Send us a text Just when you thought you’d heard every strange rule out there, America says, “Hold my root beer.” In this brand-new volume, we’re heading back across the States to uncover even more wonderfully weird, wonderfully real laws still lurking in the books. From states that forbid ice cream on Sundays (tragic) to small towns where it’s technically illegal to walk backwards while eating a doughnut — this episode is a love letter to the glorious oddities that make America, well… Americ...
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Send us a text Just when you thought you’d heard every strange rule out there, America says, “Hold my root beer.” In this brand-new volume, we’re heading back across the States to uncover even more wonderfully weird, wonderfully real laws still lurking in the books. From states that forbid ice cream on Sundays (tragic) to small towns where it’s technically illegal to walk backwards while eating a doughnut — this episode is a love letter to the glorious oddities that make America, well… Americ...
Send us a text Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield Ed Gein was born in 1906 in Plainfield, Wisconsin — a small town that would later wish it had never existed. His childhood was, to put it lightly, grim. His mother, Augusta, was a religious fanatic who preached that all women (except her, of course) were instruments of sin. His father was a drunk. His older brother died mysteriously in a fire, and — surprise, surprise — Ed was the one who found him. After his mother’s death in 1945, Ed complet...
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Send us a text Just when you thought you’d heard every strange rule out there, America says, “Hold my root beer.” In this brand-new volume, we’re heading back across the States to uncover even more wonderfully weird, wonderfully real laws still lurking in the books. From states that forbid ice cream on Sundays (tragic) to small towns where it’s technically illegal to walk backwards while eating a doughnut — this episode is a love letter to the glorious oddities that make America, well… Americ...