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Family Plot Podcast

An odd dad a loving mom and their 17 year old son exploring the history in a peculiar world. Discussions will be kept PG-13. Hosted by Dean Boese, Lauura Williams and Arthur Williams.

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  • Avg 1 hr 22 min
  • English

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  • #307
    July 2 · 1 hr 4 min

    Episode 307 - Charity Adams Earley and the Legacy of the 6888

    Another fun episode filled with learning and family banter.  Today we examine the life of Charity Adams Earley.  One of four children, she was raised by parents who loved her and insisted on education, so much so that when school started, she was...

  • #306
    June 25 · 1 hr 3 min

    Episode 306 - Barbara Gittings - The Librarian Who Shelved Shame

    So, as June 2026 draws to a close, we present the life and times of Barbara Gittings, a woman who refused to let the world define her as insane or a degenerate just because she was a lesbian.  She set out to change things, curating museum collections...

  • #305
    June 18 · 1 hr 25 min

    Episode 305 The History of Juneteenth - Let's Celebrate

    There is a lot in this show.  Arthur discusses some of Dad's health problems in his corner leading to discussions about movies he's been watching with Dad, including most recently Big Fish.  (It's arguably Tim Burton's best movie) then we get into...

  • #303
    June 4 · 1 hr 12 min

    Episode 303 Pride Month 2026 - The Lavender Scare

    Have you heard of 'Tail-Gunner Joe' McCarthy and the Red Scare?  What about Roy Cohn?  These two not only kicked off the Red Scare where they pursued supposed communists in Government and later the military, but also went aafter gays under the theory...

  • #302
    May 28 · 1 hr 27 min

    Episode 302 It's Mostly Fiction - The Mythology of the Odyssey

    We have a heck of an episode for you.  Arthur is turning 17 and our episode is inspired by the right wing pushback against Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'.  We dig into the origin of the work, what we know of it's 'author' Homer, the real, the...

  • #300
    May 14 · 1 hr 22 min

    Episode 300 - Audie Murphy - An American Tale

    This episode, we go deep into the life, heroism and spectacle that was Audie Murphy.  Audie Murphy was a sharecropper's son from Hunt County Texas, small, skinny, barely fed and full of work.  When his dad would disappear, he worked, when his mom...

  • #299
    May 7 · 1 hr 22 min

    Episode 299 Bird Lives - The Musical Life of Charlie 'Bird' Parker

    Well, in this episode we dig into our Kansas City Roots.  We go to Kansas City in the 1920's where under 'Boss' Pendergast the city was a machine that kept clubs open all night and the liquor flowing.  It was a town famous for being a little naive,...

  • #297
    April 23 · 1 hr 14 min

    Episode 297 Executive Order 9066 - Creating American Internment Camps

    Here we go!  Another little bit of history that really matters.  In 1942, following Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt signed executive order 9066 which allowed  the military designated Military zones and control who lived in them in the United States. ...

  • #296
    April 16 · 1 hr 39 min

    Episode 296 - The Lead Masks Case with Brenda of Horrifying History

    We do a deep dive into the Brazilian Lead Masks Case, a Case that takes us back to 1966 where two dead men are found laying down wearing suits on a hill in Niteroi, they appear to have laid down, put on homemade masks made of lead and simply...died. ...

  • #295
    April 9 · 1 hr 14 min

    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,...

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