Passing Notes with Ashley and Shanda

Ashley recounts the scandal surrounding Volkswagen clean diesel marketing campaign and how emissions testing on vehicles made from 2009-2015 to compete with hybrid vehicles led to some surprising and criminal results. Shanda discusses how King Camp Gillette’s invention of safety razors for at-home use in 1901 led to advertising that shaped how society viewed body hair on women and how it impacts people’s perceptions still today.    

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Shanda discusses the ill-fated Norco California bank robbery that led to the Riverside County and San Bernardino Police being outgunned in a shootout, a wild police chase, several casualties, and eventual capture of the criminal hiding in the woods of Lytle Creek. Ashley tells the story of the criminal Valerie Viccei, whose expensive tastes and need for thrill led him to pull off the Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery in 1987 and was only caught because he was trying to ship a Ferrari from London to his hiding place in Latin America.

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Ashley discusses the complex system of hormone cycles, physical accommodations, and precise timing that make human reproduction seem like a miracle. Shanda talks about what our muscles are capable of, including feats of hysterical strength and whether or not they are strong enough to crush your own bones or bite off your finger like a baby carrot.

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Shanda recounts the long history of the ambitious cross-Florida canal project that took decades and millions of dollars to build but was ultimately abandoned until Marjorie Harris Carr fought for it to be reused as a nature greenway. Ashley tells the story of how the small amusement park of Geauga Lake grew into a destination attraction with the addition of SeaWorld Ohio through the 70s, 80s, and 90s with its height being in 2001 when it was owed by SixFlags; but it was unable to maintain its success after being bought by Cedar Fair in 2004.

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Ashley talks about how Dutch sailors discovered the dodo on the island of Mauritius in 1598 and by 1662 it was extinct; however, during that time it is believed that a few animals were brought back to Europe although few remains exist. Shanda discusses the types of mammoths that inhabited much of North America, Asia, and Europe during the last ice age and how climate change ultimately led to their extinction.

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Shanda recounts The Great Stink of 1858 in which the River Thames reached levels so low that the entire city of London was plagued with a stench of human waste bad enough the government shut down. Ashley discusses the unique qualities of Siberia’s Lake Baikal, that not only contains 23% of the earth’s surface freshwater but is also home to over 3,500 species of plants and animals, 80% of which are endemic to the region, the most famous being the Nerpa Seal.

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Ashley recounts the tragic sinking of the beloved SS Edmund Fitzgerald during a massive storm on Lake Superior as it traveled from Duluth, MN to Detroit, MI in 1975, killing all 29 crew members on board. Shanda tells the story of how a storm off the coast of South Africa caused the cruise ship Oceanos to take on water and sink in 1991; luckily, no one died despite the crew abandoned ship and leaving the rescue of the remaining 571 passengers on the shoulders of entertainers Moss and Tracy Hills.

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Special guest Felix Sung makes his podcast debut talking about his favorite NFL player, Chicago Bears Quarterback Justin Fields. Then Shanda recounts the dangerous early days of college football and how the bloodbath of Hamden Park between the Harvard and Yale teams almost caused football to be banned entirely. Lastly, Ashley discusses the beginnings of the NFL and how some of the first teams, such as the Columbus Panhandles, Decatur Staleys, and Green Bay Packers, got their seemingly ridiculous names.

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Ashley tells the story of William Penn’s early life in England, settlement in the colonies, founding of Philadelphia, and role in the first and only witch trial in Pennsylvania. Shanda discusses the not very well known slave name Tituba whose detailed testimony during her trial may have led to the witch trial frenzy in Salem.

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Shanda discusses the Superman curse in which people believe that anyone working on a Superman movie could be subject to ill-fortune and even death. Ashley recounts how William Henry Harrison’s victory at Tippecanoe may have led to a curse that killed future presidents every 20 years.

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