Welcome to what we consider to be an old school episode of Here's a Guy. Does that translate to the "fun-fun" aspect that we always promise up top? Probably. We hope so anyway. Nobody's taken us over to court yet over that. Another benefit of doing a show that makes no money or has any stakes, people have very little ammunition when they get mad at you. What are we supposed to do, we're just a silly little amateur show. How could we have known it's not cool to joke about the Boston Marathon bombing on the same day as another tragedy? We didn't go to some fancy podcasting school. By "old school" what we mean is that the episode is super long, all 3 topics are doozies, and the opening segment goes in a million directions. Just like the youthful old days of late 2021. Ah, what a time. It's not the full experience because the audio isn't dogshit. But nostalgia doesn't always mean something has to suck, just sometimes. Hence why vinyl records have caught on the way they have as a collector item but not, like, 8-track tapes. Nobody wants to listen to their favorite music and have it sound like it's being played inside a building you're standing outside of.
This week, after a jumbo opening segment, we have 3 pretty tremendous tales of guys, including an African-American bear hunter who changed the course of history, a German boy whose backstory is shrouded in myth, and an oafish federal agent who got in way over his head.
Holt Collier- 41:05
Kaspar Hauser- 1:12:45
Robert Lipka- 1:51:50
