Episodes

  • 130-126: Cops And Robbers

    130-126: Cops And Robbers
    Jun 24 2026
    130: The 18th Amendment authorizing Prohibition is passed. Prohibition would be repealed in 1933 with the passage of the 21st Amendment 129: Gangland: A shootout between policemen led by Texas Ranger Frank Hamer and Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow end in the deaths of the bank robbers. Gangster and Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger is killed by FBI agents outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago. Bank robber Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd is shot and killed by FBI agents in East Liverpool, Ohio. A shootout between FBI agents and George "Baby Face" Nelson ends with the death of Nelson and FBI Special Agent Samuel P. Cowley ft. Author of Vengeance: The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull, Tom Clavin. 128: Tulsa Race Massacre: A mob attacks Black owned businesses in Tulsa, Oklahoma killing between 100-300, destroying 1,250 homes and imprisoning 6,000 African Americans 127: The US begins a final drawdown of forces in Afghanistan. In the chaotic withdrawal 13 American service members are killed in a terror attack carried out by ISIS-K $7B in military equipment is captured by the Taliban ft. FOX News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst. 126: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    44 mins
  • 135-131: Socially Distant

    135-131: Socially Distant
    Jun 17 2026
    135: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery 134: Four Black students in Greensboro, NC begin a sit in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter 133: America's fourth largest bank Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11, kicking off a month of possible worldwide economic collapse ft Former US Attorney, Senior Partner at Jenner & Block, & Court-Appointed Bankruptcy Examiner in the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Anton Valukas. 132: The first case of COVID-19 is confirmed in the United States. President Trump declares a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 outbreak freeing up $50B in emergency funding as schools and businesses begin closing across the country ft Clinical Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center & FOX News Senior Medical Analyst, Dr. Marc Siegel. 131: President Johnson announces his Great Society during his State of the Union Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    45 mins
  • 140-136: The Wild West

    140-136: The Wild West
    Jun 10 2026
    140: Jesse James and his gang commit the first train robbery in the American West in Adair, Iowa. In 1876 Lawman Wyatt Earp begins work as a peace officer in Dodge City, KS. The same year outlaw Wild Bill Hickok is shot dead during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota. In 1881 Tombstone, AZ is sight of the gunfight at the OK Corral. And in 1882 the legendary Jesse James is killed by fellow outlaw Robert Ford in his home in St. Joseph, MO. ft. Author of Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West, Tom Clavin. 139: The first major wagon trail heads west on the Oregon Trail with over a thousand pioneers from Missouri 138: African American teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Money, Mississippi 138: African American teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Money, Mississippi 137: President Reagan announces SDI a missile defense program intended to intercept enemy missiles ft. Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute & author of Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Paul Lettow. 136: The Spanish Flu Pandemic hits the US Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    39 mins
  • 145-141: Peace With Honor

    145-141: Peace With Honor
    Jun 3 2026
    145: Vietnam War: The U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war ends 144: President Eisenhower sends federal troops to Arkansas to escort Black students into a newly integrated Little Rock Central High School. Three years later in 1960 Ruby Bridges becomes the first Black child to attend an all white elementary school. ft. Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and author of Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis, John A. Kirk 143: The Brooklyn Bridge is open to traffic in New York City 142: The Senate rejects joining the League of Nations and refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles 141: President Johnson announces he will not seek re-election ft. Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas and author of LBJ: Architect of American Ambition, Randall B. Woods Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    40 mins
  • 150-146: The Golden Spike

    150-146: The Golden Spike
    May 27 2026
    150: Whiskey Rebellion - President Washington mobilizes a federal army to put down an insurrection in western Pennsylvania ft. Historian, Lecturer at Robert Morris University, Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Revolution, and author of The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis, Brady J. Crytzer 149: Truck bombs kill 241 American servicemen in Beirut, Lebanon - Terrorist organization Islamic Jihad would claim responsibility 148: The first transcontinental railroad is completed in Promontory, Utah with a golden spike 147: In Selma, Alabama Civil Rights protestors make two attempts to the Edmund Pettis bridge on a march to Montgomery but are met with violent resistance by police forces injuring scores and killing one. A third attempt is successful. 146: Jonas Salk's polio vaccine is approved for mass distribution by the FDA ft. Son of polio vaccine developer Dr. Jonas Salk & Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Dr. Peter Salk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    40 mins
  • 155-151: Miracle On The Hudson

    155-151: Miracle On The Hudson
    May 20 2026
    155: US Airways Flight 1549 loses both of its engines after striking a flock of birds. Pilot Chesley Sullenberger successfully lands the plane in the Hudson River saving all 155 passengers. ft. Resilience Partners Group’s Chief Strategy Officer, Best-selling author, & Last Passenger off US Airways Flight 1549, Dave Sanderson. 154: U.S. Supreme Court finds Standard Oil to be a monopoly and orders it to be dissolved. ft Vice Chairman of S&P Global, Daniel Yergin. 153: Frederick Douglass delivers his "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" speech 152: Oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft. Astronauts abort the mission but return to Earth safely 151: The legend says the game of baseball is "invented" in Cooperstown, New York by Abner Doubleday Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    38 mins
  • 160-156: The Gold Standard

    160-156: The Gold Standard
    May 13 2026
    160: Black Monday - DJIA falls 508 points - 22.6%, its largest single day percentage drop in history 159: The Land Act of 1820 lowers prices in the Missouri and Northwest territories with the goal of encouraging western movement ft. Director of The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Professor Emeritus of History, & Author of The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics, Dr. Daniel Feller. 158: Members of a cult following Charles Manson murder actress Sharon Tate and four others in Los Angeles, CA. The next day they would kill businessman Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary. ft. Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, Licensed Private Investigator, and True Crime Author, Dr. Joni Johnston. 157: A bomb explodes in the World Trade Center killing seven. The attack was planned by a small terror cell including Sheik Abdel Rahman and Ramzi Yousef. Yousef would later be captured in Pakistan and found guilty in a NY court. 156: The Gold Standard Act is ratified, putting American currency on the gold standard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    40 mins
  • 165-161: Trial of the Century

    165-161: Trial of the Century
    May 6 2026
    165: The first televised presidential debate takes place between Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon ft. Author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail, Alan Schroeder 164: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murdered in Los Angeles. The prime suspect former running back O.J. Simpson evades capture by leading police on a low-speed chase before his eventual arrest ft. attorney and host of the Crime & Justice podcast, Donna Rotunno. 163: American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo 162: Sacco and Vanzetti a pair of Italian-American anarchists and convicted murderers are killed via electric chair 161: Clara Barton establishes the American Red Cross Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    42 mins