Super True Stories

Dirty fingernails abound as we journey back to the 50s, a simpler time when people were still figuring out basic grooming. How do you use a toothbrush? Look, it’s complicated. Thrill as we gasp out loud at the extreme levels of sexism in what is secretly a sock fetish film! Chill as we feel uncomfortable when the teens who were cast to play siblings have a little too much on-screen chemistry! We’re discovering the true meanings of cave paintings, pondering whether children were more stinky 70 years, reporting a creepy old invisible woman stalking children, and wondering why every man in the 50s was named Stanley. What’s the secret to living up to these high standards of personal care? To quote one of these films, plenty of gentle rubbing is all it takes! We're suffering through and reporting back on the perplexingly specific Keep It Clean: Vintage Hygiene Films, available to stream for free for Amazon Prime members. If you dig our podcast, please tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Ah, 2016. It was a simpler time when Americans had nothing to fear but killer clowns. And that, according to this documentary, is all thanks to Wrinkles the Clown. He’s a 65-year-old Florida man, an internet star gone viral, and a questionable tool parents can use to discipline their children. When the documentary unmasks its monster like a clumsy episode of Scooby Doo, we’ll question everything we were told, wade through the last third of a very boring documentary waiting for the point, and determine that while most of what we were told about Wrinkles is a lie, that part about him being a tool is certainly true. Along the way we’ll witness a parade of scared children, from Kayla, a very young girl whose dad has asked Wrinkles to eat her, to Rena, a girl ready to fight Wrinkles with her momma and her dog Halo, to Jarrett, a boy who has been inspired by Wrinkles to get his own creepy clown mask and plastic knife, to Sean, who has stuffed his closet with empty boxes and removed his box spring to reduce the ways Wrinkles can get to him. We’re also reliving some of our own childhood fears, visiting a “real” clown who doth protest too much about clowns being scary, and bemoaning the lack of positive clown role models for kids these days.   We were down to clown, but after this documentary that may never happen again.  We’re suffering through and reporting back on Wrinkles the Clown, available to stream on Hulu. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album 

  Meet Jackie Siegel. Jackie’s a former IBM engineer, a former Mrs. Florida, and she might be on her way to being a former Mrs. Siegel if her husband makes good on his threats to trade her in for multiple 20-year-olds.  Speaking of her husband, meet David Siegel. David is a self-made billionaire with a thing for pageant girls and cheap bank loans that have allowed him to build a timeshare empire on the backs of Walmart shoppers. Together they’ll face the challenge of feeling cramped in their 26,000 sq ft house by building the largest single-family home under one roof in America. The 90,000 sq. ft. monstrosity modeled after Versailles and a Vegas casino is off to a great start… until the stock market crash of 2008 makes all of David’s imaginary money finally disappear. Witness the hardship of only being able to give each of your children a single shopping cart overflowing with toys on Christmas. Thrill as a trophy wife forced to reacquaint herself with flying commercial endures the shock of her Hertz rental car not coming with a driver. Shed a tear as you see so much money spent on so many stupid things.  The ony thing going for this documentary is that by the end of it, there will be one less billionaire in the world. (He’s still alive and kicking. He just loses a dang lot of money.)  We’re suffering through and reporting back on The Queen of Versailles, available to stream on Hulu. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Meet Jeremiah, a self-styled auteur with a love for filmmaking but a seeming aversion to editing.  Together with Troy, a paranormal investigator who is afraid of the dark, and his girlfriend Ashley, a woman who is nothing less or more than whelmed by the experience, the three hapless investigators will explore the second-most haunted house in Texas. Thrill as they use state-of-the-art gaming technology from 2005 to paint a skeleton on a large bouncy ball! Chill as they enter a psychedelic room or a psycho manic room or a Psycho Mantis room or whatever it’s called and see definitive proof of the paranormal that they didn’t bother to film! But be warned! As dumb as all of this appears to be, things are even dumber than they seem. We’re suffering through and reporting back on Whispers of the Unseen, available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

On this episode, we watch one of the most un-creatively named documentaries we’ve ever watched for this podcast. You know what? Screw it. Cue the orchestra.  TWINE WARS Turmoil has engulfed the world of TWINE BALL rollers. For a generation, Francis and Frank, two twine ball rollers of noble ambition, have battled for the distinction of creating THE WORLD’S LARGEST BALL OF TWINE.  Upon Frank’s passing, his Kansas home town relocates the ball to the town square and uses an army of people and spools of store-bought twine in an attempt to seize the WORLD RECORD and create an attraction even more fun than a murder house. But are they building a bigger ball, or are they building an obese POKEMON? When Francis dies years later, his nephew will also donate their ball to his home town. Unsure whether the town truly wants the ball and hoping to resolve the matter, EDWARD from Ripley’s Believe It or Not will travel to rural Minnesota and experience the darkest day of his life. He will emerge scorned and full of spite, ready to hate-buy an inferior ball of twine rolled more by machine than man. When you think you've seen it all, this documentary will have you believe there are three balls of twine. But no! There is another… Guest starring Weird Al, 9/11, a very questionable method for weight loss, and old fashioned American values like arson and censorship. We’re suffering through and reporting back on The World’s Largest Ball of Twine, available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.  If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Four unlucky-in-love men have given up on American women and traveled half-way across the globe to Ukraine.  Led by John (not just the president, but also a client), and Bob (tour director of the damned), they’ll attend a dance club that might actually be a Ukrainian baby shower, have a run in with a loan shark and corrupt law enforcement, introduce themselves to every woman in the room, and get engaged faster than you can say, “I’m not sure that’s the woman you’ve been emailing.” In fact, one of these men will actually get married before the end of the documentary. Will it be… Travis, a farmer from a town in Wisconsin with far more cows than women Eric, a man with an American flag hanging at the head of his bed and a gun closet the size of Texas Bobby, an HR guy with a heart of gold and a very deep desire to believe, OR Ron, a silver fox with surprisingly wholesome goals but zero game We’re vaguely defining the word “date,” witnessing the results of what happens when your culture says you should be married at 18 years of age, and pondering how all this worked before the age of the internet, but all of that is just foreplay for the most horrific kiss we’ve ever seen on film. We're suffering through and reporting back on Love Me, available to stream on Amazon Prime. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

In times like these, we could all use the comfort of a warm hairy embrace. It's time for another service at the Church of Bigfoot! When a young girl named Kiana sees a bear in the woods, it will inspire her to take the name “Bigfoot Girl” and launch her on a lifelong quest for a close encounter of the hairy kind. We were hoping for a documentary that would finally bring some gender parity to the field of Bigfoot studies, but we should have known better given the film’s Cinemax cover art. Instead, two men will suck all the oxygen out of the Canadian wilderness. Between James, a 238-pound podcaster and hipster icon who sees dead people, and Thomas, a Bigfoot experiencer who doubts everyone else’s Bigfoot experiences, only one documentary will make you wonder, “Where the @#$% is Bigfoot Girl?” We'll take long ferry rides and then long car rides and then go on long hikes to a secret camp so we can hear theological debates about whether Bigfoot is building structures. We'll also hear the story of two young lovers having a massive overreaction to a motionless bush. We’re tying cherries to trees because a psychic told us to, pondering whether a mystical fire can attract Bigfoot, telling the same stories multiple times, and finally coming up with a convincing theory of our own for why Bigfoot Girl is absent from her own film. In today's service, you'll learn that Bigfoot may or may not be a conscientious robber of coolers, and he may or may not be a classic Loony Tunes character, but Bigfoot absolutely is a role model for these times. We're suffering through and reporting back on Bigfoot Girl, available to stream on Hulu. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album Stinger music features "Swing Party" by David Szesztay

Toads gone wild! It’s the 1930s and sugar is booming, particularly in North Queensland, Australia. But the farmers there have a problem: grubs are eating their crops. The Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, desperate to get the farmers off their backs, attend the World Conference of Sugar Technologists in Puerto Rico and get the brilliant idea to import toads to Australia to eat the grubs and save the crops. The toads, rudely handled and unfed during their two-week journey, arrive in Queensland hungry, horny, and with a newfound resentment for Australia. We’ll learn why this all goes wrong, but not before we witness a scientist banging two toads together like Barbie and Ken dolls, are treated to an homage to Psycho and Night of the Living Dead, and sing some hymns while the toads screw. Thirteen years before he made The Natural History of the Chicken, documentary filmmaker Mark Lewis will use the cane toad as an excuse to create a movie that is one part ecological disaster, one part gross out horror comedy, one part toad porn set to an 80s Cinemax movie soundtrack, and one part subtle suggestion that an amphibian Necronomicon is responsible for the failure of the marriage between Prince Charles and Lady Diana. We’re suffering through and reporting back on Cane Toads: An Unnatural History, available to stream on YouTube. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Meet John. And Matt. And Harper. And Nate. And another John. And Grey. And Dan. And Tyler. And Patrick. And another John. And…. Okay, let’s try this again.  Meet Chris. He owns a parking lot, and in this movie we’re going to meet about twenty of his past and current parking lot attendants. From one cynical white male wannabe philosopher to the next cynical white male wannabe philosopher, thrill as cynical white male wannabe philosophers hate-park cars in what could have been called “Resentment: The Movie.” We’re diving deeper than the movie does into social issues, sharply disagreeing with a critic from the New York Times, and pondering if it’s the UVA students or their parents in that income tax bracket. But mostly we’re just trying to make it through all the depressing tedium so we can get to big rap number at the end. We’re suffering through and reporting back on The Parking Lot Movie, available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

When three very literal, very Catholic, very Canadian sisters decide getting sugar daddies might be their shortcut to financial success, what could go wrong?  They’ll entice guys with photos of their pets, go on dates for free because they don’t know how to ask for money, and then sell themselves short by pointing out how the exchange rate means they could be paid less. Featuring a really, really, really disappointed mom (really), a juicylicious man who feels like the personification of a leisure suit, and more vocal fry and uptalk than a single nation could contain. Join us as we ponder what you call a group of sugar babies, consider whether this whole thing is a pyramid scheme, and shed a single tear as the Sisterhood of Traveling Sugar Babies falls apart.  We’re suffering through and reporting back on Sugar Sisters, available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Meet Leonard. He’s an actor whose popular TV show has been cancelled and the movie revival of that show has yet to begin. You might say he’s In Search Of … employment. What he finds is the opportunity to make 150 episodes of a show devoted to the exploration of unsolved mysteries and things that defy explanation. Things like “psy trailing” where a family projects their location to their dog Bobby when they leave him at a rest stop 2,000 miles from home. Things like a fighting fish so strong willed he defies the odds of probability.   Things like a plant photographer who has definitely ingested some plants. Things like a man hooking up yogurt to a lie detector to gauge the yogurt’s empathy. And if you think Leonard Nimoy is any help on getting through all of this, he’s far too busy dressing and posing like a deconstructed Superman and slinging junk science to make this go down any easier. Thrill as we have out of body experiences with a cat named Jill, listen to an old lady who hates rock music slowly recite a long list of plants, and use sophisticated machines and our mind’s inner eye to prove ... absolutely nothing. Is there an animal psychic involved? You bet there is! We’re suffering through and reporting back on two episodes of In Search Of … devoted to Extra Sensory Perception. They’re free to watch on YouTube if you really want to do that to yourself.  Other Voices and Animal ESP  If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Meet Shauna and Josh. First came love, then came marriage, then came the BS-filled documentary about their extraterrestrial, transdimensional, paranormal experiences.  Valentine’s Day is approaching and love is in the air. So are stars, satellites, and streetlights, but for the purposes of this documentary, let’s call all of those things “UFOs.” What starts as the premise of an X-Files episode devolves quickly as Shauna explains how red airplane lights cause ovarian cysts and Josh is fascinated by something the rest of us would call sleeping. Thrill as we lose time, assume defenseless positions, stare at footage of out of focus streetlights, and explain how restaurants work to inefficient interdimensional beings.  Is this proof of a vast extraterrestrial conspiracy designed to reduce the commute time of two Limp Bizkit fans from Michigan? Have we witnessed the ultimate transdimensional heist for Chinese leftovers? Are there ETs on Earth and do they just want to tuck us in, turn off the lights, and make sure our laptops don’t fall off the bed? One thing’s for certain: The BS is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE! We’re suffering through and reporting back on Otherworldly Amor, available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.   If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Meet Bradley. As a boy, his cousins from Oklahoma showed him the scars on their arms from fishing for catfish barehanded. In other words, they were Okie Noodlers.  Fast forward many years and adult Bradley decides to revisit this fishing subculture. When he finally finds some people willing to fess up to this behavior, he’ll go on a journey that ultimately leads to him establishing the first ever noodling tournament. Along the way, he'll introduce the viewer to a pantheon of men who you will be shocked to learn are about twenty years younger than they appear to be. It seem noodlin’ ages a man – and we say “man” because all of the women in this documentary may have been willing to try noodling once, but they weren’t dumb enough to ever come back. Join us as we hassle snakes, treat wounds with duct tape, and accidentally noodle a beaver. We also learn how to take away a fish's free will, how to cheat at noodling, and discover that while some noodlers noodle nude, there also appear to be never-nude noodlers.  We’re suffering through and reporting back on Okie Noodling, available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.   If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Meet Emily. Her hair is short, but her list of husbands is long. When a slow news day in the UK leads to the creation of a documentary The Guardian, The Daily Mail, and the Daily Telegraph all rave as the best thing ever, Jaime and Dave have no choice but to check this out for themselves and discover firsthand that the British media is wrong. So. Very. Wrong. Join us as we discuss the finer points of biganometry, ponder the raw undeniable machismo of train guards, and pitch “Bigammers,” our show that attempts to make this documentary watchable. Featuring surprise appearances by William Shatner, Doctor Who, Baby Yoda, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Bigamy Cap™. We’re suffering through and reporting back on The Bigamist Bride: My Five Husbands, available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.   If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Meet Samantha. She’s a 40-something animal trainer determined to take her cats on the road and catch her big break, even if it costs her hundreds of thousands of dollars to get there. According to her assistant Lynsi, a neat thing about Samantha is that she doesn’t think things all the way through, but then again, Lynsi also thought she was having a career crisis BEFORE she was living in a motorhome with a middle-aged woman trying to run a cat circus. We’ll witness heavy flirting, discuss whether it’s okay for your boss to tell you your significant other is going to die and it’s going to be your fault (spoiler: It’s really, really not okay), and sympathize with the cat who tries to escape from the show and start a new life in Wisconsin. Just when we think we might be watching the female version of a desperate person turning into The Joker, things shockingly turn around and end up being okay for Samantha. Maybe there’s a positive message somewhere in this mess after all, but we still maintain that cats are not an investment. Featuring surprise appearances by Pauly Shore and Stephen Colbert.  This episode is not sponsored by Smirnoff, but it should be.  We're suffering through and reporting back on Acrocats!, available to stream on Amazon Prime. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Tis the season to be grumpy, at least according to a bunch of middle-aged British men and, for some reason, Elliott Gould. From Arthur, who hates that Christmas happens every 365 days, to John, who hates that Margaret Thatcher didn’t hand-sign her Christmas cards, to the narrator, who hates Christmas cards and possibly his wife, we’re working through a laundry list of everything wrong with the holidays. We’re buying last-minute presents at gas stations, holding carolers hostage, and standing up to the tyranny of Advent Calendars (and okay, we’re also standing up because the Queen is speaking). Along the way, we’ll discuss fish for Christmas, determine whether Jaime is secretly a grumpy old man, and discover the lost Twin Peaks Christmas album. It turns out Christmas in Britain may be a bit rubbish after all.   Featuring guest appearances by Enrico Iglesias, Santa Claus, and the reanimated corpse of Winston Churchill. We’re suffering through and reporting back on Grumpy Old Men at Christmas UK, available to stream for free on YouTube.  If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Meet Kurt and Russ, two middle-aged stone skippers jockeying for the Guinness World Record for most skips.  Kurt has a good heart, but we still have some questions about that hole he’s digging in his yard, and he’s definitely not making it out of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory in one piece. There’s also Max, the young stone skipping upstart, and his father Eric, a stone skipping competition announcer who doesn’t have a big vocabulary but does have the enthusiasm of someone announcing the Kentucky Derby. Is this the next frontier of athleticism? Is stone skipping an ancient duck hunting technique? We don’t know, but Dave is getting flashbacks to discus throwing in junior high gym class and Jaime is reliving her Playstation glory days.   Before it’s all said and done, we’ll hear a surprisingly good rendition of the national anthem, see a gross injury, and witness a new world record that will likely stand until the robot overlords take over all sports. No fudge was harmed, consumed, or even really seen in this documentary. We’re suffering through and reporting back on Skips Stones for Fudge, available to stream on Amazon Prime.  If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Meet Harrod Blank. He’s a tall, attractive young man with a good head of hair, and within five minutes of knowing him you probably won’t be surprised to learn that as a child he spent more time with chickens than with people.  Harrod’s devoted his life to making and celebrating art cars, which is all fine and good, but what this documentary unintentionally celebrates is Harrod’s love life. Thrill as Harrod falls for what seems to be the first non-chicken, non-mom female he meets, then SUCCESSFULLY woos her with love poems about maggots and decaying fish! Chill as you learn Harrod’s opening move with women is to show them a dead cat! Question everything you thought you knew about life when you learn that even when Harrod was literally living in a child’s playhouse in someone’s yard, he STILL managed to have a live-in girlfriend, at least until winter came around.  Along the way, we’ll come to realize there are some things about Harrod as an artist that we kind of admire. We even start to think it’s almost too bad he isn’t in a better movie than this… but then Harrod’s back to clucking like a chicken again.  Speaking of our feathered friends, we may have discovered a unified theory of chickens, but rest assured. Despite Jaime’s best efforts, we are NOT re-naming this podcast “Super Chicken Stories.” We're suffering through and reporting back on Oh My God, It’s Harrod Blank, available to stream on Amazon Prime. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Someone has taken their love of monkeys too far! Halloween might be over, but on this episode we find ourselves stuck in what feels like a carnival funhouse filled with people who insist their monkeys are their literal children. Join us as we travel across some of our least favorite flyover states to meet Silly Willy, Butters, and Jessica Marie (all three of those are monkeys, in case you were unsure).  Along the way we'll see monkeys thrown out of restaurants, discover something worse than texting while driving, and, because you can't watch a documentary like this without a pet psychic showing up at some point, we'll discuss the moment that had Dave sitting on his hands to keep himself from throwing his monitor out the window. All narrated by a Mary Poppins soundalike who is fresh out of spoonfuls of sugar and wants some gosh darn answers.  Featuring Parker Posey and the world's least educational animal show. We’re watching My Monkey Baby, available to stream for free on Amazon Prime. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

It’s the spookiest time of the year and only one documentary could make us wonder, “Is that a smudge on my iPad or a ghost in that guy’s kitchen?” Meet Mabel, a ghost so non-descript we’re surprised she even has a name. She is mysteriously the same height and build as the daughter of the guy whose house she’s haunting. We also think her dad might be Channing Tatum in disguise. Where's Scooby Doo when we need him? Mabel’s absolute favorite thing is haunting pantries at precisely 12:34 a.m., but when the pantry door comes off, Mabel is released into the house and all hell breaks loose! A light will turn off! A ball will bounce down the stairs! Hair. Will. Be. Pulled! Penny, the medium from central casting, sums it up best: “Oh, no.” Featuring guest appearances by Patrick Stewart, Hamper Ghost, Feist, and a squatter named John2. We’re watching The Pantry Ghost Documentary, available to stream for free on Amazon Prime. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Have you heard this one before? There's a square hole opening in the sun and we're all invited by the dung beetles to jump in the hidden stargate and warp to another galaxy as foretold by the birds that fly while sitting down. Okay, two years later and we still don't know what most of that means, but we can assure you that's by far the most succinct summary you're going to get of The Knowledge of the Forever Time, which was early proof our podcast was onto something and also proof that there are even weirder things to watch in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy.  Fun fact: While this was technically our second episode, it was the first episode we recorded where we could actually hear each other! So grab your SPF 8,000,000 and join us as we try to comprehend The Knowledge of the Forever Time Parts 7 and 8, disturbingly STILL available to stream on Amazon Prime if you really hate yourself. (Life really, really got in the way for this week's episode, but we'll be back in two weeks with something brand new and Super True!)  If you dig our podcast, please rate, review, and subscribe!  Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Kelly is a no-budget horror film director who often casts his movies from Craig’s List and whoever happens to be on set. He’s just wrapped on The Mephisto Box, a film featuring telekinesis, astral travel, flying daggers, and a woman in a wheelchair restoring her legs through the power of Satan. But his film is missing something! It needs more production value, and by that he means more action, more blood, a submissive who can resurrect the dead, and a new lead character played by Alison Arngrim, aka Nellie Oleson from Little House of the Prairie. Before it’s all said and done Kelly will film over 100 hours of footage, and we’ll see TV’s Nellie Oleson pay homage to her past, kill a man wearing a bird feeder on his groin, and make a very unappetizing S’more. We’re left feeling like no kitchen sink is safe from Kelly, but we are absolutely won over by Alison’s good-natured charm. Featuring guest appearances by Werner Herzog, Promise Keepers, that “Heaven is for Real” kid, and a European accent we can’t quite place.  We're suffering through and reporting back on Hush Hush, Nellie Oleson, available to stream on Amazon Prime. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, and tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Meet Troy. He’s a “Pain don’t hurt” sorta fella with a mullet, a raspberry beret, and a giant 150-pound suit designed to withstand an encounter with a grizzly bear. When a younger Troy stares down a grizzly bear and lives to tell the very lengthy tale, it launches him on a lifelong journey to once again face the beast, but this time without leaving anything to chance. To that end, Troy has spent a lot of his life and a lot of his money making a suit that is resistant to fire, arrows, shotguns, falling logs, and truck-mounted mattresses. You would think Troy is literally ready for bear, until you see him put on the suit and try to walk in it. Along the way we’ll ponder how many decades you lose in the American-Canadian cultural exchange rate, discuss which bear is the gateway bear, and “ride the thunder” as we engage in close quarter bear research. Despite Troy’s assertions, the one thing this story is not is erotic.  Featuring guest appearances by Ultraman, Patrick Swayze, and the worst Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.  We're suffering through and reporting back on Project Grizzly, available to stream on Amazon Prime. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Are you scared? Could you at least pretend to be? No? Excellent. You’re a perfect fit for Scare Tactics, a show that’s on Axel’s list of guilty pleasures, but Dave is feeling much more skeptical about. (And guess who’s writing this episode description?) Journey with us through two episodes and eight pranks where the victims seem more confused than anything else. Except for poor Darian in that last prank. Even Dave has a soft spot for Darian. Not helping at all is Tracy Morgan, who is clearly telegraphing that he thinks his lines are terrible and also clearly only in it for the paycheck. But fear not! Axel and Dave come up with a sure-fire way to fix this show. Actually, maybe fear a little bit, because it does involve uniting Werner Herzog with a diseased WWF wrestler. We're suffering through and reporting back on two episodes of Scare Tactics, available to stream on Nextflix. Also, it’s our 50th episode! To help us celebrate, please rate or review our show wherever you get your podcasts! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Let's just get this out of the way: The title of this documentary is a bald-faced lie. Yes, we've got chicken near-death experiences and mouth-to-beak CPR. Yes, we've got a woman appearing to skinny dip with a rooster, giving him a blow-dry, and then loading him into her boxy 70s car to go solve crimes.  We've certainly got a headless chicken getting his shot at the big time and starring in a story that may have inspired John Woo's Face/Off. And we've even got a chicken letting go and letting God as a midwestern pastor stretches for next Sunday's sermon and hitting his Reader's Digest word count. But we absolutely do not have anything about the natural history of the chicken. And frankly, we don't care, because friend, if you were EVER going to watch something we’ve watched for this podcast, this is the one to watch. Featuring Emmy-worthy animal acting (seriously) and guest appearances by Jesus, Sun Tzu, and the DaVinci Chicken, only one documentary will make you ponder one of the biggest questions in life: If a chicken eats a cow, and you eat that chicken, are you now eating red meat? We’re watching Natural History of the Chicken, available to stream for free on Amazon Prime. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

A case of the Netflix doldrums results in Dave and Axel discovering “Flinch!”, a weird imitation Fear Factor full of banjos and yodeling set on a farm in the deep south of ... Ireland? Thrill as eight contestants face off against “crazy dangerous” games designed to make them flinch. (Except for Sandeep, a contestant who breaks the show and also maybe hates his wife). When the other contestants flinch, they’ll get punished with car batteries and cattle prods and earn points for our three judges – a husky boy, a knockoff Nicole Byers, and an alternate-universe lead singer of Nickelback. Along the way we learn the real reason for Brexit, find the long-lost final Jim Croce album America has been dying to hear, and discover “Flinch After Dark” – a show-within-a-show featuring hot wax and weasels. Also, the Internet has official flinch rules that have taken things too far, and Axel has a pitch for a new podcast. Surely there must be something else we could watch, preferably something with significantly more chickens. We’re watching Flinch!, a great indicator that we have nothing at all to worry about when Netflix loses The Office and all the Disney content. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Meet Joe, a special effects artist "tricked" by his "friends" -- a "pedophile" and an "adulterer" -- into going on a "reality" TV show.  Okay, all the quotations are going to get tiring, but just assume that pretty much EVERYTHING you hear from Joe should be in air quotes.  From flailing four-mile runs and frantic phone calls to verbally harassing a guy just trying to eat a salad, this documentary proves that while you may be small in stature, you can still be huge on harboring grudges and maintaining a choke hold on resentment.  Along the way Joe DOES indirectly give our podcast a reason to exist... but not before taking a dump on a Goonie. Oh, Joe. Featuring special guest co-host Jaime Hunt, who after finding this film is dangerously closed to getting herself banned from using the Hunt household Amazon Prime account. We're suffering through and reporting back on Frankenfake, available to stream on Amazon Prime. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

It’s 2010 and Proposition 19 could fully legalize marijuana in California. There are intelligent arguments on both sides of the issue. There are serious debates. But right now it’s time for a dubstep break. And another dubstep break. And some rapping. And then more dubstep. And then hippy educational songs about weed. And then more dubstep. This is a documentary that wants to be a musical that bills itself as a comedy that is actually the script treatment for the next Jurassic Park movie. If it sounds like this film is all over the place, a lot of the blame (and, to be honest, credit) can be laid at the feet of Ix, a younger-than-you-would-guess stoner who makes bongs from produce and humps the display cases at her local marijuana dispensary. When she’s not advancing the culinary arts by putting marijuana in literally everything she makes, she’s popping bed bugs, slapping the D, and … writing for NASA? Wait, what? Thrill as two pot virgins who nevertheless support the legalization of marijuana muddle their way through the music and musings of a movement. Along the way, we’ll also explore parental acceptance and disapproval, discuss bad names for your daughter, and listen to So. Much. Dubstep.  Welcome to California 90420. You can’t buy love, but you CAN buy a lot of weed.   Featuring special guest co-host Jaime Hunt, who somehow has a gift for finding these cinematic train wrecks. We’re suffering through and reporting back on California 90420, available to stream for free on Amazon Prime.  If you enjoy our podcast, please give us a rating or review, and tell a friend! Keep circulating the podcast! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Nothing says "summer vacation" like your favorite series presenting you with a beautiful clip show, and by that metric, this is going to be the best summer vacation ever!  From 50s sex ed and dead ice men to pyramid power and dry hole drillers, join us as we read Voltron's face, stalk Bigfoot with Robert Stack, and openly discuss purr addiction.  That's right. We've collected some of our favorite moments from episodes 11-20. Here's your chance to experience the weird and wonderful moments from these episodes that still make us chuckle, now assembled in one convenient place.  Of course it's not a Super True Stories "Best Of" if it doesn't finish with a music number.  We'll be back in two weeks with a fresh, homegrown, legal-in-Colorado episode! If you dig our podcast, please tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album Episode stinger remix features "Catching Feelings" by Audiobinger

Meet Frankie and Browser, two cats who have nothing to do with each other. Their only connection appears to be that their owners both use Facebook. What a small world! This might be the first time a movie has ever been padded out by shoehorning in a cat from Minnesota, and then to top it all off, they didn't even think to title this trainwreck, "A Tail of Two Kitties." What a missed opportunity! And speaking of missing things... When Frankie the Cat goes missing, he can only be found by Jack, renowned(?) cat tracker, possible Craigslist stalker, and inventor of the Cat Flasher, the world's dumbest way to find a missing cat. Jack is using every means at his disposal, including his own cat allergies, to find Frankie before it's time to stare into the middle distance and move on to the next case.  Along the way, we discuss a librarian who hates leash laws as much as she loves vibrators, we consider this year's Forbes list of Most Influential Cats, and we posit that the Game of Thrones showrunners have seen this documentary and took it way too much to heart.  All's well that ends well, but we gotta cut this short and get inside because the mosquitoes are starting to bite.  Featuring special guest co-host Jaime Hunt, who surely tested the strength of the Hunt marriage with this documentary find. We're suffering through and reporting back on If Only CATS Could Talk, available to stream on Amazon Prime. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

When is a cake a war crime? When it’s made by Sandra Lee, of course. In her defense, war crimes aren’t her only semi-homemade disasters. She also makes nice lies, nice knock-offs, nice roadkill, and nice orifices. It’s all enough to give Axel painful flashbacks of having to fawn over the craftiness of that one aunt who brings something creative to the potluck, while Dave is pondering the math on what happens when you combine 70% pre-bought stuff with 30% fresh ingredients and 30% cultural insensitivity. We’re not going to spoil the ending, but we also learn one heck of an insult. So grab your copy of Gremlins 2 and any alcohol you’ve managed to hide from Sandra Lee because we're suffering through and reporting back on YouTube clips of Sandra Lee available to stream for free, plus the “Feisty Fiesta” episode of her show available to stream on Amazon Prime. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album Post-episode stinger features “Quasi Motion” by Kevin MacLeod

Meet Gracie Rae. She's a psychic, an actor (not that the two have ANYTHING AT ALL to do with each other), and the subject of her very own documentary.  Thrill as Gracie Rae goes out on a limb and guesses that a woman has body image issues. Be astonished to learn a person remembers the name of her grandmother. Be disturbed as Gracie Rae bases a significant amount of her theology on the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Along the way, we discuss ghosts, inconsistent drop shadows, canned potatoes, and ego. So. Much. Ego.  The only thing we agree with Gracie Rae about is that going to her for a psychic reading really would be a last resort.  Featuring special guest co-host Jaime Hunt, and surprise appearances by Bigfoot, Chuck E. Cheese, and Gracie Rae's acting reel. We're suffering through and reporting back on Psychic: A Gift of Grace, available to stream on Amazon Prime. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

It's been awhile since we've been to the Church of Bigfoot, but you'll find us in the front row on Easter Sunday! For today's service, we're headed to the Canadian wilds to frolic with the least skeptical "skeptic" we've ever met as he shows us the most dubious Bigfoot evidence yet. Questionable tree breaks, tree structures, and tracks are par for the Bigfoot course, but this is Canada, and in Canada, Bigfoot whistles, steals apples, and might actually be the Blair Witch.  Theological discussions ensue as we attempt to reconcile New Testament nature-communing Bigfoot with an Old Testament velociraptor. We find a way to preserve the liturgy, but are then spotted by Daywatchers and forced to sacrifice an academic.  Guest starring a drone, a ghillie suit, a university professor who should know better, and what kinda appears to be Canadians in black face. (We really wish we were joking on that last one). Maybe next Easter we'll just stay home. We're suffering through and reporting back on Discovering Bigfoot, available to stream on Netflix. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

This is not the gritty post-apocalyptic Lindsay Lohan reboot featuring Patrick Stewart we had hoped for, but the claws are definitely out! This is Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club, the beachiest, Greekiest, and weakiest (just go with it) reality show we've ever seen. Thanks, MTV! Thrill as you witness interchangeable hot people take off their shirts and do interchangeable hot things while a couple 30-somethings who should not be in management encourage everyone to be their hottest and most interchangeable best.  Also featuring Pannos, the lamest Avengers supervillain, and guest starring Lindsay Lohan's brand (whatever the heck that is).  We're suffering through and reporting back on the first episode of Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club, currently available to stream for free on YouTube if you look hard enough. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Baseball. It's a sport Axel loves and a yet another sport Dave is pretty sure still exists. But we're not really talking about baseball here. We're talking about Jose Canseco, and you can't do that without talking about steroids, whistleblowing, Bigfoot, Donald Trump, Jennifer Lopez, bitcoin, aliens from outer space, and ... goats? Yes, goats. And the only reason we're doing any of that is because we're desperate for attention from Mark McGuire. Are you listening to this Mark? We made this for you, Mark! MARK!  Join us as we discuss the painful truth and the painful tweets of a man who made a documentary about himself and then somehow won awards for doing so.  We're suffering through and reporting back on Jose Canseco: The Truth Hurts, available to stream for free for Amazon Prime members. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Nothing says "Spring Break!" like an island adventure with Homeland Security and Jesse Ventura.  Join us as we swear at llamas, hide from the Montauk Monster, check ourselves for Nazi ticks, and ponder the spectacle of Jesse wrestling with a bear. And maybe also a tornado. Before it's all said and done, we'll also be pondering a government spokesperson's inappropriate rope tricks and abruptly heading to Kansas to stare at a corn field.  Worst spring break ever? Maybe that's because all this really boils down to is a rehash of Stephen King's The Stand.  We're suffering through and reporting back on Inside America's Only Foreign Animal Disease Laboratory: Plum Island on YouTube and Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, Season 2, Episode 1: Plum Island on Vimeo. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

We said his name on our podcast three times and now, like a stoned, auto-tuned Beetlejuice, Post Malone is here to hunt some ghosts and help us broaden our appeal to today's youth. This is the episode where we really hit it big with the Millennials!  As Ghost Adventures says at the beginning of each episode, "There are things in this world that we will never fully understand." Those guys are probably talking about ghosts and the paranormal and such, but after watching this episode, we have questions of our own. Like, "Why does Post Malone not show up until halfway through the episode?" And, "Why come up with a great Dad joke and then not deploy it?"  And honestly, it's a little hard to focus on Post Malone debunking raccoons and behaving like a relatively normal human being when you have Ghost Hunter Bane, bovine spirits, and Satan himself running around on set.  Also thrill as two middle-aged men listen to 68 solid minutes of Post Malone music and then come back to share their thoughts on that experience. Maybe we aren't going to win over the youth after all. We're suffering through and reporting back on Ghost Adventures Season 19, Episode 17, available to stream on Amazon Prime. We also discuss the deluxe edition of Stoney by Post Malone.  If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album Episode remix features "June" by BenJaminBanger - find him on Instagram (@BenJaminBanger) and online at http://smarturl.it/hjfi20

We're celebrating Valentine's Day the old fashioned way - with our squared off members and three classic shorts on syphilis!  Thrill as Don and Betty (DRAPER?!) deal with the fallout from their premarital transgressions - guilt, confusion, frustration, disease, and high school hallway awkwardness all set to the disconcerting sounds of what Amazon describes as "pensive jazz music." Then meet Tony, the long-lost third Super Mario Brother, who plays accordion while his stillborn child is born. (That might sound like a reference to Nero, but it's not.) Finally, a pilot pulled from duty due to catching "a germ" serves as a not-so-subtle introduction to the idea that Scandinavians think Americans are a bunch of superstitious idiots. (But hey that was 70 years ago! Bet they don't think that anymore, right? Right??? ... Well, shoot.)  We're suffering through and reporting back on Classic STD Films, available to stream on for free for Amazon Prime members. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Your house is really out to get you. So say three Canadians from HGTV Canada, and they have the propane-filled air mattresses to prove it. Our three "experts" go to great lengths to prove the most dangerous things you can own are a bag of flour, a tiki bar, and a ceiling fan, but all they really prove is that the stupid was inside themselves all along. If you really want to be afraid of something, be afraid of these chuckleheads and their air cannon.  Along the way, we'll take a hard look at our polite neighbor to the north, and ponder whether this terribly lackluster entertainment is the price you pay for things like no one having to go bankrupt for medical care.  We're suffering through and reporting back on House Hazards, available to stream on for free for Amazon Prime members. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

New Year, New Nimoy! We’re celebrating making it to 2019 by looking back on how we almost didn’t make it through 1999, and our guide on this journey is none other than Hollywood legend Leonard Nimoy. Well, he starts out as our guide. Then he transports away for 20 minutes while some old prepper dude tells us about chemical toilets and stockpiling potted meat. Thrill as we learn how lazy computer coders nearly destroyed civilization and turned us into a modern-day Atlantis (Leonard is certain Atlantis is a myth, but death ray technology is open for debate). Brace yourself as the documentary wildly careens back and forth between insisting our doom is eminent and then assuring us pretty much nothing is going to happen, but then giving the prepper one last shot at telling us we’re screwed, but then here’s Leonard to reassure we’re all okay and hey, have you heard about Atlantis? It’s a myth.   We're suffering through and reporting back on Y2K Family Survival Guide with Leonard Nimoy, available to stream on YouTube. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

So this is Christmas, and what have you done? If you're like the people who are the subject of this episode's documentary, you've spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on octopus bangles, mushroom-shaped USB keys, and ... crackers?  Whether your budget is dozens of millions of dollars or just tens of millions of dollars, there's something here for anyone who wants to make sure they have the best super-rich Christmas possible. Are you worried you'll envy these gifts and your Christmas will seem small and insignificant in comparison to this? Have no fear. These gifts are all pretty stupid. And speaking of stupid, we'll also share our own stories of Christmas gift mishaps and give our best advice on whether you should put a $500 ruby on something edible. (You shouldn't.) Wait! Do you hear those jingle bells in the distance? That can only mean the arrival of Werner Claus! He's got a sleigh full of existential angst and Netflix trial accounts for all the girls and boys so they can watch his volcano documentary. Happy Holidays and a Very Merry Super True Stories Christmas!  We're suffering through and reporting back on Christmas for the Wealthy, available to stream from Amazon Prime. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album This episode also features "Jingle Bells" by Podington Bear and "We Collect Shiny Things" by Blue Dot Sessions.

You Expressed Yourself, assured us that our podcast was in Vogue, and so we got Into the Groove to Justify Your (My) Love. That's right, we're suffering through and reporting back on Madonna: Truth or Dare! Like a Virgin, we watched this documentary for the very first time, and though we were often bored, we did Live to Tell you just how scarred we are by this experience and whether our parents were right to try to keep us away. (Huh. I guess the "Like a Virgin" thing applies to that whole last sentence.) Witness the smugness of Warren Beatty, the awkward charm of Kevin Costner, and the boredom and pretentiousness of Madonna herself. Thrill along the way as we examine which movies legendary film critic Roger Ebert thought were slightly better and slightly worse than Madonna: Truth or Dare. (We're in talks with Milton Bradley to bring you the home game in 2019!) This episode would not exist without generous support from these friends of our podcast who made this dream a reality. Each of you, please don your cone bra and Take a Bow! Cate Cullen, Chris Moree, Chad Drac, and Taryn Coleman If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album Madonna: Truth or Dare is available to rent on YouTube or purchase on DVD from Amazon. But we recommend you just watch the trailer on YouTube and not subject yourself to the full film, despite what Ebert thinks.  

Happy Thanksgiving! We're releasing this episode early because it's all about pilgrims and mushrooms and Madonna and questionable Star Trek spin-offs. Okay, this isn't exactly a traditional Thanksgiving, but it's definitely a Super True one!  When our initial plans for this episode fall through, Axel discovers the driest documentary ever made, and makes Dave give a book report on it, with the extra pressure-inducing assertion that Natalie Portman is listening.  Then we go ahead and still do our planned short on hunting for mushrooms because it is 15 minutes of pure weirdness and joy and potentially life-threatening culinary decisions. And we also need to talk about this: BREAKING SUPER TRUE NEWS!  Super True Stories is about to break it's one rule, and we're probably not the first ones to blame that on Madonna. With your help, we're going to suffer through and report back on Madonna: Truth or Dare. Find us on kickstarter to learn more! END BREAKING NEWS We're suffering through and reporting back on The Mayflower Pilgrims and Mushroom Hunters, both available to stream from Amazon Prime. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album    

Join us as we view friendly and attractive people on both sides of the greatest debate of our time - to shave and wax, or to embrace whatever fur you've got wherever you've got it. That's right, it's time for Body Hair Wars! But there isn't really any fighting. There's just a lot of affection and admiration for people who fall into the same camp as themselves. This documentary actually remains pretty committed to being inclusive, so at least there's that.  Is that faint praise? Well, we have less respect when they start publicly waxing nether regions. And we're not totally sure about the science imparted by Dr. Laser (not his real name, but if it's not the name he's used on a chat forum somewhere, we're really disappointed). Thrill as two middle-aged midwestern guys somewhat uncomfortably discuss the grooming habits of themselves and others! We're suffering through and reporting back on Long and Short of Body Hair, available to stream for free for Amazon Prime members. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Boo!  It's our Second Annual Halloween Special! We're extreme celebrating by going to extreme locations with three extreme guys in search of extreme ghosts. Someone cue up "More Than Words" by Extreme! But instead we find controversy as our pack of new-metal protagonists misappropriate religion, hope the ghost children don't touch them, construct pool floaties of the damned, and, oh yes, throw in a (real?) blood ritual for fun. (A gentle trigger warning: we don't dwell on it too long or go into great detail, but we do have to briefly talk about cutting for a few minutes around the 20 minute-mark of this episode, so skip a few minutes if you are sensitive to that topic.) If you're like us, you'll be wondering what the hell A&E was thinking when they greenlit this mess. There's only one answer: EXTREME RATINGS followed by EXTREME DISAPPOINTMENT! We're suffering through and reporting back on Extreme Paranormal Episode 1 and Episode 2, available to stream for free on DailyMotion. If you dig our podcast, please tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

We came to bury Tim Tebow, not to praise him. And yet... we find ourselves not quite able to hate the guy, or at least not the version of him presented here by ESPN, who had the balls to refer to Tim Tebow as "The Chosen One." Speaking of balls, "Who is Tim Tebow?" this documentary half-heartedly asks. And then it sheepishly answers, "Well, he likes football, filling out workbooks with his mom, orphans in the Philippines, and, his, er testi[muffled sound]" Wait. What was that last bit, ESPN? "Sigh. His testicles. He's very vocal about the size of his testicles."   Journey with us to a time before the questionable baseball career. Before the failed football career. Before "Tebowing" was a verb. Before all of that, to a time when a simple homeschooled highschooler in Florida just wanted to play football and scream really, really loudly about his big nuts. We're suffering through and reporting back on Tim Tebow: The Chosen One, available to stream for free on YouTube. If you dig our podcast, please tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

Life has gotten a bit in the way of this episode and so we have this beautiful clip show for you. We've gathered some of our favorite moments from the first ten episodes. From The Forever Time to ice fishing to ghost hunting in Great Britain. From chestnuts to aliens to the Church of Bigfoot. Here's your chance to experience the moments from those early episodes that still make us chuckle, now assembled in one convenient place.  Do stay for the new dance remix at the end that strangley never occurred to us the first time through with Episode 5.  We'll be back in two weeks with a fresh episode, followed in two more weeks by our Second Annual Halloween Special. Stay tuned - we have something spooky in store!  If you dig our podcast, please tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album Episode stinger dance remix features "Albatross" by Computer Music All-stars

We've done it! Super True Stories has made it an entire year, so of course we're celebrating by revisiting childhood trauma. We're going back 30 years to pre-teen Dave and the brothers who scarred him. No, not the Doobie brothers. The people who scarred him were obsessed with Satan. No, not Black Sabbath. These are the guys who TOLD Dave about Black Sabbath (and Ozzy Osborne, and AC/DC, and...the GoGos?)We're playing "Duck, Duck, Gray Duck" with Dan, Steve, and (Redacted) Peters, those crazy Minnesotans who inspired youth to burn millions of dollars of rock albums in what Ted Koppel rightfully noted kinda seems like something the Nazis would do. But don't blame these brothers, blame those good Christian kids who just hate the devil and want to see vinyl burn. Along the way, we'll dodge the ghost of John Denver, reflect on church library theft, and discuss what we'd put in a printed Super True Stories Newsletter, which can be yours for a monthly love gift of just $15.  We're suffering through and reporting back on The Truth About Rock, available to stream for free on YouTube. If you dig our podcast, please tell a friend!  You can make a difference in the life of a podcast by giving us a rating or review wherever you listen to us. Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

First came the summer of love, then came the summer of blasting caps. Journey with us to an undertermined time in the 70s when explosives grew on trees. Relive those halcion days when the only thing that would stop a young boy from bullying a girl was the dream of blowing up her father's barbecue. The days when all it took to save the world was a siren, a sign that read "explosives" and a red station wagon with an 80 pound CRT television in the back. Blasting caps were everywhere, ready to harm anyone. And apparently people were so frightened by this danger that an additional short was needed explaining that yes, explosives really are necessary. In fact, you wouldn't have that potato peeler without them.  We're suffering through and reporting back on the perplexingly specific Blasting Caps Safety Films, available to stream for free for Amazon Prime members. If you dig our podcast, please tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album Episode stinger dance remix features "Where's My Jetpack?!" by Computer Music All-stars

Yes, THAT Alien Autopsy. Journey with us back to the mid-90s as host Jonathan Frakes repeatedly asks us just how much we want to believe, and we find our faith to be lacking. Thrill as Star Trek's No. 1 walks us through a series of experts who suggest maybe what we're seeing could possibly be realish maybe. Wonder aloud at how much Fox paid these people to damage their credibility and careers by appearing on this special. Chill as a private investigator tries to find an octogenarian in Florida. Will he succeed?   By the end, you must decide if all of this is fact or fiction (but you'll really only need about five minutes to figure our your answer).  We're suffering through and reporting back on Alien Autopsy, available to stream for free for Amazon Prime members. Note: The version that originally aired is the first 45 minutes or so of the extended anniversary edition available for free on Prime. We did NOT watch the extended interviews because dear god, why would you do that to yourself? If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

On this episode, we find ourselves surrounded by vans somewhere in outstate Wisconsin.  It's the 40th Annual Van Nationals, and in celebration we're drinking Jack Daniels out of a bucket, carrying around small stones, and oh yes, lusting after some custom vans.  Join us as we marvel at a movement that peaked 40 years ago when a bunch of hippies got together to declare their love for BF Goodrich and has steadily declined since then to 2014 when the crowds are 90% smaller but still every bit as sloshed as they were 40 years ago.    But perhaps most shocking of all? Both Dave and Axel do now kinda want to own vans. We're suffering through and reporting back on Vannin', available to stream for free for Amazon Prime members. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album