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.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

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.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

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/

Randall Kennedy on why critical race theory is important ❧ current affairs. Current Affairs. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/03/randall-kennedy-on-why-critical-race-theory-is-important 

Ray, R., & Gibbons, A. (2022, March 9). Why are states banning critical race theory? Brookings. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/07/02/why-are-states-banning-critical-race-theory/ 

Rufo, C. F. (2021, June 23). Washington Post tried to smear me for criticizing race theory - and failed spectacularly. New York Post. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://nypost.com/2021/06/22/washington-post-tried-to-smear-me-for-criticizing-race-theory-and-failed/ 

Wallace-Wells, B. (2021, June 18). How a conservative activist invented the conflict over critical race theory. The New Yorker. Retrieved March 20, 2022, from https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-conservative-activist-invented-the-conflict-over-critical-race-theory 

Sound effects:

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.

Sound effects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFxZ15xXVRk - French music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruVYJsFBA_o - Melania’s christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_sOSIR-Kk - Don Jr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLDBwzuM2Zg - Kimberly G

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEi9wgbob-0 - Les Miz

On Dec. 21, 1954, the world was supposed to be flooded, and true believers taken aboard flying saucers to safety. When that didn’t happen, the Seekers tried to excuse away the no-show aliens, and thus cognitive dissonance entered the American psyche. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss how Leon Festinger put his theory to the test by pretending to be a true believer to study how followers managed their cognitive dissonance when the world kept spinning.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

Adventures by A Himitsu https://soundcloud.com/a-himitsu

Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 

Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/2Pj0MtT

Music released by Argofox https://youtu.be/8BXNwnxaVQE

Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/MkNeIUgNPQ8

Barnes, J. E. (2021, November 24). Pentagon forms a group to examine unexplained aerial sightings. The New York Times. Retrieved March 1, 2022, from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/us/politics/pentagon-ufos.html?searchResultPosition=1 

Beck, J. (2016, January 4). The christmas the aliens didn't come. The Atlantic. Retrieved March 1, 2022, from https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/12/the-christmas-the-aliens-didnt-come/421122/ 

Festinger, L. (1966) When prophecy fails : a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world. Harper.

Gabbat, A. (2022, February 5). 'something's coming': Is America finally ready to take ufos seriously? The Guardian. Retrieved March 1, 2022, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/05/ufos-america-aliens-government-report 

Liddell, E. (n.d.). Apocalypse Oak Park: Dorothy Martin, the Chicagoan who predicted the end of the world and inspired the theory of Cognitive Dissonance. Chicago Magazine. Retrieved March 1, 2022, from https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/may-2011/dorothy-martin-the-chicagoan-who-predicted-the-end-of-the-world-and-inspired-the-theory-of-cognitive-dissonance/ 

The current spate of book banning is nothing new in America. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly take readers back to Kanawha County in 1974 when protestors firebombed schools and shot at school buses to protest the adoption of a new textbooks. The books, they said, were obscene and would hurt children so what better way to save them but by throwing sticks of dynamites into their classrooms, right?

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

Bloch, E. (2021, May 18). Florida Education commissioner says he made sure Amy Donofrio was fired; now her legal team's responding. The Florida Times-Union. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2021/05/17/florida-education-commissioner-richard-corcoran-says-fired-duval-county-teacher-supporting-blm/5134544001/ 

Foerstel, H. N. (2002). Banned in the U.S.A.: A reference guide to book censorship in Schoolsand Public Libraries. revised and expanded edition. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 

Franklin, B. A. (1975, April 15). Bomber testifies that minister blessed dynamiting of schools in book dispute. The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/15/archives/bomber-testifies-that-minister-blessed-dynamiting-of-schools-in.html 

Harris, E. A., & Alter, A. (2022, January 30). Book ban efforts spread across the U.S. The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/30/books/book-ban-us-schools.html 

Martin, W. (1982, November 1). The guardians who slumbereth not. Texas Monthly. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-guardians-who-slumbereth-not/ 

Mason, C. (2009). Reading appalachia from left to right conservatives and the 1974 kanawha county textbook controversy. Cornell University Press. 

Mechem, B. (2022, January 20). Parents protest after black lives matter video shown to Sarasota students: Sarasota. Your Observer. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.yourobserver.com/article/parents-protest-after-black-lives-matter-video-shown-to-students 

Meckler, L., & Natanson, H. (2022, February 15). New Critical Race Theory Laws Have Teachers Scared, confused and self-censoring. The Washington Post. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/14/critical-race-theory-teachers-fear-laws/ 

NBCUniversal News Group. (2021, December 8). Texas School District pulls 400 books from library shelves for review after legislator's inquiry. NBCNews.com. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-school-district-pulls-400-books-library-shelves-review-lawmakers-rcna7891 

Posner, Sarah. "Debate over teaching books by Black authors has roots in violent 1974 clash in West Virginia." Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021, p. NA. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A680608885/STND?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=36a235ac. Accessed 12 Feb. 2022.

Schwartz, S., & Pendharkar, E. (2022, February 22). Here's the long list of topics Republicans want banned from the classroom. Education Week. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/heres-the-long-list-of-topics-republicans-want-banned-from-the-classroom/2022/02 

Vass, Kyle ”West Virginia textbook battle shows how GOP turned its image from 'blue blood to blue collar'; Before conservatives weaponized critical race theory, a violent 1974 clash over school books helped Republicans rebrand to appeal to white workers." Guardian [London, England], 25 Nov. 2021, p. NA. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A683847032/STND?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=06158f7f. Accessed 12 Feb. 2022.

Whiteleather, M. (2022, February 10). Bill could require posting a year's worth of lesson plans. teachers aren't happy. Education Week. Retrieved February 23, 2022, from https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/bill-could-require-posting-a-years-worth-of-lesson-plans-teachers-arent-happy/2022/02 

What would you want if you were named Queen for a Day? Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about this strange game show that awarded one woman with the saddest story with blenders and washing machines rather than actual policies or help that would take her out of her awful situation.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite Sources:

Buck, Stephanie. This 1950's Game Show Profited From the Poverty of a New Woman Everyday. Medium. March 24, 2017.  https://timeline.com/queen-for-a-day-tv-sexism-9bd594f509d9

O'Geiblin, Megan. Are There HIdden Advantages to Pain and Suffering? Nov.8, 2021, The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/15/are-there-hidden-advantages-to-pain-and-suffering-hurts-so-good-leigh-cowart-the-sweet-spot-paul-bloom

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Bailey_(actor)

MIchael Wortsman Hollywood Laundromat. 2022. Website: http://queenforaday.com/classic.php

There she is . . . the Strange Country Podcast is back after its brief Covid hiatus to talk about a 100-year-old scholarship beauty pageant that crowns an annual queen in a country that overthrew the British government to escape a king. It was a chance for young women to show their talents wearing a swimsuit and answering questions like “Was the Jan. 6 insurrection an example of legitimate political discourse?”

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

Argetsinger, A. (2021, December 16). 100 years ago, the first miss america pageant was as messy as today's. The Washington Post. Retrieved February 1, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/12/16/first-miss-america-margaret-gorman/ 

Argetsinger, A. (2021). There she was: The secret history of Miss America. Atria. 

Bernstein, A. (2016, February 25). Yolande Betbeze Fox, a miss america who rebelled, dies at 87. The Washington Post. Retrieved February 1, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/yolande-betbeze-fox-a-miss-america-who-rebelled-dies-at-87/2016/02/25/32374126-dbda-11e5-81ae-7491b9b9e7df_story.html 

Braver, R. (2018, September 30). Remembering 1968: When miss america met Women's Liberation. CBS News. Retrieved February 1, 2022, from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/remembering-1968-when-miss-america-met-womens-liberation/ 

Haigh, S. (2021, December 14). Miss america turns 100. will she last another 100 years? AP NEWS. Retrieved February 1, 2022, from https://apnews.com/article/miss-america-turns-100-bf3837c87e003b3025b91700cb4e9bd8 

Lenz, L. (2019, May 14). The heavy crown of Gretchen Carlson. Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved February 1, 2022, from https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/gretchen-carlson-fox-miss-america.php 

Mifflin, M. (2021). Looking for miss america: A pageant's 100-year quest to define womanhood. Counterpoint. 

In the final installment in the Moonies’ trilogy, Strange Country looks at Sun Myung Moon’s influence in American politics, and how his money helped the New Right gain power. There’s also sound effects that you can hear, which is a Christmas miracle.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

Armstrong, Scott and Cheshire, Maxine. "Korean CIA Tied to Moon Rally: Korea CIA Tied to Moon Rallies Supporting Nixon." The Washington Post (1974-), Nov 07, 1976, pp. 2. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/historical-newspapers/korean-cia-tied-moon-rally/docview/146557133/se-2?accountid=189667.\

Benscoter, Diane. Shoes of a Servant: My Unconditional Devotion to a Lie. Lucky Bat Books, 2013.

Blake, Mariah. “The Fall of the House of Moon” The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2021, https://newrepublic.com/article/115512/unification-church-profile-fall-house-moon.

Boyer, Jean-Francois. Johnson, R.W. “R.W. Johnson · Rising Moon · LRB 18 December 1986.” London Review of Books, London Review of Books, 6 Nov. 2019, https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v08/n22/r.w.-johnson/rising-moon.

"CIA, Moonies Cooperate in Sandinista War." The Washington Post (1974-) Aug 16 1984: 1. ProQuest. 4 Dec. 2021 .

Edge, Simon. "The Express: DARK SIDE OF THE MOONIE." Express, The (London, England), 15 Oct. 2009. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/12E3828D241D77D8. Accessed 3 Dec. 2021.

“Frontline: The Resurrection of Reverend Moon.” 1992, PBS. https://vimeo.com/520151453.

Frosman, Daniel. “The Untold Story of Sushi.” The New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/05/magazine/sushi-us.html.

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In the second installment of the Moonies, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about mass marriage, rituals and how Sun Myung Moon began to cement his relationship with the New Right in America. You’ll never look at indemnity sticks and handkerchiefs the same.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

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MORPHEW, CLARK. "Daughter-in-law flees abuse by Moon family." Columbia Daily Tribune (MO), 10 Oct. 1998. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/0FC2AC5BEB9E53AC. Accessed 3 Dec. 2021.

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