What the HELL Were You Thinking?

Show Notes Episode 314: Check A Coin With Your Witcher

This week Host Dave Bledsoe slaps a coin down on the bar and demands free drinks only to be told his useless memorabilia is not legal tender. (Again) On the show this week we are talking about the curious culture of the Challenge Coin! (COIN CHECK!)

Along the way we learn what Dave had to do to earn his only Challenge Coin. (Fortunately it did not involve an Ookie Cookie as far as we can tell!) Then we dive right into the odd history and application of a military tradition that has somehow crept into the everyday life of America. From its humble beginning in the Roman Legion, where the Imperator would reward the Butchest Optio in the ranks, to its evolution over the skies of France in World War One, where the leader would press one into the hands of the butchest gunner in the squadron! (Oh Carl, you are SO virile!) Finally the modern incarnation that began with bullets and like most things involving the Special Forces grew out of control really quick! (Never drink with Specs Op, just don’t!) All the way up to today, when Challenge Coins are handed out like tic tacs by assistant managers during the monthly sales meeting at Quicky Jim's Reliable Second Hand Cars! (Vernon you’ve topped last month's numbers AGAIN!) If you don’t know what a challenge coin is, you will by the time we are done thus earning yourself a challenge coin! See Dave for your coin!

Our Sponsor this week is Seltzer Koin, when you really want a coin and don’t mind paying for it, Seltzer Koin! We open with NBC News talking about challenge coins and close with Violet Orandi coin checking her local Witcher!

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Citations Needed:

Coin Check

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/coin-check/

Challenge Coin Wikipedia

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

A Brief History of Challenge Coins

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12630/brief-history-challenge-coins

Military's prized 'challenge coins' become copycat fad among agencies, politicians, companies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/militarys-prized-challenge-coins-become-copycat-fad-in-federal-washington/2011/02/12/ABaTEZQ_story.html

NYPD Defends "Challenge Coins" That Call East Flatbush Precinct "Fort Jah"

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-defends-challenge-coins-dubbing-east-flatbush-precinct-fort-jah

Uncited Additional Reading:

https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-state-police-challenge-coin-trooper-tirade-20200715-43pydiewrnff7bp7g6ckfp7alm-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/us/politics/challenge-coins.html

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Show Notes Episode 313: I Would Smoke 500 Miles, And I Would Smoke 500 More

This week Host Dave Bledsoe wakes up coughing from what he is sure is just cat dander and allergies, and proceeds to light the first smoke of the day! (We’re sure everything is fine!) On the show this week, we open up that one drawer in the kitchen with all the menus and a phone book from 2001 to see how many Marlboro Miles we can find in there! (25 miles, only 400 packs of Marlboro Reds to go to get that awesome windbreaker!)

Along the way we learn of Dave’s formative years using an addictive chemical to give him the illusion of being cool. (Cigarettes, not alcohol.That came slightly later.) From there we dive into the history of cigarettes advertising in the 80’s and 90’s after Nixon kicked them off the television. (Someone must have failed to contribute to Dick’s campaign!) We learn how the Brands needed something new and exciting to capture that youth market, and cowboys were NOT cool in 1992! (Except for you Garth Brooks!) We go on to talk about Marlboro Miles, the Marlboro Old Country Store and how you could spend $500 bucks on a ten dollar igloo cooler! Then we spend some time with the Camel that Kills, Joe Camel. (Joe didn’t kill kids, but he DID help kill big tobacco!) Finally, we explain that advertising isn’t what made kids smoke, it was the stress of life lived with Baby Boomers. 

Our Sponsor this week is Cancer Cash, the smoking loyalty program that earns money for your future cancer treatment! We open the show with the Merchants of Death and close with Brian Schmidt explaining the distance he and his friends will travel to pass out on your doorstep!

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Citations Needed:

Cigarette brand loyalty in Australia: findings from the ITC Four Country Survey

https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/23/suppl_1/i73.info

THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; The Marlboro Man Is Missing in Action in New Campaign

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/23/business/media-business-advertising-marlboro-man-missing-action-new-campaign.html

THE MOST SINISTER CIGARETTE PROMOTION OF ALL TIME

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-most-sinister-cigarette-promotion-of-all-time

Joe Camel (1974-1997)

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/bcoppola/2017/09/17/joe-camel-1974-1997/

Joe Camel, a Giant in Tobacco Marketing, Is Dead at 23

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/11/business/joe-camel-a-giant-in-tobacco-marketing-is-dead-at-23.html

Joe Camel Video ABC https://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/july-10-1997-end-joe-camel-ads-10616510

Uncited Additional Reading:

https://ourpastimes.com/redeem-marlboro-miles-5538903.html

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/306669-settlement-reached-camel-cash-class-action-lawsuit/

https://sites.middlebury.edu/smokingkills/forms-of-tobacco-advertisement/

https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2014/03/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes-20th-century-tobacco-advertisements.html

https://www.owlapps.net/owlapps_apps/articles?id=58395791&lang=en

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-signs-legislation-banning-cigarette-ads-on-tv-and-radio

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Show Notes Episode 312: Oh, Oh, Here He Come, He’s A John Titor

This week Host Dave Bledsoe constructs a time machine to travel back in time before he accrued these unreasonable bar tabs in order to drink them a second time. (He actually just forgot what bar he was drinking in and wandered back in for more booze. Third time this week) On the show this week we tune in Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell and try to remember our AIM password, because we are talking about Time Traveler John Titor! 

Along the way we discover what Dave and George RR Martin have in common, besides procrastination and a heavy drinking problem. (allegedly) Then we head back to 1998 where Art has opened the wild card lines to time travelers to meet Mr John Titor! Chrononaut, American Soldier and fan of Ayn Rand. (Which is all you really need to know about John!) From there we learn about why Titor came back, his love of modestly priced Toyota station wagons (reliability AND fun!) and the temporal mechanics involved in utilizing a General Electric Army C204 temporal displacement device. (Step one, plug the unit into a 110 volt power supply) Also why John came back for an antiquated IBM computer. (He had the high score in Pong on it, and wanted to preserve it for posterity)

Our Sponsor this week is Fast Eddies Obsolete Computer Warehouse, when you need junk think Fast Eddie. We open with Art’s broadcast that started it all and close with Justin Armstrong’s warning about Titor.

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Citations Needed:

From east of the Rockies to beyond the fringe

https://theoutline.com/post/4343/art-bell-coast-to-coast-am-obitiuary

The Oral History of John Titor, the Man Who Traveled Back in Time to Save the Internet

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/john-titor-time-traveler-predictions-story

Who was John Titor, the 'time traveller' who came from 2036 to warn us of a nuclear war?

https://web.archive.org/web/20170622161305/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11945420/Who-was-John-Titor-the-time-traveller-who-came-from-2036-to-warn-us-of-a-nuclear-war.html

CIVIL WAR

http://johntitor.com/Pages/CivilWar.html

In the year 2000, a time traveler appeared to predict the future

https://aux.avclub.com/in-the-year-2000-a-time-traveler-appeared-to-predict-t-1798247490

Uncited Additional Reading: 

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

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-man-who-told-the-internet-hed-come-from-the-future-5869362

https://www.postbulletin.com/rochester-magazine/6735231-John-Titor-Who-was-the-time-traveler-that-visited-Rochester

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Show Notes Episode 311: The Truth According to Linda Hood Sigmon 

Pt 2 of the Life and Afterlife of Elvis 

This week Host Dave Bledsoe angrily insists he has photographic proof that not only is Elvis ALIVE, but Elvis personally paid this bar tab Dave allegedly owes! (This one surprisingly worked as it made the bartender laugh) On the show this week we provide you with incontrovertible PROOF that Elvis not only faked his own death, but is alive and well to this day and is keeping the truth of his life hidden from all of us! (We don’t, he didn’t and come on this is just fucking crazy!)

Along the way we learn about how much Dave’s dad loved to drive from one side of the country to the other with his family in the back seat of a boring automobile! From there we present our “evidence” on how and why the King of Rock and Roll faked his own death. (It is actually logically constructed, if utterly batshit!) Then we meet Linda Hood Sigmon who has the receipts and will come down on you like the righteous hand of God if you mess with her! (We are SO in trouble with Linda!) Then take you on a tour of Elvis sightings around the nation from Kansas City to Kalamazoo! (It is just fun to say Kalamazoo!) Then we provide our final proof that Elvis is alive because a movie that was made about Elvis being alive was never released in the mid 2000’s. (Yeah, that really is our “proof” . What did you expect, an interview with Elvis?)

Our Sponsor this week is Your New You, helping you fake your death and create and brand new YOU! We open the show with one theory about what happened with Elvis, and close with Elvis himself warning us of what he was planning!

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Citations Needed:

Suspicious Minds: The Bizarre, 40-Year History of Elvis Presley Sightings

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/503466/suspicious-minds-bizarre-40-year-history-elvis-presley-sightings

Ginger Alden vs. The Memphis Mafia: Who Told the Truth About Elvis and Ginger?

http://www.elvis-history-blog.com/ginger-alden.html

Col Tom Parker Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Tom_Parker#Presley%27s_death

THE POOL HOUSE DOOR PHOTO

https://lindahoodsigmonstruth.com/the-pool-house-door-photo/

LINDA’S VERY CLEAR AND EXPLICIT TERMS OF SERVICE WE ARE DEFINITELY VIOLATING!

https://lindahoodsigmonstruth.com/terms-of-agreement-for-those-who-visit-this-web-site/

Vicksburg Journal, Someplace for The King to Call Home

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/17/us/vicksburg-journal-someplace-for-the-king-to-call-home.html

The Truth About Elvis Trailer

 https://youtu.be/dyaJnZjTu6s

Uncited Additional Reading:  

http://elvisdecoded.blogspot.com/

https://elvistruthseekers.proboards.com/board/1/truth-elvis-adam-muskiewicz

https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/weirdest-elvis-presley-sightings-conspiracy-2125270-2125270

https://time.com/4897819/elvis-presley-alive-conspiracy-theories/

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

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1349270/elvis-presley-alive-conspiracy-dead-death-theory-photo-photograph-video-proof-evidence

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/503466/suspicious-minds-bizarre-40-year-history-elvis-presley-sightings

http://www.elvisinfonet.com/conspiracy.html

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/elvis-fans-convinced-faked-death-21315858

https://youtu.be/qFFuANwlDx0

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Episode 310: “Gladys’ Special Little Boy" Part 1 of The Life and Afterlife of Elvis

This week Host Dave Bledsoe slips on his Blue Suede Shoes, a sequined jumpsuit and dark sunglasses so he can disguise himself in a bar he’s been permanently banned from drinking in. (It didn’t work, not even Fat Elvis was THAT fat!) On the show this week we bring you a show about the King of Rock and Roll, his life, his strange ways, and his dick! (This one is for the ladies!)

Along the way we learn that Dave’s Mom might have loved Elvis more than him, (Which is totally understandable) From there we meet Vernon and Gladys who would go on to bring into the world it’s Once and Future King of Rock and Roll. From there we travel to Memphis where a young Elvis learns to appropriate Black Music from the best of Black Musicians! (It’s all just business!) Then we dive right into the very strange details of Elvis Presley life as the King of Rock and Roll, forget the stuff about record contracts and shady managers we're talking only about the REALLY important stuff! (Elvis was a VERY naughty boy!) From monkeys to guns, all the way through the jumpsuits and drunk addled Elvis, it is all here in Part 1 of the Life and Afterlife of Elvis!

Our Sponsor this week is Captain Eddie’s Music Management, if you are a rube from the sticks looking to make it in the music industry Captain Eddie will take care of everything! We open the show with Bill Burr explaining Elvis and close with Human Radio hanging with The King!

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Citations Needed:

Interview with Vernon Presley (1978)

https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/interview-with-vernon-presley-1978.shtml

Gladys Presley, the Mother Elvis Presley Worshiped

https://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/08/Galdys-Presley-the-Mother-Elvis-Presley-Worshipped/

Memphis blues (Wikipedia)

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

Elvis Presley (Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley#Teenage_life_in_Memphis

ElvisWorld: Bill Burke on Elvis and “Little Elvis” (Elvis in Tighty Whities)

https://dykewriter.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/elvisworld-bill-burke-on-elvis-and-little-elvis/#:~:text=Elvis%20Presley%2C%20the%20King%20of,and%20he%20padded%20his%20package.

Elvis Presley Stories With Enough Weird Sex To Make You Feel Like A Hound Dog

https://www.ranker.com/list/weird-elvis-presley-facts/jon-skindzier

Personal relationships of Elvis Presley (Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_relationships_of_Elvis_Presley#Linda_Thompson,_Mindi_Miller,_and_Ginger_Alden

Too Much Monkey Business | The story of Scatter, Elvis Presley's Pet Chimpanzee

https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/scatter-elvis-presleys-pet-chimpanzee.shtml

Inside the Enduring Mysteries of Elvis Presley's Death

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a26721749/elvis-presley-death-true-story/#:~:text=When%20the%20toxicology%20report%20of,during%20a%20performance%20in%201974.

Uncited Additional Reading:  

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/bizarre-elvis-facts/

https://www.factinate.com/people/32-hysteria-inducing-facts-elvis-presley/

https://www.directexpose.com/elvis-presley-never-knew/

https://littlethings.com/lifestyle/shocking-elvis-facts-whoa/161902-8

https://collider.com/galleries/elvis-presley-rare-facts/

https://performingsongwriter.com/stories-from-elvis-presleys-band/

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Show Notes Episode 309: Cult of Personality Test Pt 2 of Why Do You Believe This Crap?

This week Host Dave Bledsoe administers a Bledsoe Booze Type Indicator and discovers his personality type is a DRNK, which is frighteningly accurate (And also entirely obvious.) On the show this week we continue with Part Two of Why Do You Believe this Crap with Myers Briggs. (This shouldn’t cost us listeners at ALL!)

Along the way we learn about that time someone tried to kill Dave! (Surprisingly, NOT someone he was dating!) Then we dive right into the history of the most popular personality test of them all, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator! From its beginning as some bullshit Carl Jung was going on about to it’s creation by a Jung obsessed mystery novelist and her daughter in their kitchen! (Notice no mention was made of training in psychology!) From there we go on to see how this test is used in everything from feeling good nonsense to making sure you don’t accidentally hire a job candidate who isn’t white, male and neuro-typical! Take your science and toss it out the window, because it is so much more FUN to be told how awesome you are by a “unbiased” test!

Our Sponsor this week is Big Leon’s Personality Sorter. Big Leon knows people and if you pay him, he will tell you what he knows. We open the show with just a few questions about your feelings and close with Brass Against who have made some observations about personality.

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Citations Needed:

5 things you didn’t know about the history of the Myers-Briggs system

https://www.marketplace.org/2018/10/30/5-things-you-didn-t-know-about-history-myers-briggs-system/

MBTI Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator#History

Uncovering the Secret History of Myers-Briggs

https://digg.com/2015/myers-briggs-secret-history

Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless

https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless

Personality tests: Should your company use them?

https://execed.economist.com/blog/industry-trends/personality-tests-should-your-company-use-them#:~:text=She%20says%20companies%20such%20as,an%20employee%2C%E2%80%9D%20Murphy%20says.

Uncited Additional Reading:

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/22/650019038/how-the-myers-briggs-personality-test-began-in-a-mothers-living-room-lab

https://www.siop.org/Business-Resources/Employment-Testing/Test-Types

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Show Notes Episode 308: Never Mind, I Didn’t See Your Sign 

Part 1 of “Why Do You Believe This Crap?”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe’s horoscope warns him that failure to pay outstanding bar tabs will lead to certain distress and emotional pain. (Like we needed an astrologer for THAT prediction) On the show this week we kicked off a series called “Why Do You Believe This Crap?” with Astrology. (And just when we started to get a few listeners too!)

Along the way we learn that Dave once met a woman who hates him for leaving instead of hanging around. Then we dive right into the history of the Zodiac and Astrology, from its humble beginnings telling Babylonian Kings when to doink all the way through apps on our phones telling YOU when to doink. (The Stars say Thursday!) We find how newspaper horoscopes became a thing (The Royal Family) and why the Boomers loved shitty Age of Aquarius song. (Drugs) Then we learn why Millennials are all into astrology even if they pretend they don’t really believe in it. (Except they kinda do)

Our Sponsor this week is Edna Blavitz Psychic Reader, learn the mysteries of the universe with Edna Blavitz, Psychic Reader. We open the show with Dara O’Brianin who makes a point about lumping people together and close with Bill Engvall who did not see your sign. 

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Citations Needed:

History of astrology Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_astrology#:~:text=The%20earliest%20Zodiac%20found%20in,lived%20in%20Alexandria%20in%20Egypt.

How Are Horoscopes Still a Thing?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-are-horoscopes-still-thing-180957701/

Horoscopes: Tales of the expected

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/196242/Horoscopes-Tales-of-the-expected

Age of Aquarius

http://scholar.library.miami.edu/sixties/aquarius.php

Nancy Reagan turned to astrology in White House to protect her husband

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-nancy-reagan-astrology-20160306-story.html

Astrology in the Age of Uncertainty

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/28/astrology-in-the-age-of-uncertainty

The New Age of Astrology

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/01/the-new-age-of-astrology/550034/

Uncited Additional Reading: 

https://flashbak.com/whats-sign-look-1970s-zodiac-fad-393271/

https://astrostyle.com/learn-astrology/history-of-astrology-timeline/

https://www.astrology-zodiac-signs.com/zodiac-signs/gemini/

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Show Notes Episode 307: HIS NAME IS BUM FARTO!

This week Host Dave Bledsoe cut his heel on a pop top and had to cruise on back home, meaning he got bombed off his ass drinking margaritas and listening to Jimmy Buffett. (again) On the show this week we go to Island Time as we head back to the era of the Cocaine Cowboys and learn the true tale of an American Hero: Bum Farto. (That IS his real name!) 

Along the way we learn a little about what Dave thought he might do as a second career back in the 90’s, both of which were VERY bad ideas. (We are shocked he didn’t do them!) Then we head to Key West Florida for the true tales of the last pirate republic, the Conch Republic in the 1970’s when bales of weed floated up on the beach and enterprising islanders could make their fortune selling it. (Honestly, we are sure this STILL happens down there) Then we take a look at the rise of the cocaine culture in the States and how it was FUN to be a smuggler before Reagan came along and ruined it. (Like he did EVERYTHING!) From there we learn about how the rest of Florida harshed Key West’s buzz and ruined a good deal for everyone, especially Bum Farto. (Who again is NOT a name Dave just made up to tell fart jokes.) Finally we explore the mystery of who Bum Farto was and try to answer the question “Where IS Bum Farto!” (Don’t expect a satisfactory answer.)

Our Sponsor this week is Jimmy Earl’s Bait Shack who wants you to know just because a place LOOKS like a drug front doesn’t mean it necessarily IS a drug front. We open the show with an NBC news story on Operation Conch and close with Koit who wants you to know how THEIR bum goes.

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Citations Needed:

This Florida Drug Smuggler Escaped 7 Life Sentences—Twice

https://reason.com/2021/03/20/this-florida-drug-smuggler-escaped-7-life-sentences-twice/?fbclid=IwAR1AWFGyXFlsFzLmvvzVl6i397ighgWsxVm8K1bDGW2a3F7VOFWGLBcMOas

WHERE IS BUM FARTO

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1996-10-06-9610100301-story.html

THE BUM FARTO FILES – TOO MANY CHIEFS

https://keysweekly.com/42/the-bum-farto-files-too-many-chiefs/

THE BUM FARTO FILES: THE OTHER OPERATION CONCH

https://keysweekly.com/42/the-bum-farto-files-the-other-operation-conch/

Uncited Additional Reading:

https://keysweekly.com/42/bum-farto-podcast-explores-key-wests-drug-dealing-fugitive-fire-chief/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/joseph-bum-fartos-desk

https://thebluepaper.com/article/dennis-reeves-cooper-the-bubba-busts-revisited/

https://keysweekly.com/42/the-bum-farto-files-better-red-than-dead/

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Show Notes Episode 306: Dropped From Jupiter the Tale of Toynbee Tiles

This week Host Dave Bledsoe is back in the atmosphere with drops of Jupiter in his hair after getting loaded on some grain alcohol and passing out in the dumpster behind a bar named The Jupiter. (Again) On the show this week we examine the mystery of the Toynbee Tiles and their strange messages stuck on the streets.  

Along the way we learn how Dave wasted his education drinking in Washington DC dive bars. (He DID learn some things, just not useful things!) The dive right into the mysterious messages planted in the asphalts of roadways around the world suggesting we resurrect our dead on Jupiter. (It doesn’t make any sense, ever) We muddle our way through what they might mean, who may have placed them there and why they did so. (Basically we are just rip off a really great documentary film, that is the miracle of podcasting!)

Our Sponsor this week is The Crazy Guy on Your Block, who wants you to know he probably won’t kill you. We open the show with some news footage about our mystery and close with Mathew Fearon who is recently back in the atmosphere.  

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Citations Needed:

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

https://documentaryheaven.com/resurrect-dead-the-mystery-of-the-toynbee-tiles/

Resurrect Dead

https://web.archive.org/web/20100130022739/http://www.resurrectdead.com/mystery.htm

Toynbee Tiles Wikipedia

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

On Anonymity: Poe Toasters and Toynbee Tiles

https://believermag.com/logger/toynbee/

Meet the man who wrote the ABBA Furnace Party letter

https://www.phillyvoice.com/meet-man-who-wrote-abba-furnace-party-letter/

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Show Notes Episode 305: Looks Like Somebody Has a Case of the Mondays

This week Host Dave Bledsoe wraps himself in protective wards and desperately sages the studio because it is time to clean the cat’s litter box. (How can such a small creature shit THAT much?) On the show this week we tackle an issue no one ever thought of because it is frankly ludicrous: Is Garfield Evil? (Yes, this really IS what we are talking about.)

Along the way we learn that a young Dave used to do the cutest little voices for Odie when playing with little sister! (Man, he gets pissed when we bring that up!) Then we dive in the Darkness that is the Creation of Jim Davis, the fat, angry cat that has come to dominate the lives of millions across the globe and ask how this happened? (The answers WILL shock you and possibly get this podcast sued by PAWS Inc.) Then we learn the Black Secrets of the Inner World of Garfield, including sacrifice, muder, and yes CANNIBALISM! (Someone REALLY should run this show past a lawyer before it goes live!)  

Our Sponsor this week is The Lumbergh School of Management, because SOMEONE is going to need to work this Saturday. We open with A Case of the Mondays and close with Georgia Rose 16 explaining why he never much cared for the day.

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The Show Line: 347 687 9601

Closing Music: https://youtu.be/A1leWrSrHqw

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Citations Needed:

The Cat That Rots the Intellect

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1982/12/12/lives-the-cat-that-rots-the-intellect/d6ed28c6-bee3-41ad-81f2-1839b34b87b1/

Wikipedia: Garfield

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

Jim Davis Explains Why Garfield Loves Lasagna and Hates Mondays and Why People Love Garfield

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jim-davis-explains-why-ga_b_6094892

The Mysterious Disappearance of Four Comic Book Characters

https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/09/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-four-comic-book-characters/

The Darker Side of Garfield

https://www.horrorbound.net/blog/2019/5/23/the-darker-side-of-garfield

The Death of Garfield? Did Garfield die? Or was it all a dream?

https://www.retrojunk.com/article/show/417/the-death-of-garfield

Uncited Additional Reading:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Davis_(cartoonist)

https://www.boredpanda.com/garfield-dark-lore-jon-lyman-odie/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

https://thoughtcatalog.com/lev-novak/2014/09/the-dark-secret-of-garfield/

https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/garfield-abyss-reflections-scariest-garfield-comic-strip-series-ever

https://www.grunge.com/207413/the-bizarre-history-of-garfield/

https://boingboing.net/2006/08/09/death-of-garfield-my.html

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