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Big 5-0! In our first episode we said we would take a self defense class, and here we are 49 episodes later with said class under our belt. Listen as we recount our experience of the class and the adventure that happened immediately after

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10+ ways running (working out) make you a better person

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Feel good stories for some faith in humanity restoration with guest star Emily

Links:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-08/japan-keeps-the-defunct-kyu-shirataki-train-station-open-for-just-one-high-school-girl

https://olaug-ma.com/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/08/12/metro/old-ladies-against-underwater-garbage/

https://www.dailygood.org/story/264/the-business-9-women-kept-a-secret-for-three-decades-lori-weiss/

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10 years of friendship with guest star, Steph, has produced a myriad of life lessons- some funny, some valuable, and some very specific 

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Maria is making like Han and flying solo this week covering the Van Buren sisters! The Van Buren sisters wanted to prove that women were capable of aiding in the War efforts by riding on their motorbikes across the country. Not only were they fighting for the right to vote and serve their country but also to wear pants…! Addie and Gussie Van Buren were pulled over multiple times on their historical ride because it was illegal for women to wear pants

Links:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/martin-van-buren/

https://expeditionportal.com/pioneers-of-moto-history-the-van-buren-sisters-1916-ride-across-america/

https://womeninexploration.org/timeline/augusta-adeline-van-buren

http://hof.motorcyclemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.aspx?RacerID=285

https://explorersweb.com/legends-series-van-buren-sisters/

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 I think everyone can agree, collectively, as a species- we need to do better, be better. Maria & James discuss various icks/cringes- whatever generational word you use - no judgies, but judgies 

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Sometimes you just gotta do it yourself. Stories of three fab fellas who decided to take matters into their own hands. They said ‘F it, I’ll do it myself”

Dr. Barry Marshall, Australian Gastroenterologist who infected himself with an ulcer causing bacteria to prove he knew the cure

Almon Brown Strowger, inventor of the automatic switchboard after his own employee was directing calls from his business to the competition

Leonid Rogozov, Russian surgeon performed an appendectomy on himself in Antarctica 

Links:

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2005/marshall/biographical/

https://www.sparkmuseum.org/almon-b-strowger-the-undertaker-who-revolutionized-telephone-technology/

https://www.dailyrounds.org/blog/chilling-the-story-of-a-surgeon-who-cut-down-his-own-appendix/

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Hats off to Florida who does not discriminate. They not only have a Florida Man but a Florida WOMAN with tales just as, if not more, crazy 

Ariel Marchan Le-Quire: pulls alligator from pants at police stop

Angela Stoldt- arguably one of the worst neighbors ever, stabs neighbor with ice pick and dismembers his body

Krystle Lee Anderson: legless fugitive found hiding in plastic container

Veronica Posey: 325lb woman charged with killing girl by sitting on her

And more… 

Links:

https://www.oxygen.com/floribama-murders/crime-news/angela-stoldt-stabbed-strangled-dismembered-jimmy-sheaffer

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-woman-gator-pants-traffic-stop/

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2024/06/21/florida-woman-steals-ambulance-leads-deputies-on-chase/

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/17/woman-charged-with-killing-girl-by-sitting-on-her/

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2024/03/11/tallahassee-police-woman-charged-with-murdering-her-mother-carved-her-heart-out-with-a-knife/72929488007/

https://www.news4jax.com/news/2019/01/26/florida-woman-lives-with-dismembered-body-of-boyfriend-police-say/

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 Money can’t buy you happiness… but it may buy you a curse. Different lottery winning stories that just may have you believing the Lottery Curse is real 

Links:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnjennings/2023/08/29/debunking-the-myth-the-surprising-truth-about-lottery-winners-and-life-satisfaction/

https://www.oxygen.com/floribama-murders/crime-news/lottery-winner-abraham-shakespeare-shot-dead-by-dee-dee-moore

https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90307&page=1

https://nypost.com/2004/02/10/lotto-feud-hubby-dies/

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/lottery-winner-who-bagged-27million-29704612

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/lottery-winner-who-lost-fortune-31155121

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Devil advocating things that are considered both blessings and curses

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