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Episode: 492 - Billy Martin - Part II
It was a main source for the podcast episode, and helped contextualize Billy Martin's life and career within the world of baseball during the 70s and 80s.
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Main book by Bill Pennington, Billy Martin, baseball's flawed genius.
Episode: 491 - Billy Martin - Part 1
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It was mentioned as a source of information and included a quote about how Boston had higher levels of violence and roughness than other towns, a characteristic it has seemingly held onto.
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they often included some form of communal violence that resulted in the punishment of social outcasts.
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Episode: 475 - Cabeza de Vaca - Part 2
It was used as a source for the podcast, detailing Cabeza de Vaca's journey through the Americas, and his interactions with the indigenous peoples.
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Episode: 474 - Cabeza De Vaca - Part 1
The book was referenced as a source of information for the podcast episode. It was used as a basis to describe the events of Cabeza de Vaca's journey through Florida and Texas, including the hardships faced by the Spanish explorers.
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So the ships have taken off and they they go to Cuba they come back they're searching one of the vessels sailed inside of the bay where they noticed a cane was stuck in the ground and it was clearly stuck there by people it was split at the top and there's a letter perched on the top so they're like oh well this is a letter from Narvaez right
in short time of us 80 men who arrived there from both uh rafts only 15 remained alive
it was november and the cold was very great and we were so thin that with little difficulty our bones could be counted and we appeared like the very image of death
other things that I refrain from mentioning and I believe assuredly that if in that land there were stones they would eat them
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The podcasters drew heavily from this book when discussing Lucy Parsons and Albert Parsons, it was a main source of information for the episode.
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All the sources were from this book, Goddess of Anarchy by Jacqueline Jones. It's a very, very good book about Lucy Parsons and obviously a lot of it includes Albert. It's where both episodes came from.
Episode: 454 - Albert Parsons
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Indeed, in their view, people so lacking in self-respect as to apply for aid automatically rendered themselves unworthy of it.
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It was George Jackson's first book, a collection of letters from prison, and became a popular text amongst radicals and supporters of his cause.
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In 1970, George had his first book published, which was called Soledad Brother, and it was just a collection of letters he'd written while in prison in a condemnation of racism of white America.
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It was mentioned that the book described Byron Kilbourn as an intellectual giant, shrewd, and possessing a strong will and personal magnetism.
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Episode: 401 - The Bridges of Milwaukee (Live)
It was mentioned that the book described Byron Kilbourn as an intellectual giant, shrewd, and possessing a strong will and personal magnetism.
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Byron is an intellectual, giant, keen, shrewd, aggressive with a will of iron and possessed a personal magnetism that few whoever came under its influence were able to resist. Neither was it often that he drew a blank in a fortunes lottery.
Episode: 401 - The Bridges of Milwaukee (Live)
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Mr. Kilbourne intended that the western bank of the Milwaukee should mark the eastern boundary of the embryo city upon whose reedy sedges... Those who were foolish enough to pitch their tents upon the east side might gaze with longing eyes but should not pass to except in a boat.
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It contained a quote suggesting that the west side, where Kilbourn Town was located, believed the east side, Junotown, was unhealthy and that its inhabitants lived on frogs and held midnight funerals.
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Those on the west side had all along proclaimed that the east side was unhealthy, that foul miasms hung over the houses.
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Episode: 401 - The Bridges of Milwaukee (Live)
It contained a quote suggesting that the west side, where Kilbourn Town was located, believed the east side, Junotown, was unhealthy and that its inhabitants lived on frogs and held midnight funerals.
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Those on the west side had all along proclaimed that the east side was unhealthy, that foul miasms hung over the houses.
That the inhabitants lived on eating frogs, which the Frenchman had learned then to do.
And that many of them had died and were buried at night so that the world should not see their depletion.
I saw that Byron Kilborn was the obnoxious person to whom the unthinking populace attributed all their mischief.
I knew too that the mob, if once put in motion, would shrink from no deed of violence, that the crowd would commit every unlawful act, perhaps even murder as a mob.
Episode: 401 - The Bridges of Milwaukee (Live)
It was used as a source to explain the rivalry between the east and west sides of Milwaukee, with quotes about the unhealthy conditions of the east side.
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those on the west side had all along proclaimed that the east side was unhealthy, that foul miasms hung over the houses. Foul miasms? Smell, odors, bad odors.
That the inhabitants lived on eating frogs, which the Frenchman had learned then to do.
And that many of them had died and were buried at night so that the world should not see their depletion.
I saw that Byron Kilborn was the obnoxious person to whom the unthinking populace attributed all their mischief. I knew too that the mob, if once put in motion, would shrink from no deed of violence, that the crowd would commit every unlawful act, perhaps even murder as a mob.
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It's horrifying. It's he say he was a Maybe one of the worst humans.
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Patton Oswalt mentioned reading it and described it as horrifying and that Flynn was potentially one of the worst humans. This was in reference to his debauched lifestyle and behaviour.
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It's horrifying. It's he say he was a Maybe one of the worst humans.
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This episode was based on a book by Chris Dixon called Ghost Wave, The Discovery of Cortez Bank and the Biggest Wave on Earth.
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Episode: 398 - Abalonia (Live)
The podcast episode was based on this book, which detailed the discovery of Cortez Bank and the biggest wave on earth, including the Abalonia incident.
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This episode was based on a book by Chris Dixon called Ghost Wave, The Discovery of Cortez Bank and the Biggest Wave on Earth.
Episode: 398 - Abalonia (Live)
The podcast episode was based on this book, which details the discovery of Cortez Bank and the largest waves found there, and the failed attempt to build a nation on the bank.
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This episode was based on a book by Chris Dixon called Ghost Wave, The Discovery of Cortez Bank and the Biggest Wave on Earth.
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