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17 JUL 2025 · TRIGGER WARNING - This Episode contains mentions of accidental shootings and murder-suicide. If these are too much for you, please, feel free to skip the episode. You Matter!
Well, Friends and Neighbors, pull up a chair and sit a spell as we go back to the birth of Kansas City to talk a little about the early days of Kansas City and a figure that came out of it named Sands. W. Hopkins. A child who lost his parents young, was raised by his Uncle, hunted a ghost, with pistols of course, while attending college, lost his wife in an accidental shooting and whose life bogged down into gambling, drinking and depravity from there. We cover his birth, his amazing life and his slow descent into madness, alcoholism and death in this local and incredibly strange episode of the Family Plot Podcast!
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10 JUL 2025 · This week on Family Plot, we’re joined by our youngest plotter—8-year-old Lexi Boese—who asked us to tell the story of Autherine Juanita Lucy, the first Black student admitted to the University of Alabama. Her brave enrollment in 1956 was court-ordered and historic… and it ignited the largest anti-integration riot in American history. What followed was a shameful twist: Lucy was expelled “for her safety”—a coward’s move cloaked as concern. Even the local Birmingham paper applauded the university’s decision, celebrating the city’s “peace”—a peace built on exclusion. (Yeah… that didn’t age well.) In this episode, we dive into Lucy’s incredible journey:
- Her decision to challenge segregation
- The three harrowing days she spent on campus
- The court’s demand to reinstate her—and the university’s retaliatory slander ban
- Her triumphant return in 1988, earning a master’s degree the same year her daughter graduated with a BA
This isn’t just a story—it’s resistance wrapped in legacy. And with Lexi, Arthur, Laura, and Dean at the table, we explore how one woman’s courage changed history. Pull up a seat. Let’s learn something. #AutherineLucy #CivilRightsHero #FamilyPlotPodcast #LetsLearnSomething #BlackHistory #HistoryPodcast #AmplifyBlackVoices #TrailblazerThursday #PG13WithHeart
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3 JUL 2025 · In this episode we are joined by Kelsey Black, of the Book Burrow Bookstore in Pflugerville Texas as we discuss the history of Bookstores as Resistance Centers. We discuss David Ruggles and the first Black-owned bookstore in the United States and how he was a figurative and literal stop on the Underground Railroad, selling books about feminism and the abolitionist movement. We talk the FBI's illegal COINTELPRO and how they went after book stores like Hakim's and The Drum and Spear Bookstore. We discuss the Gotham Book Mart, the 8th Street Bookstore and Peace Eye Books in New York City and so much more, even digging into how booksellers have sneaked secret information to their customers in this fully amazing episode of the Family Plot Podcast
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26 JUN 2025 · This is such an episode, so full of information that you will not believe it! This week, our second of 2 PRIDE episodes this month, we discuss the life and times of Harvey Milk. We will look into the history of this young gay man who will grow up in the fifties and sixties before becoming a popular merchant and politician in the Castro Street area of San Francisco. We cover his political career and his murder in this special, let this bullet destroy every closet door episode of the Family Plot Podcast!!!
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19 JUN 2025 · Arthur couldn't be with us as we recorded the episode, so he recorded his parts early and danged if it don't sound like he was there with us! Arthur was starting on his first shift at McDonald's and was happy with his first day of work. He mentions it in his corner. Meanwhile Dad, Mom and Brenda discuss Delphine LaLaurie, her life and strangeness and how cruel she was to her slaves. We also discuss the wider specter of slavery, suggest perhaps some reasons for her crueltties (not that she deserves our kindness) and try to sift out the truth from what has been so buried in folklore and tales for tourists when we get down to the nitty gritty in this tales for tourists be damned episode of the Family Plot Podcast!
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12 JUN 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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5 JUN 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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29 MAY 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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22 MAY 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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15 MAY 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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