American Timelines

Friend Check: A People Development Consultant-Foodie Podcaster: Abby Elfman (Episode 225) Recorded August of 2023. Abby Elfman is a podcaster, an Atascocita Eagle, a UT San Antonio Roadrunner, a voice actor, an improviser and a People Development Consultant! Listen as we get to know Abby Elfman who became Joe’s friend when they worked together on a sketch show in Charlotte back in 2019. We talk ab...

Hunter Brame returns to assist Joe in discussing Dewey Beard, a native who was forced off of his land on multiple occasions, and was part of some notable historical moments in US history. We talk Wounded Knee, Battle of Little Big Horn, General Custar’s smokin’ hot wife, Libbie Custar and their sexy 1800’s version of sexting among other things. PLUS Hunter tells us another recent story of almost p...

Joe is joined by Hunter Brame, WW2 Buff, pilot and beard and glasses wearer to do a biography episode about Audie Murphy, the real life Captain America. We planned to talk Dewey Beard too, but we ran out of time. Enjoy. Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest Am...

Friend Check: An Architect Usher: Aaron Moody (Episode 222) Aaron Moody episode: Recorded March of 2023. Aaron Moody is an architect and a volunteer usher at a performing arts center, and he volunteers at the Queen City Comedy Experience Festival to help things run smoothly, along with his wife Meg. Aaron and Meg are super fun to be around, and they support the local comedy community in Charlotte...

1942: The Phantom Barber & The Oregon State Hospital Poisoning (Episode 221) Amy’s back to jump into 1942 with Joe. Amy tells the tale of the Phantom Barber, while Joe covers the following timeline topics: • World War 2 rationing effects on candy, rubber, coffee, chocolate, Nutella • Anne Frank’s Diary • Bugs Bunny’s effect on pop culture • Hoagy Carmichael’s longest song title • Dewey Beard, Audi...

A guy we went to middle School with. Aaron Crane episode: Recorded March of 2023. Aaron Crane is a father, a husband, a Vice President of Operations, a Miami University Redhawk, a son of an elementary school teacher, and a guy we went to middle school with. We haven’t spoken to him since 8th grade graduation, as his parents made him go to a different high school, and we lost touch. This is a REUNI...

Friend Check: Aaron Sinclair (Episode 217) This episode is the third of a series of episodes called Friend Check. Listen while Joe goes through his Facebook Friends list and "checks" in with each person that is willing to record an hour long conversation along with co-host Gruff. Who are these people? Why are we Facebook Friends? Are we ACTUALLY friends? Should we remain friends? This episode feat...

Joe is joined by Gruff from the Gruff & Loud show to take a deep dive on Pearl Harbor and a particular conspiracy theory about a cryptic warning hidden in an ad for a dice game.

This episode is the second of a series of episodes called Friend Check. Listen while Joe goes through his Facebook Friends list and "checks" in with each person that is willing to record an hour long conversation along with co-host Gruff. Who are these people? Why are we Facebook Friends? Are we ACTUALLY friends? Should we remain friends? This episode features AJ Foster, a comedian from the South...

This episode is the first of a series of episodes called Friend Check. Listen while Joe goes through his Facebook Friends list and "checks" in with each person that is willing to record an hour long conversation. Who are these people? Why are we Facebook Friends? Are we ACTUALLY friends? Should we remain friends? I have a theory that EVERYONE has a story to tell, so I want to hear my friends life...

Episode 216: 1941 Insanity Pleas & The Gentleman Killer America’s favorite jerks continue into the1940’s! This episode: 1941. Amy tells us about The Gentleman Killer of 1941, also known as the aspirin killer, while Joe covers an array of old timey happenings including: • Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy • Mad Hatter’s Disease • M&Ms • Jimmy Orlando the angry hockey player • The Espisito Brothers Insanity P...

Episode 215: 1940  William Johansen, Toni Jo Henry & The Ghosts of Alcatraz.  Amy & Joe jump into season 6 of American Timelines, the 1940’s!  This episode: 1940.  Amy tells us about Serial Killer William Johansen.  Joe tells Amy about the Christian Front, Ghosts on Alcatraz, The Murder of Laura Law, Female Murderer:  Toni Jo Henry, The lynchings of Elbert Williams, Jesse Thornton & Austin Callawa...

The last episode of Season 5! Amy tells the story of the Walker Family Murders. Is it connected to the Clutter Family Murders?  You decide! Plus, Joe tells us about an awful bus vs. cattle truck accident, a mob hit, a comedy troupe forming, a plane crash with a sole survivor, a rhesus monkey in space and Neil Sedaka’s famous girlfriend. Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastn...

Episode 212: Clutter Family Murders & Judd Nelson: November of 1959 On this penultimate episode of season 5, Amy covers the Clutter Family Murders.  Perry Edward Smith · Richard Hickock were two heartless robbers who had rough childhoods. That’s no excuse for what they did in the same month that Bryan Adams was born and Lara Flynn Boyle’s grandfather was killed in a car accident. We also discuss B...

Episode 211: Bonanza & A School Bombing: September & October of 1959 Amy tells us all about Paul Harold Orgeron, a disgruntled tile setter who becomes a school bomber, while Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, Quick Draw McGraw & The Untouchables all premier, Weird Al, Dave Coulier and Marie Osmond are born, Nikita Khrushchev visited a farm in Iowa to learn about corn from Roswell Garst, The Dodgers beat...

Episode 210: The 40 Minute Free Fall & The 3 Christs: July & August of 1959 Amy tells us all about Psychologist Milton Rokeach’s Three Christs experiment in 1959, where he gets three gents who all think they’re Jesus to live together. Meanwhile, The Vietnam War began, Al Sharpton started preaching, Pilots saw a UFO, Magic Johnson, Kurtis Blow and Richie Sambora were born, Billie Holiday died, the...

Episode 209: The Alabama Torso Murders, George Reeves & More Scottish Timelines: June of 1959 Our beloved Scottish pals Daniel & Nathaniel return for another edition of Scottish Timelines. They are fresh from their new comedy group At Least 4 Prats on Youtube and ready to share some Scottish tales of serial killer Malcolm John Webster and the tragic Mona Lifeboat disaster. Amy tells the tale of th...

Amy & Joe are back with another episode about 1959!  Amy tells the story of a tragic lynching of an innocent black man, and Joe fills in the timeline with birthdays, a tragic rape, a UFO conspiracy, burglars, baseball, some plane crashes and more! Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include:  Black Nationalism: A Search for an Identity in America by E....

Episode 207: Feb/March of 1959 Amy covers the day the music died because she is a Don McLean superfan. Joe tells us all about the world record for longest flight set in 1959. Speaking of records, we have a radio record, breath-holding record, and a phone booth stuffing record! Also Flavor Flav and Sting were born! Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Inc...

Episode 206: The Dyatlov Pass incident & The Murder of A Little Rascal:  January of 1959 Amy sheds some light on a mysterious death of a group of mountain hikers in 1959, while Joe reveals the harrowing details of the murder of Alfalfa from the Little Rascals.  Plus:  Jody Watley & Susanna Hoffs are born, a newborn is kidnapped and found, a retired movie star is murdered and Fidel Castro comes to...

This week, a family mysteriously disappears in Portland, Multiple people die on TV/Movie sets, Star Wars & Bewitched Inspirado, A tragic school fire are all events covered.  PLUS:  A Cult Leader is Murdered by Suicide Bombers and Jamie Lee Curtis is born! Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include:  Hollywood Reporter, Wisconsin State Journal, Lancaste...

This week, Amy tells us all about the Candlestick Murder, while Joe tells us of Martin Luther King Jr. getting a letter opener plunged into his chest.  Plus:  The World Series, A New Pope, Joan Jett, An International Incident & The Great Neil deGrasse Tyson!  Also:  Tons more awful racism, after all, it was still the 50’s! Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Cr...

Episode 203: The Glamour Girl Slayer & Plane Crashes Galore:  July and August of 1958 Onion Futures Act, Superstar Birthdays, Tons of Plane Crashes, Lemming & Cartoonist Suicides,  and the Glamour Girl Slayer are all covered in this thrilling episode of American Timelines! Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include:  The Washington Post, VQR, Unsolved...

The jerks jump to June and July of 1958, in which striking red head Jean Ellroy was murdered, the dog who made the  name Fido popular did too, and the Hula Hoop was invented, all while Interracial marriage in Virginia sent a couple to jail, & the Quarrymen recorded their first songs and more! Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include:  The Washington...

Episode 201: Fires, Riots, Crashes & The Shoe Bandit:  April and May of 1958 Amy & Joe cover April and May of 1958, where a crazy foot fetishist was on the loose, Nixon was getting hate, California started playing baseball, and air traffic was a mess!  Plus:  A deportation, a museum fire a concert riot and Andie MacDowell!   Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com....