having any of that cold-footed malarky, set out to find some of that ee-loo-seev ev-e-donce.

Fast forward a few months and she found a bloodied hat on her land. Her near-the-trail-to-the-justice-of-the-peace land even! Using the hat and the impassioned pleas of some lady who claimed to be Connie's sister she dragged the Sheriff away from whatever fried-sadness passed as a doughnut back then and presented him with a small patch of scorched earth and a heaping helping of charred bones.

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Welcome, to the last blasphemous episode of Waiting for Wrath;

Where we talk about what we’ll fuck up next.

Where you might have learned something... we never bet on so… did you?

We were never experts and we made no promises, so we’ll see you on the next show — now — let’s play a clip, remember the digression and, some god forbid, keep having a laugh or two.

In This Week’s Show, episode 283, we send W4W off with a bang… then a whimper… then a bang… their clips basically.

Now, grab a beer and let us know about that god hypothesis — because, while this is another clip show, it doesn’t mean we don’t love you.

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that Carol Baskins fed her husband to a tiger.

* Episode 231 - Tiger Queen Honey is Money

* Episode 233 - I Know What You Did Last Easter

* Episode 236 - It’s A Great Place To Hide Your Drugs

* Episode 243 - Dwile Flonking & Ferret Legging

* Episode 242 - Big Gay Jim’s Big Gay Quiz

Live Stream Friday at 7 pm Mountain.

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The first episode of Interesting If True will air May 1st.

 

We’re taking a week off to get our ducks in a row. The new show will start with Aaron, Shea, and Steve with the other hosts rotating in. You can find out more, and get social links, at https://www.InterestingIfTrue.com or if you’re the optimistic type you can go sign up for longer shows at https://www.patreon.com/iit!

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In This Week’s Show, episode 282, we wrap up the early 200s with our first trailer for Interesting If True!

This week show wraps up clips from episodes 200 roughly 230-ish, and we’re hoping will be the last clip show.

We've been working pretty hard on Interesting If True, you’ll even find the first trailer at the end of this week’s regular episodes so enjoy that. We’ve got studio equipment distributed and while starting Interesting If True from quarantine might not be our preference, that’s how we’re going to have to roll for at least the first few episodes.

Depending on how things go with everybody’s non-COVID-19 related health we may end up doing a clip show again next week. If that becomes the case it will be our last one. Then it's time for something hopefully, just as fun.

We want to thank everybody who listened, supported, and interacted with a show over the years. It’s been a fantastic journey!

Clips:

* Episode 201: patron story (tainted taint) - https://interestingiftrue.com/w4w-201

* Episode 204: patron story (hidden kinder egg) - https://interestingiftrue.com/w4w-204

* Episode 205: Hitler-themed hourly communist room - https://interestingiftrue.com/w4w-205

* Episode 211: the wombat story (square poop discovery) - https://interestingiftrue.com/w4w-211

* Episode 214: Unicron unicorn - https://interestingiftrue.com/w4w-214

* Episode 227 - Clit Me - https://interestingiftrue.com/w4w-227

* Episode 228 - Drag Queen QuiZ - https://interestingiftrue.com/w4w-228

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Welcome to another blasphemous episode of Waiting for Wrath;

Where we talked about whatever the fuck we wanted.

Where you might learn something... but you’ll definitely have a laugh.

We’re still not experts and we make no apologies for our opinions — so — let’s listen to a discussion, revel in the digression and, some god forbid, have a laugh or two. Or nine. You’re quarantined, no one can hear you doing your best Joker anyway.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while the gods haven't struck us down yet, they’ve only got a few more chances!

In This Week’s Show, episode 281, we run another round of clips, hand-picked from episodes 175 to 200 for your socially distanced pleasure!

Shea’s Life Lesson

If you run out of toilet paper and don’t feel like sodomizing yourself with a corn cob, cutting a hole in a lawn chair and sitting over your lawn sprinklers will do the trick and encourage your neighbors to go the extra mile in distance themselves from you!

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Laramie has officially got its first case of Covid-19 and it wasn’t Jenn. So at least there’s that.

Normally we’d run a beer about here but the Covid fears have kept the bar keeps at bay for at least today so I’ll simply say I hope whatever you're drinking is exactly what you want. As for me, I’m having a maple old-fashioned with Knob Creek Kentucky Bourbon (cask strength) with whiskey barrel-aged Canadian maple syrup over ice and it’s delightful.

For a “round table” this week I’ll say that while we weren’t able to get together to record for a variety of reasons, not all of them pandemic related, we did dig into our catalog and put together what is, I think, a pretty solid clip show. At this rate, we’ll have enough backlog for one or two more clip shows before Waiting 4 Wrath is all wrapped up. That said, we will be posting episodes of Interesting If True here shortly. We’ve got some trailers nearly ready that I hope to share soon. We’ll also have a few “concept shows” that I’ll post (free to patrons). They’re essentially recuts of some of our best long-form second halves and quizzes. We do want to use some of the stuff we’ve done for Waiting 4 Wrath recently as it was done with our new direction in mind. Our hope is that we can, very occasionally, use a remastered W4W second half as a show when we need a week off or just as bonus content. We’ll also have some propper new content and episodes of Interesting If True on this feed when they’re ready.

Secret message to the patrons, available at http://patreon.com/w4w

Anyway, that’s what we’ve got for updates. Enjoy the show!

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In This Week’s Show, episode 280, we’re all in hiding so today’s show is a bit of chatter and a few of our favorite clips!

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Shit Happens (again) we are tempting fate!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that astronauts on the ISS are feeling pretty cocky right now.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

[cough]

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

This Week’s Beer

Rye Lagger from Transient Artisan Ales

Donated by: Steve-E

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/34258/337320/

* BA Rating: 83, 3.76

* Style: German Helles

* ABV: 4%

* Aaron: 9

* Shea: 9

* Steve: 8

This Week’s Show

Round Table

First, a bit about today’s show. Because of the outbreak and various quarantine measures, we’re meeting only briefly to record a few introductory segments. We’ll be running some of our favorite bits from roughly, episodes 150 to 200-ish. Please enjoy!

More importantly, the round table is a bit of a different animal this week — it’s for-serious announcement time!

I’ll brief you on the details and then we’ll kind of chat about the why and our thoughts. Without further ado, it’s time to rip the band-aid off — we’re ending the show. But before anyone has time for a spit take, I want everyone to rest assured that like a bad STD, we’re not that easy to get rid of.

We’ll be back with a new show in short order and you’ll even get the first few episodes on this feed so you can have a test listen, get the pertinent info, and switch to the new feed and new patreon account - wink wink, nudge nudge.

We’re ending W4W because it doesn’t necessarily fit with what we want to do anymore. We started this as another entry into the “angry, dirty joke-telling, atheist rant” space and that was a lot of fun for a long while. I for one needed to get some stuff off my chest and this made for a great outlet. More importantly, we had a lot of fun, met a bunch of great people online and IRL, and managed to raise a not-insignificant amount of money for WyoAIDS. All of which I’m calling a fantastic success.

That said, in the last year it’s become increasingly difficult to organize recordings, finding stories and doing the “homework” of the show has felt like exactly that, homework. The switch to the new format, which if we’re honest Jenn spearheaded nearly 150 episodes ago, has been a breath of fresh air. I think we’ve all enjoyed the change from rage to whimsey. From terrible people to tantalizing trivia. And most importantly, from poop jokes to… well… less and less of that.

So with that in mind, I’m happy to announce that we’ll soon air the first episodes of Interesting, If True. This show will be a bit shorter than W4W with tighter editing, less over talk, fewer 12-year-old jokes, and a whole lot more interesting content.

Basically, think of our second halves of late as their own show and you’ve got the idea.

Those of you supporting the show will find that you still get additional content from IIT. And if you’ve sent us beer, fear not, we’ll be continuing that tradition as well, if a little less formally — the plan is to enjoy a beer during the opening, comment on it, and then move quickly onto the meat of the show rather than having a dedicated beer review segment.

The final product will be a significantly lighter-hearted show that we hope will still be as fun, humorous, and yes, occasionally irreverent. But not so-much-so that you don’t want to share it on Facebook or tell your weird aunt or co-worker about it.

And that’s really the goal: to continue to have fun, make people laugh, and this go around, hopefully increasing our listenership beyond w...