The Missing Chapter Podcast

I ask myself the same question every morning when I wake up and every afternoon I drive home. Our sons inquire about it when I pull in the drive way and my wife requests an answer when I walk in the house.

“What’s for dinner?”

The answer to this question can be an easy one or one that causes me to wrack my brain. It all depends on whether or not one of us has gone grocery shopping.

Ahh! The magical world of food. Today we often take it for granted – a luxury at times. Going to the grocery store and having a seemingly endless array of foods to choose from. Or a chore other times. Having to find the time to make a list, locate every item on it, and wait in line to pay.

Regardless… the food we eat, the way it’s packaged, the manner in which it’s processed, and how it makes its way from field and farm to grocery store and market, all the way to our dining room tables at night – are often overlooked and might just astound you, amaze you. Surely without this technology our lives would change drastically. On this episode of The Missing Chapter, we delve into one of my favorite topics – food! And we ask the age-old question… What’s for dinner?

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Welcome to an impromptu episode of the Missing Chapter!  We've had multiple conversations, numerous questions, and many complaints about something we have questioned for many years - why in the world are we still participating in Daylight Saving Time?  Who was the crazy person who conjured up such an idea?  Didn't Ben Franklin realize we like our sleep?  Was it even Ben Franklin's idea?  It's for the farmers, right?

Well, we decided minutes before recording this episode, that these were questions we needed to answer...some of them for our own sanity...and because there was a great deal of this history we didn't know ourselves!

Fire up the coffee and let's not waste any time here - it's a Time Sensitive episode of the Missing Chapter!

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We ask a lot of questions on this podcast.  Where this originated, who did that, how did this invention take shape…this type of curiosity is what leads us to this episode.  Today on this episode of the Missing Chapter, we welcome author Chris Barton.  Author of more than 20 published books, including the focus of this episode, his book called Dazzle Ships.  These ships weren’t your ordinary battleships in World War I, they have been specifically camouflaged, not to blend in, but to stand out.  Now why would a battleship want to stand out, rather than blend in?  Isn’t stealth one of the main sources of defense?  Well, in this case, standing out IS the source of defense and Author Chris Barton will show us how one man’s incredible imagination and ingenuity led to one of history’s forgotten stories…Dazzle Ships.

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Hello Missing Chapter fans, welcome, and happy Halloween!  For today's episode we’re headed down the haunted rabbit hole of everything haunted and historic about some of our traditions and customs surrounding this national holiday.  Why not gather some great talking points about the history of this crazy holiday before you gather the kids to go trick or treating?  Let’s do it, a Missing Chapter Chat, going through the history and origins of some of our most common Halloween traditions on this episode of the Missing Chapter.

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In our 21st century model of advertising and brand recognition, everyone has a logo.  Logos represent what the business, enterprise, or team is all about.  We almost take them for granted actually, because we’re exposed to logos everywhere we look!  For today’s episode, yes we’re biased - Yankee fanatics through and through - we’re looking at the unknown history of one of the most iconic logos in all of sports - the interlocking N and Y of the New York Yankees logo.  Or should I say Yankee logos, because if you haven’t noticed, yes there’s more than one style.  Where did they come from?  And why are there distinct differences between the logos but used for the same team?  We welcome all baseball fans, yes even you Red Sox fans, to discover the origins of the Yankee logos on this episode of the Missing Chapter.

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The United States Civil War ended on April 9th, 1865.  The Confederate States were officially dissolved, U.S. territorial integrity had been preserved, the institution of slavery abolished and the beginning of the Reconstruction Era was ushered in. In the subsequent years, the country would see the passage and ratification of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Major political, economic, and social changes for a nation that had just witnessed the death of nearly 620,000 of its sons, brothers, husbands, and fathers. But the question remains for historians and the debate continues today… Did the lives of former slaves really change all that dramatically? We know that racism and discrimination remained in the United States for decades to come and that financial freedom was virtually unobtainable for many liberated slaves looking to start new lives. But for some, the end of the Civil War and the years that followed, ushered in remarkable, unimaginable opportunity and for one young, African American girl, whose parents had been slaves, and who was now living in Oklahoma, it would mean that in a few shorts years she would be one of the wealthiest people in the entire country and that today her story would be recounted on this episode of The Missing Chapter.

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Hey MC listeners, welcome to a Part II episode of This Side Up!

If you haven't listened to the original This Side Up episode, go back to Episode 2 of Season 3 and find out how the US postal system was used to carry quite the unexpected yet vitally important package some 250 miles away. What was in that package you ask?  Well we won’t ruin it for our listeners who haven’t tuned in, but let’s just say the parallels between the two stories are astonishing.  

So grab a coffee, put your earbuds in, and let’s get to it…

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More than just a words on page, far beyond just a recitation and nothing less than a unifying tradition, the Pledge of Allegiance is engrained in our American brains at a very young age.  It is recited before school starts, before meetings, some sporting events, and it’s even well known internationally.  But here’s a question…we know the Pledge, but do we know the person?  The person who wrote the pledge?  I didn’t, and my guess is, you may not know either.  And just like every one of our episodes and well, history in general, there’s way more to the story.  Find out who this person is, the local history ties, and some questionable controversy behind the story on this episode of the Missing Chapter.

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In the history of film and cinema, no animal has ever been awarded the distinction of an Academy Award. Which is too bad because Hollywood has produced countless movies starring a variety of animal stars. Lassie, Benji, Mr. Ed, Old Yeller… while the rules don’t specifically disqualify an animal from taking home the distinguished honor, in the strictest interpretation of the definition of “actor” or “actress” it is implied human nominees win the award. But, let’s be honest, since the beginning of motion pictures, animals have played integral roles in film and have certainly enhanced our experience at the movie theater.  What are we getting at?  Click "Play" and find out more on this Missing Chapter Short!

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Before the advent of Amazon Prime delivery, UPS, and FedEx, the US Postal System was the only option.  It was a luxury and a necessity at the same time - a way to send information and a means by which supplies could be distributed throughout the nation.  As a matter of fact, did you know the US Postal Service processes over 160 million pieces of first class mail daily?  It's hard to fathom!  What's even more astounding though, that in the mid-19th Century, a package was delivered with a very heavy, fragile, and unexpected contents inside.  It wasn't an ordinary delivery, and it isn't a typical day at the post office - it's a tale only history can conjure up - and it's today's second episode of Season 3!

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