Show Notes
An episode from May 2014 with more comedy than the alliterative title would suggest.
Dave Hill wanted to frighten himself on purpose, so he flew to northern Mexico to stay with an old college friend who had become the chaplain of a prison the cartels were running themselves. There is a pizza party, a borrowed guitar, and a man with a machete.
(Content note: suicidal ideation, suicide)
CJ Hostetter graduated into the 2009 economy, moved back in with their divorcing parents, and stopped feeling anything at all. Then a gunshot went off across the street.
Tyler Phillips took a pizza order from a caller who volunteered his full name and street address. The street turned out to be real.
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