Forgotten Heroes Podcast

Happy International Women's History DAY, everyone! We're celebrating with a special podcast minisode dedicated to Theda Bara, a trailblazing actress from the 1910s, and Clara Brown (no, not THAT Clara Brown, who is also a heroine but less forgotten). Our Clara was born in 1839 in Massachusetts. At 21, she was one of the leaders of the historic New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860.

A special SURPRISE episode for our loyal listeners on this latest leap-day! It’s a bissextile bonus! Learn about a quirk in NYS law that counts two days as one, and an old tradition challenging the amatonormative heirarchy!

Make sure to stay tuned for more surprises and content leading up to our Season Two premiere on 4/20/20!

Watch as Mark Fusco puts his film knowledge to the test by attempting to predict 9 Oscar winners… with a trip to the movie Cats (in costume) on the line if he is wrong!! We present three categories each Saturday for three weeks before the Academy Awards. This week’s categories: Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Sound Mixing.

This week’s bonus game: Moscars Madness! We put the top 32 Best Picture winners of all-time (by inflation-adjusted box office) in a March Madness-style bracket. This week, Mark settles round one of the Eastern Division. Visit our site to download your own clickable (or fillable) bracket!

Watch as Mark Fusco puts his film knowledge to the test by attempting to predict 9 Oscar winners... with a trip to the movie Cats (in costume) on the line if he is wrong!! We present three categories each Saturday for three weeks before the Academy Awards. This week's categories: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.

This week's bonus game: Moscars Madness! We put the top 32 Best Picture winners of all-time (by inflation-adjusted box office) in a March Madness-style bracket. This week, Mark settles round one of the Western Division.

Join the Forgotten Heroes Podcast's own Jeff Israel in his quest to become the champion of the Reynoldsburg Tomato Festival.

On this week's episode, join our special guest Timothy Feeney in a discussion of Columbus' greatest heroes: the inventor of the modern tomato and the defender of alcohol in our time.

On this week's episode, learn about the Cold War era elementary school built to double as an underground fallout shelter and the lone man brave enough to stand up to the tyranny of homework at the turn of the last century.

This week, learn about a crime-fighting caped candy crusader on a mission to energize the nation, and the crafty, creepy, "Sea Monkeys" creator whose scammy toy-ventions graced comic book back pages for years.

In this week's episode:

 

*An abandoned New Jersey drive-through animal park full of racist lions, shoddy sewers, and hidden secrets for the pure of heart

*A Christian Disneyland--with none of the charm and all of the creepiness--created by two of the most corrupt televangelists of our time

Welcome to the Forgotten Heroes Podcast-- a comedic, weekly deep-dive into lesser-known figures from history across a multiplicity of topics!

In this week's episode:

-a mild-mannered taffy-salesman-turned-bench-entrepreneur who gave us Major League Baseball's Floridian Grapefruit League

-the Native American outfielder who broke professional baseball's color barrier decades before Jackie Robinson

-the twisted tale of two townie taxidermists whose hot baths helped bring spring training to Arizona