Strange Country

Are you feeling a little trapped in your life these days? Surprisingly, Kelly and Beth are as well because masks and limited travel are your best bet at avoiding COVID. One of the few things that helps us feel a little free is a good, long bike ride. But if that is too arduous for you, fear not, you can imagine yourself peddling as you listen to this week's episode about the famed Annie Londonberry (really Cohen Kopchovsky). A woman who said "screw the kids, I'm taking a ride...around the world!" Among all the things you will learn this week- a penny farthing has nothing to do with flatulence.

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Alderman, Liz. "Corona Cycleways Become the New Post-Confinement Commute." New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/business/paris-bicycles-commute-coronavirus.html.

McCrackin, Suzie. "Annie Londonderry: 10 Facts You Didn't Know." Total Women's Cycling, totalwomenscycling.com/lifestyle/10-facts-annie-londonderry.

Friedman, Lisa. "New Research Links Air Pollution to High Death Rates." New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/climate/air-pollution-coronavirus-covid.html?searchResultPosition=1.

Weber, Bruce. "Overlooked No More: Annie Londonberry, Who Traveled the World by Bicycle." New York Times, 6 Nov. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/obituaries/annie-londonderry-overlooked.html.

"Science of Cycling: Bicycle Tires." Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu/cycling/wheel3.html.

Zheutlin, Peter. Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride. Citadel Turnaround, 2008.

One way to get rid of people was to petition to have them declared feeble-minded and locked away. That's what happened to 17-year-old Carrie Buck in 1924. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about the Supreme Court case, Buck v. Bell, that led to Buck's sterilization, and the sterilization of a voiceless many under the banner of eugenics. And hey, it's still on the books so. . . ugh.

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Amend, Alex. "From Eugenics to Voter ID Laws: Thomas Farr's Connections to the Pioneer Fund." Southern Poverty Law Center, 4 Dec. 2017, www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/12/04/eugenics-voter-id-laws-thomas-farrs-connections-pioneer-fund.

Cohen, Adam. Imbeciles: the Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck. Penguin Press, 2017.

Edgers, Geoff. "The 30-Year Love Affair between Germany and David Hasselhoff Started at the Berlin Wall." The Washington Post, WP Company, 17 Dec. 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/12/17/year-love-affair-between-germany-david-hasselhoff-started-berlin-wall/?arc404=true.

Gamboa, Suzanne. "Fearing Trump's Green Card Policy, Families with Immigrants May Opt out of Coronavirus Care." NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 18 May 2020, www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/fearing-trump-s-green-card-policy-families-immigrants-may-opt-n1209196.

Holbrook, Sara. "I Can't Answer These Texas Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems." HuffPost, HuffPost, 5 Jan. 2017, www.huffpost.com/entry/standardized-tests-are-so-bad-i-cant-answer-these_b_586d5517e4b0c3539e80c341.

Johnson, Corey G. "Female Inmates Sterilized in California Prisons without Approval." Reveal, 7 July 2013, www.revealnews.org/article/female-inmates-sterilized-in-california-prisons-without-approval/.

Lombardo, Paul A. Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Okrent, Daniel. Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and... Other European Immigrants out of America. Scribner, 2020.

Rosenberg, Jeremy. "When California Decided Who Could Have Children and Who Could Not." KCET, 1 Jan. 2017, www.kcet.org/history-society/when-california-decided-who-could-have-children-and-who-could-not.

Yang, Jia Lynn. "The Surprising Origin of Our Modern Nation of Immigrants." The New York Times, The New York Times, 13 June 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/sunday-review/immigration-history-us.html.

Not too long ago, America's elite thought they could stamp out the bad genes by closing our borders and sterilizing some people. This was the era--Er-ahh--of eugenics, the idea that people inherited traits like shiftlessness from their parents. The Nazis would take the eugenicists theories to their logical conclusion. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about the racism and classism underlying policies passed under the eugenics banner, which will make you cry out for more protoplasm. Or probably not because that would be weird.

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Boissoneault, Lorraine. "Literacy Tests and Asian Exclusion Were the Hallmarks of the 1917 Immigration Act." Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 6 Feb. 2017, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-america-grappled-immigration-100-years-ago-180962058/.

Cohen, Adam. Imbeciles: the Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck. Penguin Press, 2017.

Epstein, Kayla. "'Over Our Dead Bodies': Lindsey Graham Vows Congress Won't Extend Additional $600 Coronavirus-Related Unemployment Benefits, as US Death Toll Crosses the 60,000 Mark." Business Insider, Business Insider, 30 Apr. 2020, www.businessinsider.com/lindsey-graham-congress-coronavirus-unemployment-benefit-over-our-dead-bodies-2020-4.

Fisher, Max. "Sorry, Romney: Neither America Nor the U.K. Are 'Anglo-Saxon' Countries." The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 17 July 2013, www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/sorry-romney-neither-america-nor-the-uk-are-anglo-saxon-countries/260309/.

Franck, Thomas. "Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Says 'We Can't Shut down the Economy Again'." CNBC, CNBC, 11 June 2020, www.cnbc.com/2020/06/11/treasury-secretary-mnuchin-says-we-cant-shut-down-the-economy-again.html.

Montopoli, Brian. "S.C. Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer Compares Helping Poor to Feeding Stray Animals." CBS News, CBS Interactive, 25 Jan. 2010, www.cbsnews.com/news/sc-lt-gov-andre-bauer-compares-helping-poor-to-feeding-stray-animals/.

Okrent, Daniel. Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and... Other European Immigrants out of America. Scribner, 2020.

Rambaran-Olm, Mary. "Misnaming the Medieval: Rejecting 'Anglo-Saxon' Studies." History Workshop, 30 Oct. 2019, www.historyworkshop.org.uk/misnaming-the-medieval-rejecting-anglo-saxon-studies/?fbclid=IwAR3WF_8pt8YqjA0Wjfe7n6v4HB3d7iOdk2D5kD0cX4ztcS9lJdVqZTvET0s.

As if it returning to work during a pandemic isn't worrisome enough, your building may be teeming with Legionella bacteria due to the stagnant water. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss the latest scare and what gave it its name. In 1976, delegate from the American Legion met in Philadelphia for a conference. A few weeks later, 34 were dead from some mysterious virulent pneumonia.

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Honigsbaum, Mark. The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.

Horberry, Max. "After Coronavirus, Office Workers Might Face Unexpected Health Threats." The New York Times, 20 May 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/health/coronavirus-legionnaires-offices.html.

Hu, Winnie, and Noah Remnick. "A Belated Look at New York's Cooling Towers, Prime Suspect in Legionnaires' Outbreak." The New York Times, The New York Times, 4 Aug. 2015, www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/nyregion/new-york-officials-move-to-regulate-towers-tied-to-legionnaires-disease-outbreak.html.

"Legionnaires' Disease." Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 17 Sept. 2019, www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/legionnaires-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20351747.

Markel, Dr. Howard. "How a Hotel Convention Became Ground Zero for This Deadly Bacteria." PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 23 July 2018, www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-a-hotel-convention-became-ground-zero-for-this-deadly-bacteria.

McQuade, Dan. "Philadelphia's 5 Most Disastrous Independence Days." Philadelphia Magazine, Philadelphia Magazine, 3 July 2013, www.phillymag.com/news/2013/07/03/5-disastrous-independence-days-philadelphia-history/.

Schrag, Zachary M. "Nativist Riots of 1844." Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, 2013, philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/nativist-riots-of-1844/.

Thacker SB;Bennett JV;Tsai TF;Fraser DW;McDade JE;Shepard CC;Williams KH;Stuart WH;Dull HB;Eickhoff TC; "An Outbreak in 1965 of Severe Respiratory Illness Caused by the Legionnaires' Disease Bacterium." The Journal of Infectious Diseases, U.S. National Library of Medicine, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/361897/.

Well Dash Hounds, it just keeps happening. We think maybe telling the stories of the past each week will enlighten us to become better humans. But really our little podcast reminds you each week that yes, history does repeat itself. And here we are together as a hurting nation and sick world, watching white racist men in power continue to abuse people and their power. This week Kelly and Beth tell the heartbreaking story of Emmett Till. It is important to know his story as new stories of racism in America continue to unfold. Know history, change the future. We love you Dash Hounds, and as always, thank you for listening- it is an act of love.

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Tyon, Timothy. The Blood of Emmit Till. 2017

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Epstein, Kayla. "This Emmett Till Memorial Was Vandalized Again. And Again. And Again. Now, It's Bulletproof." The Washington Post, WP Company, 20 Oct. 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/20/this-emmett-till-memorial-was-vandalized-again-again-again-now-its-bulletproof/.

As beaches open up for the summer, remember there's more than COVID-19 to worry about. No, actually, that should be the main thing to worry about. Oh and sun cancer. While Strange County is talking about shark attacks, shark attacks are pretty rare. You have a better chance of having Trump grab you by your genitalia. But in the summer of 1916, a shark or sharks terrorized the Jersey Shore over 12 days. Scientists still don't know definitively what sparked it, but Beth and Kelly put forth a theory that is pretty incredible.

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Brown, Elizabeth. "How a Century of Fear Turned Deadly for Sharks." Florida Museum, 3 May 2019, www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/how-a-century-of-fear-turned-deadly-for-sharks/.

Capuzzo, Michael. Close to Shore: the Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916. Crown Publishers, 2003.

The Case of the New Jersey Man-Eater, www.elasmo-research.org/education/topics/saf_nj_maneater.htm.

Copeland, Matthew. "A History of Shark Attacks in Texas." KIIITV, 24 July 2018, www.kiiitv.com/article/news/local/a-history-of-shark-attacks-in-texas/503-577105458.

Evelyn, Kenya. "Amazon Threatened with Closure of Wisconsin Campus over Coronavirus." The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 22 May 2020, www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/22/amazon-coronavirus-wisconsin-campus-closure-threat.

Fernicola, Richard G. Twelve Days of Terror: a Definitive Investigation of the 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks. The Lyons Press, 2002.

Gambino, Megan. "The Shark Attacks That Were the Inspiration for Jaws." Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 6 Aug. 2012, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-shark-attacks-that-were-the-inspiration-for-jaws-15220260/.

"Great White Shark." National Geographic, 21 Sept. 2018, www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/g/great-white-shark/.

"Great White Shark." Smithsonian Ocean, 18 Dec. 2018, ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/sharks-rays/great-white-shark#section_690.

McCall, Matt. "2 Weeks, 4 Deaths, and the Start of America's Fear of Sharks." 1916 New Jersey Shore Shark Attacks Inspired Jaws and Changed the Way We View Ocean Predators, 12 June 2019, www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/07/150702-shark-attack-jersey-shore-1916-great-white/.

Picchi, Aimee. "Trump Adviser Says America's 'Human Capital Stock' Ready to Return to Work, Sparking Anger." CBS News, CBS Interactive, 26 May 2020, www.cbsnews.com/news/human-capital-stock-kevin-hassett-trump-economic-advisor-back-to-work/.

Rice, Doyle. "Good News for Beachgoers: The Number of Shark Attacks Is Decreasing." USA Today, Gannett Satellite Information Network, 22 Jan. 2020, www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/21/shark-attacks-were-down-again-2019-only-2-deaths-worldwide/4502604002/.

Schmidt, Samantha. "A Century Later, Memories of Fatal Shark Attacks Linger in New Jersey." The New York Times, The New York Times, 11 July 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/nyregion/a-century-later-memories-of-fatal-shark-attacks-linger-in-new-jersey.html.

"Shark Attack Compared to Other Risks." Florida Museum, 1 Feb. 2018, www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/odds/compare-risk/.

"Shark Attack Injures Two And Closes Gulf Beaches." The New York Times, The New York Times, 11 June 2000, www.nytimes.com/2000/06/11/us/shark-attack-injures-two-and-closes-gulf-beaches.html.

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Is this a giant CIA experiment where we've all been dosed with a substance to make us think there's a pandemic? Sadly no, but in the 1950s, in an attempt to stay ahead of the Soviets, the CIA led mind-control experiments to see if we could break someone's brain. Who knew that only a coronavirus and a reality-tv-host-turned-presidential-nightmare were the keys to bringing this country to its knees. Join Beth and Kelly as they talk about the man behind MK-ULTRA, Sidney Gottlieb. Oh--and avoid Georgia.

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Gup, Ted. "The Coldest." The Washington Post, WP Company, 16 Dec. 2001, www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/2001/12/16/the-coldest/83f56312-8cca-481f-af17-5d8eb0356612/.

Kinzer, Stephen. "From Mind Control to Murder? How a Deadly Fall Revealed the CIA's Darkest Secrets." The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 6 Sept. 2019, www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/06/from-mind-control-to-murder-how-a-deadly-fall-revealed-the-cias-darkest-secrets.

KINZER, STEPHEN. POISONER IN CHIEF: Sidney Gottlieb and the Cia Search for Mind Control. GRIFFIN, 2020.

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McCrummen, Stephanie. "'This Feels Great': A Preview from Georgia about How America Might Reemerge from the Coronavirus." The Washington Post, WP Company, 17 May 2020, www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/17/coronavirus-reopening-shopping-mall-georgia/?arc404=true&fbclid=IwAR2s9pGCvDlX_ZdpUkkzrPkLyf4-cpyQv7TdUEUMpr200OW1sPp7QkQofPQ.

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Vidich, Paul. "Did the CIA's Dr. Frank Olson Jump to His Death or Was He Pushed?" The Daily Beast, The Daily Beast Company, 17 Feb. 2020, www.thedailybeast.com/did-the-cias-dr-frank-olson-jump-to-his-death-or-was-he-pushed.

This week we will scare the shit out of you. Ah Dash Hounds, if our stories of strange, ghostly things never made your shoulder hair stand up, how about the idea that vaccines can take a really long time to get right. We will dive into the polio vaccine of 1955 and learn that sometimes problems can arise when doling out the new promising vaccine. Our intention is not to make you fearful, but to bring intelligence and insight and skepticism to anything that looks like it may be good. But you already do that Dash Hounds because you are special like Beth and Kelly. More often these times are mirroring old times more than we could have imagined. Be safe, stay healthy and Happy Listening.

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

Don't drink bleach. That seems obvious like along the lines of don't go swimming when there's lightning or run for president when you have no interest in governing. But yet countless cleaning products had to take to social media discouraging users from drinking them because Donald Trump said it could knock out coronavirus. Where did he get this "tremendous" idea? Co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about the possible origins of Dr. Trump's most recent batshittery in today's episode. And please, don't drink bleach.

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Bult, Laura. "Church That Peddles Bleach as 'Miracle Cure' for Autism Continues to Be Scrutinized by Authorities, at Least One Person Prosecuted ." Nydailynews.com, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2018, www.nydailynews.com/news/national/feds-monitor-church-sells-bleach-cure-autism-article-1.2846245.

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"Doctor Turned Minister Prescribed Cancer Patients Herbs And Prayer, Charging Them Thousands - Oxygen." Parkinson FIT, 27 May 2013, parkinson.fit/feed-items/doctor-turned-minister-prescribed-cancer-patients-herbs-and-prayer-charging-them-thousands-oxygen/.

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Hamblin, James. "Why It's Important Not to Drink Bleach." The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 25 Apr. 2020, www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/trump-bleach-coronavirus/610690/.

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Ono, David, and Lisa Bartley. "Group of SoCal Parents Secretly Try to Cure Kids with Autism Using Bleach." ABC7 San Francisco, 29 Oct. 2016, abc7news.com/news/group-of-socal-parents-secretly-try-to-cure-kids-with-autism-using-bleach/1578833/.

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America's "doctors" don't seem to be dispensing the best advice during the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Oz says opening up schools is appetizing. Dr. Phil says more people die crashing cars into swimming pools yet we don't close the country for that. And Dr. Drew downplayed the virus for weeks. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about these purveyors of quackery disguised as medical expertise, and Beth gets very real about her feelings.

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