Widge Goes Off #5: A Road Trip to Missouri

By Widge - posted 05.12.11 @ 7:22 pm

Last year we took a road trip to Missouri in an attempt to put together footage for a History Channel pilot. The series would have been me going around the country and explaining the fascinating true stories behind many interesting landmarks. Alas, they turned me down. But never one to waste footage, I wanted to share some snippets of what we filmed with you. Enjoy.

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Thanks for listening. I might do more of these. Do you have a topic you'd like me to explore/go off on? Leave them in the comments or ping me at @Widgett on Twitter.

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Special thanks to PhantomV48 for the closing animation.

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Widgett Walls is Need Coffee's Chief Cook and Bottle Washer. He is the author of the novel Mystics on the Road to Vanishing Point, and two collections of short stories, Magnificent Desolation and Something Else: The Complete First Season. He is also co-author of the children's book There's a Zombie in My Treehouse! All of those books are available in paperback or for the Kindle from Amazon. He is also the narrator and publisher of the first unabridged recording of Seneca's letters, available here. He is active on both Twitter and Facebook. (If you befriend him on Facebook, do say you came via Need Coffee.) He lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. He hardly ever sleeps.

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Perhaps, if you had said the house was removed by swamp people acting like ice road truckers, you could have sold this pilot. Or the dogs left Missouri, due to issues with pawn shop owners acting like lumberjacks (in a non Monty Python sense, that would have sealed the deal.
Wonderful stories, Mr. Walls. I hope you continue spinning these yarns.

Comment by Kevin — May 13, 2011 @ 3:53 pm

Clearly the History Channel is run by fools. If not before, you definitely would've gotten a series greenlight from me after the prisoner segment.

Comment by Cody — May 15, 2011 @ 2:03 pm

Thanks, Cody. :-)

Comment by Widge — May 15, 2011 @ 3:58 pm

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