I'm comedian Seth Allen and I'm writing and talking about comedy, basketball, and other. There's a written complement to these audio episodes that you can subscribe to at the URL below. <br/><br/><a href="https://sethallen.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">sethallen.substack.com</a>
Seth Allen
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I'm comedian Seth Allen and I'm writing and talking about comedy, basketball, and other. There's a written complement to these audio episodes that you can subscribe to at the URL below. <br/><br/><a href="https://sethallen.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">sethallen.substack.com</a>
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March 15, 2021
The Mysterious Oregon Cow Killings
<p>For decades someone or someones or SOMETHING has been killing cows in remote parts of central and eastern Oregon. The bodies are found mutilated, some of their organs having been surgically removed, and drained of blood. Investigators have ruled out shooting, stabbing, strangulation, animal attack, and even lightening strike as potential causes of death. The locations of the killings require extensive off-road travel to reach yet no tracks have been found. Theories range from clandestine cult ritual to alien research to just some weirdo. There are no leads and the killings continue. </p><p>I’ve been fascinated by the cow killings since I first read about them a few years ago. I was born and spent parts of my childhood in Eastern Oregon, and the personal connection combined with the bizarreness of the crime have given the mystery a permanent home in my mind. I can imagine walking through Ponderosa Pines to the top of a ridge, taking a deep breath of the clean desert dry air that carries sage and juniper, and realizing the only other person within a hundred miles might be a guy that’s spent decades stealthily killing cows and removing their udders. </p><p>In the audio episode I talk with my wife Shelly, a life-long true crime fan and self-described “murder connoisseur.” We review the evidence, explore theories, and outline a plan to finally crack the case.</p><p>Sources:</p><p>“<a target="_blank" href="https://www.opb.org/news/article/central-oregon-mutilated-cow-case-rattles-ranchers/">Another Mutilated Cow In Central Oregon Rattles Ranchers</a>”</p><p>“<a target="_blank" href="https://www.npr.org/2019/10/08/767283820/not-one-drop-of-blood-cattle-mysteriously-mutilated-in-oregon">‘Not one Drop Of Blood’: Cattle Mysteriously Mutilated In Oregon</a>”</p><p>“<a target="_blank" href="https://www.capitalpress.com/ag_sectors/livestock/investigators-perplexed-by-death-mutilation-of-cow/article_a72d4a9a-4227-11ea-b4f5-1b8bf637bfab.html">Investigators perplexed by death, mutilation of cow</a>”</p><p>“<a target="_blank" href="https://ktvz.com/news/crime-courts/2021/03/06/crook-county-steps-up-rural-patrols-after-several-cattle-deaths-possible-mutilations-2/">Crook County steps up rural patrols after several cattle deaths, possible metalations</a>”</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Seth Allen at <a href="https://sethallen.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">sethallen.substack.com/subscribe</a>
December 7, 2020
This Is Our Year
<p>If you ever need to charm me when I’m at my most uncharmable, <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/FirstTake/status/1135573637371781120">fate of the Universe on the line or the Martians have the death beam pointed at Earth you better hit it</a>: Bring a die-hard fan of a perpetually hopeless team from an unglamorous place. The combination of failure and lack of interest from outsiders seems to force a spirit of humor and humility onto them that I can’t resist. They are experts on the causes of their team’s failure and will give an impromptu dissertation on the lack of money, poor management, undesirability of their locale, and consistent bad luck that doom their team’s past, present, and future. Then, after presenting overwhelming evidence that the team they love can’t possibly succeed, they turn around and renew their hope that this is their year. Be still my heart.</p><p>This episode consists of two interviews with exemplary sad sack lifers. The first is Andy Clark, comedian and co-host of <a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-payton-years/id1536831436">The Payton Years</a>, the very best podcast dedicated solely to Oregon State Men’s basketball and, as Andy points out, literally the only one. The second interview is with Chris Nakis (<a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/chris_nakis">@chris_nakis</a>), comedian and co-creator of Sad CLE Sports (<a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/SadCleveland">@SadCleveland</a>), a twitter account celebrating Cleveland’s long and storied tradition of sports failure. Taken together the interviews finally put on record everything I love about this type of fan. They confess to their team’s futility like murderers relieved to finally clear their conscious decades after the act. They turn their unwavering support into a badge of honor. They bring jokes.</p><p>I was charmed. The Martians packed up their death beam and went home.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Seth Allen at <a href="https://sethallen.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">sethallen.substack.com/subscribe</a>
November 13, 2020
Family Photos
<p>The audio for this episode is a reading from a collection of childhood memories written by my great-grandmother, Lydia Johnston, when she was 92 years old. Six years later, in 1988, Lydia’s daughter-in-law Florence typed out Lydia’s longhand and mailed copies to my grandparents and other family. Some years later Florence’s pages were digitally scanned. Comedian Tory Ward (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/toryleeward/">@toryleeward</a>) did the reading, which has already drawn rave reviews from family.</p><p>I’ve shared Lydia’s stories a few times since my Dad emailed them to me five years ago. They never fail to invite discussion. Partly it’s the novelty of a first-hand account from an era outside one’s own, and partly it’s the hardship of the events themselves. Lydia knew hard-labor, danger, and the feeling of opportunities denied early in life. At an age when I was playing Ninja Turtles, Lydia was sick with Measles asking her father to let her work inside instead of outside. I wonder what it was like for her to watch us kids with our toys and our books, to see the privilege of what we now think of as “a childhood” come too late for her.</p><p>Lydia describes these personal events like a reporter giving you just the facts. She doesn’t refer to herself as abused, but tells of one of her father’s beatings being so bad she could still feel it. She doesn’t call herself oppressed, but mentions being denied opportunities to pursue her own interests. Lydia’s style always leads the discussion to the same place: How did Lydia feel about all this?</p><p>Lydia wrote these recollections when she knew the end was near. Sitting down to define herself for posterity, these are the memories she chose. At 92 years old witnesses to your childhood are rare if they exist at all. One can see the process of becoming forgotten is already well underway. I think Lydia wanted the record to show that these events happened and that she persevered, that the hardships and injustices that went unacknowledged in her own time did matter. Mostly I think Lydia faced the inevitable and claimed a small concession; proof that she had lived.</p><p>Looking at the scanned pages themselves expands the story. I think about Florence answering Lydia’s call, taking care to number every page, typing and re-typing until it’s perfect and ready to be sent to the family. The creases show the pages were folded in thirds, first for mailing, I imagine, and then again for storing in a safe place. The frays along the creases show the pages were taken out to be re-read, probably sometimes with others and other times alone.</p><p>I don’t remember Lydia. My Dad tells me I attended her ninety-ninth birthday party that gets described in an addendum attached after her death. Thanks to her writing I do get to have a sense of who she was, and my family’s dedication to preserving her stories tells me she remains loved. Tory told me I’m lucky to have something like this. I couldn’t agree more.</p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Seth Allen at <a href="https://sethallen.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">sethallen.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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