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  • 2.13 Mayan Book Burning of 1562

    Today we activate Scoot's sense of justice as we discuss what led up to the Mayan book burning of 1562. Grab a drink, have a listen!


    Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!


    Sources:

    https://popular-archaeology.com/article/burning-the-maya-books-the-1562-tragedy-at-mani/

    https://www.loc.gov/collections/discovery-and-exploration/articles-and-essays/the-1562-map-of-america/

    https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/spanish-invasion/burning-maya-books

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

    https://archaeology.org/issues/november-december-2012/collection/groiler-dresden-codex/the-maya-sense-of-time/

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/church-history/article/abs/providence-and-perdition-fray-diego-de-landa-justifies-his-inquisition-against-the-yucatecan-maya/F5FF333C8905795EEEBAFDA2711D174A

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/4638023?seq=1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization#Writing_and_literacy

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s#Early_career_in_the_New_World

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Yucat%C3%A1n

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-da-f%C3%A9

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    1 hr 28 min
  • 2.12 Matilda Gage

    Never heard of her? Update your understanding of the Wizard of Oz alongside Red & Scoot!


    Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!


    Sources:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-feminist-inspired-witches-of-oz-180985334/

    https://www.nps.gov/people/matilda-joslyn-gage.htm#:~:text=Matilda%20Joslyn%20Gage%20was%20a,Cicero%2C%20New%20York%20in%201826.

    https://freethought-trail.org/profiles/profile:joslyn-hezekiah/

    https://freethought-trail.org/historical-events/event:birth-and-early-life-of-matilda-electa-joslyn/

    http://freethought-trail.org/profiles/profile:new-york-freethinkers-association/  

    https://susanb.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Matilda-Joslyn-Gage-Syracuse-NY-1852.pdf

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    1 hr 32 min
  • 2.11 Sojourner & Opportunity, the Mars Rovers that Forgot A Lot

    A snapshot of a strange, repeating mental health issue...on mars? Find out more about the Mars Rovers with Red & Scoot!


    Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!


    Sources:

    https://fermionbd.org/post/the-procrastinating-mars-rover

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasas-opportunity-rover-has-developed-robot-dementia-180953783/

    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30642548

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_%28rover%29

    https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-pathfinder/

    https://www.planetary.org/articles/08-mer-update-opportunity-reboots-reformats

    https://www.space.com/28974-mars-rover-opportunity-memory-amnesia.html

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    57 min
  • 2.10 Eugene V. Debs

    Man of the people...eventually! Listen to how Eugene V. Debs made the government really, really mad, with Red & Scoot.


    Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!


    Sources:

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/27673131

    https://web.archive.org/web/20080310173710/http://www.socialistworker.org/2007-2/638/638_12_Debs.shtml

    https://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A32382/datastream/OBJ/view/Eugene_V__Deb_s_Canton_Speech.pdf

    https://networks.h-net.org/node/20317/reviews/21439/jozwiak-salvatore-eugene-v-debs-citizen-and-socialist

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs#Sedition_conviction_and_appeal_to_U.S._Supreme_Court

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Railroad_Strike_of_1877

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_railroad_strike_of_1888

    https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/espionage-act-of-1917-and-sedition-act-of-1918-1917-1918

    https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2017/winter/debs-canton

    https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1918/canton.htm

    https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-indictment-could-run-for-president-2-others-did-2023-3

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    1 hr 13 min
  • 2.09 Greenbrier Ghost

    Spooky October continues with the only time history featured an apparition in a court case! Find out more with Red & Scoot!


    Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!


    Sources:

    https://greenbrierwv.com/editorials/the-greenbrier-ghost

    https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2018/01/greenbrier-ghost.html

    https://www.wboy.com/only-on-wboy-com/paranormal-w-va/how-the-greenbrier-ghost-helped-convict-a-west-virginia-murderer-in-1897/

    https://archive.wvculture.org/history/crime/shuearticles.html

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    54 min
  • 2.08 Black Cats: Good Luck or Devilish?

    Why do black cats have such a bad reputation? Once bringers of divinity and good luck, but now associated with the devil and Halloween; find out the real history with Red & Scoot!


    Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!


    Sources:

    https://archive.org/details/classicalcats00dona/page/182/mode/2up

    https://feedsnitt.com/2018/12/25/vox-in-roma-what-a-small-change-in-history-can-do/

    https://www.history.com/news/black-cats-superstitions

    https://historycollection.com/thou-shalt-not-suffer-a-cat-to-live-why-pope-gregory-ixs-vox-in-rama-implicated-cats-in-devil-worship/

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

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

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

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

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    54 min
  • 2.07 Dark Or Funny? A Brief History of Halloween

    From ancient Ireland to Black Halloween in the 1930's, Halloween's history is stranger than you'd think. Find out why with Red & Scoot!


    Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!


    Sources:

    https://www.candystore.com/blogs/facts-trivia/halloween-candy-map-popular?y=2021

    https://www.candystore.com/blogs/holidays/definitive-ranking-best-worst-halloween-candies

    https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue32/meehan_index.html

    https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween

    https://www.ireland.com/en-us/features/ireland-home-of-halloween/?ds_c=TI_US_EN_PRO_PerformanceMax_All+Island_NA_IOI_NA_NA_NA_ACP_Halloween+2024&ds_ag=&ds_k=&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxsm3BhDrARIsAMtVz6NJ7z4BcsZ77kYvqTaPnZsy2RpZ2-DXi8WGzHITp9iqxECIUgG4spEaAnVIEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating#History

    https://www.history.com/news/history-of-the-jack-o-lantern-irish-origins

    https://www.irishpost.com/heritage/how-irish-great-famine-brought-halloween-to-america-161376

    https://suburbanturmoil.com/heres-proof-halloween-a-century-ago-was-just-as-freaky/2018/10/30/

    https://www.history.com/news/halloween-was-once-so-dangerous-that-some-cities-considered-banning-it

    https://www.history.com/news/halloween-haunted-house-great-depression

    https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-that-celebrate-halloween

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    1 hr 16 min
  • 2.06 When Pest Control Goes Wrong: International Edition

    A collection of times when the governments tried to take on local snakes and rats...and failed. How did tiny rodents (etc) beat back some of the most powerful governments in the world? Find out with Red & Scoot!


    Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!


    Sources:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/pmjrdg/is_there_evidence_for_the_cobra_effect_story/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#:~:text=The%20original%20cobra%20effect,-The%20Indian%20cobra&text=The%20British%20government%2C%20concerned%20about,breed%20cobras%20for%20the%20income.

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

    https://www.hanoivietnam.fr/le-massacre-des-rats-de-hanoi-en-1902/

    https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23416106

    https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wsb.787

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    1 hr 13 min
  • 2.05 Romulus Augustus & the Fall of Rome

    Was it a "Fall" of Rome or more of a gradual erosion and eventual crumbling-breaking-situation? Dig into the story of the Last Emperor of Rome with Red and Scoot.


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

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

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_(father_of_Romulus_Augustulus)

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

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

    Kos, Marjeta Šašel (2008). "The family of Romulus Augustulus". Antike Lebenswelten : Konstanz, Wandel, Wirkungsmacht : Festschrift für Ingomar Weiler zum 70. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. OCLC 496844565.

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah12184

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    1 hr 19 min
  • 2.04 MKUltra: Real History Behind the Conspiracy

    U.S. experimenting on humans, mind control, and real stories behind the "conspiracy" of MKUltra.


    Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!


    Sources:

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

    https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief

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

    https://abc7news.com/archive/6592388/

    https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/u-s-soldiers-used-as-human-guinea-pigs-in-top-secret-chemical-testing-program

    https://screenrant.com/stranger-things-cia-project-mkultra-real-experiments-explained/

    https://truthout.org/articles/the-hidden-tragedy-of-the-cias-experiments-on-children/

    https://www.google.com/books/edition/Project_MKULTRA_the_CIA_s_Program_of_Res/TEqhqtrF3XEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA70&printsec=frontcover

    https://web.archive.org/web/20020131080119/http://www.michael-robinett.com/declass/c010.htm

    https://web.archive.org/web/20180519204913/https://www.ozy.com/true-story/whitey-bulger-i-was-a-guinea-pig-for-cia-drug-experiments/76409

    https://research.unc.edu/human-research-ethics/resources/ccm3_019064/

    https://archive.org/details/brainwashsecreth0000stre/page/48/mode/2up

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

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

    https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/05/archives/files-show-tests-for-truth-drug-began-in-oss-marijuana-derivative.html

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ewen_Cameron#MKULTRA_Subproject_68

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    2 hr 26 min

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Learn a new, wild story in history. In this podcast, Red tells Scoot the strangest, funniest, and weirdest stories you've never heard before.

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