American Timelines

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 City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

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 Festival to help things run smoothly, along with his wife Meg. Aaron and Meg are super fun to be around, and they support the local comedy community in Charlotte whenever they can. Listen as we get to know Aaron Moody as a Clemson alum, an architect, a volunteer usher, and a good guy to talk to. We talk global ADA regulations, religion, Netflix Special filming, meeting his wife, traveling to Antarctica to see Penguins have sex & more! Friend Check is a subseries of American Timelines, where a middle aged man scours his Facebook friend list to reconnect with each person and ask….Are we ACTUALLY friends? Why are we Facebook friends? Who actually ARE you? Should we STAY Facebook Friends?

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 middle school with. We haven’t spoken to him since 8th grade graduation, as his parents made him go to a different high school, and we lost touch. This is a REUNION episode. Listen as we catch up and reminisce. We talk about a class reunion where a foreign exchange student gets dropped on his head, we reminisce about school days including getting paddled, food fights, roughhousing accidents, playing ding dong ditch, and being sentenced to cleaning a booger wall in high school. Friend Check is a subseries of American Timelines, where a middle aged man scours his Facebook friend list to reconnect with each person and ask….Are we ACTUALLY friends? Why are we Facebook friends? Who actually ARE you? Should we STAY Facebook Friends?

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 conversation along with co-host Gruff. Who are these people? Why are we Facebook Friends? Are we ACTUALLY friends? Should we remain friends? This episode features Aaron Sinclair, a poet, author, voice actor, actor and program manager in Columbus, Ohio. Listen along as we find out....WHO IS Aaron Sinclair????

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 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 we Facebook Friends? Are we ACTUALLY friends? Should we remain friends? I have a theory that EVERYONE has a story to tell, so I want to hear my friends life stories, I want to know what high school they went to and what their mascot was. Are there any true cime or controversies from your hometown? This episode features April Kirby, a Charlotte Improv Comedian from Ridgefield, Connecticut who went to Duke! Listen along as we find out....WHO IS APRIL KIRBY????

Episode 216: 1941 Insanity Pleas & The Gentleman Killer America’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 old timey happenings including: • Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy • Mad Hatter’s Disease • M&Ms • Jimmy Orlando the angry hockey player • The Espisito Brothers Insanity Plea • Air Raid Fashion • Cheerioats • Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Nick Nolte and more celebrity births • A tragic photo op • World War II Ghost Stories and much more! Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include: crimelibrary.org, A Crime To Remember, Weirduniverse. Murderpedia & More. Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Episode 215: 1940  William Johansen, Toni Jo Henry & The Ghosts 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 Christian Front, Ghosts on Alcatraz, The Murder of Laura Law, Female Murderer:  Toni Jo Henry, The lynchings of Elbert Williams, Jesse Thornton & Austin Callaway and the first appearances of Elmer Fudd, Batman’s sidekick Robin, The Green Lantern, Woody Woodpecker, Bugs  Bunny, & The Copacabana night club.  Plus:  Shirley Temple Retires, Two Beatles are born, and much more! Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include: Billboard Magazine, https://trouptogether.wordpress.com/austin-callaway/ & More.  Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

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 are these people? Why are we Facebook Friends? Are we ACTUALLY friends? Should we remain friends? This episode features AJ Foster, a comedian from the South Bronx, who now lives in Dallas, Texas. Listen along as we find out....WHO IS AJ FOSTER???? This was actually the first one we recorded in this format, so we were still trying to figure out how this is going to work.

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 plane crash with a sole survivor, a rhesus monkey in space and Neil Sedaka’s famous girlfriend. Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include: rankin.com, yabiladi.com, Popculture.us, Wikipedia, New York Times, IMDB & Youtube. Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Episode 212: Clutter Family Murders & Judd Nelson: November of 1959 On 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’s no excuse for what they did in the same month that Bryan Adams was born and Lara Flynn Boyle’s grandfather was killed in a car accident. We also discuss Black Like Me, The Moroccan mass oil poisoning, Jacques Plante’s hockey puck to the face, tainted cranberries, the premieres of Ben-Hur and Rocky and Bullwinkle, the births of Judd Nelson and The Minnesota Vikings and much more! Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include: rankin.com, yabiladi.com, Popculture.us, Wikipedia, New York Times, IMDB & Youtube. Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Episode 211: Bonanza & A School Bombing: September & October of 1959 Amy 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 premier, Weird Al, Dave Coulier and Marie Osmond are born, Nikita Khrushchev visited a farm in Iowa to learn about corn from Roswell Garst, The Dodgers beat the White Sox in the World Series, Walter F. Munford accidentally killed himself while putting away kitchen utensils, and we learn of a guy named Larry Schacht proununced “SHATT” and James Carter and the prisoners were recorded singing a prison song which later showed up in O Brother Where Art Thou, and much more useless history trivia!   Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include: https://allthatsinteresting.com, Three Christs, city of roseburg, Popculture.us, Wikipedia, New York Times, IMDB & Youtube. Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Episode 210: The 40 Minute Free Fall & The 3 Christs: July & August of 1959 Amy 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, The Vietnam War began, Al Sharpton started preaching, Pilots saw a UFO, Magic Johnson, Kurtis Blow and Richie Sambora were born, Billie Holiday died, the Redsox integrated, Khrushchev and Nixon debated in the kitchen, a parachuter got caught in a storm for 40 minutes, John Gotti was arrested for the first time, Roseburg, Oregon was leveled, The Platters were arrested, Gil Carter hit the longest home run ever, A satellite took a picture of Earth, an earthquake created a lake in Yellowstone, Hawaii became a State, lightning killed a bunch of people and a teenage serial killer named Salvador Agron struck at a NYC playground and the first person to get HIV got HIV.   Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include: https://allthatsinteresting.com, Three Christs, city of roseburg, Popculture.us, Wikipedia, New York Times, IMDB & Youtube. Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Episode 209: The Alabama Torso Murders, George Reeves & More Scottish Timelines: June of 1959 Our beloved Scottish pals Daniel & Nathaniel return for another edition of Scottish Timelines. They are fresh from their new comedy group At Least 4 Prats on Youtube and ready to share some Scottish tales of serial killer Malcolm John Webster and the tragic Mona Lifeboat disaster. Amy tells the tale of the Alabama Torso Murderer. Plus Joe tells the story of the mysterious alleged suicide of George Reeves, Libarace’s libel suit, and Billie Holiday’s sad hospital arrest. Excuse Daniel’s audio as he records from a strange Scottish automobile. Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include: ebrary.net, press.uchicago.edu, , Popculture.us, Wikipedia, New York Times, IMDB & Youtube. Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

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 more! Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include:  Black Nationalism: A Search for an Identity in America by E. U. Essien-Udom, Oakland Tribune,  McGuire, Danielle L. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance- a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power , 'It Was like All of Us Had Been Raped': Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle, Popculture.us, Wikipedia, New York Times, IMDB & Youtube.  Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Episode 207: Feb/March of 1959 Amy 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, and a phone booth stuffing record! Also Flavor Flav and Sting were born! Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include: Race Relations in Virginia: No Desegregation of the Heart Yet, By Tom Sherwood and Mary Battiata, Aerolifeaviation.com ,The Mirror and Simpleflying.com Popculture.us, Wikipedia, New York Times, IMDB & Youtube. Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Episode 206: The Dyatlov Pass incident & The Murder of A Little Rascal:  January of 1959 Amy 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 the Little Rascals.  Plus:  Jody Watley & Susanna Hoffs are born, a newborn is kidnapped and found, a retired movie star is murdered and Fidel Castro comes to power, all on this episode of American Timelines by History For Jerks. Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include:  ranker.com, Patrick Thorton, Marcia Wendorf, interestingengineering.com, Robert A. Waters, https://kidnapping102.rssing.com/, La Mirror, Tvparty.com, Kearns, Burt (August 27, 2019). "THE MURDER OF ALFALFA", Popculture.us, Wikipedia, New York Times, IMDB & Youtube.  Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

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 Curtis is born! Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include:  Hollywood Reporter, Wisconsin State Journal, Lancaster Eagle Gazette, Laist.com  The Bizarre Story Behind The Suicide Bombing Of A SoCal Cult By Matthew Duersten, FactsChology, allthatsinteresting.com, Popculture.us, Wikipedia, New York Times, IMDB & Youtube.  Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

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 deGrasse Tyson!  Also:  Tons more awful racism, after all, it was still the 50’s! Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include:  Newark Star Ledger, Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Box Turtle Bulletin, The Daily Agenda, CharlestonTerrors.com, Popculture.us, Wikipedia, New York Times, IMDB & Youtube.  Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!

Episode 203: The Glamour Girl Slayer & Plane Crashes Galore:  July and August of 1958 Onion Futures Act, Superstar Birthdays, Tons of Plane Crashes, Lemming & Cartoonist Suicides,  and the Glamour Girl Slayer are all covered in this thrilling episode of American Timelines! Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Credits Include:  The Washington Post, VQR, Unsolved Mysteries, Popculture.us, Wikipedia, New York Times, IMDB & Youtube.  Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band. Click Here to buy their albums!