American Timelines

The jerks jump to June and July of 1958, in which striking red head Jean Ellroy was murdered, the dog who made the  name Fido popular did too, and the Hula Hoop was invented, all while Interracial marriage in Virginia sent a couple to jail, & the Quarrymen recorded their first songs and more!

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Episode 201: Fires, Riots, Crashes & The Shoe Bandit:  April and May of 1958

Amy & Joe cover April and May of 1958, where a crazy foot fetishist was on the loose, Nixon was getting hate, California started playing baseball, and air traffic was a mess!  Plus:  A deportation, a museum fire a concert riot and Andie MacDowell!

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Amy and Joe celebrate their 200th episode with a hollywood mobster murder, several awful disasters including pigeons spreading fires, blizzards causing disarray, bombs being lost and ICE-T becoming a man.  All of this while our dogs Weezie and Ralphie wrestle and play with squeaky toys.  Enjoy!

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The jerks move onto 1958, with a mobster death sentence, a new flag, some Chinese famine, and a good ol’ classic murderer.

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Ep 198: Ed Gein & The Levelland UFO Encounter

1957, Part 6: November & December 1957

Amy finally gets to the big one:  Ed Gein.  One of the grossest, horror movie inspiring murderers of our time, and Amy gets all into it.  Meanwhile, Joe tells us about a harrowing lightless flight, the Russian space dog, King Kong Bundy's birth and a Texas UFO!

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Amy & Joe stumble and bumble into September and October of 1957, where they cover a spooky trick or treat murder, some cool birthdays, a school bombing, and some top songs movies and shows of 1957 as well as a mobster murder.

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Episode 196: American Timelines 1957, Part 4:  July & August 1957: 

A Pageant Scandal & A Football Player Murderer & Bret The Hitman Hart

History for Jerks dives into July and August of 1957, where we have a hitman born, Paul and John meet, a future astronaut sets a speed record, a pageant scandal, a college football murderer, a comedy legend dies, a fan gets hit by two foul balls at the same at bat and more!

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The Merry Widow of Windy Nook & The Copacabana Incident

Episode 195: American Timelines 1957, Part 3:  May & June 1957

This week, we’re back to 1957, specifically May and June!  Amy tells us of a British older lady serial killer and Joe talks of the reason Billy Martin got fired, MLK’s Give Us The Ballot Speech, The Fly and more!

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Another flashback episode back to 4 years ago when we were still learning how to podcast, all because Joe has the flu.  What a jerk.

Here we talk about the Rafay family murders, which have been back in the news since we recorded this as a few more folks are starting to believe in the innocence of Burns and Rafay.  Check out more info on the case here:  https://rafayburnsappeal.com/

Reincarnation, Homing Pigeons & Park Overall

Joe & Amy cover March, April and a little bit of May 1957.  This episode features an amazing story of alleged reincarnation of two sisters, as well as Park Overall’s birthday!  Other topics include the last National Legue team to integrate, homing pigeons retiring, Teenaged Jimmy Page on BBC, and the discovery of Dred Scott’s grave and more!

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