History lessons abound as we cover events past and present -- including our first-ever News Tidbit of the Week -- and we enjoy some unintentional musical accompaniment. Also: the state of the roads in 1860s New York City. Recorded Thursday, September 6, 2018.

Links:

• Starfleet ranks
• Captain Janeway — aka Elvia IRL
• Captain Janeway Ornament
• Ctrl by SZA — "Drew Barrymore" and "Prom" were Kurt's favs
• Epic Rap Battles of History
• Epic Rap Battles of History - YouTube
• Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates. Epic Rap Battles of History Season 2.
• Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton. Epic Rap Battles of History.
• Gandalf vs Dumbledore. Epic Rap Battles of History #11
• The (re)Birth of Epic Rap Battles of History
• J. R. R. Tolkien vs George R. R. Martin. Epic Rap Battles of History. Season 5
• Steven Spielberg vs Alfred Hitchcock. Epic Rap Battles of History.
• The Punisher
• Jon Bernthal
• Baby Driver
• Kevin Spacey misconduct allegations
• The Punisher MCU Show — CORRECTION! Punisher finally got his own show!
• Aaron Davis aka Prowler — As seen in Spider-Man: Homecoming
• Freeform
• The Legend of Korra
• Nerf Rebelle
• Bug-A-Salt — available in Pink Camo!
• Apple Events - September 12, 2018
• Apple Events
• Grandmaster — CHECKMATE.
• Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
• Grand jury investigation of Catholic Church sexual abuse in Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report
• Catholic Church sex abuse cases in the United States
• World Meeting of Families — 8/25-8/26/2018 was in Dublin, Ireland.
• Pope Francis's visit to Ireland
• Nuncio — early 16th century: from Italian, from Latin nuntius ‘messenger.’
• His Excellency Carlo Maria Viganò — Titular Archbishop of Ulpiana
• Vigano Letter (pdf)
• NY attorney general subpoenas state's Catholic dioceses in connection with sex abuse investigation — By Mark Morales and Dakin Andone, CNN
• Cupich dismisses Viganò claims as a 'rabbit hole' — Chicago, Ill., Aug 28, 2018 / 03:45 pm (CNA)
• Cdl. Cupich: Pope’s ‘bigger agenda’ focuses on environment, migrants, not sex abuse — by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, August 31, 2018 (LifeSiteNews.com)
• Pope at Mass: ‘the truth is humble, the truth is silent’ — By Sr Bernadette Mary Reis, fsp, 03 September 2018, 12:21
• St. Augustine of Hippo
• Truth is Like a Lion
• St. Augustine: The Truth is Like a Lion (Fauxtation) — OCTOBER 18, 2015 ~ FATHERHORTON
• Catholic Church in the Thirteen Colonies
• The Know Nothing Party
• Ku Klux Klan
• G.K. Chesterton
• The Pint, The Pipe, and The Cross
• The American Chesterton Society — On the quote: "Our best guess so far is that they’re by Hilaire Belloc, but we have no citations."
• Father Brown — The Catholic Priest version of Sherlock Holmes
• Sir Alec Guinness — (b.April 2, 1914 – d.August 5, 2000)
• Father Brown (1954 film) — based on "The Blue Cross", a short story by G. K. Chesterton.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Orthodoxy (1908) — by G.K. Chesterton
• Mere Christianity (1952) — by C.S. Lewis
• Australian Shepherd
• Neutering
• Bob Barker
• Bob Barker's Quest To Get Your Pet Spayed or Neutered Pays Off
• Captain Planet Intro and Outro — "The power...is YOURS!"
• Total Recall (1990 film)
• Portal 2
• Interstellar (2014 film)
• Gangs of New York (2002 film)
• Knights of Columbus
• Didgeridoo
• "Oh Hi Mark" — from "The Room"
• Charles Carroll of Carrollton — NOT Thomas. (b.1737-d.1832). "First Citizen" of the Colonies, Maryland State Senator
• The Most Reverend John Carroll, SJ — Archbishop of Baltimore (b.1735-d.1815)
• Residence Act of 1790 — helped to found a national capital of the USA
• Daniel Carroll — Founding Father who donated a farm to help found Washington, D.C.
• New Advent entry on Daniel Carroll — more context on the donated lands
• Christopher Columbus
• Knights of Columbus Website — For more info on their Insurance and Charities
• Syrian Civil War
• Hurricane Harvey
• Comparison of 4th Degree Uniforms
• Freemasonry
• Just War Theory
• Knights of Columbus Degrees and principles
• Boy Scouts of America
• Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
• Unsane (2018 film)
• Claire Foy
• The Crown (TV Series)
• Southern Accent — excerpt from The History Channel
• A Linguist Explains What Old-School British Accents Sounded Like — By Gretchen McCulloch on March 19, 2014
• How Americans Preserved British English — By Christine Ro, 8 February 2018
• Andrew Lincoln
• Keira Knightley
• Love Actually (2003 film)
• The Walking Dead (TV Series)
• Benedict Cumberbatch
• Black Mass (2015 film)
• Elmer Fudd
• Martin Freeman
• Black Panther (2018 film)
• Hugh Laurie
• House (TV Series)
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show
• Ocean's 8
• Sandra Bullock
• Incredibles 2 (2018 film)
• Deadpool 2 (2018 film)
• Get Smart (2008 film)
• Steve Carell
• Anne Hathaway
• Peter Rabbit (2018 film)
• James Corden
• Domhnall Gleeson
• Rose Byrne
• Two Weeks Notice (2002 film)
• Hugh Grant
• The Departed (2006 film)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018 film)
• Lily James
• Isle of Guernsey
• Katherine Parkinson
• The IT Crowd (TV Series)
• Penelope Wilton
• Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004 film)
• Aretha Franklin — the Queen of Soul, (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018)
• Burt Reynolds — (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018)
• Smokey and the Bandit (1977 film)
• Deliverance (1972 film)
• Dueling Banjos (wiki)
• Clip of "Dueling Banjos" from the film
• The Longest Yard (1974 film)
• The Longest Yard (2005 film)
• The Blind Side (2009 film)
• Respect (song)
• The Blues Brothers (1980 film)
• Blues Brothers 2000 (1998 film)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017 film)
• When Doves Cry (song)
• "Hoverboard"
• Tesla, Inc.
• September 11th
• National September 11 Memorial & Museum
• Kurt photo from 9/11 memorial in April 2004
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Assassination of John F. Kennedy
• Apollo 11 Mission
• Mark LaGanga 9/11 footage — Link to a story. Kurt found the full video on YouTube.
• Critical Role
• Sam Riegel — Twitter @samriegel
• Sam Riegel: Gateway Plaza
• Sam Riegel and Quyen Tran on 9/11
• All Work No Play Podcast
• USA PATRIOT Act
• War in Afghanistan (2001-Present)
• Iraq War (2003-2011)
• The Houston Chronicle
• EW's First Look at Captain Marvel
• Emirates plane briefly quarantined at John F. Kennedy airport after 19 passengers are deemed sick — by Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY Updated 9:59 p.m. ET Sept. 5, 2018
• Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination
• Opinion: I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
• September 6 (Wiki)
• Ring Toss
• Whataburger
• Monty Python's Flying Circus — Australian Bruces sketch
• Meet the Sniper — BOOM, headshot.
• That's Not a Knife...THAT'S a Knife! — from Crocodile Dundee
• Car Talk
• Texas Liberators Project
• Dachau Concentration Camp
• Dallas Holocaust Museum
• Houston Holocaust Museum
• Tofu
• You've Been Chopped GIF