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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast

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A podcast about Ozarks history, folklore and beyond!

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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Episode 100 is out now!
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
No new episode this week; two of us are on vacation. Not Ozarks related, but one of us visited the grave of Jack Johnson today in Chicago
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Alright, time to actually start using this account. Repost to make me experience shame and force me to feel obligated to post on here
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Gustav Carlson @backwoodgoat.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
If you dug that new Defunctland but were like “what’s Branson’s whole deal”, I’d recommend Faith, Family, and Flag by Joanna Dee Das. Great read and great explainer on Branson’s whole deal and history.
Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America

By Joanna Dee Das
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Back in the saddle today!
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
On the finale of our October miniseries we find out the easiest route to home ownership in Fayetteville, Arkansas is finding Bigfoot. A story of comment section drama escalating into a wager that would catch the eye of Bigfoot hunters in Episode 4: BIGFOOT HOUSE. Listen now where the podcasts grow.
We Always Lie About Bigfoot podcast logo. Four boys around a camp fire as a Sasquatch looks behind them.Screencap (well a photo I took of my tv) from Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot. A Bigfoot hunter saying “but I’m the L Ron Hubbard of Squatching”
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
On part three of our miniseries we travel to one of the most popular destinations on the Buffalo River to find Bigfoot, but find some fines instead. Sasquatch and event permits contend this week in Episode 3: BIGFOOT CREEK, the Expedition of Steel Creek. Available where the podcasts grow!
Illustration of a Bigfoot like creature standing on Ozark bluffs above a river at night.Photo from above the Steel Creek campgrounds from recreation.govPhoto from the Steel Creek Campgrounds from recreation.gov
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
In this episode of our October Miniseries, WE ALWAYS LIE ABOUT BIGFOOT,we switch gears from the history of Bigfoot in the Arkansas Ozarks and into the history of hunting Bigfoot in the Arkansas Ozarks. Episode 2: BIGFOOT MEN- a primer on hairy bipeds hunting hairy bipeds. Out now where podcasts are!
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Gus takes over the podcast this October and explores the history of Bigfoot and the hairy bipeds who hunt him in the Arkansas, Ozarks. WE ALWAYS LIE ABOUT BIGFOOT. A Four Part Miniseries from We Always Lie to Strangers!
Four boys around a camp fire recording a podcast. Bigfoot looms behind them. 

WE ALWAYS LIE ABOUT BIGFOOT
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
At the Razorback game Saturday, one of the Jumbotrons had some technical issues after a non-visible daytime firework went off
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
We keep pushing this blue sky account but don’t use it very much. I’ll try to change that!
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
This week on WALTS! The giant cross that stands over Branson Missouri has a history and it’s weird! Find out more about it and other Ozark curios on We Always Lie To Strangers. Available where the podcasts grow.
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
We actually didn’t see this before we recorded a Special Report on it!
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This week on WALTS, a crossover with our friends over at @beyondthebreakers.bsky.social as we contend with the Cobra Invasion of Springfield, Missouri! Available now where the podcasts grow.
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
This week on WALTS we ask how much of a town can be built on speed traps alone? Damascus Arkansas has an answer. We explore The Infamous Speed Traps of Damascus on We Always Lie to Strangers, available wherever podcasts are found.
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This week on a We Always Lie To Strangers! Episode 64: The 1974 Ozark Music Festival. Organizers promise a nice time at the Missouri State Fairgrounds and deliver something closer to Woodstock 99. Available where the podcasts are!
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
From Summer of Fear (sometimes titled A Stranger in Our House) a 1978 tv movie directed by Wes Craven.
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Lord Mersey's Wonder Emporium @hivefleethodag.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
just listened to the excellent cashew chicken episode of @waltspodcast.bsky.social - on the topic of Minor League weekend re-brands, our local Single-A Wisconsin Timber Rattlers have a particularly unsettling one when they become the Udder Tuggers
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This week on We Always Lie to Strangers we hit episode 60! The story of a Chinese immigrant becoming an icon of the Ozarks! This week we explore the origins of David Leong’s Springfield-style Cashew Chicken. Available on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts!
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
WALTs planning sessions are well represented in the historical record.
Photo from Ernie Deane’s Ozarks Country.

Four old men sitting in the front yard twiddling their thumbs. 
Caption: Plain old loafing is an Ozarks activity.
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Beyond the Breakers Podcast @beyondthebreakers.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Episode 153 - The I-40 Bridge Disaster ft. @waltspodcast.bsky.social Some helpful maps for visualizing the towboat Robert Y. Love's allision with the I-40 bridge near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma (images from the NTSB report on the accident)
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
You can find us this week as guests on @beyondthebreakers.bsky.social covering the I-40 Bridge disaster that happened 23 years ago today. Also make sure to give their whole catalog a listen for stories of shipwrecks and other maritime disasters.
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
You can find us (yes all of us) on this special episode of Beyond the Breakers. Gunna have to check out @beyondthebreakers.bsky.social’s Patreon to figure out what a very landlocked podcast is doing guesting on a show about shipwrecks and maritime disasters!
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Alright, we are going to try and be active on here. Anyway, this is the Ozark Theatre in Webster Groves, Missouri and it’s the northeastern boundary of The Ozarks (unofficially but correctly)
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We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast @waltspodcast.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Trying to use this app more! Episode 45 just dropped. A partial history of Jefferson City, Missouri, and a lot of talk about birds. Also, no Ray this episode! (Scattered applause)
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