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Episode 73: Elviscerated: The Live-In Lolita Issue
In part 1 of our two part Elvis talk, we are mostly going to explore his relationship with Priscilla and what’s going on in his head that impacts his decision to go after young teenage girls, among other things. When Elvis was in the army at 24, Priscilla was a 14 year old in ninth…
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Episode 72: Of Two Spirits
We’ve got a video for you today! This video is presented by Elton Naswood (Najajo), Ben Lucero Wolf (Kiowa), and Richard Eric Dearmore (Paiute) and they’re talking about Two Spirit people in our modern world. This link from the Human Rights Campaign talks about the history of Two Spirit identities and talks particularly about two…
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Episode 71: Unfamous Cryptid Club
This week we talked about cryptids that are lesser known (at least here in the US). First up, we learned about the Dobhar Chu, Ireland’s ‘hound of the deep’ if you’re taking the translation of the name close to literal. Some consider it Ireland’s Lock Ness Monster. Karen tells us all about it, but if…
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Episode 70: Playing the Triangle: Bridgewater
First, here’s an article going over a few points about King Phillip’s War. I briefly went through it during the opening of the episode as the context sets up why people think this area is so spooky in the first place. But, this was a real war with real death, so read at your own…
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Episode 69: The Tear Down: ConCERNed, Hail Satan?
With this first link you can read about how some conspiracy theorists think CERN and the Large Hadron Collider are going to or have already pushed us into an alternate dimension. Of course, this is all a joke played by some bored scientists, post-grads or someone else with security clearance to the grounds. Here’s an…
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Episode 68: The Tear Down: ConCERNed
This intro link will take you to CERN where they will explain what the Higgs Boson is. This page has a lot of links that lead to tons of information about this very amazing discovery. And if you’re looking to learn what exactly the Higgs Boson even is and you need it explained from someone…
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Episode 67: Monster Mash? Monster SMASH
Honestly, this episode didn’t have any resources as we were just chatting and having a good time, but for the fun of it, I’ve pulled some stuff together for additional reading for the nerds out there who want to learn about these classic monsters. This is an academic style source that gives some cool images…
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Episode 66: Abortion History in the United States
Just like I did on the episode, I’m starting here with a link to an article that talks about abortions in the early Indigenous societies of North America before the US was colonized. This one is really good for digging in deep into the history of abortion access in this nation for the Indigenous community…
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Episode 65: Counting the Days
Starting with this first link, you can get a quick summary of what the history of the calendar looks like. It doesn’t cover nearly as much ground as we do in this episode, but it does give you the basic bullet points. Similarly, this one goes into a quick read about why there are an…