Seth Allen
5 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsI'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.
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Episodes
The Mysterious Oregon Cow Killings
March 15, 2021 15:17 - 39 minutesFor 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 cul...
This Is Our Year
December 07, 2020 00:51 - 57 minutesIf you ever need to charm me when I’m at my most uncharmable, fate of the Universe on the line or the Martians have the death beam pointed at Earth you better hit it: 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 ...
Family Photos
November 13, 2020 17:36 - 26 minutesThe 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 (@toryleeward) did the reading, which has already drawn rave reviews from family. I’ve shared Lydia’s stories a few times...
Junk Wax
October 05, 2020 15:42 - 1 hourThe Sports Card Investigator When local comedy became a risk to public health instead of just a risk to public annoyance, it mostly shut down. I missed performing immediately but it took months to realize the sudden loss of the community was weighing on me as well. I was surprised. I’d thought of the scene as a nuisance that had to be endured, an always exploding mixture of small-t...
Between The Madness
September 13, 2020 23:46 - 2 hours“Boy, I’m glad it’s over. I’m glad we don’t have practice this week or next week.” I’ve never seen a coach so openly defeated after a loss. There’s no stoicism here, no talk about being proud of his players, no looking forward to next year. There’s no energy left for that. Here is the great Jerry Tarkanian, a coach I’m used to seeing emanate such intensity that he has to bite on a towel during games, and boy, he’s just glad it’s over. It’s one of the final scenes from Between The Madness...