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The mid-20th century was the heyday of figuring out why humans were the worst through the use of social psychological experiments. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about one such experiment, Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave Experiment where Sherif gathered a group of 12 year old boys to see if he could pit the boys against one another. Sherif’s experiment is included in Psych 101 books about group dynamics, but did this hostility occur organically or was it more manufactured by the adults?

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Hey Dash Hounds, are you still there? Beth and Kelly are. Or are we? Has ChatGPT taken over? Can it? We are just women after all. What is our worth? In this episode, we will talk about women’s worth and Emma Goldman, a woman who fought for many things and has been forgotten like so many others. But Strange Country is doing its best to keep women’s work alive before AI eats us up? Thanks always for listening.

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Works Cited

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“Joseph A. Labadie Collection.” University of Michigan Library, https://www.lib.umich.edu/collections/collecting-areas/special-collections-and-archives/joseph-labadie-collection. Accessed 1 February 2024.

“The Labadie Collection A Hidden Treasure In Our Midst.” Ann Arbor District Library, https://aadl.org/node/247050. Accessed 31 January 2024.

PBS American Experience. “Emma Goldman: 1869-1940.” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldman-1869-1940/. Accessed 28 1 2024.

Happy 2024! And Beth and Kelly are back with another tale of another cult on another year of Strange Country. What’s to say? It starts off with plans for communal living and burns out in abuse, financial malfeasance and weird sex awfulness.

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You’ve heard of six-minute abs, but how about the 15-minute orgasm? That’s what Nicole Daedone of OneTaste was touting; female empowerment through clitoris stimulation. Then like most high-demand groups, things go south pretty quickly. In this Strange Country episode, co hosts Beth and very uncomfortable Kelly talk about the rise and fall of OneTaste.

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Henry Darger is one of the most profitable outsider artists out there. Unfortunately he didn’t reap the benefit of that while he was alive, spending much of it in abject poverty. He was compelled to make and write art during the time he was not working as a janitor or dishwasher. His artwork dealt with themes of child abuse and violence, subjects very familiar with Darger when he was put in an asylum at the age of 12. Strange Country cohost Beth with special pinch (or pitch) hitter Terry discuss this artist and why work gets recognition after they’re gone.

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Welcome dash hounds to an old episode from the pre-covid days when men could be rich men and spend the weekend urinating on trees and ruminating on how they could make life miserable for the rest of us. Strange Country will be back soon with a brand spanking new episode.

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Flock, Elizabeth. “Bohemian Grove: Where the Rich and Powerful Go to Misbehave.” The Washington Post, 15 June 2011, www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/bohemian-grove-where-the-rich-and-powerful-go-to-misbehave/2011/06/15/AGPV1sVH_blog.html?utm_term=.3196c5a24d65.

Guy, Peter. “The Fatuous Folly of the Super Rich and Their Plans to Escape the Apocalypse in New Zealand.” South China Morning Post, 18 Feb. 2018, www.scmp.com/business/global-economy/article/2133724/fatuous-folly-super-rich-and-their-plans-escape-apocalypse.

Ingraham, Christopher. “The Richest 1 Percent Now Owns More of the Country’s Wealth than at Any Time in the Past 50 Years.” The Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/06/the-richest-1-percent-now-owns-more-of-the-countrys-wealth-than-at-any-time-in-the-past-50-years/?utm_term=.2ebb43e94b48.

Loudenback, Tanza. “The World's Richest People Spend $234 Billion a Year on Luxury Goods - Here's How Much They Spend on Yachts, Private Jets, Wine, and Clothes.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 1 Mar. 2018, www.businessinsider.com/rich-people-spending-on-travel-private-jets-clothes-cars-2018-2.

MacLellan, Lila. “Science Proves Rich People Don't Really Notice You-or Your Problems.” Quartz, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2016, qz.com/816188/science-shows-the-richer-you-get-the-less-you-pay-attention-to-other-people/.

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Weiner, Sophie. “My Summer Job at the Bohemian Grove, Serving Milkshakes to the Shitfaced Global Elite.” Gawker, gawker.com/my-summer-job-at-the-bohemian-grove-serving-milkshakes-1763551409.

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Williamson, Elizabeth. “Truth in a Post-Truth Era: Sandy Hook Families Sue Alex Jones, Conspiracy Theorist.” The New York Times, 23 May 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/us/politics/alex-jones-trump-sandy-hook.html.

We’re sure you’ve heard of the Nobel Prize although it’s hard to make the case Beth has since she mispronounces it quite a bit in this episode. But have you heard of Nobel Disease? It’s when people are labeled geniuses and go on to embrace some whackadoodle pseudoscience. In today’s Strange Country episode, Beth and Kelly discuss Kary Mullis, the only Nobel winner to be referred to as “generally barking mad.” He discovered the polymerase chain reaction, which we all regularly employed when we wanted to make dang certain it wasn’t covid.

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Welcome to a blast from the past. This is a re-release of ep. 59 The Osage Murders, repackaged as Killers of the Flower Moon to coincide with the new film by Martin Scorsese. Thanks for all your support, dash hounds. We’ll be back with a new episode soon.

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 Grann, David. Killers of the Flower Moon.

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Hey DashHounds, if you were listening last episode, we mentioned the true story of Candyman. This may be the very first time Beth and Kelly said “we should look into that” and actually did! Find out how haunting life was in Chicago in the 1980s if you lived in Cabrini Green housing. It is scary to think how people lived and even scarier to hear about how they died. Thanks always for your support and listening; it is an act of love.

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Bogira, Steve. “They Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror.” Chicago Reader, 3 September 1987, https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/they-came-in-through-the-bathroom-mirror/. Accessed 17 October 2023.

“Cabrini–Green Homes.” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini%E2%80%93Green_Homes. Accessed 17 October 2023.

Chow, Andrew. “How Candyman Reclaims the History of Cabrini Green.” Time Magazine, no. August 27, 2021, https://time.com/6092375/candyman-cabrini-green-true-story/.

Halloween is the time of year of ghouls, goblins and moral panic about candy. Could some neighbor be handing out candy full of pins? Or even worse, plain boxes of raisins? Where did this all come from? Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about the origin of poisoned candy, stemming from one father who poisoned his own kid to collect insurance money.

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“DEA Warns of Brightly-Colored Fentanyl Used to Target Young Americans.” DEA.gov, 30 August 2022, https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2022/08/30/dea-warns-brightly-colored-fentanyl-used-target-young-americans. Accessed 1 October 2023.

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"Joe Rogan and Dr Phil push Halloween candy fentanyl story before producer says it could be fake; 'That was always the fear right, when we were kids, is that someone's gonna sneak in a razor blade into an apple,' Rogan says." Independent [Online], 31 Oct. 2022, p. NA. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A724680900/STND?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=4905dace. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023

"RHODE ISLAND MAN SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON FOR ROLE IN NATIONWIDE CONSPIRACY THAT TRAFFICKED DRUGS HIDDEN IN TOY TRUCKS, DISNEY ITEMS AND HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS." States News Service, 20 Sept. 2023, p. NA. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A766621939/STND?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=1a1aa97e. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023..

"Should reports of candy-colored fentanyl spook you?" Daily Herald [Arlington Heights, IL], 28 Oct. 2022, p. 1. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A724348841/STND?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=8b7c1e70. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023.

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Ponti, Crystal. “The Haunting Legacy of Ronald Clark O'Bryan, the Man Who Killed Halloween.” A&E, 22 October 2020, https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/the-man-who-killed-halloween. Accessed 1 October 2023.

Skal, David J. Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween. Bloomsbury USA, 2002.

TALLEY, OLIVE. "Ronald Clark O'Bryan, who killed his 8-year-old son with...." UPI (USA), sec. News, 30 Mar. 1984. NewsBank: Access World News, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWNB&req_dat=0FA0729FAB9D3500&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/1568797363D91408. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023.

In the 1980s, whilst the media stirred up frenzies over Satanists in our midst or a nuclear bomb landing in Washington, a reporter made a documentary adding vaccines to the growing list of dangers. Vaccine Roulette claimed the pertussis vaccine caused brain damage in kids, which led to a drop in immunizations, a rise in whooping cough, and a near-end to the production of vaccines. On Strange Country, cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about this antivax movement spawned during the time of leg warmers and Alf, and continues to impact the current vaccine hesitancy we see today.

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Mabel Norris Reese shone a light on racism and injustice in Lake County Fla. in the 1950s and 60s before the racist element drove the newspaper editor out of town. Strange Country cohosts and former reporters Beth and Kelly talk about this intrepid journalist and wish that Bugs Bunny gif of him sawing off Florida could somehow come true.

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We are requiring all readers of Strange Country and their partners, families and friends and everyone else to watch the Barbie movie. That way you can fully enjoy Kelly and Beth’s homage to Ruth Handler, the creator of Barbie. Learn details about the woman who, really, all of us should have studied in school as an example of an entrepreneur. Women have it tough, people. That’s it. Listen with love and let’s keep holding each other and get through these BS challenges. And no, Greta Gerwig did not pay us for our endorsement. She is welcome to though! PS—Kelly finally got a mattress.

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Gerber, Robin. Barbie and Ruth. Harper Collins ebooks, 2009.

Latson, Jennifer. “The Barbie Doll's Not-For-Kids Origins.” Time, no. March 9, 2015, https://time.com/3731483/barbie-history/. Accessed 8 August 2023.

“Who Made America? | Innovators | Ruth Handler.” PBS, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/handler_hi.html. Accessed 8 August 2023.

“Why Barbie Inventor Ruth Handler Got in Trouble With the IRS, SEC.” Business Insider, 31 July 2023, https://www.businessinsider.com/barbie-inventor-ruth-handler-mattel-irs-sec-false-financial-statements-2023-7. Accessed 9 August 2023.

If your site is like a video game health regenerator for the Ku Klux Klan, that might be a sign your site needs a facelift. Yet Stone Mountain, Ga., continues to exist as the the largest Confederate monument in the world. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss this paean to traitors and how the United Daughters of the Confederacy united to f*** up history so that we’re still discussing whether we should keep up Confederate monuments.

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Galloway, Jim. “The Georgia law that protects Stone Mountain, other Confederate monuments.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 17 August 2017, https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/the-georgia-law-that-protects-stone-mountain-other-confederate-monuments/IIyMj6919d5JFo40QMS4RJ/. Accessed 20 July 2023.

Moffatt, Emil, and Abraham Mosley. “Confederate Imagery On Stone Mountain Is Changing, But Not Fast Enough For Some.” NPR, 21 June 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/06/21/1007924006/confederate-imagery-on-stone-mountain-is-changing-but-not-fast-enough-for-some. Accessed 19 July 2023.

“Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain.” Atlanta History Center, https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/monument/. Accessed 19 July 2023.

“Native Americans and Mount Rushmore | American Experience.” PBS, 2023, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rushmore-sioux/. Accessed 19 July 2023.

Rozsa, Lori. “Florida approves Black history standards decried as 'step backward.'” Washington Post, 19 July 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/19/florida-black-history-standards/. Accessed 20 July 2023.

Stephens, Alexander H. “Cornerstone Speech.” American Battlefield Trust, https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/cornerstone-speech. Accessed 19 July 2023.

SUPERVILLE, DARLENE. “Trump says 'learn from history' instead of removing statues.” AP News, 23 June 2020, https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-race-and-ethnicity-ap-top-news-politics-fa842fd5bcf509bdc6d199c31e134f53. Accessed 19 July 2023.

Thompson, Erin L. Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments. WW Norton, 2022.

Treisman, Rachel. “Nearly 100 Confederate Monuments Removed In 2020, Report Says; More Than 700 Remain.” NPR, 23 February 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/02/23/970610428/nearly-100-confederate-monuments-removed-in-2020-report-says-more-than-700-remai. Accessed 19 July 2023.

Maybe this got lost in the shuffle for you, dear readers, like it did for Beth who completely spaced about this, but in the weeks after 9/11, opening the mail was a terrifying act. That’s because someone was sending anthrax letters to the media and politicians. Five people died and another 17 were sickened in these attacks. It took eight years for the FBI to find their suspect, and even now some questioned whether or not they got the right man. Join Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly as they dissect this story that never made it into their memory banks.

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“Anthrax Facts - MN Dept. of Health.” Minnesota Department of Health, 5 October 2022, https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/anthrax/anthrax.html. Accessed 9 July 2023.

“Anthrax | National Postal Museum.” National Postal Museum |, https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/behind-the-badge-case-histories-dangerous-mail/anthrax. Accessed 8 July 2023.

Diamond, Dan. “Trump's election challenges distracted from covid response, White House adviser told colleagues.” The Washington Post, 23 September 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/23/trump-election-challenge-covid-response/. Accessed 9 July 2023.

Engelberg, Stephen. “New Evidence Adds Doubt to FBI's Case Against Anthrax Suspect.” ProPublica, 10 October 2011, https://www.propublica.org/article/new-evidence-disputes-case-against-bruce-e-ivins. Accessed 8 July 2023.

Freed, David. “The Wrong Man.” The Atlantic, 15 May 2010, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/05/the-wrong-man/308019/. Accessed 8 July 2023.

Lancaster, John. “When anthrax-laced letters terrorized Washington and New York.” The Washington Post, 24 October 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/10/24/when-anthrax-laced-letters-terrorized-washington-new-york/. Accessed 5 July 2023.

Palca, Joe. “FBI Faulted For Overstating Science In Anthrax Case.” NPR, 15 February 2011, https://www.npr.org/2011/02/15/133775495/fbi-faulted-for-overstating-science-in-anthrax-case. Accessed 8 July 2023.

Shane, Scott. “Portrait Emerges of Anthrax Suspect’s Troubled Life.” The New York Times, 3 January 2009, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/us/04anthrax.html?searchResultPosition=1. Accessed 7 July 2023. 

“Spotlight falls on anthrax case < Yale School of Medicine.” Yale School of Medicine, 2002, https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/article/spotlight-falls-on-anthrax-case/. Accessed 7 July 2023.

Stoogenke, Jason. “Did you get a paper called a 'prayer rug' in the mail?” WSOC TV, 14 February 2022, https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/did-you-got-paper-called-prayer-rug-mail/TT3NX4AHXBGOBFYVBQPWC5IQGQ/. Accessed 5 July 2023.

Tarm, Michael. “Ex-House Speaker settles child sexual abuse payments suit.” AP News, 15 September 2021, https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-sexual-abuse-illinois-dennis-hastert-99160a4428db66e86da8e275e57c8ec7. Accessed 5 July 2023.

Temple-Raston, Dina. “David Willman's “The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks, and America's Rush to War.”” The Washington Post, 11 August 2011, https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/david-willmans-the-mirage-man-bruce-ivins-the-anthrax-attacks-and-americas-rush-to-war/2011/07/25/gIQAyrZM9I_story.html. Accessed 9 July 2023.

Wiser, Mike. “New Report Casts Doubt on FBI Anthrax Investigation.” PBS, 19 December 2014, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/new-report-casts-doubt-on-fbi-anthrax-investigation/. Accessed 8 July 2023.

Join us this week on Strange Country as we go way back in time to the 1600s when life was grand, and if you lived to be a 50-year-old woman, you should just STFU. Because if you did decide to speak truth of any sort you would likely be accused of witchcraft. That’s what happened to Goody Garlick of Easthampton (originally one word), NY. Enjoy Goody Kelly and Goody Beth as we sweat like they did in the 17th century, and conjure up ways to make more money, and deal with this heat. Thanks always for listening; it is an act of love.

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“Before Salem, There Was the Not-So-Wicked Witch of the Hamptons.” Smithsonian Magazine, 25 October 2012, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/before-salem-there-was-the-not-so-wicked-witch-of-the-hamptons-95603019/. Accessed 25 June 2023.

Dewan, George. “In the Matter of Goody Garlick.” nysarchives.com, https://www.nysarchivestrust.org/application/files/7915/6520/4235/archivesmag_fall2005.pdf.

“Elizabeth Garlick - Notable Women Ancestors.” RootsWeb, https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nwa/garlick.html. Accessed 26 June 2023.

“goody | Etymology, origin and meaning of goody by etymonline.” Online Etymology Dictionary, 3 April 2015, https://www.etymonline.com/word/goody. Accessed 26 June 2023.

What is the youngest age a child can live on her own? In this episode, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss the absolutely bonkers documentary “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace” that premiered this year on Investigation Discovery. An Indiana couple petitioned a court to have their adopted child re-aged from 9 to 22 so she could be removed from their home and placed in an apartment.

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The Curious Case of Natalia Grace. Investigation Discovery, 2023. Investigation Discovery, https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/show/the-curious-case-of-natalia-grace-investigation-discovery-atve-us.

Farzan, Antonia Noori. “Kristine and Michael Barnett charged with abandoning adopted daughter in Indiana.” The Washington Post, 17 September 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/17/police-say-she-abandoned-her-adopted-daughter-she-says-girl-was-actually-scamming-adult-sociopath/. Accessed 19 June 2023.

Flynn, Sheila "A six-year-old Ukrainian girl saved by adoption or a murderous adult imposter: Who really is Natalia Grace?" Independent [Online], 1 June 2023, p. NA. Gale OneFile: News, link-gale-cay.orc.scoolaid.net/apps/doc/A751445561/STND?u=nysl_sc_ahs&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=9aa09674. Accessed 19 June 2023.

Leishman, Rachel. “Max's 'The Curious Case of Natalia Grace' Is the Most Off-the-Wall Docuseries.” The Mary Sue, 5 June 2023, https://www.themarysue.com/max-curious-case-of-natalia-grace-docuseries-must-watch/. Accessed 19 June 2023.

Minutaglio, Rose. “Inside the Real-Life 'Orphan' Case: Parenting Author Kristine Barnett Claims Her Adopted Teen Is Actually a Disturbed Adult.” ELLE, 9 October 2019, https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a29205646/kristine-barnett-natalia-grace-adoption/. Accessed 19 June 2023.

Vargas, Ramon Antonio. “Six-year-old orphan or 'con artist' adult? Revisiting the strange story of Natalia Grace.” The Guardian, 4 June 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/04/natalia-grace-docuseries-hbo-discovery-ukrainian-orphan-con-artist. Accessed 19 June 2023.

Twenty years before the Stonewall Uprising, another group fought for rights for LGBTQ Americans. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss The Mattachine Society, a group that sought dignity and respect for LGBTQ during a time when being gay was criminalized. Luckily things are chill now. Oh wait.

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Chew, Rebecca, and Brian Nimens. “Opinion | States Are Stifling the Voices of Cities and Their Voters.” The New York Times, 3 June 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/opinion/texas-preemption-bill.html. Accessed 4 June 2023.

Gaines, James R. The Fifties: An Underground History. Simon & Schuster, 2023.

Garcia, Arturo. “Were Gay Concentration Camp Prisoners 'Put Back in Prison' After World War II?” Snopes.com, 11 October 2018, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gay-prisoners-germany-wwii/. Accessed 4 June 2023.

HANNA, JOHN, and ANDREW DeMILLO. “Kansas passes trans bathroom bill; Arkansas OKs own version.” AP News, 4 April 2023, https://apnews.com/article/transgender-rights-bathroom-bill-kansas-cbdc14be5bf1fb6e1a0749cad52e8ebc. Accessed 4 June 2023.

Katz, Jonathan Ned. “Henry Hay: Founding The Mattachine Society, "A call to me . . . more important than life" · Harry Hay: Founding the Mattachine Society, 1948-1953, by Jonathan Ned Katz.” OutHistory, 1976, https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/hay-mattachine/hh. Accessed 4 June 2023.

“Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. State Legislatures.” American Civil Liberties Union, https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights. Accessed 4 June 2023.

“State Legislative Attacks.” Human Rights Campaign, 5 May 2023, https://www.hrc.org/campaigns/the-state-legislative-attack-on-lgbtq-people. Accessed 4 June 2023.

Valelly, Rick. “The Conflicted Gay Pioneer.” The American Prospect, 8 October 2013, https://prospect.org/power/conflicted-gay-pioneer/. Accessed 7 June 2023.

You know how every little girl dreams of the day her dad signs a pledge promising to keep her vagina penis-free until she marries. Wait, you don’t? Well, sit back, slap on your purity ring, superglue your legs together and get ready for a Strange Country episode on purity culture.

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Beaty, Katelyn. “Opinion | In wake of Atlanta shooting, Christian communities need to rethink purity culture.” The Washington Post, 18 March 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/03/18/purity-culture-atlanta-shooter-women-sexuality/. Accessed 7 May 2023.

Filipovic, Jill. “'Purity' culture: bad for women, worse for survivors of sexual assault | Jill Filipovic.” The Guardian, 9 May 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/09/elizabeth-smart-purity-culture-shames-survivors-sexual-assault. Accessed 15 April 2023.

Haberman, Clyde. “How an Abstinence Pledge in the '90s Shamed a Generation of Evangelicals (Published 2021).” The New York Times, 12 April 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/us/abstinence-pledge-evangelicals.html. Accessed 9 April 2023.

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McEwan, Melissa. “George Bush's sex education failure | Melissa McEwan.” The Guardian, 20 July 2009, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/20/george-bush-teen-pregnancy-abstinence. Accessed 29 April 2023.

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Roach, David. “True Love Waits pioneer defends sexual purity movement.” Baptist Standard, 8 January 2019, https://www.baptiststandard.com/news/baptists/true-love-waits-pioneer-defends-sexual-purity-movement-2/. Accessed 30 April 2023.

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Hey Readers! You know, you look a little tired. Maybe you should. . . smile? While you’re at it, take a listen to Beth and Kelly as we learn the history of the smile. You will learn that Kodak had more to do with why we smile for the camera and don’t look as miserable as we are. Smiles are a funny thing or are they? Are they really a creepy thing? A submissive thing? Find out on today’s episode and thanks for listening; it’s an act of love.

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What is the main PSA of Strange Country? Trust your gut. Especially when self-proclaimed gurus tell you to suck it up inside a blistering hot sweat lodge. On this episode, cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss James Arthur Ray, another self-help platitude-spilling grifter, who hawked the law of attraction and The Secret, repackaged as Harmonic Wealth ™. His spiritual warrior retreat in October 2009 led to three people dying.

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Blair, Leonardo. “More deaths from faith-healing recorded in Idaho as advocates fight to end practice.” Christian Post, 17 January 2023, https://www.christianpost.com/news/more-deaths-from-faith-healing-recorded-in-idaho.html. Accessed 5 April 2023.

Archibold, Randal C. “Sweat Lodge Deaths Not Criminal, Guru's Lawyer Says (Published 2010).” The New York Times, 14 January 2010, https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/us/14sweat.html. Accessed 6 April 2023.

Davis, Kristina. "Trial starting for self-help guru accused in sweat-lodge deaths." San Diego Union-Tribune, The: Web Edition Articles (CA), sec. Courts, 20 Feb. 2011. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/135A07C2ADC4A8D8. Accessed 7 Apr. 2023.

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Dougherty, John. “For Some Seeking Rebirth, Sweat Lodge Was End (Published 2009).” The New York Times, 22 October 2009, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/us/22sweat.html. Accessed 6 April 2023.

Dougherty, John. “New Details About Deaths in Sweat Lodge Are Revealed (Published 2009).” The New York Times, 30 December 2009, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/us/30sweatlodge.html. Accessed 6 April 2023.

Fonseca, Felicia. "State questions training of sweat lodge volunteers." Associated Press State Wire: Arizona (AZ), sec. State and regional, 8 Mar. 2011. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/1399E7E1B3052070. Accessed 7 Apr. 2023

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Marshall, Robert. “The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda.” Salon.com, 12 April 2007, https://www.salon.com/2007/04/12/castaneda/. Accessed 9 April 2023.

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Roth, Gregory. “Questions About ‘Sweat Lodge’ Rite Where 2 Died.” The New York Times, 10 October 2009, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/us/11lodge.html. Accessed 6 April 2023.

Salkin, Allen. “Shaking Riches Out of the Cosmos.” The New York Times, 25 February 2007, https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/fashion/25attraction.html. Accessed 6 April 2023.

Schley, Dorothy. "Thoughts on the State of Arizona vs James Arthur Ray." Colorado Springs Examiner (CO), sec. Spirituality & Empowerment, 11 Mar. 2011. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/135ECD4F2BA18288. Accessed 8 Apr. 2023.

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Stroud, Matt. “The Death Dealer.” The Verge, 4 December 2013, https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/4/5038930/the-death-dealer-james-arthur-sweat-lodge-deaths-in-sedona. Accessed 6 April 2023.

Stroud, Matt, and Jenny Carchman. “In Enlighten Us, a disgraced guru fails to find redemption.” The Verge, 18 April 2016, https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/18/11434916/enlighten-us-disgraced-guru-james-arthur-ray. Accessed 6 April 2023.

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Hey Readers! Who has pellagra?? Would you know if you did? Don’t worry you won’t get it. But you will learn on this episode what pellagra was, why it killed 100,000 Americans, and took many dedicated hours to figure out the cure. Thank you for always listening and wondering alongside our stories. Why is it that Beth talks abut the taint so much?

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“About Gail — Gail Jarrow.” Gail Jarrow, https://www.gailjarrow.com/about. Accessed 10 April 2023.

Jarrow, Gail. Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat. Astra Publishing House, 2014.

Swan, Jeremy. “Dr. Joseph Goldberger & the War on Pellagra.” Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum, 3 May 2022, https://history.nih.gov/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8883184. Accessed 10 April 2023.

We have finally reached the end of the Strange Country siege of covering the Waco Siege. In the final episode, cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss the aftermath of Waco and how the dots can be connected to such awfulness like Oklahoma City bombing and the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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Benson, Eric. "At Bible Study With David Koresh's Last Followers." Texas Monthly (TX), sec. Religion, 26 Mar. 2018. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16ECDC5F952C93F8. Accessed 25 Feb. 2023.

Benson, Eric. "The FBI Agent Who Can't Stop Thinking About Waco." Texas Monthly (TX), sec. History, 21 Mar. 2018. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16ECDC5DEE01B9A8. Accessed 17 Feb. 2023.

Benson, Eric. "The Reporter That Waco Destroyed Has No Regrets." Texas Monthly (TX), sec. Crime, 29 Mar. 2018. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16ECDC5FE881FAD8. Accessed 20 Feb. 2023.

BRAGG, ROY. "Standoff at cult compoundEx-prosecutor laments agents' 'storm trooper' tactics." Houston Chronicle, 2 STAR ed., sec. A NEWS, 2 Mar. 1993, p. 7. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/0ED7B27081281038. Accessed 24 Feb. 2023.

Bryce, Robert, and Michael Caddell. “The hounds of Waco.” Salon.com, 6 July 2000, https://www.salon.com/2000/07/06/waco_9/. Accessed 23 February 2023.

BUNTING, GLENN F. “Use of Tear Gas in Waco Raid Under Scrutiny : Siege: Experts raise safety questions. Reno says she was assured substance would not harm children.” Los Angeles Times, 29 May 1995, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-05-29-mn-7278-story.html. Accessed 26 February 2023.

Burton, Tara Isabella. “The Waco tragedy, explained.” Vox, 19 April 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/4/19/17246732/waco-tragedy-explained-david-koresh-mount-carmel-branch-davidian-cult-25-year-anniversary. Accessed 20 February 2023.                cdhttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/davidkoresh.html. Accessed 20 February 2023.

Cartwright, Gary. "The Case of the Persecuted Prosecutor." Texas Monthly (TX), sec. Law, 21 Jan. 2013. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16ECE17D878A8AC0. Accessed 24 Feb. 2023.

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Feuer, Alan. “Former Proud Boy Says Group Prepared for 'All-Out Revolution' on Jan. 6.” The New York Times, 22 February 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/proud-boys-jan-6-trial.html. Accessed 14 March 2023.

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Jipson, Art. ““The big lie”: 30 years later, right-wing extremists are still fueled by Waco siege.” Salon.com, 1 March 2023, https://www.salon.com/2023/03/01/the-big-lie-30-years-later-right-wing-extremists-are-still-fueled-by-waco-siege_partner/. Accessed 14 March 2023.

Ling, Justin. “How a Crazy Plan to Rebuild Waco Compound Gave Us Alex Jones.” The Daily Beast, 26 November 2021, https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-crazy-plan-to-rebuild-waco-compound-gave-us-alex-jones. Accessed 20 February 2023.

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Wilson, Mark. “How failures during the Waco siege changed everything for the FBI, ATF.” Austin American-Statesman, 19 April 2018, https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2018/04/19/how-failures-during-the-waco-siege-changed-everything-for-the-fbi-atf/10039028007/. Accessed 23 February 2023.

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We’re almost there, gentle dash hounds, to the end of our siege. In part 4 of Waco, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about the 51-day standoff between the FBI and the Branch Davidians that ended disastrously.

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Benson, Eric. "At Bible Study With David Koresh's Last Followers." Texas Monthly (TX), sec. Religion, 26 Mar. 2018. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16ECDC5F952C93F8. Accessed 25 Feb. 2023.

Benson, Eric. "The FBI Agent Who Can't Stop Thinking About Waco." Texas Monthly (TX), sec. History, 21 Mar. 2018. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16ECDC5DEE01B9A8. Accessed 17 Feb. 2023.

Benson, Eric. "The Reporter That Waco Destroyed Has No Regrets." Texas Monthly (TX), sec. Crime, 29 Mar. 2018. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16ECDC5FE881FAD8. Accessed 20 Feb. 2023.

BRAGG, ROY. "Standoff at cult compoundEx-prosecutor laments agents' 'storm trooper' tactics." Houston Chronicle, 2 STAR ed., sec. A NEWS, 2 Mar. 1993, p. 7. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/0ED7B27081281038. Accessed 24 Feb. 2023.

Bryce, Robert, and Michael Caddell. “The hounds of Waco.” Salon.com, 6 July 2000, https://www.salon.com/2000/07/06/waco_9/. Accessed 23 February 2023.

BUNTING, GLENN F. “Use of Tear Gas in Waco Raid Under Scrutiny : Siege: Experts raise safety questions. Reno says she was assured substance would not harm children.” Los Angeles Times, 29 May 1995, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-05-29-mn-7278-story.html. Accessed 26 February 2023.

Burton, Tara Isabella. “The Waco tragedy, explained.” Vox, 19 April 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/4/19/17246732/waco-tragedy-explained-david-koresh-mount-carmel-branch-davidian-cult-25-year-anniversary. Accessed 20 February 2023.                cdhttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/davidkoresh.html. Accessed 20 February 2023.

Cartwright, Gary. "The Case of the Persecuted Prosecutor." Texas Monthly (TX), sec. Law, 21 Jan. 2013. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16ECE17D878A8AC0. Accessed 24 Feb. 2023.

Cartwright, Gary. “The Enemy Within – Texas Monthly.” Texas Monthly, June 1993, https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/the-enemy-within-2/. Accessed 21 February 2023.

Contreras, Guillermo. "Suspended for sexual misconduct, retiring federal judge to get paid for life." Midland Daily News (MI), sec. News, 20 Sept. 2016. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/15F89CE48FAE3C88. Accessed 24 Feb. 2023.

Cook, Kevin. Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias. Henry Holt and Company, 2023.

Davies, Dave, and Jeff Guinn. “'Waco' author Jeff Guinn discusses the demagoguery of David Koresh.” NPR, 25 January 2023, https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1151283229. Accessed 22 February 2023.

Feuer, Alan. “Former Proud Boy Says Group Prepared for 'All-Out Revolution' on Jan. 6.” The New York Times, 22 February 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/proud-boys-jan-6-trial.html. Accessed 14 March 2023.

Gladwell, Malcolm. “Sacred And Profane.” The New Yorker, 31 March 2014, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/31/sacred-and-profane-4. Accessed 23 February 2023.

Gray, Jacquelyn. “Uncovering What Really Happened at the Waco Siege.” A&E, 24 January 2023, https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/what-happened-waco-siege. Accessed 23 February 2023.

Guinn, Jeff. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage. Simon & Schuster, 2023.

Herrington, Boze. “The Seven Signs That You're in a Cult.” The Atlantic, 18 June 2014, https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/06/the-seven-signs-youre-in-a-cult/361400/. Accessed 23 February 2023.

Hibbert, A. Anthony. Before the Flames: Story of David Koresh and the Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists. Seaburn Pub., 1996.

Jipson, Art. ““The big lie”: 30 years later, right-wing extremists are still fueled by Waco siege.” Salon.com, 1 March 2023, https://www.salon.com/2023/03/01/the-big-lie-30-years-later-right-wing-extremists-are-still-fueled-by-waco-siege_partner/. Accessed 14 March 2023.

Ling, Justin. “How a Crazy Plan to Rebuild Waco Compound Gave Us Alex Jones.” The Daily Beast, 26 November 2021, https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-crazy-plan-to-rebuild-waco-compound-gave-us-alex-jones. Accessed 20 February 2023.

"Member of jury that convicted Davidians criticizes U.S. agents." Hutchinson News, The (KS), 5 July 2000. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/108691B34B9DE9A8. Accessed 24 Feb. 2023.

Moore, James. “What Really Happened at Waco.” HuffPost, 28 February 2007, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-really-happened-at-w_b_42326. Accessed 23 February 2023.

Potok, Mark. “The Waco Raid at 25: Enough With the Fairy Tale Lies.” The Daily Beast, 19 April 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-waco-raid-at-25-enough-with-the-fabulist-lies. Accessed 23 February 2023.

“Report to the Deputy Attorney General on the Events at Waco, Texas.” Department of Justice, https://www.justice.gov/archives/publications/waco/report-deputy-attorney-general-events-waco-texas. Accessed 23 February 2023.

Smith, J.B.  "The Waco tragedy at 25: How the story overtook the storytellers." Bristol Herald Courier (VA), sec. News, 26 Feb. 2018. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16A5B43D9721F770. Accessed 21 Feb. 2023.

“Tapes From Sect Compound Reveal Talk of Setting Fire (Published 1994).” The New York Times, 15 February 1994, https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/15/us/tapes-from-sect-compound-reveal-talk-of-setting-fire.html. Accessed 25 February 2023.

Thibodeau, David, and Leon Whiteson. A place called Waco : a survivor's story. PublicAffairs, 1999.

“Three militia members sentenced in plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Whitmer.” CNN, 15 December 2022, https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/15/politics/militia-members-sentenced-whitmer-kidnapping-plot/index.html. Accessed 25 February 2023.

Wilson, Jason. “Ruby Ridge, 1992: the day the American militia movement was born.” The Guardian, 26 August 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/26/ruby-ridge-1992-modern-american-militia-charlottesville. Accessed 20 February 2023.

Wilson, Mark. “How failures during the Waco siege changed everything for the FBI, ATF.” Austin American-Statesman, 19 April 2018, https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2018/04/19/how-failures-during-the-waco-siege-changed-everything-for-the-fbi-atf/10039028007/. Accessed 23 February 2023.

Wright, Stuart A., editor. Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict. University of Chicago Press, 1995.

In third installment of the Waco Siege, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss the ATF raid on Feb. 28, 1993. The ATF steamrolled ahead even when they heard the Branch Davidians knew they were coming.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

Benson, Eric. "At Bible Study With David Koresh's Last Followers." Texas Monthly (TX), sec. Religion, 26 Mar. 2018. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16ECDC5F952C93F8. Accessed 25 Feb. 2023.

Benson, Eric. "The FBI Agent Who Can't Stop Thinking About Waco." Texas Monthly (TX), sec. History, 21 Mar. 2018. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16ECDC5DEE01B9A8. Accessed 17 Feb. 2023.

Benson, Eric. "The Reporter That Waco Destroyed Has No Regrets." Texas Monthly (TX), sec. Crime, 29 Mar. 2018. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16ECDC5FE881FAD8. Accessed 20 Feb. 2023.

BRAGG, ROY. "Standoff at cult compoundEx-prosecutor laments agents' 'storm trooper' tactics." Houston Chronicle, 2 STAR ed., sec. A NEWS, 2 Mar. 1993, p. 7. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/0ED7B27081281038. Accessed 24 Feb. 2023.

Bryce, Robert, and Michael Caddell. “The hounds of Waco.” Salon.com, 6 July 2000, https://www.salon.com/2000/07/06/waco_9/. Accessed 23 February 2023.

BUNTING, GLENN F. “Use of Tear Gas in Waco Raid Under Scrutiny : Siege: Experts raise safety questions. Reno says she was assured substance would not harm children.” Los Angeles Times, 29 May 1995, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-05-29-mn-7278-story.html. Accessed 26 February 2023.

Burton, Tara Isabella. “The Waco tragedy, explained.” Vox, 19 April 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/4/19/17246732/waco-tragedy-explained-david-koresh-mount-carmel-branch-davidian-cult-25-year-anniversary. Accessed 20 February 2023.                cdhttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/davidkoresh.html. Accessed 20 February 2023.

Cartwright, Gary. “The Enemy Within – Texas Monthly.” Texas Monthly, June 1993, https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/the-enemy-within-2/. Accessed 21 February 2023.

Cook, Kevin. Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias. Henry Holt and Company, 2023.

Davies, Dave, and Jeff Guinn. “'Waco' author Jeff Guinn discusses the demagoguery of David Koresh.” NPR, 25 January 2023, https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1151283229. Accessed 22 February 2023.

Gray, Jacquelyn. “Uncovering What Really Happened at the Waco Siege.” A&E, 24 January 2023, https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/what-happened-waco-siege. Accessed 23 February 2023.

Guinn, Jeff. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage. Simon & Schuster, 2023.

Herrington, Boze. “The Seven Signs That You're in a Cult.” The Atlantic, 18 June 2014, https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/06/the-seven-signs-youre-in-a-cult/361400/. Accessed 23 February 2023.

Moore, James. “What Really Happened at Waco.” HuffPost, 28 February 2007, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-really-happened-at-w_b_42326. Accessed 23 February 2023.

Potok, Mark. “The Waco Raid at 25: Enough With the Fairy Tale Lies.” The Daily Beast, 19 April 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-waco-raid-at-25-enough-with-the-fabulist-lies. Accessed 23 February 2023.

Smith, J.B.  "The Waco tragedy at 25: How the story overtook the storytellers." Bristol Herald Courier (VA), sec. News, 26 Feb. 2018. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16A5B43D9721F770. Accessed 21 Feb. 2023.

Thibodeau, David, and Leon Whiteson. A place called Waco : a survivor's story. PublicAffairs, 1999.

Wilson, Jason. “Ruby Ridge, 1992: the day the American militia movement was born.” The Guardian, 26 August 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/26/ruby-ridge-1992-modern-american-militia-charlottesville. Accessed 20 February 2023.

Wilson, Mark. “How failures during the Waco siege changed everything for the FBI, ATF.” Austin American-Statesman, 19 April 2018, https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2018/04/19/how-failures-during-the-waco-siege-changed-everything-for-the-fbi-atf/10039028007/. Accessed 23 February 2023.

In this second installment of the Waco Siege, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss some of the features of being in David Koresh’s orb. If you were a young—like really young—girl, you’d likely find yourself including in the House of David. This is what his harem of women were called. Because of God or Jesus or the Holy Ghost—not sure which one wants all those wives.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

Benson, Eric. "At Bible Study With David Koresh's Last Followers." Texas Monthly (TX), sec. Religion, 26 Mar. 2018. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16ECDC5F952C93F8. Accessed 25 Feb. 2023.

Benson, Eric. "The FBI Agent Who Can't Stop Thinking About Waco." Texas Monthly (TX), sec. History, 21 Mar. 2018. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16ECDC5DEE01B9A8. Accessed 17 Feb. 2023.

Burton, Tara Isabella. “The Waco tragedy, explained.” Vox, 19 April 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/4/19/17246732/waco-tragedy-explained-david-koresh-mount-carmel-branch-davidian-cult-25-year-anniversary. Accessed 20 February 2023.          cdhttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/davidkoresh.html. Accessed 20 February 2023.

Cartwright, Gary. “The Enemy Within – Texas Monthly.” Texas Monthly, June 1993, https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/the-enemy-within-2/. Accessed 21 February 2023.

Cook, Kevin. Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias. Henry Holt and Company, 2023.

Davies, Dave, and Jeff Guinn. “'Waco' author Jeff Guinn discusses the demagoguery of David Koresh.” NPR, 25 January 2023, https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1151283229. Accessed 22 February 2023.

Gladwell, Malcolm. “Sacred And Profane.” The New Yorker, 31 March 2014, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/31/sacred-and-profane-4. Accessed 23 February 2023.

Gray, Jacquelyn. “Uncovering What Really Happened at the Waco Siege.” A&E, 24 January 2023, https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/what-happened-waco-siege. Accessed 23 February 2023.

Guinn, Jeff. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage. Simon & Schuster, 2023.

Hibbert, A. Anthony. Before the Flames: Story of David Koresh and the Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists. Seaburn Pub., 1996.

Ling, Justin. “How a Crazy Plan to Rebuild Waco Compound Gave Us Alex Jones.” The Daily Beast, 26 November 2021, https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-crazy-plan-to-rebuild-waco-compound-gave-us-alex-jones. Accessed 20 February 2023.

Moore, James. “What Really Happened at Waco.” HuffPost, 28 February 2007, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-really-happened-at-w_b_42326. Accessed 23 February 2023.

Smith, J.B.  "The Waco tragedy at 25: How the story overtook the storytellers." Bristol Herald Courier (VA), sec. News, 26 Feb. 2018. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0FA07302A8AE5340&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/16A5B43D9721F770. Accessed 21 Feb. 2023.

Thibodeau, David, and Leon Whiteson. A place called Waco : a survivor's story. PublicAffairs, 1999.

Wilson, Jason. “Ruby Ridge, 1992: the day the American militia movement was born.” The Guardian, 26 August 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/26/ruby-ridge-1992-modern-american-militia-charlottesville. Accessed 20 February 2023.

Welcome readers to part 1 of a possibly 144K episodes about the Waco Siege. Thirty years ago, federal agents raided the Mount Carmel Center to serve a warrant on David Koresh, and it did not go well. In this first part, cohosts Beth and Kelly explore the beginnings of the religion to William Miller who made some predictions the world would end leading up to Koresh taking over his group with a gun battle.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

Burton, Tara Isabella. “The Waco tragedy, explained.” Vox, 19 April 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/4/19/17246732/waco-tragedy-explained-david-koresh-mount-carmel-branch-davidian-cult-25-year-anniversary. Accessed 20 February 2023.                https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/davidkoresh.html. Accessed 20 February 2023.

Cartwright, Gary. “The Enemy Within – Texas Monthly.” Texas Monthly, June 1993, https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/the-enemy-within-2/. Accessed 21 February 2023.

Cook, Kevin. Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias. Henry Holt and Company, 2023.

Gladwell, Malcolm. “Sacred And Profane.” The New Yorker, 31 March 2014, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/31/sacred-and-profane-4. Accessed 23 February 2023.

Guinn, Jeff. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage. Simon & Schuster, 2023.

Hibbert, A. Anthony. Before the Flames: Story of David Koresh and the Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists. Seaburn Pub., 1996.

Ling, Justin. “How a Crazy Plan to Rebuild Waco Compound Gave Us Alex Jones.” The Daily Beast, 26 November 2021, https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-crazy-plan-to-rebuild-waco-compound-gave-us-alex-jones. Accessed 20 February 2023.

What drives someone to pretend to have a serious illness? In this episode of Strange Country, cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss two women who convinced friends, loved ones and colleagues that they were dying.

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Cite your sources:

Kettler, Sara. “The Story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Her Mother.” Biography (Bio.), 3 June 2021, https://www.biography.com/crime/gypsy-rose-blanchard-mother-dee-dee-murder. Accessed 4 February 2023

Kiefer, Peter. “The 'Grey's Anatomy' Liar Confesses it All.” The Ankler., 7 December 2022, https://theankler.com/p/the-greys-anatomy-liar-confesses. Accessed 4 February 2023.

LaTour, Kathy. “Jonathan White is a fraud -- and other strange things.” Cure Today, 22 July 2009, https://www.curetoday.com/view/jonathan-white-is-a-fraud--and-other-strange-things. Accessed 4 February 2023.

“Munchausen syndrome: Symptoms, Treatment & Definition.” Cleveland Clinic, 23 November 2020, https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9833-munchausen-syndrome-factitious-disorder-imposed-on-self. Accessed 3 February 2023.

Peretz, Evgenia. “How ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Writer Elisabeth Finch Appropriated Her Wife’s Traumatic Past.” Vanity Fair, 3 May 2022, https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/05/greys-anatomy-elisabeth-finch-jennifer-beyer. Accessed 4 February 2023.

Peretz, Evgenia. “How ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Writer Elisabeth Finch Used Lies to Create Must-See TV.” Vanity Fair, 2 May 2022, https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/05/greys-anatomy-elisabeth-finch-truth-lies. Accessed 4 February 2023.

Ruddy, Erin Zammett. “She Said She Had Breast Cancer--But She Lied.” Glamour, 2 October 2008, https://www.glamour.com/story/she-said-she-had-breast-cancer-but-she-lied. Accessed 3 February 2023.

Hello dear readers! Happy Listening Love month! Join Beth and Kelly as we try to learn the real story of Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman immigrant in America. 1834 was the year when middle-class Americans were looking to spend some cash at Marshalls, but could only attend exploitative shows featuring Afong. Learn as little as possible about a woman who everyone was talking about, and no one really cared about. Welcome to ‘merica!

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Cite your sources:

https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/afong-moy-the-chinese-lady.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afong_Moy.

Davis, Nancy E. “Afong Moy on the 21st Century Stage.” OUPBlog, 2021. OUPBlog, https://blog.oup.com/2021/12/afong-moy-on-the-21st-century-stage/. Accessed 05 02 2023.

Haddad, John R. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in US Culture: 1776-1876. Columbia University Press. http://www.gutenberg-e.org/haj01/frames/printframe.html.

Hsiao, Irene. “Afong Moy Was a Real Person.” Chicago Reader, 11 May 2022.

“Remembering Afong Moy – The Library Company of Philadelphia.” The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1 February 2021, https://librarycompany.org/2021/02/01/remembering-afong-moy/. Accessed 6 February 2023.

As librarians, Beth and Kelly know Bigfoot books are located in the nonfiction section; the 001s for the unexplained, yet to be definitively proved. But for Bigfootaphiles, the penultimate proof is a nearly minute-long shaky film of a sasquatch walking near a creek bed shot in 1967 in northern California. Strange Country delves into this film and other Bigfoot encounters in this episode. And answers the question, is the film legit. Short answer? No. Long answer? Nooooooooooooooo.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

“Bigfoot bounty passes $2 million if captured unharmed.” FOX 5 San Diego, 10 March 2021, https://fox5sandiego.com/news/trending/bigfoot-bounty-passes-2-million-if-captured-unharmed/. Accessed 1 February 2023.

“Bigfoot Patterson Film Hoax Solved.” (2005). YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVegHHmZ028

“Bigfoot - Patterson/Gimlin Film Stabilized (2016). YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q60mSMmhTZU

Carey, Jonathan. “The Bigfoot Trap – Jacksonville, Oregon.” Atlas Obscura, 13 August 2017, https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-bigfoot-trap-jacksonville-oregon. Accessed 1 February 2023.

Crair, Ben. “Why Do So Many People Still Want to Believe in Bigfoot?” Smithsonian Magazine, September 2018, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-so-many-people-still-believe-in-bigfoot-180970045/. Accessed 1 February 2023.

Daegling, David J. Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend. AltaMira Press, 2004.

Koroff, K. K., & Kocis, M. (2004). Exposing Roger Patterson's 1967 Bigfoot Film Hoax. Skeptical Inquirer. https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2004/07/22164653/p35.pdf

Lei, Richard. “The Reliable Source.” The Washington Post, 7 March 2004, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2004/03/07/the-reliable-source/87511230-07b8-4c97-9424-602dbd413da3/. Accessed 1 February 2023.

Margaritoff, Marco. “The Legend Of Sasquatch In 8 Bigfoot Sightings Too Unnerving To Ignore.” The Legend Of Sasquatch In 8 Bigfoot Sightings Too Unnerving To Ignore, 11 April 2021, https://allthatsinteresting.com/bigfoot-sightings/4. Accessed 1 February 2023.

McPhate, Mike. “When California introduced Bigfoot to the world.” California Sun, 7 August 2018, https://www.californiasun.co/when-california-introduced-bigfoot-to-the-world/. Accessed 1 February 2023.

Oregon Public Broadcasting. (2019). The Film That Made Bigfoot a Star. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVo6Vj0_Xbo. 

Rosman, John. “Film Introducing Bigfoot To World Still Mysterious 50 Years Later.” Oregon Public Broadcasting, 20 December 2017, https://www.opb.org/news/article/bigfoot-patterson-gimlin-sasquatch/. Accessed 1 February 2023.

Shersby, Megan. “5 of the new species discovered in 2023 | Discover Wildlife.” BBC Wildlife Magazine, 1 February 2023, https://www.discoverwildlife.com/news/new-species-discovered-this-year/. Accessed 1 February 2023.

Spitzer, Gabriel. “Bigfoot ruined this man's life, then gave him a fresh start.” KNKX, 8 August 2020, https://www.knkx.org/other-news/2020-08-08/bigfoot-ruined-this-mans-life-then-gave-him-a-fresh-start. Accessed 1 February 2023.

Welcome back, readers! Where the hell have you been? This episode--249, if you are counting—Kelly and Beth explore the side of Henry Ford that weirdly gets left out of his story. Ford, the innovator and 20th-century Elon Musk, is also Henry Ford the antisemite. He didn’t try to hide it, and neither are we. Welcome back to the podcast that reminds you ‘merica is strange, and women take up half the world but are still ignored, as are all the people who aren’t rich. Thanks for listening; it is an act of love.

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Cowen, Alison L. “Off the Shelf; The Industrial Genius Who Hated Difference.” New York Times, Section 3 ed., 09 December 2001, p. 6, https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/business/off-the-shelf-the-industrial-genius-who-hated-difference.html.

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Downen, Robert. “Jewish Texans see surge in antisemitism as a precursor to fascism.” The Texas Tribune, 28 November 2022, https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/28/texas-antisemitism-violence-fascism/. Accessed 21 January 2023.

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Shirley Jackson has had a resurgence this century, her works being turned into successful series and movies. But when she was writing in the mid-20th century, she had to contend with sexism, a philandering husband, a cold mother, and male reviewers who didn’t get her writing about the plight of women.

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Cooke, Rachel, et al. “Laurence Jackson Hyman on his mother Shirley: 'Her work is so relevant now….'” The Guardian, 12 December 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/12/laurence-jackson-hyman-mother-shirley-jackson-dark-tales. Accessed 7 December 2022.

Franklin, Ruth. Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life. WW Norton, 2016.

Heller, Zoë. “The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson.” The New Yorker, 17 October 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/the-haunted-mind-of-shirley-jackson. Accessed 7 December 2022.

McGrath, Charles. “The Case for Shirley Jackson.” The New York Times, 30 September 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/books/review/shirley-jackson-ruth-franklin.html?searchResultPosition=2. Accessed 7 December 2022.

Miller, Laura. “The Alternating Identities of Shirley Jackson.” The New York Times, 11 July 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/11/books/review/laurence-jackson-hyman-the-letters-of-shirley-jackson.html. Accessed 7 December 2022.

Trombetta, Sadie, and Shirley Jackson. “Shirley Jackson's Horror Novel 'Hangsaman' Was Inspired By A Real-Life Disappearance.” Bustle, 18 October 2018, https://www.bustle.com/p/shirley-jacksons-horror-novel-hangsaman-was-inspired-by-a-real-life-disappearance-12217498. Accessed 7 December 2022.

Dearest Dashies: It’s time to learn about the Most Dangerous Woman in the World, aka, Mother Jones. Have you ever heard of her? Do you read the magazine that has her namesake? Mother Jones is a worthy woman to know and love and maybe resurrect from the dead. She stood up for what was right as far as labor rights and wrongs go. When she showed up, everyone listened. Not only did she have important things to say, she said it in an Irish brogue, which Beth and Kelly can almost do. Thanks for listening. It is an act of love.

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Jones, Mother. “Mother Jones.” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Jones. Accessed 13 November 2022.

“Mother Jones.” AFL-CIO, https://aflcio.org/about/history/labor-history-people/mother-jones. Accessed 13 November 2022.

Roberts, Jacob. “Yellow Fever Fiend.” Science History Institute, 7 April 2014, https://sciencehistory.org/distillations/yellow-fever-fiend. Accessed 13 November 2022.

Schumann, Larisa R., and Darrin Lythgoe. “Disease & Death in Early America.” Tully Area Historical Society, https://www.tullyhistoricalsociety.org/tahs/medical.php#yellowfvr. Accessed 13 November 2022.

From May 1968 to the following winter, Tony Costa went on a killing spree in Cape Cod. He claimed an alter ego egged him on to do the murderous deeds. Strange Country co hosts Beth and Kelly talk about this tiresome asshole and the problems of New Journalism in today’s episode.

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Driscoll, Molly. “New errors are discovered in 'In Cold Blood.'” Christian Science Monitor, 12 February 2013, https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2013/0212/New-errors-are-discovered-in-In-Cold-Blood. Accessed 9 November 2022.

Farhi, Paul. “Author Gay Talese disavows his latest book amid credibility questions.” The Washington Post, 30 June 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/author-gay-talese-disavows-his-latest-book-amid-credibility-questions/2016/06/30/1fede2b8-3e22-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html. Accessed 9 November 2022.

Sherman, Casey. Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod. Sourcebooks, Incorporated, 2022.

Dear Dash Hounds: Be thankful you can listen to Beth and Kelly today because, if ol’ misogynist Anthony Comstock had any say, we would have been shut down years ago. Our episode dives into the mayonnaise jar that is vice and the mailing of such materials. The Comstock Laws were created in 1873 and took until Roe v Wade in 1973 to be overturned. That’s a lot of suppression for one man to handle- but handle he did! Thanks always for listening—much love!

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Kelly’s back!!! And just in time because in this episode of Strange Country, we send in the clowns—lots of em pouring out of that one tiny car. Cohosts Beth and Kelly dive into the Clown Panic of 2016 and recognize that Americans need some media literacy lessons stat.

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Chan, Melissa. “Penn State Students Flood Streets to Hunt for Clowns.” TIME, 4 October 2016, https://time.com/4517709/penn-state-clown-hunt/. Accessed 10 October 2022.

“Clowning - Circus Clowns History and Facts.” History of Circus, 2022, http://www.historyofcircus.com/circus-facts/circus-clowns-history-and-facts/. Accessed 16 October 2022.

“Clown sightings prompt police calls in Green Bay, Wisconsin.” ABC7 Chicago, 5 August 2016, https://abc7chicago.com/green-bay-clown-freak-gags-the-wisconsin/1458590/. Accessed 16 October 2022.

Guarino, Ben. "Clown sightings have spread to North Carolina. Now police are concerned about creepy copycats." Washington Post, 7 Sept. 2016. Gale OneFile: News, link-gale-cay.orc.scoolaid.net/apps/doc/A462681051/STND?u=nysl_sc_ahs&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=dd605091. Accessed 16 Oct. 2022.

Guarino, Ben. "Police begin making arrests as false reports of clowns plague Southern towns." Washington Post, 20 Sept. 2016. Gale OneFile: News, link-gale-cay.orc.scoolaid.net/apps/doc/A464104094/STND?u=nysl_sc_ahs&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=7c0a5b24. Accessed 16 Oct. 2022.

Guarino, Ben. "South Carolina community warned about reported group of scary clowns trying to lure children into woods." Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2016. Gale OneFile: News, link-gale-cay.orc.scoolaid.net/apps/doc/A461968042/STND?u=nysl_sc_ahs&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=477a76a4. Accessed 16 Oct. 2022.

Holley, Peter. “This creepy 65-year-old clown will terrify your misbehaving kid for cash.” The Washington Post, 3 November 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/03/this-creepy-65-year-old-clown-will-terrify-your-misbehaving-kid-for-cash/. Accessed 10 October 2022.

JACOBO, JULIA. “Clown Lives Matter March Canceled Over Death Threats.” ABC News, 14 October 2016, https://abcnews.go.com/US/clown-lives-matter-march-canceled-death-threats/story?id=42805927. Accessed 16 October 2022.

Jay, Kitty. “The Untold Truth Of Ronald McDonald.” Mashed, 10 December 2020, https://www.mashed.com/124443/untold-truth-ronald-mcdonald/. Accessed 16 October 2022.

Mack, David. “People Are Being Warned About Scary Clowns Luring Kids Into The Woods.” BuzzFeed News, 29 August 2016, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/clowns-in-the-woods. Accessed 16 October 2022.

Radford, Benjamin. Bad Clowns. University of New Mexico Press, 2016.

Romano, Aja. “The great clown panic of 2016 is a hoax. But the terrifying side of clowns is real.” Vox, 12 October 2016, https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/10/12/13122196/clown-panic-hoax-history. Accessed 10 October 2022.

Teague, Matthew. “Clown sightings: the day the craze began | Clowns.” The Guardian, 5 October 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/oct/05/clown-sightings-south-carolina-alabama. Accessed 16 October 2022.

Wang, Amy B. "Target halts clown-mask sales amid creepy-clown hysteria." Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2016. Gale OneFile: News, link-gale-cay.orc.scoolaid.net/apps/doc/A466826983/STND?u=nysl_sc_ahs&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=3099f93d. Accessed 16 Oct. 2022.

Life imitates art, as they say, and in these cases life inspired some famous horror films. In today’s episode, Strange country co-host Beth and guest host Terry talk about the inspiration behind Scream, Poltergeist and When a Stranger Calls. Don’t worry Dash Hounds, Kelly will be back.

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Baby Sitter’s Slayer Sought in Missouri. Fort Wayne News Sentinel, CITY ed., 20 Mar. 1950, p. 28. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A114175C2A3D10D58%40EANX-K12-177A6E683941EE13%402433361-177A5277AA7053C1%4027-177A5277AA7053C1%40. Accessed 3 Oct. 2022.

Baby Sitter Murdered At Colombia, MO. Belleville News Democrat, 20 Mar. 1950, p. 1. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A114CEEB0320B0130%40EANX-K12-14EFA9E7C88F291A%402433361-14EFA88A4F49B399%400-14EFA88A4F49B399%40. Accessed 3 Oct. 2022. 

Baby-Sitter Raped Slain in Missouri. San Antonio Express, 20 Mar. 1950, p. 1. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A10EEA20F1A545758%40EANX-K12-161F9CBDE441D531%402433361-161DABBEB9A34419%400-161DABBEB9A34419%40. Accessed 3 Oct. 2022.

Bottles Now Quiet But Furniture Falls. Greensboro Daily News , One Star ed., 25 Feb. 1958, p. 2. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A11EA68DA9EC1533C%40EANX-K12-149BCAE9291816D9%402436260-149A09E09A75560F%401-149A09E09A75560F%40. Accessed 7 Oct. 2022.

Bottles Quit Bouncing. Greensboro Record , Final ed., 15 Feb. 1958, p. 1. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A11EA68CD17067F8E%40EANX-K12-13F92952FAC52BDE%402436250-13F927A8655D6750%400-13F927A8655D6750%40. Accessed 7 Oct. 2022.

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Family Reports Bottle Popping is Continuing. Greensboro Record , Final ed., 17 Feb. 1958, p. 11. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A11EA68CD17067F8E%40EANX-K12-13F92953D7C43508%402436252-13F927C4DE0EF853%4010-13F927C4DE0EF853%40. Accessed 7 Oct. 2022.

Fight Libel Suit. Kansas City Times, Three Star ed., 22 Dec. 1950, p. 25. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A11FF2A92A519802A%40EANX-K12-157E6E1FA9D57B10%402433638-157E200C3788F9FC%4024-157E200C3788F9FC%40. Accessed 3 Oct. 2022.

Fowler, Bella. “Mysterious death of 80s childstar and the 'Hollywood curse' surrounding it.” NZ Herald, 22 November 2019, https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/mysterious-death-of-80s-childstar-heather-orourke-and-the-hollywood-curse-surrounding-it/ZODOLPETJFGNEAF72EEOGKRDQQ/. Accessed 7 October 2022.

Hermanns Return Home Despite Bouncing Bottles. Evening News, 24 Feb. 1958, p. 9. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A11342729F00F3900%40EANX-K12-18168D1EAC91146C%402436259-181505F76591421E%408-181505F76591421E%40. Accessed 7 Oct. 2022.

Horror to Babysitter. Kansas City Times, Three Star ed., 20 Mar. 1950, p. 1. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A11FF2A92A519802A%40EANX-K12-15E82BC44A496B50%402433361-15E6872AF047C73B%400-15E6872AF047C73B%40. Accessed 3 Oct. 2022.

A Huge Slander Suit Kansas City Star, MAIN Two Star ed., 9 Aug. 1950, p. 2. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A1126152C152E4978%40EANX-K12-155B29119958819C%402433503-144E524F2CC99EF6%401-144E524F2CC99EF6%40. Accessed 3 Oct. 2022.

Kahn, Robert. “How Danny Rolling, the 'Gainesville Ripper,' Was Caught.” A&E, 29 June 2022, https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/danny-rolling-caught. Accessed 8 October 2022.

Konda, Kelly. “How a Real Life Serial Killer Inspired Kevin Williamson to Write the First Scream Movie.” We Minored in Film, 1 July 2015, https://weminoredinfilm.com/2015/07/01/how-a-real-life-serial-killer-inspired-kevin-williamson-to-write-the-first-scream-movie/. Accessed 8 October 2022.

Objects Shy Before Expert. Columbus Ledger, Two Star ed., 27 Feb. 1958, p. 8. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A1126154AC3F56D80%40EANX-K12-16B7B374CD0B0929%402436262-16B79C6138C53545%407-16B79C6138C53545%40. Accessed 7 Oct. 2022.

People All Across the Country Offer Man Explanation for His Wayward Bottles. Lexington Herald, 23 Feb. 1958, p. 25. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A114CE9E74A478FB0%40EANX-K12-1534EC750F47B1BA%402436258-1534EB88254731E9%4024-1534EB88254731E9%40. Accessed 7 Oct. 2022.

Weird Antics of Bottles Drive Family From Home. Augusta Chronicle, 22 Feb. 1958, p. 1. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A1252FEAF2D2D3A44%40EANX-K12-1281DB28E0AE1A2D%402436257-1281DB28E2525CCA%400-1281DB28E2525CCA%40. Accessed 7 Oct. 2022.

Why Do Mysterious Bottles Keep Blowing Their Tops? Charlotte Observer, Thursday ed., vol. 89, 13 Feb. 1958, p. 9. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A11260DC9BB798E30%40EANX-K12-15E2510A6995F2EF%402436248-15E33C1B4396F7CA%408-15E33C1B4396F7CA%40. Accessed 7 Oct. 2022.

Yes, It Is Hard to Believe. Kansas City Times, Three Star ed., 11 Feb. 1958, p. 1. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A11FF2A92A519802A%40EANX-K12-158DE84F8C17E5DF%402436246-158CA9C4AE344493%400-158CA9C4AE344493%40. Accessed 7 Oct. 2022.

Mildred Gillars was the American mouthpiece for Nazi Germany. Known by the GIs as Axis Sally, Gillars tried to derail the war effort by spewing garbage over the airwaves. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss Gillars rise to fame in Nazi Germany and how she’d likely have a cozy spot in some right-wing fringe network today.

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Applebaum, Anne. “Why Do Republican Leaders Continue to Enable Trump?” The Atlantic, 15 August 2020, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/612250/. Accessed 5 October 2022.

"Axis Sally Hypnotized Say Lawyers." Dallas Morning News, Final Edition ed., 26 Jan. 1949, p. 2. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A0F99DDB671832188%40EANX-K12-1036AF37755313FB%402432943-1036AF378E3E0812%401. Accessed 29 Sept. 2022. 

Axis Sally Now Living Productive Life as a Teacher. Columbus Ledger, Three Star ed., 21 Feb. 1967, p. 53. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A1126154AC3F56D80%40EANX-K12-16B838199FFF8C79%402439543-16B836ACEA7D0840%4052-16B836ACEA7D0840%40. Accessed 29 Sept. 2022. 

Blundo, Joseph "Joe" (January 30, 2011), "Sally's axis of evil ended at convent in Columbus", Columbus Dispatch, archived from the original on January 21, 2013.

Gunitsky, Seva. “Analysis | These are the three reasons fascism spread in 1930s America — and might spread again today.” The Washington Post, 12 August 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/12/these-are-the-three-reasons-that-fascism-spread-in-1930s-america-and-might-spread-again-today/. Accessed 5 October 2022.

Lucas, Richard. Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany. Casemate, 2010.

Podger, Pamela J. “Few ever charged or convicted of treason in U.S. history / Many Americans fought for other religious, political, cultural beliefs.” SFGATE, 9 December 2001, https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Few-ever-charged-or-convicted-of-treason-in-U-S-2843242.php. Accessed 5 October 2022.

Suk, Jeannie. “Did Donald Trump and His Supporters Commit Treason?” The New Yorker, 28 January 2021, https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/did-donald-trump-and-his-supporters-commit-treason. Accessed 5 October 2022.

Tarm, Michael. “Notable sedition, treason cases in American history.” AP News, 13 July 2021, https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-government-and-politics-capitol-siege-809273dd6e90d08a5109dd5a451a5c09. Accessed 5 October 2022.

Dear Dash Hounds and Readers: Join us this week on a flight of fancy—not really—actually the opposite. Dead birds falling from the sky in Arkansas. Thousands. So what caused it? Can you figure it out faster than E.T. can phone home? This is all intentional word salad to keep you interested and intrigued and to make you give us your weekly listening love.

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“Home.” YouTube, 5 December 2018, https://abcbirds.org/blog/five-fantastic-bird-migration-facts/?gclid=CjwKCAjw-L-ZBhB4EiwA76YzOVS9GNuFoyMHq0u6846EdjI5C0Xr2niteQVvcE_HWtwTRuCIIXzELhoCvzMQAvD_BwE. Accessed 25 September 2022.

Jonsson, Patrik. “Bye-Bye Blackbird: USDA Acknowledges a Hand in One Mass Bird Death.” Christian Science Monitor, 2010, https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2011/0120/Bye-Bye-Blackbird-USDA-acknowledges-a-hand-in-one-mass-bird-death. Accessed 24 September 2022.

Robertson, Campbell. “For Arkansas Blackbirds the New Year Never Came.” New York Times [Beebe], Jan. 3, 2011 January 2011.

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In 1971, middling author Clifford Irving was able to convince a giant publisher that he landed the white whale—the autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. This was a guaranteed best seller. Problem was, Irving had made the whole thing up. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss this literary con and how it all came crashing down.

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Grimes, William. “Clifford Irving, Author of a Notorious Literary Hoax, Dies at 87 (Published 2017).” The New York Times, 20 December 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/obituaries/clifford-irving-author-of-a-notorious-literary-hoax-dies-at-87.html. Accessed 4 September 2022.

Irving, Clifford. “The Movie.” Clifford Irving, 2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20071224024956/http://www.cliffordirving.com/movie.php.

Linklater, Magnus, et al. Hoax: The Inside Story of the Howard Hughes - Clifford Irving Affair. Viking Press, 1972. Accessed 4 September 2022.

Loria, Kevin. “What Motivates Con Artists?” Business Insider, 12 February 2016, https://www.businessinsider.com/what-motivates-con-artists-2016-2. Accessed 9 September 2022.

Smith, Harrison. “Clifford Irving, whose 'autobiography' of Howard Hughes nearly fooled the nation, dies at 87.” The Washington Post, 21 December 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/clifford-irving-whose-autobiography-of-howard-hughes-nearly-fooled-the-nation-dies-at-87/2017/12/21/83c7f9ba-e662-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html. Accessed 29 August 2022. 

Frank Lloyd Wright is considered one of America’s most influential 20th century architects. While he built homes designed for family togetherness, he was blowing his own family apart. He and his mistress Mamah Borthwick squired away to Wisconsin where Wright built Taliesin. Newspapers referred to it as the Love Bungalow. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about the horrific tragedy that occurred there on Aug. 15, 1914 where seven people were brutally murdered.

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Booth, Sarah. “Wright's Grave Site Moved.” The Washington Post, 9 April 1985, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/04/09/wrights-grave-site-moved/510f9f85-3224-415a-a990-1016de77bee8/. Accessed 23 August 2022.

Drennan, William R. Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders. University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.

Hendrickson, Paul. Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2019. Accessed 26 August 2022.

Klein, Christopher. “The Massacre at Frank Lloyd Wright's ‘Love Cottage.’” History.com, 29 January 2019, https://www.history.com/news/the-massacre-at-frank-lloyd-wrights-love-cottage. Accessed 21 August 2022.

“Taliesin Massacre (Frank Lloyd Wright).” Crime Museum, https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/famous-murders/taliesin-massacre-frank-lloyd-wright/. Accessed 21 August 2022.

Dear Dash Hounds: Beth and Kelly realized we don’t talk enough about animals. Sure there are many stories about strange ‘Mericans, but what about the monkeys in this country? Get ready for a wild episode full of surprise monkey noises, and facts about two monkey colonies that are right in our backyard. Join us this week for as much fun as a barrel of … thanks always for listening it is an act of love.

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Bartelme, Tony, and Shamira McCray. “SCDNR makes millions from company leasing Monkey Island, prompting ethical concerns.” Post and Courier, 4 March 2022, https://www.postandcourier.com/uncovered/sc-agency-rakes-in-millions-from-pharma-company-it-regulates/article_60a80662-82e1-11ec-94d8-2791d3f53dcd.html. Accessed 22 August 2022.

Douthat, Strat. “The Mystery of 'Monkey Island.'” AP News, 26 October 1986, https://apnews.com/article/9bd81b54c3d30481a945c469078b2d60. Accessed 22 August 2022.

“Home.” YouTube, https://www.facebook.com/RepNancyMace/videos/rep-nancy-mace-highlights-discoveries-of-monkey-island/925075514807257/?_rdr. Accessed 22 August 2022.

Johnson, Steve. “Florida Silver River monkeys: Animals brought for tourism carry herpes.” USA Today, 24 February 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/24/florida-silver-river-monkeys-animals-brought-tourism-carry-herpes/4857192002/. Accessed 22 August 2022.

Marshall, Carolyn. “Monkeys for Research.” New York Times, 6 April 2004, https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/06/science/monkeys-for-research-much-coveted-and-hard-to-come-by.html.

“Morgan Island, South Carolina.” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Island,_South_Carolina. Accessed 22 August 2022.

Morton, Caitlin. “Strange Facts About the U.S.” Conde Nast Traveler, 7 September 2017, https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/50-strange-but-true-facts-about-the-us. Accessed 22 August 2022.

Roth, Annie. “These wild monkeys thrive in Florida—and carry a deadly virus.” National Geographic, 9 November 2018, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/florida-rhesus-monkeys-herpes-running-wild-invasive-species. Accessed 22 August 2022.

Taub, David M. “The True Story of Monkey Island, Part 2 – Beaufort South Carolina.” The Island News, 28 February 2019, https://yourislandnews.com/the-true-story-of-monkey-island-part-2/. Accessed 22 August 2022.

Wolfe, Kerry. “Morgan Island – Morgan Island, South Carolina.” Atlas Obscura, 19 January 2012, https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/morgan-island. Accessed 22 August 2022.

Raymond Fernandez took advantage of widows and spinsters who sent their bios into the Lonely Hearts Club in the 1940s. Martha Beck was one such lonely heart who fell for Raymond and took part in his schemes where the two murdered three people for their money. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss this murderous duo, and the ridiculous amount of coverage devoted to Beck’s body. Beck even asked herself: “Am I on trial for murder or for being fat?”

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“2 ‘Lonely Hearts’ Pay Death Penalty.” The New York Times, 9 March 1951, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/09/82101582.html?pageNumber=52. Accessed 17 August 2022.

Brown, Wenzel. Introduction to Murder: The Lonely Hearts Murder. New American Library, 1952. 

Buhk, Tobin T. The Lonely Hearts Killers: The Bloody Passions of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2020.

Fiske, David. “Executions Ended ‘Lonely Hearts Killers’ Spree.” New York Almanack, 12 March 2020, https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2020/03/executions-ended-lonely-hearts-killers-spree/. Accessed 17 August 2022.

“The Lonely Hearts Killers - Top 10 Crime Duos - TIME.” Videos Index on TIME.com, http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1900368_1900369_1900362,00.html. Accessed 17 August 2022.

“Martha Beck Biography.” OurBiography, 22 September 2018, https://www.ourbiography.com/martha-beck/. Accessed 17 August 2022.

OConnor, Jessica. “The Lonely Hearts Killers And Their String Of Brutal Murders.” All That's Interesting, 17 July 2022, https://allthatsinteresting.com/lonely-hearts-killers. Accessed 17 August 2022.

Sedlak, Amanda. “12 Morbidly Fascinating Details About the Lonely Hearts Killers.” Ranker, https://www.ranker.com/list/lonely-hearts-killers-facts/amandasedlakhevener. Accessed 17 August 2022.

Welcome Readers to an episode surely to enlighten you or at least make you think: why didn’t I know who this person was? You may find the the story of Osh-Tisch, a Crow Bode, who was born as male and lived as female in the turn of the century, to be important for a number of reasons including; 1. Osh-Tisch lived as they wanted without discrimination until “you know who” showed up. 2. “You know who” refers to the white oppressive man who enters a lot of Strange Country episodes. 3. It is admittedly a brief bio from Beth and Kelly but we refer you to better research and better podcasts in true #bossgirl fashion. 4. Osh-Tisch is a worthy person to know and revere. They were brave, talented, honest, and we would have wanted to be their friend- otherwise the translation of their name “Finds Them and Kills Them” would freak us out a bit.

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William Penn Patrick founded Holiday Magic Cosmetics in 1964. The defunct company is mainly known by law students learning about pyramid schemes. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about this company and its bizarre management style which could involve eating turds.

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“ABC’s: the Ern Westmore Show 1953-1955.” Westmores of Hollywood, https://www.westmoresofhollywood.com/ern. Accessed 2 August 2022.

“A not so magical holiday with Holiday Magic Cosmetics.” The Makeup Museum, 25 February 2021, https://www.makeupmuseum.org/home/2021/02/holiday-magic-cosmetics.html. Accessed 2 August 2022.

Boudonck, Greg. “Holiday Magic MLM Company: A Review.” Online MLM Community, 1 March 2016, https://onlinemlmcommunity.com/holiday-magic-mlm-company-a-review/. Accessed 2 August 2022.

Broyard, Anatole. “Books of The Times.” The New York Times, 28 November 1972, https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/28/archives/thrift-shops-of-the-psyche.html. Accessed 2 August 2022.

Charlotte News, 12 Sept. 1969, p. 18. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=image/v2%3A1126167831380960%40EANX-K12-16F5944E490337BE%402440477-16F476A912287FE0%4017-16F476A912287FE0%40. Accessed 27 July 2022.

“Exploring THE PIT.” The Bedlam Files, 2022, https://thebedlamfiles.com/commentary/exploring-the-pit/. Accessed 2 August 2022.

"'Fraud of the decade': The incredible implosion of the Bay Area's biggest pyramid scheme." Governance, Risk & Compliance Monitor Worldwide (Amman, Jordan), sec. NEWS, 25 Jan. 2022. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/187BF551A1462870. Accessed 26 July 2022.

Freeman, Cameron. “Excerpt: The pit: a group encounter defiled, by Gene Church and Conrad DCarnes. (Out of Print).” Cameron Freeman, https://cameronfreeman.com/personal/confessions-cult-leader-lifestream-seminar-experience/group-encounter-defiled-gene-church-conrad-dcarnes-print/. Accessed 2 August 2022.

Langone, Michael D. “Cult Info Since 1979 - Business and the New Age Movement.” International Cultic Studies Association, https://www.icsahome.com/articles/business-and-the-new-age-movement-langone. Accessed 2 August 2022.

Miami Herald, AIR EXPRESS ed., 11 June 1973, p. 13. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=image/v2%3A114CF48AE24B9638%40EANX-K12-15FA547FEE5C2D4B%402441845-15FA538542C6CCA4%4012-15FA538542C6CCA4%40. Accessed 27 July 2022.

Rossen, Jake. “Sell-Shocked: The Pyramid Schemer Who Convinced His Targets to Climb Into Coffins.” Mental Floss, 19 May 2022, https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/holiday-magic-pyramid-scheme. Accessed 2 August 2022.

San Jose Mercury News, 8 May 1969, p. 63. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=image/v2%3A1126156B6E3010F0%40EANX-K12-18255DAB84142E73%402440350-1824A0FA44C3E55D%4062-1824A0FA44C3E55D%40. Accessed 27 July 2022.

“Welcome To The Pit: A Leadership Conference With Deadly Results.” Inside Mystery, https://www.insidemystery.com/welcome-to-the-pit-a-leadership-conference-with-deadly-results. Accessed 2 August 2022.

“Who Was William Penn Patrick? The Crazy Story Of Holiday Magic.” The Snapping Point, 9 February 2020, https://thesnappingpoint.com/william-penn-patrick-holiday-magic/. Accessed 2 August 2022.

It’s summertime, Readers, and that means time to cautiously hit the road, head to the skies, climb aboard (that’s what she said). No really. Kelly said that—be sure to laugh during the intro to today’s episode. We do hope you are all catching some time to travel this summer, and we have a few tips to keep you worldly but stable. Mostly don’t join a cult. You may not even know it is happening. We doubt that though since listening to us keeps you sharp enough to spot a cult miles away–or does it? In today’s episode learn how Kelly innocently brings her family to yet another cult experience, this time at a Yellow Deli, a known front for the Twelve Tribes. Haven’t heard of TT? Well strap in…ew…and listen up! Thanks always Dash Hounds for your listening love!

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Bradbury, Shelley. "They are Evil: Ex Twelve Tribes members describe child abuse, control inside religious cult." The Denver Post. March 3, 2022. shttps://www.denverpost.com/2022/03/03/twelve-tribes-cult-child-abuse/

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Kelley, Brendan Joel. Into Darkness. SPLC INtelligence Report. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2018/darkness

Montell, Amanda. Cultish, the language of fanaticism. Harper Wave.HarperCollins, New York, 2022.

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https://www.yellowdeli.com/

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In the concluding episode on Jeffrey MacDonald, Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly delve into the theory that maybe MacDonald didn’t murder his wife and kids. Maybe he did, but Errol Morris outlines a case where it appears MacDonald was not given a fair shake at his criminal trial.

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Anson, Robert Sam. “The Devil and Jeffrey MacDonald.” Vanity Fair, https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1998/07/macdonald199807. Accessed 13 July 2022.

Beyerstein, Lindsay, and James Harkin. “Wilderness of Errol.” Columbia Journalism Review, 8 January 2013, https://archives.cjr.org/critical_eye/wilderness_of_errol.php. Accessed 13 July 2022.

Frankie, C. M. “Did Jeffrey MacDonald Kill His Family or Was He the Victim of Manson Copycats?” A&E, 22 September 2020, https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/jeffrey-macdonald-murder-case. Accessed 20 July 2022.

Malcolm, Janet. The journalist and the murderer. Edited by Victoria Wilson, Knopf, 1990.

McGinniss, Joe. Fatal Vision. Putnam, 1983. 

Morris, Errol. A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald. Penguin Press, 2012.

Taylor, Paul. “The Return of Jeffrey MacDonald.” The Washington Post, 16 January 1985, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/01/16/the-return-of-jeffrey-macdonald/7fe1287e-2bc1-4f2d-bc5c-f41a84f30a2d/. Accessed 13 July 2022.

Wagner, David, and Michael LaPointe. “Joe McGinniss Is Back to Defending Himself, This Time Against Errol Morris.” The Atlantic, 14 September 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/09/joe-mcginniss-back-defending-himself-time-against-errol-morris/323631/. Accessed 20 July 2022.

Woolverton, Paul. “Jeffery MacDonald, 'Fatal Vision' killer, drops request to be freed.” The Fayetteville Observer, 17 September 2021, https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/2021/09/17/nc-fatal-vision-killer-jeffery-macdonald-drops-request-freed/8379040002/. Accessed 20 July 2022.

Jeffrey MacDonald was convicted in 1979 of killing his pregnant wife Colette and two young daughters Kimberly and Kristen. These murders have been the subject of documentaries, books, tv series, and most importantly, Strange Country Podcast. In today’s topic, cohosts Beth and Kelly’s discuss the book that set the narrative, Joe McGinness’s Fatal Vision.

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Anson, Robert Sam. “The Devil and Jeffrey MacDonald.” Vanity Fair, https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1998/07/macdonald199807. Accessed 13 July 2022.

Beyerstein, Lindsay, and James Harkin. “Wilderness of Errol.” Columbia Journalism Review, 8 January 2013, https://archives.cjr.org/critical_eye/wilderness_of_errol.php. Accessed 13 July 2022.

Malcolm, Janet. The journalist and the murderer. Edited by Victoria Wilson, Knopf, 1990.

McGinniss, Joe. Fatal Vision. Putnam, 1983. 

Morris, Errol. A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald. Penguin Press, 2012.

Taylor, Paul. “The Return of Jeffrey MacDonald.” The Washington Post, 16 January 1985, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/01/16/the-return-of-jeffrey-macdonald/7fe1287e-2bc1-4f2d-bc5c-f41a84f30a2d/. Accessed 13 July 2022.

The mystery surrounding Natalie Wood’s death continues to captivate 40 years after the fact. The answer to the question, why was Natalie Wood in the Pacific Ocean on a late, cold drizzly night, has never been sufficiently answered. Theories abound though, and Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss these theories while performing possibly the best Christopher Walken impression in history.

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Jorge Xavier Camacho, opinion contributor. (2022, June 18). Expected reversal of Miranda requires states to step up on policing. The Hill. Retrieved June 22, 2022, from https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/3517724-expected-reversal-of-miranda-requires-states-to-step-up-on-policing/ 

Mac, R., & Yaffe-bellany, D. (2022, June 15). Inside a corporate culture war stoked by a crypto C.E.O. The New York Times. Retrieved June 22, 2022, from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/technology/kraken-crypto-culture.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Business 

Margaritoff, M. (2022, April 26). Natalie Wood's death was ruled an accidental drowning - but that didn't explain the bruises. All That's Interesting. Retrieved June 22, 2022, from https://allthatsinteresting.com/natalie-wood-death 

McClure, K. (2022, May 28). Will we ever know what really happened to Natalie Wood? Salon. Retrieved June 22, 2022, from https://www.salon.com/2022/05/28/robert-wagner-officially-cleared-as-suspect-in-mysterious-of-natalie-wood/ 

Perroni, S. A. (2022). Brainstorm: An investigation of the mysterious death of film star Natalie Wood. Post Hill Press. 

Schulman, M. (2020, May 5). HBO's new Natalie Wood documentary doesn't have the answers. The New Yorker. Retrieved June 22, 2022, from https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-new-natalie-wood-documentary-doesnt-have-the-answers 

T., N. T., & DiMona, J. (2014). Natalie Wood. In Coroner, book 1. essay, Open Road Media. 

Wagner, N. G. (2020). Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind. HBO Max. 

Walsh, S. (2021, November 4). Natalie Wood was raped by Kirk Douglas, her sister alleges in a new book. Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 22, 2022, from https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/11/natalie-wood-was-raped-by-kirk-douglas-her-sister-alleges-in-a-new-book 

Wood, L. (2021). Little sister: My investigation into the mysterious death of Natalie Wood. HarperCollins. 

Yahr, Emily. "Five takeaways from HBO's Natalie Wood film, which slams rumors that Robert Wagner was involved in her death." Washington Post, 6 May 2020. Gale OneFile: News, link-gale-cay.orc.scoolaid.net/apps/doc/A622822055/STND?u=nysl_sc_ahs&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=2114f29f. Accessed 14 June 2022.

Could we actually replicate the biomes of Earth on other planets? In September 1991, eight intrepid explorers entered Biosphere 2 in the Arizona desert to spend two years seeing if humans could sustain life in the same way biosphere 1, the Earth, does. And it wasn’t so great, unless you’re heavily into mites, cockroaches, Steve Bannon and pot-bellied pigs. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss this failed experiment and why it might more sense to fix this planet than try to ruin other ones.

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Bruck, C. (2017, May 1). How Hollywood remembers Steve Bannon. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/01/how-hollywood-remembers-steve-bannon

Cooper, M. (1991, April 2). Take this terrarium and shove it. Village Voice. http://www.science-bbs.com/184-skeptic/fde8be2039817870.htm

Dewdney, A. Kee. Yes, We Have No Neutrons: An Eye-opening Tour through the Twists and Turns of Bad Science. New York City, Wiley, 1997.

Reider, Rebecca. Dreaming the Biosphere: The Theater of All Possibilities, Albuquerque, U of  New Mexico  P, 2010

Report Urges Biosphere 2 to Spend More Time on Science to Succeed. (1992, July 26). New York Times. https://link-gale-cay.orc.scoolaid.net/apps/doc/A174904647/STND?u=nysl_sc_ahs&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=f39c5a28.

Rose, Steve. "Eight go mad in Arizona: How a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong." Guardian. The Guardian, www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/13/spaceship-earth-arizona-biosphere-2-lockdown. Accessed 13 June 2022.

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Spaceship Earth, directed by Matt Wolf, Neon, 2020.

Stern, E. (1996, May 30) Project had a ‘secret’ cult. Tucson Citizen. http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue2/1996/05/30/113-project-had-secret-cult/

Wylie, I. (2001, May 5). Play your part in the Big Brother house: Win four months at the Biosphere 2 project. Guardian [London, England], 8. https://link-gale-cay.orc.scoolaid.net/apps/doc/A74296697/AONE?u=nysl_sc_ahs&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=453bcf7a

Zimmer, Carl. "The Lost History of One of the World's Strangest Science Experiment." The New York Times, 29 Mar. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/sunday-review/biosphere-2-climate-change.html. Accessed 13 June 2022.

Where do you fall on the abortion debate? Some people like to believe that if you are pro choice, you must idolize Margaret Sanger. But wait. . . do you even know who that is? Listen today, dear Dash Hounds, as we hear who this outspoken woman was. A thumbs up or a thumbs down? Is Margaret worthy of her name being on the building or her name being taken down? Your call. We do our best to give you some info. As we seem to keep learning on Strange Country, people are complicated, the world is complex, and hang on, we are about to experience everything all over again. $10 please for your fortune. Much love and thanks always for listening, it is an act of love.

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Nothing is certain but death and Strange Country’s guarantee of exquisitely-designed mousepads. Oh, and taxes. But some people really don’t like paying taxes and take their ire too far. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss Gordon Kahl, an avid anti-government pro-Posse Comitatus fan who took his anger to the extreme when he killed two US Marshalls in 1983. Luckily, we’ve seemed to address domestic terrorism now…oh wait. And sorry about the little audio glitch midstream.

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Our memories are fallible and malleable. In the 1980s and 1990s, recovered memory therapists convinced patients they had been sexually abused in some cases by satanic cults and repressed all memory of it. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss the trial of George Franklin who was convicted of murder based solely on the testimony of his daughter who “recovered” memories of witnessing him kill her childhood friend.

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Carpentier, M. (2021, Oct. 8) Where Is Eileen Franklin, Whose Recovered Memories Convicted Her Father, Now? https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/where-is-elaine-franklin-lipsker-from-showtime-docuseries-buried-now

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On this episode of Strange Country, Ofterry and Ofbryan talk about the U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion dismantling women’s reproductive freedoms. Forced birth advocates are rejoicing. The rest of us, not so much.

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Campoamoar, D. (2022, March 18). New tennessee bill would allow rapists' families, friends to sue if victims have an abortion. Today. Retrieved May 3, 2022, from https://www.today.com/parents/pregnancy/Tennessee-bill-rapists-sue-abortion-rcna20581

Chamie, J. (2021, March 3). America's single-parent families. The Hill. https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/543941-americas-single-parent-families/

Columbus Daily Enquirer, 13 Jan. 1956, p. 13. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A1126A744DB722B38%40EANX-K12-16A327FFA6234DD0%402435486-16A30E62DDBE96DF%4012-16A30E62DDBE96DF%40. Accessed 3 May 2022.

Frank, G. (2015, December 22). The death of Jacqueline Smith. Slate. from https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/12/Jacqueline-smiths-1955-death-and-the-lessons-we-havent-yet-learned-from-it.html

Hartig, H. (2021, May 6). About six-in-ten americans say abortion should belegal in all or most cases. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/05/06/about-six-in-ten-americans-say-abortion-should-be-legal-in-all-or-most-cases/

Kitchener, C. (2022, May 2). The next frontier for the antiabortion movement: A nationwide ban. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/02/abortion-ban-roe-supreme-court-mississippi/

Levin, B. (2022, March 3). GOP senator Mike Braun claims he didn't mean to say states should be able to ban interracial marriage, despite saying it multiple times. Vanity Fair. Retrieved May 3, 2022, from https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/mike-braun-supreme-court-interracial-marriage

Plain Dealer, 22 May 1956, p. 5. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A122AFBBA107AC9E4%40EANX-K12-12AC90D16DF657D6%402435616-12AC5404A0306B0C%404-12AC5404A0306B0C%40. Accessed 3 May 2022.

Plain Dealer, 24 May 1956, p. 6. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A122AFBBA107AC9E4%40EANX-K12-12AC90D42B600569%402435618-1278F359D4F878E9%405-1278F359D4F878E9%40. Accessed 3 May 2022.

Stracqualursi, V. (2021, November 16). Majority of Americans support Roe v. Wade being upheld, new poll shows. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/16/politics/americans-abortion-roe-v-wade-poll/ index.html

Supreme Court Live Updates: Calls For an Investigation and Possible Charges After Supreme Court Draft Leaked. (2022, May 3). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/03/us/roe-wade-abortion-supreme-court

In a time when democracy ruled, women had all the freedoms, people went to college and news sources were plentiful and trustworthy Wisconsin native Mildred Fish Harnack and her husband, Arvid, chose to begin their newlywed lives in the fun city of Berlin. Have you heard of it? Beth may have mentioned she has been there. That was Berlin in the 1920’s. Things were about to change. Laws were passed to keep certain people down, the rich and poor gap was widening, Mildred got let go from her professorship, and two men, Hitler and Goebbels, were really making a name for themselves talking about the ills of democracy. And Mildred from Wisconsin saw the whole city and country unravel. But instead of hightailing it back to the midwest, Mildred and her sweetheart stayed in Berlin and headed the resistance efforts. Listen as Beth and Kelly discuss the similarities of Hitler’s efforts and those of the current opposition parties trying to undermine America today. Fun times on Strange Country.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

Commonwealth Club of California. Mildred Harnack/American Grad Student/Berlin Resistance Leader. Sept. 17, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRGtZb7N6bg

Donner, Rebecca. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days. Little Brown and Company, New York. 2021.

Wisconsin Women Making History. Mildred Fish-Harnack. https://womeninwisconsin.org/profile/mildred-fish-harnack/

Do you believe psychics can predict the future? in the later half of the 20th century, Jeane Dixon was one of the best known psychics. Her astrological star rose when she “predicted” the assassination of JFK. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly, in what is predicted to be the greatest podcast episode according to a Snapple bottle cap Beth found on the sidewalk, talk about Dixon and the Jeane Dixon Effect. Also includes a recipe!

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

Christy, M. (1970, March 11). Greensboro Daily News , p. 5. Available from NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A11EA68DA9EC1533C%40EANX-K12-1446EE6624E4B6E2%402440657-1446B2E11BB77DA7%404-1446B2E11BB77DA7%40.

Dixon, J. (1976). Jeane Dixon’s Astrololgical Cookbook. Morrow

Dixon, J. (1998). Do Cats Have ESP? Courage Books. 

Horowitz, M. (2015, November 21). The last JFK assassination myth: Debunking the eerie prediction that won't go away. Salon. Retrieved April 20, 2022, from https://www.salon.com/2015/11/21/the_last_jfk_assassination_myth_debunking_the_eerie_prediction_that_wont_go_away/ 

Jeane Dixon & the Jeane Dixon effect. Jeane Dixon and the Jeane Dixon effect - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com. (n.d.). Retrieved April 20, 2022, from http://www.skepdic.com/dixon.html 

Jeane Dixon releases her predictions for 1984. (1984, January 9). Dallas Morning News, p. 5C. Available from NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A0F99DDB671832188%40EANX-K12-134DCB8A4D3C0501%402445709-134DCA6E1ED84AB2%4036-13E4C2411E7CD09F%40Jeane%2BDixon%2Breleases%2Bher%2Bpredictions%2Bfor%2B1984.

Katz, H. (1971, July 25). Washington Magazine, p. 240. Available from NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A114CF48AE24B9638%40EANX-K12-160B36A15F554C0A%402441158-16097388B95B5246%40239.

Kay Crosby Ellis, B. (1972, November 3). Jeane Dixon Predicts Future. Dallas Morning News, p. 5. Available from NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A0F99DDB671832188%40EANX-K12-0FD144D417FC2F49%402441625-0FD144D4D30EB77C%4046-0FD144D882A65F43%40Jeane%2BDixon%2BPredicts%2BFuture.

Martinez-Conde, S. and Macknik, S.L. (2018, September 20). Two neuroscientists walk into a psychic fair... Scientific American Blog Network. Retrieved April 20, 2022, from https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/illusion-chasers/two-neuroscientists-walk-into-a-psychic-fair/ 

Montgomery, R. (1965). A Gift of Prophecy: the phenomenal Jeane Dixon. Morrow.

Ruby Clayton McKee, B. (1966, April 12). Jeane Dixon Predicts Flying Objects Not from Outer Space. Dallas Morning News, p. 4. Available from NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A0F99DDB671832188%40EANX-K12-0FEAAF14EB2E4ECE%402439228-0FEAAF155E1AD62B%4031-0FEAAF17A71C614E%40Jeane%2BDixon%2BPredicts%2BFlying%2BObjects%2BNot%2Bfrom%2BOuter%2BSpace.\

San Antonio Express. (1976, March 7). San Antonio Express, p. 153. Available from NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A10EEA20F1A545758%40EANX-K12-16222F942DFA9726%402442845-16222D7E4E571ACA%40152-16222D7E4E571ACA%40.

San Antonio Express. (1976, March 28). San Antonio Express, p. 150. Available from NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A10EEA20F1A545758%40EANX-K12-16286F10D9D76A85%402442866-1626D7D2C7E6D108%40149-1626D7D2C7E6D108%40.

Tampa Bay Times. (2019, December 15). Museum provides a vision of astrologer Jeane Dixon. Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved April 20, 2022, from https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2002/06/09/museum-provides-a-vision-of-astrologer-jeane-dixon/ 

WP Company. (1997, January 27). Celebrity astrologer Jeane Dixon dies. The Washington Post. Retrieved April 20, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/01/27/celebrity-astrologer-jeane-dixon-dies/3481042f-019a-4214-8df2-07d1df359000/ 

Sound Clips

Psychic Friends Network Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGK7FNK5YBI

Ms. Cleo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxopPDMq7rs

Jeane Dixon Hotline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96CoQgBDYpQ

Jeane Dixon Spirit Speak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS84C75Cnl4

One hundred years ago, there were fewer left handed Americans than there are now. Why the change? Obviously the indoctrination of public schools…or maybe it became more accepting to be left handed and so more people feel comfortable using their dominant hand. Weird how that works. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about the stigma once attached to left-handedness and relate it to today’s anti-trans legislation being pushed by trash people.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

Adeleke, Y. (2021, September 20). Left-handers once experienced severe stigmatization and discrimination. Medium. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://historyofyesterday.com/left-handers-once-experienced-severe-stigmatization-and-discrimination-f172c2fde6ef 

Eveleth R. (2013, May 17). Two-thirds of the world still hates lefties. Smithsonian.com. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/two-thirds-of-the-world-still-hates-lefties-64727388/#:~:text=In%20many%20Muslim%20parts%20of,including%20those%20of%20the%20West .

Gallagher, J. (2019, September 5). Left-handed DNA found - and it changes brain structure. BBC News. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49579810 

Gannon, M. (2019, November 10). Why are people left- (or right-) handed? LiveScience. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.livescience.com/what-causes-left-handedness.html 

Gould, M. (2021, February 12). GOP rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene 'cheated on husband with men at gym'. Daily Mail Online. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9246917/Marjorie-Taylor-Green-openly-cheated-husband-men-gym.html 

Katz, B. (2017, May 31). A lonely snail with an unusual shell strikes out in Love. Smithsonian.com. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jeremy-lonely-snail-unusual-shell-strikes-out-love-180963429/ 

Lutz, E., & Ecarma, C. (2022, April 8). "Children as collateral damage": GOP's latest culture war targets Trans Kids. Vanity Fair. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/alabama-anti-trans-bill 

Pinsker, J. (2014, December 11). Why lefties make less. The Atlantic. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/why-lefties-make-less/383635/ 

Praderio, C., & Lakritz, T. (2021, August 13). 17 little ways that the world is designed for right-handed people. Insider. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.insider.com/things-that-are-hard-for-left-handed-people-2016-11 

Restak, R. M. (1988, December 11). Do we want a left-handed president? The Washington Post. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1988/12/11/do-we-want-a-left-handed-president/1a6c49dc-0e40-4ea3-ab4b-e3956dc04208/ 

Roth, M. (2005). The Left Stuff: How the Left Handed Have Survived and Thrived in a Right-Handed World. M. Evans & Company.

Rothman, L. (2015, August 13). Left-handed history: When lefties were first accepted. Time. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://time.com/3978951/lefties-history/ 

Valdez, A. (2021, April 15). Alabama ranks second in the nation for Worst Places to Live. WDHN. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.wdhn.com/news/alabama-ranks-second-in-the-nation-for-worst-places-to-live/ 

Valentin, N. (2020, May 29). The long history of left-handed persecution. Medium. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-long-history-of-left-handed-persecution-7e1f493266f2 

Sound Clips:

Marjorie Taylor Greene Spews Hateful Garbage: https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1511504578423963655

The Backward Snail Just Wants to Find Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX2YQDPRZyM

Dear Dashhounds, are you one of the 75% (15% according to Beth) who know the term, Dewey Decimal System? Do you care? You will today as Strange Country hosts Beth and Kelly discuss the life and times of Melvil Dewey, which really encompassed a lot of misogyny, racism and antisemitism. Yet still he was lauded as a library great. How do we handle these people of the past, and how should we handle them now? The answer lies within a sweet song that you won’t be able to get out of your head. Always, thanks for listening it is an act of love which is the opposite of fear.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources: 

Albanese, Andrew. ALA 2019: ALA Votes to Strip Melvil Dewey's Name from its Top Honor. Publisher's Weekly. June 24, 2019. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/80557-ala-votes-to-strip-melvil-dewey-s-name-from-its-top-honor.html

Albright, Madeliene. An Undiplomatic Moment. New York Times, Feb. 3, 2016

Beck, Clare. The New Woman as Librarian. The Career of Adelaide Hasse. Scarecrow Press. 2006. 

Ford, Anne. Bringing Harassment out of the History Books. American Libraries. June 1, 2018. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2018/06/01/melvil-dewey-bringing-harassment-out-of-the-history-books/

Gambino, Megan. Madeliene Albright and Her Life in Pins. Smithsonian Magazine. June 10.

Mann, Bryan. Re-Evaluating Lake Placid Notable Melville Dewey's Legacy in the "me too" era. July 17, 2019. NCPR. https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/39142/20190717/re-evaluating-lake-placid-notable-melville-dewey-s-legacy-in-the-me-too-era

"Melville Dewey." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. March 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvil_Dewey

Nunes, Christina Zita. Cataloging Black Knowledge. Perspectives on  History. Nov. 20, 2018. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/december-2018/cataloging-black-knowledge-how-dorothy-porter-assembled-and-organized-a-premier-africana-research-collection

Weeks, Linton. The Undimmed Light. The Washington Post. Nov. 15, 1995. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/11/15/the-undimmed-light/5e4330cc-4d2e-40d6-9c11-8af6e28b9c84/

https://www.britannica.com/science/Dewey-Decimal-Classification

https://www.ala.org/search-results?as_q=dewey

Hasse, Adelaide. https://www.cla-net.org/page/1013/California-Library-Hall-of-Fame-Adelaide-Hasse.htm

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DMW65M3/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

Sound effects:

The Dewey Decimal Rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHiUQb5xg7A

Royalty-free Benny Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFLYH2LRKQw

Royalty-free the most amazing Benny Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7hitxP-070

Things seems super chill around education these days. Wait—do they? Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about the current state legislation being passed to ban the instruction of Critical Race Theory in K-12 schools, something that isn’t happening. So since it’s not happening, what is happening instead is banning the instruction of anything associated with race or racism. As the Brooklyn 99 folks like to say, cool cool cool cool cool.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

ABC4 Utah. (2021, May 4). What you need to know about Idaho's new critical race theory law. ABC4 Utah. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/what-you-need-to-know-about-idahos-critical-race-theory-law/

Barakat, M. (2022, February 15). Youngkin looks to root out critical race theory in Virginia. AP NEWS. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://apnews.com/article/education-richmond-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-virginia-8ad5da65b9cb05265f2b8081c41827cd 

Bella, T. (2022, February 4). Black history month is not critical race theory, Alabama educator says in response to complaints. The Washington Post. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/04/alabama-black-history-month-crt-schools/ 

Bittle, J., Pareene, A., Tomasky, M., Noah, T., & Shephard, A. (2022, March 20). The Fox News guest behind the Republican Frenzy over Critical Race Theory. The New Republic. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://newrepublic.com/article/162617/christopher-rufo-critical-race-theory-interview 

Cobb, J. (2021, September 20). The man behind critical race theory. The New Yorker.  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/20/the-man-behind-critical-race-theory

Craig, T. (2022, March 11). Florida legislature passes bill that limits how schools and workplaces teach about race and identity. The Washington Post. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/10/florida-legislature-passes-anti-woke-bill/ 

Dixon, K. (2022, March 14). Bill Banning 'divisive concepts' in schools passes Georgia Senate. Axios. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2022/03/14/bill-banning-divisive-concepts-schools-passes-georgia-senate 

Donahue, A. R. (2022, January 12). State Education Board passes measure countering GOP's 'critical race theory' bills  ⋆ Michigan Advance. Michigan Advance. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://michiganadvance.com/2022/01/12/state-education-board-passes-measure-countering-gops-critical-race-theory-bills/ 

Guynn, J. (2022, March 15). Florida law will restrict how race is discussed. USA TODAY (USA), p. A5. Available from NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/188BEDD20BC605D8.

Herron, A. (2022, March 1). Indiana Senate kills CRT-inspired legislation that created outrage among educators, Black Hoosiers. The Indianapolis Star. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2022/02/28/hb-1134-indiana-senate-kills-crt-critical-race-theory-inspired-legislation/9323738002/ 

Jones, Z. C. (2022, March 10). Florida legislature passes "stop woke act," Second controversial education bill this week. CBS News. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-critical-race-theory-education-stop-woke-act/ 

Jones, S. (2021, July 11). How to manufacture a moral panic. Intelligencer. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/christopher-rufo-and-the-critical-race-theory-moral-panic.html 

Kiersz, A., & Gal, S. (2020, July 8). 26 simple charts to show friends and family who aren't convinced racism is still a problem in America. Business Insider. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.businessinsider.com/us-systemic-racism-in-charts-graphs-data-2020-6 

Matzen, M. (2022, February 10). Education Committee votes to limit critical race theory instruction in South Dakota's public schools. Argus Leader. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/education/2022/02/09/critical-race-theory-crt-south-dakota-public-schools-legislature-limited/6728586001/ 

McGee, K. (2021, June 15). Texas "critical race theory" bill limiting teaching of current events signed into law. The Texas Tribune. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/15/abbott-critical-race-theory-law/ 

Meckler, L., & Dawsey, J. (2021, June 21). Republicans, spurred by an unlikely figure, see political promise in targeting critical race theory. The Washington Post. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/06/19/critical-race-theory-rufo-republicans/ 

Messer-Kruse, T. (2022, February 16). How to sink anti-CRT bills. The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-sink-anti-crt-bills?bc_nonce=jwfrpc6h01bmnrbftplf8&cid=reg_wall_signup

Napsha, J. (2022, March 16). Norwin debate continues in regards to systemic racism, critical race theory. TribLIVE. Retrieved March 20 2022, from https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/norwin-debate-continues-in-regards-to-systemic-racism-critical-race-theory/

Ramjug, P. (2021, December 21). Seven out of 10 people don’t know what critical race theory is, US poll finds. News@Northeastern. https://news.northeastern.edu/2021/12/23/critical-race-theory-survey/

Randall Kennedy on why critical race theory is important ❧ current affairs. Current Affairs. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/03/randall-kennedy-on-why-critical-race-theory-is-important 

Ray, R., & Gibbons, A. (2022, March 9). Why are states banning critical race theory? Brookings. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/07/02/why-are-states-banning-critical-race-theory/ 

Rufo, C. F. (2021, June 23). Washington Post tried to smear me for criticizing race theory - and failed spectacularly. New York Post. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://nypost.com/2021/06/22/washington-post-tried-to-smear-me-for-criticizing-race-theory-and-failed/ 

Wallace-Wells, B. (2021, June 18). How a conservative activist invented the conflict over critical race theory. The New Yorker. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-conservative-activist-invented-the-conflict-over-critical-race-theory 

Sound effects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCR8pZ2C7to - Brooklyn 99

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0sofJcByXE 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4TAQF6ocLU - The Reid Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEtHS8Gp5zg - Gov. Tate Reeves

https://twitter.com/thegoodliars/status/1455243036795998212 - Good Liars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FBh1MYyVO4 - Norwin BOE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxc6iqRC-n8 - I Have a Dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBXRdWflV7M - Tucker Carlson

We all the run risk of falling for a con and we all believe we are immune to it. For the low, low cost of $9.99 a month, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly can teach you how to avoid scams as soon as they free a Nigerian Prince. Today’s episode explores the cons of Victor Lustig who sold the Eiffel Tower twice.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources: 

Demain, B. (2020, Aug. 21). Smooth operator: How con man “count” Victor Lustig sold the Eiffel Tower—Twice. Mentalfloss. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12809/smooth-operator-how-victor-lustig-sold-eiffel-tower

Hutson, M. (2016, Jan. 12). Why we all fall for con artists. The Cut. 

https://www.thecut.com/2016/01/why-we-all-fall-for-con-artists.html

King, G. (2012, Aug. 22). The smoothest con man that ever lived. Smithsonian Magazine. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-smoothest-con-man-that-ever-lived-29861908/

Konnikova, M. (2016). The Confidence Game: Why we fall for it every time. Penguin Books.

Maysh, J. (2016). Handsome devil. Kindle single.

Sound effects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFxZ15xXVRk - French music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruVYJsFBA_o - Melania’s christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_sOSIR-Kk - Don Jr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLDBwzuM2Zg - Kimberly G

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEi9wgbob-0 - Les Miz

On Dec. 21, 1954, the world was supposed to be flooded, and true believers taken aboard flying saucers to safety. When that didn’t happen, the Seekers tried to excuse away the no-show aliens, and thus cognitive dissonance entered the American psyche. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss how Leon Festinger put his theory to the test by pretending to be a true believer to study how followers managed their cognitive dissonance when the world kept spinning.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

Adventures by A Himitsu https://soundcloud.com/a-himitsu

Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 

Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/2Pj0MtT

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Barnes, J. E. (2021, November 24). Pentagon forms a group to examine unexplained aerial sightings. The New York Times. Retrieved March 1, 2022, from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/us/politics/pentagon-ufos.html?searchResultPosition=1 

Beck, J. (2016, January 4). The christmas the aliens didn't come. The Atlantic. Retrieved March 1, 2022, from https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/12/the-christmas-the-aliens-didnt-come/421122/ 

Festinger, L. (1966) When prophecy fails : a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world. Harper.

Gabbat, A. (2022, February 5). 'something's coming': Is America finally ready to take ufos seriously? The Guardian. Retrieved March 1, 2022, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/05/ufos-america-aliens-government-report 

Liddell, E. (n.d.). Apocalypse Oak Park: Dorothy Martin, the Chicagoan who predicted the end of the world and inspired the theory of Cognitive Dissonance. Chicago Magazine. Retrieved March 1, 2022, from https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/may-2011/dorothy-martin-the-chicagoan-who-predicted-the-end-of-the-world-and-inspired-the-theory-of-cognitive-dissonance/ 

The current spate of book banning is nothing new in America. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly take readers back to Kanawha County in 1974 when protestors firebombed schools and shot at school buses to protest the adoption of a new textbooks. The books, they said, were obscene and would hurt children so what better way to save them but by throwing sticks of dynamites into their classrooms, right?

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Cite your sources:

Bloch, E. (2021, May 18). Florida Education commissioner says he made sure Amy Donofrio was fired; now her legal team's responding. The Florida Times-Union. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2021/05/17/florida-education-commissioner-richard-corcoran-says-fired-duval-county-teacher-supporting-blm/5134544001/ 

Foerstel, H. N. (2002). Banned in the U.S.A.: A reference guide to book censorship in Schoolsand Public Libraries. revised and expanded edition. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 

Franklin, B. A. (1975, April 15). Bomber testifies that minister blessed dynamiting of schools in book dispute. The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/15/archives/bomber-testifies-that-minister-blessed-dynamiting-of-schools-in.html 

Harris, E. A., & Alter, A. (2022, January 30). Book ban efforts spread across the U.S. The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/30/books/book-ban-us-schools.html 

Martin, W. (1982, November 1). The guardians who slumbereth not. Texas Monthly. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-guardians-who-slumbereth-not/ 

Mason, C. (2009). Reading appalachia from left to right conservatives and the 1974 kanawha county textbook controversy. Cornell University Press. 

Mechem, B. (2022, January 20). Parents protest after black lives matter video shown to Sarasota students: Sarasota. Your Observer. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.yourobserver.com/article/parents-protest-after-black-lives-matter-video-shown-to-students 

Meckler, L., & Natanson, H. (2022, February 15). New Critical Race Theory Laws Have Teachers Scared, confused and self-censoring. The Washington Post. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/14/critical-race-theory-teachers-fear-laws/ 

NBCUniversal News Group. (2021, December 8). Texas School District pulls 400 books from library shelves for review after legislator's inquiry. NBCNews.com. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-school-district-pulls-400-books-library-shelves-review-lawmakers-rcna7891 

Posner, Sarah. "Debate over teaching books by Black authors has roots in violent 1974 clash in West Virginia." Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021, p. NA. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A680608885/STND?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=36a235ac. Accessed 12 Feb. 2022.

Schwartz, S., & Pendharkar, E. (2022, February 22). Here's the long list of topics Republicans want banned from the classroom. Education Week. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/heres-the-long-list-of-topics-republicans-want-banned-from-the-classroom/2022/02 

Vass, Kyle ”West Virginia textbook battle shows how GOP turned its image from 'blue blood to blue collar'; Before conservatives weaponized critical race theory, a violent 1974 clash over school books helped Republicans rebrand to appeal to white workers." Guardian [London, England], 25 Nov. 2021, p. NA. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A683847032/STND?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=06158f7f. Accessed 12 Feb. 2022.

Whiteleather, M. (2022, February 10). Bill could require posting a year's worth of lesson plans. teachers aren't happy. Education Week. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/bill-could-require-posting-a-years-worth-of-lesson-plans-teachers-arent-happy/2022/02 

What would you want if you were named Queen for a Day? Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about this strange game show that awarded one woman with the saddest story with blenders and washing machines rather than actual policies or help that would take her out of her awful situation.

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Cite Sources:

Buck, Stephanie. This 1950's Game Show Profited From the Poverty of a New Woman Everyday. Medium. March 24, 2017.  https://timeline.com/queen-for-a-day-tv-sexism-9bd594f509d9

O'Geiblin, Megan. Are There HIdden Advantages to Pain and Suffering? Nov.8, 2021, The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/15/are-there-hidden-advantages-to-pain-and-suffering-hurts-so-good-leigh-cowart-the-sweet-spot-paul-bloom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_for_a_Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Bailey_(actor)

MIchael Wortsman Hollywood Laundromat. 2022. Website: http://queenforaday.com/classic.php

There she is . . . the Strange Country Podcast is back after its brief Covid hiatus to talk about a 100-year-old scholarship beauty pageant that crowns an annual queen in a country that overthrew the British government to escape a king. It was a chance for young women to show their talents wearing a swimsuit and answering questions like “Was the Jan. 6 insurrection an example of legitimate political discourse?”

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Argetsinger, A. (2021, December 16). 100 years ago, the first miss america pageant was as messy as today's. The Washington Post. Retrieved February 1, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/12/16/first-miss-america-margaret-gorman/ 

Argetsinger, A. (2021). There she was: The secret history of Miss America. Atria. 

Bernstein, A. (2016, February 25). Yolande Betbeze Fox, a miss america who rebelled, dies at 87. The Washington Post. Retrieved February 1, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/yolande-betbeze-fox-a-miss-america-who-rebelled-dies-at-87/2016/02/25/32374126-dbda-11e5-81ae-7491b9b9e7df_story.html 

Braver, R. (2018, September 30). Remembering 1968: When miss america met Women's Liberation. CBS News. Retrieved February 1, 2022, from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/remembering-1968-when-miss-america-met-womens-liberation/ 

Haigh, S. (2021, December 14). Miss america turns 100. will she last another 100 years? AP NEWS. Retrieved February 1, 2022, from https://apnews.com/article/miss-america-turns-100-bf3837c87e003b3025b91700cb4e9bd8 

Lenz, L. (2019, May 14). The heavy crown of Gretchen Carlson. Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved February 1, 2022, from https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/gretchen-carlson-fox-miss-america.php 

Mifflin, M. (2021). Looking for miss america: A pageant's 100-year quest to define womanhood. Counterpoint. 

On the surface, The Lonely Doll depicts the glamour of city life. But when you dig deeper, you realize it's a disturbing portrait of deep loneliness, which is way to describe its author, Dare Wright. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about Wright's upbringing, the weird relationship with her mother and whether some people should even have children.

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Cite your Sources:

Bengal, Rebecca. “The Creepiest Children's Book.” The New Yorker, 26 Sept. 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-cultish-allure-of-the-creepy-childrens-book-the-lonely-doll.

“Kim Gordon: By the Book.” The New York Times, 26 Feb. 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/books/review/kim-gordon-by-the-book.html.

Nathan, Jean. The Secret Life of The Lonely Doll: the Search for Dare Wright. Picador/Henry Holt & Co., 2005.

Readers, we welcome you to this millionth episode of Strange Country. As much as Kelly and Beth want you to drink and be merry whilst listening to this tale of a woman named Carry A Nation, maybe you should get a glass of water and listen earlier than 9 pm. We are getting old people, and really is drinking that good for you? If Carry were alive today she would say def not- and she would also swing a hatchet in your general direction. Which is why we love her a little bit and she joins the ranks as one of our favorite hatchet wielding Strange Country ladies.

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We like to recognize our firsts, like the first American woman doctor. But sometimes being the first ain't so great especially if you're the first woman executed by the U.S. government. That distinction belongs to Mary Surratt who was executed for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate Pres. Abraham Lincoln and members of his cabinet. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about this first as well as consider interesting ideas for throw pillows.

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Cite your sources:

Larson, Kate Clifford. Assassins Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln. BasicBooks, 2011.

Mayhew, Robert. “The Female in Aristotle's Biology. Reason or Rationalization.” Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.09.19, 2004, http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2004/2004-09-19.html.

“Surratt Society Homepage.” Mary Surratt's Story, http://www.surrattmuseum.org/mary-surratt.

Readers of Strange Country- we have made a milestone- episode 1000! That is a terrible lie, but maybe it will help us in our efforts to become world famous. Also this episode learn how Kelly stays alive everyday along with the other Type 1 Diabetics of the world as Beth and Kelly discuss the discovery of insulin in 1922. Learn all kinds of new things this week including just how many cows it takes to keep a Diabetic alive each year. And why this podcast is way more fun when Beth is pissed.

If your best friend asked you to kill him, would you do it? That's what Raffi Kodikian told the park rangers when they found him in Rattlesnake Canyon, four days past his camping permit. Kodikian said he killed his best friend Dave Coughlin because Coughlin asked him to. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly ponder mercy killings, sinus infections and this sad case in episode 111.

Cite your sources:

Barcott, Bruce. “Two Went Out, One Came Back.” The New York Times, 7 Sept. 2003, https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/books/two-went-out-one-came-back.html?searchResultPosition=1.

Blanco, Juan Ignacio. “Raffi Kodikian: Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers.” Raffi Kodikian | Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers, https://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/kodikian-raffi.htm.

“Hiking Rattlesnake Canyon In New Mexico.” Hiking Rattlesnake Canyon In New Mexico -, https://sedonaredrocktours.com/hikes/hiking-rattlesnake-canyon-new-mexico/.

Holcombe, Madeline. “A 70-Year-Old Woman Fell to Her Death at the Grand Canyon National Park.” CNN, Cable News Network, 14 Aug. 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/24/us/grand-canyon-woman-dies/index.html.

Jones, Eliza Brackenridge. “Is a Murderer Always a Murderer?” Criminal, 1 Sept. 2018, https://criminal.media/is-a-murderer-always-a-murderer.

Kersten, Jason. Journal of the Dead: an Extraordinary True-Life Tale of Adventure, Friendship and Lost Dreams. Ebury, 2004

“N.M. Desert Killing Is Described.” The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/09/07/nm-desert-killing-is-described/04608402-dac2-4c5d-a53c-81dd89af90f5/.

“Physician-Assisted Suicide Fast Facts.” CNN, Cable News Network, 1 Aug. 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/us/physician-assisted-suicide-fast-facts/index.html.

Willingham, AJ. “On Average, 6 People Die in National Parks Every Week. This Is How You Can Protect Yourself.” CNN, Cable News Network, 25 Apr. 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/24/us/national-parks-service-deaths-per-week-trnd/index.html.

Robert Tulloch and Jim Parker were like a modern day Leopold and Loeb. The two teenagers believed they were higher beings who could commit murder with impunity. And like their 19th century counterparts, they got caught. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss this ghastly murder that took the lives to two beloved Dartmouth professors in 2001. This episode's PSA: If you think you're a superior being, you're not.

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Cite your sources:

Bovsun, Mara. “Teens Murder Dartmouth Professors for Cash to Start Their Life of Crime Together.” New York Daily News, 27 July 2014, https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/good-deed-bad-good-deed-bad-article-1.1881655.

“Killer in Dartmouth Professors Stabbing Case Seeks Early Release from Prison.” Valley News, 26 Apr. 2019, https://vtdigger.org/2019/04/26/killer-dartmouth-professors-stabbing-case-seeks-early-release-prison/.

“Killer in Murder of Dartmouth Professors Withdraws Bid for Early Release .” Valley News, 19 July 2019, https://vtdigger.org/2019/06/19/killer-in-murder-of-dartmouth-professors-withdraws-bid-for-early-release/.

Lehr, Dick and Mitchell Zuckoff. Judgement Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders. Harper, 2003.

Meek, James. “'It Was Dangerous. That Was the Point'.” The Guardian, 4 June 2001, https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/jun/04/highereducation.news.

Weber, Harry R. “Robert Tulloch: Formative Years.” The Barre Montpelier Times Argus, 29 June 2002, https://www.timesargus.com/news/robert-tulloch-formative-years/article_142305f9-4fa8-5f48-9307-92c44202dfd8.html.

If only Evelyn Nesbit were alive today, she may have really appreciated the Me Too movement, good therapy, and the songs of Aimee Mann. But her life happened during the turn of the Century- not this one- the last one. And guess what? She also was part of the first actual Trial of the Century! Full of misogyny, murder, and velvet red swings. Beth and Kelly of the century’s most famous Strange Country podcast love that term - Trial of the Century-and use it rather loosely. But in today’s episode we tightened things up, researched our brains out, like always, and bring to you a story from the past you are sure to enjoy. Read on listeners. Or listen on readers.

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Cite Your Sources Dude:

Bellafonte, Ginia. “The 100 Foot Gibson Girl.” New York Times, 10 May 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/nyregion/evelyn-nesbit-stanford-white.html.

“Evelyn Nesbit.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 July 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit.

“Harry Kendall Thaw.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Aug. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kendall_Thaw.

Phillips, Mark, and Aryn Z. Phillips. Trials of the Century a Decade-by-Decade Look at Ten of America's Most Sensational Crimes. Prometheus Books, 2016.

“Trial of the Century.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 26 Aug. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_century.

Around midnight on Dec. 6, someone took an ax to John Hossack's head twice. Ten hours later the farmer and father of nine was dead. His wife Margaret claimed she heard an intruder, but she and the children were immediately viewed with suspicion. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss another "trial of the century" that took place in Iowa in 1900 that rattled the notion of what women were capable of.

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Cite your sources:

Bryan, Patricia L., et al. Midnight Assassin: a Murder in Americas Heartland. Notable Trials Library, 2007.

Papa Pilgrim brought his giant family to McCarthy, AK to live a simple life, love the lord and escape vice and sin. Or that's what he told the residents who eagerly embraced this new, strange family. What he did in the isolated wilderness was much, much worse. Another gross one for Strange Country fans.

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Cite your sources:

Kirby, Mark. “Papa Pilgrim's Progress.” Outside Online, 29 July 2019, https://www.outsideonline.com/1928141/papa-pilgrims-progress-dark-tale-alaskan-frontiersman.

Kizzia, Tom. Pilgrims Wilderness: a True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier. Broadway Books, 2014.

When Jemima Wilkinson woke up from a fever in October 1776, she was no longer Jemima, she was a Christ vessel sent by God to warn humanity that the end is nigh. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about the first American-born female messiah and this one isn't murdery or gross as some of the others they've profiled.

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Cite your sources of face my wrath:

“Driving Tour Follows the Footsteps of Religious Pioneer Jemima Wilkinson.” Life in the Finger Lakes, 23 Feb. 2015, www.lifeinthefingerlakes.com/driving-tour-follows-footsteps-religious-pioneer-jemima-wilkinson/.

Morris, Adam. American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation. Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.

Moyer, Paul Benjamin. The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America. Cornell University Press, 2015.

After WW2, Americans were not fans of Nazis. It was a time that if someone were to remark there were fine Nazis, that person would get a fist in the face. That's why it was imperative that the military not let it get out that it was hiring a bunch of Nazi scientists, doctors and technologist who had just committed crimes against humanity to work for us. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about Operation Paperclip and how the drumbeat to best the Soviet Union led America to give some shitty Nazis citizenship. Just another show to remind you that nothing has meaning and everything is awful. Enjoy!

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Cite your sources:

10 Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped Justice Because They Were Useful to the US.” History Collection, 18 Apr. 2018, historycollection.co/10-nazi-war-criminals-who-escaped-justice-because-they-were-useful-to-the-us/6/.

Harnden, Toby. “Secret Papers Reveal Nazis Given 'Safe Haven' in US.” The Telegraph, 14 Nov. 2010, www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/8132550/Secret-papers-reveal-Nazis-given-safe-haven-in-US.html.

Jacobsen, Annie. Operation Paperclip the Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America. Little Brown and Company, 2014.

Lewis, Danny. “Why the U.S. Government Brought Nazi Scientists to America After World War II.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 16 Nov. 2016, www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-us-government-brought-nazi-scientists-america-after-world-war-ii-180961110/.

Lipstadt, Deborah E. “'The Nazis Next Door' by Eric Lichtblau.” The New York Times, 31 Oct. 2014, www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/books/review/the-nazis-next-door-by-eric-lichtblau.html?searchResultPosition=14.

Lower, Wendy. “Willlkommen.” The New York Times, 28 Feb. 2014, www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/books/review/operation-paperclip-by-annie-jacobsen.html.

“Picture of Stephen Miller Briefly Illustrates Wikipedia Entry on Kapos.” The Times Of Israel, 9 Apr. 2019, www.timesofisrael.com/picture-of-stephen-miller-briefly-illustrates-wikipedia-page-on-kapos/.

“The Secret Operation To Bring Nazi Scientists To America.” NPR, 15 Feb. 2014, www.npr.org/2014/02/15/275877755/the-secret-operation-to-bring-nazi-scientists-to-america.

“Strughold Award.” Space Medicine Association, spacemedicineassociation.org/strughold-award/.

Readers, you know it's true. We love you. In case you are wondering how we came up with that amazing poem, just ask some German man who really is in charge of what you hear each week on Strange Country. That's right we are all smoke and mirrors. No, that isn't true. Because if we were lying to you about our identity and our script writing skills, Kelly and Beth would be throwing up on air and that really isn't something you want to hear. Ladies and Gentlemen we are bringing you the strange story of Milli Vanilli. Yes it is a story from the 1990's. Yes it is all about pop music. And yes, it includes German dance moves that can't be beat. But it is also a story like all the others that you have grown to love on our weekly podcast; depression, deceit, poverty and power.

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Cite your sources, girl:

Hindmann, Chiccecheto, Jessica. Sounds Like Titanic. 

https://people.com/music/milli-vanilli-lip-sync-scandal-anniversary/

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/13/693532490/aspirations-come-up-against-economic-hardship-in-sounds-like-titanic

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/milli-vanilli_n_4860222

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys9mfYrybPo

Make sure to grab some five-finger grass (whatever that might be) for this episode because you are in for a primer on powwow healing. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss the hex murder of 1928--yes, you read that right--when one powwow healer killed another powwow healer he thought was cursing him. So add some dust to your coffee and find that pig's bladder and get ready for some magical thinking.

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Cite Your Sources:

“Boy Denies Joining In 'Witch Killing'.” The New York Times, 11 Jan. 1929, pp. 28–28. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/01/11/95707956.html?pageNumber=28

“Death of 5 Babies Laid to Witch Cult.” The New York Times, 4 Dec. 1928, pp. 14–14, timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/12/04/95856757.html?pageNumber=14.

Dugan, Patrick James. “The Origin and Practition of Pow-Wow.” Berks History Center, www.berkshistory.org/multimedia/articles/pow-wow/.

Editors, History.com. “Thirty Years' War.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 9 Nov. 2009, www.history.com/topics/reformation/thirty-years-war.

Ehrenreich, Barbara. Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America. Metropolitan Books, 2009.

Hohmann, John George. Pow-Wows, or Long Lost Friend: A Collection of Mysterious and Invaluable Arts and Remedies, for Man as Well as Animals. Wildside Press, 2010.

“Fear of Witchcraft Led to Murder.” The New York Times, 1 Dec. 1928, pp. 3–3, timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/12/01/95853462.html?pageNumber=3.

Frank, Megan. “Tales of Witchcraft, Spells, Murder Surround Rehmeyer's Hollow.” WGAL, WGAL, 8 Oct. 2017, www.wgal.com/article/tales-of-witchcraft-spells-murder-surround-rehmeyer-s-hollow/6239526.

Free, Shane, director. Hex Hollow: Witchcraft and Murder in Pennsylvania. 2015, www.amazon.com/Hex-Hollow-Witchcraft-Murder-Pennsylvania/dp/B01HBYJ3TG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=hex hollow&qid=1562165992&s=instant-video&sr=1-1

Glenn, Joralyn. “‘Powwowing in Pennsylvania: Healing Rituals of the Dutch Country.’” Glencairn Museum, 9 Mar. 2017, glencairnmuseum.org/newsletter/2017/3/2/powwowing-in-pennsylvania.

Kriebel, David. Powwowing Among the Pennsylvania Dutch: A Traditional Medical Practice In Pennsylvania. Penn State University Press, 2016.

McClure, Jim. “Murder and Witchcraft: The Incredible Story of York County's Hex Murder.” York Daily Record, 14 Oct. 2017, www.ydr.com/story/news/history/blogs/york-town-square/2017/10/14/murder-and-witchcraft-incredible-story-york-countys-hex-murder/764018001/.

“The Nine Years' War, 1689-1697.” Heritage, www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/exploration/9-years-war.php.

“Prisoner Told Him, 'I Got the Witch'.” The New York Times, 8 Jan. 1929, pp. 3–3, timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/01/08/95704835.html?pageNumber=3.

“'Witch' Killer Guilty, Sentenced for Life.” The New York Times, 10 Jan. 1929, pp. 1 & 20, timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/01/10/95706636.html?pageNumber=1.

Dearest Readers: Imagine you are having a typical day in your life when the phone rings (right there, we know, we just dated ourselves) and you pick it up (again with the old) and the woman on the line informs you that you have had a twin all your life. You were separated at birth, for the reasons only mad scientists from Nazi Germany can conjure up, and told a lie your whole life until now. It is time to hear the story of Paula and Elyse of NYC and many others born in NYC put up for adoption in the 60’s at the Louise Wise Agency. Can you even imagine what that did to these women and other adults in their 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s? Fucked them up. Welcome to Strange Country number 102...the hits just keep on coming. We welcome you each episode to hear about the crazy and remind you, it isn’t you who is crazy...the rest of the world is nutso! Happy Reading Dashhounds😘

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Cite Your Sources Man:

McCormick, William. Records from Controversial Twin Study Sealed at Yale until 2065. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/10/01/records-from-controversial-twin-study-sealed-at-yale-until-2065/

Schien, Elyse, Bernstein, Paula.  Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and United. Random House, Trade Paperback, New York. 2007.

Than, Ker. A Brief History of Twin Studies. Smithsonian. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/brief-history-twin-studies-180958281/

Shensiki, Lorii, The Twinning Reaction. Movie

Quercia, Jacopa della. Unsolved. Readers Digest, April 2019.

Harry Anslinger wanted to save his bureaucratic machine and he needed an enemy fast--enter marijuana. Thanks to policies he put into place, we've been fighting a futile War on Drugs for nearly 80 years. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly try to stave off their reefer madness as they talk about the impact of Anslinger's life work.

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Cite Your Sources:

Adams, Cydney. “The Man behind the Marijuana Ban for All the Wrong Reasons.” CBS News, CBS Interactive, 17 Nov. 2016, www.cbsnews.com/news/harry-anslinger-the-man-behind-the-marijuana-ban/.

Anslinger, Harry, and Courtney Riley Cooper. “Marijuana: Assassin of Youth.” Red House Books, www.redhousebooks.com/galleries/assassin.htm.

Blum, Deborah. “The Little-Told Story of How the U.S. Government Poisoned Alcohol during Prohibition.” Slate Magazine, Slate, 19 Feb. 2010, slate.com/technology/2010/02/the-little-told-story-of-how-the-u-s-government-poisoned-alcohol-during-prohibition.html.

Chasin, Alexandra. Assassin of Youth: a Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslingers War on Drugs. The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Cottle, Michelle. “Well, At Least Sheriff Joe Isn't Going to Congress.” The New York Times, 29 Aug. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/opinion/sheriff-joe-arpaio-congress.html?searchResultPosition=16.

Gladstone, Brooke. “The Man Who Declared War On Drugs | On the Media.” WNYC Studios, On the Media, 14 Aug. 2017, www.wnycstudios.org/story/man-who-declared-war-drugs.

Guzzo, Paul. “Mental Illness or Mob Hit? Questions Arise as Man Moves Into Home Where Family Was Slaughtered.” Tampa Bay Times, 18 Apr. 2019, www.tampabay.com/hillsborough/mental-illness-or-mob-hit-questions-arise-as-man-moves-into-home-where-family-was-slaughtered-20190418/.

Hari, Johann. Chasing the Scream: The First and the Last Days of the War on Drugs. Bloomsbury, 2016.

Harvey, Matt. “Did America's First Drug Czar Secretly Supply Dope to Sen. Joe McCarthy?” Alternet.org, 14 May 2013, www.alternet.org/2013/05/did-americas-first-drug-czar-secretly-supply-dope-sen-joe-mccarthy/.

“H.J. Anslinger Papers, 1835-1975 1875.” H.J. Anslinger Papers, 1835-1975 1875, www.libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1875.htm.

Lesser, Jeremy. “Today Is the 100th Anniversary of the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act.” Drug Policy Alliance, 16 Dec. 2014, www.drugpolicy.org/blog/today-100th-anniversary-harrison-narcotics-tax-act.

Schmidlin, Kyle. “Column: 'War On Drugs' Merely Fights The Symptoms Of A Faulty System.” CBS News, CBS Interactive, 13 Sept. 2008, www.cbsnews.com/news/column-war-on-drugs-merely-fights-the-symptoms-of-a-faulty-system/.

“STATEMENT OF H. J. ANSLINGER.” Statement of Harry J. Anslinger, www.druglibrary.org/SCHAFFER/hemp/taxact/anslng1.htm.

Weinreb, Michael. “The Complicated Legacy of Harry Anslinger.” Penn Stater, Jan./Feb. 2018, pp. 32–41, www.case.org/system/files/media/file/Penn Stater Harry Anslinger.pdf.

Weirde, Dr. “Chinatown's Opium Dens.” FoundSF, www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Chinatown's_Opium_Dens.

Well, well, well, readers Strange Country is now Centenarians in the podcast world! We have made it to our 100th episode. Beth and Kelly pull out all the stops for you Dear Readers as we tell the tale of D.B. Cooper the man who jumped into oblivion in 1971 with $200,000 in a knapsack from a 727 Boeing. Of course we talk about our periods and our dislike of POTUS SCROTUS- it is all related! What makes this tale strange is that yes, Dan, D.A., D.B. hijacked an airplane pretty successfully, but his identity has never been solved and many people over the years claimed to be D.B. What is your take on the culprit? Also what is your favorite memory over the past 100 episodes? Beth and Kelly would love to hear! We need a little boost this summer. Now is the perfect time to post on Facebook, or twat us, or write to us at strangecountrypodcast@gmail.com

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You know what they say, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. In this case it's probably best to keep those birds in the bushes and wash your hands immediately. On this week's episode Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about the Parrot Fever Epidemic of 1930 where it seemed Polly wanted more than a cracker...she wanted your soul!

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Cite your sources:

Honigsbaum, Mark. Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.

Inglis-Arkell, Esther. “Cows Are Deadlier Than You Ever Knew.” Gizmodo, 16 Dec. 2015, io9.gizmodo.com/cows-are-deadlier-than-you-ever-knew-1690950434.

Lepore, Jill. “It’s Spreading: Outbreaks, Media Scares, and the Parrot Panic of 1930.” The New Yorker, 25 May 2009, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/06/01/its-spreading.

Psittacosis (Ornithosis, Parrot Fever, Chlamydiosis). New York State Department of Health, Aug. 2017, www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/psittacosis/fact_sheet.htm.

Quammen, David. Spillover: Animal Infections and the next Human Pandemic. W.W. Norton, 2013.

Reuell, Peter. “Harvard Study Shows Parrots Can Pass Classic Test of Intelligence.” Harvard Gazette, 27 Feb. 2019, news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/harvard-study-shows-parrots-can-pass-classic-test-of-intelligence/.

Rooney, Kate. “Joe Biden's Swine Flu Hysteria.” Time, 8 Dec. 2009, content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379_1944338_1944286,00.html.

Hey Dash Hounds- You’re still here? That means you managed to listen to Strange Country's longest podcast ever, and still come back for more. Or you skipped that one for later- we understand. It is time now dear readers to sit back relax and enjoy Kelly and Beth unwind and eventually get to the topic of play in the Victorian Era. We glean our research from Therese Oneill’s, Ungovernable a wonderful book about all the crazy things parents did back in the day. Today we are way more advanced, I mean which one of you didn’t grow up playing drug dealer?

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Cite Your Sources.

Klass, Perri.,MD. Taking Playtime Seriuously. New York Times, Jan 29. 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/well/family/taking-playtime-seriously.html

ONeill, Therese. Ungovernable. Little Brown and Company, New York. 2019.

Whew! Mueller Report Part 2 is here and, readers, this is the longest one and the most obstructy. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly nearly didn't make it, but like a good marathon partner, Kelly dragged an exhausted Beth over the finish line, diarrhea running in rivulets down her legs. Slog through this with us and it will be worth it because then you'll know the president obstructed justice and, yet, he still remains president so you eat your feelings...or is that just me?

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Cite your sources:

Apuzzo, Matt, and Emmarie Huetteman. “Sally Yates Tells Senators She Warned Trump About Michael Flynn.” The New York Times, 18 May 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/us/politics/michael-flynn-sally-yates-hearing.html.

Berkowitz, Bonnie, et al. “Here’s What We Learned about Team Trump’s Ties to Russian Interests.” The Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/trump-russia/?utm_term=.e7bba7a83490.

Entous, Adam, et al. “Sessions Discussed Trump Campaign-Related Matters with Russian Ambassador, U.S. Intelligence Intercepts Show.” The Washington Post, 21 July 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-discussed-trump-campaign-related-matters-with-russian-ambassador-us-intelligence-intercepts-show/2017/07/21/3e704692-6e44-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html?utm_term=.7592c4f90886.

Guray, Geoffrey Lou. “How Michael Cohen Broke Campaign Finance Law.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 12 Dec. 2018, www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-michael-cohen-broke-campaign-finance-law.

Holter, Lauren. “A $15,000 Ostrich Coat & 7 Other Items Paul Manafort Dropped Stupid Money On.” Bustle, 8 May 2019, www.bustle.com/p/8-ridiculous-purchases-paul-manafort-made-like-a-15000-ostrich-coat-9961710.

Jurecic, Quinta. “Obstruction of Justice in the Mueller Report: A Heat Map.” Lawfare, 25 Apr. 2019, www.lawfareblog.com/obstruction-justice-mueller-report-heat-map.

Mueller, Robert S., et al. The Mueller Report. Scribner, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2019.

Rosenberg, Matthew. “ Contradicting Trump on Russia: Russian Officials.” The New York Times, 20 Feb. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/us/politics/donald-trump-russia.html?searchResultPosition=4.

Woodruff, Betsy. “Trump's Lawyers Plot Joint Defenses With Others Caught in Mueller Probe.” The Daily Beast, 11 June 2018, www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-lawyers-plot-joint-defenses-with-others-caught-in-mueller-probe.

It's Mueller Time, readers. Beth spent the last week reading the entire Mueller Report so you didn't have to. But you should. Really. Go read it. Now. I'll wait. Get ready for Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly to mangle some Russian names, attempt terrible Russian accents and get really, really angry. Total exoneration? This ain't it.

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Abramson, Seth. “A Thread Written by @SethAbramson.” Threader, threader.app/thread/1118631217212067841.

Banco, Erin. “Mueller Exposes Erik Prince's Lies About Russian Rendezvous.” The Daily Beast, 18 Apr. 2019, www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-exposes-erik-princes-lies-about-his-seychelles-rendezvous-with-top-russian-kirill-dmitriev.

Benen, Steve. “Trump Tries to Dismiss Adviser He Praised as an 'Excellent Guy'.” MSNBC, NBCUniversal News Group, 31 Oct. 2017, www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-tries-dismiss-adviser-he-praised-excellent-guy.

Bevan, Matthew, and Ruby Jones. “Papadopoulos and Downer Tell Us about the Drink Date That Started the Mueller Investigation.” ABC News, 23 May 2019, www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-24/mueller-investigation-george-papadopoulos-alexander-downer-speak/11107712.

Blake, Aaron. “What Does the Trump Team Say to Russia behind Closed Doors? We’re about to Get a Glimpse.” The Washington Post, 17 May 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/17/what-does-trump-team-say-russia-behind-closed-doors-were-about-get-glimpse/?utm_term=.cdbd221ceb2a.

Chaffin, Joshua, and Kiran Stacey. “Mueller Report: Trump Inner Circle and Russians Were Desperate to Connect.” The Irish Times, 20 Apr. 2019, www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/mueller-report-trump-inner-circle-and-russians-were-desperate-to-connect-1.3865875.

Corn, David, et al. “The Mueller Report: a Detailed Account of Trump's Lies and Misconduct.” Mother Jones, 18 Apr. 2019, www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/04/mueller-report-donald-trump-russia-lies/.

“Fusion GPS/Steele Dossier.” The Moscow Project, themoscowproject.org/tags/fusiongpssteeledossier/.

Gesson, Masha. “The Hustlers and Swindlers of the Mueller Report.” The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2019, www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-hustlers-and-swindlers-of-the-mueller-report.

Hamburger, Tom. “Longtime Manafort Associate Konstantin Kilimnik Rejects His Depiction in Mueller Report.” The Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/longtime-manafort-associate-konstantin-kilimnik-rejects-his-depiction-in-mueller-report/2019/04/19/af9221ce-62bc-11e9-9ff2-abc984dc9eec_story.html?utm_term=.15489ea53a0e.

Hamburger, Tom, et al. “Manafort Offered to Give Russian Billionaire ‘Private Briefings’ on 2016 Campaign.” The Washington Post, 20 Sept. 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/manafort-offered-to-give-russian-billionaire-private-briefings-on-2016-campaign/2017/09/20/399bba1a-9d48-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html?utm_term=.ba67e3b40955.

Hasan, Mehdi. “Trump's Transition Team Colluded With Israel. Why Isn't That News?” The Intercept, 5 Dec. 2017, theintercept.com/2017/12/05/michael-flynn-jared-kushner-israel-settlements-trump/.

Johnson, Carrie. “2016 RNC Delegate: Trump Directed Change To Party Platform On Ukraine Support.” NPR, NPR, 4 Dec. 2017, www.npr.org/2017/12/04/568310790/2016-rnc-delegate-trump-directed-change-to-party-platform-on-ukraine-support.

Leonnig, Carol D., and Rosalind S. Helderman. “Judge Orders Public Release of What Michael Flynn Said in Call to Russian Ambassador.” The Washington Post, 16 May 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/judge-orders-public-release-of-what-michael-flynn-said-in-call-to-russian-ambassador/2019/05/16/1e68712a-7825-11e9-bd25-c989555e7766_story.html?utm_term=.4c8d632d4c5e.

Lichtblau, Eric. “Questions Remain About Putin's Request for a Back Channel to the Trump Transition.” Time, 21 May 2019, time.com/5592739/donald-trump-petr-aven-alfa-bank/.

Liptak, Adam. “Brett Kavanaugh Urged Graphic Questions in Clinton Inquiry.” The New York Times, 20 Aug. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-clinton-starr.html.

Mayer, Jane. “In the Mueller Report, Erik Prince Funds a Covert Effort to Obtain Clinton’s E-Mails from a Foreign State.” The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2019, www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/in-the-mueller-report-erik-prince-funds-a-covert-effort-to-obtain-clintons-e-mails-from-a-foreign-state.

Mueller, Robert S., et al. The Mueller Report. Scribner, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2019.

Neuman, Scott. “Firm That Contracted Steele Dossier Says It Was 'Shocked' By Findings on Trump.” NPR, NPR, 3 Jan. 2018, www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/03/575259858/firm-that-contracted-steele-dossier-says-it-was-shocked-by-findings-on-trump.

Ohlheiser, Abby. “No, John Podesta Didn’t Drink Bodily Fluids at a Secret Satanist Dinner.” The Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2016, www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/04/no-john-podesta-didnt-drink-bodily-fluids-at-a-secret-satanist-dinner/?utm_term=.5395c544b0c4.

“Papadopoulos Told Kotzias That the Russians Had Hillary’s Emails.” The National Herald, 12 Sept. 2018, www.thenationalherald.com/212864/papadopoulos-told-kotzias-that-the-russians-had-hillarys-emails/.

Rogin, Josh. “Dimitri Simes Flew Too Close to Trump, and His Think Tank Got Burned.” The Washington Post, 2 May 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/02/dimitri-simes-flew-too-close-trump-his-think-tank-got-burned/?utm_term=.b50cdc0b9434.

“Sex & The Starr Report: Excerpts from the Starr Report Concerning Seven Sexual Encounters.” Famous Trials, www.famous-trials.com/clinton/892-starrreport.

Stanley-Becker, Isaac. “Roger Stone Wanted WikiLeaks Dump to Distract from ‘Access Hollywood’ Tape, Mueller Witness Says.” The Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/29/roger-stone-wanted-wikileaks-email-dump-distract-access-hollywood-tape-associate-claims/?utm_term=.f58014a27516.

Vogel, Kenneth P. “Deripaska and Allies Could Benefit From Sanctions Deal, Document Shows.” The New York Times, 21 Jan. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/us/politics/oleg-deripaska-russian-sanctions.html.

Wong, Brittany, and Brittany Wong. “Robert Pattinson Finally Responds To Trump's Weird 'Twilight' Tweets.” HuffPost, HuffPost, 14 Aug. 2017, www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-pattinson-talks-trump-tweets_n_5991d173e4b09071f69b8768.

Yourish, Karin, and Larry Buchanan. “Mueller Report Shows Depth of Connections Between Trump Campaign and Russians.” The New York Times, 19 Apr. 2019, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-contacts-russians-wikileaks.html.

Dear Theodosia, what to say to you? Plenty--on today's Strange Country. Co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss Theodosia Burr Alston, the daughter of Alexander Hamilton's dueler Aaron Burr, her squicky relationship with dad, and her disappearance in 1813. Get ready for some really amazing sound effects in this episode.

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Cite your sources:

Cote, Richard. Theodosia Burr Alston: Corinthian Books, 2005. 

"The Portrait of Theodosia Burr Alston." North Carolina Ghosts. https://northcarolinaghosts.com/coast/portrait-theodosia-burr/

"Theodosia Burr Alston." History of American Woman. http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/11/theodosia-burr-alston.html

Today on Strange Country we dive into the terrible tale of the SS Eastland Disaster. Have you ever heard if it? If you aren’t from Chicago ( Yes we will mention Da Bears), and you don’t have a passion for macabre maritime disasters, then this story is probably one you have never heard before. Why? Find out on this 94th episode lovingly handcrafted for your listening pleasure by your favorite friends, mothers, librarians and sister wives, Kelly and Beth. And make sure to check this website out...http://www.eastlanddisaster.org/

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Cite your sources:

Stranahan, Susan. The The Eastland Disaster Killed More Passengers Than the Titanic and the Lusitania. Why Has It Been Forgotten? Smithsonian.com.

October 27, 2014.

Sutton Patricia. Capsized, The Forgotten Story of the SS Eastland Disaster.2018, Chicago Review Press

The Eastland Disaster Historical Society. http://www.eastlanddisaster.org/ Accessed May 16, 2019.

Mzezwa, Tariro. Please Call Her Captain. The New York Times. Feb 25, 2019.

Chang and Eng, conjoined twins from Siam, arrived in America in 1829 to tour as curiosities. Why are we compelled to gawk at those who appear "abnormal"? Is it a manifestation of our own inner anxieties? Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly tackle these questions, which lead to some bizarre tangents on pooping and farting that should not be missed.

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Cite your sources:

Barbier, Laetitia. “Morbid Monday: The Death of Chang and Eng, Conjoined Twins Until the Last.” Atlas Obscura, Atlas Obscura, 9 Dec. 2013, www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-the-demise-of-chang-and-eng.

“Cast and Livers of Chang and Eng Bunker.” Exhibits | Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, muttermuseum.org/exhibitions/cast-and-livers-of-chang-and-eng-bunker/.

Evans, Gideon. “‘Mobituaries’: Chang and Eng Bunker, the Original Siamese Twins.” CBS News, CBS Interactive, 28 Feb. 2019, www.cbsnews.com/news/mobituaries-mo-rocca-chang-and-eng-bunker-the-original-siamese-twins/.

Getlen, Larry. “The Fruitful Sex Lives of the Original Siamese Twins.” New York Post, 1 Nov. 2014, nypost.com/2014/11/01/the-sex-lives-of-siamese-twins/.

Huang, Yunte. Inseparable: the Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History. Liveright, 2018.

Rezaei, Asal. “Descendants of Original Siamese Twins in Mount Airy for Family Reunion.” Spectrum News, 27 July 2018, spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triad/news/2018/07/27/hundreds-of-descendants-of-original-siamese-twins-arrive-for-family-reunion-#.

Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly want to keep things light and frothy with this week's episode so that's why they're talking about. . . abortion. They talk about some really dope laws that have been passed recently, discuss abortion's history, and wonder how women dying unnecessarily is considered "pro-life."

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Cite your sources:

Abbott, Karen. “Madame Restell: The Abortionist of Fifth Avenue.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 27 Nov. 2012, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/madame-restell-the-abortionist-of-fifth-avenue-145109198/.

Bernstein, Adam, and Patricia Sullivan. “Frances Oldham Kelsey, FDA Scientist Who Kept Thalidomide off U.S. Market, Dies at 101.” The Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/frances-oldham-kelsey-heroine-of-thalidomide-tragedy-dies-at-101/2015/08/07/ae57335e-c5da-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html?utm_term=.b1716edbb9d4.

Bingham, Clara. “Code Names and Secret Lives: How a Radical Underground Network Helped Women Get Abortions Before They Were Legal.” Vanity Fair, 17 Apr. 2019, www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/04/jane-network-abortion-feature.

Blakemore, Erin. “The Criminalization of Abortion Began as a Business Tactic.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 22 Jan. 2018, www.history.com/news/the-criminalization-of-abortion-began-as-a-business-tactic.

Carmon, Irin. “A Brief History of Abortion Law in America.” BillMoyers.com, 14 Nov. 2017, billmoyers.com/story/history-of-abortion-law-america/.

Chokshi, Niraj. “Ohio's Fetal Heartbeat Abortion Ban Is Latest Front in Fight Over Roe v. Wade.” The New York Times, 12 Apr. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/us/ohio-abortion.html.

Horton, Adrian. “ 'It's Not a Little Child': Gynecologists Join the Fight against Six-Week Abortion Bans.” The Guardian, 24 Apr. 2019, www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/24/its-not-a-little-child-gynecologists-join-the-fight-against-six-week-abortion-bans.

Jacobs, Julia. “Failed Texas Bill Would Have Made Death Penalty Possible in Abortion Cases.” The New York Times, 10 Apr. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/us/texas-abortion-death-penalty.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer.

Kaplan, Laura. The Story of Jane: the Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service. The University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Reagan, Leslie Jean. When Abortion Was a Crime: the Legal and Medical Regulation of Abortion, Chicago, 1880-1973. University Microfilms, 1992.

Smith, Kate. “Abortion Would Automatically Be Illegal in These States If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned.” CBS News, CBS Interactive, 22 Apr. 2019, www.cbsnews.com/news/new-abortion-law-abortion-clinic-automatically-illegal-roe-v-wade-overturned-2019-04-22/.

Hey Dash Hounds! (Why do we call you that anyway? Listen to today's episode and you'll find out) It's baseball season and high time Kelly and Beth took a swing at a good old-fashioned baseball story full of death, sadness, and inappropriate jokes. Listen to today's episode as we retell the story of the 1920 Pennant Race between the Yankees (have you ever heard of them?) and the Cleveland Indians (when are they going to change their name already?). Cantankerous Carl Mays was pitching against the lovable Ray Chapman when one of the worst accidents in baseball history happened. Tune in and enjoy-grab a beer and a dog for this one- even if it's breakfast time!

Much appreciation to all baseball researchers and especially Mike Sowell, author of the 1989 book The Pitch That Killed. https://www.amazon.com/Pitch-That-Killed-Chapman-Pennant/dp/1493017233

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What if your home sat on 22,000 tons of buried chemical waste? That was the reality of the roughly 1,000 residents of the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls, NY. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly use their chemaginations to take us back to the 1970s, the idyllic time when polluters could just dump whatever wherever.

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Cite your sources:

“Background Information.” University at Buffalo Libraries Love Canal Collections, library.buffalo.edu/archives/lovecanal/about/.

Brown, Michael H. “Love Canal and the Poisoning of America.” The Atlantic, Dec. 1979, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1979/12/love-canal-and-the-poisoning-of-america/376297/.

“Delisting Love Canal.” The New York Times, 22 Mar. 2004, www.nytimes.com/2004/03/22/opinion/delisting-love-canal.html.

Gibbs, Lois. Love Canal : Start of a Movement, www.bu.edu/lovecanal/canal/.

Greene, Ronnie. “From Homemaker to Hell-Raiser in Love Canal – Center for Public Integrity.” Center for Public Integrity, 15 Apr. 2013, publicintegrity.org/environment/from-homemaker-to-hell-raiser-in-love-canal/.

Herbeck, Dan. “Exclusive: Are Love Canal Chemicals Still Making People Sick? .” The Buffalo News, 1 June 2018, buffalonews.com/2018/06/01/new-lawsuit-claims-love-canal-chemicals-still-causing-health-problems/.

Herbeck, Dan. “More Than 550 Notices of Claim Have Been Filed in Love Canal Lawsuit.” The Buffalo News, 27 Feb. 2013, buffalonews.com/2013/02/27/more-than-550-notices-of-claim-have-been-filed-in-love-canal-lawsuit/.

Kleiman, Dr. Jordan. “Love Canal: A Brief History.” SUNY Geneseo, www.geneseo.edu/history/love_canal_history.

Liu, Qina. “You Asked, We Answered: Why Do People Still Live at Love Canal?” The Buffalo News, 7 Aug. 2018, buffalonews.com/2018/08/07/you-asked-we-answered-why-do-people-still-live-at-love-canal/.

“Love Canal.” Center for Health, Environment and Justice, 2016, chej.org/about-us/story/love-canal/.

Moran, Jay, and Mike Desmond. “Reporter's Notebook: Love Canal Sparked a Change in Environmental Coverage.” WBFO, news.wbfo.org/post/reporters-notebook-love-canal-sparked-change-environmental-coverage.

Newman, Richard S. Love Canal: a Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present. Oxford University Press, 2016.

Prohaska, Thomas. “Love Canal Today: 'We Know What's In Our Backyard'.” The Buffalo News, 4 Aug. 2018, buffalonews.com/2018/08/04/love-canal-today-monitoring-and-reminders-for-those-living-nearby/.

Revkin, Andrew C. “Love Canal and Its Mixed Legacy.” The New York Times, 25 Nov. 2013, www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/booming/love-canal-and-its-mixed-legacy.html.

Thompson, Megan, et al. “Residents Say Love Canal Chemicals Continue to Make Them Sick.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 5 Aug. 2018, www.pbs.org/newshour/show/residents-say-love-canal-chemicals-continue-to-make-them-sick.

Waldman, Scott. “State Official Jumps in Lake, Ripples Continue.” Politico PRO, 31 July 2015, www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2015/07/state-official-jumps-in-lake-ripples-continue-024123.

In Strange Country Ep. 89, co-hosts Beth and Kelly share their beauty secrets before candida auris takes over the planet and destroys us all. Might as well look good during the next pandemic, right? Here's what you can do: make your breasts look like pineapples, enamel your face, and slather on the spermaceti. Cook for 20 minutes, and viola! Cancer!

Cite your sources:

O'Neill, Therese. Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners. Little, Brown and Company, 2016.

Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly hit the road and travel to the place that started this whole venture--the Fox sisters home in Hydesville, NY. They are there to celebrate the anniversary of the knocking that launched the spiritualist movement and enjoy the thicker thin mints.

Theme music: Resting Place by A Cast of Thousands.

"We believe the children" became the rallying cry of the Satanic Panic even as stories tottered on the ridiculous. Bones being replaced by Satan's bones; kids being flown to Mexico to be raped by soldiers; shot than brought back to life. The 1980s and early 1990s were rife with stories of abuse at day care centers throughout the country. Over 80 people were falsely convicted and it sometimes took decades to overturn. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly have chosen the best guitar riff to accentuate all this craziness.

Cite your sources:

Beck, Richard. We Believe the Children: a Moral Panic in the 1980s. Perseus Books Group, 2015.

Gayle Dove - National Registry of Exonerations, www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3947.

Nathan, Debbie, and Michael Snedeker. Satans Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt. Authors Choice Press, 2001.

Selk, Avi. “Falsely Accused of Satanic Horrors, a Couple Spent 21 Years in Prison. Now They're Owed Millions.” The Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/08/24/accused-of-satanism-they-spent-21-years-in-prison-they-were-just-declared-innocent-and-were-paid-millions/?utm_term=.80d8ad1925f1.

Smith, Jordan. “Believing the Chldren.” The Austin Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2009, www.austinchronicle.com/news/2009-03-27/believing-the-children/.

Zirpolo, Kyle. “I'm Sorry.” The Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2005, articles.latimes.com/2005/oct/30/magazine/tm-mcmartin44.

Richard Jewell was called a hero, credited for saving lives when a bomb ripped through the Olympics park in Atlanta, Ga. in 1993. Then the security guard was called a zero, and many other things--mainly by Jay Leno--and Jewell's life was turned upside down as the media descended upon his house and the FBI took his mom's Tupperware. Join Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly as they dissect this case and do really brilliant impressions of Jay Leno and Tom Brokaw. Even today, Jewell's name is forever linked to the bombing. And Jay Leno is forever linked with being unfunny.

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Cite your sources:

Barringer, Felicity. “Once Accused, Now the Accuser; Ex-Bomb Suspect's Suit Challenges an Atlanta Newsroom.” The New York Times, 8 Feb. 1999, www.nytimes.com/1999/02/08/business/once-accused-now-accuser-ex-bomb-suspect-s-suit-challenges-atlanta-newsroom.html.

Bragg, Rick. “Focus on Bombing Suspect Brings Tears and a Plea.” The New York Times, 27 Aug. 1996, www.nytimes.com/1996/08/27/us/focus-on-bomb-suspect-brings-tears-and-a-plea.html.

Brenner, Marie. “American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell.” Vanity Fair, Feb. 1997, www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1997/02/brenner199702.

Goodman, Brenda. “Falsely Accused Suspect Pursues Libel Case.” The New York Times, 27 May 2006, https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/us/27jewell.html

Graham, Bryan Armen. “The Atlanta Olympic Park Bombing, 20 Years on: Have We Learned the Lessons?” The Guardian, 27 July 2016, www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jul/27/olympic-park-bombings-atlanta-1996-richard-jewell.

“Postscript: The Ballad of Richard Jewell.” Vanity Fair, Sept. 2007, www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2007/09/postscript200709.

Sack, Kevin. “A Man's Life Turned Inside Out By Government and the Media.” The New York Times, 28 Oct. 1996, www.nytimes.com/1996/10/28/us/a-man-s-life-turned-inside-out-by-government-and-the-media.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm&module=inline.

Sack, Kevin. “Retro Report: A Bombing Suspect, and the Rush to Judgment.” The New York Times, 7 Oct. 2013, www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/booming/a-bombing-suspect-and-the-rush-to-judgment.html.'

Sack, Kevin. “Richard Jewell, 44, Hero of Atlanta Attack Dies.” The New York Times, 30 Aug. 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/us/30jewell.html?rref=collection/timestopic/Jewell, Richard A&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=4&pgtype=collection.

Well if you are sick of hearing friends, librarians and uber-researchers Beth and Kelly talk about our periods, then just stop listening. This one is period gold. Period. Clelia Duel Mosher was one of America's first physicians, a major researcher, and proponent of women's health issues and a woman on a mission to ease the pain of period cramps via "mosher-ing." And horseback riding and basketball. So get off your chocolate-covered potato chip eating rear-ends and have a listen to Strange Country. Heads up: you may get an earful about the current vaccination debate-and we love you. All of you.

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https://www.amazon.com/Bygone-Badass-Broads-Forgotten-Changed/dp/B07BXYQQNV

You know what cures a depressing winter? A baker's dozen of cookies, that's what. Have you ever heard that expression or been the recipient of such dozen? Kelly and Beth will take you down history's path to where this baking expression originated, in good old New York- Dutch County. Hear a haunted house story that is sure to... leave you wanting a better ghost story. Join librarians, friends, and former reporters this week as we ramble through some strange little New York tales as told in the old book by Harold Thompson, Body, Boots and Britches. Hike up your britches or else you're going to Hell in a Handbasket this week on Strange Country.

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https://books.google.com/books?id=24lOCtZ4o_kC&pg=PP1&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false

America, the land of truck nutz and morbid obesity, is also the land of guns. In episode 83, Beth and Kelly explore our obsession while telling the story of Amy Bishop, a biology professor at University of Alabama in Huntsville, who opened fire at a faculty meeting, killing three colleagues. Her trail of violence didn't begin there, but started decades earlier with Bishop killing her brother Seth in a shooting deemed accidental. This show's going to get stuck inside your head.

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Ammons, Pat. “Stephanie Monticciolo Sees 1-Year Mark as 'Rebirth' from UAH Shooting Injuries.” AL.com, 12 Feb. 2011, mediabiasfactcheck.com/al-com-alabama-news/.

Aizenman, Nurith. “Deaths From Gun Violence: How The U.S. Compares With The Rest Of The World.” NPR, NPR, 9 Nov. 2018, www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/11/09/666209430/deaths-from-gun-violence-how-the-u-s-compares-with-the-rest-of-the-world.

Beckett, Lois. “How Often Are US Mass Shooting Carried Out by Female Attackers?” The Guardian, 4 Apr. 2018, www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/04/youtube-shooting-gun-attacks-in-the-us-are-rarely-carried-out-by-women.

Daly, Michael. “The First Modern School Shooter Feels Responsible for the Rest.” The Daily Beast, The Daily Beast Company, 30 May 2014, www.thedailybeast.com/the-first-modern-school-shooter-feels-responsible-for-the-rest.

Fisher, Max, and Josh Keller. “What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer.” The New York Times, 7 Nov. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html.

Jamieson, Christine. “Gun Violence Research: History of the Federal Funding Freeze.” American Psychological Association, American Psychological Association, Feb. 2013, www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2013/02/gun-violence.

Johnson, Alex. “After 5 Years, Alabama University Killer Apologizes for the First Time.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 19 Oct. 2015, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/after-5-years-alabama-university-killer-apologizes-first-time-n447481.

Keefe, Patrick Radden. “A Loaded Gun.” The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2013, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/02/11/a-loaded-gun?mbid=contentmarketing_facebook_citizennet_paid_magazine_a-loaded-gun_5-8-visit.

“Mass Shootings in 2019.” Gun Violence Archive, 2019, www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting.

Pappas, Stephanie. “Female Mass Killers: Why They're So Rare.” LiveScience, Purch, 3 Apr. 2018, www.livescience.com/53047-why-female-mass-shooters-are-rare.html.

Roop, Lee. “Joseph Leahy, Survivor of Amy Bishop Shooting, Died of Heart Attack, Coroner Says.” The Huntsville Times, 7 Oct. 2017, www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2017/10/joseph_leahy_survivor_of_amy_b_1.html.

Wallace, Amy. “What Made This University Researcher Snap?” Wired, 28 Feb. 2011, www.wired.com/2011/02/ff-bishop/.

Journalist Stephen Glass just seemed to have a knack for being in the craziest scenarios surrounded by the most quote-worthy subjects. He wrote about working for a psychic hotline, finding a George H. W. Bush cult and attending a hacker's convention to the delight of his editors at The New Republic. Trouble was, it was all a steaming pile of horse doo. Glass made it all up. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss their own reporting experiences while shattering Glass's tale of lies and Kelly finds a new motivation for working out.

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Cite your sources:

Bissinger, Buzz. “Shattered Glass.” Vanity Fair, Sept. 1998, www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1998/09/bissinger199809.

Gross, Terry. “Former Editor of The New Republic Charles Lane.” Fresh Air, NPR, 17 Nov. 2003, www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2003/11/17/13039121/.

HACK HEAVEN by Stephen Glass (The Realist No. 140, Autumn 1998), The Realist Archive Project, www.ep.tc/realist/140/11.html.

Hiltzik, Michael. “Stephen Glass Is Still Retracting His Fabricated Stories--18 Years Later.” Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2015, www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-stephen-glass-is-still-retracting-20151215-column.html.

Kroft, Steve. “Stephen Glass: I Lied for Esteem.” 60 Minutes, season 35, episode 37, CBS, 7 May 2003, www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen-glass-i-lied-for-esteem-07-05-2003/.

Mahbubani, Kishore, et al. “Letters.” Harper's Magazine, harpers.org/archive/2016/01/letters-841/.

Mullen, Benjamin. “Stephen Glass Says He's Repaid $200,000 to 4 Magazines.” Poynter, 29 Mar. 2016, www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2016/stephen-glass-says-hes-repaid-200000-to-4-magazines/.

Noer, Michael. “Read The Original Forbes Takedown Of Stephen Glass.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 12 Nov. 2014, www.forbes.com/sites/michaelnoer/2014/11/12/read-the-original-forbes-takedown-of-stephen-glass/#b7436b6683ae.

Ray, Billy, director. Shattered Glass. 2003.

Rosin, Hanna. “Hello, My Name Is Stephen Glass, and I'm Sorry.  The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2014, newrepublic.com/article/120145/stephen-glass-new-republic-scandal-still-haunts-his-law-career.

Rosin, Hanna. “Remembering the Fall of Stephen Glass.” Slate Magazine, Slate, 21 May 2003, slate.com/culture/2003/05/remembering-the-fall-of-stephen-glass.html.

Shafer, Jack. “The Trial of Stephen Glass.” Reuters, Thomson Reuters, 7 Dec. 2011, blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2011/12/07/the-trial-of-stephen-glass/.

S196374. In Re STEPHEN RANDALL GLASS on Admission. 27 Jan. 2014, assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2647356/CSC-Glass.pdf.

Hit Me Baby One More Time: Rule Following with Beth and Kelly Hey Readers, are you rule followers? Really what we are asking here is, are you a potential Nazi? Join friends, librarians, contrarians, and mothers Kelly and Beth as they grapple with the rules of society and just how far we will go to please someone who appears to have authority. In this episode of Strange Country, we uncover the complexities of psychologist Stanley Milgram’s famous experiment of the 1960’s. Subjects in the experiment were paid $4 to play a teacher armed with a little electricity to zap a student if they were incorrect. Sounds fun right? Would any of you have signed up for this experiment? As you listen, you may find out if Beth deserves a parking ticket or a sticker for being a good rule follower, while Kelly tries to figure out if there are any good rules worth following. Dashhounds- listen in-or it’s 350 volts for you!

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Cite Your Sources:

Beck, Martha. What Redefining Virtue Can Teach You About Happiness. http://www.oprah.com/inspiration/how-to-handle-bad-luck-martha-beck-life-advice. Accessed Feb. 2019

Blass, Thomas. The Man Who Shocked the World. Basic Books, 2009.

Cherry, Kendra. Stanley Milgram, A Biography. VerywellMind. https://www.verywellmind.com/stanley-milgram-biography-2795532. Accessed Feb. 2019.

McLeod, S. A. (2017, Feb 05). The Milgram experiment. Retrieved from https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html

Milgram, Stanley. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. Harper Perennial Modern Thought. Reprint 2009.