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I Can't Believe We Have to Do This Episode. Well, Miranda Rights...we just talked about it two weeks ago. Now we realize maybe we should keep up with what is on the Supreme Court docket, because lord have mercy on our souls. Let's talk about the case that overturned what we didn't even think would be overturned. Like, ever.

The beginning of slavery in the United States began as soon as the New World was found in 1492 by Columbus, establishing centuries of cruel treatment and forced labor. In part one of this story, we dive into how Native Americans participated in the early slave trade. Then, you are not in an episode of SVU, but you will hear us read you your Miranda Rights. Tune into the story of how this became a requirement across the US and the case that brought it to the Supreme Court.

Hot in the news after Kim Kardashian donned it on the red carpet, we take a look at the history of Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress. The destruction of Black Wall Street in Greenwood, an affluent black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the early 20th century. Hear about the rise, the fall, and the massive cover up.

An ancestor of Winston Churchill who served as a royal mistress to James II. Same-sex "marriages" between women in the United States over a century before the Supreme Court legalizes it.

Part two of the investigation into Hitler's remains. Then, the amazing story of a Jewish boxer who survived the concentration camps and death marches.

We walk through conspiracy theories of Hitler's escape from his bunker at the end of the war. However, scientists claim there is one set of remains that unmistakably identifies that the Fuhrer is dead: his teeth. During the latter half of the episode, we talk about how Andrew Jackson kills a man in a duel over horse race betting.

Michigan versus Ohio. Not the football rivalry, but the Toledo War. The one where the two states fought over a strip between the states that is present day Toledo. Our second story focuses on espionage within the FBI. Of course, the Soviet Union is involved, too.

Us Ohioans apparently have been lying about our statehood despite the white barns across the state touting our bicentennial in 2003. Your play, North Carolina. Julius Caesar gets kidnapped but then is in charge of his kidnappers? Even convincing them to increase the ransom they are asking for because Caesar himself was offended by the amount they demanded? Yes. This happened.

You know that big fire that happened on October 8th, 1871? No, not the Great Chicago Fire where a cow started it. The other one that happened on the same exact night. The other one that happens to be the most disastrous fire in U.S. history. We are going to be talking about the forgotten tragedy that happened that night in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. For a lighter story, Gummy walks us through several origin stories of the hand gesture known as the high five. Stories put the origin around the 70's, but nobody can confirm the actual first use case of this now common gesture. Hey, at least we all enjoy a good high five, though!

Robert Liston , born in 1794, was a Scottish surgeon noted for his speed and skill in an era prior to anesthetics. Known for his skill performing amputations, speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival for patients. Then, is our infrastructure garbage in the US? Jean thinks so. Walk (or drive) through a brief history of urban transportation and how personal automobiles shaped urban planning in the United States. This is the Road to Ruin.

How did the German population accept the actions of the Nazi regime during the rise of the Third Reich and during WWII? The Third Wave was an experimental social movement created by California high school history teacher Ron Jones in 1967 to explain just that. Welcome to the emerging oil crisis of 2022. To gain some insight, Jean walks us through the 1970's energy crisis and how geopolitical conflicts can shape disruptions worldwide.

Plot twist: LGBTQ+ people have always existed! I know, even our resident gay Whitley is completely shocked. This week, we are talking about lavender marriages in 1920's Hollywood. A lavender marriage is a male–female mixed-orientation marriage, undertaken as a marriage of convenience to conceal the sexual orientation of one or both partners. The glitz, the glamour, the gayz. In the latter half of the episode, Whitley rants about Vladimir Putin yet again and continued aggressions in Eastern Europe. This week...the conflict between Russia, Georgia, and two separatists Georgian provinces. We can all guess who gets unnecessarily involved in this one. Will we ever learn?