Waiting 4 Wrath

In This Week’s Show, episode 259, the feds arrest bat boy for trafficking pumpkins to Gourds Do Porn.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Koji hasn’t struck us down yet, it does make great food!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that the human anus can stretch up to seven inches before tearing, also a raccoon can squeeze into holes as small as four inches. Meaning that you can take almost two raccoons up your ass. Just believe in yourself!

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

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

This Week’s Beer

Elysian Dragonstooth Stout from Elysian Brewing Co.

Donated By: Jaded Zappa

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/700/2023/

* BA : 90 out of 100

* Style: English Oatmeal Stout

* ABV: 8.1%

* Aaron: 4

* Shea: 3

* Steve: 4

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Good news, Canadians managed to pull their heads out of their collective asses and avoid an Orange Is The New Brexit moment by narrowly reallecting a leader capable of complete sentences… in two languages even!

Beer delivery from listener Travis

Join us on Patreon for Shea’s great story about sucking off a pumpkin… or something like that. You can get it, and extended versions of every show for as little as a buck a show. Plus, you’ll get episodes of our second show 4 More Beers, recorded live, for free! http://patreon.com/w4w

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Bloodermelon!

The most metal of fruits is a tie between the bloodermelon and the blumpkin… wait I think that's something else. The bloodkin! For those outside of the know these names refer to watermelons and pumpkins that have turned. Not in a rotten sort of way either, but in the undead now vampire ways!

The origins of vampiric pumpkins and watermelons date back to legends and myths passed down among the Gypsies of southeastern Europe and were documented by Tatomir Vukanovic in the 1930s about his travels in Serbia. He wrote several years later in the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society:

"The belief in vampires of plant origin occurs among Gs. [Gypsies] who belong to the Mosl. faith in KM [Kosovo-Metohija]. According to them there are only two plants which are regarded as likely to turn into vampires: pumpkins of every kind and water-melons. And the change takes place when they are 'fighting one another.'"

Yes you heard right, fighting each other… one can only ponder on what that would look like. There are also more theories from Vukanovic.

"In Podrima and Prizrenski Podgor they consider this transformation occurs if these vegetables have been kept for more than ten days: then the gathered pumpkins stir all by themselves and make a sound like 'brrrl, brrrl, brrrl!' and begin to shake themselves. It is also believed that sometimes a trace of blood can be seen on the pumpkin, and the Gs. then say it has become a vampire. These pumpkins and melons go round the houses, stables, and rooms at night, all by themselves, and do harm to people. But it is thought that they cannot do great damage to folk, so people are not very afraid of this kind of vampire.

Among the Mosl. Gs. in the village of Pirani it is believed that if pumpkins are kept after Christmas they turn into vampires, while the Lešani Gs. think that this phenomenon occurs if a pumpkin used as a syphon, when ripe and dry, stays unopened for three years."

Vukanovic doesn't go into may details on how the veg attack but I'm thinking pumpkin head but with watermelons too. If you do find yourself surrounded by carnivorous melons and gourds don't fret,

In This Week’s Show, episode 258, we learn about the blood countesses and where she put that flute that one time at summer plague…

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Beef hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying Steve’s patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that explaining to a child that we’re mortal and that death is inescapable is probably, for me, the hardest part about being a party clown.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that terrible human masquerading as a person worth respecting, Mother Teresa also had an exorcism performed on her? It was at the request of Archbishop of Calcutta, Henry D’Souza, who had noticed that Mother Teresa was increasingly agitated in her sleep.

I’m hoping it was night terrors caused by guilt of withholding care from those in need.

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

This Week’s Beer

Cannoneer - Pegasus City Brewery

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/51047/313204/

* Untappd: 3.67/5

* Style: Bold Amber

* ABV: 7.4%

* Aaron: 4

* Jenn: 4

* Mom: 0

* Shea: 3

* Steve: 4

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Thanks for having lunch with us Marie! And for the beers of course ;)

We just released another 4 More Beers! It’s episode 32, the chronicle of the Emu Wars. It was a properly funny show with a lot of quality digression… as opposed to the usual digression. So if you want to get this week’s extra story from Shea, over an hour of 4 More Beers, and all that good extra backlog content send us a buck at Patreon.com/w4w

Best of all, we don’t even charge you for the 4 More Beers!

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The Blood Countess - available now at http://patreon.com/w4w

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory

* https://historycollection.co/real-countess-dracula-12-facts-life-crimes-elizabeth-bathory/4/

Elizabeth Bathory been described as the most vicious female serial killer in all recorded history. Where fact ends and fiction begins in her horrible story is now impossible to determine, but in her fame as a legendary vampire she is out rivalled only by Count Dracula.

Bathory was born in Transylvania in 1560 to a distinguished family that included kings, cardinals, knights, and judges. Though she counted many luminaries among her relatives, her family tree also featured some seriously disturbed kin. One of her uncles instructed her in Satanism, while her aunt taught her all about sadomasochism. At the age of 15, Bathory was married to Count Ferenc Nádasdy, and the couple settled into Csejthe Castle in modern day Slovakia. In 1578, Nádasdy became chief commander of the Hungarian army and embarked on a military campaign against the Ottoman Empire, leaving his wife in charge of his vast estates and the governing of the local populace.

What was a wealthy socialite of the time to do? Rumors that Bathory tortured her servants began to spread. Bathory’s torture included jamming pins and needles under the fingernails of her servant girls, and tying them down, smearing them with honey, and leaving them to be attacked by bees and ants. Although the count participated in his wife’s cruelties, he may have also restrained her impulses; when he died in the early 1600s, she became much worse. It is also believed that to please his wife, her husband built a torture chamber to her specifications.

With the help of her former nurse, Ilona Joo, and local witch Dorotta Szentes, Bathory began abducting peasant girls to torture and kill.

In This Week’s Show, episode 257, we dive into the spooky, scary, skeletons in Planet X’s murder closet!

Join us tonight at 6:30pm Mountain Standard time (Denver) for another rousing episode of 4 More Beers, our free-to-patrons second show! We'll be recording live, having beers, and chatting with you on the YouTubes! If you want a link visit https://patreon.com/w4w where for as little as a buck a show you'll get to hear me talk about Planet Hole 9 and get a link to the live show later tonight!

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Makemake hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying their patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that when you fall off your parents insurance, it’s basically the same as your manufacturer’s warranty expiring.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that Aleistair Crowley (aka The Beast, aka The Wickedest Man Alive) had himself a castle in Scotland? On the shores of Loch Ness? That was later bought by Led Zeppelin founder and guitarist Jimmy Page to indulge in lots of drug-fueled occultism and attempts to harness magick.

That castle’s seen some shit is what I’m saying.

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

This Week’s Beer

Budweiser Discovery Reserve from Shea

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29/409610/

* BA Rating: 3.53 out of 5

* Style: American Amber/Red Lager

* ABV: 5%

* Aaron: 4

* Jenn:4

* Steve: 5

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Prezzies from Steve-E...

Reply to awesome listener Tara’s voicemail.

Hangover cures that work and don’t: episodes 193 & 194

Update from Jenn: I learned this week on Dan’s Cummings Time Suck Podcast that there is a remaining group of Lemurians still around. They’ve moved into hidden caverns within Mt. Shasta.

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The Dark Side of Planet 9!

We’re not strangers to the mysterious 9th planet. Some say it inhabits the outermost rim of the solar system, beyond the smallest-still-a-planet-if-you-ask-me Pluto where, somehow, it’s warm enough for lizard people to live.

Others suggest that it orbits the sun perpendicularly to the rest of the planets in the solar system. The idea being that its orbital plane is roughly 90 degrees off of the sun’s equatorial horizon. To give you an idea of just how far off axis that is, the most steeply tilted known objects are Eris, a dwarf planetoid at 44.0445 degrees, nearly twice that of “make make” whose orbital inclinations is about 29 degrees.

Fun fact, the discovery of Makemake is part of what contributed to downgrading Pluto from a planet to a sad ball of frozen rock no one gives a shit about.

Oh yeah, this is a science story... mostly.

Interestingly, Makemake has a radius of about 444.28 miles, is the second largest known object in the Kepler belt, has a 309 year... year, and one moon. Makemake, actually pronounced mah-kee-mah-kee, is also the god of fertility and creator of humans in the Rapa Nui mythology. Before its discovery was publicly announced the planetoid was given the codename “Easterbunny” as it was found shortly after Easter.

Looks at your phone now to see an orbital diagram of Makemake

So, why does all of this matter?

For starters, it’s interesting. But for our story, it’s a fun introduction to the discovery that Planet X is actually black hole X!

From Vice

In This Week’s Show, episode 256, Jenn goes on an epic hunt for hairy, scary, animalistic crypto-porn. 

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Ralph Baer hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying his patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that life always feels better after a big poo. 

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that Sasquatch is the Anglicization of ‘Sasq’ets’, from the Halq’emeylem language spoken by First Nations peoples in southwestern British Columbia? 

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

Hop Peak IPA - Breckenridge Brewery

From RW

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2137/308890/

* BA Rating: 3.9 

* Style: IPA

* ABV: 6.5%

* Aaron: 7

* Jenn: 4

* Shea:6 

* Steve: 5

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Round Table 

In hoist with his own petard news, the subject of last week’s faith has been the subject of some scrutiny this week when it was discovered that he referenced Tosh.0 in a tweet when he was 16. When the tweets were mentioned to him he preempted even the reporter who found them to issue a lengthy and, if I do say so, appropriate apology. The reporter on the other hand, has yet to apologize for the extraordinarily, not-at-all-quoting-a-shock-jock racist and homophobic tweets in his own timeline. https://outline.com/AhsktY  

Oh yeah, and the paper he had worked for, fired him.  Thanks to listener Pete for sharing an article with us about it. 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/us/carson-king-aaron-calvin-des-moines-register-trnd/index.html

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Yowie-Zowie!

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Today we’ll be talking about Shea’s kin-folks (and not just his hot sister!)

As our resident Yeti, Shea is of course our show’s official cryptid. His heritage hails from the snowy mountains of Nepal, by way of the snowy mountains of Northern Colorado.

I’m sure everyone is familiar with Shea’s extended North American family. The most popular are his Pacific Northwest clan of the Bigfoots. There’s the southern branch in Florida known as the Skunk Apes, but since the ‘skunk’ is not because of their coloration, they are often not invited to family reunions. (Florida, amirite?) It’s really humid there and deodorant doesn’t cut through the fur

“Skunk Ape” is a terrible thing to call people from Florida Jenn… Jeez, we all know stankopotomus is the preferred nomenclature. 

What Shea won’t tell us though, is where his Yowie brethren come from… given that Australia is a conspiracy and doesn’t really exist.

First, what is a Yowie?

Well, depending on the quality of your auto-correct it’s either a seven to twelve foot tall, white haired, samscquanch from the Australian outback, or a sub-genre of Japanese homoerotic art often published as manga, or when animated, hentai.

Regardless of spelling the noble Yowie and the ignoble yaoi have a surprising number of things in common. For example, both are hunted for primarily online, from dingy basements only lit by the eerie glow of computer monitors displaying only the most trustworthy sites delivered by the shame-reducing encryption of a VPN. Also, nearly all photos of the elusive Yow-s are pixelated beyond recognition.  

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

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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 ...

In This Week’s Show, episode 254, we go full spiritualist on the Nazis and full mythical on Milwaukee.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Giant three-eyed Lemurians haven’t struck us down yet, we are trying their patience!

Then protect your damn internet traffic with Private Internet Access!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that if you have ten apples in one hand and six apples in the other, you have really big hands.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that Gondwana is the 4th most recent supercontinent? It lasted until the Jurassic Period and broke apart about 180 million years ago.

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

This Week’s Beer

Breck Lager - Breckenridge Brewery

From - RW

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2137/182686/

* BA Rating: 3.52

* Style: Lager

* ABV: 4.5%

* Aaron: 5

* Jenn: 2

* Shea: 5 < --Yep thats beer

* Steve: 5

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Modern Spiritualism

Since we talked last week about the origins of spiritualism, and in just a few minutes Jenn will catch us up on the end of that, I thought “why not talk about spiritualism today?”… then I Googled…

Some things you simply shouldn’t Google…

So I’ll Just say upfront that the modern spiritualist landscape could not only fill this show and dozens more like it, but could easily be its own show… and in fact is if you count the gobs of podcasts that cater to spiritualists.

I knew iTunes had a pretty wide distribution, but to the dead!?!

As we talked about last week, modern spiritualism traces itself back to the Fox sisters. Who, upon later needing money, announced that their announcement of fraud was itself fraudulent. Because ghosts!

Following the Fox sisters, some wrap up from the BBC.

In the 1860’s one could sit for spirit photography - a practice “invented” by William H. Mumler when he accidentally took a double exposure and didn’t know what it was. Soon seances were everywhere and perpetually debunked practitioners like Daniel Dunglas Home - who “levitated” out of windows and back - captivated the imaginations of celebrities like Arthur Conan Dole, who in 1918 said the movement offered “infinitely nearer positive proof” than any other religion giving it way too much notoriety.

The first Spiritualist church opened in Keighly, Yorkshire in 1853. They published the Yorkshire Telegraph, the first spiritualist newspaper.

In 1882 the Society for Psychical Research was founded to use science to test spiritualist claims beginning a long tradition of shit going poorly for spiritualists.

In 1890 Keighly hosted the first Spiritualist conference. Later founding the first organization of Spiritualist churches in the UK as the Spiritualists' National Federation, SNF.

This organization was succeeded in 1902 by the Spiritualists' National Union. The SNU had 360 affiliated churches, and 18k members. Their American contemporary, the National Spiritualist Association of Churches, NSAC, was founded as the National Spiritualist Association in 1893, but we’ll catch up with the NSA shortly…

In the 1920’s the Catholic, Anglican, and other major religions admonished spiritualism at the Lembeth Conference. Despite this, by the 1930’s there were about 250,000 practicing spiritualists.

The Fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951 made it illegal for people to pretend to act as spiritualistic mediums for money or other reward. This act was repealed in April 2008, and fraudulent mediums are now covered by consumer protection legislation,...

In This Week’s Show, episode 253, we summon minions of the occult with our esoteric knowledge of yee-olde brew pubbes.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while The Infinite Intelligence hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying its patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have more in common than you think. Their middle names 

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that adherents to spiritualism worship a single deity that they compare to the Christian god but it’s really nothing like that. Anyway, they refer to it as the Infinite Intelligence and never gave Douglas Adams the slightest bit of credit.

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

This Week’s Beer

Necessary Evil from Manhattan Project Beer Company

Donated By: Aaron 

BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/47850/386663/

BA Rating: 3.8

Style: Pilsner

ABV: 5.3% 

Aaron: 4

Jenn: 5

Shea: 6

Steve: 4

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Eternal Confidence

The series centers around 6 subjects answering specific questions about their faith. Some of the subjects are active and believing Christians and some of the subjects have deconverted from Christianity. 

Homesick Productions here: homesickproductions.com 

You can find the first episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-5kD193s90&t=266s 

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Friend of the show Dustin of Atheist Nomads:

"Ye" was the plural second person pronoun for the subjective case. It was merged with "you" when English merged the subjective and objective cases.

The word "the" used to be spelled with the letter thorn which was pronounced as a th, but over time it began to resemble the letter "y". Most thorn was replaced with "th", but "ye" was kept much longer as an abbreviation of the word "the", but everyone knew to pronounce it as "the".

Check out their fantastic show at https://www.atheistnomads.com!

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The Fox Sisters 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_sisters

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Spiritualism

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-fox-sisters-rochester-new-york

https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/heretics-of-the-week-the-fox-sisters/

 

Unfortunately, this isn't about "foxy" sisters, or Megan Fox's elusive, might-not-even-exist (don't know, don't care enough to Google) sister. The Fox sisters are one of the first people you're likely to hear about if you look into Spiritualism, mediums, or psychics. However, until most of their contemporaries the Fox sisters didn't shag people at seances. So, without any weird sex stuff to joke about, I'm well outside my usual wheelhouse.

And yes, female mysticism at the time was inexorably tied to the kind of freaky sex only available from the possessed. Because that's how you know she's a mystic! Contemporary spiritualists like Eva Carriere and Eusapia Palladino were famous for shagging clients and inspectors to main...

In This Week’s Show, episode 252, we eat our fabulous fill of umami-rich pod-shame.

If you enjoyed today's free, patreon cut of the show, consider subscribing at http://patreon.com/w4w!

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Ponos (the Greek God of hard labor and toil) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying their patience!

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

MSG is fine.

Actual lesson: Did you know that Heracles is the actual name of the Greek strongman known for the 12 labors. HERCULES is his Roman name.

Jim’s Good Gay News

Former NFL player Ryan Russell has come out as bisexual.  He’s trying to return to the league, and says he wants to do it while being open and honest.  Here’s hoping someone signs him again!

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

This Week’s Beer

Lazy Horse Blood Orange Ale - from Brendan

Untapped Beer: https://untappd.com/b/lazy-horse-brewing-blood-orange/1961686/photos

Untapped Rating:  3.4 out of 5

Style: Pale Ale

ABV: 5%

Aaron: 5

Jenn: 5

Jim: on his own (and his homemade rhubarb wine and strawberry wines are pretty tasty…and pretty potent)

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Bear Bottom Bar & Grill - https://bearbottom307.com

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Centennial, Wyoming

Attn: Mr. Big Gay Jim

Episode 253

Necessary Evil from Manhattan Project Beer Company

Donated By: Aaron 

BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/47850/386663/

BA Rating: 3.8

Style: Pilsner

ABV: 5.3%

Beer Announcement #2 - Episode 254

Breck Lager - Breckenridge Brewery

From - RW

BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2137/182686/ 

BA Rating: 3.52

Style: Lager

ABV: 4.5%

Jenn’s PSA- Don’t plagiarize, assholes

Today I’m going to share something that has really gotten me pissed off in the last few weeks, and it’s something that you, listeners of podcasts, should hear about.

Now I know in the last several months or so I’ve joked about some topics that I have crossed over with Citations Needed (and thanks all who let me know not to worry too much about it). But the truth is, I have been most concerned about any idea of copying them or their info. Full disclosure, I don’t listen to it myself but I take my research as seriously as I can when I’m trying to learn y’all facts about outlaw mummies and mysterious Russian everything.

Even from the beginning, we at W4W have worked very hard to announce our sources in the show, indicate where we are using direct quotes and link those used in the show notes. Well, most of us, probably not Shea. 

Now we’re a niche little show, and we’re definitely not changing the cultural landscape of podcasting or directly affecting the lives of other shows who may cover similar topics. But I’m talking about this today bc that actual thing is currently being unveiled, and has been happening for close to a year. 

If you’ve listened to our show for any length of time, you know that I’m a BIG fan of true crime, unsolved mysteries and the type of topic that gives Aaron nightmares. And I know some of you listeners enjoy that sort of stuff as well, but this covers more than just a narrow topic and just a few individuals or shows.

In This Week’s Show, episode 251, we get hysterically involved in French DDR until we sashay away to the world’s best food truck for a beer.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Nataraja (the personification of Shiva who is considered the ‘lord of the dance’) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying his patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that when smart kids share random facts adults tell them how smart they are. But when adults share random facts people tell them they are weird and annoying…

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that in his guise as Nataraja, Shiva is both creating and destroying the world, all at once, crushing a demon underneath his feet as he does so.

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

This Week’s Beer

Breaking Bud by Knee Deep Brewing Company

Donated By: Aaron

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/23200/159885/

* BA Rating: 4.15

* Style: IPA

* ABV: 7%

* Aaron: 5

* Jenn: 4

* Steve: 4

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New Patrons

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The Four Horsepeople of the funny bone.

“Waiting 4 Wrath is a great show with great hosts. Each brings something to the table that I can relate to. Jen brings the level headed reason. Aaron brings the silly. Steve brings the curmudgeon (You kids get off my lawn!) But it is my yeti brethren Shea that brings the lesson. Every week I learn along with him and this week I learned that when you fish from the top of a building you can’t bait your hook there because everyone knows you can’t Fit A Lure On The Roof.”

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Voicemail From Mr. Bible Pants

Message from Sir Hairy Palms the Blind

Fun story about fixing lefties.

In grade 2 ( or 3) , so like 1976 or so, I had a public school teacher who refused to allow me to learn how to print because I'm left handed. If I tried she'd hit my hand with a yardstick and make me sit away from my desk to make sure I didn't sneak practice being a devil spawn with delusions of literacy.

Same teacher also told me that "God didn't make you a dirty savage (I'm 1/2 native canadian) The Devil did that. But god expects you to overcome it".

She had me so convinced I was broken and evil my family didn't find out about the writing prohibition until my father asked the school about moving me into a special ed class and the real story came out about why I was near illiterate compared to my classmates. Not sure if Mrs Grizdale got fired but I never saw her again.

Yeah. Religion is fun. Been an atheist pretty much ever since, so I should thank the evil bitch for that.

Longtime listener Ed sent us a pic of the delicious chocolate Shake Chocolate Porter beer from a few weeks ago. He’s tried his best to like beer, but not even this one worked. :( He did say he still liked us so let’s call it a win!

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Our story begins in the sleepy, but not as sleepy as it will be, town of Mattoon, Illinois. Mattoon is a small town of about 18,000 people, nestled in the treeline of Coles County between a prairie and another prairie.

Fun fact about Mattoon, the city website appears to be the last remaining Geocities page on the internet.

In 1944 Urban Raef was awakened in the wee hours by a strange smell. Nauseated and weak,

In This Week’s Show, episode 250, we’ll start in a flourishing age of patronage and reason, then end in a flushing of American populist rationalization.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while St. Timothy (the patron saint of stomach ailments) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying his patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

Eat more fiber...

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that the collective genome of all the bacteria living in your gut is at least 150 times larger than your own genome?

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

This Week’s Beer

Mural Agua Fresca by New Belgium collab with Cerveceria Primus, Mexico City

BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/192/335648/

* BA Rating: 3.52/5

* Style:  Fruit and Field Beer

* ABV: 4%

* Aaron: 5

* Jenn: 5

* Steve: 6

This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

Big News!

We have an address to send us beer again! Beer donations can be sent attn: Big Gay Jim to the Bear Bottom Bar & Grill. Check out the show notes and/or https://BearBottom307.com for an address.

You should really just check out https://bearbottom307.com anyway.

Big thanks to Big Gay Jim and Hubby for letting us use their location for beer donations, which, we’re actually kind of in need of. The last of the donations have gone pretty quickly so if you were thinking of supporting the show and patreon.com/w4w sounds too much like sending us money, you can send us beer instead!

Dum Dum Followup again: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/08/14/flat-earthers-homemade-rocket-grounded-due-to-bad-craigslist-water-heater/

Headlines Hotshots

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* https://anticastamperiaarmena.com

* http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190708-the-city-that-launched-the-publishing-industry

Since we're talking about education today - or lack thereof - I thought it might be interesting to dive into some of the earliest ways information of stored. I'm not going to go so far as cave paintings but instead will focus on the earliest printed books.

Germany is often considered the birthplace of publishing because of Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the movable type printing press in the mid-15th century - not to be confused with Wordpress's homage-named movable block editor which is decidedly less revolutionary. But we're going to gloss over Johannes as well and move straight to Venetian bookbinders.

The modern Antica Stamperia Amena is dedicated to the preservation of artisan bookmaking. Paolo Olbi is a craftsman there.

Located in Dorsoduro neighborhood of Venice in an 18th-century building built for the Zenobio family the Antica is now owned and operated by the Armenian Mekhitarist (mecha-tourist) Fathers of Venice (an Armenian Catholic congregation).

“Since typographic art arrived in Venice in 1469, [the printing industry] underwent an extraordinarily large development because of the features of the lagoon city,” explained Federica Benedetti, a librarian at the Marciana National Library of Venice, one of Italy’s oldest surviving public libraries. “[Venice was] the main naval force in the Mediterranean Sea – it was in the centre of a thick net of commercial relations with the greatest European and non-European powers. Merchants and artisans [brought over] technological innovations and capital.”

Thanks to the cities dominance in trade Venice quickly became a hub of publishing and print trade.