The Missing Chapter Podcast

You know how the game goes - Start with everyone along the starting line, when you say 'Green Light' everyone will move towards the finish line, when you say 'Red Light' everyone must immediately stop. If players are still moving when you call 'Red Light', they must go back to the starting line. And if you’re thinking about playing this game in a real life scenario, it probably goes something like this - You’re in a real hurry and hope that every intersection is cleared of traffic and a glowing green light is awaiting for you to pass through unobstructed, and every red light magically and hurriedly changes its tone so you don’t even have to take your foot off the gas while crowds of people await for your royal highness to pass through the intersection.  And let’s not even get started about the yellow light - which, in modern day traffic, has changed it’s purpose from being a warning for slowing down to a welcoming for flooring it and speeding up.  But here’s the question - why do we use those three colors?  Have they always meant the same thing?  That’s what we’re here for - to answer the questions you may not have even asked yourself, and to do so in Missing Chapter fashion.  Grab your coffees, and let’s add another chapter to the history textbooks.

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Hollywood’s depiction of pirates, swashbucklers, and buccaneers is often glamorized and fictionalized to the point, where it’s difficult to differentiate between villain and hero. The history and reality of pirates is often much more obvious, but no less thrilling and entertaining.

Enter into today’s episode, arguably the most successful but least-known, pirate to sail the seven seas. His exploits would net him an estimated tens of millions of dollars in stolen treasure, make him the most-wanted outlaw of the British crown, and inspire countless stories, books, and plays.

And now his exploits will have inspired a podcast… the story behind the pirate whose life not only sounds like a Hollywood script, but actually was. Pour yourself a cup of coffee as we sail the seven seas on this edition of The Missing Chapter Podcast.

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I hope to rekindle what it was like as a kid for some of our listeners here - or maybe for our younger audience, trigger more of a recent memory - the Crane Game.  You might not know it by name, but the epiphany of what this game is will happen immediately when I say this - the game with the claw!

But this isn’t an episode about toys, although we’ve done a few of those, this is an episode about a covert, CIA operation to use this crane game concept to reach an object at the bottom of the ocean floor. 

What are they looking for?  How would they do it?  And why do they want it?  Pour yourself a cup of coffee and tune in, another chapter is about to be written, on this episode of the Missing Chapter.

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Well, here we are in the snow-covered hills of upstate NY.  It’s a balmy 14 out this morning, my windshield was covered with an impenetrable microscopic ice, which is somehow impervious to a massive steel and plastic ice scraper, I almost took a header coming down my steps from said ice, and I still can’t feel my hands from pumping gas this morning with a chill that seems like it came from Arendelle castle.  What I envision now that gives me solace…watching fireworks on the 4th of July after a beautiful summer day spent outside barbecuing with burgers and…dogs.  The hot dog.  It’s a summer and baseball staple in our country.  It’s a stadium tradition, it’s a barbecue necessity, and it’s a cornerstone of our culture, good or bad I guess.  But there is some controversy surrounding this questionable meat…who stakes claim to making the first hot dog?  Well, that’s up for debate, and I’m excited to have that discussion with my good friend here Phil Horender, on this episode of the Missing Chapter.

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There are great quotes from American history and then there are Mark Twain quotes. There are great writers from American History and then there is Mark Twain.

An astonishing and profound author, whose collection of works impacted U.S. history as much as the commentary he was making on it. From his humble upbringing to his amazing journey through life. The chapters of his days, read like one of his ground-breaking, iconic stories and, in the process, gives us our new episode format for 2024… The Missing Chapter Profile – Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

Some of what you may have known and lots of what you don’t know about one of our nation’s most cherished storytellers.

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From relatives to neighbors, family to strangers, what other response is so commonly known around the world than what happens following someone’s sneeze.  God bless you gesundheit, blesh you, salud - whatever your response, this is something so commonly used that it spans across continents, religions, ethnicities, and cultures - how is that possible?  And better yet, how is it that so many people across the world use this response yet if I had asked anyone who used that response, “hey, may I ask you, why do we say God bless you after someone sneezes” I honestly don’t know if someone would know the true origins of it.  I thought I did, until I realized what I thought was surrounded in sheer myth.  And that’s the origin of this episode, a simple question…collectively, why do we all have that shared experience and where did that come from?  You’re about to find out because you’re listening to the Missing Chapter and we’re starting right now.

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If any of our listeners have flown before, you’ve probably noticed two schools of flying patrons - those that love it and spend their time casually reading their favorite book or appear to have the best slumber of their lives, and those that have to take a valium washed down with a swig of vino to get their heart rates back to normal pumping levels.  Me, personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.  I love flying, but when the bottom of your belly falls out from turbulence, I immediately wish I had taken that valium.  Anytime someone like the latter group gets a little anxious about the trip, and the fact that you’re 30,000 feet in the air without a parachute, going around 500 mph, it always helps to have the calming voice of the pilot, or the easy, calming nature of the flight attendant.  And that right there, is the focus of today’s episode.  The flight attendant: an airline’s idea to calm its passengers has become not only a common occurrence, but a requirement for all flights.  I hope your seatbacks and tray tables are in the upright position because we’re about to take off on this episode of the Missing Chapter.

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History is draped in mystery, speculation, and intrigue and certain events in our nation’s past lend themselves to these fascinations. Maybe none more so than assassinations and, in particular, those of President John F. Kennedy and President Abraham Lincoln. Today’s episode of The Missing Chapter delves into the latter. A renowned actor, a beloved leader and a nation still divided with a gaping wound. But beneath what we already know about this tragic and history-altering occurrence is a story much deeper. A secret society with ambitions of a new nation, separate from the one just preserved. Members hell-bent on preserving the brutal and inhumane institution of slavery and willing to do anything to achieve their objectives. A story you don’t know on the podcast that brings them to you… The Missing Chapter. 

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John Macarthur, in his book Reckless Faith says, “Federal agents don’t learn to spot counterfeit money by studying the counterfeits. They study genuine bills until they master the look of the real thing. Then when they see the bogus money they recognize it.”  How true is that?  And what’s behind the note itself.  How about this?  What’s behind the story of counterfeit money altogether?  Well, stick with us, as we take a moment in this new year to, pun intended, look more closely at the history of the counterfeit, and hopefully, have a great time while we do it.  Pour yourself a cup of coffee, keep focused on the road if you’re driving, and Happy New Year everyone, it’s another episode of the Missing Chapter.

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