Strange Country

Where do you fall on the abortion debate? Some people like to believe that if you are pro choice, you must idolize Margaret Sanger. But wait. . . do you even know who that is? Listen today, dear Dash Hounds, as we hear who this outspoken woman was. A thumbs up or a thumbs down? Is Margaret worthy of her name being on the building or her name being taken down? Your call. We do our best to give you some info. As we seem to keep learning on Strange Country, people are complicated, the world is complex, and hang on, we are about to experience everything all over again. $10 please for your fortune. Much love and thanks always for listening, it is an act of love.

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Works Cited:

https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/what-every-girl-should-know-1916-margaret-sanger

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Nothing is certain but death and Strange Country's guarantee of exquisitely-designed mousepads. Oh, and taxes. But some people really don't like paying taxes and take their ire too far. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss Gordon Kahl, an avid anti-government pro-Posse Comitatus fan who took his anger to the extreme when he killed two US Marshalls in 1983. Luckily, we've seemed to address domestic terrorism now…oh wait. And sorry about the little audio glitch midstream.

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Cite your sources:

Cameron, L. (2019, May 28). During the 1980s farm crisis, Minnesota lost more than 10,000 farms. MinnPost. https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2019/05/during-the-1980s-farm-crisis-minnesota-lost-more-than-10000-farms/

Corcoran, J. (1990). Bitter Harvest: Gordon Kahl and the Rise of the Posse Comitatus in the Heartland. Penguin Publishing Group.

Dyer, J. (1997). Harvest of rage: Why Oklahoma City is only the beginning. Basic Books.

King W. (1990, Aug. 21). Books of the Times; A farmer's fatal obsession with Jews and taxes. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/21/books/books-of-the-times-a-farmer-s-fatal-obsession-with-jews-and-taxes.html

Levitas, D. (2002). The terrorist next door: The Militia Movement and the radical right. St. Martin's Press

Our memories are fallible and malleable. In the 1980s and 1990s, recovered memory therapists convinced patients they had been sexually abused in some cases by satanic cults and repressed all memory of it. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss the trial of George Franklin who was convicted of murder based solely on the testimony of his daughter who "recovered" memories of witnessing him kill her childhood friend.

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Cite your sources:

Carpentier, M. (2021, Oct. 8) Where Is Eileen Franklin, Whose Recovered Memories Convicted Her Father, Now? https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/where-is-elaine-franklin-lipsker-from-showtime-docuseries-buried-now

Guendelman, Y. and Pines, A. (2021). Buried. Showtime.

Ofshe, R. and Watters, E. (1994) Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy and Sexual Hysteria. Diane Pub. Co.

Romanova, N. (2021, Oct. 21) Eileen Franklin-Lipsker Now: what is she doing today? Blurred Reality. https://blurred-reality.com/eileen-franklin-lipsker-now-today/#:~:text=All%20we%20know%20about%20her,as%20long%20as%20she%20could.

On this episode of Strange Country, Ofterry and Ofbryan talk about the U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion dismantling women's reproductive freedoms. Forced birth advocates are rejoicing. The rest of us, not so much.

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Campoamoar, D. (2022, March 18). New tennessee bill would allow rapists' families, friends to sue if victims have an abortion. Today. Retrieved May 3, 2022, from https://www.today.com/parents/pregnancy/Tennessee-bill-rapists-sue-abortion-rcna20581

Chamie, J. (2021, March 3). America's single-parent families. The Hill. https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/543941-americas-single-parent-families/

Columbus Daily Enquirer, 13 Jan. 1956, p. 13. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A1126A744DB722B38%40EANX-K12-16A327FFA6234DD0%402435486-16A30E62DDBE96DF%4012-16A30E62DDBE96DF%40. Accessed 3 May 2022.

Frank, G. (2015, December 22). The death of Jacqueline Smith. Slate. from https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/12/Jacqueline-smiths-1955-death-and-the-lessons-we-havent-yet-learned-from-it.html

Hartig, H. (2021, May 6). About six-in-ten americans say abortion should belegal in all or most cases. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/05/06/about-six-in-ten-americans-say-abortion-should-be-legal-in-all-or-most-cases/

Kitchener, C. (2022, May 2). The next frontier for the antiabortion movement: A nationwide ban. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/02/abortion-ban-roe-supreme-court-mississippi/

Levin, B. (2022, March 3). GOP senator Mike Braun claims he didn't mean to say states should be able to ban interracial marriage, despite saying it multiple times. Vanity Fair. Retrieved May 3, 2022, from https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/mike-braun-supreme-court-interracial-marriage

Plain Dealer, 22 May 1956, p. 5. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A122AFBBA107AC9E4%40EANX-K12-12AC90D16DF657D6%402435616-12AC5404A0306B0C%404-12AC5404A0306B0C%40. Accessed 3 May 2022.

Plain Dealer, 24 May 1956, p. 6. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A122AFBBA107AC9E4%40EANX-K12-12AC90D42B600569%402435618-1278F359D4F878E9%405-1278F359D4F878E9%40. Accessed 3 May 2022.

Stracqualursi, V. (2021, November 16). Majority of Americans support Roe v. Wade being upheld, new poll shows. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/16/politics/americans-abortion-roe-v-wade-poll/ index.html

Supreme Court Live Updates: Calls For an Investigation and Possible Charges After Supreme Court Draft Leaked. (2022, May 3). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/03/us/roe-wade-abortion-supreme-court

In a time when democracy ruled, women had all the freedoms, people went to college and news sources were plentiful and trustworthy Wisconsin native Mildred Fish Harnack and her husband, Arvid, chose to begin their newlywed lives in the fun city of Berlin. Have you heard of it? Beth may have mentioned she has been there. That was Berlin in the 1920's. Things were about to change. Laws were passed to keep certain people down, the rich and poor gap was widening, Mildred got let go from her professorship, and two men, Hitler and Goebbels, were really making a name for themselves talking about the ills of democracy. And Mildred from Wisconsin saw the whole city and country unravel. But instead of hightailing it back to the midwest, Mildred and her sweetheart stayed in Berlin and headed the resistance efforts. Listen as Beth and Kelly discuss the similarities of Hitler's efforts and those of the current opposition parties trying to undermine America today. Fun times on Strange Country.

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Cite your sources:

Commonwealth Club of California. Mildred Harnack/American Grad Student/Berlin Resistance Leader. Sept. 17, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRGtZb7N6bg

Donner, Rebecca. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days. Little Brown and Company, New York. 2021.

Wisconsin Women Making History. Mildred Fish-Harnack. https://womeninwisconsin.org/profile/mildred-fish-harnack/

Do you believe psychics can predict the future? in the later half of the 20th century, Jeane Dixon was one of the best known psychics. Her astrological star rose when she "predicted" the assassination of JFK. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly, in what is predicted to be the greatest podcast episode according to a Snapple bottle cap Beth found on the sidewalk, talk about Dixon and the Jeane Dixon Effect. Also includes a recipe!

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Cite your sources:

Christy, M. (1970, March 11). Greensboro Daily News , p. 5. Available from NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A11EA68DA9EC1533C%40EANX-K12-1446EE6624E4B6E2%402440657-1446B2E11BB77DA7%404-1446B2E11BB77DA7%40.

Dixon, J. (1976). Jeane Dixon's Astrololgical Cookbook. Morrow

Dixon, J. (1998). Do Cats Have ESP? Courage Books.

Horowitz, M. (2015, November 21). The last JFK assassination myth: Debunking the eerie prediction that won't go away. Salon. Retrieved April 20, 2022, from https://www.salon.com/2015/11/21/the_last_jfk_assassination_myth_debunking_the_eerie_prediction_that_wont_go_away/

Jeane Dixon & the Jeane Dixon effect. Jeane Dixon and the Jeane Dixon effect - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com. (n.d.). Retrieved April 20, 2022, from http://www.skepdic.com/dixon.html

Jeane Dixon releases her predictions for 1984. (1984, January 9). Dallas Morning News, p. 5C. Available from NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A0F99DDB671832188%40EANX-K12-134DCB8A4D3C0501%402445709-134DCA6E1ED84AB2%4036-13E4C2411E7CD09F%40Jeane%2BDixon%2Breleases%2Bher%2Bpredictions%2Bfor%2B1984.

Katz, H. (1971, July 25). Washington Magazine, p. 240. Available from NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A114CF48AE24B9638%40EANX-K12-160B36A15F554C0A%402441158-16097388B95B5246%40239.

Kay Crosby Ellis, B. (1972, November 3). Jeane Dixon Predicts Future. Dallas Morning News, p. 5. Available from NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A0F99DDB671832188%40EANX-K12-0FD144D417FC2F49%402441625-0FD144D4D30EB77C%4046-0FD144D882A65F43%40Jeane%2BDixon%2BPredicts%2BFuture.

Martinez-Conde, S. and Macknik, S.L. (2018, September 20). Two neuroscientists walk into a psychic fair... Scientific American Blog Network. Retrieved April 20, 2022, from https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/illusion-chasers/two-neuroscientists-walk-into-a-psychic-fair/

Montgomery, R. (1965). A Gift of Prophecy: the phenomenal Jeane Dixon. Morrow.

Ruby Clayton McKee, B. (1966, April 12). Jeane Dixon Predicts Flying Objects Not from Outer Space. Dallas Morning News, p. 4. Available from NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A0F99DDB671832188%40EANX-K12-0FEAAF14EB2E4ECE%402439228-0FEAAF155E1AD62B%4031-0FEAAF17A71C614E%40Jeane%2BDixon%2BPredicts%2BFlying%2BObjects%2BNot%2Bfrom%2BOuter%2BSpace.\

San Antonio Express. (1976, March 7). San Antonio Express, p. 153. Available from NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A10EEA20F1A545758%40EANX-K12-16222F942DFA9726%402442845-16222D7E4E571ACA%40152-16222D7E4E571ACA%40.

San Antonio Express. (1976, March 28). San Antonio Express, p. 150. Available from NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-K12&docref=image/v2%3A10EEA20F1A545758%40EANX-K12-16286F10D9D76A85%402442866-1626D7D2C7E6D108%40149-1626D7D2C7E6D108%40.

Tampa Bay Times. (2019, December 15). Museum provides a vision of astrologer Jeane Dixon. Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved April 20, 2022, from https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2002/06/09/museum-provides-a-vision-of-astrologer-jeane-dixon/

WP Company. (1997, January 27). Celebrity astrologer Jeane Dixon dies. The Washington Post. Retrieved April 20, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/01/27/celebrity-astrologer-jeane-dixon-dies/3481042f-019a-4214-8df2-07d1df359000/

Sound Clips

Psychic Friends Network Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGK7FNK5YBI

Ms. Cleo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxopPDMq7rs

Jeane Dixon Hotline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96CoQgBDYpQ

Jeane Dixon Spirit Speak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS84C75Cnl4

One hundred years ago, there were fewer left handed Americans than there are now. Why the change? Obviously the indoctrination of public schools…or maybe it became more accepting to be left handed and so more people feel comfortable using their dominant hand. Weird how that works. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about the stigma once attached to left-handedness and relate it to today's anti-trans legislation being pushed by trash people.

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Cite your sources:

Adeleke, Y. (2021, September 20). Left-handers once experienced severe stigmatization and discrimination. Medium. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://historyofyesterday.com/left-handers-once-experienced-severe-stigmatization-and-discrimination-f172c2fde6ef

Eveleth R. (2013, May 17). Two-thirds of the world still hates lefties. Smithsonian.com. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/two-thirds-of-the-world-still-hates-lefties-64727388/#:~:text=In%20many%20Muslim%20parts%20of,including%20those%20of%20the%20West .

Gallagher, J. (2019, September 5). Left-handed DNA found - and it changes brain structure. BBC News. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49579810

Gannon, M. (2019, November 10). Why are people left- (or right-) handed? LiveScience. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.livescience.com/what-causes-left-handedness.html

Gould, M. (2021, February 12). GOP rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene 'cheated on husband with men at gym'. Daily Mail Online. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9246917/Marjorie-Taylor-Green-openly-cheated-husband-men-gym.html

Katz, B. (2017, May 31). A lonely snail with an unusual shell strikes out in Love. Smithsonian.com. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jeremy-lonely-snail-unusual-shell-strikes-out-love-180963429/

Lutz, E., & Ecarma, C. (2022, April 8). "Children as collateral damage": GOP's latest culture war targets Trans Kids. Vanity Fair. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/alabama-anti-trans-bill

Pinsker, J. (2014, December 11). Why lefties make less. The Atlantic. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/why-lefties-make-less/383635/

Praderio, C., & Lakritz, T. (2021, August 13). 17 little ways that the world is designed for right-handed people. Insider. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.insider.com/things-that-are-hard-for-left-handed-people-2016-11

Restak, R. M. (1988, December 11). Do we want a left-handed president? The Washington Post. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1988/12/11/do-we-want-a-left-handed-president/1a6c49dc-0e40-4ea3-ab4b-e3956dc04208/

Roth, M. (2005). The Left Stuff: How the Left Handed Have Survived and Thrived in a Right-Handed World. M. Evans & Company.

Rothman, L. (2015, August 13). Left-handed history: When lefties were first accepted. Time. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://time.com/3978951/lefties-history/

Valdez, A. (2021, April 15). Alabama ranks second in the nation for Worst Places to Live. WDHN. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.wdhn.com/news/alabama-ranks-second-in-the-nation-for-worst-places-to-live/

Valentin, N. (2020, May 29). The long history of left-handed persecution. Medium. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-long-history-of-left-handed-persecution-7e1f493266f2

Sound Clips:

Marjorie Taylor Greene Spews Hateful Garbage: https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1511504578423963655

The Backward Snail Just Wants to Find Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX2YQDPRZyM

Dear Dashhounds, are you one of the 75% (15% according to Beth) who know the term, Dewey Decimal System? Do you care? You will today as Strange Country hosts Beth and Kelly discuss the life and times of Melvil Dewey, which really encompassed a lot of misogyny, racism and antisemitism. Yet still he was lauded as a library great. How do we handle these people of the past, and how should we handle them now? The answer lies within a sweet song that you won't be able to get out of your head. Always, thanks for listening it is an act of love which is the opposite of fear.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

Albanese, Andrew. ALA 2019: ALA Votes to Strip Melvil Dewey's Name from its Top Honor. Publisher's Weekly. June 24, 2019. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/80557-ala-votes-to-strip-melvil-dewey-s-name-from-its-top-honor.html

Albright, Madeliene. An Undiplomatic Moment. New York Times, Feb. 3, 2016

Beck, Clare. The New Woman as Librarian. The Career of Adelaide Hasse. Scarecrow Press. 2006.

Ford, Anne. Bringing Harassment out of the History Books. American Libraries. June 1, 2018. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2018/06/01/melvil-dewey-bringing-harassment-out-of-the-history-books/

Gambino, Megan. Madeliene Albright and Her Life in Pins. Smithsonian Magazine. June 10.

Mann, Bryan. Re-Evaluating Lake Placid Notable Melville Dewey's Legacy in the "me too" era. July 17, 2019. NCPR. https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/39142/20190717/re-evaluating-lake-placid-notable-melville-dewey-s-legacy-in-the-me-too-era

"Melville Dewey." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. March 2022.

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

Nunes, Christina Zita. Cataloging Black Knowledge. Perspectives on History. Nov. 20, 2018. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/december-2018/cataloging-black-knowledge-how-dorothy-porter-assembled-and-organized-a-premier-africana-research-collection

Weeks, Linton. The Undimmed Light. The Washington Post. Nov. 15, 1995.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/11/15/the-undimmed-light/5e4330cc-4d2e-40d6-9c11-8af6e28b9c84/

https://www.britannica.com/science/Dewey-Decimal-Classification

https://www.ala.org/search-results?as_q=dewey

Hasse, Adelaide. https://www.cla-net.org/page/1013/California-Library-Hall-of-Fame-Adelaide-Hasse.htm

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DMW65M3/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

Sound effects:

The Dewey Decimal Rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHiUQb5xg7A

Royalty-free Benny Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFLYH2LRKQw

Royalty-free the most amazing Benny Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7hitxP-070

Things seems super chill around education these days. Wait—do they? Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about the current state legislation being passed to ban the instruction of Critical Race Theory in K-12 schools, something that isn't happening. So since it's not happening, what is happening instead is banning the instruction of anything associated with race or racism. As the Brooklyn 99 folks like to say, cool cool cool cool cool.

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Cite your sources:

ABC4 Utah. (2021, May 4). What you need to know about Idaho's new critical race theory law. ABC4 Utah. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/what-you-need-to-know-about-idahos-critical-race-theory-law/

Barakat, M. (2022, February 15). Youngkin looks to root out critical race theory in Virginia. AP NEWS. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://apnews.com/article/education-richmond-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-virginia-8ad5da65b9cb05265f2b8081c41827cd

Bella, T. (2022, February 4). Black history month is not critical race theory, Alabama educator says in response to complaints. The Washington Post. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/04/alabama-black-history-month-crt-schools/

Bittle, J., Pareene, A., Tomasky, M., Noah, T., & Shephard, A. (2022, March 20). The Fox News guest behind the Republican Frenzy over Critical Race Theory. The New Republic. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://newrepublic.com/article/162617/christopher-rufo-critical-race-theory-interview

Cobb, J. (2021, September 20). The man behind critical race theory. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/20/the-man-behind-critical-race-theory

Craig, T. (2022, March 11). Florida legislature passes bill that limits how schools and workplaces teach about race and identity. The Washington Post. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/10/florida-legislature-passes-anti-woke-bill/

Dixon, K. (2022, March 14). Bill Banning 'divisive concepts' in schools passes Georgia Senate. Axios. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2022/03/14/bill-banning-divisive-concepts-schools-passes-georgia-senate

Donahue, A. R. (2022, January 12). State Education Board passes measure countering GOP's 'critical race theory' bills  ⋆ Michigan Advance. Michigan Advance. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://michiganadvance.com/2022/01/12/state-education-board-passes-measure-countering-gops-critical-race-theory-bills/

Guynn, J. (2022, March 15). Florida law will restrict how race is discussed. USA TODAY (USA), p. A5. Available from NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/188BEDD20BC605D8.

Herron, A. (2022, March 1). Indiana Senate kills CRT-inspired legislation that created outrage among educators, Black Hoosiers. The Indianapolis Star. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2022/02/28/hb-1134-indiana-senate-kills-crt-critical-race-theory-inspired-legislation/9323738002/

Jones, Z. C. (2022, March 10). Florida legislature passes "stop woke act," Second controversial education bill this week. CBS News. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-critical-race-theory-education-stop-woke-act/

Jones, S. (2021, July 11). How to manufacture a moral panic. Intelligencer. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/christopher-rufo-and-the-critical-race-theory-moral-panic.html

Kiersz, A., & Gal, S. (2020, July 8). 26 simple charts to show friends and family who aren't convinced racism is still a problem in America. Business Insider. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.businessinsider.com/us-systemic-racism-in-charts-graphs-data-2020-6

Matzen, M. (2022, February 10). Education Committee votes to limit critical race theory instruction in South Dakota's public schools. Argus Leader. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/education/2022/02/09/critical-race-theory-crt-south-dakota-public-schools-legislature-limited/6728586001/

McGee, K. (2021, June 15). Texas "critical race theory" bill limiting teaching of current events signed into law. The Texas Tribune. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/15/abbott-critical-race-theory-law/

Meckler, L., & Dawsey, J. (2021, June 21). Republicans, spurred by an unlikely figure, see political promise in targeting critical race theory. The Washington Post. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/06/19/critical-race-theory-rufo-republicans/

Messer-Kruse, T. (2022, February 16). How to sink anti-CRT bills. The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-sink-anti-crt-bills?bc_nonce=jwfrpc6h01bmnrbftplf8&cid=reg_wall_signup

Napsha, J. (2022, March 16). Norwin debate continues in regards to systemic racism, critical race theory. TribLIVE. Retrieved March 20 2022, from https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/norwin-debate-continues-in-regards-to-systemic-racism-critical-race-theory/

Ramjug, P. (2021, December 21). Seven out of 10 people don't know what critical race theory is, US poll finds. News@Northeastern. https://news.northeastern.edu/2021/12/23/critical-race-theory-survey/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCR8pZ2C7to - Brooklyn 99

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0sofJcByXE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4TAQF6ocLU - The Reid Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEtHS8Gp5zg - Gov. Tate Reeves

https://twitter.com/thegoodliars/status/1455243036795998212 - Good Liars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FBh1MYyVO4 - Norwin BOE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxc6iqRC-n8 - I Have a Dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBXRdWflV7M - Tucker Carlson

We all the run risk of falling for a con and we all believe we are immune to it. For the low, low cost of $9.99 a month, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly can teach you how to avoid scams as soon as they free a Nigerian Prince. Today's episode explores the cons of Victor Lustig who sold the Eiffel Tower twice.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

Demain, B. (2020, Aug. 21). Smooth operator: How con man "count" Victor Lustig sold the Eiffel Tower—Twice. Mentalfloss. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12809/smooth-operator-how-victor-lustig-sold-eiffel-tower

Hutson, M. (2016, Jan. 12). Why we all fall for con artists. The Cut.

https://www.thecut.com/2016/01/why-we-all-fall-for-con-artists.html

King, G. (2012, Aug. 22). The smoothest con man that ever lived. Smithsonian Magazine. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-smoothest-con-man-that-ever-lived-29861908/

Konnikova, M. (2016). The Confidence Game: Why we fall for it every time. Penguin Books.

Maysh, J. (2016). Handsome devil. Kindle single.

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