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In December 2009, Steven Koecher, a 30 year old from nearby Utah, parked his car in a suburb of Las Vegas and was seen on camera walking through the neighborhood. He was never seen again. He took his wallet and phone but left behind Christmas gifts he had bought for his family. No one has ever found any evidence of foul play or illicit activity. Making the disappearance all the more strange, he…
Today's episode is a pretty grim one. The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys was a reform school operated by the state of Florida in Marianna, Fl that first opened in 1900. While the name changed over the years, one thing didn't: constant rumors and reports of abuse at the school. The school was finally closed in 2011 after pressure was brought from a group of former residents calling themselves the…
This week's podcast deals with the Coup in Guatemala in 1954 where the CIA backed a coup and regime change in order to prevent a communist takeover or help the United Fruit Company's bottom line depending on who you ask. The previous government had supported better working conditions and had redistributed uncultivated land away from large landholders (i.e. UFC) which triggered the United States'…
Most people know that Amelia Earhart was a famous aviator, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and famously disappeared on an attempt to fly around the world. In today's podcast we talk a bit more about her life, how she got into aviation, and how she got her big break as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. Come take a listen and find out a bit more about a Kansas legend.
Amy Robsart was born in 1532 in Norfolk, England to a fairly wealthy farming and grazing family. When she was almost 18 she married Roberty Dudley, a younger son of the Earl of Warwick. It was considered to be a love match as opposed to something political or to bind family lines together. However, soon after they were married, Robert became an obvious favortie of Queen Elizabeth I and many…
After a week off, we're back. This week's topic is Davey Crockett of coonskin hat fame. Crockett is one of those larger than life characters that often seem to show up in early American history. While most of us know him from The Ballad of Davey Crockett and movies about the Alamo, who was the real Davey Crockett. Was he an American hero, or a drunk who abandoned his family? Versions of Crockett's…
Most people have belonged to a book club at some point in their lives, but have you ever thought about the history of book clubs? Come find out about how book clubs have developed and changed over time, from ancient Greece, to Puritan America, to Oprah. Probably the only thing they all have in common is at least one member who didn't do the reading.
Wolves were effectively irradicated from Yellowstone National Park in the early 20th century and were gone until reintroduced through human intervention in 1995. While many could have predicted what the return of wolves might do to th elk population of the park, the truly remarkable thing is the overall effect on the park all the way down to amount of water runoff. Take a listen this week and find…
While we sometimes talk about how the practice of medicine has evolved over time from pure magic and ritual to science-based practice, we often ignore the practice of veterinary medicine and how it evolved and developed. If anything, people of the Middle Ages were more dependent on their animals and often had a very strong bond, so there was a large market for people that could heal everything…
This week's podcast has a bit of a mobster flair. It's a two parter with the first part dedicated to the life of Henry Hill, the subject of the movie Goodfellas and mentioned a bit previously on our podcast about the Lufthansa Heist. From there we turn our attention to the Copacabana, the NY nightclub famed for some of it's early mob connections and amazingly still open today (if you believe in…