Rethinking Our History

Send us Fan Mail We are brining you a lighter topic this week, and a peek at our flagship show if you haven't given it a try.  Historically the ocean has always been a dangerous place. From the way the water behaves, to other humans one may encounter while on the water, tales of the dangers of the open ocean have been around since the beginning of mankind.  So when a crew runs across the aban...

Send us Fan Mail We are bringing you the end of the Bosnian War, as it is on paper anyways, this Christmas week. It has been just over 30 years since the treaty to end the war was signed, and life has somewhat went back to normal for many of the citizens. But in a country that was ravaged by war for three years, that normal looks a lot different than it did in pre war Bosnia. Neighborhoods and par...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are heading over the ocean to the small country of Bosnia to look at a war many, at least in my generation, probably do not remember.  Bosnia is a land that has been inhabited since humans have roamed the earth. And with humans, war has also been common place.  And in 1992 war came to this small country. A friend of mine was only 16 when her mother woke her to tell he...

Send us Fan Mail As we prepare to visit with friends and family this week, I wanted us to take a moment to think about the original, and rightful, stewards of this land.  For decades children all across this continent have been fed the lie that their was a great friendship between the pilgrims and "indians" and that they shared a feast together as a sign of that friendship.  But the real...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are headed to the land down under to look at a Missing Persons Crisis that mirrors the one we are facing here in the Americas.  While looking for cases to highlight Blue Jean Jacket Day on June 6th here in the US, I came across several stories of missing aboriginal men in Western Australia.  Much like with the MMIR movement here in the US, WA has an absurd number of m...

Send us Fan Mail November is National Native American Heritage Month and of course we had to bring you stories about native american history. But, I wouldnt call this native american history; no this is the history of white supremacy. How the Shoshone people have survived and are still here today is their history.  In the late 1800's the west was opening up for exploration and settlement. Alt...

Send us Fan Mail We are taking a break from the bull shit this week with a pick me up.  Standing almost 6ft tall and weighting over 200 pounds, not much stood in Mary Fields way once she was freed from her enslavement. Not even the might of the Catholic church could stop Mary from being herself.  When she was 63 she won a contract as an independent mail carrier and from here Mary's name grew...

Send us Fan Mail Ugh, this guy. So glad this is the last I'm gonna have to talk about this douche canoe.  Colombo was not the hero he has been made out to be. No, he is not known to be a kind man by historians, cutting off hands for missed taxes, " giving" native women to his friends to do with what they wanted, and forcing native people into dark dank mines to extract the resources...

Send us Fan Mail With the recent holiday and the debate over the name; Indigenous People's Day Vs. Columbus Day, I felt it was important to take a good look at the man behind the holiday.  Colombo, as he will be referred too, was not a smart man. Challenges arose from the get go with his miscalculations concerning the distance he needed to travel. He assumed his voyage would be 1/4th of what...

Send us Fan Mail Boy do we have a sad story for yall today. Living in the mountains we have experience with feeling safe from natural disasters. But just last year Mother Nature showed us even we are not safe from her wrath. And that was a hard lesson residents of Galveston learned in September of 1900. After a few decades of having storms pass them by the residents of this booming island city fel...

Send us Fan Mail We are back this week with another lesson about the evils of wealthy white people. I know that that statement can offend a lot of folks, but that is the fact of today's story. After a long summer of violence and oppression across the country, another black community came under attack when sharecroppers formed a Union to fight for more fair portions of the profits considering...

Send us Fan Mail We are back this week and less covidy so we have another missing persons case for you today. There are many reasons I have never stepped foot on a cruise ship, but one of the biggest is the fear of someone I love going missing. And that fear hit the Bradley family in March of 1998 when Amy Lynn Bradley went missing from a Royal Caribbean ship her family was on for vacation. What h...

Send us Fan Mail This week Ian wanted to take a crack at some history after an experience he recently had. Recently a relative got married and on his way to the ceremony Ian spotted a home whos yard was overflowing with little black statues. Curious he looked them up and was shocked to read what he did about the history of lawn jockeys. It's a complicated history, that no one is really sure w...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are going to the land of sea and sand, the beautiful islands of Hawaii. These islands have been a favorite vacation destination for families for over a century, but it has not always been a US state. For hundreds of years the island was home to Polynesian descendants who made the islands their home. The Europeans found the islands and soon began harvesting her resourc...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are going to take a look as a soldier that tarnished not only his name but that of the Canadian Forces. With a career that spanned over 23 years Colonel Williams was at the top of his game when a local woman went missing from her home. After a short investigation, Williams was linked to the scene of the crime. But when he confessed, law enforcement got more then than...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are looking at an exceptional woman. For many years the first lady had been a prop for the most powerful man in the world. But when Franklin Roosevelt became the 32nd president of the US, his wife Eleanor flipped the position of first lady on its head. ROH EP 38 Source Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_League h...

Send us Fan Mail So we are back with the second half of the riots that changed LA forever. After the inital day of rioting, the violence became more widespread throughout the city. While law enforcement was quick to block off the neighborhoods of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, the Korean community was trapped in the middle. And so they defended themselves while cops ran from gunfire and dispatc...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are going back in the way back machine to the best decade of all time. The 90's. After what has been going on in California the last month or so, I felt it was appropriate to look at a time in history when we saw this happen before. There is a lot that went into the events of April 29th 1992 and the days that followed. Years of abuse and exploitation, racism and...

Send us Fan Mail We are back! Thank you so much to our fans who are still here with us while we were off. Thank you to everyone who reached out after the passing of my brother, your love was very much appreciated. So this week we are looking at an event I did not pay much attention too at the time, I had just graduated high school a week prior. But you'd have to be an alien to not know the na...

Send us Fan Mail May 5th is MMIW Awareness Day and June 6th is MMIM Awareness day but everyday indigenous people go missing and their cases are thrown to the side. This is what happened with Benita Long when she went missing in March of 2022 from a motel in Washington state. At first police were not concerned due to her past history, and by the time they actually cared to investigate it was far to...

Send us Fan Mail WARNING: This episode contains discussion of animal murder and a school bombing. This week as we enter Pride month we take a look at someone no one should have any pride in. Andrew Kehoe was known as impatient and frugal, but also a helpful neighbor. But a time came when he felt that the town no longer deserved his kindness but instead his rage. And that is when he planned to take...

Send us Fan Mail It seems there is a lot of vitrol and hate towards anything showcasing black excellence now adays on social media. This includes figures from history. Known as the black Samurai we do not know much about the man known simply as Yasuke. But there was nothing simple about him. The very sight of this man sent communities into a frenzy and people lost their lives trying to catch a gli...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are going to be looking at a society that should be long dead but has had a revival of sorts recently. Founded in the early 1900's as a study group, the Thule society quickly became German Supremacy group, one that heavily targeted the Jewish community. And they are still spreading their hate today. If you are up for a mind bend, click on their link below to get...

Send us Fan Mail We got quite a short one this week, but it's a been more fun then what we have covered recently. Having been born into slavery, Bass Reeves was finally able to escape his captors and made his way to live with the natives. They taught him their language, their culture and their skills on the land. When freedom finally came for all black people, Bass was tapped to be a US Marsh...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are going to do something different. We are going to be looking at the case of a missing person that needs attention. On the night of Thanksgiving 2016 Cole Thomas went missing from an intersection in Benson NC during a road trip with two co workers. The investigation has uncovered the real reason for the road trip, but they have yet to locate Cole or any clue that co...