{"id":43,"date":"2020-04-25T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/25\/episode-87-thank-goodness-for-low-standards\/"},"modified":"2021-07-17T19:30:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T19:30:46","slug":"episode-87-thank-goodness-for-low-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/25\/episode-87-thank-goodness-for-low-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 87: &#8220;Thank Goodness for Low Standards&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3223\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-43-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep087ThankGoodnessforLowStandards.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep087ThankGoodnessforLowStandards.mp3\">https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep087ThankGoodnessforLowStandards.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep087ThankGoodnessforLowStandards.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/?powerpress_pinw=43-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep087ThankGoodnessforLowStandards.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Ep087ThankGoodnessforLowStandards.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 435px;\">\n<h3 style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em;\"><span style=\"background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">What&#8217;s a Ninja Gotta Do to Get a Mother Freakin&#8217; Passport Stamped?<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 870px;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pQ_8S8U5M88\/XqRpx_49_yI\/AAAAAAAAunY\/K0u3Gig-X0M0sv-3BPN3VwRYnmBz5NPpgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/94179854_2294092830894331_1593649131304255488_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pQ_8S8U5M88\/XqRpx_49_yI\/AAAAAAAAunY\/K0u3Gig-X0M0sv-3BPN3VwRYnmBz5NPpgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/94179854_2294092830894331_1593649131304255488_o.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"531\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"960\" data-original-width=\"768\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n\n\n<p> This week on the podcast we are joined by&nbsp;<strong>George S. Nearing<\/strong>,&nbsp;author, educator, ex-pat and as&nbsp;Jeff&nbsp;describes \u201cthe coolest and least annoying Juggalo you\u2019ll ever meet.\u201d&nbsp;For&nbsp;Sam&nbsp;(as he in known by most) life itself is just one weird story after the next. He\u2019s got so many stories he could write a book. In fact, he has and will be sharing some from the many years he spent living in South Korea as an English teacher.&nbsp;Surreal adventures in Asia from the&nbsp;Hunter S. Thompson&nbsp;school of journalism on this week\u2019s epic episode of the&nbsp;<strong>WHAT\u2019S YER WEIRD STORY? Podcast<\/strong>.*<em>PARENTAL ADVISORY<\/em>: this episode includes adult language, illicit substances, sex, and more stuff you might not want your kids to hear. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s a Ninja Gotta Do to Get a Mother Freakin&#8217; Passport Stamped? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This week on the podcast we are joined by&nbsp;George S. Nearing,&nbsp;author, educator, ex-pat and as&nbsp;Jeff&nbsp;describes \u201cthe coolest and least annoying Juggalo you\u2019ll ever meet.\u201d&nbsp;For&nbsp;Sam&nbsp;(as he in known by most) life itself is just one weird story after the next. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/25\/episode-87-thank-goodness-for-low-standards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 87: &#8220;Thank Goodness for Low Standards&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,40,5,49,42,1,2,3],"tags":[80,19,138,127,18,72],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-beeby","category-barry-johnston","category-high-strangeness","category-podcast","category-psychedelic","category-travel","category-uncategorized","category-whats-yer-weird-story-podcast","category-whats-yer-weird-story","tag-high-strangeness","tag-podcast","tag-psychedelic","tag-travel","tag-whats-yer-weird-story","tag-whats-yer-weird-story-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}