Welcome to Mysteries to Die For.
I am TG Wolff and am here with Jack, my piano player and producer. This is a podcast where we combine storytelling with original music to put you in the heart of a mystery. Some episodes are original stories, others will be classics that helped shape the mystery genre we know today. All are structured to challenge you to beat the detective to the solution. These are arrangements, which means instead of word-for-word readings, you get a performance meant to be heard. Jack and I perform these live, front to back, no breaks, no fakes, no retakes (unless it's really bad)
For Season 6, Jack and I have again decided to go ad-free. I do this because I love mysteries, Jack does it because he loves me. Jack maybe a starving college student but it’s because… We do ask you support the writers of our show. This week it’s Ken Harris. Check him out on his website and social, buy and read her stories, help other readers find him. Make writing for Mysteries to Die For the best decision he could have made. In your review, tell him Tina and Jack said ‘Live Free!’.
This is Season 6, Things that Go Jack in the Night. This season contains truly imaginative mysteries around one of the most common words in the English language. From the brandy distilled from hard cider known as applejack to that nefarious one-eyed jack, to the animals, vegetables, fruits, tools, weapons, and slang, the way the word “jack” is used in the English language is truly unique, inventive, and too numerous for me to count. And yes, it is also the name of my piano player and producer.
For Episode 7, jacking, err, umm, off is the featured jack. This is Live Free or Die Jacking by Ken Harris
About Jacking Off
The term is a “vulgar” expression for masterbating. According to Merriam Webster, the etymology of the word dates back a little over 100 years to 1916. It is supposed that it is a derivation of “jerk off”
jerking off, jacking off, beating off, whacking off, choking the chicken, rubbing one out, wanking, or just plain masturbating, today a man simply faps.
Masterbate itself isn’t that old of a word. MW says it comes from the latin masturbatus, past participle of masturbari. It was first used in the late 1839. When I put masturbari in the good old Google Latin-to-English translater, it came back as “to be mastered”. Then I went down a rabbit hole. There’s this thing on MW called time-traveler that tells you other words that appeared in print that year. 1839 was a busy year in the world of word creators: alcohol by volume, boardwalk, commando, expressman, firefighter, highfalutin, industrialist, piggy, snakebite, trademark, Victorian (Queen Victoria was queen of UK from 1837 to 1901.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/where-did-fap-come-from
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jack%20off
https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/1839
ABOUT Ken Harris
https://kenharrisfiction.com/
Ken Harris retired from the FBI, after thirty-two years, as a cybersecurity executive. With over three decades writing intelligence products for senior Government officials, Ken provides unique perspectives on the conventional fast-paced crime thriller. He is the author of the “From the Case Files of Steve Rockfish” series. He spends days with his wife Nicolita, and two Labradors, Shady and Chalupa Batman. Evenings are spent playing Walkabout Mini Golf and cheering on Philadelphia sports. Ken firmly believes Pink Floyd, Irish whiskey and a Montecristo cigar are the only muses necessary. He is a native of New Jersey and currently resides in Virginia’s Northern Neck.
WRAP UP
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Mysteries to Die For is hosted by TG Wolff and Jack Wolff. Live Free or Die Jacking was written by Ken Harris. Music and production are by Jack Wolff. Episode art is by TG Wolff. Join us next week for a Toe Tag, that is the first capture of a fresh new release in the mystery, crime, or thriller genre. Then be back in 2 weeks for one of my stories, The Skewered Jackalope Caper.
