Waiting 4 Wrath

In This Week’s Show, episode 249, we learn that when it comes to yee-olde medicine, pigeons, penis, and pigeon-penis, are all you need.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Priapus (the Greek god of fruit gardens and male genitalia) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying his patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that you can lead your horse to water. You can lead your horse behind. Because if your horse don't dance and if he don't dance then he ain't no horse of mine.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

I learned a lot of weird historical sex stuff researching this show. In fact, in 2008, while excavating the city of Amathus, on the south coast of Cyprus, archaeologists found a curse which went straight to the point: “May your penis hurt when you make love.”

Also I’m going to make Aaron embed a picture of Priapus for you all to see. Sorry not sorry.

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

This Week’s Beer

Shake Chocolate Porter from Boulder Brewing

Donated By: RW

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/130/101458/

* BA Rating: 4.8

* Style:  American Porter

* ABV: 5.9%

* Aaron: 10

* Jenn: 9

* Shea: 10

* Steve: 9

This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

Jenn - Rosalie taught the guys they can’t say cactus.

Steve - Aaron and I guested on Atheist Nomads this week where we had a lot of fun and had a really good conversation that, unsurprisingly, meandered a bit.

Look for Episode 316 of Atheist Nomads at https://www.atheistnomads. .follow the link in the show notes.

Patron Story

The Ivory Tower

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/victorian-era-sex-toy-returned-to-ireland-after-crowdfunding-bid-1.3971258?mode=amp

This story comes from a land where it is illegal to blaspheme the church, not the middle East. The land of leprechauns and fairies and this one time I went there.

Back in 2017 an international collector bought a rare 19th century Irish Victorian ivory dildo… yep dildo. This really ignited Shawna Scott's passion for Irish sexual history.

“It made my heart sink when it was sold. It just seemed like such an important part of Irish sexual history,” said Ms Scott.

Ms Scott is a sex positive busisness person who owns and runs "Ireland's best sex shop" online, Sex Siopa (see-ah-pee) https://sexsiopa.ie/. Looking at the website it's obvious that she fights to break taboos and help her clients enjoy themselves in healthy fun ways. Ms. Scott theorizes that "Sometimes with Irish history, unless something is tied to the famine or 1916 it gets a little forgotten or re-prioritised.”

Scott kept on the trail of the ivory dildo and was surprised to hear that it back up for auction and she had a chance to get her hands on it. Unfortunately it was once again purchased buy a private collector and Scott was crestfallen. The dildo, which is at least 130 years old, and is believed to have been owned by a wealthy Anglo-Irish household, received more than 100 bids from nearly 40 different countries when it was auctioned in April 2017.

Last weekend, a customer emailed Ms Scott that the same item was up for auction again. This caused her to have what she calls an “Indiana Jones moment. I said to myself, that belongs in a museum.”

My big question now is why the dildo keeps getting resold? It seems like a game, these wealthy buyers just sitting on their ivory towers. Or maybe it is haunted? Too big? Smells funny?

Any way,

In This Week’s Show, episode 248, I’m hungover, Jenn’s got the Shlits, and Steve’s wife still hasn’t found him. Shea’s birthday parties are wild affairs…

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

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that if you glue a dead wasp to the back of your hand you can smack anyone as hard as possible and act like you saved them.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Died of dysentery, fording a river?

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

This Week’s Beer

Dinosaur Death IPA from Big Lake Brewing

Donated By: Steve E

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/33297/356354/

* BA Rating: 3.8

* Style: New England IPA

* ABV: 5.8%

* Aaron:

* Shea: 8

* Steve: 5

This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

New Patron - Jeff Goldblum? Yes.

Crazy Deaths Through History

While researching people's proof of the afterlife and delving into full on craziness (did you know Goop believes in psy powers) I realized I needed more time to pull all the parts together so prepare yourselves for that in the future. As a happy kismet I ran into quite a few people dying in incredibly strange and bizarre ways. So today I'm going to bring you through history and teach you of some strange, weird as shit deaths.

We're gonna travel to ancient Greece to learn about the father of tragedy, Aeschylus. Way back, like 500 years before Jesus mucked around, Aeschylus was an incredibly popular playwright known for his dialog and conflict between actors. During his life it was prophesied that he would be killed by a falling object and many believe that because of that, Aeschylus made it a habit to stay out of doors. During a trip to Sicily in 458 BC he was struck on the head by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his bald head for a rock, as written by Valerius Maximus, a collector of historical information. Aeschylus's work was so respected by the Athenians that after his death, his were the only tragedies allowed to be restaged in subsequent competitions.

You have probably heard of Draconian law, excessively harsh and severe punishments, but you may not know that they were originally laws created in Greece as the first constitution of Athens back around 620 BC. These laws were written by… you guessed it, Draco. Draco was the first recorded legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece. While visiting an Aeginetan theatre supporters of his, in a traditional ancient Greek show of approval,"threw so many hats and shirts and cloaks on his head that he suffocated, and was buried in that same theatre". The truth about his death is still unclear, but I'd like to believe it's true.

Empedocles, another Greek philosopher, also a statesman, poet, religious teacher, and physiologist. According to legend, Empedocles was a self-styled god he believed in the transmigration of souls, he declared that those who have sinned must wander for 30,000 seasons through many mortal bodies and be tossed from one of the four elements to another. Escape from such punishment requires purification, particularly abstention from the flesh of animals, whose souls may once have inhabited human bodies. To show his divinity and divine power he climbed up to the top of Mount Etna, an active volcano, and threw himself in. Miraculously living and being vwooped up to his heavenly throne… oh wait, no, he died. He was greatly morned, Aristotle reputedly hailed him as the inventor of rhetoric, and Galen regarded him as the founder of Italian medicine. Lucretius admired his hexametric poetry.

In This Week’s Show, episode 247, we use science to study our ancestors on the internet, in Utah, and in Nazi Germany… Good news, the last ones are dead.

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

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that if you boil a funny bone it becomes a laughing stock… I find that humerus.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that San Diego Zoo’s lovely Victoria, a southern white rhino, gave birth this past Sunday to a handsome little boy? (Well, he weighed about 125lbs so I guess ‘little’ is subjective.) He is the 186th rhino born at the Safari Park and the first southern white rhino born in North America from artificial insemination. Congrats, Victoria, and you don’t need no man!

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

This Week’s Beer

Buffalo Gold Golden Ale from Boulder Beer - from RW

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/130/5088/

* BA Rating: 4.8/5

* Style: American Blonde

* ABV: 4.8%

* Aaron: 9

* Jenn: 6

* Shea: 8

* Steve: 9

This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

VM from Carl

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zgz2xBrvVQ

This Week’s Stories

Archiving Nazi DNA.

Available now at http://patreon.com/w4w!

* https://allthatsinteresting.com/rudolf-hess-doppelganger-theory

I’m going to go ahead and break rule #1 and start this story off with a dash of Nazi. Specifically, a 70-year-old conspiracy theory.

Rudolf Hess, for those who don’t know - not you Jenn or Steve - was a leading Nazi, Deputy Fuhrer, and an asshole. He was captured by the Allies in May of 1941 when his Messerschmitt Bf 110 crashed in Scotland en route to broker an unauthorized peace deal. The theory holds that sometime between his capture and the Nuremberg trials, Rudolf Hess was replaced by a doppelganger who stood trial for him and subsequently served his sentence.

W. Hugh Thomas, a doctor at Spandau, questioned if prisoner Spandau 7 was Hess as 7 refused to see his family and exhibited signs of amnesia. Subsequently the British government authorized investigation. Unfortunately, they had no means of truly verifying his identity so the conspiracy persisted. Spandau 7 was hung in 1987 at the age of 90.

It wasn’t until 8 years ago that we knew for sure. It turns out a pathologist at Spandau hermetically sealed a 1982 blood sample from Spandau 7. Considered unremarkable the sample was used as a teaching prop at Walter Reed Medical.

A US military doctor heard of the sample in passing and later, upon hearing of the conspiracy, put two and two together. Austrian molecular biologist, Jan Cemper-Kiesslich, extracted DNA from the sample and set out to find a living relative. The closest of whom had just died. “The family is very private,” said McCall. “The name is also rather common in Germany, so finding them was difficult.” Nonetheless, the team persisted and were able to track down a living male relative with whom they could compare blood samples and DNA.

The results presented an unwavering conclusion: there was a 99.9 percent likelihood that the Spandau 7’s blood sample and the sample of the living Hess relative were close biological matches.

And so, the mystery is closed. For their part the Hess family is understandably adamant in denying any further commentary or reaction to the results.

In This Week’s Show, episode 246, we juice the Angel of Celery to stave off viral spillover with whatever horrible yeti disease kept Shea from being here today.

I think it’s called Familious klingienous...

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Ko’Lok (the cannibal winged giant of the Miwok people, not on Endor) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying their patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

MIA

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know the electric chair was invented by a dentist (Alfred Southwick)? It’s actually only an electric chair bc that was what he was used to working with.

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

This Week’s Beer

Highwayman - Roadhouse Brewing Co

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/30261/397884/

* BA Rating: 4.47/5

* Style: Crushable Pilsner

* ABV: 4%

* Aaron: 8

* Jenn: 7

* Steve: 9

This Week’s Show

Thanks to listener Steve W. for the very good point as to why doctors didn’t use axes to chop off limbs for amputations. In episode 244 we discussed Dr. Lister and how he made surgery not an auto-death sentence and Aaron was curious as to why not use an axe. Turns out, that tends to shatter bones which will definitely help a surgery be less successful.

This Week’s Story

Jenn's Story is available now at http://patreon.com/w4w for a buck! Head over to get a special patron only story every week, as well as 4 More Beers, our sister show (that one's free and we'll totally be making one soon!) Patrons this week will also get an extended (like 10+ min) of my medical story!

Fake Reality TV & Unhealthy Medicine

* https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/ethics/76358

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burzynski_Clinic

* https://www.khou.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/great-day-houston/an-upcoming-reality-series-will-highlight-cancer-patients-recovery-stories/285-602900318

Another entry into the annals of quack doctors making lots of money off of desperate people, today I’m talking about the Burzynski Clinic. Located in Houston, TX, the clinic was founded by chubby, weird, dangerous Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski.

The clinic was founded in 1976 and has been the subject of much (entirely warranted) controversy since the beginning. But I’ll get into the details during and after we hear from a commercial advertising the purported upcoming docu-series ‘My Cancer Free Life’

* https://www.khou.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/great-day-houston/an-upcoming-reality-series-will-highlight-cancer-patients-recovery-stories/285-602900318

I have a few tidbits to point out during the segment we watch:

At 00:30 - Antineoplastons: what are they? How do they work? Turns out it’s/they’re a term coined by Burzynski himself and really don’t seem to do anything at all. It’s sort of a ‘catch all’ for (per his Wiki article) “a group of urine-derived peptides, peptide derivatives, and mixtures that Burzynski named to use in his "cancer treatment". There is no accepted scientific evidence of benefit from antineoplaston combinations for various diseases.” Yes, his entire approach to immunotherapy cancer treatment involves urine particulates.

Good

* https://integrityfuneral.com/book-of-memories/3677519/kruse-douglas/view-condolences.php

Medical Medium

* https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzd7km/benefits-of-celery-juice

* https://www.inverse.

Episode 145 - The One Where We Find Out We're Full Of Stars - Standard

In This Week’s Show, episode 245, it’s Steve, Shea and I because Jenn went Bang, Zoom, right to the moon!

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Mars (Patrons will get that), Roman God of War,  hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying his patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

I'm worried that people are forgetting what prime day is really about, and who died to make it possible. So let's have a moment of silence for the great Optimus.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

It wasn't intense enough for Jenn in Laramie so she went camping to be “in tents.”

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

This Week’s Beer

Fire Ant Funeral | Texas Ale Project Dallas, TX

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/37947/149299/

* BA Rating: 3.69/5

* Style: American Amber / Red Ale

* ABV: 6%

* Aaron: 6

* Shea: 6

* Steve: 6

* This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

New patron The Custodial Humanist.I love the name, but I have a question? Is it custodial as in providing protection or as in incarceration?

Awesomely funny show.

Waiting 4 Wrath is why I am seen laughing hysterically while driving home on Fridays to reach that all important post work beer. If you don’t listen to this podcast you are a poopy head.

5 Stars, Colin from Canada

Many thanks to our favorite farmer for the fab photo of the red heifers because of course there are red heifers.

This Week’s Stories

Did we or didn’t we?

As I hope our esteemed listeners are fully aware, Saturday July 20 is the 50th anniversary of the first human invaders to another celestial body (that we’re aware of, Stargate-type possibilities notwithstanding). As you probably also know; I’m the oldest one on this podcast and I was but 7 months old at the time, so I don’t remember it, though my mother tells me I was crawling around the room at 3:17 pm when they were watching it on TV. It had launched a few days earlier on July 16, traversed approximately 240,000 miles of fucking nothing, and landed safely on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent approximately 21.5 hours on the surface, of which about 2.5 hours was outside of the lunar module “Eagle” and walking around doing stuff. They then, along with command pilot Michael Collins made the trip back home and landed in the middle of nowhere south pacific ocean about halfway between Hawaii and the Marshall Islands.

It only took me a couple of minutes to recount the very basics of the event, but it represented the culmination of nearly 10 years of intensive engineering work and training by over 420,000 people working for the US government and over 20,000 companies, spending billions of dollars and millions of man-hours to answer President Kennedy’s May 1961 call to congress of, “…landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” And at Rice University in September 1962 the famous words,

“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone,

In This Week’s Show, episode 244, we’re gonna learn about presidentially invented germs, apparently.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Acesco (the Greek goddess of healing wounds) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying her patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

Earache today, gone tomorrow (or at least Showtime)

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that sharks have been on our planet longer than trees?

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

This Week’s Beer

Voodoo Ranger Juicifer IPA | New Belgium

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/192/380214/

* BA Rating: 3.79/5

* Style: IPA

* ABV: 7.7%

* Aaron: 7

* Jenn: 7

* Steve: 7

This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

No patrons, no iTunes reviews, no Shea… kinda. The Patrons will get some Yeti, so make sure you’ve subscribed at https://patreon.com/w4w

4 More Beers is coming… I promise.

Brewfest is this weekend!

When you hear this, it will almost be Brewfest in Laramie! If you find yourself near our neck of the woods come to say hi and we’ll buy ya a free beer ;)

This Week

Jenn’s Story of SCIENCE(!) in History-ree-ree-ree...

As I briefly mentioned earlier, I spent most of the weekend of the 4th camping with family on a lake. Now, camping with a bunch of dogs, children and no running water will definitely give a personal appreciation of the little things after a while. Little things like hand washing and antiseptics. (After watching my oldest nephew drag up a long-dead fish to camp and all the other kids played with it for a bit, never after appearing to wash their hands, I was ready for a bleach bath.)

So today I have decided on a tale that involves history, science, health, and (since it was just July 4th) the assassination of a US President.

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3468637/

* http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/people/josephlister

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield

* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dirty-painful-death-president-james-garfield

To start off our story, let me introduce you to the Right Honourable Lord Joseph Lister, British surgeon, scientist and lifelong fan of serious mutton-chops.

Born in Essex 1827, he was a brilliant and fastidious man. He was also drawn to medicine, surgery in particular, from an early age. Luckily for him, he had been born a white man, so that is what he did. In fact, he had quite an impressive career pretty much from the beginning. In 1846, he was present for the first surgery performed under anesthesia at 19. By the time he was 25, he had become a fellow at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

His bright career trajectory (and surely his magnificent chops) led him to be suggested for employment to James Syme, Professor of Clinical Surgery in Edinburgh. The men hit it off so well that Lister quickly moved up the ranks from assistant to house surgeon to marrying Syme’s eldest daughter, Agnes. (Not to disparage the marriage; apparently, they were very close and loving. She was bright and learned in her own right and he was happy to have her join him in his work as a lifelong lab partner… since being a woman that was the best she could hope for.)

By 1860 Lister had moved to Glasgow and had begun reading about Pasteur’s work on microorganisms. Now the idea of bacteria or at least teeny-tiny things that affected things in the real world like fermenting beer or causing food to rot was pretty much established in the scientific community...

In This Week’s Show, episode 243, I pull up my big-mammal pants and try out for some sports that I might just be able to play… if I wanted to.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Chumunda (Hindu Goddess of fear) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying their patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that goth anti-vaxxers refuse to listen to the Cure.

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

This Week’s Beer

Rübeaus Raspberry Beer from Founders6

ACTUALLY from Steve E(??)

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1199/23474/

* BA Rating: 3.9

* Style: Fruit & Field Beer

* ABV: 5.7

* Aaron: 10

* Shea: 10

* Steve: 6

This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

Thanks to Jon for a generous donation to help Jenn get remote-teched out

Great show!

June 20, 2019 by Fuzzyesquire from United States

Been listening for two years, each show is hysterical, great conversations and just a fun time. Thanks for all the laughs and good times.

If you want to send us beer we’ll have a new address soon, so now’s the time to email us!

This Week’s Stories

Ok Shea, this one’s for you.

I’ve finally learned about sports...

Not tried, of course, but I read about them online.

Oh yes, I’ve put on my finest pair of pigeon-cleats and went for a jaunt in marry ol’England to partake of their finest sport...

Kottobas - Antiquity

Of course, if not for the Greeks we wouldn’t have the wonders of Dwile Flocking. It’s... let’s say predecessor... probably, Kottobas was a favorite circa fourth and fifth centuries BC.

To begin one must first tap a new vat of wine and serve to friends and enemies alike. Once the goblets near empty, contestants would assume the sporting position... reclining on there dining table, and deftly flick the remaining wine sediment from their glass at a target.

Apparently success in Kottobas was a precursor to success in affairs of the heart — because those who competes in the wine-games sees only 10s.

Pulling Your Goose

The Mid-17th century was a glorious time for animal based sport - and masterbation jokes.

To begin pulling your goose you need some rope to tie it up with and a horse. The goose is hung by its feet from a tree or whatever and contestants take turns riding the horse at a full gallop and try to grab the goose’s head.

The goal, because everything back then was terrible and covered in the blood of the innocent, was to pull the gooses head off. Thereby forever enshrining your position as a master head puller and also, I assume, winning you the goose-head. Also you’re, “crowned” as the “king” for one whole year with a crown and mantle. At the end of his “king” reign, he has to indulge his “subjects” to a feast of beer, cigars and bread pudding or sausages that is held either at his house or the local pub. Kings compete with each other to become the “emperor”.

The event is still practiced today in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. Though use of a live goose was banned in the 1920’s. Though purist still argue that half the challenge was the bird flapping about, and a flaccid goose just isn’t as much fun to pull on.

Dwile Flonking - 1960

First things first, we’re going to have to get into a gaming mood with a rousing round of Dwile Flonking.

One of the more recent inventions of English sport, Dwile Flonking comes from Norfolk, min-1960... and almost certainly a pub. The rules are simple enough.

In This Week’s Show, episode 242, we’re finishing up Pride month with a rainbowlific quiz - it’s gonna be fabulous!

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Iris (the Greek goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying her patience!

Shea’s …

… playing a doubleheader of softball.

In the rain.

So much wet Yeti smell...

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

This week I learned that Shea plays softball.

Jim’s Good Gay News

In case you’ve missed it, it’s the end of Pride month! And I finally have internet restorer at Queen Acres, so it’s time to taste the rainbow, bitches!

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

This Week’s Beer

Fat Randy's IPA | Holidaily Brewing Co.

NOT Donated by Steve E.

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/44203/213693/

* BA Rating: 3.66

* Style: American IPA

* ABV: 7%

* Aaron: 4

* Jenn: 3

* Jim: Vodka!

* Steve: 3

This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

Aaron had a birthday and didn’t die.

Thank you, Eli for being most fantastic

This Week’s Stories

Detective Dickhead Wants Cops to Kill the Gays https://www.advocate.com/religion/2019/6/12/tennessee-cop-turned-pastor-urges-execution-gays

We want you to sign up for http://patreon.com/w4w so you can hear about how terrible he is!

A sermon in which a minister who is also a sheriff’s detective with 20 years of service called for the execution of LGBTQ people has led to an investigation by authorities in Knox County, Tenn. Grayson Fritts gave the sermon June 2 (the first Sunday of LGBTQ Pride Month) at All Scripture Baptist Church in Knoxville, where he is pastor. Because a Bible and a badge are two great tastes that go great together.

His sermon was titled “Sodomite Reprobates” and based on the King James Version of the Bible - Leviticus 20:13, to be specific. This is one of the 9 “clobber passages” that are often trotted out to suggest that being gay is and always has been a sin. Nevermind the documented history and linguistic translations that contradict this… But it’s the same book that says gawd hates shrimp and you should be stoned for wearing a nice cotton-poly blend. I doth quote: “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”

Some quotes:

* Where’s the irony? He was ranting about Taylor Swift and then went down the rabbit hole, saying “I’m sick of sodomy getting crammed down our throats.” My first thought was “that’s not how sodomy works,” but then I remembered that many state sodomy laws include oral sex, even for heterosexuals, so Fritts and zealots like him might be “sodomites” without even realizing it.

* “The Bible says the powers that be are ordained of God, and God has instilled the power of civil government to send the police in 2019 out to these LGBT freaks and arrest them and have a trial for them, and if they are convicted, then they are to be put to death ... do you understand that? It’s a capital crime to be carried out by our government. Not Christians, unless you’re a policeman. Know what I mean? If you’re a policeman it should be your responsibility to carry these things out.”

* “Those were the laws civil government would enforce. Just like we have laws now… Murder, rape, kidnapping, adultery...they were punishable by death.”

* “Pride parades? Man, hey, call the riot teams, we got a bunch of ’em, get the paddy wagon out here, we got a bunch of ’em going to jail,

In This Week’s Show, episode 241, we’re back and it’s show time! Not, not show time like last week, we promise!

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Selene, the Titan goddess of the moon, hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying her patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that older forms of English kept Latin’s gender specific suffixes -tor and -trix; tor was for men and trix was for women. A male pilot was an Aviator where a woman was an Aviatrix, same for gladiator and gladiatrix. This contrasts the modern system where tor is for both men and women and trix are for kids.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know our moon is the 5th largest in our solar system? And that’s all the real stuff you’re going to learn today about the moon!

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

This Week’s Beer

Fresh Haze | Deschutes Brewery

Donated by- RW

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/63/344944/

* BA Rating: 3.83

* Style: New England IPA

* ABV: 6.5%

* Aaron: 10

* Jenn: 6

* Shea: 8

This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

Thanks for understanding about last week’s clusterfuck everyone. I’m blaming Texas. We tried something new and it was… terrible… just terrible.

On the upside, this airs on my birthday, so leave us an iTunes review!

~Aaron

New patron Lindy… hop?

Listener Mandy asked us on Twitter about Wyoming beers in bottles (friend is collecting ones from all 50 states and can’t find one from WY)

Plug of Chris Matheson’s new god video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHxEz7E-d9w

Chris Matheson’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Story-God-Biblical-Comedy-about-ebook/dp/B013AGFK8C/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Chris+matheson&qid=1560993835&s=gateway&sr=8-2

Jim got a shoutout on True Crime Obsessed episode where they cover ‘Matt Shepard Is A Friend of Mine’

This Week’s Stories

Patreon Hoax

* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2018/apr/15/australia-doesnt-exist-and-other-bizarre-geographic-conspiracies-that-wont-go-away

* https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/some-people-think-australia-doesnt-exist-heres-why/

* https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/953382/Flat-Earth-theory-Australia-not-real-conspiracy

This week’s patreon story … is a hoax.

Thank you, good night.

But really, I was going to do the story of how Finland isn’t real until I checked my unplayed podcasts. Thanks Citation Needed.

So I started looking for other crypto-geos.

Turns out Wyoming isn’t real. We’re a deep-state fake. That’s true.

Also, Australia isn’t real.

We know this because in 2006 the Flat Earth Society discovered that under the Earth there be monsters… and not just drop bears. Then in 2017 a reddit user explained that a zanny land of poisonous everything and giant hoppy, boxing, mice is clearly made up. According to Floryd, who lives in Stockholm - a real place - Australia was invented by Britain as the magical place they sent all those criminals they actually murdelated. Floryd has 20,000 followers. They fervently believe that the entire island was fabricated to hide the execution of 162,000 prisoners. A con continued to this day through the employment of fake airline pilots, and zainy actors with obviously fake, cartoonish accents.

In This Week’s Show, episode 240, we look back at year two of the show and reap what chilling laughter we can from catacombs of stories long past.

Thanks for understanding that this show needed to be late. Apologies all!

~ Aaron

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

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that when you have a clap light in your bedroom, rough sex also becomes a rave.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Don’t glue your vagina shut, please.

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

This Week’s Beer

Lake Beer | Big Lake Brewing

Donated by- Steve E.

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/33297/357474/

* BA Rating: 3.91

* Style: American Lager

* ABV: 4.7%

* Aaron: 3

* Jenn: 2

* Shea: 4

* Steve: 4

Round Table Discussion

It’s our second Clip Show. Enjoy!

Year Two

* Episode 71 @ 40:12 - Oruk-eh - Maple Medical

* Episode 72 @ 48:43 - Crystal Methodist

* Episode 73 @ 42:00 - NRA Fairy Tales

* Episode 75 @ 45:03 - Jim’s The Boss

* Episode 78 @ 13:10 - Sex Doll Angel

* Episode 88 @ 40:20 - Resurrection Seed

* Episode 105 @ 14:00 - Beardless Yeti

* Episode 106 @ 34:00 - Maple Malfeasance

* Episode 118 @ 38:58 - Nazi Furrys - Live with Jenn!

Next Week's Beer

Beer Fresh Haze | Deschutes Brewery

Donated by- RW

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/63/344944/

* BA Rating: 3.83

* Style: New England IPA

* ABV: 6.5%

Faith In Humanity Restored

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mister-rogers-honored-with-first-annual-statewide-day-of-kindness-in-pennsylvania-143-day/

"1-4-3." It's a code that beloved children's television star Fred Rogers would say to his friends in the neighborhood — and it stands for the number of letters in the words "I love you."

Now, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has declared May 23 — the 143rd day of the year — "143 Day," a day to celebrate and honor the Pennsylvania native's kindness by following his example. According to the Fred Rogers Center, the number was a reminder of compassion, and it meant a lot to everyone's favorite neighbor.

"I've proclaimed today to be 1-4-3 Day, Pennsylvania's first statewide day of kindness," Wolf tweeted. "Join me in spreading love today and seeing just how far a little kindness can go."

To help people show their neighbors a little extra kindness through simple good deeds, the state's website created a "kindness generator," which pumps out ideas such as "Donate to a local children's fund" and "Write your favorite teacher a letter."

“Happy #143Day, Neighbors! Whether you say, "I love you," or "143," there are many ways to show you care about someone.” pic.twitter.com/O2qzpazpNJ

— Fred Rogers Productions (@FredRogersPro) May 23, 2019

The site is also tracking how many people share their kindness on social media using the hashtag #143DayinPA. By late afternoon, it had been used nearly 12,000 times.

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