Andrew tells the tale of 1920s-era Los Angeles celebrity preacher Aimee Semple McPherson, who founded the Foursquare Church, one of the first megachurches in America, as well as her mysterious disappearance.

This was the first ep the boys ever recorded so apologies for any references to the podcast not having a title or if the audio isn't quite as crisp as the other eps. Trust us, it's a wild one.

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Sources:

Biographies of McPherson
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aimee-Semple-McPherson
https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/denominationalfounders/aimee-semple-mcpherson.html
https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/who-was-sister-aimee-the-incredible-story-of-las-famous-evangelical-priest

The official history of The Foursquare Church
https://www.foursquare.org/about/history/

Smithsonian Mag piece on her disappearance
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-incredible-disappearing-evangelist-572829/

Seth and Andrew talk about a girl named Mary, who supposedly had a little lamb, and what she may or may not have had to do with the Boston fire of 1872.


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Works Cited

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mary-had-little-lamb-based-true-story-180963330/

https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/mary-little-lamb-yes-mary-little-lamb/

https://archive.org/details/storyofmaryherli00unse/page/12

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Had_a_Little_Lamb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Boston_Fire_of_1872

https://newport.lib.nh.us/sarah-josepha-hale/who-wrote-mary-had-a-little-lamb/

https://www.osmh.org/history/leader-historic-preservation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Josepha_Hale

Andrew tells us about Boston Corbett, a lonely British immigrant who  became an American hero for killing Presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth. Things don't go great for the Bost man after that.

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Andrew got the idea for this episode from a great book by James L. Swanson called  Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060518509/manhunt/

The bulk of the info used in this episode was derived from the two articles below
https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/04/12/the-man-who-killed-john-wilkes-booth/

https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/thomas-p-boston-corbett/15134

Seth tells the story of the woman who invented the board game Monopoly, only to have all the credit go to a man who stole her idea (Classic).

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Andrew spins a yarn about 19th century San Francisco weirdos Joshua Norton and Frederick Coombs. The boys also accidentally repeat a joke from episode 0 (sorry, won't happen again, we promise)

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Andrew's sources for this episode
Norton:
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/norton.html
https://www.history.com/news/the-strange-case-of-emperor-norton-i-of-the-united-states
http://emperornortontrust.org/blog/2019/8/30/oofty-goofty-wore-a-leather-pad-in-his-pants (a great blog with info about a wide array of characters that lived in mid to late 19th century San Francisco

Coombs:
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18366605/frederick_coombs/
https://www.cowanauctions.com/lot/cdv-of-california-eccentric-frederick-coombs-as-the-union-matrimonial-promoter-168002

Old pals Andrew and Seth introduce the podcast by telling the origin story of their friendship. Come on in and meet the gang! (There's just two of us. And we aren't actually gang affiliated.)