Waiting 4 Wrath - Episode 273 - The One Where We Join Jenn's Quest For Curly-Shea's Gold!

In This Week’s Show, episode 273, we go questing for lost hosts and dig up a big’ol treasure chest of Jenn… chest joke.

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

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that the best way to deal with the Corona virus is Lyme disease and some salt.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that there is more steel created per hour than there has been gold dug up throughout history?

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

This Week’s Beer

Maple Pecan Brown Ale by Brickway Brewery Omaha, NE

Donated By: Brendon

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/33943/254786/

* BA Rating: 3.83

* Style: American Brown Ale

* ABV:  5%

* Aaron: 8

* Jenn: 7

* Shea: 5

* Steve: 3

This Week’s Show

Round Table

Love and wishes for a speedy recovery to Jim

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Happy upcoming 100 episodes for Ginger Snaps!

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Thanks to Mr. Biblepants!

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Beale's treasure

* http://bealesolved.tripod.com/id10.html

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

* Beale papers 1855- http://www.unmuseum.org/bealepap.htm

The story goes, back in 1820 Thomas J. Beale made his way to sleepy little Bedford County, Virginia where he stayed at a small inn called Buford's Tavern but before he disappeared he intrusted a small box to Robert Morriss, the innkeeper. According to the story, the innkeeper, finally, opened the box 23 years later and found three encrypted messages. Robert spent decades trying to solve the blocks of numbers but no no avail. Before his death, Robert entrusted the ciphers with a close friend who then spent 20 years of his life trying to solve them, eventually solving only the second message and learning what the first message will lead you to…

“I have deposited in the county of Bedford, about four miles from Buford's, in an excavation or vault, six feet below the surface of the ground, the following articles, belonging jointly to the parties whose names are given in number three, herewith:

The first deposit consisted of ten hundred and fourteen pounds of gold, and thirty-eight hundred and twelve pounds of silver, deposited Nov. eighteen nineteen. The second was made Dec. eighteen twenty-one, and consisted of nineteen hundred and seven pounds of gold, and twelve hundred and eighty-eight of silver; also jewels, obtained in St. Louis in exchange to save transportation, and valued at thirteen thousand dollars.

The above is securely packed in iron pots, with iron covers. The vault is roughly lined with stone, and the vessels rest on solid stone, and are covered with others. Paper number one describes the exact locality of the vault, so that no difficulty will be had in finding it.”

This equals 2921 pounds of gold, 5100 pounds of silver, and $1.5 million of precious jewels—together valued at approximately $60 million.

The backstory of Beale’s treasure has been re-hashed countless times: Beale was a 19th century adventurer who supposedly discovered gold and silver on a hunting trip near the modern New Mexico-Colorado border. He lugged the riches home to Virginia and buried them, reportedly concealing the details—the location, contents, and heirs of the treasure.

This message was solved using a copy of the United States Declaration ...