By Taylor Pineiro, Farz Sokhansanj
The podcast currently has 199 episodes available.
How much do you know about Harry Houdini?? We start off October with the story of the most famous magician of all time; we feel very lucky that he was working at the beginning of cinema and at a time when we can have photos of him and his stunts. The choppy silent footage and the stage makeup add just the perfect touch of mystery to his already impressive mystique.
Learn how this Hungarian Immigrant to the US toured the world and amazed kings, queens, tzars, and presidents with his illusions! Before tragically passing away on Halloween!
Sources:
Houdini: The Elusive American (Jewish Lives) - https://www.amazon.com/Houdini-Elusive-American-Jewish-Lives/dp/0300230796
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/278-W-113th-St-New-York-NY-10026/31547703_zpid/?
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a62391454/menendez-brothers-beverley-hills-mansion-history-explained/
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Today, we take you to the first of hopefully many conspiracy theory episodes! We start small (no, nobody is eating babies) with the death of journalist Michael Hastings. After exposing corruption in the US Military's Middle East operations, Michael was driving in Los Angeles at 4 am when his car hit a tree, and he was incinerated.
Was it foul play? Was he being followed?? Let us know what you think!
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Listen, as we know, there are terrible things in lakes. Monsters. There are monsters. This week we learn that there ALSO can be buildups of poison underneath lakes that can 'erupt' at any time and do a clean sweep of all animal life around it. We'll talk about two times in recent history (and we have reason to believe it happened in ancient times) when methane gas killed everyone around Lake Kivu and Lake Nyos in Africa.
More terrifying ways the earth can kill you, good thing we're taking such good care of her, right?
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In the 1960s, thousands of babies worldwide were born with physical abnormalities, and the culprit was a 'wonder drug' given to mothers who had morning sickness. Pharmaceutical companies promoting the drug Thalidomide didn't do enough testing on pregnant women before marketing their product directly to them (well, legal testing anyway; there was most likely testing in Concentration Camps during WWII).
In the US, there were only 17 documented cases thanks to the tireless work of the FDA's Frances Oldham Kelsey, who refused to approve Thalidomide without further documentation.
In the UK, Health Minister Enoch Powell took the documentation at face value and left the drug on the shelves even after he knew of the issues. Families were left alone to care for their children until Harold Evans of The Sunday Times fought a moral campaign across Britain to get them their due compensation and ongoing support.
Learn more about this dark chapter in Pharmacological history with us this week on Doomed to Fail.
Sources:
Frances Oldham Kelsey, the Fda, and the Battle Against Thalidomide by Cheryl Krasnick Warshn- https://www.josephbeth.com/book/9780197632543
Attacking the Devil - Harold Evans and The Last Nazi War Crime - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HSlQCR3lGU
“Wonder Drug” draws back the veil on thalidomide’s hidden American victims https://harvardpublichealth.org/policy-practice/thalidomide-the-untold-american-story-in-wonder-drug/
Thalidomide: the story they suppressed - https://www.thetimes.com/article/thalidomide-the-story-they-suppressed-xqpwccdff
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnenthal
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Actually, this has happened a few times! Join us as we talk through the times when planes and buildings collided in New York City! We are NOT talking about 9/11 because Taylor was there and she's just not interested in talking about it! In 2006 Yankees pitcher Cory Lidel crashed into an apartment building. In the 70s New York Airways had helicopter service from the Pan Am building to JFK that ended in disaster. And, in the 1940s two buildings, including the Empire State Building, were hit by WWII planes. Tune in to learn more!
#NYC
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/10/how-an-elevator-attendant-survived-a-1-000-ft-fall-down-the-empire-state-building-759670
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Picture it: It's 1930s Germany, and you just want to get out, so you go to a remote island in the Galapagos to start a homestead and be left alone. Then you start to get neighbors. Some are normal (babies, donkeys, etc.). But others are a wild trio of pretend aristocrats who yell and shoot into the air and really ruin the island vibe.
Join us to learn the wild story about to be told in the movie Eden, starring Jude Law!
#GalapagosAffair #FloreanaMystery #GalapagosHistory #TrueCrime #UnsolvedMystery #GalapagosScandal #DrRitterMystery #BaronessWagner #FloreanaIsland #IslandIntrigue #GalapagosIslands #HistoricalMystery #IslandDrama #ExpatsGoneWrong
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Join us as we explore the tragic story of the Challenger Explosion, the space shuttle disaster that changed NASA and space exploration forever. In this episode, we delve into the moments leading up to the launch, the aftermath, and the incredible stories of the brave astronauts onboard. 🌍✨
Tune in for a deep dive into history, science, and human resilience. #Challenger #SpaceShuttle #NASA #Podcast #History
Sources:
Challenger: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Challenger/Adam-Higginbotham/9781982176617
https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/09/michael-j-smith-wife-jane-kids-children/
https://www.kltv.com/story/34454043/soccer-ball-recovered-from-shuttle-challenger-wreckage-reaches-space-three-decades-later/
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If you haven't heard this story, don't google it! You'll never guess where it's going and the ride, the ride is wild!
Edwin Rist loved tying fishing flies, a fun craft where you have the potential to stab yourself in the finger at every turn! He just had hit the peak of his work and needed something new, something snazzy, potentially extinct. Enter the Natural History Museum at Tring - and we'll take it from there!
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Let's talk about one of the worst ways to die... there are chances you've seen this graphic of how John Jones was stuck in Nutty Putty Cave... but did you know he's still there? A young father with another on the way, John made a wrong turn in Utah's Nutty Putty Cave and ended up head down in a crevice that was impossible to get him out of. For over 24 hours rescuers tried to get him out in vain, in the end John's body is forever entombed in the cave.
Listen to this one somewhere with a lot of space so you can move your arms!
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While reading the children's classic "Madeline," Taylor's kids asked her what an appendix is, and she had no idea. No longer classified as a vestigial structure (take that, Darwin), the appendix might help with regulating gut bacteria after an illness.
We'll talk about Gabriele Falloppio, who was no doubt wrist-deep in a human body when he called the appendix worm-shaped in 1522. Claudius Amyand, who performed the first successful appendectomy in 1735 on an 11-year-old boy, and Charles McBurney, who pointed to a belly and said, 'Name that spot after me!'
We're doctors now.
#appendix #darwin #medicalhistory #madeline
Links from our listener emails
President Biden Announces Release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve As Part of Ongoing Efforts to Lower Prices and Address Lack of Supply Around the World - https://qz.com/the-biden-administration-made-66-million-in-its-first-1850531437
The Biden administration made $66 million in its first oil trade - https://qz.com/the-biden-administration-made-66-million-in-its-first-1850531437
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