In an age of excess, he was the most excessive one of all. This week, #7 takes a look back at the life of legendary salesman and gourmand Diamond Jim Brady (1856-1917).

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Forty miles north of Chicago is the town of Zion, IL, a sleepy city with a sordid history of faith healing, financial fraud, flat-Eartherism... and figs? Join us for the crazy true story of how it all began... and the crazier story of how it almost came crashing down.

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For one week in January 1909, the Jersey Devil walked among us. Maybe.

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Sometimes a journey of ten thousand miles starts with mailing yourself from San Francisco to Honolulu. This week: the strange and tragic story of Ira C. Sparks.

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For years the Monongahela Valley was terrorized by the fearsome Torso Burchianti Gang. Except maybe that gang wasn't quite as fearsome as the cops thought...

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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-terror-of-gillikin-country/

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A fun night out at the theater featuring ethnic jokes, slapstick violence, a sappy moral, three tons of feminine pulchritude, and a dead cat. (Maybe two dead cats, we can't be sure.)

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Series Six starts December 28!

How many times will folks fall for the same old tricks? You might be surprised. Let's talk about Prince Mike, King Ben, and Michigan's Houses of Israel and David.

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This week #7 talks about the only souvenir option that makes cents - or rather, is made from cents. It's a brief history of the pressed penny, squished penny, or elongated coin!

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In 1929 it was a sensation, "the most notorious witchcraft trial since Salem." Today it's all but forgotten. Let's talk about the York County Hex Murder.

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The idea that color has healing power is a relatively modern (and utterly fallacious) one. We discuss its development through the 19th and 20th centuries.

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/normalating

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