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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 A Cast of Thousands.
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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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 A Cast of Thousands.
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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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 A Cast of Thousands.
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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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.
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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. -
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.
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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. -
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.
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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. -
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.
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Flock, Elizabeth. “Bohemian Grove: Where the Rich and Powerful Go to Misbehave.” The Washington Post, 15 June 2011, www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/bohemian-grove-where-the-rich-and-powerful-go-to-misbehave/2011/06/15/AGPV1sVH_blog.html?utm_term=.3196c5a24d65.
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, www.scmp.com/business/global-economy/article/2133724/fatuous-folly-super-rich-and-their-plans-escape-apocalypse.
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, qz.com/816188/science-shows-the-richer-you-get-the-less-you-pay-attention-to-other-people/.
Mearhoff, Jeff. “Mississippi close to having most-Restrictive abortion law.” ABC News, ABC News Network, 8 Mar. 2018, abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/mississippi-test-state-restrict-abortion-53601798
Santos, Danny F. “15 Weird Habits Of The Super Rich And/Or Famous.” Theclever, Theclever, 6 Apr. 2017, www.theclever.com/15-weird-habits-of-the-super-rich-andor-famous/.
Saunders, Debra J. “Bohemian Grove: Men Only.” San Francsico Chronicle, 10 July 2011, www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/Bohemian-Grove-men-only-2355089.php.
“State Facts About Abortion: Georgia.” Guttmacher Institute, 5 Jan. 2018, www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/state-facts-about-abortion-georgia.
Weiner, Sophie. “My Summer Job at the Bohemian Grove, Serving Milkshakes to the Shitfaced Global Elite.” Gawker, gawker.com/my-summer-job-at-the-bohemian-grove-serving-milkshakes-1763551409.
Weiss, Philip. “Masters of the Universe Go to Camp: Inside Bohemian Grove.” Spy, Nov. 1989, pp. 59–76, whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/bohemian_grove_spy.html.
Williamson, Elizabeth. “Truth in a Post-Truth Era: Sandy Hook Families Sue Alex Jones, Conspiracy Theorist.” The New York Times, 23 May 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/us/politics/alex-jones-trump-sandy-hook.html.
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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.
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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. -
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.
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http://usdakotawar.org/history/newcomers-us-government-military-federal-acts-assimilation-policies/what-reservation
Grann, David. Killers of the Flower Moon.
http://www.famous-trials.com/osage-home/2378-the-osage-reign-of-terror-murder-trials-an-account
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-marked-woman
https://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/523964584/in-the-1920s-a-community-conspired-to-kill-native-americans-for-their-oil-money
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/osage-murders-photos-killers-of-flower-moon
http://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2011/03/the-osage-murders-oil-wealth-betrayal-and-the-fbis-first-big-case.html
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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 A Cast of Thousands
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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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.
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“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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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.
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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. -
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.
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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. -
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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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“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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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.
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“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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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.
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The Curious Case of Natalia Grace. Investigation Discovery, 2023. Investigation Discovery, https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/show/the-curious-case-of-natalia-grace-investigation-discovery-atve-us.
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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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.
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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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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.
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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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