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Amazing Video: https://bit.ly/4t2Y4s9 It’s another landmark ruling year for SCOTUS in the making! Can a President impose tariffs on any country, for any amount, and for any reason without Congressional approval? Is it fair that trans girls (formerly boys) be allowed to play in collegiate girls sports against biologically born girls? We are joined by longtime guest, DAVID GROVER, a 5-time NYC “Super Lawyer” awardee. In his 4th, annual Court review with us, David helps us understand some of the top cases of the term so far and what all this may mean for our democracy. Join the debate at [email protected]. David’s amazing firm is Grover and Fensterstock. You can reach him at 1-866-99-LAWYER (866-995-2993), https://gfpc.us/ or email to [email protected]. Mention this podcast for additional discounts. Anuradha can be found at her Instagram accounts: @anuradhaduz_food and @artist_anuradhachhibber. And find us on Patreon at patreon.com/ScandalSheet. You’ll love the bonus content for our supporters! Please reach out to us at [email protected] to tell us how we are doing or ask questions. Find us on TikTok, Facebook, or on X at @scandal_sheet. We’d love to hear from you!

Great Video Version: https://bit.ly/4strOOG Those of us lucky enough to live in the great USA, prefer to think of ourselves as good and moral people. But are there terrible secrets in our country’s past we prefer not to think of? Every 5th grader knows the American Civil War (1861-1865) was the bloodiest military conflict in the USA’s 250 history. But beyond battlefield casualties, the real atrocities that occurred back then often don’t appear in many current history textbooks. Case in point, the ANDERSONVILLE PRISONER OF WAR PRISON – a camp designed for 10,000 prisoners that eventually housed 45,000. In only 14 months 13,000 Union prisoners died of disease, starvation, exposure … or outright torture and murder. Unlike many other conflicts, the American Civil War was not a war against unknown people, 10,000 miles away, that neither side could truly comprehend in any cultural/social way. This war was American vs American, brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor. Our returning guest for this episode is ALEC NISBET, retired US Defense Dept. Executive, Citizen Historian, Museum Docent, and Civil War expert. Visit Alec and take his tour at his current museum, The Blenheim Civil War Interpretive Center in Fairfax Virginia https://bit.ly/49wOR2C Anuradha can be found at her Instagram accounts: @anuradhaduz_food and @artist_anuradhachhibber. And find us on Patreon at patreon.com/ScandalSheet. You’ll love the bonus content for our supporters! Please reach out to us at [email protected] to tell us how we are doing or ask questions. Find us on TikTok, Facebook, or on X at @scandal_sheet. We’d love to hear from you!

GREAT VIDEO VERSION: https://bit.ly/4fx4R5q No one loves Christmas more than your friends at Scandal Sheet. But that doesn’t mean we can’t explore some obvious historical inconsistencies. Right? For example, why is Christmas celebrated on December 25? Only 2 of the 4 Gospels in the Christian New Testament even discuss the birth of the infant Jesus and NEITHER MENTIONS A DATE. But the Gospels do give us clues that the birthday was more likely in the spring or summer - and NOT winter. So, why 12/25? Join co-host Thad (a Catholic) co-host Anuradha (a Hindu), and regular guests David/Jill Grover (a Jewish couple) as we follow this star of Bethlehem’s holiday investigation. And don’t miss the hilarious cold open, “On The Road With The Maji.” (This is a popular replay from a December 2024 episode.) David’s amazing firm is Grover and Fensterstock. You can reach him at 1-866-99-LAWYER (866-995-2993), https://gfpc.us/ or email to [email protected]. Mention this podcast for additional discounts. Anuradha can be found at her Instagram accounts: @anuradhaduz_food and @artist_anuradhachhibber. Jim is also a professional photographer: jmaurerphoto.com. And find us on Patreon at patreon.com/ScandalSheet. You’ll love the bonus content for our supporters! Please reach out to us at [email protected] to tell us how we are doing or ask questions. Find us on TikTok, Facebook, or on X at @scandal_sheet. We’d love to hear from you!

Great Video Version: https://bit.ly/48WPbYd After a very modest beginning in 1966, the original “Star Trek” TV series was canceled by NBC after only 3 seasons and 79 episodes. But it found new life in syndication and gradually became a cultural phenomenon. It went onto spawn 13 feature length movies between 1979-2016 (new one coming soon). It has also hatched 12 additional TV series (2 still running) that have collectively produced over 900 episodes (and counting). How does a TV show that lasted only half the seasons as one of its 1960’s TV contemporaries, “Mister Ed”, (about a talking horse) become a - still growing - $20 billion dollar franchise? Anuradha and Thad are joined by returning guest host and “super fan” Jim Maurer to dive deep into the 60-year legacy of “Star Trek”. How did this nearly forgotten show rise from the ashes and become a surprise sleeper hit? We explore the groundbreaking nature of the show and its enduring influence on modern entertainment. We also give you some delicious scandal extras – like the first interracial kiss ever in primetime television. And the creator/showrunner, Gene Roddenberry, shagging 2 of his series’ actresses simultaneously, WHILE going through a divorce. Holiday fun for all! Anuradha can be found at her Instagram accounts: @anuradhaduz_food and @artist_anuradhachhibber. Jim is also a professional photographer: jmaurerphoto.com. And find us on Patreon at patreon.com/ScandalSheet. You’ll love the bonus content for our supporters! Please reach out to us at [email protected] to tell us how we are doing or ask questions. Find us on TikTok, Facebook, or on X at @scandal_sheet. We’d love to hear from you!

With our co-host – the MacGyver of the kitchen – Anuradha. Video: https://bit.ly/4oEDEmd I get it. You’re saying – what the h**l is ‘spatchcocking’ and is that the BEST name the cooking marketing genius’s of Madison Avenue could come up with? I’m with you on that. This technique can easily be used for chicken and other poultry. It reduces cooking time by at least half and the results are an evenly cooked bird. Remember, roast TURKEY isn’t a one day a year entrée – NO!. It ties with ham as a favorite Christmas Day offering and is of course delicious throughout the fall/winter and the year. Anuradha can be found at her Instagram accounts: @anuradhaduz_food and @artist_anuradhachhibber.

Video Version: https://bit.ly/4o8SkcQ Why did the horrific 1692 Salem witch trials and subsequent executions happen? Many Americans don’t know that Salem, Massachusetts was founded by numerous people that were part of the original Christian Puritans (aka the “Pilgrims”) that founded the Plymouth, Massachusetts colony. The same folks that celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day in 1621 with their indigenous friends/partners. However, many Puritans left Plymouth in 1626, as it did not have a practical harbor, and moved 60 miles south to a place with a GREAT natural harbor that they called Salem. Salem and nearby Boston succeeded enormously as commercial colonies while Plymouth gradually faded from relevance. But in 1692 – in a series of bizarre and inexplicable actions - Salem authorities accused and imprisoned over 20% of their population, executing many and leaving many others to die in jail. How could these very conservative, “reformed” Christians - Biblical New Testament literalists - prosecute this insanely gross level of genocide on members of their very own community? Was the then unknown rye grain fungus ‘ergot’, a key ingredient in modern LSD (i.e. ‘Acid’), a contributing factor in the behavior issues that sparked the hysteria? Anuradha and I will guide you through this rarely told - but very informative story. Hey folks – we’re Scandal Sheet, right? So, you get what you signed up for. But we can still wish all our listeners love and family communion at this holiday time. Enjoy your celebrations! Anuradha can be found at her Instagram accounts: @anuradhaduz_food and @artist_anuradhachhibber. And find us on Patreon at patreon.com/ScandalSheet with bonus content for premium subscribers. We’d love to have your generous support for only the price of one Starbuck’s coffee per month. Please reach out to us at [email protected], find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on X at @scandal_sheet. We’d love to hear from you!

Video Version: https://bit.ly/4hB8gmt OUR HALLOWEEN SPECIAL. Today, VAMPIRES are the most popular of all supernatural figures but what are they really and where did they come from? Merely a legend? Or, are they sexy teenagers in Washington State. Was there really a Count Dracula and why was he so over-dressed for every occasion. We examine these questions and more in this spooktacular episode. The previously published cold open is included at the tope of the show and features the talents of co-host Anuradha, composer and actor, John Hoekstra, and Thad. Co-host, Anuradha can be found at her Instagram accounts: @anuradhaduz_food and @artist_anuradhachhibber. John on You Tube https://shorturl.at/i1Q8h SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-363005792 And find us on Patreon at patreon.com/ScandalSheet with bonus content for premium subscribers. We’d love to have your generous support for only the price of one Starbuck’s coffee per month. Please reach out to us at [email protected], find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on X at @scandal_sheet. We’d love to hear from you!

Video: https://bit.ly/3VEvFth Actor icon, movie producer and director, and founder of the famous Sundance Festival, Robert Redford, passed away very recently, at age 89, after 60+ years of amazing professional work in the cinematic industry. In addition to his $1B+ career box office receipts, he won numerous Oscars and other major awards and helped kickstart the careers of many dozens of – then - unknown indie filmmakers like Quentin Taratino, Steve Soderbourgh, Richard Linklater, Rian Johnson and many others, too numerous to list here. Redford practiced a double, contradictory life. While continuing to work within the Hollywood system throughout his career (to finance his indie activities?), Redford also legitimized independent filmmaking for all time and, as much as any one person could, re-shaped how American movies were both made - and the neglected topics they dramatized. In this episode, Anuradha and I initially discuss Mr. Redford’s overall career and then we replay a famous past episode of this pod where we discuss the Watergate Scandal – and concurrently – Redford’s very first maiden, movie producing effort, “All The President’s Men”, which became an unlikely bock office hit and won 4 Oscars. Find our co-host, Anuradha’s Instagram accounts: @anuradhaduz_food and @artist_anuradhachhibber. Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/ScandalSheet with bonus content for premium subscribers. We’d love to have your generous support for only the price of one Starbuck’s coffee per month. Also, please reach out to us at [email protected], find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on X at @scandal_sheet. We’d love to hear from you!

Many Americans don’t know this…but back in 1955, the Disney corporation was only a modestly profitable animation movie company. They had a couple of hits – but that was it. But, then, the founder, Walt Disney, decided to pour all his movie profits into something that had never been done before – a permanent, around the year, live action amusement park, which he called Disneyland (named after himself, of course). It was a giant financial risk for him that could have easily sunk his entire company, if it failed. Today, WE TAKE YOU BACK to the disastrous opening day of Disneyland, 60 years ago, in the summer of 1955. Can anyone possibly laugh this much? Watch and find out. We had fun recording it. We are delighted to welcome back professional video producer and cultural commentator, JOSEPH LONG, who has appeared in previous popular episodes. This incorporates the previously published “Disney On Ice – WE FOUND HIM !!!” comical cold open, starring Anuradha and Thad. Find our co-host, Anuradha’s Instagram accounts: @anuradhaduz_food and @artist_anuradhachhibber. Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/ScandalSheet with bonus content for premium subscribers. We’d love to have your generous support for only the price of one Starbuck’s coffee per month. Also, please reach out to us at [email protected], find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on X at @scandal_sheet. We’d love to hear from you!

Amazing Video Version: https://bit.ly/45VPiTC Since legendary entrepreneur Walt Disney’s death in 1966, there has been a persistent conspiracy theory that says, just before he died, he had himself cryogenically frozen until such time as there was a cure for his cancer. No evidence has ever been produced...until now. Our intrepid co-host, ANURADHA, was able to locate his nitrogen chamber and revive Mr. Disney. The truth can now finally be told! This is the hilarious cold open for our episode on the disastrous opening day of Disneyland in 1955. Coming soon!

Great Video Version: https://bit.ly/45N0yQP The summer ain’t over yet folks! And there’s a lotta cookin’ and eatin’ left to do. In this part 2 of our summer cooking special we celebrate the 15 years Thad’s daughter and their friends competed semi-professionally in chili cook-offs in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC. We were invited to the World Championship only once but frequently placed – and sometimes made some prize money to boot. Lot’s of cooking fun along way. There have been many amazing contributors to our efforts over the years but featured in this video (because we had video) are Thad’s daughter Kassia, co-chef Joe Duffus, Rebecca Hogue, Susan Jekielek, and Brian Hellems. You can make our award-winning chilis at home -- Recipe for “Rage Against The Cuisine – Green”: https://bit.ly/4fIYnlF (Joe) Recipe for “Rage Against The Cuisine – Red”: https://bit.ly/4lwCBTy (Thad) The featured new song, “Joe And Thad Oughta Open a Restaurant” can be heard in its entirety here: https://bit.ly/3V9jWSZ Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/ScandalSheet with bonus content for premium subscribers. We’d love to have your generous support for only the price of one Starbuck’s coffee per month. Also, please reach out to us at [email protected], find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on X at @scandal_sheet. We’d love to hear from you!

This is a terribly sad anniversary, in any way you perceive it – especially for people of any faith tradition, like myself. We’re replaying an episode from 2023 recorded on the occasion of the Academy Award-winning movie, “Oppenheimer”. It features my son-in-law, Dylan Cuellar, who was born and grew up in New Mexico, near Los Alamos, where the first several nuclear bombs were invented. Also, my daughter Kassia, Dylan’s wife, who had a rare opportunity to explore the original Trinity test site, where the first bomb test occurred. It seems more relevant now. The facts: on the morning of August 6, 1945 the U.S. dropped the first fission uranium atom bomb from a US-made B-29 on Hiroshima in Japan. It killed 85,000+ people almost instantly. 150,000+ would die weeks and months later from radiation sickness. 98% of the deaths were civilians and not uniformed soldiers. In fairness, radiation sickness was not understood by either the U.S. physicists who built the bomb or the supervising generals at the time. A second plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki 3 days later, with similar, catastrophic results. FDR died only weeks before the Nazi Germany surrender. Vice President HARRY TRUMAN hurriedly became the new President, knowing very little of the top-secret investments – like the atom bomb – that were in the works. Unlike FDR, Truman was a religious man, a life-long practicing Baptist. When eventually presented with these previously unknown facts, he faced a terrible choice between his own Christian faith and what most of his advisors believed was necessary to finally end the 7 year war that had already killed 55 million people (conservatively). His choice was controversial then – as it is now. The reality was the Japanese DID FINALLY SURRENDER only days after the 2 nuclear bombs were dropped on their cities. But - was it really worth the terrible body count? Although - on the other hand - how many more would have died on both sides if the Allies had staged a D-Day style amphibious invasion of Japan, as was planned? Casualty estimates for everyone were much, much worse in that scenario. When Truman did his nightly prayers to God, as he did for 50+ years, what did God say to him? Or, did he say anything at all? A soul-crushing, lose-lose choice no single person should ever have to make....but it was done… It’s not up to your Scandal Sheet friends to tell you what’s what. Just to present facts that are available to us. You guys call it yourself. I think we all agree that we appreciate that horrible war ended and, while there have been other wars on the planet since, none have reached the size and scale of WW2. Let us know you thoughts at scandalsheetpod.com.

Enjoy the Video Version: https://bit.ly/4m1fOQN This episode marries the previously released teaser with our in-depth conversation between Anuradha, myself, and frequent guest, professional composer/movie critic, JOHN HOEKSTRA. 56 minutes of informative and hilarious entertainment. (AMAZING video version will be posted soon.) Today, we think of the movie “Jaws” as a blockbuster game-changer in movie history. But back in 1973-1975, it appeared to be the biggest financial disaster in cinema history to producing company Universal Studios and many Hollywood insiders. Directed by a talented, but inexperienced and unknown filmmaker, Steven Spielberg, it appeared to be a runaway train leading the studio to eventual bankruptcy. The initial shooting schedule swelled from 55 days to 159 days. And the budget soared from $3.5 million to $12 million. Almost everything went wrong. Spielberg, an age 24 TV director, had no idea what he was doing on a project of this massive scale. They started with no useable script and they spent $1.5 million on a mechanical shark that mostly didn’t work while shooting. Also, there was drug and alcohol addiction among the major actors. How could the production of this movie possibly be worse? (Universal executives picked a very bad year to stop sniffing glue*.) And yes, it eventually became the most successful film of all time to that date – BUT HOW THE HECK DID THAT HAPPEN? We tell you the REAL story behind the scenes. Our music is composed, preformed and produced by the genius John Hoekstra. You Tube https://shorturl.at/i1Q8h SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-363005792 Longtime actors for the pod join us for the cold open. Leonardo from Manhattan – please look up his podcast: arrivealivepodcast.com. And my co-host, Anuradha. Find here Instagram accounts: @anuradhaduz_food and @artist_anuradhachhibber. * Extra points to anyone that gets that 1980 Paramount joke. Send responses to scandalsheetpod.com. Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/ScandalSheet with bonus content for premium subscribers. We’d love to have your generous support for only the price of one Starbuck’s coffee per month. Also, please reach out to us at [email protected], find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on X at @scandal_sheet. We’d love to hear from you!

WATCH THE GREAT VIDEO VERSION: https://bit.ly/456frNy In advance of our full episode we offer this previously unknown and behind-the-scenes glimpse into 1970’s Hollywood movie politics. We dramatize a confrontation between two historical people, Sidney Sheinberg. President and CEO of both Universal Studios and the parent company, MCA, and Verna Fields, an unbelievably talented editor, that would influence how films were crafted going forward. Despite their adversarial relationship during “Jaws”. Sheinberg would eventually make Fields his head of production for all Universal Studios - a job never held by a woman before. Longtime actors for the pod join us for this cold open. Leonardo from Manhattan – please look up his podcast: arrivealivepodcast.com. And my co-host, Anuradha. Find her Instagram accounts: @anuradhaduz_food and @artist_anuradhachhibber. We tell you what you don’t know! Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/ScandalSheet with bonus content for premium subscribers. We’d love to have your generous support for only the price of one Starbuck’s coffee per month. Also, please reach out to us at [email protected], find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on X at @scandal_sheet. We’d love to hear from you!

BONUS - "Superman" Preview Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/yAMYgCPjrd8 Despite its apparent opening weekend success, one person who has a very different view of this movie is a frequent guest of this podcast and a founding member of the Mets Mob, a popular baseball commentary trio in NYC. We are delighted to welcome back ROB from the Upper East Side. Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/ScandalSheet with bonus content for premium subscribers. We’d love to have your generous support for only the price of one Starbuck’s coffee per month. Also, please reach out to us at [email protected], find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on X at @scandal_sheet. We’d love to hear from you!