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American Timelines

A weekly Comedy, History and Society podcast
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American Timelines

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Joe is joined by Hunter Brame, WW2 Buff, pilot and beard and glasses wearer to do a biography episode about Audie Murphy, the real life Captain America. We planned to talk Dewey Beard too, but we ran out of time. Enjoy.Part of the Queen Cit
Friend Check: An Architect Usher: Aaron Moody (Episode 222)Aaron Moody episode: Recorded March of 2023. Aaron Moody is an architect and a volunteer usher at a performing arts center, and he volunteers at the Queen City Comedy Experience
1942: The Phantom Barber & The Oregon State Hospital Poisoning (Episode 221)Amy’s back to jump into 1942 with Joe. Amy tells the tale of the Phantom Barber, while Joe covers the following timeline topics:• World War 2 rationing effects on
A guy we went to middle School with.Aaron Crane episode: Recorded March of 2023. Aaron Crane is a father, a husband, a Vice President of Operations, a Miami University Redhawk, a son of an elementary school teacher, and a guy we went to m
Friend Check: Aaron Sinclair (Episode 217)This episode is the third of a series of episodes called Friend Check. Listen while Joe goes through his Facebook Friends list and "checks" in with each person that is willing to record an hour long c
Joe is joined by Gruff from the Gruff & Loud show to take a deep dive on Pearl Harbor and a particular conspiracy theory about a cryptic warning hidden in an ad for a dice game.
This episode is the second of a series of episodes called Friend Check. Listen while Joe goes through his Facebook Friends list and "checks" in with each person that is willing to record an hour long conversation along with co-host Gruff.Who a
This episode is the first of a series of episodes called Friend Check. Listen while Joe goes through his Facebook Friends list and "checks" in with each person that is willing to record an hour long conversation.Who are these people? Why are w
Episode 216: 1941 Insanity Pleas & The Gentleman KillerAmerica’s favorite jerks continue into the1940’s! This episode: 1941. Amy tells us about The Gentleman Killer of 1941, also known as the aspirin killer, while Joe covers an array of
Episode 215: 1940  William Johansen, Toni Jo Henry & TheGhosts of Alcatraz.Amy & Joe jump into season 6 of American Timelines, the 1940’s!  This episode: 1940.  Amy tells us about Serial Killer William Johansen.  Joe tells Amy about the Chr
The last episode of Season 5! Amy tells the story of the Walker Family Murders. Is it connected to the Clutter Family Murders?  You decide! Plus, Joe tells us about an awful bus vs. cattle truck accident, a mob hit, a comedy troupe forming, a p
Episode 212: Clutter Family Murders & Judd Nelson: November of 1959On this penultimate episode of season 5, Amy covers the Clutter Family Murders.  Perry Edward Smith · Richard Hickock were two heartless robbers who had rough childhoods. That
Episode 211: Bonanza & A School Bombing: September & October of 1959Amy tells us all about Paul Harold Orgeron, a disgruntled tile setter who becomes a school bomber, while Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, Quick Draw McGraw & The Untouchables all p
Episode 210: The 40 Minute Free Fall & The 3 Christs: July & August of 1959Amy tells us all about Psychologist Milton Rokeach’s Three Christs experiment in 1959, where he gets three gents who all think they’re Jesus to live together. Meanwhile
Episode 209: The Alabama Torso Murders, George Reeves & More Scottish Timelines: June of 1959Our beloved Scottish pals Daniel & Nathaniel return for another edition of Scottish Timelines. They are fresh from their new comedy group At Least 4 P
Amy & Joe are back with another episode about 1959!  Amy tells the story of a tragic lynching of an innocent black man, and Joe fills in the timeline with birthdays, a tragic rape, a UFO conspiracy, burglars, baseball, some plane crashes and mo
Episode 207: Feb/March of 1959Amy covers the day the music died because she is a Don McLean superfan. Joe tells us all about the world record for longest flight set in 1959. Speaking of records, we have a radio record, breath-holding record, a
Episode 206: The Dyatlov Pass incident & The Murder of A Little Rascal:  January of 1959Amy sheds some light on a mysterious death of a group of mountain hikers in 1959, while Joe reveals the harrowing details of the murder of Alfalfa from t
This week, a family mysteriously disappears in Portland, Multiple people die on TV/Movie sets, Star Wars & Bewitched Inspirado, A tragic school fire are all events covered.  PLUS:  A Cult Leader is Murdered by Suicide Bombers and Jamie Lee Curt
This week, Amy tells us all about the Candlestick Murder, while Joe tells us of Martin Luther King Jr. getting a letter opener plunged into his chest.  Plus:  The World Series, A New Pope, Joan Jett, An International Incident & The Great Neil d
Episode 203: The Glamour Girl Slayer & Plane Crashes Galore:  July and August of 1958Onion Futures Act, Superstar Birthdays, Tons of Plane Crashes, Lemming & Cartoonist Suicides,  and the Glamour Girl Slayer are all covered in this thrillin
The jerks jump to June and July of 1958, in which striking red head Jean Ellroy was murdered, the dog who made the  name Fido popular did too, and the Hula Hoop was invented, all while Interracial marriage in Virginia sent a couple to jail, & t
Episode 201: Fires, Riots, Crashes & The Shoe Bandit:  April and May of 1958Amy & Joe cover April and May of 1958, where a crazy foot fetishist was on the loose, Nixon was getting hate, California started playing baseball, and air traffic
Amy and Joe celebrate their 200th episode with a hollywood mobster murder, several awful disasters including pigeons spreading fires, blizzards causing disarray, bombs being lost and ICE-T becoming a man.  All of this while our dogs Weezie and
The jerks move onto 1958, with a mobster death sentence, a new flag, some Chinese famine, and a good ol’ classic murderer.Go to https://www.magicmind.co/american And get up to 56% off your subscription for the next 10 days with our code:  AME
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