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!