Episodios

  • Episode 249 Valiant Thor, Phil Schneider and the Guardian UFO Tape - The Weird History of UAPs

    Episode 249 Valiant Thor, Phil Schneider and the Guardian UFO Tape - The Weird History of UAPs
    May 22 2025
    This episode comes with a Trigger Warning as we discuss potential victims of suicide as well as infant mortality in the section After Arthur's Corner and again in our final thoughts. If these things are too much for you, feel free to skip, you matter.

    That being said, this episode gets weird as we discuss the strange life of Phil Schneider, the myster of Valiant Thor and the interesting events captured on the Guardian UFO Tape. Are these incredible hoaxes or is there some truth to be had here. So join us as we dig deep into these conspiracy laden tales surrounding some famous folks who are said to encounter alients, spacecraft and the Great Beyond in this weirdly fun episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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    1 h y 8 m
  • Episode 248 James MacLaine and William Plunkett - Gentleman Bandits of the 1700s

    Episode 248 James MacLaine and William Plunkett - Gentleman Bandits of the 1700s
    May 15 2025
    Well, we have a gem of an episode here, where we look into the life of James MacLaine and William Plunkett. We follow what we can of their births and young lives as we discuss how the pair came to be the Gentleman Bandits that they were, what famous people they robbed, how they got caught and their final, if quite different, fates. We also discuss what a blunderbuss is and why it would make a good brand name for underwear, whether James is related to John of the Die Hard Franchise, and so much more in this 1700's historical episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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    56 m
  • Episode 247 Victoria C. Woodhull - Spiritualist, Stockbroker, Presidential Candidate and Icon

    Episode 247 Victoria C. Woodhull - Spiritualist, Stockbroker, Presidential Candidate and Icon
    May 9 2025
    What an episode!!! In Arthur's Corner, he discusses fudge, chocolate chip cookies and 12 Angry Men. We also discuss the neurodivergent line that seems to run through our family. Then we settle down and begin to discuss this week's subject, Victoria California Woodhull. This woman, born to a devout spiritualist and a con man that got them ran out of their Homer Ohio home. She's married to a 'doctor' at 15 and works travelling medicine shows and spiritualist spectacles which eventually leads her to meet Cornelius Vanderbilt. She becomes a powerful figure, who believes in women's suffrage, the Free Love Movement (which in the 1860's is very different from the similarly named movement of the 1960's). She starts a newspaper and so much more in this about to be a movie starring Brie Larson episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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    45 m
  • Episode 246 The Story of Hans Island and the Whisky Wars

    Episode 246 The Story of Hans Island and the Whisky Wars
    May 1 2025
    Well this episode is a ton of fun. We are joined by longtime friend of the Fam, Stand Up Comic and Dutch Uncle Dale Hilton. He requested we cover a topic called the Whisky Wars and it is a doozy. In 1973 Canada and Denmark were unable to agree as to which country owned the kidney-shaped nothing of an island called Hans Island. With neither side willing to set aside their claim to the island, this led to an interesting 'conflict' of a sort. Over the next several years, the countries would take turns visiting the island leaving their flag, a bottle of liquor and a sign. They went back and forth leaving liquor and flags in a passive agressive conflict that only ended when the nations divided the island down the middle. We also talk about times we (the adults, Arthur listens patiently) got drunk and what we used to get drunk on in the days before the interwebs. So join us for this ever so slightly not quite PG-13 episode of fun and frolic from the Family Plot Podcast!

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    1 h y 11 m
  • Episode 245 The Greenbrier Ghost - The Murder of Zona Shue

    Episode 245 The Greenbrier Ghost - The Murder of Zona Shue
    Apr 24 2025
    This episode has so much going on, we don't know where to begin. Arthur discusses a recent family visit to Kansas City's Case Park and some rather naughty grafitti he discovered. The family discusses their favorite Kansas City Barbecue joint and Arthur discusses making Spanish Tortillas. All that plus we cover the strange case of the Greenbrier Ghost, the only ghost in American history to implicate her killer in this amazing story about the early days of West Virginia. You can't make this stuff up in this amazingly historic and hysterical episode of the Family Plot Podcast.

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    1 h y 16 m
  • Episode 244 Woman on Trial - The Laurie Bambenek Story

    Episode 244 Woman on Trial - The Laurie Bambenek Story
    Apr 17 2025
    We cover soooo very much in this episode. The Seven Layer Dip of Hell. Author S. J. Tilly. Stuffed Austrian Shepherds. Sponsor Girls. And so very much more as we head, in spirit, to Milwaukee Wisconsin to talk about the life, trial, and conviction of Lawrencia 'Laurie' Bembenek. We cover her life's story and how she was brutally railroaded into a murder conviction for a murder that it is impossible for her to have committed. We cover her appeals, and finally her desperate escape which made her a folk hero. We cover all this and her brutal bad luck in the rest of her life in this did this REALLY happen episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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    59 m
  • Episode 243 The Great Chicago Fire - A city wide tragedy in 1871

    Episode 243 The Great Chicago Fire - A city wide tragedy in 1871
    Apr 10 2025
    This episode we have so much to talk about, that we barely have time to talk about the episode. We discuss Mrs. O'Leary's cow, the movie 'Near Dark', the Independence Center Mall, more stuff in Arthur's Corner, what it must have been like to be an inmate freed because of the fire and so, so much more. We examine the histroy of the city around the time of the fire and whether or not the fire played into the rise of the Chicago Mafia in this deeply historical 'Now that's a fire!' episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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    59 m
  • Episode 242 Fairy Tale Origins III - Rapunzel, Bluebeard, Jack & The Beanstalk and Rip Van Winkle

    Episode 242 Fairy Tale Origins III - Rapunzel, Bluebeard, Jack & The Beanstalk and Rip Van Winkle
    Apr 3 2025
    We are joined in this episode by member of the Fam, longtime friend and writer extraordinaire Dan B. Fierce as well as Lexi Boese as we discuss the origins of four more fairy tales. We divide & conquer as Dean takes Rip Van Winmkle, Arthur covers Jack & the Beanstalk, Dan covers the tale of Bluebeard and Laura tells us the story of Rapunzel. Afterwards, we talk about the tales origin,what it;s based on and so, so much more in this highly cool episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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    1 h y 19 m
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