Retrocast #8 – Podcast #167 Published on February 28, 2022 Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts A live baby is auctioned, a knife thrower hits his human target, a dog warden with an unusual approach to keeping thieves out of the pound, and more!Click to Read More...
The Eddie Cantor Peace Prize – Podcast #166 Published on February 15, 2022 Posted in: Entertainment, Forgotten History, Fraud & Deception, Podcast In 1936, superstar Eddie Cantor asked his radio listeners to write an essay describing how the United States could avoid war. The prize was a full college scholarship. With no set rules, something was certain to go wrong. And it did...Click to Read More...
Retrocast #7 – Podcast #165 Published on January 31, 2022 Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts A man falls out of a window and is saved by a flagpole, seven tonsillectomies done in an assembly line fashion, the last cigarette commercial on US network television, and much more!Click to Read More...
The Glass House Girl – Podcast #164 Published on January 13, 2022 Posted in: Entertainment, Podcast Edna Kirby spent more than a decade in Hollywood appearing in silent movies for Paramount Studios. While she never became a movie star, Edna drew large crowds in nearly every town that she visited. That’s because Edna Kirby lived in a glass house.Click to Read More...
Bad Apples #3 – Sunset Boulevard – Podcast #163 Published on January 3, 2022 Posted in: Bad Apples Movie Review, Podcast My wife Mary Jane joins me to review the classic movie "Sunset Boulevard." Directed by Billy Wilder, this movie tells the story of a struggling screenwriter who gets into a dangerous relationship with a faded Hollywood actress who dreams of a big comeback. Click to Read More...
Retrocast #6 – Podcast #162 Published on December 15, 2021 Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Podcast, Retrocasts A reindeer that bit a boy’s finger, a lawsuit over the world’s largest Christmas stocking, an absent-minded Santa Claus, a Santa caught with his pants down, the first Christmas film ever made, and much more!Click to Read More...
Tom McGee’s Back on the Chain Gang – Podcast #161 Published on November 30, 2021 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Holidays & Celebrations, Podcast Tom McGee wanted nothing more for Christmas than to be able to spend time caring for his hogs. The only catch was that he needed to commit a crime and hope that a judge would sentence him to time on one of Georgia’s infamous chain gangs.Click to Read More...
Retrocast #5 – Podcast #160 Published on November 16, 2021 Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts, Tidbits In this episode: A proud father who kidnapped his newborn daughter, a mother jailed for cooking a woodpecker, Einstein gives a student incorrect math advice, a snake that joined a woman in the bathtub, and much more! Click to Read More...
The Forgotten Man – Archibald Herron – Podcast #159 Published on October 28, 2021 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Death and Murder, Law & Order, Podcast A New Jersey man was caught in a Catch-22 situation: As long as he remained on death row, he could live. If he attempted to get off of death row by challenging his sentence in court, he would likely die. Can you guess which option he chose?Click to Read More...
Retrocast #4 – Podcast #158 Published on October 15, 2021 Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts, Tidbits The day corsets were arrested, a university lingerie auction, US Customs bans Alice Cooper’s panties, a fish who milked a cow, a box of cookies that started a fire, the highest-paid act at Woodstock, and more! Click to Read More...
Don’t Mess With Minerva Miller – Podcast #157 Published on September 29, 2021 Posted in: Forgotten History, Law & Order, Podcast In 1911, Mrs. Minerva Miller went to The Paterson Show in Paterson, NJ to watch a movie. A standard ticket cost 5 cents, but Mrs. Miller was told that she would have to pay 25 cents because she was black. She decided to challenge the theater's racist policy.Click to Read More...
Retrocast #3 – Podcast #156 Published on September 15, 2021 Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts, Tidbits A 72-year-old woman who married a 20-year-old man, a 16-year-old girl arrested for cursing, a woman who had some run-ins with modern appliances, speaking English deforms the mouth, a husband who refused to buy his wife false teeth, and more!Click to Read More...
Lost in the Mountains – Pamela Hollingworth – Podcast #155 Published on August 30, 2021 Posted in: Escape and Survival, Forgotten History, Podcast Most Popular Podcast of 2021! In 1941, 5-year-old Pamela Hollingworth disappeared into the dense forest of New Hampshire's White Mountains. More than 1,500 men spent more than a week looking for her. Was she murdered, kidnapped, or something else? Find out what really happened to Pamela Hollingworth.Click to Read More...
Retrocast #2 – Podcast #154 Published on August 15, 2021 Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts, Tidbits Boy runs away because he can't master Latin, a mother who loaned her son to a stranger, a man who survived a Nazi firing squad, cows killed by lightning, man's leg broken three times, 200 hog call records stolen, a helicopter melon thief, & more!Click to Read More...
Two Worlds Collide – Podcast #153 Published on July 29, 2021 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Hoaxes, Love & Marriage, Podcast, Schools & Education In 1932, the office of Redondo Beach school superintendent Elliott B. Thomas was destroyed and he had mysteriously disappeared. Was he dead or alive? Or was something else going on?Click to Read More...