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This week's episode is about the human computers of NASA, focussing on the main three featured in the book Hidden Figures, heading deep into NASA's history along the way! This is the fifth most voted for topic for Block 2025!
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 7:55 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
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Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Jess Writes A Rom-Com: https://shows.acast.com/jess-writes-a-rom-com
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
https://www.nasa.gov/katherine-johnson/
https://www.nasa.gov/history/mary-w-jackson/
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/langley/dorothy-j-vaughan/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-story-of-nasas-real-ldquo-hidden-figures-rdquo/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/history-human-computers-180972202/
https://www.nasa.gov/history/65-years-ago-nasa-selects-americas-first-astronauts/
https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/hidden-figures/
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/nasas-early-stand-women
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-35428300
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The sixth most voted for topic for Block 2025 is King Arthur - man or legend? We find out the truth behind the man at the head of the Round Table (except there is no head at a round table ...)
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 5:00 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Jess Writes A Rom-Com: https://shows.acast.com/jess-writes-a-rom-com
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/king-arthur-real-person-180980466/
https://www.caerleon.net/history/arthur/page2.htm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/anglo_saxons/arthur_01.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_King_Arthur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv7UDGkFUl8
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Over nearly two months in 1989, student led protests erupted across China as people called for reforms. The centre of the movement was Tiananmen Square in Beijing where more than a million people gathered. On June 3rd the army was sent in to clear the protestors, ending with devastating consequences. This is the seventh most voted for topic for Block 2025.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 09:08 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report)
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Jess Writes A Rom-Com: https://shows.acast.com/jess-writes-a-rom-com
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/timeline-tiananmen-square/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-27404764
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/world/tiananmen-square-tank-man-cnnphotos/
https://time.com/5600363/china-tiananmen-30-years-later/
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/tiananmen-scholar-06072021030902.html
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tiananmen-Square
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Ketchup - it's America's favourite condiment and close cousin of Australia's fave: tomato sauce, but its history goes back a long long way before either of these countries existed in their current forms! Join us as we discuss the eighth most voted for topic this BLOCK, the surprisingly interesting history of ketchup!
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 06:07 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
http://atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-ketchup by Anne Ewbank
https://www.history.com/articles/ketchup-surprising-ancient-history by Stephanie Butler
https://www.britannica.com/plant/tomato
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/why-wild-tiny-pimp-tomato-so-important-180955911/ by Barry Estabrook
https://www.popsci.com/science/ketchup-history-medicine/ by Vittoria Traverso
https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20131023-the-deep-rooted-history-of-chicagos-deep-dish-pizza
Tomato Pills Will Cure All Your Ills by Andrew F. Smith (1991)
https://historyfacts.com/us-history/fact/tomatoes-were-once-sold-as-medicine/
https://www.heinz.com/our-story
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/heinz-ketchup-australia-tomato-sauce by Ernie Smith
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/brief-but-global-history-ketchup-180969725/ by Ken Albala
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We're kicking of Block 2025 with a disaster episode. Specifcally, one of the worst Mount Everest seasons ever.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 08:56 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Mount_Everest_disaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5LtdIwZF50
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Indo-Tibetan_Border_Police_expedition_to_Mount_Everest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Krakauer
https://people.com/everest-true-story-11699920
https://himalayan-masters.com/1996-mount-everest-disaster/
https://www.ultimatekilimanjaro.com/1996-everest-disaster-deaths/
https://www.breezeadventure.com/blog/1996-mount-everest-disaster-what-really-happened
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This week, Josh Earl tells us the wild and troubling story of Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 2:39 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
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This week we look at the tragic and fascinating life of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley and explore how the novel she started writing as an 18 year old, changed popular culture forever.
Content warning: This episode contains references to suicide, birth trauma and miscarriage.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 07:15 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley
https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/march-2018-mary-shelleys-frankenstein
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-strange-and-twisted-life-of-frankenstein
https://museumofidaho.org/mary-shelley-and-the-heart-in-the-drawer/
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/galvani-discovers-animal-electricity
Frankenstein is More Horrific Than You Might Think | Monstrum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsYyBdg4emI
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jan/24/featuresreviews.guardianreview1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein%27s_monster#
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft
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In 19th Century London, a bizarre figure terrorised the streets, lashing out with metal claws and blowing fire in people's faces before leaping over tall fences. Described variously as a bull, a bear, a ghost or even a devil-like creature, the phantom's rampage went for more than six decades! But who was he???
Recorded live at The Frog and Bucket in Manchester.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 07:10 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo1qv8uYlAs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_Lane_ghost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Monster
https://strandmag.com/the-london-monster/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_dreadful
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-21/ghost-hoaxing-on-victorias-goldfields/12571526
https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-mystery-of-spring-heeled-jack
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“Tenerife is an example of the 'Swiss Cheese' Model: dozens of individual events, each of them incredibly unlikely in their own right, aligning against all odds to create the final outcome.”
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 07:09 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110715122130/http://www.project-tenerife.com/engels/PDF/alpa.pdf
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ljj0x
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
https://youtu.be/2d9B9RN5quA?si=2ANUx0345f7yIwWa
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/reviews-crash-in-canary-islands-180972227/
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Early in the morning of the 26th of August 1980, employees at Harvey's Wagon Wheel Resort and Casino discovered a mysterious metallic box. With the mysterious package was a note, explaining is was a bomb! Thus begins the story of 'one of history’s most bizarre extortion plots'!
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 6:59 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://magazine.atavist.com/2014/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite
https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/Harveys-Hotel-Lake-Tahoe-bombing-17392736.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGo959uECTM
Bringing Down the House: The Bombing of Harvey's Casino
https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/harveys-casino-resorts
https://tahoequarterly.com/summer-2013/the-man-behind-the-bomb
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In 1975, for the first and only time in Australia's history, a Prime Minister was sacked. Gough Whitlam was dismissed after months of political manoeuvring and backstabbing, culminating in what is still the most controversial event in the country's political history. On this episode we look at the three men at the centre of the dismissal, Whitlam, as well as the man who fired him; John Kerr, and the man who replaced him; Malcolm Fraser.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 10:07 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
Gough: Nothing Will Save Speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOJNaqjUra4
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-eleventh
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/whitlam-gough-18730
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/whitlam-dismissal
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/21/gough-whitlam-in-his-own-words
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kerr-sir-john-robert-23431
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In 1926, Aimee Semple McPherson was one of the most famous women in America. She was an evangelist and healer who attracted huge crowds, and her popularily was growing by the day. And then one day, she disappeared ...
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 04:13 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/21/sister-sinner-claire-hoffman-book-review
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Aimee_Semple_McPherson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_McPherson
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This week our friend Marcel Blanche-de Wilt drops by to tell us about the history of the Alien Franchise all the way from humble beginnings to a multi-decade, multi-million dollar cinematic machine. On this podcast, no one can hear you scream!
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 06:28 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
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This is a special episode - it was recorded live in London in November 2024, in front of our largest audience EVER. The crowd were red hot, and we told the story of a kooky character who went on quite the adventure and made a lot of money, all in the pursuit of Pez.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 06:33 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.ecurrent.com/film/the-story-behind-netflixs-the-pez-outlaw/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pez
https://us.pez.com/pages/history?srsltid=AfmBOooCzOCesmZRsgFHAuZBBHsDlyhmfrjdO_yuFS8Z7W-nI02kMXOK
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When Olga of Kyiv's husband Igor was killed in the year 945, she embarked on one of the wildest revenge tours in history, showing no mercy to the killers. We are joined by pod favourite Michelle Brasier to hear about this wild tale from the Early Middle Ages!
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 13:13 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Olga
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Igor
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kyivan-Rus
https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Primary-Chronicle
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oleg
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/01/saint-buried-people-alive-burned-city-revenge/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/olga-of-kiev
https://www.factinate.com/people/facts-olga-of-kiev/
https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/7.1/sherman.html by Heidi Sherman
https://museumhack.com/olga-of-kiev/
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/saint-olga by Michael C Paul
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You might have seen the 1963 Steve McQueen classic, but this week we look at the real story behind The Great Escape. Tunnels, disguises and forgeries combine for the the most audacious escape attempt in history. And for the fun we are joined by the hilarious Dane Simpson!
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 09:10 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/nightlife/this-week-in-history-the-great-escape/10928200
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/greatescape/three.html
https://www.rafbf.org/great-escape/about-the-great-escape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250320-the-true-story-of-the-great-escape
https://rafa.org.uk/blog/2023/10/11/vaulting-horse-the-other-great-escape/
https://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/roger_bushell.htm
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250320-the-true-story-of-the-great-escape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Dodge#Stalag_Luft_III_(North_Compound)
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In 1828, a teenage boy was found wandering the streets of Nuremberg, Germany. No one knew who he was or where he had come from. What followed was a dramatic few years filled with drama, intrigue, and a lot of unanswered questions...
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 05:30 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
Check out our other podcasts:
Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_Hauser
https://allthatsinteresting.com/kaspar-hauser
https://www.kaspar-hauser.net/en/texts/Kaspar_Hauser_the_Child_of_Europe.pdf
https://medium.com/@karen.liebreich/kasper-hauser-the-forgotten-wild-child-a5ba73c8cbd8
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On 11 October 1991, a man was arrested at a Chinese Restaurant in Brisbane. The charge? Enjoying a meal? A Succulent Chinese Meal?? No… actually it was credit card fraud. Now I was assured that I could speak, so this week I will tell the story of the man, the myth, the legend himself and his wild life!
CW: institutional abuse is briefly mentioned
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 06:50 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
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Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
Carnage by Mark Dapin
ABC's Earshot: A Succulent Chinese Meal
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-11/succulent-chinese-meal-rant-jack-karlson/100798094
https://www.pedestrian.tv/entertainment/succulent-chinese-meal-guy-investigation/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodgies_and_widgies
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald/5383931/?locale=en-AU
https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/theatre/the-prose-of-a-con-20120629-217dg.html
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This week we look at the wild and colourful life of Antonio López de Santa Anna, president of Mexico no less than 11 times!
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 06:52 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
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Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
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Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Antonio_L%C3%B3pez_de_Santa_Anna
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antonio-Lopez-de-Santa-Anna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_L%C3%B3pez_de_Santa_Anna#
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/who-invented-gum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Mexico
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Alamo-San-Antonio-Texas-United-States-1836
https://www.britannica.com/event/Pastry-War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War
https://www.britannica.com/event/Mexican-American-War/Invasion-and-war
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Between October of 2008 and August of 2009, the alleged members of the "Bling Ring" collectively stole more than $3 million in jewelry and high-end designer goods from a number of Young Hollywood stars, including Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, and Linsday Lohan.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 07:50 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod
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Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat
Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/
Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/
Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas
Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://nypost.com/2023/09/30/bling-ring-leader-rachel-lee-reveals-what-fueled-celeb-crimes/
https://time.com/6318609/rachel-lee-interview-ringleader-documentary/
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/03/billionaire-girls-201003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bling_Ring
‘The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist’
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