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Episode 146: >TFW Your Family Makes You Fake Your Own Death
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Episode 146: >TFW Your Family Makes You Fake Your Own Death

Moose gets traumatized, Katie Herzog becomes a climate criminal, Jesse Singal becomes gay, Susan Meachen dies, and Carla Rossi has a lot of explaining to do
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>be writer for podcast

>office is full of goats for some reason

>working on episode about medievalist twitter drama and a weird publisher called RECEPTIO, really crazy story

>suddenly coworker shows up in a fursuit

>goats go ballistic trying to flee the “wolf”

>destroy half the office in the process

>boss gets fed up, tells me to get rid of goats

>spend 2 hours herding them down 32 flights of stairs as they lick me the whole time

>soaking wet as I return to the office

>boss’s dog stares through the window, sad the goats are gone

>”actually, bring the goats back, Anon”

>call up other cohost for help

>”sorry bro I’m busy doing mushrooms on a gay beach with Andrew Sullivan”

>spend 4 hours tracking goats down and herding them back into the office alone

>worstdayever.jpeg

>at least I managed to land that interview with Susan Meachen

>check email

>she killed herself


The tweet Katie was sent

Aella’s tweet

Meachen’s Special Delivery

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36458042-special-delivery

The anthology dedicated to Susan Meachen

The RECEPTIO Affair

Peter Kidd’s website and twitter

http://manuscripts.org.uk/

https://twitter.com/mssprovenance

Kidd’s blogposts on the affair

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-i-staff.html

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-ii.html

Carla Rossi, the director of RECEPTIO

https://www.carlarossi.info/

RECEPTIO’s board members are fake as well!

As well as their legal advisor:

When people start catching on, RECEPTIO starts pulling the imagesMore #receptiogate research

https://twitter.com/hashtag/Receptiogate

Some involved with RECEPTIO actually are real, but listed without permission

More plagiarism

RECEPTIO posts a response video to YouTube of all things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI_H140rgcw

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