Episodios

  • Episode 252 PRIDE 2025 Special Episode - Why We Love Alice B. Toklas

    Episode 252 PRIDE 2025 Special Episode - Why We Love Alice B. Toklas
    Jun 12 2025
    It's time to watch To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar! and get ready for PRIDE! Put on your most rainbow-y outfit and catch this, the first of two special PRIDE episodes this month! Today's episode we introduce Alice B. Toklas. Lover, confidant and essentially spouse to writer Gertrude Stein, she also was a writer in her own right and one of her books The Alice B. Toklas contained a recipe for Haschich Fudge that made her a counterculture icon. (we will of course share the recipe here in the show notes, we are nothing if not full service.) She also wrote, had her ups and downs and saw Gertrude through her final days, staying on alone afterwards. So join us in this special PRIDE episode (the first of two this month) and enjoy!

    Haschich Fudge (which anyone could whip up on a rainy day)This is the food of Paradise—of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises: it might provide an entertaining refreshment for a Ladies’ Bridge Club or a chapter meeting of the DAR. In Morocco it is thought to be good for warding off the common cold in damp winter weather and is, indeed, more effective if taken with large quantities of hot mint tea. Euphoria and brilliant storms of laughter; ecstatic reveries and extension of one’s personality on several simultaneous planes are to be complacently expected. Almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better if you can bear to be ravished by “un évanouissement reveillé.”Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverised in a mortar. About a handful each of stoned dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of cannabis sativa can be pulverised. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient.

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    48 m
  • Episode 251 The Inevitable Return of Sharon Kinne

    Episode 251 The Inevitable Return of Sharon Kinne
    Jun 5 2025
    Like a good candy bar, this episode is chock full of nutty goodness! In Arthur's corner he discusses (among other things) a concert he recently attended featuring Staind and Breaking Benjamin, among others. Dean suggests that it was a butt rock concert, promptimg stares from Laura and Arthur. Plus we go back to episode 18 to discuss famed Independence fugitive Sharon Kinne, discussing her life and crimes and her capture in Mexico. We talk her trials and her escape from a Mexican prison and the last time we told this tale , that is all we knew. Now, however, we have been able to find out where she went after she escaped Mexico, and the men she married. Plus Arthur gets unleashed.

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    1 h y 20 m
  • Episode 250 Eliza Hamilton with a special introduction by Edward October.

    Episode 250 Eliza Hamilton with a special introduction by Edward October.
    May 29 2025
    Our very special 250th Episode begins with a word of congratulations from the one and only Ed October from OctoberpodAM. The show itself is full of goodness about the life of Eliza, not Alexander Hamilton. We cover this sutprising and interesting woman in our special episode of the Family Plot Podcast. This week's subject was chosen by Laura so we lead off with her and learn so much about this beautiful, supporting loving woman who may just be the reason her husband is so well known todaay. So join us as we talk Eliza Hamilton in this very special 250th episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

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    53 m
  • 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
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