Family Plot

Family Plot Podcast

An odd dad and his 11 year old daughter exploring the strange and unusual in a peculiar world. Discussions will be kept PG-13. Hosted by Dean Boese and Krysta Williams. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/family-plot--4670465/support.

  1. Episode 295  Anne Frank, Her Life, Her Times and Her Words

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    Episode 295 Anne Frank, Her Life, Her Times and Her Words

    We have quite the episode for you here.  This time we head back to 1942 to meet a small Jewish family, the Frank family.  They are a mom a dad and two daughters living in Germany watching the country become a nightmare for Jews like themselves.  Otto, the father, led them over to the Netherlands where he had business contacts.  However, soon the Nazis  occupied and controlled the Netherlands and the Franks were facing the same persecution they had before.  So with great reluctance, they and another Jewish family went into hiding in a secret annex hidden behind a bookcase in Otto's business.  Within a few months they were joined by a single dentist.  For over a year they hid in the Secret Annex, staying quiet while employees did their thing, only running heat when the employees were gone and terrified at the sounds of frequent break-ins.  However, it all came to an end when someone (history has no solid answers for who) reported them, the business was searched, the Annex found,and those hiding were taken away to labor resettlement camps, and from there to concentration camps where all but one were eventually killed.  Otto Frank survivved and when he came into possession of his daughter's diary he published it.  This is the best record we have for the atmosphere in Germany and Netherlands in 1942 and '43.  So join us for a sad yet powerful tale of resistance in this abolish ICE expisode of the Family Plot Podcast! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/family-plot--4670465/support.

    1 giờ 9 phút
  2. Episode 294 - The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 - How the New York Sun Flummoxed the Public

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    Episode 294 - The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 - How the New York Sun Flummoxed the Public

    In this episode we set the Elevator of History back to 1835 where we witness the ;'penny paperss' papers sold for one cent instead of six that featured stories people WANTED to read, rather than news by and for a political party.  These papers brought us separate sections on news, finance, sports and featured on the scene reporting and lurid true crime details.  But it was the New York Sun that launched into a six day report of what a famous mathematician, chemist and learned individual was looking at the moon through a legendary telescope and reporting the discovery of the most amazing things including:  albino moon-bison, miniature zebras, one horned goats, unicorns and the fascinating bat people of the moon who dwelt in massive temples carved from giant rubies.  The public was fascinated by this series of articles until the report, six days later that the telescope had caught a stray sunbeam, magnified it's intensity and set the observatory alight causing it to burn to the ground.  In the days and weeks that followed it slowly came out that none of this was true, however, the Sun never printed a retraction and their readership had grown significantly despite the scandal, most new readers stayed.  We discuss all this, the Blue Fugates, touch on Orson Welles War of the Worlds  and discuss Terry Gilliam's the Adventures of Baron Munchausen  in this it can't get weirder than this episode of the Family Plot Podcast! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/family-plot--4670465/support.

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  3. Episode 292 Women's History Month -  The Life of Shirley Temple Black

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    Episode 292 Women's History Month - The Life of Shirley Temple Black

    What a show!  WWe dive deep into the life of Shirley Temple Black, from her young life as a precocious little girl with a smile, to her mother's enrolling her in the Meglin Kiddies Dance School at the age of three, to her subsequent discovery a few months later, hiding behind the piano when Educational Pictures director Charles Lamont came to the school looking for talent.  She at first joined the Baby Burlesks, a somewhat uncomfortable series in which toddlers, clad in costumes above the waist and diapers below recreated onscreen moments from more famous pictures...this led to many unclomfortable moments among viewers.  But her performance in Stand Up and Cheer! impressed the directors at Fox who signed her to a simple contract and proceeded to make movies like The Littlest Rebel, Curly Top, Dimples, amd The Littlest Princess where she played an adorable moppet with an unforgettable smile who became the single most bankable star of the 1930's.  Not one performer in that era made as much as this singing and tap-dancing little starlet.  When she aged out of that kind of role both Fox and MGM tried to repackage heer and she made a handful of films that ranged from watchable to deeply forgettable.  MGM released her from her contract and she married her first husband, who was unable to handle the pressure of BEING her husband leading to his drinking and their divorce.  Eventually she would marry Charles Alden Black who would be her husband till his death in 2004.  She would also become a politician and candidate for congress, a stateswoman and a diplomat during the 70's and 80;s.  She would move from this role to a quite life at home, only turning up occasionally in interviews or to collect an honor, though when she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer and eventually got a mastectomy she was very public with her diagnosis, treatment and an advocacy for testing early and frequently,  Otherwise she lived a quiet life until she would eventually pass away in the early 2010's.  She would be mourned on morning news programs across the country and we dive deep into her amazing life in this Women's History Month special episode. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/family-plot--4670465/support.

    1 giờ 8 phút
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An odd dad and his 11 year old daughter exploring the strange and unusual in a peculiar world. Discussions will be kept PG-13. Hosted by Dean Boese and Krysta Williams. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/family-plot--4670465/support.