I Can't Believe We Have to Do This Episode. Well, Miranda Rights...we just talked about it two weeks ago. Now we realize maybe we should keep up with what is on the Supreme Court docket, because lord have mercy on our souls. Let's talk about the case that overturned what we didn't even think would be overturned. Like, ever.

The beginning of slavery in the United States began as soon as the New World was found in 1492 by Columbus, establishing centuries of cruel treatment and forced labor. In part one of this story, we dive into how Native Americans participated in the early slave trade. Then, you are not in an episode of SVU, but you will hear us read you your Miranda Rights. Tune into the story of how this became a requirement across the US and the case that brought it to the Supreme Court.

Hot in the news after Kim Kardashian donned it on the red carpet, we take a look at the history of Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress. The destruction of Black Wall Street in Greenwood, an affluent black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the early 20th century. Hear about the rise, the fall, and the massive cover up.

An ancestor of Winston Churchill who served as a royal mistress to James II. Same-sex "marriages" between women in the United States over a century before the Supreme Court legalizes it.

Part two of the investigation into Hitler's remains. Then, the amazing story of a Jewish boxer who survived the concentration camps and death marches.

We walk through conspiracy theories of Hitler's escape from his bunker at the end of the war. However, scientists claim there is one set of remains that unmistakably identifies that the Fuhrer is dead: his teeth. During the latter half of the episode, we talk about how Andrew Jackson kills a man in a duel over horse race betting.

Michigan versus Ohio. Not the football rivalry, but the Toledo War. The one where the two states fought over a strip between the states that is present day Toledo. Our second story focuses on espionage within the FBI. Of course, the Soviet Union is involved, too.

Us Ohioans apparently have been lying about our statehood despite the white barns across the state touting our bicentennial in 2003. Your play, North Carolina. Julius Caesar gets kidnapped but then is in charge of his kidnappers? Even convincing them to increase the ransom they are asking for because Caesar himself was offended by the amount they demanded? Yes. This happened.

You know that big fire that happened on October 8th, 1871? No, not the Great Chicago Fire where a cow started it. The other one that happened on the same exact night. The other one that happens to be the most disastrous fire in U.S. history. We are going to be talking about the forgotten tragedy that happened that night in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. For a lighter story, Gummy walks us through several origin stories of the hand gesture known as the high five. Stories put the origin around the 70's, but nobody can confirm the actual first use case of this now common gesture. Hey, at least we all enjoy a good high five, though!

Robert Liston , born in 1794, was a Scottish surgeon noted for his speed and skill in an era prior to anesthetics. Known for his skill performing amputations, speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival for patients. Then, is our infrastructure garbage in the US? Jean thinks so. Walk (or drive) through a brief history of urban transportation and how personal automobiles shaped urban planning in the United States. This is the Road to Ruin.

How did the German population accept the actions of the Nazi regime during the rise of the Third Reich and during WWII? The Third Wave was an experimental social movement created by California high school history teacher Ron Jones in 1967 to explain just that. Welcome to the emerging oil crisis of 2022. To gain some insight, Jean walks us through the 1970's energy crisis and how geopolitical conflicts can shape disruptions worldwide.

Plot twist: LGBTQ+ people have always existed! I know, even our resident gay Whitley is completely shocked. This week, we are talking about lavender marriages in 1920's Hollywood. A lavender marriage is a male–female mixed-orientation marriage, undertaken as a marriage of convenience to conceal the sexual orientation of one or both partners. The glitz, the glamour, the gayz. In the latter half of the episode, Whitley rants about Vladimir Putin yet again and continued aggressions in Eastern Europe. This week...the conflict between Russia, Georgia, and two separatists Georgian provinces. We can all guess who gets unnecessarily involved in this one. Will we ever learn?

Okay, hear us out. The history of glass. That's the first story. Riveting, really. After that, Gummy takes us through the life of Madame de Pompadour, official chief mistress of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1751. Learn how she rose to power and influenced the French court. Outro music: Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod

What the HELL is happening in Eastern Europe? To even begin to answer that question, Bean will take us through a brief history of Crimea, why this location is strategically important, and how it catapulted Ukraine and Russia to the current crisis. And on a lighter note, vampires? Yes, vampires. Gummy talks through how New Englanders believed that tuberculosis endemics involved these sinister demons. Also, learn that consumption is actually another name for tuberculosis, and this story is why that may be the case.

Yes! We are finally diving into the GILDED AGE. This story has pettiness. It has wealth. It has rivalry, and it has two incredible women vying for the queendom of New York Society in the late 1800's. During the latter half of the episode, Gummy tees up her mistress stories by detailing the romantic and political life of royal mistresses. We can't wait to share more of these stories with you this season!

Rikers Island, 1957. A plane crashes at the prison site. Who comes to the rescue? A large group of prisoners. Our first story takes us through this whirlwind event, what happened, and the criminals who turned heroes. The second story takes us through an overview of The Winter War, a conflict between Finland and Russia during WWII. Finland finds itself in a precarious position where they must forge friendship with Nazi Germany to preserve their own sovereign state.

Gravensteen is a beautiful medieval castle built in 1180 and located in Ghent, Belgium. This historical landmark has been repurposed over the years as a court, mint, prison, and factory. With all of this history, what stands out the most? An event in November of 1949 when 138 students from the University of Ghent stormed the castle to protest a hot topic: the price of beer. During the second part of the episode, we go on a journey told from the source, Aimo Koivunen. Using a translated version of his memoir, we live two weeks during WWII where Aimo escapes the pursuit of the Soviets while overdosing on methamphetamine, a drug commonly used during the war to combat battle fatigue. On this harrowing journey, Aimo manages to out-ski his troop, find himself with no food or weapons, ski through the middle of a Soviet camp, burn down a house, and blow himself up...twice.

Gummy tells the story of Margaret Ann Bulkley, more famously known as Dr. James Barry. Barry lived as a man in both public and private life, at least in part in order to be accepted as a university student and to pursue a career as a surgeon. Barry's biological sex became known to the public and to military colleagues after a post-mortem examination. We love a good underdog story. Then, Jean takes us through the patented technology of Horsey Horseless, a horseless carriage (read: automobile) with a wooden horse head on the front. This story dives into the pains of shifting technologies and the human ability to adapt, illustrated by how and why the Horsey Horseless patent even came about.

Thank you all for joining us for an incredible first season of G+J's! We will spend a couple of months reimagining the podcast for our return in early 2022. For our last episode, Gummy takes us through a journey of the disaster that was the 1904 Olympic marathon. Per usual, it's a great story where it just keeps getting worse and never really gets better by the end. On brand, Gummy!

Are you ready to be confused? If so, perfect. We are talking about daylight saving time this week and how chaotic and broken it is. Once we've completely scrambled your brain, Emily will tell us a soothing story about a psychiatric hospital in London (yikes!). It's going to be fun!