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This 2017 episode covers the loss of the U.S.S. Akron — the biggest single tragedy in aviation history at the time that it happened. But [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about some of the odd details in the Alma Petty Gatlin trial and difficulty finding the right language to discuss alcohol [Read more]

The Brown Dog Affair was a series of demonstrations and riots surrounding a statue that had been erected in the Battersea area of London, commemorating [Read more]

In 1928, a young woman from North Carolina named Alma Petty Gatlin went on trial for the murder of her father. A preacher Alma had [Read more]

This 2016 episode discusses the Doolittle Raid, an attack on Japan launched by the U.S. in retaliation for Pearl Harbor. But the leader of the [Read more]

Tracy shares how the recent wave of spy balloon news inspired this week’s episode, and the hosts talk about the technology of war balloons. They [Read more]

G.K. Chesterton was a prolific writer across many genres, including fiction, poetry, journalism, literary criticism, biography, social criticism, theology, and Christian apologetics. He was also [Read more]

We’ve gotten requests to talk about the balloon bombs that Japan used to target North America during World War II. But these were not the [Read more]

In 2017, the show covered the fears, prejudices and societal issues that drove the eugenics movement in the U.S., which focused on identifying, sequestering and [Read more]

Tracy and Holly talk about the way that the eugenics movement pops up almost any time there’s research into late 19th and early 20th century [Read more]