Observations From the Road Less Traveled

While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the moon Senator Ted Kennedy was on Martha's Vineyard for the weekend. One of those trips went very, very well.  The other one not so much...

This week on the only podcast you'll ever need your hosts are going to walk you through the life and death of Natalie Wood. How did a Thanksgiving weekend sailing to Catalina go so wrong?

On this week's episode of Observations we're going to take you to Scotland's rocky shores where the Flannan Isle Lighthouse keeps watch over the cliffs that surround the island. Except for one time in 1900 when the lighthouse was abandoned as the three keepers vanished without a trace...

Welcome to the last part of our NXIVM episode Roadies, or what we liked to call NXIVM in Ashes. This week we'll give you the scoop on the NXIVM and the downfall of the key players. I'll give you a hint;  NONE of them got what they deserved...

In Part 2 of our look at NXIVM your Captain and Blondie get into the group's inner workings. We'll tell you about the sub-groups and some of their practices, which if you haven't heard them, we promise you are unbelievable. And next week NXIVM in ashes...

Well Roadies as you now know The Captain and Blondie have been wanting to talk to about NXIVM the very beginning. In Part 1 of this episode we'll get into how this infamous cult began and the people who made it happen...

Welcome to the Dark Side of Oz Roadies... In this episode of the only podcast you'll ever need The Captain and Blondie are going to talk about an American classic and some of the things about it that maybe weren't so classic after all...

You know we love our conspiracy theories here at Observations Roadies, but the thing is sometimes they turn out not to be so far out after all...

Well Roadies it's Christmas time again and your always festive hosts thought they'd tell you a little bit about why you're celebrating when you're celebrating and some other handy Christmas facts... Enjoy!

As promised Roadies on this episode of Observations we'll follow up last week's trip to the Hotel Cecil with the sad story of possibly the Cecil's most well known guest, Elisa Lam...

Welcome to the Hotel Cecil Roadies! This week on the only podcast you'll ever need we'll take you to Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles and check into the infamous Hotel Cecil, setting the stage for a final act to come...

It's Turkey Day Roadies!   Blondie and The Captain are here for a special Wednesday edition of the only podcast you'll ever need to talk about the origins, the traditions and the wild day after Thanksgiving!

This week Roadies The Captain and Blondie struggle through an episode on the truth about subliminal messaging and whether it's at work on us in our everyday lives...  

It's True Roadies!  There are these triangles, and some really strange stuff happens in them.   Or not...

The greatest hoax since War of the Worlds?  We're not so sure about that, but it was rumors of Beatles Bassist Paul McCartney's death were a phenomenon we thought you'd enjoy hearing about so here you go Roadies!

Well Roadies while those of us in the Northeast have had it easy Hurricane Season 2024 was no joke for our friends and family further south, so this week on Observations Blondie and your Captain are going to talk about all things hurricane...

It's one crime after another on this week's episode of the only podcast you'll ever need Roadies! The Captain and Blondie are going to tell you the true story of Bonnie and Clyde!

This week's episode of Observations will take the Roadies to 1918 Russia and the reign of Tsar Nicholas Romanov to see if we can get to the bottom of one of this century's most enduring mysteries... Did the Grand Duchess Anastasia escape the fate of the rest of her family?

Whether you like his work or not there's no question that Edgar Allen Poe is one America's most compelling writers. And while Poe's stories and poems were filled with suspense and psychological  turmoil, in many ways they paled in comparison to his own life and death...

On this episode of Observations your hosts are going to get into Hurricane Katrina.  We'll talk about the storm itself, the causes of the flooding and it's aftermath as well as the idea that this disaster may not have been as natural as we thought at the time. We'll also bring aboard our first guest!  We're going to talk to a woman who was in the city of New Orleans at the time and will share her...

On our second trip down the urban legend rabbit hole Roadies your favorite podcast hosts talk about some of their favorites. As usual they took different paths but as always wound up the same place... Enjoy!

For Friday the 13th the Captain Blondie are going to help you explore urban legends Roadies. But before we get into our favorites, let's try and figure out just what exactly is an urban legend anyway?  

This week's episode of Observations From the Road Less Traveled is a look at another of the world's best known works of literature and what many people consider the greatest American novel. We're going to talk about Herman Melville's Moby Dick and see if we know where it was he got his inspiration...

Okay Roadies stand by to shoot the shit with The Captain and Blondie again! Afew more interesting subjects to talk about and a little bit of fooling around s well. Enjoy!

Roadies did you know there was a place in America where you can legally get away with murder? On this episode of Observations Blondie and your Captain take you to Yellowstone National Park and talk about the infamous Zone of Death...