Alonzo Weed was a real-life vagabond who was briefly elected mayor of Amesville, Ohio, in 1903 as a joke that unexpectedly came true. His story, which gained national attention at the time, is now a local legend celebrated with an annual festival. 

Middle-Aged and Mediocre is BACK! In this episode we look at six states that tried to secede from the United States of America for various reasons. Joel blind ranks Adam Sandler comedies and Cash blind ranks kid's sports movies from his childhood!

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WrestleMania 41 is here and Middle-Aged and Mediocre is bringing you Honcho and the Dude's preview of the upcoming event!

We're talking about WrestleMania memories, making our picks for this year's matches, and taking a look at WWE's list of their Top 50 Mania matches.

Plus, we get an insight into Joel's world of Facebook Marketplace insanity.

Enjoy!

For absolutely no reason whatsoever, and completely not due to any current events, our new episode is all about a young Italian man who hijacked an airplane on October 31, 1969. While most hijackers in the 60s demanded to be taken to Cuba, Raffaele Minichiello had a different destination in mind. The hijacked flight went across the country from California to New York before heading to an entirely different continent.

Check out our newest episode now on YouTube and wherever podcasts are found... and whatever you do, don't fall in love with Raff!

We're giving you a history lesson on this episode, but don't worry, it's a hilarious tale of incompetence! During the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Russia was looking to take back a warm water port on the Liaodong Peninsula in the south of Manchuria, China.

Russia had gained control of Port Arthur through an agreement with China but Japan wasn't having that and took control of it at The Siege of Port Arthur.

In response, Russia decided to send a fleet of their ships on an 18,000 mile journey to attempt to ambush the Japanese and get the port back. Unfortunately, the fleet known as the Russian Second Pacific Squadron was a hodgepodge of old obsolete battleships, ferries, and yachts manned by a crew of inexperienced sailors.

The events that occurred during their long voyage were a slapstick comedy of errors that resulted in disaster after disaster.

We promise that if you like to laugh, you HAVE to listen to this episode!

Ten Cent Beer Night was a promotion held by Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians during a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio on June 4, 1974. The promotion was meant to improve attendance at the game by offering cups of beer for just 10 cents each, with a limit of six beers per purchase but no limit on the number of purchases made during the game.

Things did not go well...

Plus, Joel has a fun Facebook Marketplace interaction and we go through our picks for Week 9 of the NFL.

If you watched the MAX docuseries about Natalia Grace, you know how that case was influenced by the 2009 horror movie, "The Orphan", but what you might not know is that the horror movie was inspired by a true story that took place in the Czech Republic. A woman named Barbora Skrlova, born with a condition known as hypopituitarism, which affected her growth and appearance, making her look much younger than her actual age, used this to her advantage to escape justice and manipulate others, posing as different children in different countries and recruiting new members into her father's cult, known as The Grail.

Stick around to find out what Joel did to get blocked by WWE RAW General Manager Adam Pearce on Facebook. He must have said something pretty awful, right? Well, click play on this episode and hear what happened.

Finally, we make our picks for every game of the Week 4 NFL season.

Titu Singh was not an ordinary child. He didn't act like an ordinary child. He didn't talk like an ordinary child. He didn't have an ordinary child's memories. His memories were those of a man named Suresh Verma and those memories just happened to include the details of how Suresh Verma was murdered in 1983. This is a wild story and will leave you questioning your beliefs on reincarnation.

Stick around after Titu's story to hear Cash unveil the nightmare situation he's been dealing with all because of an eBay sale.

We also preview Week 3 of the NFL season and make our predictions for what the end of this season will end up looking like.

We're back and we missed you all!

Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell found each other through their shared Mormon faith and the belief that the world was coming to an end. Labeling people as zombies, Lori and Chad were at the center of a murder spree that left four of their own family members dead.

There were a total of 5 characters who took the Ghostface mask off when they revealed that they had been behind the killing sprees throughout the first three Scream movies. In this episode, Cash & Joel dive into the story of the first three movies and then rank the Ghosface killers from best to worst. Let us know how you'd rank Billy Loomis, Stu Macher, Mickey Altieri, Debbie Loomis, and Roman Bridger!

Movies, drive-thru trauma, and a gamer puts way too much effort into being a loser.

Why did Ben Affleck's son have to return his XBox in "The Company Men"?

Have you ever had a Tom Green dream?

What's the dumbest war ever warred?

If these are the questions you're seeking answers for, we've got you covered in this episode! We also figure out the answer to the very dumb question, "wHy IsNt ThErE a sTrAiGhT PrIdE mOnTh!?"

We debate the hottest political issue in our nation's history... electrified water or shark?

On Mother's Day 1985, the bodies of Katie, Kara, and Erin Eastburn were found brutally murdered in their Fayetteville, NC home. A man named Tim Hennis was quickly identified as a suspect and subsequently charged with the murders. However, even with all of the evidence pointing directly at Tim, the case would not be wrapped up until 25 grueling years later. This is part one of the story of The Eastburn Family Murders.

Just a quick episode to catch up on what the Joel & Cole Express has been up to. Cash & Joel talk about Cash's return to professional wrestling, upcoming Middle-Aged and Mediocre projects, and the Whiff Whaff series on the Ray Gun Radio/Middle-Aged and Mediocre YouTube page (Episode 1 is available now!)

The Joel & Cole Express is back with another episode and this time it's just two dudes talking about the solar eclipse, the worst ways to die, the most fun ways to die, and the most likely way they'll each die.

Cash & Joel also delve into some true crime and discuss the horrific and awful acts carried out during the eclipse by Danielle Johnson, aka, "astrology influencer" Ayoka.

Cash and Joel review both nights of this weekend's WrestleMania 40 event and place their bets on each match. We also review the prop bets for the show, including how much interference there will be in Roman vs Cody, how many chops Gunther will deliver to Sami Zayn, if Stone Cold will get in the ring, and more!

There's another big wrestling announcement at the end of the show that you won't want to miss!

The main story begins at 15:39 for those who want to skip the opening banter

Natalia Grace Barnett is a Ukrainian-born American with dwarfism, who, in 2010, was adopted by an American family but abandoned by them two years later. Barnett's adoptive parents claimed that Barnett was a legal adult, and, in 2012, they successfully sought a court order legally changing her birth year from 2003 to 1989.

MAX now features two seasons of the ID channel's series on Natalia's case featuring interviews with Natalia, her adoptive father Michael Barnett, her new adoptive parents, "legal experts", and various characters who encountered Natalia during this turmoil. Almost everyone involved is pretty awful and Michael easily takes the top prize for most unhinged human being to ever appear on television.

Cash and Joel review both seasons of the docuseries and raise questions over the validity of its content. Both hosts had different perspectives while watching as Joel went into it not knowing anything about it while Cash had some forewarning about how the two seasons play out, so it's interesting to see how their opinions differ and align.

Chase Massner was an Iraq War veteran who returned home and faced difficulties adjusting back into civilian life while battling PTSD and bipolar disorder. His marriage issues caused him to turn to a friend named Brad Clement for support but then he mysteriously vanished. For three years, no one knew what had happened to Chase. No one except for one person that is.

Join us to hear about the disappearance of Chase Massner and the web of lies that affected so many lives.

The main story for this episode begins at 21 minutes and 24 seconds in if you want to skip right to it.

It's the biggest event of the year and we've got you covered on all the information you could ever need before the big game! We've got stats, betting props, parlays, and our picks. There's also a lot of Home Improvement talk in this episode because Joel dreams of JTT.

If you're betting on the game or want to sound smart by throwing out some stats at your Super Bowl party, this is the episode for you!

We've also got two parlays for you with very high hit ratios. One has odds of +217 and the other one is a big ol' +8448 3-leg parlay with each leg hitting in 100% of the last 3 games.