So maybe the squirrels in your back yard arenât sporting tattoos and smoking Camel cigarettes, but sometimes it does feel like the varmints in your life are getting the better of you.

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So maybe the squirrels in your back yard arenât sporting tattoos and smoking Camel cigarettes, but sometimes it does feel like the varmints in your life are getting the better of you. Suffer no more as you share the laughter with Southern humorist Verna Gates!

Verna has captured the distinctive title of Biggest Liar in Alabama, twice, competing in a non-professional category, meaning no politicians. The title was awarded by the Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard at their annual Labor Day Liarâs Contest. And if you can beat out coon hunters and fishermen.... Hear her award-winning tales, true and tall, and see if you can tell the difference!

In between each tale, enjoy the old time music favorites of Timothy Hogan, fiddle and banjo player who appears stuck in the wrong century.

A life-long storyteller, Verna Gates has been spinning yarns professionally for more years than a dishonest woman will admit to. She has been recognized for her Southern storytelling by being named "One of Alabamaâs Unforgettable Faces" by the Alabama Bureau of Tourism and an "Alabama Treasure" by the Huntsville Times. She has been selected by VISA as an official storyteller in the Southern region as part of their literacy program. A nationally-known folklorist, her stories have appeared on NBCâs Nightside, CNBC National Radio in Canada, Worldwide Television Network, Pulse of the Planet, Voice of America and others.

Verna Gates also works in true stories, as a reporter for Reuters International News Service and TIME Magazine. She began her journalism career at CNN as one of the Originals who launched the network.

âItâs strange, Iâve spent all these years seeking the absolute truth as a serious journalist, then one day I got up on a stage and told the biggest lie I could think up. Ever since, Iâve found myself in the spotlight. I just donât believe this is the first time something like this has happened in America,â Gates joked.

For more information, visit www.vernagates.com.