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And BioWare, its popular development studio behind classic titles like Baldur's Gate, Dragon Age, and Mass Effect is being shuttered entirely after more than three decades.

And from Tall Tales, First, home on the range.

Luna, a 10-year-old Jack Russell Terrier and Chihuahua mix, has been found alive five weeks after going missing in Yellowstone National Park.

The pup escaped from her owner's cabin, disappearing into a deeply wooded area not accessible to the public.

After overcoming various hazards, including predators and freezing temperatures, Luna is expected to make a full recovery.

She's underweight, but that's to be expected, Katie Boucher, the volunteer who led the rescue effort, told Associated Press, but she's alert and in good spirits.

Also from Tall Tales, Tongue in Cheek in Power.

A Canadian man elected to city council in Kelowna, British Columbia, campaigned on slogans including How Hard Can It Be? and Brady Rogers, a 33-year-old small business owner and engineer, got 12,635 votes, placing him fourth among 37 candidates.

Yeah.

lie lying may have been a strong word but you know you can't do tall tales anymore

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i'd have no idea how to impress the ladies if i was single

I wanted that messiness to be part of it and I wanted it to also be part of the humor that I wanted to be fundamental to the book.

Yeah, and it comes through so much and even the different ways that you describe some of these tall tales that happen throughout this book.

So, Let's turn now to Rich.

Rich is a big man about town.

Talk about this idea of rich as a big man that somebody might want to cut down.

Yeah, he's such a big man that he almost can't be contained by the story.

I was thinking a lot about Tall Tales.

I was thinking about someone who was too big for his britches, but also too big for the people in his community, and that people would be not just envious of him, but always speculating about how did he become the way that he became.

I actually read another story that's very similar, only he was riding with the Crow back to their village when he overheard them planning his murder, at which point he threw himself out of the saddle and came up guns a-blazing.

Like I mentioned earlier, there's a ton of mythology surrounding this guy, and it's really not that easy to separate reality from the tall tales.

That said, as far as the actual records go, like the stuff that has eyewitness accounts, Jerry's first known killing occurred in 1862 over at a post on the Missouri River called Fort Galpin.

Once again, not much in the way of details other than a drunken quarrel with a French Canadian named Antoine Primeau.

Thanks for downloading, and I sure hope you enjoy the show today.

[folksy music] This story was first published on January 21st of 2018 under the headline, "Davy Crockett in Oregon? Yes, But Only in Tall Tales." Here we go.

Nearly everyone knows the story of David Crockett, the Tennessee mountain man, and later politician turned folk hero who died at The Alamo in 1836.

Most of us just remember the details from the old Fess Parker song and TV miniseries commissioned by Disney in 1955.

Davy, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.

What isn't remembered much today is that Davy Crockett had a long, colorful posthumous existence as a character, and about 20 years of tall tales published anonymously in several different Davy Crockett almanacs from the mid-1830s through the run-up to the Civil War.

They were two totally different guys, too.

The real David Crockett had no use for Andrew Jackson, bitterly opposing him for his Indian policies.

Pete Weber.

Uh, you wanna see stuff that's slightly funnier than that, not much, come out to see us on the Tall Tales tour.

Uh, we got some tour dates coming up.

October 8th, we're going to Ithaca.

Only at Taco Bell.

Think you could spot a tall tale? In this segment, we'll uncover stories that sound impossible, but actually happened.

This is Two Tall Tales.

Pantsless driver dies [laughs] after...

I don't know why it suddenly...

It makes me think of the tall tale, but I can't think of the name.

The railroad guy.

Jack Bunyan or whatever?

[laughs]

Spoiler alert for- [laughs]

For a tall tale that's been around for a long time.

[laughs]

Cause I've literally never seen a single picture of you guys together.

Like there's a lot of tall tales being told and you just, some people go, I'm not fucking with that.

But then you have some people like one of my really good friends who's like me more expand on this let's let's see where this goes and I do think that Heather is that way sometimes with Lisa she's like really Lisa you get invited every time why not why aren't you there like I think that there's something fun and funny about talking to a person who's just like such a liar I mean I think Karen Huger is kind of like that Karen Huger just be saying stuff that like you know what I mean so there is something hilarious like Lisa Barlow's lying about stuff like this is so funny to me

it is funny but you know we gotta call it out one lie that she was spreading online and I have to believe this is a lie and maybe you can tell me if you think this is fully accurate she did some interview where she said the interviewee asked her how many times she goes to Wendy's a week and she said she goes three times a day

[laughs]

Tall Tales with Titch.

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Here we go.

That's a good start, Tom.

Yeah, it's, uh-

Tail- Tall Tales with Titch

... yeah, hopefully didn't put anyone to sleep with that music.