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This week we continue our journey through the life of Frederika Mandelbaum notorious gilded age crime boss. Ma is getting into not only the illegal silk trade but also the bank robbing business!. Funding and planning multiple bank robberies including the Oceans National Bank Heist and the Manhattan Savings Institute heist, with the help of some new criminal masterminds and partners.  We also discu...

Week two of our Ma Mandelbaum Series. This week Ma is starting her own shop and really working to train an army of thieves. We talk about tricky diamond heists, and a how too handbook she created to teach new thieves how to steal. Then we get into how she constructed her shop to help her do all of her clandestine activities. Hope you enjoy! We did have a few technical difficulties this week and lo...

This week our story is set in Gilded Age New York City. the Rising center of wealth and crime during an era with one of the worst examples of wealth inequality until maybe now? Huge amounts of money made from industrialization and the consolidation of industries by America's robber barons.  And the Subject of this series is a woman named Frederika Mandelbaum aka Marm Mandelbaum. She became on...

We're going back in time to one of our first episodes to learn all about Thomas Holloway in the 1800s and all the fake medicines of the day. We talk about his history, legal lying in advertising, and what people will resort to when they cant afford a proper doctor.  This story has everything! Opium, asylums, Charles Dickens, and even college for women! Source Material: The Mighty Healer: Thom...

Join us on an absolutely unhinged ride through the 2019 movie Sister Aimee! Starring our favorite pretend kidnap victim, Sister Aimee Semple McPherson.  This movie states at the very beginning that only 5 1/2% was true, and that sounds about right! It focuses on the time Aimee disappears until the day she shows up in the desert, and the screenwriters certainly took some creative liberties. There’s...

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The saga continues! This week we continue the discussion of Ted Kennedy and the accident/negligent homcide/scene from Succession that ended in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.  Ted gets a foam collar to show off his injuries, they attend the funeral, investigators start doing a tiny bit of investigating, no one talks to anyone else at the party, and we have a seven minute court hearing, that feels l...

This week we continue the story of Ted Kennedy, Mary Jo Kopechne, and the tragedy at Chappaquiddick. We are talking about what actually happened that night and the beginning of Teds schemes to avoid accountability.  The main Kennedy family finally gets notified of the accident and their political machine begins powering up to help Ted.  Meanwhile Ted is doing everything he can to muddy the waters...

This week we get into the story of Ted Kennedy, Mary Jo Kopechne, and the tragedy at Chappaquiddick. Ted Kennedy, the 9th of the Kennedy siblings, was able to be a senator for forty seven years after being responsible for the death of Mary Jo, in one of the most flagrant examples of rich white guys getting away with stuff.  These week we discuss the actual accident, how Ted left the scene, and the...

The Final installment of the P.T. Barnum Story!!! This week we are Finally talking about the Circus! Which means we are also talking about some very sad and abused elephants. Turns out American Elephant training was pretty horrible! Some trainers eventually learned that kindness was the key all along. But definitely too little too late.  We also get into Barnum's brief stint as Mayor of Bridg...

Week Three of the P.T. Barnum saga. This week we talk about Barnum's attempts to rehabilitate his relationship with his family and his reputation with the world.  Though it seems like he did some real work on his marriage it seems like his reputation as a dishonest humbug man would be set in stone.  We talk about the real relationship between him and Jenny Lind "The Swedish Nightingale&q...

Week two of The P. T. Barnum Story and we get into some more racist shenanigans. We talk about more of Barnum's early acts and the use of blackface in his shows. Then we get into the purchasing of The American Museum and some of the wild exhibits Barnum Put into it. Including one of Barnum's most famous living wonders "General Tom Thumb". We talk about how Barnum met 5 year old...

This week we are beginning the story of P.T. Barnum aka "The Greatest Showman". He was a showman, museum owner, international celebrity, Politician, and of course co-owner of the Barnum and Bailey Circus.  There is so much to get into in this story he was both a Con artist and a beloved entertainer, he maybe owned a slave woman for a short time but also became a big advocate for the abol...

Hey Yall We are doing another silly Movie Night Mess around for the week of thanksgiving. This episode we are going ALLLL the way back to the beginning with the Dupont Teflon Scandal with a movie called Dark Waters. Dark Waters was actually a pretty good movie and very informative and relatively accurate to life so its definitely worth a watch, If you want to be in on all our nonsense check it out...

This week we wrap up the story of Aimee McPherson and the Four Square Church. She's not going to jail, and now shes back in the church and shes ready to spend more money.  Aimee continues to build her congregation as well as build her own castle, while also remarrying and traveling the world on tour. This episode is full of financial issues, fistfights, and facials! Get into it!  Sources: Sis...

In the fourth installment of the Aimee Semple McPherson story we get into Aimee's harrowing story of how she spent her 33 days after everyone thought she had drown. How she wandered into a small town in Mexico, either from a kidnappers shack or perhaps from a car that had just driven around in circles a bit. We discuss the court case that almost didn't happen, and all the indictments tha...

Tonight is part three of the Aimee Semple McPherson saga, where we get into her return from her 33 day disappearance. We detail her story about being kidnapped and ending up in Mexico, and all the other witnesses that tell a difference story. Lots of people accuse her of lying, and even more accuse her of having thick ankles!  Then we get into the the grand jury testimonies and the court process o...

This week we continue talking about Aimee Semple McPherson. We get into her journey to Los Angeles to fulfill her celebrity preacher destiny, the building of the Angelus Temple which still stands today, and her establishing her style as a preacher with style, scenery, and sometimes camels on stage! And we finally get into the day she walked into the sea and disappeared for over 30 days.  Sources:...

This week we are diving in the world of the famous pentecostal preacher Aimee Semple McPherson. Born on a small farm in Canada in the late 1800s, she was one of the first women preaching and traveled the country, eventually landing herself in Los Angeles, one of the most famous people in the country and a millionaire before the age of 35.  Then one day she went into the ocean, and thousands search...

We are wrapping up our series on the Deepwater Horizon Disaster and the BP Gulf Oil Spill. This episode we get into the weird way that BP was using security to create a media blackout on what was happening in the gulf sometimes seemingly with the help of the coast guard and local authorities. We will talk a bit about BP's history of bad behavior and a few smaller disasters that should have be...

This week we are getting back into the wonderful world of Deep Sea Oil Cleanup! We discuss the direct aftermath of the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig and BP's many Failed attempts to stop the underwater leak. We get a little into politics and then we talk about the effects on the local Gulf community and the disastrous effect on the Gulf Ecosystems. We get VERY Sad about the eff...

This episode we are going to do something a little different. At the suggestion of multiple listeners, Emily and I have both watched Armageddon and Deepwater Horizon! Armageddon because: Drilling and Space and we thought it was going to be a fun movie. Spoiler Alert it opened up some existential questions about women's portrayal in the media and what that means for our daughter! Then we watch...

The BP Gulf Oil spill is the largest marine oil spill in the history of the Petroleum Industry. The spill lasted for 87 days resulting in a conservative estimate of 3.19 Million Barrels or 134 Million Gallons of petroleum into the gulf of Mexico. Leading to over 1300 miles of oiled shoreline and 43,000 mile oil slick on the oceans surface. Not to mention the millions of gallons of oil dispersed un...

This week we wrap up the Spinach King! We get into the demise of the company and the sons trying to declare their father incompetent, while he tries to claim they've kidnapped him! It's a wild ride but we're going to button up all the loose ends and finish all our spinach.  Sources: The Spinach King The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty  by John Seabrook  Send us a text! Let us k...

The Spinach Saga continues! We get into the Seabrook families involvement in WW2, the expansion of quickfrozen vegetables and the wonder of the mylar bag, the Japanese internment camps sending workers to New Jersey, movie stars, a stroke, skinny dipping and more!  The Seabrooks are peaking and demise is coming soon, but this episode gets into the hey day. Because war is always good for someone&apo...