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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\\u2019s because\\u2026 We do ask you support the writers of our show. This week it\\u2019s 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 \\u2018Live Free!\\u2019.

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 \\u201cjack\\u201d 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 \\u201cvulgar\\u201d 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 \\u201cjerk off\\u201d

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\\u2019t 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 \\u201cto be mastered\\u201d. Then I went down a rabbit hole. There\\u2019s 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 \\u201cFrom the Case Files of Steve Rockfish\\u201d 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...'