It’s late February, and love is in the air. It’s unusual that the supposed time of romance happens in February, the time of year where it’s the most dreary and miserable outside, not to mention, it’s just a stone’s throw away from the onset of spring, which is also treated as being a time of renewal, which the polite way of saying, it’s a-time for fuckin’. Now, that part is just a matter of vertebrate biology- animals often mate and have offspring in the spring months. My useless speculation is that they evolved this tendency because it maximizes the period of time for a juvenile animal to be in warm weather, since juvenile animals are more vulnerable to the cold, and because there are more plants abound to feed the food chain. Despite that established science, they stuck Valentine’s Day in February. Supposedly it’s related to some historic thingamajig, but who cares? Christ wasn’t even born on December 25th but they stuck Christmas there anyway because that’s when it made sense to do it. It doesn’t matter. I love when people say that Valentine’s Day and other holidays exist and are spread out just to sell candy and gifts. It’s like, yeah, no shit, why are you upset about that? Candy and gifts are great, and at the moment, the production and sale of goods drives the economy. Maybe someday after the revolution it’ll be different, but I don’t think that’s happening any time soon. Hell, I’ll just be eating my various Reese’s shapes over here.
A slightly better-adjusted episode this week, but of course, all things are relative. We start with a record (I think) 3 listener emails! Then it’s 3 more gripping stories, featuring a rather creative con man, a thief with an extremely poorly-thought out plan, and a goose with a love story that made him an inspiration for an entire country.
Alan Conway - 00:27:36
William Nesbit - 00:52:23
Thomas the Goose - 01:12:24
