We Always Lie to Strangers: An Ozarks Podcast

We discuss a potential Fort Smith mayoral candidate recently profiled in a Southwest Times Record article. We do not endorse. This Special Report also has a mini regular episode inside it, with some quick stories about several previous mayors of Fort Smith. (Akin to what you can find on our Patreon). Also, a lot of talk about TikTok grifters https://www.patreon.com/c/WeAlwaysLietoStrangers

The story of David Walker, an influential early settler into Fayetteville, Arkansas and Arkansas Supreme Court Justice, among other things and titles. This episode could also easily be subtitled "An Incomplete History of Slavery in Fayetteville"

On the finale of WE ALWAYS LIE ABOUT BIGFOOT we find out the easiest route to home ownership in Fayetteville, Arkansas is finding Bigfoot. Find out how a news website comment section dispute escalated into a wager that would catch the attention of some of the most prominent voices in Bigfoot Hunting and Cryptozoology in Episode 4: BIGFOOT HOUSE

On part three of our miniseries we travel to one of the most popular destinations on the Buffalo River to find Bigfoot, but find some fines instead. Sasquatch and event permits contend this week in BIGFOOT CREEK, the Expedition of Steel Creek

This episode, Part 2 of our October miniseries, Gus leads us out of The Ozarks for a primer on one of the organizations dedicated to the hunt for Bigfoot. What does an expedition entail? We'll find out. What does this have to do with The Ozarks? We'll get there in the end

October becomes Gustober, as Gus leads us through a 4-part series (at least) on Bigfoot in The Ozarks and the men that search for them. This week, we look into the Camp Orr legend of Smokey Joe, the last of the untouched (by us) Bigfoot-adjacent lore of The Ozarks proper, and touch on a couple of other historical wildman tales and the possibility that maybe.. it could just be bears

The story of the Taum Sauk Reservoir in southeast Missouri and the time the walls came tumbling down

A supplemental episode from our previous Governor Isaac Murphy series, the story of the Elkhorn Tavern at Pea Ridge National Military Park

The conclusion of the Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad strike in Harrison, Arkansas. It gets pretty dark

One of America's longest railroad strikes took place in The Ozarks and you've probably never heard about it. Maybe privatizing public goods isn't the best idea. We also read a couple listener emails

We look at corn cob pipes, from their patenting in the northern Missouri Ozarks, to a small day to day look at a former factory in Everton, Arkansas

The life story of B. Dean Brown and the Branson Cross

We discuss the New York Times article that was released today about that racist intentional community near Ravenden, Arkansas that's trying to expand into Missouri and across elsewhere in the South

The story of a Bigfoot-type monster supposedly near War Eagle, Arkansas

In a podcast first, we have guests in the wonderful Beyond the Breakers podcast. Normally ones to focus on shipwrecks and maritime disasters, we pull them onto land and discuss one of the wackiest incidents in Springfield, Missouri history, The Cobra Scare.

The tale of a vegetarian religious sect (called the Grass Eaters by locals, accidentally left out of the script) that set up shop in the pre-Civil War rural Arkansas Ozarks. We have a Patreon, an Instagram, a Bluesky

We discuss the history of Damascus, Arkansas and the time they got in trouble for issuing too many speed tickets

This episode involves a dark and heavy topic, with our first coverage of a lynching in The Ozarks. The primary focus this week is the life Walter Majors, an African American inventor from Springfield, Missouri, but we also discuss the Easter Lynchings of 1906, one of countless lynchings in The Ozarks between 1890-1910, and its lasting impact on the African American community in Springfield and Spr...

The story of music festival at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in.. Sedalia of all places?

The conclusion of our Isaac Murphy series, in one episode instead of two. A major focus of the episode is on Reconstruction, and we only barely scratch the surface of it's importance, both then and now

An episode on Harris Flanagin, the Governor of Arkansas prior to Isaac Murphy. A Civil War heavy episode. Ray also commits a cardinal podcasting sin by eating ice on mic. You've been warned

We are back to our Governors of Arkansas series and focus on Isaac Murphy, Arkansas's lone vote against secession and Arkansas's most defensible governor.

The life story of David Leong, a Chinese-born Ozarks icon, and his legacy, Springfield-style cashew chicken.

A look into the history and myth of Samuel Hudson, early settler into Newton County, Arkansas

The story of William Lovely, an Irishman who became an Indian Agent and also a more in depth look into the arrival of the Cherokee into the Arkansas Ozarks, as touched on in many episodes prior