Strange Country
Welcome to Strange Country, a podcast devoted to bizarre, surreal and extraordinary stories that make America the weird place it is. Co-hosts Kelly and Beth are former newspaper reporters turned school librarians who have always had a soft spot for a good story--the stranger the better. Discover the first woman to survive a barrel ride over Niagara Falls and the man who invented “complex marriage” in one of the most successful utopian experiments. Things get weird pretty quickly around here.
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Strange Country Ep. 290: Ed Gein
10/24/2024
Strange Country Ep. 290: Ed Gein
It’s the spooky season, and this episode is a doozy and an oozy, as in the oozing of decomposing bodies. Ed Gein, the inspiration behind characters Norman Bates, Leatherface and Buffalo Bill, is the topic of today’s Strange Country. Cohosts Beth and Kelly have an especially important PSA before you press play: Don’t eat while listening. Theme music: Big White Lie by . Cite your sources: Bloom, John. “They Came. They Sawed. – Texas Monthly.” Texas Monthly, November 2004, https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/they-came-they-sawed/. Accessed 11 October 2024. Dimitropoulos, Stav. “Serial Killer Ed Gein Was a 'Model Patient' After Being Incarcerated for His Gruesome Crimes.” A&E, 11 January 2018, https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/serial-killer-ed-gein-was-a-model-patient-after-being-incarcerated-for-his-gruesome-crimes. Accessed 12 October 2024. Hanneman, Joe. “A Look Back at the 'Plainfield Butcher,' Grave Robber Ed Gein.” The Hanneman Archive, 4 November 2014, https://hannemanarchive.com/2014/11/04/plainfield-butcher-ed-gein/. Accessed 6 October 2024. Keller, Robert. Unhinged: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Butcher of Plainfield. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. Accessed 6 October 2024. Piccotti, Tyler. “Ed Gein: Biography, Murderer, Grave Robber, 'Monster' Season 3.” Biography (Bio.), 17 September 2024, https://www.biography.com/crime/ed-gein. Accessed 6 October 2024. Sutton, Candace. “The mother of the most depraved serial killer of all time.” NZ Herald, 24 October 2020, https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/who-was-the-mother-of-the-most-depraved-serial-killer-of-all-time/T75XZ2O7K7AGAP5LBGPKDKHVV4/. Accessed 12 October 2024.
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Strange Country Ep. 289: Night of Terror
10/03/2024
Strange Country Ep. 289: Night of Terror
Hey Dashhounds, it's our favorite month for creepy tales at Strange Country! October brings warmish temperatures at night, hot sunny days, hurricanes with power that you have never seen before, and the uncomfortable feeling of politics gone wrong--rarely landing with a woman in charge. Today Beth and Kelly bring you the story of the Night of Terror. Enjoy! Theme music: Big White Lie by . Cite your sources, dude: Deuel, Nathan. “Book Prize winner Stephanie Jones-Rogers on women slave owners.” Los Angeles Times, 17 April 2020, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-04-17/female-slave-owners-independent-brutal-stephanie-jones-rogers. Accessed 22 July 2024. Jones Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property. https://archive.org/details/they-were-her-property-white-women-as-slave-owners-in-the-american-south-pdfdrive/page/205/mode/2up. Kell, Gretchen. “Unmasked: Many white women were Southern slave owners, too.” Berkeley News, 25 October 2019, https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/10/25/white-women-slaveholders-q-a/. Accessed 22 July 2024. “Madame LaLaurie | The story of Delphine LaLaurie, of New Orleans.” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/lalaurie-mansion/madame-lalaurie/. Accessed 22 July 2024.
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Strange Country Ep. 288: Talking Dolphins
09/12/2024
Strange Country Ep. 288: Talking Dolphins
The mid-20th century was heady times full of LSD, and a NASA flush with cash, which is how we get to today’s story about a scientist trying to get dolphins to speak English. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about Dr. John C. Lilly, inventor of the sensory deprivation tank and dolphin whisperer, whose plans for dolphin communication veered off in a strange direction when one volunteer started giving Peter the dolphin a helping hand, if you catch our meaning. Theme music: Big White Lie by . Cite your sources: GRECO, JOANN, and Benjamin Franklin. “The Psychonaut You Never Heard Of – The Pennsylvania Gazette.” The Pennsylvania Gazette, 20 June 2017, https://thepenngazette.com/the-psychonaut-you-never-heard-of/. Accessed 12 August 2024. Greenwood, Arin. “What It Means To Say A Dolphin Committed Suicide.” HuffPost, 13 June 2014, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dolphin-commits-suicide_n_5491513. Accessed 14 August 2024. Houghton, Gerard A. “John Lilly.” The Guardian, 5 October 2001, https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/oct/05/guardianobituaries.highereducation. Accessed 14 August 2024. Jones, Tom, et al. “The Ketamine Secrets of 'Ecco the Dolphin.'” VICE, 16 March 2015, https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-ketamine-secrets-of-segas-ecco-the-dolphin-347/. Accessed 14 August 2024. Kabil, Ahmed. “Meet the psychedelics-obsessed scientist who wanted to learn dolphins' language.” Medium, 28 November 2016, https://medium.com/timeline/neuroscience-doctor-drugs-lsd-c17d5e84c653. Accessed 14 August 2024. Rapp, Joshua. “Just How Intelligent Are Dolphins?” Discover Magazine, 26 March 2021, https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/just-how-intelligent-are-dolphins. Accessed 13 August 2024. Riley, Christopher. “The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong.” The Guardian, 8 June 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me. Accessed 14 August 2024. Schreiber, Dan. “Will We Ever Speak Dolphinese?” The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird, HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023, pp. 161-173.
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Strange Country Ep. 287: Free Town Project
08/08/2024
Strange Country Ep. 287: Free Town Project
New Hampshire seemed like the perfect state to start a libertarian utopia. No sales or income tax, aversion to governmental interference and the motto “Live free or die.” But for residents of Grafton, it soon became un-BEAR-able. Do you see what I did there because I don’t. Join Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly as they share this remarkable tale of libertarian hijinks from the book A Libertarian Walks into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling. Theme music: Big White Lie by . Cite your sources: Austin, Elizabeth. “Libertarians Took Control of This Small Town. It Didn't End Well.” Washington Monthly, 30 August 2020, https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/08/30/libertarians-took-control-of-this-small-town-it-didnt-end-well/. Accessed 27 July 2024. Barry, Dan. “What Is the Free State Project?” The New York Times, 15 July 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/us/politics/nh-free-state-project.html. Accessed 30 July 2024. Bookman, Todd. “Libertarian activist sentenced to 8 years in prison for role in cryptocurrency money laundering scheme.” NHPR, 2 October 2023, https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2023-10-02/libertarian-activist-sentenced-to-8-years-in-prison-for-role-in-cryptocurrency-money-laundering-scheme. Accessed 30 July 2024. Hongoltz-Hetling, Matthew. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears). PublicAffairs, 2020. Malone, Clare. “What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Want.” The New Yorker, 5 August 2024, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/robert-f-kennedy-jr-profile-presidential-campaign. “Pastor Killed in Fire at 200-Year-Old Grafton Church.” nhpr, 14 January 2016, https://www.nhpr.org/post/pastor-killed-fire-200-year-old-grafton-church. Sullivan, Adam. “Judge settles dispute over fire-ravaged church in New Hampshire.” WCAX 3, 2 May 2019, https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Judge-settles-dispute-over-fire-ravaged-church-in-New-Hampshire-509395891.html. Sullivan, Adam. “New life for New Hampshire church destroyed by fire.” WCAX 3, 21 August 2019, https://www.wcax.com/content/news/New-life-for-New-Hampshire-church-destroyed-by-fire-557778101.html.
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Strange Country Ep. 286: Hidden History of White Southern Women and Those They Enslaved
07/25/2024
Strange Country Ep. 286: Hidden History of White Southern Women and Those They Enslaved
Things are changing in ‘Merica, we can feel it. Join Beth and Kelly today as we tell the tale of white women in the south who played a very major role in the trading of enslaved people during the 18th and 19th centuries. It is a story that has only recently been uncovered and exposed thanks to the research work of Stephanie Jones-Rogers and her book They Were Her Property. Now after years of historians painting pictures of the delicate flowers known as white Southern Belles married to men who owned enslaved people, do we learn that the women—these wives—were some of the worst, most evil and violent part of the entire slave economy. And maybe this explains why we have women today supporting the most racist and misogynist former president we have ever seen. Because old habits die hard. Thank you for listening; it’s an act of love. Theme music: Big White Lie by . Cite your sources, dude: Deuel, Nathan. “Book Prize winner Stephanie Jones-Rogers on women slave owners.” Los Angeles Times, 17 April 2020, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-04-17/female-slave-owners-independent-brutal-stephanie-jones-rogers. Accessed 22 July 2024. Jones Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property. https://archive.org/details/they-were-her-property-white-women-as-slave-owners-in-the-american-south-pdfdrive/page/205/mode/2up. Kell, Gretchen. “Unmasked: Many white women were Southern slave owners, too.” Berkeley News, 25 October 2019, https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/10/25/white-women-slaveholders-q-a/. Accessed 22 July 2024. “Madame LaLaurie | The story of Delphine LaLaurie, of New Orleans.” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/lalaurie-mansion/madame-lalaurie/. Accessed 22 July 2024.
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Strange Country Ep. 285: Project 2025, Part 2
07/11/2024
Strange Country Ep. 285: Project 2025, Part 2
In today’s episode Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly slog through the remaining 4,567,324 pages of Project 2025, a manifesto to turn America into Dante’s 8th circle of hell. If you don’t want to face this, the basic gist is anything good and just is gone and is replaced by bad. Theme music: Big White Lie by . So many citations, so little time: Borosage, Robert L. “Why Trump's Second Victory Would Be Worse.” The Nation, 4 June 2024, https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation-maga/. Accessed 13 June 2024. Dans, Paul, and Steven Groves, editors. Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership. The Heritage Foundation, 2023, . Folkenflik, David. “Trump CEO over Voice of America repeatedly abused power, investigation finds.” NPR, 21 May 2023, https://www.npr.org/2023/05/21/1177208862/usagm-michael-pack-voa-voice-of-america-investigation-trump-abuse-of-power. Accessed 11 June 2024. Garcia, Lulu. “Inside the Heritage Foundation's Plans for 'Institutionalizing Trumpism.'” The New York Times, 21 January 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/magazine/heritage-foundation-kevin-roberts.html. Accessed 19 June 2024. Goldman, Adam. “The Director of National Intelligence Serves Trump Agenda Amid Promises to Stay Apolitical.” The New York Times, 23 November 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/us/politics/john-ratcliffe-intelligence.html?searchResultPosition=6. Accessed 11 June 2024. Hakala, Kate. “Here's the Absurd Advice 70s Cosmo Gave Women to Land a Man With Sex.” MIC, 21 April 2015, . Leingang, Rachel. “What is Project 2025 and what does it have to do with a second Trump term?” The Guardian, 26 May 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/26/what-is-project-2025-trump. Accessed 9 June 2024. Lewis, Chris. “Ken Cuccinelli and the Persuasive, Pervasive Politics of Cruelty.” The American Prospect, 29 February 2024, https://prospect.org/politics/2024-02-28-ken-cuccinelli-persuasive-pervasive-politics-cruelty/. Accessed 8 June 2024. Maass, Peter. “Christopher Miller, Trump's Defense Secretary, Fights for Reputation.” The Intercept, 11 March 2023, https://theintercept.com/2023/03/11/trump-defense-secretary-christopher-miller/. Accessed 11 June 2024. Marantz, Andrew. “Does Hungary Offer a Glimpse of Our Authoritarian Future?” The New Yorker, 27 June 2022, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/04/does-hungary-offer-a-glimpse-of-our-authoritarian-future. Accessed 19 June 2024. Michel, Casey. “How Viktor Orbán Conquered the Heritage Foundation.” The New Republic, 15 March 2024, https://newrepublic.com/article/179776/heritage-foundation-viktor-orban-trump. Accessed 19 June 2024. Nichols, John. “Project 2025's Guide to Subverting Democracy.” The Nation, 4 June 2024, https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-democracy-fcc-fec/. Accessed 9 June 2024. Pengelly, Martin. “Revealed: 'extremist' Trump economist plots rightwing overhaul of US treasury.” The Guardian, 29 February 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/29/trump-economist-stephen-moore-us-treasury-project-2025. Accessed 8 June 2024. Pilkington, Ed. “Mass deportations, detention camps, troops on the street: Trump spells out migrant plan.” The Guardian, 3 May 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/03/trump-mass-deportations-detention-camps-military-migrants. Accessed 13 June 2024. Prokop, Andrew. “Trump second term agenda: Would guardrails of democracy hold him back?” Vox, 20 May 2024, https://www.vox.com/politics/24159069/trump-guardrails-authoritarian-democracy-second-term. Accessed 11 June 2024. Reinhard, Beth. “Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-constitutional’ vision for second term.” The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/08/russ-vought-trump-second-term-radical-constitutional/. Accessed 8 June 2024. Sanger, Margot. “How Insurers Exploited Medicare Advantage for Billions.” The New York Times, 8 October 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/upshot/medicare-advantage-fraud-allegations.html. Accessed 12 June 2024. Savage, Charlie, et al. “The Resistance to a New Trump Administration Has Already Started.” The New York Times, 16 June 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/us/politics/trump-2025-democratic-resistance.html. Accessed 16 June 2024. Smith, David. “Trump’s Project 2025 plot would take ‘wrecking ball’ to US institutions, key Democrat warns.” The Guardian, 11 June 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/trump-project-2025-wrecking-ball. Accessed 11 June 2024. Summers, Juana, et al. “Emails show Carson family fingerprints at HUD.” CNN, 2 February 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/02/politics/ben-carson-family-hud/index.html. Accessed 13 June 2024. Thrush, Glenn. “Ben Carson's HUD Spends $31000 on Dining Set for His Office (Published 2018).” The New York Times, 27 February 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/us/ben-carson-hud-furniture.html. Accessed 13 June 2024. Weiland, Noah. “Trump Administration Erases Transgender Civil Rights Protections in Health Care (Published 2020).” The New York Times, 28 September 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/politics/trump-transgender-rights.html?searchResultPosition=9. Accessed 8 June 2024.
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Strange Country Ep. 284: Project 2025, Part 1
06/27/2024
Strange Country Ep. 284: Project 2025, Part 1
Project 2025 is a 920-page bloated opus about taking our fragile democracy and turning into Christian Nationalist nightmare if Trump gets back into the oval office. And Beth read it!! Well, skimmed some portions because oh my god was this bureaucratic gibberish. But that’s the point; onslaught us with so much information, we’re too numb to fight back. Listen to part one on Strange Country where Beth and Kelly detail how the Project 2025 authors, an assortment of Garbage Pail kids, pin all of society’s ills on “wokeness,” abortion, and gay people having rights. The plan is to get rid of all those things. Theme music: Big White Lie by . Lord in heaven, look at all these citations: Ainsley, Julia. “DHS says Border Patrol agents used force on Haitians, but didn't whip them.” NBC News, 8 July 2022, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/dhs-report-says-border-patrol-agents-used-unnecessary-force-haitians-t-rcna36992. Accessed 15 June 2024. Bedekovics, Greta. “The Far Right’s Invitation for Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections.” The Center of American Progress, 6 June 2024, https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-far-rights-invitation-for-foreign-interference-in-u-s-elections/. Accessed 9 June 2024. Berkowitz, Bill. “'Cultural Marxism' Catches On.” Southern Poverty Law Center, 15 August 2003, https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2003/cultural-marxism-catching. Accessed 2 June 2024. Blitzer, Jonathan. “A Trump Official Behind the End of DACA Explains Himself.” The New Yorker, 10 November 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-official-behind-the-end-of-daca-explains-himself?_sp=effc46a3-4cfc-4ce5-8e5b-2d14e76847e5.1718279776181. Borosage, Robert L. “Why Trump's Second Victory Would Be Worse.” The Nation, 4 June 2024, https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation-maga/. Accessed 13 June 2024. Bowman, Emma. “The upside-down American flag becomes a pro-Trump protest.” NPR, 3 June 2024, https://www.npr.org/2024/06/03/nx-s1-4987590/upside-down-american-flag-protest-symbol-history. Accessed 11 June 2024. Chait, Jonathan. “John Durham Admits He Knows Little About Russia Scandal.” New York Magazine, 21 June 2023, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/john-durham-admits-he-knows-little-about-russia-scandal.html. Accessed 11 June 2024. Dans, Paul, and Steven Groves, editors. Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership. The Heritage Foundation, 2023, https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf. Davis, Julie Hirschfeld. “Shoot Migrants' Legs, Build Alligator Moat: Behind Trump's Ideas for Border (Published 2019).” The New York Times, 2 October 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/politics/trump-border-wars.html. Accessed 11 June 2024. Folkenflik, David. “Trump CEO over Voice of America repeatedly abused power, investigation finds.” NPR, 21 May 2023, https://www.npr.org/2023/05/21/1177208862/usagm-michael-pack-voa-voice-of-america-investigation-trump-abuse-of-power. Accessed 11 June 2024. Goldman, Adam. “The Director of National Intelligence Serves Trump Agenda Amid Promises to Stay Apolitical.” The New York Times, 23 November 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/us/politics/john-ratcliffe-intelligence.html?searchResultPosition=6. Accessed 11 June 2024. Grim, Ryan. “Trump Administration Allows Appointees to Apportion Federal Funds.” The Intercept, 20 August 2020, https://theintercept.com/2020/08/20/federal-funds-omb-apportionment-trump/. Accessed 9 June 2024. Jackson, Harold. “Joseph Coors.” The Guardian, 18 March 2003, https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/mar/19/guardianobituaries.usa. Accessed 11 June 2024. Joselow, Maxine. “Ex-EPA official on rollbacks, snowballs and selling Trump.” E&E News by Politico, 22 February 2019, https://www.eenews.net/articles/ex-epa-official-on-rollbacks-snowballs-and-selling-trump/. Accessed 8 June 2024. Kelly, Caroline, et al. “Ken Cuccinelli blames drowned man in border photograph for own, daughter’s deaths.” CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/politics/ken-cuccinelli-drowned-father-daughter-fault/index.html. Accessed 8 June 2024. Leingang, Rachel. “What is Project 2025 and what does it have to do with a second Trump term?” The Guardian, 26 May 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/26/what-is-project-2025-trump. Accessed 9 June 2024. Lewis, Chris. “Ken Cuccinelli and the Persuasive, Pervasive Politics of Cruelty.” The American Prospect, 29 February 2024, https://prospect.org/politics/2024-02-28-ken-cuccinelli-persuasive-pervasive-politics-cruelty/. Accessed 8 June 2024. Maass, Peter. “Christopher Miller, Trump's Defense Secretary, Fights for Reputation.” The Intercept, 11 March 2023, https://theintercept.com/2023/03/11/trump-defense-secretary-christopher-miller/. Accessed 11 June 2024. Nichols, John. “Project 2025's Guide to Subverting Democracy.” The Nation, 4 June 2024, https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-democracy-fcc-fec/. Accessed 9 June 2024. Nichols, John. “Project 2025's Guide to Subverting Democracy.” The Nation, 4 June 2024, https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-democracy-fcc-fec/. Accessed 13 June 2024. Pengelly, Martin. “Revealed: 'extremist' Trump economist plots rightwing overhaul of US treasury.” The Guardian, 29 February 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/29/trump-economist-stephen-moore-us-treasury-project-2025. Accessed 8 June 2024. Pilkington, Ed. “Mass deportations, detention camps, troops on the street: Trump spells out migrant plan.” The Guardian, 3 May 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/03/trump-mass-deportations-detention-camps-military-migrants. Accessed 13 June 2024. Prokop, Andrew. “Trump second term agenda: Would guardrails of democracy hold him back?” Vox, 20 May 2024, https://www.vox.com/politics/24159069/trump-guardrails-authoritarian-democracy-second-term. Accessed 11 June 2024. Reinhard, Beth. “Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-constitutional’ vision for second term.” The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/08/russ-vought-trump-second-term-radical-constitutional/. Accessed 8 June 2024. Sanger, Margot. “How Insurers Exploited Medicare Advantage for Billions.” The New York Times, 8 October 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/upshot/medicare-advantage-fraud-allegations.html. Accessed 12 June 2024. Savage, Charlie, et al. “The Resistance to a New Trump Administration Has Already Started.” The New York Times, 16 June 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/us/politics/trump-2025-democratic-resistance.html. Accessed 16 June 2024. Smith, David. “Trump’s Project 2025 plot would take ‘wrecking ball’ to US institutions, key Democrat warns.” The Guardian, 11 June 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/trump-project-2025-wrecking-ball. Accessed 11 June 2024. Summers, Juana, et al. “Emails show Carson family fingerprints at HUD.” CNN, 2 February 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/02/politics/ben-carson-family-hud/index.html. Accessed 13 June 2024. SUPERVILLE, DARLENE. “Jill Biden will lead new initiative to boost federal government research into women's health.” AP News, 13 November 2023, https://apnews.com/article/jill-biden-research-womens-health-gender-policy-dbe0eec03767cacbbccd07cc83ee15df. Accessed 9 June 2024. Swaine, Jon. “Stephen Moore: Trump's Federal Reserve pick withdraws nomination.” The Guardian, 2 May 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/02/stephen-moore-trump-federal-reserve-nominee-withdraws-latest. Accessed 8 June 2024. Thrush, Glenn. “Ben Carson's HUD Spends $31000 on Dining Set for His Office (Published 2018).” The New York Times, 27 February 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/us/ben-carson-hud-furniture.html. Accessed 13 June 2024. Weiland, Noah. “Trump Administration Erases Transgender Civil Rights Protections in Health Care (Published 2020).” The New York Times, 28 September 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/politics/trump-transgender-rights.html?searchResultPosition=9. Accessed 8 June 2024. Yachnin, Jennifer. “Trump BLM chief: Let's do away with Antiquities Act.” E&E News, 6 February 2024, https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-blm-chief-lets-do-away-with-antiquities-act/. Accessed 8 June 2024.
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Strange Country Ep. 283: Play Time
06/13/2024
Strange Country Ep. 283: Play Time
Hey Dash Hounds, you clever playful listeners. Why do we play? Are we even allowed to play as adults without judgment. Not if Beth is around. In this episode, Kelly and Beth discuss the science of play—specifically animal play. Of course we have watched our cats indulge in “playful” ankle biting, but other animals also incorporate play in their daily lives. But why? Listen and find out. Thank you always for listening; it’s an act of love. Theme music: Big White Lie by . Works cited, dude: Wikipedia, https://www.watchmojo.com/articles/top-5-freaky-facts-about-dolphin-sex/dolphins-are-sexually-aggressive-and-violent. Accessed 9 June 2024. Gigliotti, Carol. The Creative Lives of Animals. NYU Press, 2022. “Information and stories about San Francisco coyotes: behavior & personality, coexistence & outreach, by Janet Kessler: Unveiling first-hand just how savvy, social, sentient and singular coyotes really are! | Page 3.” Coyote Yipps, 10 November 2023, https://coyoteyipps.com/page/3/. Accessed 9 June 2024. Norris, Courtney. “Group of orcas attack and sink vessels off Iberian Peninsula.” PBS, 14 June 2023, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/group-of-orcas-attack-and-sink-vessels-off-iberian-peninsula. Accessed 9 June 2024. Smith, Ellie. “Why playing games is good for you.” BBC, 3 February 2022, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220127-why-adults-should-embrace-their-playfulness. Accessed 9 June 2024. Toomey, David. Kingdom of Play: What Ball-bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself. Scribner, 2024. Accessed 9 June 2024.
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Strange Country Ep. 282: John Leonard Orr
05/23/2024
Strange Country Ep. 282: John Leonard Orr
What should you not do if you commit crimes? Write a book where the main character is someone just like you doing the very crimes you are doing. John Leonard Orr, fire captain and arson investigator, wrote a book about a serial arsonist in LA County while he was being that very serial arsonist. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about the strange crime of arson in today’s weekly/bimonthly podcast. Thanks for sticking with us! Theme music: Big White Lie by . Cite your sources: Antholis, Kary. “A Convicted Fireman-Arsonist and Me: The Facts As I Knew Them.” Crime Story, 24 January 2020, https://crimestory.com/2020/01/24/a-convicted-fireman-arsonist-and-me-the-facts-as-i-knew-them/. Accessed 18 May 2024. Hesse, Monica. American Fire: Love, Arson, And Life in a Vanshing Land. WW Norton, 2017. “INVESTIGATOR CHARGED IN 3 ARSON CASES.” The Washington Post, 6 December 1991, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/national/1991/12/07/investigator-charged-in-3-arson-cases/cb86ce32-f4fc-40ba-9cd7-21104b1f4e0c/. Accessed 18 May 2024. Ricapito, Maria. “My Father John Orr Got Sexual Thrills from His Murderous Arson.” A&E, 5 June 2018, https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/john-orr-arsonist-father-firefighter-murderer-family-lori-orr-kovach. Accessed 18 May 2024. Wambaugh, Joseph. Fire lover. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Strange Country Ep. 281: Quest for Immortality
04/25/2024
Strange Country Ep. 281: Quest for Immortality
Charles Lindbergh wasn’t only known for that flight, his weird reverence for Nazis and being the public face of America First, he was also interested in literal immortality. In the 1930s, he collaborated with Dr. Alexis Carrel to devise ways to regenerate organs so people could possibly live forever, but not just any people. It’s the 1930s and these two white guys are mainly interested in elongating the lives of other white western dudes. Join Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly as they share another Lindbergh story and discuss whether they would want to live forever. Theme music: Big White Lie by . Cite your sources: Dodes, Rachel. “The One-Body Problem.” Vanity Fair, no. 755, February 2024, 62-67, 97-99. Friedman, David M. The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever. HarperCollins, 2008. Harding, Luke. “DNA backs Lindbergh family claim | World news.” The Guardian, 28 November 2003, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/nov/29/germany.usa?CMP=gu_com. Accessed 29 March 2024. Jehangir, Waqas. “Evolution of Artificial Hearts: An Overview and History.” NCBI, 6 October 2014, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5358116/. Accessed 16 March 2024. Mark, Joshua J. “Gilgamesh.” World History Encyclopedia, 15 December 2022, https://www.worldhistory.org/gilgamesh/. Accessed 3 March 2024. Stein, Rob. “First human transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney performed.” NPR, 21 March 2024, https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/21/1239790816/first-pig-kidney-human-transplant. Accessed 23 March 2024. Tully, Tracey. “The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: A Grisly Theory and a Renewed Debate.” The New York Times, 6 March 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/nyregion/charles-lindbergh-baby.html. Accessed 24 March 2024. Velie, Marissa Sertich. “What's the Difference Between Dutch Process and Natural Cocoa Powder?” Serious Eats, https://www.seriouseats.com/difference-dutch-process-natural-cocoa-powder-substitute. Accessed 3 March 2024.
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Strange Country Ep. 280: Gimme Some Credit
03/21/2024
Strange Country Ep. 280: Gimme Some Credit
Dear Dash Hounds, join Beth and Kelly as we try to pull the curtain open on the Wonderful Wizard of credit scores. Do you know your credit score? Do you care? Has it ruined your life? We talk about many things on Strange Country from periods to sex to murder and now, the most secretive of things–money. ‘Mericans don’t talk openly about their money issues, and surprise! That is not good practice. We are stressed and worried and in debt, and there’s a reason why. Find out today on Strange Country. Thanks for listening. It is an act of love, and sometimes all you need is love. Theme music: Big White Lie by . Works Cited Campisi, Natalie. “From Inherent Racial Bias to Incorrect Data—The Problems With Current Credit Scoring Models.” Forbes, 26 February 2021, https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/from-inherent-racial-bias-to-incorrect-data-the-problems-with-current-credit-scoring-models/. Accessed 18 March 2024. “Fair Credit Reporting Act.” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Credit_Reporting_Act. Accessed 18 March 2024. Fiano, Liane. “Common errors people find on their credit report - and how to get them fixed.” Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 5 February 2019, https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/common-errors-credit-report-and-how-get-them-fixed/. Accessed 18 March 2024. Frazier, Mya. “The High Cost of Bad Credit.” The New York Times, 7 June 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/magazine/bad-credit-repair.html. Accessed 18 March 2024. Furletti, Mark. “Secret History Of The Credit Card - More To Explore | FRONTLINE.” Secret History Of The Credit Card - More To Explore | FRONTLINE | PBS, 23 November 2004, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/more/scores.html. Accessed 18 March 2024. Johnson, Holly. “8 Ways You're Hurting Your Credit Score Without Knowing It.” Forbes, 28 June 2021, https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-score/8-ways-youre-hurting-your-credit-score-without-knowing-it/. Accessed 18 March 2024. Nova, Annie. YouTube: Home, 3 June 2009, https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/25/bernie-sanders-wants-to-overhaul-the-countrys-credit-reporting-system.html. Accessed 18 March 2024. Trainor, Sean. “Your Credit Score's Long History, From Espionage to Algorithms.” Time, 22 July 2015, https://time.com/3961676/history-credit-scores/. Accessed 18 March 2024. White, Alexandria. “90% of Americans Stress About Money, According to Study Results.” CNBC, https://www.cnbc.com/select/why-americans-are-stressed-about-money/. Accessed 18 March 2024. Wilbers, Pippin. “How Inflation Affects Car Loan Rates.” Bankrate, 31 January 2024, https://www.bankrate.com/loans/auto-loans/how-inflation-affects-auto-loan-rates/#why. Accessed 18 March 2024.
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Strange Country Ep. 279: Robbers Cave Experiment
02/29/2024
Strange Country Ep. 279: Robbers Cave Experiment
The mid-20th century was the heyday of figuring out why humans were the worst through the use of social psychological experiments. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about one such experiment, Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave Experiment where Sherif gathered a group of 12 year old boys to see if he could pit the boys against one another. Sherif’s experiment is included in Psych 101 books about group dynamics, but did this hostility occur organically or was it more manufactured by the adults? Theme music: Big White Lie by . Cite your sources: Higgins, Nick, and Maria Konnikova. “Revisiting Robbers Cave: The easy spontaneity of intergroup conflict.” Scientific American Blog Network, 5 September 2012, https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/revisiting-the-robbers-cave-the-easy-spontaneity-of-intergroup-conflict/. Accessed 15 January 2024. Mcleod, Saul. “Robbers Cave Experiment | Realistic Conflict Theory.” Simply Psychology, 27 September 2023, https://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html. Accessed 27 February 2024. Perry, Gina. The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif's Robbers Cave Experiment. Scribe Publications, 2019. Perry, Gina. “Robbers Cave Experiment.” Practical Psychology, 26 September 2022, https://practicalpie.com/robbers-cave-experiment/. Accessed 27 February 2024. Shariatmadari, David, and Gina Perry. “A real-life Lord of the Flies: the troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment.” The Guardian, 16 April 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/16/a-real-life-lord-of-the-flies-the-troubling-legacy-of-the-robbers-cave-experiment. Accessed 27 February 2024.
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Strange Country Ep. 278: Emma Goldman
02/08/2024
Strange Country Ep. 278: Emma Goldman
Hey Dash Hounds, are you still there? Beth and Kelly are. Or are we? Has ChatGPT taken over? Can it? We are just women after all. What is our worth? In this episode, we will talk about women’s worth and Emma Goldman, a woman who fought for many things and has been forgotten like so many others. But Strange Country is doing its best to keep women’s work alive before AI eats us up? Thanks always for listening. Theme music: Big White Lie by . Works Cited Goldman, Emma. Living My Life. New York, Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1931, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-living-my-life. Accessed 31 January 2024. “Joseph A. Labadie Collection.” University of Michigan Library, https://www.lib.umich.edu/collections/collecting-areas/special-collections-and-archives/joseph-labadie-collection. Accessed 1 February 2024. “The Labadie Collection A Hidden Treasure In Our Midst.” Ann Arbor District Library, https://aadl.org/node/247050. Accessed 31 January 2024. PBS American Experience. “Emma Goldman: 1869-1940.” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldman-1869-1940/. Accessed 28 1 2024.
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Strange Country Ep. 277: The Sullivan Institute
01/18/2024
Strange Country Ep. 277: The Sullivan Institute
Happy 2024! And Beth and Kelly are back with another tale of another cult on another year of Strange Country. What’s to say? It starts off with plans for communal living and burns out in abuse, financial malfeasance and weird sex awfulness. Theme music: Big White Lie by . Cite your sources: Hoban, Phoebe. “Psycho Drama: The Chilling Story of How the Sullivanian Cult Turned a Utopian Dream into a Nightmare.” New York Magazine [New York], 19 June 1989, pp. 41-53, https://books.google.com/books?id=XOcCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=sullivanians+1989+New+York+Magazine+article&source=bl&ots=IFdQMBb5im&sig=9gTIMcGzzHJpDx8Bz-pESJDkFZA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUo7SF3KDPAhVGWh4KHbTMDhwQ6AEIODAE#v=onepage&q=sullivanians%201989. Murray, Stephanie H., and Adam Serwer. “Why Parents Struggle So Much in the World's Richest Country.” The Atlantic, 5 January 2024, https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/01/america-failed-parents-rich-countries-raising-kids/677023/. Accessed 6 January 2024. Offenhartz, Jake, and Kerry Shaw. “Inside the Rise & Fall Of A 1970s Upper West Side Cult.” Gothamist, 21 September 2016, https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/inside-the-rise-fall-of-a-1970s-upper-west-side-cult. Accessed 30 December 2023. Stille, Alexander. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Winter, Jessica. “The Upper West Side Cult That Hid in Plain Sight.” The New Yorker, 14 June 2023, https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-upper-west-side-cult-that-hid-in-plain-sight. Accessed 30 December 2023.
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Strange Country Ep. 276: OneTaste
12/28/2023
Strange Country Ep. 276: OneTaste
You’ve heard of six-minute abs, but how about the 15-minute orgasm? That’s what Nicole Daedone of OneTaste was touting; female empowerment through clitoris stimulation. Then like most high-demand groups, things go south pretty quickly. In this Strange Country episode, co hosts Beth and very uncomfortable Kelly talk about the rise and fall of OneTaste. Theme music: Big White Lie by . Cite your sources: Brown, Mick. “Inside Hollywood's Orgasm Cult - LAmag - Culture, Food, Fashion, News & Los Angeles.” Los Angeles Magazine, 26 May 2022, https://lamag.com/news/inside-hollywoods-orgasm-cult. Accessed 10 December 2023. Canner, Liz, director. Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste. First Run Features, 2022. Netflix. Cohen, Luc. “US founder of 'orgasmic meditation' company charged with forced labor conspiracy.” Reuters, 6 June 2023, https://www.reuters.com/business/onetaste-sexual-wellness-executives-charged-by-us-with-forced-labor-2023-06-06/. Accessed 10 December 2023. Ferriss, Timothy. The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman. Harmony/Rodale, 2010. Gross, Rachel E. Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage. WW Norton, 2022. Huet, Ellen, et al. “The Dark Side of the Orgasmic Meditation Company.” Bloomberg.com, 18 June 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-18/the-dark-side-of-onetaste-the-orgasmic-meditation-company. Accessed 10 December 2023. James, Emma. “'Orgasmic meditation cult' OneTaste SUES Netflix for defamation.” Daily Mail, 28 November 2023, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12781527/Orgasmic-meditation-cult-OneTaste-SUES-Netflix-defamation.html. Accessed 10 December 2023. Meko, Hurubie. “Founder of Sexual Wellness Company Indicted on Forced Labor Charges.” The New York Times, 6 June 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/nyregion/one-taste-commune-nicole-daedone-indicted.html. Accessed 10 December 2023. Meyer, Robinson, and Ashley Fetters. “Victorian Doctors Didn't Treat Women With Orgasms, Say Historians.” The Atlantic, 6 September 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/09/victorian-vibrators-orgasms-doctors/569446/. Accessed 2 December 2023. Morin, Roc. “Inside the Implosion of OneTaste, San Francisco's Orgasmic Meditation Cult,.” Playboy, 9 October 2018, https://www.playboy.com/read/one-taste-orgasmic-meditation. Accessed 12 December 2023. “OneTaste Founder and Former Head of Sales Indicted for Forced Labor Conspiracy.” Department of Justice, 6 June 2023, https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/onetaste-founder-and-former-head-sales-indicted-forced-labor-conspiracy. Accessed 10 December 2023. Peltz, Jennifer. “OneTaste founder pleads not guilty in forced labor case.” Fortune, 14 June 2023, https://fortune.com/2023/06/14/nicole-daedone-onetaste-entrepreneur-promoted-orgasmic-meditation-route-woman-health-pleads-not-guilty-forced-labor-case/. Accessed 10 December 2023. Pogash, Carol. “In San Francisco, a Coed Retreat Dedicated to Female Sexuality.” The New York Times, 13 March 2009, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/fashion/15commune.html?searchResultPosition=2. Accessed 11 December 2023. Tiku, Nitasha. “My life with the thrill-clit cult.” Cult Education Institute, Originally published to Gawker, 16 October 2013, https://www.culteducation.com/group/1373-onetaste/26847-my-life-with-the-thrill-clit-cult.html. Accessed 10 December 2023. “View Exhibit.” N I N E S - View Exhibit, https://nines.org/exhibits/Victorian_Anxiety_Over_Female_?page=2. Accessed 2 December 2023.
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Strange Country Ep. 275: Henry Darger
12/14/2023
Strange Country Ep. 275: Henry Darger
Henry Darger is one of the most profitable outsider artists out there. Unfortunately he didn’t reap the benefit of that while he was alive, spending much of it in abject poverty. He was compelled to make and write art during the time he was not working as a janitor or dishwasher. His artwork dealt with themes of child abuse and violence, subjects very familiar with Darger when he was put in an asylum at the age of 12. Strange Country cohost Beth with special pinch (or pitch) hitter Terry discuss this artist and why work gets recognition after they’re gone. Theme music: Big White Lie by . Sources: Andrey V. “Henry Darger.” Widewalls, 16 January 2017, https://www.widewalls.ch/artists/henry-darger. Accessed 13 December 2023. Bouchard, Sara. “Phyllis Bramson on Henry Darger.” Painters on Paintings, 9 November 2015, https://paintersonpaintings.com/phyllis-bramson-on-henry-darger/. Accessed 13 December 2023. Boxer, Sarah. “He Was Crazy Like a . . . Genius?; For Henry Darger, Everything Began and Ended With Little Girls (Published 2000).” The New York Times, 16 September 2000, https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/16/arts/he-was-crazy-like-genius-for-henry-darger-everything-began-ended-with-little.html?searchResultPosition=3. Accessed 13 December 2023. Coleman, Megan. “Influences.” Henry Darger, http://officialhenrydarger.com/about/influences.html. Accessed 13 December 2023. Elledge, Jim. Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist. Harry N. Abrams, 2013. “Henry Darger.” MoMA, https://www.moma.org/artists/28600. Accessed 13 December 2023. Holst, Amber. “The Lost World.” Chicago Magazine, 2005, https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/november-2005/the-lost-world/. Accessed 13 December 2023. Lerner, Nathan. “On Henry Darger.” Nathan Lerner, http://www.nathanlerner.com/articles/henry-darger.html. Accessed 13 December 2023. McNett, Gavin. “"Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal" by John M. MacGregor.” Salon.com, 23 July 2002, https://www.salon.com/2002/07/23/darger/. Accessed 13 December 2023. Pogrebin, Robin. “A Henry Darger Dispute: Who Inherits the Rights to a Loner's Genius? (Published 2022).” The New York Times, 8 February 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/arts/design/henry-darger-estate.html. Accessed 13 December 2023.
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ENCORE: Strange Country Ep. 274: Bohemian Grove
11/30/2023
ENCORE: Strange Country Ep. 274: Bohemian Grove
Welcome dash hounds to an old episode from the pre-covid days when men could be rich men and spend the weekend urinating on trees and ruminating on how they could make life miserable for the rest of us. Strange Country will be back soon with a brand spanking new episode. Theme music: Big White Lie by . Sources: Flock, Elizabeth. “Bohemian Grove: Where the Rich and Powerful Go to Misbehave.” The Washington Post, 15 June 2011, . Guy, Peter. “The Fatuous Folly of the Super Rich and Their Plans to Escape the Apocalypse in New Zealand.” South China Morning Post, 18 Feb. 2018, . Ingraham, Christopher. “The Richest 1 Percent Now Owns More of the Country’s Wealth than at Any Time in the Past 50 Years.” The Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/06/the-richest-1-percent-now-owns-more-of-the-countrys-wealth-than-at-any-time-in-the-past-50-years/?utm_term=.2ebb43e94b48. Loudenback, Tanza. “The World's Richest People Spend $234 Billion a Year on Luxury Goods - Here's How Much They Spend on Yachts, Private Jets, Wine, and Clothes.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 1 Mar. 2018, www.businessinsider.com/rich-people-spending-on-travel-private-jets-clothes-cars-2018-2. MacLellan, Lila. “Science Proves Rich People Don't Really Notice You-or Your Problems.” Quartz, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2016, . Mearhoff, Jeff. “Mississippi close to having most-Restrictive abortion law.” ABC News, ABC News Network, 8 Mar. 2018, Santos, Danny F. “15 Weird Habits Of The Super Rich And/Or Famous.” Theclever, Theclever, 6 Apr. 2017, . Saunders, Debra J. “Bohemian Grove: Men Only.” San Francsico Chronicle, 10 July 2011, . “State Facts About Abortion: Georgia.” Guttmacher Institute, 5 Jan. 2018, . Weiner, Sophie. “My Summer Job at the Bohemian Grove, Serving Milkshakes to the Shitfaced Global Elite.” Gawker, . Weiss, Philip. “Masters of the Universe Go to Camp: Inside Bohemian Grove.” Spy, Nov. 1989, pp. 59–76, . Williamson, Elizabeth. “Truth in a Post-Truth Era: Sandy Hook Families Sue Alex Jones, Conspiracy Theorist.” The New York Times, 23 May 2018, .
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Strange Country Ep. 273: Kary Mullis
11/16/2023
Strange Country Ep. 273: Kary Mullis
We’re sure you’ve heard of the Nobel Prize although it’s hard to make the case Beth has since she mispronounces it quite a bit in this episode. But have you heard of Nobel Disease? It’s when people are labeled geniuses and go on to embrace some whackadoodle pseudoscience. In today’s Strange Country episode, Beth and Kelly discuss Kary Mullis, the only Nobel winner to be referred to as “generally barking mad.” He discovered the polymerase chain reaction, which we all regularly employed when we wanted to make dang certain it wasn’t covid. Theme music: Big White Lie by Cite your sources: “First DNA Exoneration, Center on Wrongful Convictions: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.” Northwestern Law, https://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/il/gary-dotson.html. Accessed 9 October 2023. Guo, Jerry. “A Little Off the Top for History.” The New York Times, 13 July 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/fashion/13hair.html. Accessed 9 October 2023. Jarry, Jonathan. “The Man Who Photocopied DNA and Also Saw a Talking Fluorescent Raccoon.” McGill University, 15 August 2019, https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/technology-history/man-who-photocopied-dna-and-also-saw-talking-fluorescent-raccoon. Accessed 9 October 2023. Joseph, Pat. “Intolerable Genius: Berkeley's Most Controversial Nobel Laureate.” Cal Alumni Association, 12 December 2019, https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/winter-2019/intolerable-genius-berkeleys-most-controversial-nobel-laureate/. Accessed 8 October 2023. Loeb, Dylan. “Kary B. Mullis, 74, Dies; Found a Way to Analyze DNA and Won Nobel (Published 2019).” The New York Times, 15 August 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/science/kary-b-mullis-dead.html?searchResultPosition=1. Accessed 9 October 2023. Markel, Howard. “How the talented Oscar Levant broke taboos by talking about mental health.” PBS, 14 August 2021, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-the-talented-oscar-levant-broke-taboos-by-talking-about-mental-health. Accessed 9 October 2023. “Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Fact Sheet.” National Human Genome Research Institute, 17 August 2020, https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Polymerase-Chain-Reaction-Fact-Sheet. Accessed 9 October 2023. Schreiber, Dan. The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird. HarperCollins Publishers, 2023. Thielking, Megan. “How Linus Pauling duped America into believing vitamin C cures colds.” Vox, 27 February 2015, https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7547741/vitamin-c-myth-pauling. Accessed 9 October 2023. Warden, Rob. “Kary B. Mullis: A lament for the loss of a life that saved many.” Injustice Watch, 18 August 2019, https://www.injusticewatch.org/commentary/2019/requiem-for-kary-b-mullis-a-lament-for-a-life-that-saved-many/. Accessed 9 October 2023.
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ENCORE: Strange Country Ep. 272: Killers of the Flower Moon
11/02/2023
ENCORE: Strange Country Ep. 272: Killers of the Flower Moon
Welcome to a blast from the past. This is a re-release of ep. 59 The Osage Murders, repackaged as Killers of the Flower Moon to coincide with the new film by Martin Scorsese. Thanks for all your support, dash hounds. We’ll be back with a new episode soon. Theme music: Big White Lie by Cite your sources: Grann, David. Killers of the Flower Moon.
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Strange Country Ep. 271: Candyman
10/19/2023
Strange Country Ep. 271: Candyman
Hey DashHounds, if you were listening last episode, we mentioned the true story of Candyman. This may be the very first time Beth and Kelly said “we should look into that” and actually did! Find out how haunting life was in Chicago in the 1980s if you lived in Cabrini Green housing. It is scary to think how people lived and even scarier to hear about how they died. Thanks always for your support and listening; it is an act of love. Theme music: Big White Lie by Cite your sources: Bogira, Steve. “They Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror.” Chicago Reader, 3 September 1987, https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/they-came-in-through-the-bathroom-mirror/. Accessed 17 October 2023. “Cabrini–Green Homes.” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini%E2%80%93Green_Homes. Accessed 17 October 2023. Chow, Andrew. “How Candyman Reclaims the History of Cabrini Green.” Time Magazine, no. August 27, 2021, https://time.com/6092375/candyman-cabrini-green-true-story/.
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Strange Country Ep. 270: The Man Who Killed Halloween
10/05/2023
Strange Country Ep. 270: The Man Who Killed Halloween
Halloween is the time of year of ghouls, goblins and moral panic about candy. Could some neighbor be handing out candy full of pins? Or even worse, plain boxes of raisins? Where did this all come from? Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about the origin of poisoned candy, stemming from one father who poisoned his own kid to collect insurance money. Theme music: Big White Lie by Cite your sources: “DEA Warns of Brightly-Colored Fentanyl Used to Target Young Americans.” DEA.gov, 30 August 2022, https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2022/08/30/dea-warns-brightly-colored-fentanyl-used-target-young-americans. Accessed 1 October 2023. "Halloween execution date sought for man who killed son." UPI (USA), sec. News, 2 Sept. 1983. NewsBank: Access World News, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWNB&req_dat=0FA0729FAB9D3500&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/1567BF11158C5F68. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023. "Joe Rogan and Dr Phil push Halloween candy fentanyl story before producer says it could be fake; 'That was always the fear right, when we were kids, is that someone's gonna sneak in a razor blade into an apple,' Rogan says." Independent [Online], 31 Oct. 2022, p. NA. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A724680900/STND?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=4905dace. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023 "RHODE ISLAND MAN SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON FOR ROLE IN NATIONWIDE CONSPIRACY THAT TRAFFICKED DRUGS HIDDEN IN TOY TRUCKS, DISNEY ITEMS AND HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS." States News Service, 20 Sept. 2023, p. NA. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A766621939/STND?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=1a1aa97e. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023.. "Should reports of candy-colored fentanyl spook you?" Daily Herald [Arlington Heights, IL], 28 Oct. 2022, p. 1. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A724348841/STND?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=8b7c1e70. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023. Ortega, Nicolás. “Wife Takes Stand At Husband's Trial In Son's Poisoning (Published 1975).” The New York Times, 29 May 1975, https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/29/archives/wife-a-takes-stand-at-husbands-trial-in-sons-poisoning.html?searchResultPosition=5. Accessed 1 October 2023. Ponti, Crystal. “The Haunting Legacy of Ronald Clark O'Bryan, the Man Who Killed Halloween.” A&E, 22 October 2020, https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/the-man-who-killed-halloween. Accessed 1 October 2023. Skal, David J. Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween. Bloomsbury USA, 2002. TALLEY, OLIVE. "Ronald Clark O'Bryan, who killed his 8-year-old son with...." UPI (USA), sec. News, 30 Mar. 1984. NewsBank: Access World News, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWNB&req_dat=0FA0729FAB9D3500&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/1568797363D91408. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023.
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Strange Country Ep. 269: Vaccine Roulette
09/21/2023
Strange Country Ep. 269: Vaccine Roulette
In the 1980s, whilst the media stirred up frenzies over Satanists in our midst or a nuclear bomb landing in Washington, a reporter made a documentary adding vaccines to the growing list of dangers. Vaccine Roulette claimed the pertussis vaccine caused brain damage in kids, which led to a drop in immunizations, a rise in whooping cough, and a near-end to the production of vaccines. On Strange Country, cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about this antivax movement spawned during the time of leg warmers and Alf, and continues to impact the current vaccine hesitancy we see today. Theme music: Big White Lie by Cite your sources: Spurious Correlations, https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations. Accessed 24 August 2023. Astor, Maggie. “How These Vocal Anti Covid Vaccine Chiropractors Have Split the Profession.” The New York Times, 14 July 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/health/anti-covid-vaxxers.html. Accessed 1 September 2023. Bond, Shannon. “Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows.” NPR, 13 May 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-dozen-test-facebooks-twitters-ability-to-curb-vaccine-hoaxes. Accessed 24 August 2023. Edwards, Erika. “Childhood vaccinations in the U.S. fall again, leaving kids at risk for preventable disease.” NBC News, 12 January 2023, http://nbcnews.com/health/health-news/childhood-vaccinations-us-fall-leaving-kids-risk-preventable-disease-rcna65493. Accessed 24 August 2023. Haelle, Tara. “How vaccine hesitancy has dealt damage over centuries.” Science News, 11 May 2021, https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vaccine-hesitancy-history-damage-anti-vaccination. Accessed 2 September 2023. Offit, Paul A. Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All. Basic Books, 2011. Sun, Lena H. “Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S.” Washington Post, 26 December 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/12/26/vaccine-hesitancy-measles-chickenpox-polio-flu/. Accessed 24 August 2023. “Vaccines - Research and data from Pew Research Center.” Pew Research Center, https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/science/science-issues/medicine-health/vaccines/. Accessed 2 September 2023.
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Strange Country ep. 268: Mabel Norris Reese
08/31/2023
Strange Country ep. 268: Mabel Norris Reese
Mabel Norris Reese shone a light on racism and injustice in Lake County Fla. in the 1950s and 60s before the racist element drove the newspaper editor out of town. Strange Country cohosts and former reporters Beth and Kelly talk about this intrepid journalist and wish that Bugs Bunny gif of him sawing off Florida could somehow come true. Theme music: Big White Lie by Cite your sources: Explore Florida's Civil Rights History – US Civil Rights Trail.” Civil Rights Trail, https://civilrightstrail.com/state/florida/. Accessed 21 August 2023. Florida Frontiers: Journalist Mabel Norris Reese. Performance by Ben Brotmarkle, Florida Frontiers, 2022. YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcVisOvMAFw. Fortin, Jacey. “Florida Apologizes for 'Gross Injustices' to Groveland Four, Decades Later (Published 2017).” The New York Times, 27 April 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/us/groveland-four-apology-florida.html?searchResultPosition=1. Accessed 21 August 2023. “Freedom Never Dies: The Story of Harry T. Moore - Florida Terror - Groveland - Introduction.” PBS, https://www.pbs.org/harrymoore/terror/groveland.html. Accessed 21 August 2023. Holpuch, Amanda. “Groveland Four Are Exonerated More Than 70 Years Later.” The New York Times, 22 November 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/us/groveland-four-exonerated-florida.html. Accessed 16 August 2023. King, Gilbert. Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found. Riverhead Books, 2018. Mettler, Katie, and Aaron Wiener. “'Groveland Four' exonerated 72 years after false rape allegation - The Washington Post.” Washington Post, 23 November 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/11/23/groveland-four-florida-exonerated-rape/. Accessed 21 August 2023. Ortiz, Erik. “Groveland Four, the Black men accused in a 1949 rape, get case dismissed.” NBC News, 22 November 2021, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/groveland-four-black-men-accused-1949-rape-get-case-dismissed-rcna6016. Accessed 16 August 2023.
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Strange Country Ep. 267: Ruth Handler
08/17/2023
Strange Country Ep. 267: Ruth Handler
We are requiring all readers of Strange Country and their partners, families and friends and everyone else to watch the Barbie movie. That way you can fully enjoy Kelly and Beth’s homage to Ruth Handler, the creator of Barbie. Learn details about the woman who, really, all of us should have studied in school as an example of an entrepreneur. Women have it tough, people. That’s it. Listen with love and let’s keep holding each other and get through these BS challenges. And no, Greta Gerwig did not pay us for our endorsement. She is welcome to though! PS—Kelly finally got a mattress. Theme music: Big White Lie by Cite your sources, dude: Gerber, Robin. Barbie and Ruth. Harper Collins ebooks, 2009. Latson, Jennifer. “The Barbie Doll's Not-For-Kids Origins.” Time, no. March 9, 2015, https://time.com/3731483/barbie-history/. Accessed 8 August 2023. “Who Made America? | Innovators | Ruth Handler.” PBS, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/handler_hi.html. Accessed 8 August 2023. “Why Barbie Inventor Ruth Handler Got in Trouble With the IRS, SEC.” Business Insider, 31 July 2023, https://www.businessinsider.com/barbie-inventor-ruth-handler-mattel-irs-sec-false-financial-statements-2023-7. Accessed 9 August 2023.
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Strange Country Ep. 266: Stone Mountain
08/03/2023
Strange Country Ep. 266: Stone Mountain
If your site is like a video game health regenerator for the Ku Klux Klan, that might be a sign your site needs a facelift. Yet Stone Mountain, Ga., continues to exist as the the largest Confederate monument in the world. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss this paean to traitors and how the United Daughters of the Confederacy united to f*** up history so that we’re still discussing whether we should keep up Confederate monuments. Theme music: Big White Lie by Cite your sources: Galloway, Jim. “The Georgia law that protects Stone Mountain, other Confederate monuments.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 17 August 2017, https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/the-georgia-law-that-protects-stone-mountain-other-confederate-monuments/IIyMj6919d5JFo40QMS4RJ/. Accessed 20 July 2023. Moffatt, Emil, and Abraham Mosley. “Confederate Imagery On Stone Mountain Is Changing, But Not Fast Enough For Some.” NPR, 21 June 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/06/21/1007924006/confederate-imagery-on-stone-mountain-is-changing-but-not-fast-enough-for-some. Accessed 19 July 2023. “Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain.” Atlanta History Center, https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/monument/. Accessed 19 July 2023. “Native Americans and Mount Rushmore | American Experience.” PBS, 2023, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rushmore-sioux/. Accessed 19 July 2023. Rozsa, Lori. “Florida approves Black history standards decried as 'step backward.'” Washington Post, 19 July 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/19/florida-black-history-standards/. Accessed 20 July 2023. Stephens, Alexander H. “Cornerstone Speech.” American Battlefield Trust, https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/cornerstone-speech. Accessed 19 July 2023. SUPERVILLE, DARLENE. “Trump says 'learn from history' instead of removing statues.” AP News, 23 June 2020, https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-race-and-ethnicity-ap-top-news-politics-fa842fd5bcf509bdc6d199c31e134f53. Accessed 19 July 2023. Thompson, Erin L. Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments. WW Norton, 2022. Treisman, Rachel. “Nearly 100 Confederate Monuments Removed In 2020, Report Says; More Than 700 Remain.” NPR, 23 February 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/02/23/970610428/nearly-100-confederate-monuments-removed-in-2020-report-says-more-than-700-remai. Accessed 19 July 2023.
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Strange Country Ep. 265: Anthrax Attacks of 2001
07/20/2023
Strange Country Ep. 265: Anthrax Attacks of 2001
Maybe this got lost in the shuffle for you, dear readers, like it did for Beth who completely spaced about this, but in the weeks after 9/11, opening the mail was a terrifying act. That’s because someone was sending anthrax letters to the media and politicians. Five people died and another 17 were sickened in these attacks. It took eight years for the FBI to find their suspect, and even now some questioned whether or not they got the right man. Join Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly as they dissect this story that never made it into their memory banks. Theme music: Big White Lie by Cite your sources: “Anthrax Facts - MN Dept. of Health.” Minnesota Department of Health, 5 October 2022, https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/anthrax/anthrax.html. Accessed 9 July 2023. “Anthrax | National Postal Museum.” National Postal Museum |, https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/behind-the-badge-case-histories-dangerous-mail/anthrax. Accessed 8 July 2023. Diamond, Dan. “Trump's election challenges distracted from covid response, White House adviser told colleagues.” The Washington Post, 23 September 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/23/trump-election-challenge-covid-response/. Accessed 9 July 2023. Engelberg, Stephen. “New Evidence Adds Doubt to FBI's Case Against Anthrax Suspect.” ProPublica, 10 October 2011, https://www.propublica.org/article/new-evidence-disputes-case-against-bruce-e-ivins. Accessed 8 July 2023. Freed, David. “The Wrong Man.” The Atlantic, 15 May 2010, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/05/the-wrong-man/308019/. Accessed 8 July 2023. Lancaster, John. “When anthrax-laced letters terrorized Washington and New York.” The Washington Post, 24 October 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/10/24/when-anthrax-laced-letters-terrorized-washington-new-york/. Accessed 5 July 2023. Palca, Joe. “FBI Faulted For Overstating Science In Anthrax Case.” NPR, 15 February 2011, https://www.npr.org/2011/02/15/133775495/fbi-faulted-for-overstating-science-in-anthrax-case. Accessed 8 July 2023. Shane, Scott. “Portrait Emerges of Anthrax Suspect’s Troubled Life.” The New York Times, 3 January 2009, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/us/04anthrax.html?searchResultPosition=1. Accessed 7 July 2023. “Spotlight falls on anthrax case < Yale School of Medicine.” Yale School of Medicine, 2002, https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/article/spotlight-falls-on-anthrax-case/. Accessed 7 July 2023. Stoogenke, Jason. “Did you get a paper called a 'prayer rug' in the mail?” WSOC TV, 14 February 2022, https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/did-you-got-paper-called-prayer-rug-mail/TT3NX4AHXBGOBFYVBQPWC5IQGQ/. Accessed 5 July 2023. Tarm, Michael. “Ex-House Speaker settles child sexual abuse payments suit.” AP News, 15 September 2021, https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-sexual-abuse-illinois-dennis-hastert-99160a4428db66e86da8e275e57c8ec7. Accessed 5 July 2023. Temple-Raston, Dina. “David Willman's “The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks, and America's Rush to War.”” The Washington Post, 11 August 2011, https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/david-willmans-the-mirage-man-bruce-ivins-the-anthrax-attacks-and-americas-rush-to-war/2011/07/25/gIQAyrZM9I_story.html. Accessed 9 July 2023. Wiser, Mike. “New Report Casts Doubt on FBI Anthrax Investigation.” PBS, 19 December 2014, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/new-report-casts-doubt-on-fbi-anthrax-investigation/. Accessed 8 July 2023.
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Strange Country Ep. 264: Goody Garlick
07/06/2023
Strange Country Ep. 264: Goody Garlick
Join us this week on Strange Country as we go way back in time to the 1600s when life was grand, and if you lived to be a 50-year-old woman, you should just STFU. Because if you did decide to speak truth of any sort you would likely be accused of witchcraft. That’s what happened to Goody Garlick of Easthampton (originally one word), NY. Enjoy Goody Kelly and Goody Beth as we sweat like they did in the 17th century, and conjure up ways to make more money, and deal with this heat. Thanks always for listening; it is an act of love. Theme music: Big White Lie by Cite your sources: “Before Salem, There Was the Not-So-Wicked Witch of the Hamptons.” Smithsonian Magazine, 25 October 2012, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/before-salem-there-was-the-not-so-wicked-witch-of-the-hamptons-95603019/. Accessed 25 June 2023. Dewan, George. “In the Matter of Goody Garlick.” nysarchives.com, https://www.nysarchivestrust.org/application/files/7915/6520/4235/archivesmag_fall2005.pdf. “Elizabeth Garlick - Notable Women Ancestors.” RootsWeb, https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nwa/garlick.html. Accessed 26 June 2023. “goody | Etymology, origin and meaning of goody by etymonline.” Online Etymology Dictionary, 3 April 2015, https://www.etymonline.com/word/goody. Accessed 26 June 2023.
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Strange Country Ep. 263: The Curious Case of Natalia Grace
06/22/2023
Strange Country Ep. 263: The Curious Case of Natalia Grace
What is the youngest age a child can live on her own? In this episode, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss the absolutely bonkers documentary “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace” that premiered this year on Investigation Discovery. An Indiana couple petitioned a court to have their adopted child re-aged from 9 to 22 so she could be removed from their home and placed in an apartment. Theme music: Big White Lie by Cite your sources: The Curious Case of Natalia Grace. Investigation Discovery, 2023. Investigation Discovery, . Farzan, Antonia Noori. “Kristine and Michael Barnett charged with abandoning adopted daughter in Indiana.” The Washington Post, 17 September 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/17/police-say-she-abandoned-her-adopted-daughter-she-says-girl-was-actually-scamming-adult-sociopath/. Accessed 19 June 2023. Flynn, Sheila "A six-year-old Ukrainian girl saved by adoption or a murderous adult imposter: Who really is Natalia Grace?" Independent [Online], 1 June 2023, p. NA. Gale OneFile: News, link-gale-cay.orc.scoolaid.net/apps/doc/A751445561/STND?u=nysl_sc_ahs&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=9aa09674. Accessed 19 June 2023. Leishman, Rachel. “Max's 'The Curious Case of Natalia Grace' Is the Most Off-the-Wall Docuseries.” The Mary Sue, 5 June 2023, https://www.themarysue.com/max-curious-case-of-natalia-grace-docuseries-must-watch/. Accessed 19 June 2023. Minutaglio, Rose. “Inside the Real-Life 'Orphan' Case: Parenting Author Kristine Barnett Claims Her Adopted Teen Is Actually a Disturbed Adult.” ELLE, 9 October 2019, https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a29205646/kristine-barnett-natalia-grace-adoption/. Accessed 19 June 2023. Vargas, Ramon Antonio. “Six-year-old orphan or 'con artist' adult? Revisiting the strange story of Natalia Grace.” The Guardian, 4 June 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/04/natalia-grace-docuseries-hbo-discovery-ukrainian-orphan-con-artist. Accessed 19 June 2023.
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Strange Country Ep. 262: The Mattachine Society
06/08/2023
Strange Country Ep. 262: The Mattachine Society
Twenty years before the Stonewall Uprising, another group fought for rights for LGBTQ Americans. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss The Mattachine Society, a group that sought dignity and respect for LGBTQ during a time when being gay was criminalized. Luckily things are chill now. Oh wait. Theme music: Big White Lie by Cite your sources: Chew, Rebecca, and Brian Nimens. “Opinion | States Are Stifling the Voices of Cities and Their Voters.” The New York Times, 3 June 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/opinion/texas-preemption-bill.html. Accessed 4 June 2023. Gaines, James R. The Fifties: An Underground History. Simon & Schuster, 2023. Garcia, Arturo. “Were Gay Concentration Camp Prisoners 'Put Back in Prison' After World War II?” Snopes.com, 11 October 2018, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gay-prisoners-germany-wwii/. Accessed 4 June 2023. HANNA, JOHN, and ANDREW DeMILLO. “Kansas passes trans bathroom bill; Arkansas OKs own version.” AP News, 4 April 2023, https://apnews.com/article/transgender-rights-bathroom-bill-kansas-cbdc14be5bf1fb6e1a0749cad52e8ebc. Accessed 4 June 2023. Katz, Jonathan Ned. “Henry Hay: Founding The Mattachine Society, "A call to me . . . more important than life" · Harry Hay: Founding the Mattachine Society, 1948-1953, by Jonathan Ned Katz.” OutHistory, 1976, https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/hay-mattachine/hh. Accessed 4 June 2023. “Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. State Legislatures.” American Civil Liberties Union, https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights. Accessed 4 June 2023. “State Legislative Attacks.” Human Rights Campaign, 5 May 2023, https://www.hrc.org/campaigns/the-state-legislative-attack-on-lgbtq-people. Accessed 4 June 2023. Valelly, Rick. “The Conflicted Gay Pioneer.” The American Prospect, 8 October 2013, https://prospect.org/power/conflicted-gay-pioneer/. Accessed 7 June 2023.
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Strange Country Ep. 261: Purity Culture
05/18/2023
Strange Country Ep. 261: Purity Culture
You know how every little girl dreams of the day her dad signs a pledge promising to keep her vagina penis-free until she marries. Wait, you don’t? Well, sit back, slap on your purity ring, superglue your legs together and get ready for a Strange Country episode on purity culture. Theme music: Big White Lie by Beaty, Katelyn. “Opinion | In wake of Atlanta shooting, Christian communities need to rethink purity culture.” The Washington Post, 18 March 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/03/18/purity-culture-atlanta-shooter-women-sexuality/. Accessed 7 May 2023. Filipovic, Jill. “'Purity' culture: bad for women, worse for survivors of sexual assault | Jill Filipovic.” The Guardian, 9 May 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/09/elizabeth-smart-purity-culture-shames-survivors-sexual-assault. Accessed 15 April 2023. Haberman, Clyde. “How an Abstinence Pledge in the '90s Shamed a Generation of Evangelicals (Published 2021).” The New York Times, 12 April 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/us/abstinence-pledge-evangelicals.html. Accessed 9 April 2023. Klein, Linda Kay. Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free. Atria Books, 2018. McEwan, Melissa. “George Bush's sex education failure | Melissa McEwan.” The Guardian, 20 July 2009, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/20/george-bush-teen-pregnancy-abstinence. Accessed 29 April 2023. “Teen Pregnancy Rates by State 2023.” World Population Review, https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/teen-pregnancy-rates-by-state. Accessed 29 April 2023. Roach, David. “True Love Waits pioneer defends sexual purity movement.” Baptist Standard, 8 January 2019, https://www.baptiststandard.com/news/baptists/true-love-waits-pioneer-defends-sexual-purity-movement-2/. Accessed 30 April 2023. Valenti, Jessica. The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women. Basic Books, 2009.
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