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Gaston Bullock Means learned at a young age that he had a knack for getting people to believe him, whether he was telling them the truth or not. And he probably wasn't. He swindled. He lied. He conned. He joined the FBI. He even got involved in the infamous Lindberg Baby kidnapping. And this episode covers all of his incredible misadventures. You can find the Full Video version of the show over on...

The circumstances of President Warren G. Harding's death were less than straightforward and this much-beloved President soon fell posthumous-victim to scandal and conspiracy. What caused his reputation to plummet and is there truth to any of the theories surrounding his untimely demise? You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at  https://www.youtube.com/@RememberRememberPod...

From orgies to murders to incest to the interrogation of a dead body, the absolute power of the Papacy has been something many have fought for, died from and abused throughout time. Join us this week for a rabbit hole of Papal debauchery.  You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at  https://www.youtube.com/@RememberRememberPodcast Contact us at  - RememberRememberShow@gmail...

The young women who worked as watch face dial painters during and after WW1 counted themselves lucky to have landed such an opportunity. The pay made them top earners in their communities, the job was seen as glamorous, and they got to work in close contact with the new miracle health element: radium. Except of course that radium is actually radioactive poison. But they didn't know that. Yet. You...

In 1898 the Philippines are ablaze with rebellion as they rise up against the Spanish colonists driving them back as the Spanish themselves head to war with America, but 54 Spanish men in the small town of Baler refuse to surrender. They hold up in a church as the last men fighting for Spain, in a war already lost. You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at  https://www.you...

December, 1966. A man lies in a hospital bed, dying from lung cancer. He points up to the drop tile ceiling above him, tracing out a map of plans to his brother. Plans for a huge swath of land in Florida that he wants to turn into the perfect City of Tomorrow - no homelessness, no unemployment, no inclement weather, and no visible cars. That man is Walt Disney and his plan? The Experimental Protot...

It's 1766 and a French Naval expedition is about to be the first to circumnavigate the world with a woman aboard. Except they don't exactly  know that she's there. Because she had disguised herself as Jean Baret, male botanical assistant to Phillibert Commerson. How did Jeanne (not Jean) end up on this voyage? Why did she disguise herself? And how was she found out? We talk about all that and more...

The arid landscape of the American west was discovered and hidden beneath the scrubland lay the bones of the greatest animals to have ever walked the earth. Two men set their sights on discovering them but first they had to destroy each other. This is the story of the bone wars. You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at  https://www.youtube.com/@RememberRememberPodcast Con...

If you were to walk along the south coast of Britain in the early 1800s you may have seen, up on the cliff's edge, risking life and limb precariously digging at the rock face, Mary Anning. And what Mary had seen, was to change the scientific world forever. You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at  https://www.youtube.com/@RememberRememberPodcast Contact us at  - RememberR...

It's happened again. Paula's gone down another history rabbit hole. This one started with wondering why holding your pinky out while drinking makes you "fancy", led to Syphilis and a fruitless search for which British King had gout, and ended in the resignation of a Prime Minister.  You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at  https://www.youtube.com/@RememberRememberPodcast...

In the 15th Century, Leon Battista Alberti said "A man can do all things if he will". And thus the idea of The Renaissance Man (or Universal Man, or polymath) was born. But how to be a good one? And is it still possible to be one today? We take a look at The Book of the Courtier by Castiglione and see what advice he can offer us.   You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at...

It's 1850 in middle Britain, all around the rolling hills stood silent as the starter's gun rang out, the Olympic games had once again begun 15 hundred years after they were outlawed for being a little bit too pagan. While the Wenlock games would never go on to become the Olympics as we know them, without them our Olympic games may never have returned.  You can find the Full Video version of the s...

Hatshepsut had a bit of an unusual job for a woman of ancient Egypt: she was Pharaoh - leading warriors, opening up trade, and being all but forgotten by history. Her mummy went missing from its tomb and her monuments were defaced. Was she a conniving, power-hungry leader who deserved to be destroyed? Or was it something else entirely?   You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouT...

Oh there he goes, Johnny Appleseed, planting trees and being one of America's first weirdo's, but this legendary frontier man was much more than the myths that make him, he was a true American hero and a man who helped settle the west in a remarkable way. You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at  https://www.youtube.com/@RememberRememberPodcast Contact us at  - RememberRe...

"In 1899 the streets of New York echoed with the voices of Newsies" -Newsies, the movie But then those voices went silent, at least when it came to selling The World and The Journal. The Newsies of New York were on strike and these underdogs were more than ready to take on the tycoon powerhouses of Pulitzer and Hearst. You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at  https://www...

Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon", was a depraved and truly evil Nazi but when the war is over he slips the country, avoids justice and disappears in the criminal underworld. But something in Beate Klarsfeld's heart can't let this rest so she decides it's up to her to hunt him down. Klaus had killed 14 thousand and for this he must face justice. You can find the Full Video version of the show ov...

It's 1801 and a woman working in a floating brothel in Guangdong province marries a pirate. She becomes known as Cheng Yi Sao (which basically means Cheng Yi's Wife). But history doesn't just remember her as a woman who married a pirate. Instead, she is remembered as one of history's most successful pirates herself. And this is her story. Huge thanks to my most helpful source for this episode: "On...

Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday and the shoot out at the OK Corral. Where a bunch of Lawmen finally take down the vicious Clanton Gang that's the story, it's also one of the best movies ever made but what really happened, The lines between good and evil were not so clear, it didn't even happen at the OK Corral which I feel is a detail you'd get right. You can find the Full Video version of the show over o...

London has fallen in love with Jack Sheppard - a "Gentleman", a "Lad", an "Honest" Thief.  Can Jonathan Wilde, the Thief-Taker General, end his reign? Or will Jack continue to grow his fame through jailbreak after jailbreak? We finish our dive into Jack's story in this Part 2! You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at  https://www.youtube.com/@RememberRememberPodcast Conta...

Look up "rogue" in the dictionary and you'll see a picture of Jack Sheppard, the real life inspiration behind characters like the Artful Dodger and Captain MacHeath. But how did this budding young Carpenter's Apprentice become one of the most-loved criminals and escape artists in all of 18th Century London? And why do we still know his name today? You can find the Full Video version of the show ov...

We've all seen it, the Roman Emperor puts out his thumb, who lives who dies, it's in his hands...or was it? The world of the Gladiator was much more than that. It wasn't always a fight to the death though you might have to literally fist fight a giraffe. From naval recreations to ancient cosplay, half time catapults full of prizes to women gladiatrices all that and more is in the this week's episo...

July 30, 1975 - Teamsters Union Leader Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of a restaurant in a Detroit suburb. He's never been found. This week we're diving into unions, mob hits, and mysterious disappearances as we talk about the legacy of Jimmy Hoffa.  You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at  https://www.youtube.com/@RememberRememberPodcast Contact us at  - Re...

The Brothers Grimm were a curious pair, teeth collecting, literary controversy and an Ironic fear of fairy tales and supernatural stories. But one of their most endearing fables, the Pied Piper, may have been more than just tall tales. This week's episode is all about the real life Pied Piper and a town called Hamelin where one day 130 children went missing. You can find the Full Video version of...

A young king, ill-prepared to take over the throne, builds a fairytale castle in Bavaria, Germany as a way to escape a world that doesn't seem to understand him. Who was Ludwig the Second and why has history remember him for so many years as "Mad" King Ludwig? You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at  https://www.youtube.com/@RememberRememberPodcast Contact us at  - Remem...

This week takes us deep into the unsettling mind of one of the 20th century's most controversial writers, a man who's descriptions of the indescribable have created one of the most popular worlds to explore long after his death. It's possible that H P Lovercraft is more popular today than ever before but certainly not always for good reasons.  You can find the Full Video version of the show over o...