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A look at a strike in Joplin in 1902-1903. We also read emails about some listener perspectives on Ozarks geographical identity. We also jus...
Knowing there will not be a regular episode this week, we have recorded a Crime Report on a trout heist at Devito's over the weekend, a popu...
We go off-script for this one (something we've been talking about for a while) and each tell a bit about how our families arrived into The O...
The story of natural gas tycoon Robert McClure Snyder and Ha Ha Tonka (a lake, a house, a hotel, a state park) in the rural Missouri Ozarks....
Just a little episode about recent Arkansas political happenings
The murder of Jonathan Selby in Cane Hill, Arkansas in 1845, and the trial and aftermath
This episode begins with an important message from Gus, before we meander our way through the tale of the Ozark Howler, and make a bunch of...
The story of Nelson Hackett, a fugitive slave, his trip from Fayetteville to Canada and his extradition back to Arkansas, and his ultimate l...
This episode is the post-governorship life of Archibald Yell, through his death and burial(s). Most of the episode takes place in Mexico. Ne...
We return to our governors of Arkansas series by looking into the life of Arkansas's 2nd governor, Archibald Yell. Starting with the life of...
In this episode, Daniel breaks out an old college essay and we look into some of the environmental impacts of Tyson chicken plants in rural...
Featuring a guest appearance (and song debut) by our good friend and podcast theme song composer Just Heath, we discuss the life and legacy...
Previously released on our Patreon, the life story of physicist, academic, comic book publisher, historical preservationist and Tarzan enthu...
A sequel of sorts to our Wonderland Cave episode (44), we look at the planned use of caves in the Ozarks as bomb shelters during the Cold Wa...
In a podcast first, we conduct an interview. Hope Ray & Jameson Hall are the co-owners of Handshake, a restaurant opening on December 6, 202...
This week we talk about Lizzie Rubart Gibson, a woman who received international acclaim for her clay model fruits, used in science classes...
Sharp and Ray review the wonderful, new book Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America by Joanna Dee Das. This...
The life and death of Nimrod Menifee, an early influential white settler into the southern fringes of the Arkansas Ozarks and Arkansas River...
We discuss a potential Fort Smith mayoral candidate recently profiled in a Southwest Times Record article. We do not endorse. This Special R...
The story of David Walker, an influential early settler into Fayetteville, Arkansas and Arkansas Supreme Court Justice, among other things a...
On the finale of WE ALWAYS LIE ABOUT BIGFOOT we find out the easiest route to home ownership in Fayetteville, Arkansas is finding Bigfoot. F...
On part three of our miniseries we travel to one of the most popular destinations on the Buffalo River to find Bigfoot, but find some fines...
This episode, Part 2 of our October miniseries, Gus leads us out of The Ozarks for a primer on one of the organizations dedicated to the hun...
October becomes Gustober, as Gus leads us through a 4-part series (at least) on Bigfoot in The Ozarks and the men that search for them. This...
The story of the Taum Sauk Reservoir in southeast Missouri and the time the walls came tumbling down
A supplemental episode from our previous Governor Isaac Murphy series, the story of the Elkhorn Tavern at Pea Ridge National Military Park
The conclusion of the Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad strike in Harrison, Arkansas. It gets pretty dark
One of America's longest railroad strikes took place in The Ozarks and you've probably never heard about it. Maybe privatizing public goods...
We look at corn cob pipes, from their patenting in the northern Missouri Ozarks, to a small day to day look at a former factory in Everton,...
The life story of B. Dean Brown and the Branson Cross
We discuss the New York Times article that was released today about that racist intentional community near Ravenden, Arkansas that's trying...
The story of a Bigfoot-type monster supposedly near War Eagle, Arkansas
In a podcast first, we have guests in the wonderful Beyond the Breakers podcast. Normally ones to focus on shipwrecks and maritime disasters...
The tale of a vegetarian religious sect (called the Grass Eaters by locals, accidentally left out of the script) that set up shop in the pre...
We discuss the history of Damascus, Arkansas and the time they got in trouble for issuing too many speed tickets
This episode involves a dark and heavy topic, with our first coverage of a lynching in The Ozarks. The primary focus this week is the life W...
The story of music festival at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in.. Sedalia of all places?
The conclusion of our Isaac Murphy series, in one episode instead of two. A major focus of the episode is on Reconstruction, and we only bar...
An episode on Harris Flanagin, the Governor of Arkansas prior to Isaac Murphy. A Civil War heavy episode. Ray also commits a cardinal podcas...
We are back to our Governors of Arkansas series and focus on Isaac Murphy, Arkansas's lone vote against secession and Arkansas's most defens...
The life story of David Leong, a Chinese-born Ozarks icon, and his legacy, Springfield-style cashew chicken.
A look into the history and myth of Samuel Hudson, early settler into Newton County, Arkansas
The story of William Lovely, an Irishman who became an Indian Agent and also a more in depth look into the arrival of the Cherokee into the...
The creation and heyday of Lake Taneycomo in Taney County, Missouri. We also play a song at the end of the episode! If you like the song, he...
We dip our toes in the "true crime adjacent" pool as we discuss the mostly forgotten Cane Hill Murders of 1839. In this episode, we do a gre...
A look into Arkansas's reactionary anti-LGBTQ law that was put onto the books in 1977. Sound familiar? Lots of talk about sex and genitals,...
An episode about the history of Marvel Cave, the Ozarks first show cave and attraction at the Silver Dollar City theme park. There's a handf...
We finally get to the stories surrounding the legend of Yocum Coins and if they ever truly existed or not. We actually stay pretty on point...
In this rather loose episode, we continue to lay out the historical context of the southern Missouri Ozarks before the creation of Yocum Coi...
We begin our series on the most enduring legend of the southern Missouri Ozarks, Yocum Coins. Now, this episode is more a prelude to the sto...