The Year Was

January 29th...The Raven and Edgar Allan Poe

We examine the year 1845asEdgar Allan Poe publishes “The Raven”.
With special guest Matt Vann.
 
Find Matt at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0noFOVBfD3dMDLqrKeGpXw
https://www.buzzsprout.com/246071
https://www.facebook.com/groups/474480439374765/
 
Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
 
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I3itppkgflgewupxhllk632qfpm?t=The_Year_Was
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
 
https://www.accessible-archives.com/2011/01/the-raven-by-poe-published-today/
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-raven-is-published
https://www.biography.com/writer/edgar-allan-poe
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-09-12-me-42997-story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1hCuTK4gUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWyzwo1xg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr-wOQSUWQk
https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-raven/summary
https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Informative_Murder_Porn
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-secret-life-of-nikola-tesla-2015-10
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Ro%C3%A4c

January 22nd...The Last Days of R. Budd Dwyer

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Call 1-800-273-8255
Available 24 hours everyday
 
We examine the year 1987 as R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide on TV.
 
Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
 
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I3itppkgflgewupxhllk632qfpm?t=The_Year_Was
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
 
http://www.dwyermovie.com/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/r-budd-dwyer
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/budd-dwyer-41425.php
https://alleghenycampus.com/3287/features/documentary-reexamines-budd-dwyer-case/
https://apnews.com/6cffa3fdd182b37efd86fa3b18677837
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Budd_Dwyer
https://apnews.com/028fd0171159f6179412e20593edaeba
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/36560-to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-question
https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/John_Coffey
https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Andy_Dufresne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdjf4lMmiiI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo

January 15...The Black Dahlia

We examine the year 1947 as the body of Elizabeth Short, The Black Dahlia, is found.
 
Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
 
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I3itppkgflgewupxhllk632qfpm?t=The_Year_Was
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
 
http://blackdahlia.web.unc.edu/
https://www.history.com/news/life-for-the-average-family-during-the-great-depression
https://vault.fbi.gov/Black%20Dahlia%20%28E%20Short%29%20/
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/the-black-dahlia
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2006/october/dahlia_102006
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/has-the-black-dahlia-murder-finally-been-solved-198247/
https://www.drphil.com/videos/how-a-man-discovered-that-his-father-may-have-murdered-the-black-dahlia/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/26/black-dahlia-murder-steve-hodel-elizabeth-short
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/grapesofwrath/character/jim-casy/
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19490113.2.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyLV_luyKT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KF8HazNueE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDfgMOUjCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0e6CpfVCg8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVraEch7IhA

January 8th...Anti-Flirt Bill

We examine the year 1902 as Francis G. Landon gets an anti-flirt bill passed. 
 
Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
 
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I3itppkgflgewupxhllk632qfpm?t=The_Year_Was
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
 
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-york-state-once-introduced-anti-flirting-bill-180961687/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/patent-ductus-arteriosus/symptoms-causes/syc-20376145
https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-law-basics/misdemeanors.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/02/stop-that-skirt-chaser-the-movement-to-outlaw-flirting-in-the-1920s/273068/
https://heyarnold.fandom.com/wiki/Frankie_G.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJiBjfvltQw

January 7th...Fred Ott's Sneeze

We examine the year 1894 as Fred Ott’s Sneeze get a copyright.
 
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I3itppkgflgewupxhllk632qfpm?t=The_Year_Was
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
 
Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
 
https://www.loc.gov/item/00694192
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/04/13/fred-otts-sneeze-was-the-first-ever-film-to-be-copyrighted-in-1894/

January 1st...Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

We examine the year 1818 as Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus anonymously.
 
Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band 
 
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I3itppkgflgewupxhllk632qfpm?t=The_Year_Was
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
 
https://slate.com/technology/2017/01/frankenstein-and-the-problem-with-playing-god.html
https://wiki.southpark.cc.com/wiki/Shelly_Marsh
https://www.biography.com/writer/mary-shelley
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/26/art-fraud-margaret-walter-keane-tim-burton-biopic
https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-frank-sheerhan-20191220-ymclehkolvd77g252d4xsimiwe-story.html
https://wesleybanksauthor.com/best-dog-sledding-movies/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFnFr-DOPf8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiqFcc_l_Kk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRppXdKDY_c
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/frankenstein/summary/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/13/frankenstein-at-200-why-hasnt-mary-shelley-been-given-the-respect-she-deserves-
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2613444/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley-helped-wife-Mary-write-Frankenstein-claims-professor.html
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Wrote-Frankenstein/dp/0943742145

December 25th...Christmas

We examine the years 336 as we look at the first recorded Christmas and 352 as we look at the first official Christmas.
 
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I3itppkgflgewupxhllk632qfpm?t=The_Year_Was
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
 
Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
 
https://www.whychristmas.com/customs/25th.shtml
https://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/301-600/celebrate-christmas-but-when-and-how-11629663.html
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2018/12/21/dubious-claims-pope-julius-i-decided-that-jesus-was-born-on-25-december/
https://www.christianity.com/wiki/people/who-was-lot-s-wife-why-was-she-turned-into-a-pillar-of-salt.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhiCFdWeQfA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1SfzV67Bqw
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1237-the-before-trilogy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothra

December 24th...Apollo 8 and its Lunar Orbit

We examine the year 1968 as Apollo 8 makes it lunar orbit and delivers a Christmas message from the moon.
 
Earthrise Photograph by NASA and William Anders
 
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I3itppkgflgewupxhllk632qfpm?t=The_Year_Was
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
 
Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njpWalYduU4
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-first-earthlings-around-the-moon-were-two-soviet-tortoises
https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/orbital-missions/apollo8.cfm
https://www.space.com/17362-apollo-8.html
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/5453/what-would-happen-if-the-sps-did-not-fire-on-apollo-8
https://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-missions/apollo8.html
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Fifty-years-ago-Apollo-8-sent-a-lunar-Christmas-13488814.php
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1249.html

December 18th...Photos of the Moon

We examine the year 1839 as John William Draper makes the first celestial photograph of the moon, and 1849 as William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple capture the first Moon photo through a telescope .
 
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I3itppkgflgewupxhllk632qfpm?t=The_Year_Was
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
 
Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAoFn23htE4
https://lightsinthedark.com/2016/03/23/this-is-the-oldest-surviving-photo-of-the-moon/
https://biography.yourdictionary.com/john-william-draper
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Cranch-Bond
http://www.artdeciel.com/astrophotography-telescope-detail.aspx?Telescope_ID=28
https://time.com/3805947/the-first-photograph-of-the-moon/
https://www.onthisday.com/events/december/18

December 11th...Anglo-Zulu War

We examine the year 1878 as an ultimatum is given that leads to the Anglo-Zulu War.
 
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I3itppkgflgewupxhllk632qfpm?t=The_Year_Was
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
 
Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
 
https://www.britannica.com/event/Anglo-Zulu-War
https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/zulu-war
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Timeline-of-the-AngloZulu-War/
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/anglo-zulu-wars-1879-1896