Waiting 4 Wrath - Episode 163- The One Where We Wish You A Third Happy Holidays!

‘Tis the season for another blasphemous episode of Waiting for Wrath;

where we fill festive socks with treats and oranges;

when making the jolly is basically the point;

where we ho, ho, ho - except Jenn - I’m not brave enough to rhyme that out,

We’re not experts and we make no apologies for our presents — so — let’s have a candy-cane, revel in the gingerbread cookies and, some god forbid, turn on a heater or three.

In This Week’s Show, episode 163 we deck the halls and paint our balls in the hopes that Saint Beermas will soon be here!

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Father Christmas hasn’t struck us down yet, we are on his naughty list!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week i learned that the preferred pronouns for a chocolate bar are her/she

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that, instead of silly milk and cookies, the traditional gift for the British Isles’ Father Christmas is mince pies and whiskey?

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

This Week’s Beer

Haybag Hefeweizen - Philipsburg Brewing

From Beer Club Member Ally

* BA Link: http://bit.ly/2zR5ub7

* BA Rating: No Score

* Style: Hefeweizen

* ABV: 5.5%

* Aaron: 9d

* Jenn: 8

* Shea: 8

* Steve: 7

This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

Russel from Adelaide wants us to let Shea know he is his spirit animal. So, Happy Hanukkah, Shea.

Favorite German listener Dennis wrote in with an interesting note re: a discussion from 2 episodes ago where we talked about humans consuming milk from other animals. Certain types of ants herd other insects, like mites and aphids, and “milk” them for their excretions. Yummy sweet aphid juice! So yeah, you’ve never met a vegan ant HAVE YOU? (Also, Dennis, we’re very sorry for your loss and hope your holiday season improves. But your grandmother sounded like a helluva woman.)

We don’t have any new Patrons to thank this week … we think - there have been a lot of changes to patronage in the last few week’s because of Patreon’s bullshit and it’s a bit difficult to sort out, so we’ll just say thank you all for riding out the last few week's worth of Patreon's terrible decision-making!

I say it frequently and gratefully — you are the best people on the internet!

Patreon's poor choices sent our pod-community into a tizzy. We chose to wait it out and see what happened. We couldn't have done that without the incredible confidence we have in you! Few creators enjoy that sense of community. We are fortunate and humbled, thank you all

Christmas Chatter

Cause we’ve got fuck all else.

4 More Beers plug!

 Headlines

HL1 - Floating Space Turds - http://bit.ly/2DuVxyf

* Two months ago, astronomers from the University of Hawaii spotted the first interstellar asteroid to enter our solar system, which passed earth and is continuing on a path to take it on out of our solar system.

* They named it Oumuamua (O-mua-mua), after the Hawaiian term for ‘scout’ or ‘messenger’.

* The unusual asteroid is about 400 meters long and around 40 meters wide, which is very unlike the asteroids we’re familiar with in our own solar system.

* There was an initial search of signals coming from Oumuamua, but nothing was found to date.

* Scientists continue to analyze data from the rock as well plan to conduct three more blocks of observations.

* SETI and Breakthrough Listen, which are both scientific organizations dedicated to searching for evidence of extraterrestrial li...