Yesteryear's News Today (CLASSIC)

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What's Yesteryear's News Today (CLASSIC) about?

A weekly podcast where we discuss the week's news events from years long past. Beginning with the week of January 1st, 1901, and working our way through the next century one year at a time. Each week, a new year.

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Yesteryear's News Today (CLASSIC) episodes:

09.14.2015
#23 Old Timely Boxing and Making Lovecraft - This Week in 1923
A couple of day's late due to technical difficulties (no fault of our own we swear) we're up and running again. This week we're talking about one of the most dramatic sporting moments of the 20th century, an unrelated double...
09.14.2015
#22 Mary Winchester's Mystery House - This Week in 1922
This week, Mary Winchester dies & with her, the truth behind her mystery house. Another mining disaster rocks England, and a man named Dolittle does quite a bit.
09.14.2015
#21 Another Killer, Another Air Disaster - This Week in 1921
Another year, another serial killer, airship disaster and more strange news from this week in 1921
09.14.2015
#20 A 1920's Serial Killer - This Week in 1920
This week we step into the roaring twenties and take a look at the first commercial radio broadcast, a tragedy in baseball, and ruthless serial killer, Carl Panzram. All making the news, this week in 1920.
09.14.2015
SE: Shoulder Arms Commentary
Originally removed from our feed because we weren't happy with how it turned out, here is our commentary on Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms (as discussed in our episode for "This Week in 1918)
09.14.2015
#19 Airships and Comicstrips - This week in 1919
The latest episode of Yesteryear's News Today (July 12th 2015) in which Shane & Johnny look at some more lighter-than-air advances, a classic comic-strip by Frank King and anything else that was making the news This Week In 1919.For the...
09.14.2015
#18 A Farewell To Arms - This Week In 1918
As the war winds down, we look at one of the other mass killers of the year, The Spanish Flu. Released this week was "Shoulder Arms" by Charlie Chaplin. And we discuss the works of Ernest Hemingway, who just this...
09.14.2015
#17 And The War Goes On - This Week in 1917
This weeks marks the 3 year anniversary of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, and the event that would send the world into one of the most disastrous conflicts in history. As America enters the war, we look at one of...
09.14.2015
#16 Tolkien and The Great War, 1916
World War 1 reaches the half way mark, and J.R.R Tolkien ships off to France. The commander-in-chief signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America. And the English Starling bird is on trial for its life.We also read from...
09.14.2015
#14 Martians, Mothers, and Witches. This week in 1914
A Little Green Man is spotted in Texas, Mother's Day is made official by orders of the commander-in-chief himself, Witchcraft is discussed at length, and our imaginations might hold the answers to two mysteries from the news as it was...
09.14.2015
#13 Three Tales of Mystery from This Week In 1913
In which we pitch the next three seasons of True Detective.Stories include, a murder in a pencil factory, The investigation into a mysterious madman. And the case of Bobby Dunbar.The photo's we refer to at the beginning of the episode...
09.13.2015
#12 The week the Titanic sank
The week of one of the biggest news stories of the 20th century, we chose to ignore most of it and instead talk about Kim Il-sung & North Korea, the first woman to fly across the English channel, Bram Stokers...
09.13.2015
#11 The Black Hand Return and The works of Animator Winsor McCay
One for the lawmen, as members of The Black Hand are hauled off to the big house. Tragedy strike in Alabama, when an explosion kills 128 at the Pratt Company coal mine. And We look at the works of Animator...
09.13.2015
SE: Historic Hoaxes
April Fools Day 2015 has passed, and we've survived it without falling for any outlandish claims. But in the spirit of that ridiculous day, we take a look at some bogus news stories that made the papers in the 19th...
09.13.2015
#10 Edison's Frankenstein, How Strangers Argued in 1910 and More News from The Week
In which we discuss the bizarre crimes of the week; the first motion picture adaption of Mary Shelly's iconic novel, Frankenstein. How people held long distant arguments before the age of the internet, and more.
09.13.2015
#9 Race for The Poles, This Week in 1909
President Lincoln travels 100 years into the future and conquers Mars, Roosevelt exits and Taft steps in, the race for the poles heats up, and somewhere a family is mourning the death of George Millet; who died trying to escape...
09.13.2015
#8 Black Hand Society, Flea Circuses and More from This Week in 1908
A man finds a displaced arm in a wood pile, another man starts his very own flea circus, rebellion is stirring once again in Russia, and many Italian-American Citizens are living in fear after receiving threats from the dreaded Black...
09.13.2015
#7 First Trial of the Century and Casting our 1907 cop movie
We cast Shia Labeouf in the action packed adaption of the true 1907 man hunt for four California bank robbers, tell the bizarre (and mostly just sad) story of Evelyn Nesbit & the murder of her former lover, and share...
09.13.2015
SE: The Donner Party
It's Friday the 13th, and we take a look at one of the harshest incidences of bad luck in the old west, The Tragic Expedition of The Donner Party.If you want to know more about their story, read the books...
09.13.2015
#6 Murder of a Senitor, The Dynamite Express and More
This week we have the Idaho coal miners strike, the Dynamite Express, and the events that led to the murder of senator Steunenberg as a result. Then, Shane recounts the story of the (phony)Lord Barrington, and we discuss the introduction...
09.13.2015
#5 Bloody Sunday, Lights in The Sky and The Cullinan Diamond
In our fifth episode, we talk about how a peaceful protest quickly turned into a horrific massacre in Russia, the surprisingly interesting history of the Cullinan diamond, the quest to break the land speed record; and the mysteriouslights that hovered...
09.13.2015
#4 From Wrestling to Rasslin - This Week in 1904
In which we discuss the tragic Harwick mine disaster and a great fire in Norway. The birth of wrestling, the 'one time' national sport of America, and it's decline after the battle between George Hackenschmidt and Frank Gotch, and how...
09.13.2015
#3 Electrocuting an Elephant in 1903
It's January 16th, 1903, and racial tensions are high in Mississippi after the unfair firing of Minnie M. Cox, Thomas A. Edison's film "Electrocuting an Elephant was released on the 12th, and Houdini has been demonstrating his prison escapes in...
09.13.2015
#2 A Breif History of Being Buried Alive and Other Stories From This Week in 1902
In the second episode of Yesteryear's News Today, We're covering the tragic train crash at Park Avenue, the first international hostage crisis for America, a grizzly murder in Australia, and a horrifying case of premature burial in Paris. Just some...
09.13.2015
#1 The Turn of the Century, 1901
Right in time for the New Year, here is the first episode of "Yesteryear's News Today", In which our hosts recount what might have been making the headlines this week in January, 1901.

What's Yesteryear's News Today (CLASSIC) about?

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Yesteryear's News Today (CLASSIC) episodes:

#23 Old Timely Boxing and Making Lovecraft - This Week in 1923

#22 Mary Winchester's Mystery House - This Week in 1922

#21 Another Killer, Another Air Disaster - This Week in 1921

#20 A 1920's Serial Killer - This Week in 1920

SE: Shoulder Arms Commentary

#19 Airships and Comicstrips - This week in 1919

#18 A Farewell To Arms - This Week In 1918

#17 And The War Goes On - This Week in 1917

#16 Tolkien and The Great War, 1916

#14 Martians, Mothers, and Witches. This week in 1914

#13 Three Tales of Mystery from This Week In 1913

#12 The week the Titanic sank

#11 The Black Hand Return and The works of Animator Winsor McCay

SE: Historic Hoaxes

#10 Edison's Frankenstein, How Strangers Argued in 1910 and More News from The Week

#9 Race for The Poles, This Week in 1909

#8 Black Hand Society, Flea Circuses and More from This Week in 1908

#7 First Trial of the Century and Casting our 1907 cop movie

SE: The Donner Party

#6 Murder of a Senitor, The Dynamite Express and More

#5 Bloody Sunday, Lights in The Sky and The Cullinan Diamond

#4 From Wrestling to Rasslin - This Week in 1904

#3 Electrocuting an Elephant in 1903

#2 A Breif History of Being Buried Alive and Other Stories From This Week in 1902

#1 The Turn of the Century, 1901