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Goose Chase Podcast

Join us each week as we research the weird, new, fascinating, and insane. Join us on an internet goose chase.

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01:40:36

Episode 104: Mush, Togo, Mush!

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2020/06/07

This week we're talking about the story of the 1925 Nome serum run with our special guests Laura and TJ! The times were dark: Nome was experiencing the beginnings of an outbreak of diptheria. A serum was needed to treat it, and children were falling ill and dying. It was too cold, too far, at a bad time of year, and the only way to get that critical medicine was by sled dog. An expert musher and his unlikely lead dog made the drive, and the world rejoiced. But not all heroes were commended equally

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02:33:21

Episode 103: Apocalypse Now... wait... no... Now.

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2020/05/31

This week we're doing our first remote Goose Chase with our friend and previous guest, Dan. We're talking about end of the world theories! Sometimes religious, or based on aliens, or technology gone awry, the world has been predicted to end many times now, sometimes by the same people over and over again. We talk about some notable predictions and some that are more obscure, and a little bit of theology on why you probably shouldn't put too much stock in some of them. Thanks again to Dan for doing

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01:35:15

Episode 102: Hunting Down the Guru Hunter

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2020/05/10

This week, we're looking into Be Scofield, the self-described guru hunter who infiltrates, investigates, and covers cults and cult-like groups. She has been involved in writing about some familiar groups and people, such as Teal Swan, who we covered in a previous episode. And she claims to be instrumental in dismantling and disrupting groups around the world. Some of those claims seem a bit large, when evaluated with a skeptical eye, and the means seem like they might be ethically questionable

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Episode 101: Knock me out at the ballgame!

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2020/04/26

Today we're back for episode 101 and talking about Cleveland's infamous 1974 10-cent beer night. The Cleveland Indians promoted cheap beer and drew a huge crowd, but it was a game destined for tragedy. Bad blood off the Indians' last week's game against the Rangers and a whole bunch of taunting brought 25,000 angry Cleveland fans out to give it back to the Rangers at home. What follows is a kind of beautiful disgrace, something that's got Cleveland written all over it.

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02:26:52

Episode 100: Goose Chase Saves the World

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2020/04/13

We finally did it. Big old episode 100. We never thought we would be doing this for this long, but we're so glad to still be doing it. We still enjoy it, and we hope you all do. In this episode we look back on the first 99 episodes and issue some updates to some things that changed after we last talked about them. A couple of bad guys got theirs, some folks made a better life for themselves, and one woman made a fruit cake. Thanks for listening, friends.

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Episode 99: Freaky Flora

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2020/03/22

This week, in the midst of the craziness outside in the world, we're looking at weird nature as a means of inspiration that life, you know, finds a way. We're talking about strange plants that function in interesting ways and prove out exactly how interesting plants can be. Even though they can't think, they do have an incredible appearance of intent and purpose. And sometimes they eat meat. Rad.

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01:41:21

Episode 97: A Nazi in Cleveland

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2020/02/23

This week we're talking about John Demjanjuk, a man from Cleveland Ohio who spent nearly 40 years defending himself against the allegations that he was Ivan the Terrible, the name of a legendarily cruel concentration camp guard at Treblinka. After living out a normal life in Cleveland after immigrating in the 50s, evidence arose to suggest he had taken part in those crimes. He always maintained his innocence, but it took two extraditions and many years to finally put the argument to rest.

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01:08:04

Episode 96: Radium - For Vigor?

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2020/02/06

This week we have on special guest Aubrey to talk about about the Radium Girls of the 1920s. At the time, the need was simple: people to paint things with radium so that they glowed in the dark, like instrument panels for aircraft. This job invariably fell to many young women, and while the pay was great, the risk (unbeknownst to them) was very, very high. This story features some really graphic descriptions of the things that radium can do to the body. It's the timeless tale of big business vs

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01:31:52

Episode 95: Dig

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2020/01/16

This week we're talking about a bitter rivalry between two bands you probably haven't heard of: The Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. West Coast bands with big sound and big egos, they became fast friends before devolving into something else. We take you through the bitter tit-fot-tat which may or may not have been exaggerated for publicity.

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02:42:03

Episode 94: Secure, Contain, Protect

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2020/01/09

This week we're joined by our guest Matt to talk about the legendary SCP Foundation. A group writing exercise that started on the internet in 2007, the SCP foundation is a work of science fiction that documents the presence, threat, and containment procedures for objects, entities, artifacts, and even mere concepts that threaten humanity. It's a wonderfully dense and structured world of fiction created by writers the world over, and Matt helps walk us through the history, the elements, the

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01:23:16

Episode 93: Marion Stokes, the Ultimate Archivist

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2019/12/05

This week we're talking about Marion Stokes. Ever heard of her? If you have, 10 points for you, you were paying more attention than we were. Marion was an activist, a television presenter, an intellectual, and a collector and archivist of lots of things. We don't want to spoil this one, but her greatest accomplishment would span 33 years and produced a prolific collection you won't believe.

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01:20:03

Episode 92: The Mad Monk

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2019/11/28

This week we're talking about someone who you've probably heard a bit about: Grigory Rasputin. Known as the Mad Monk, and major influencer to the Romanov family, Rasputin will forever be enshrined in a certain amount of mystery. That's by design, too: He certainly made deliberate attempts to generate a certain amount of mystique, and lots of stories persist about him to this day. We sort over the many legends of Rasputin to try to get to the most likely truths about this mysterious man from the

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01:13:35

Episode 91: Crypto Killed the Radio Star

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2019/11/21

This week we're talking about number stations. If you watched LOST while it was on the air, you might recognize the idea: radio stations around the world which seem to do little more than spit out a series of numbers every now and then, read by a human voice or sometimes just tones. People have speculated lots about what they're for and what they do. We talk about the stations, as well as some concepts of cryptography that make this old school tech very appealing for information secrecy.

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01:27:22

Episode 89: The Countess of Code

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2019/10/31

If you're looking at this message, you owe a chunk of your experience with computers to Ada Lovelace, the mother of modern computing. All the way back in the 1830s, she saw the beginning of where computers might be headed, and yet it would take almost 120 years for anyone to notice her genius. Tonight, a love letter to the history of the computer decades before the big mainframe computation computers we know today.

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02:00:38

Episode 88: Duane the Overconfident Writer (PART 2)

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2019/10/24

In our last episode, we talked about Duane the Great Writer, the purveyor of a series of online books and a philosophy that may well have been outright lifted from Eckankar and Paul Twitchell. We left off on the discovery that there is a massive other side to Duane's materials, and that's on YouTube. But it's not published by him. It's the channel of Kelsey Lynne Brown, a writer in her own right and the host of lots and lots of material on Duane. This week we explore the extended Duaneverse, other

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01:34:34

Episode 87: Duane the Overconfident Writer (PART 1)

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2019/09/26

In this episode, we're talking about something with a weirdly small and specific Google footprint. DuanetheGreatWriter.info is the home of something called the Worldwide Educators, or the NuPresentation foundation, and it is a treat for the eyes. The website contains a lot of information on what they represent, and maybe not in any particular order either. It's interesting; something definitely emerges, themes and concepts and values that repeat, but the author, his works, his foundation, and

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Episode 86: Don't Call It Murder Park

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2019/09/19

This week, we're talking about a park with a historically bad reputation, but don't hold that against it. Baltimore's Leakin Park has been the home of so many body dumps that it's been referred to as an unofficial/unregistered graveyard. We talk a bit about the history of the park, its years of activity, and some reasonable explanations for why things got so bad there. Or were they really so bad? These days they'd like you to know it's been heavily rehabbed, but there's still a lot of stories to

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01:32:03

Episode 84: Area 51 - Let's See Them Alien Cheeks

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2019/08/22

Area 51 is back in the news lately after a Facebook event called "Storm Area 51" has attracted 1.4 million attendees. It's all tongue in cheek, of course... except it's got enough of attention to draw a response from the U.S. military and has made one town in Nevada mighty nervous. We're talking about the history of Area 51, a little bit on the official and unofficial stories, and a look at this meme-abundant event that has changed in scope and focus, with a brief glimpse of what is to come.

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01:11:53

Episode 83: The Proof is in the Fruitcake

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2019/08/08

This week, we're talking about fruitcakes! Now at home, you're probably saying to yourself: "What?" We know. It's a strange launch point. But this is a fascinating episode. The fruitcake has been around for longer than we thought in more forms than we knew, and to make it even more interesting, fruitcakes were the center point of a truly astounding late 20th / early 21st century caper. This widely despised cake is so much more interesting than we knew. Follow along with us.

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01:38:38

Episode 82: The Immortal Woman

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2019/08/01

This week our super special guest Aubrey is back with a real mindbender of a topic. What would you say if we told you that a woman who has been dead for over 60 years is not only still around, but there are in fact around 734 million of her that have come and gone? Would you say that's bananas? We did. We're talking about a woman whose cells have lasted for decades. The story of those cells is amazing, exciting, saddening, and enlighening.

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