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Friend request? Sent. Your crush's most recent status? Liked. Poke? Poked. And a Federal lawsuit? Filed.

Do you accept these cookies? Because today we're learning all about the creation and current standing of Facebook and Meta Platforms.

All photos from today's episode can be found here!

Sources:

"A Brief History of Facebook" by Sarah Phillips - The Guardian

"How a College Experiment Changed the World" - CNN

"The History of Facebook..." by Mary Bellis - ThoughtCo.

"Mark Zuckerberg" - Wikipedia

⁠"History of Facebook"⁠ - Wikipedia

And That's Why We Drink podcast - episodes 210 - 212

"Inside Love Has Won" by Jane Borden - Vanity Fair

Wealth, crime, time, and justice? Will a story that spans almost an entire century end in anguish or joy? Find out now, right here in the story of Maria Altmann and her family's infamous paintings.

It's Zach birthday this week on the pod, which means Madi has watched AND researched the 'Woman in Gold.'

All photos from the episode can be found here!

Sources:

"Maria Altmann: The Real Story..." by Catherine McHugh - Biography.com

"A Quest to Bring Home 'The Woman..." by Nina Totenberg - NPR

"The Man Behind Woman in Gold" by Dolores Davies - UC San Diego Today

"Maria Altmann, Pursuer of Family's Stolen..." by William Grimes - The New York Times

Schoenblog.com - Randol Shoenberg

"Trying Reclaim a Family's History" by Diane Haithman - The LA Times

"1957 Bernhard Altmann Sweater" - Mid-Century Page

Work hard and you'll get what you want, right? It should be that way but life isn't always that easy or fair. Eighteen year-old Amberley Snyder would agree because after only ever putting in hard work, life throws her a deadly curveball.

Saddle up, folks! We're learning all about the rodeo and Amberley Snyder's epic riding career.

All photos from today's episode can be found here!

Sources:

"Tragedy to Triumph" - AmberlySnyder.org

"Barrel Racing" - American Quarter Horse Association

"Breakaway Roping" - American Quarter Horse Association

"Pole Bending" - American Quarter Horse Association

"Amberley Snyder" - Wikipedia

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." -Albert Einstein. "You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers." -John F. Nash Jr.

Class, please pull out your textbooks and turn to page 44. We're learning all about John Nash and his famous Nash equilibrium and this WILL be on the test, so listen up!

Sources:

"John F. Nash Jr." - The Nobel Prize

"A Brilliant Madness" documentary by Mark Samels - PBS

"John Nash, a Mathematician..." - Scientific American

"Nash equilibrium" - Britannica

"Princeton Honoring Memory..." by Bruce Shipkowski - Phys Org

Instead of bringing you an episode filled with a whole lot of "not much," the podcast is taking a different approach this week.

We're taking a look back at all the stories and movies we've covered thus far. We share our Biggest BS moments and our Best Based movies from throughout the year.

You can find a copy of Eat, Pray, Love here, or probably there's a wrinkly copy in your mother's bathroom you could borrow.

Our frightening finale has finally come. It's time to wrap up our month of sinisters and our month of scaries. But before we can, brave BBs, allow me to introduce you to the man with the darkest, most demented soul we've covered thus far.

We're wrapping up spooky month with the horrid story of Ed Gein and his victims.

Don't forget all pictures from the episode (PG ones only, we promise) can be found here!

Sources:

"The Macabre Story of Ed Gein..." - All That's Interesting

Ed Gein - Wikipedia

"Deviant: The Shocking True Story of ED GEIN" by Harold Schechter

"The Ultimate Ghoul" by Katherine Ramsland - Crime Library

"Ed Gein" - TV Tropes

"Edward Theodore Gein" - Murderpedia

It's a beautiful spring day and you don't have much on your to-do list. You intend to take a walk into town and pick up some fish from the market, but that's when you hear your name being called. And just like that, you've just been accused of practicing witchcraft.

Our scary series continues on! This week, we're headed back to 1692. All the way back to the the small Massachusetts town of Salem.

Don't forget, all pictures from today's episode can be found here!

Sources:

"How Abigail Williams Started..." by Kara Goldfarb - All That's Interesting

"The Witchcraft Trial..." by Rebecca Beatrice Brooks - History of Massachusetts

"Unraveling the Many Mysteries..." by Stacy Schiff - Smithsonian Magazine

"Salem Witch Trials Chronology" - Salem Witch Museum

"Salem Witch Trials" - History.com

"A Brief History of the Salem..." by Jess Blumberg - Smithsonian Magazine

Friday, October 13th. There's truly never been a more cursed day ... well ... there's one day that might come close. A day in 1949 when 13 year-old Roland was possessed by the Devil. In Nomine Patris Dominus.

Our second installment of the scary series is here and Zach is telling us all about the Exorcism of Ronald Hunkeler (or Roland Doe) which went on to inspire to classic horror film, The Exorcist.

Don't forget, all pictures from the episode can be found here!

Sources:

"The Haunting Real Story That..." by Rosemary Counter - Vanity Fair

"The Exorcism of Roland Doe" - Rituals Podcast

"Exorcism of Roland Doe" - Wikipedia

"Inside the Harrowing Exorcism..." by William DeLong - All That's Interesting

"The 1949 St. Louis Exorcism" - Saint Louis University

"The Catholic Church still..." by Danae King - The Columbus Dispatch

You open your eyes to a beautiful blue sky. The birds chirp and dart across your vision. And then ... your body feels like it's on fire but there's no smoke, no heat, just searing pain. And you've been left alone in the middle of nowhere. Left alone to die.

We've got another bear attack on the pod, plus a whole lot more. Madi tells us all about the legendary mountain man, Hugh Glass and his wild survival story.

Don't forget all pictures from today's episode can be found here!

Sources:

"Museum of the Mountain Man" by Clay Landry - HughGlass.org

"The Incredible Life of..." by Katie Serena - All That's Interesting

"The Epic True Tale of Hugh Glass" by Richard Grant

"Hugh Glass" by Amy Tikkanen - Britannica

When I was 5 years-old, I got lost in a mall. Only 30 minutes later and everything was fine, I found my parents and we hadn't even left the same building. For today's story, 5 year-old Saroo Brierley finds himself lost and alone for a lot longer than 30 minutes. And ends up almost 7,000 miles away from his family.

Double - no, triple check those train tickets folks because we are headed on a wild journey. Zach tells us all about Saroo Brierley's epic journey to find his way back home after 25 years.

Don't forget, all pictures from today's episode can be found here!

Sources:

"A Long Way Home" memoir by Saroo Brierley

"Saroo Brierley" - Wikipedia

"The True Story Behind..." by Alexis L. Loinaz - People

"The real-life search..." by Greg Dunlop - BBC News, Sydney