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OddBallers Podcast introduces Small Business September! Highlighting small businesses from all walks of life. The 2021 theme is Women in Business. Join Elizabeth Weyers as she interviews CEO and Founder of Skylar Grace Company, Skylar Cunningham so find out just what it takes to create and run a business during college, covid, and the age of social media. 

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What is trending? How about the Olympics, mental health, Covid-19, Horror Movies, and much more. Join Elizabeth Weyers will fan the favorite University of Iowa Graduate and Writer Abbey Fouts as they discuss the biggest topics in the news. 

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At first glance, you might see Colorado as just another state in the western part of American. But with a closer look, it has as exciting of a past as places like New England or Washington D.C. and New Orleans. The history that Colorado has to offer is more than just the history of our past, it holds the history of the planet deep in the mountains. Geologists for centuries have rushed to colorful Colorado to get a glimpse at the rocks that the planet is created with. But Colorado also has a history that is different than most, a history of travelers, miners, and people migrating through. It was home to many, but normally not for long. The constant motion and migration of people to the area made Colorado a western hub for mining, traveling, and darkness. Because it does seem that wherever humans go to settle darkness follows them. The history of Colorado at a second look is full of darkness. Starvation in harsh winters, murders of neighbors, stories from the mines, and myths of tiny creatures that wander through the aspen trees and up the mountainsides. From the darkness to the happy tunes of John Denver’s Rocky Mountain High and C.W.McCall’s Wolf Creek Pass, Colorado is a lot of things, Mysterious and everlasting are only two of those things.

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Research-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Silver_Boom

Trails, Tails, and Tommyknockers Stories from Colorado's Past by Myriam Friggens

Haunted Old West by Mathew P. Mayo 

A Quick History of Leadville By Christan J. Buys

Music Credit-- OddBallers Theme- Elizabeth Weyers

What lies deep in the mountains.  Beyond the tree line and up to where the oxygen is thin. What stories and bits of the past have frozen to the rocks and have been forgotten, or turned to legends and reduced to stories we tell children around the campfires to scare them into eating their vegetables? What are they? What stories have we forgotten? Colorado is built on tall tales and legends, stories that have been twisted from the truth, but what really happened in those mines and on the trails to mountainside ghost towns? What was Colorado like before the modern world of campers and jeeps, computers, and technology took over? What if we were able to go back in time and see what it was like in the heydays of Colorado? Maybe we would be faced with the glitz and glam, or maybe tragedy. Or maybe we too would be reduced to a legend like the town of Buckskin Joe. Regardless of where we would end up, there is no denying that in the 19th century Colorado was in its prime, a wealthy and popping state with a flood of people trying to get rich, to get away from illness, and to escape to the mountains. The Colorado Silver days were anything but that of legends, they were a time to never forget.

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Research-

https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/elizabeth-%E2%80%9Cbaby-doe%E2%80%9D-tabor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Doe_Tabor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Silverheels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Silver_Boom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Tabor#:~:text=Horace%20Austin%20Warner%20(%22Haw%22,Hollywood%20biographical%20movie%20Silver%20Dollar.

Trails, Tails, and Tommyknockers Stories from Colorado's Past by Myriam Friggens

A Quick History of Leadville By Christan J. Buys

Music Credit-- OddBallers Theme- Elizabeth Weyers

Happy Independence Day! Just some fun facts about fireworks that you may not have known, but you will be all the smarter for it! 

Lowkey catfishing you in this episode but it's short and sweet and fun, and I hope you find it banging! 

Enjoy!

Join Elizabeth Weyers in a message about Fireworks!

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Research-

https://www.celebratesafely.org/history-of-fireworks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireworks

Music Credit-- OddBallers Theme- Elizabeth Weyers

The idea of magic is something that humans have searched for throughout all of history. They have hoped that magic was something that exists, to look into the future, change the past and help them along in the present. To defeat enemies, manipulate love, and gain power greater than any other. But in the search for this magic, humans learned that they would not find it alone and so they began to find the ones that would help them find it. Ones that they named gods and deities. Now, I am going to speak from the views of a Christian right not saying that that is what I am, but I in no way want to offend anyone when I say that these gods and deities were not necessarily ones that they should have looked towards, at least in perspective from a religious world. The magic that these people possessed was not magic at all but a belief in something bigger than them, a belief that something bigger than them would get them what they wanted but instead it led to fear. These “gods” they worshiped instilled a sense of fear in people. From the Romans to the Egyptians, Greeks, and Mayans, their beliefs all relied on their gods being angry and being the all-powerful gods. No rain, meant they were angry, no food, was a threat, and the death of someone was a sign. These people were fearful of the ones that they instilled power into. Some, however, were not as fearful of their religions, in fact, they used the fear that others had to their advantage and they worked to become powerful themselves. People are blindly following their leaders, someone who they do not even know, someone who says they were appointed by God, or maybe even was God. And Have we learned? No. we still are! I would say that this was not the first time humanity has blindly followed a leader and it will not be the last time no because if you are a Christian, you know that there is one more “divine leader” that is anything but divine going to come down to deceive humanity. And will we fall for him? Will we know who he is? Are we going to blindly follow the Antichrist?

Join Elizabeth Weyers as she discovers more about the Nostradamus Effect and the coming of the antichrist. 

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Research-

https://www.historyhit.com/why-were-the-early-middle-ages-called-the-dark-ages/

https://www.vox.com/culture/22358153/satanic-panic-ritual-abuse-history-conspiracy-theories-explained

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture

https://www.google.com/search?q=divine+right+of+kings&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS901US901&oq=divine+right+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0j0i433j0l3j69i60l2.6979j1j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Music Credit-- OddBallers Theme- Elizabeth Weyers

We are obsessed with death and dying. But we also fear it. We are trying to find ways to get out of it, ways to alter science and live longer, to be brought back, ways to defy the great gift of life we were given. It is a radiant addiction that humans have, and the only thing that humans seem to be more obsessed with is death, which is to figure out what comes next. What happens after death despite what religion you are or what you believe in or don’t believe in is a common thought to wonder what happens after you die. Is it the only pearly gates or a fiery inferno? Or do we simply not exist? What of Nirvana, or Heaven? The idea of an afterlife makes the idea of death more bearable, for when we die and for when our loved ones do. The notion that they are in a better place, and that we might see them again makes the fact that they are dead a little more bearable. But regardless of the way that we go or what afterlife that we believe in, if any, most religions have a common theme that our life will come to an end as we know it in some kind of cataclysmic armageddon that will lead to the coming of evil. And in the Christian Faith, that evil is known as The Anti-Christ. But, in order to figure out who this antichrist is and when they will be coming to start the beginning of the end we first have to understand the Devil and the religion in which he originates. But the Devil is a trickster and is waiting to pounce on the opportunity to fool us all, so we will have to go back to the beginning. The beginning of Christianity and retrace the steps of this fallen angel to figure out what kind of grip he has on our world today, and perhaps deceive the great deceiver himself. 

Join Elizabeth Weyers as she discovers more about the origin of Christianity and the Stain of Evil in our world 

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Research-

https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/saint-joan-of-arc#section_3 

https://www.historyhit.com/why-were-the-early-middle-ages-called-the-dark-ages/

https://www.vox.com/culture/22358153/satanic-panic-ritual-abuse-history-conspiracy-theories-explained

https://thesatanictemple.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture

Music Credit-- OddBallers Theme- Elizabeth Weyers

The Fear of asylums runs deep in our culture as Americans, and really runs in the bones of most of humanity. You have to admit there is something creepy and odd about abandoned buildings with peeling paint, chipped windows, that are overgrown, outdated, and neglected. By the looks of our media and entertainment we seem to tell a different story, we seem to keep one of the darkest and most overlooked parts of our history alive through movies, books, and TV. We as a population have seemed to determine that stories that take place inside mental health facilities will not be scary as they seem to always depict a place that is seemingly a prison facility rather than a hospital. Symbolically they represent a lack of one’s control whether that is inside one’s mind or from those who refuse the consistent pleas of sanity. The psychological horror genre thrives in this setting and the fluorescent-lit corridors and rotting buildings that we see today and horrible conditions that the history of these locations give us; it is no doubt that asylums are the perfect setting to stack terrifying tales. And that is exactly what the horror genre is supposed to do right? Reflect fears and failings of society, and it has worked for the last century through the depictions of Asylums, and I suspect that it will continue to do so for years to come because what it depicts is the truth, reality, history, real. What is scarier than the horror genre if not reality. Join Elizabeth Weyers as she discovers why humans are so interested in this particular horror setting.

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Research-

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/mental-health/473223-fear-of-insane-asylums-runs-deep-in-our-culture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehearst_Asylum

https://medhum.med.nyu.edu/view/285

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkham

Music Credit-- OddBallers Theme- Elizabeth Weyers

The mind is a curious place, and the human mind is one that is far from being understood, even with today’s modern medicine we cannot seem to figure it out. The brain is so complicated that it does not even understand itself.

But oh have we tried to understand the mind, to learn its facets, to fix it, change it in some way.

Today even with our modern medicine and technology mental health is still a sensitive subject and affects 1 in every 5 adults in America alone. But we have not always thought of mental health in this way, there is a dark past that echoes in the halls of the hospitals and facilities we use today. Only a few decades ago people suffering from mental illness were considered freaks, or moronic, or insane, or other nasty slurs that I would rather not say. And it is good to see how far we have come but we cannot deny that the politeness and human treatment of people suffering from mental health illness is something that is relatively new.

Join Elizabeth Weyers as she tells the story of the history of the mental health institution and peers into the dark past of America to look for the lesson history is waiting for us to learn and finding out just how far we have come. 

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Research-

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-nellie-bly-went-undercover-to-expose-abuse-of-the-mentally-ill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc_tfPWAq-8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital

https://cvltnation.com/horrifying-psychiatric-treatments-from-the-age-of-reason/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy

https://www.talkspace.com/blog/history-inhumane-mental-health-treatments/

http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php/Woodward_State_School_%26_Hospital

Music Credit-- OddBallers Theme- Elizabeth Weyers