THE PICTURES BEHIND THE SHOWS
The Studio: Steve added lights to the studio for effect. We now have millions of color possibilities!
Episode 4: The Beautiful Queen City
Episode 2: The Butter Cow is tradition at the Ohio State Fair.
Episode 2: Butter sculpture of the Apollo 11 crew at the Ohio State Fair.
Episode 3: Some of the hard-working brethren Steve served with
Episode 5: The Handy Conspiracy Theory Pyramid
Episode 6: Who doesn't love a good conspiracy!
Episode 10: A brief history of bluegrass, featuring renowned mandolin, guitar, bass, and banjo player Steve
Episode 12: This place is haunted. Right?
Episode 8: Where’d all the Nazis go? We’ve got a few ideas.
Episode 11: Rupert has located the Bigfoot den in Keewenaw!
Episode 9: Celebrate banned books!
Episode 7: She’s always listening.
Special Episode: The Summit Project
Episode 13: Ufologist Jay Hammen is convinced we’re not alone.
Episode 14: The Wicked Witch of the (Old) West. Happy Halloween,
Episode 15: Why yes, we DO hate DST.
Episode 16: ARCH. NEMESIS.
Episodes 17 & 19: The always lovely and kind Anna Reed.
Episode 20: Media literacy is Kim‘s passion, so of course we did a show about it.
Episode 21: This is the Ohio version of Kris Kringle.
Episode 22: A moment of peace in the midst of war
Episode 23: Is the press the fourth branch of government?
Episode 24: Stephy Scaglione wants to save the planet!
Episodes 25 & 26: There’s a lot more to Dayton than the Wrights.
Episode 27: Jenny Wiley as a young woman (allegedly).
Episodes 28 & 56: Meet one of the other best podcasters in Dayton, and host of the Gem City Podcast, Terry Martin!
Episode 29: The war that never was
Episode 30: Meet local filmmaker and auteur Steve Heman, and learn what it takes to make a movie.
Episode 31: The tree in Roanoke where a message was left by 117 people who disappeared
Episode 32: Pamela Kucinsky pulls back the curtain on health insurance and helps us understand the myths and mysteries of the American health care sys
Episode 33: This is EXACTLY what Blackbeard looked like.
Episode 34: Before there was COVID, there was the pandemic of 1918.
Episode 35: A special episode, featuring some of Dayton’s finest
Episode 36: Rupert the Good Boy!
Episode 36: Jack is a good boy too!
Episode 37: Grab your hatchets, we’re marching with Carrie Nation to put an end to drunkenness.
Episode 38: The Man with the Green Hat
Episode 39: There was a dust cloud the spanned the whole country.
Episode 40: Bill Gates is trying to take over the world.
Episode 41: Nature-based healing is a real thing.
Episode 42: Mooji
Episode 43: Mommy and Poppy Spears
Episode 44: Chief Blue Jacket
Episodes 45-48: An honest salute to the creation of a nation
Episode 49: Spend some time with America‘s Founding Fornicator
Episode 50: Chad and Michelle Wells, two of the most positive and life-affirming souls on earth
Episodes 51 & 109: Oh, look. A show about us. Were we feeling lazy or just uninspired?
Episode 52: Our one year anniversary, and the only single year we could think of to rival 2020.
Episode 53: Legendary lawman Buford T. Pusser
Episode 54: Sarah Piña talks to us about how to make your own honey and grow almost all your own food in a suburban backyard.
Episode 55: Nashville singer/songwriter Branden Stivers tells us about how COVID is affecting the live music scene
Episodes 57 & 58: America’s house (currently not for sale)
Episode 59: Quintessential Daytonian Brad Measel, who repurposed some old machinery and created one of the area‘s finest craft distilleries
Episode 60: Social media isn’t going anywhere, so you’d better do your research and educate yourself.
Episode 61: School administrator Jessica Biggers discusses the challenges of navigating education in the midst of a pandemic.
Episode 62: Harry Houdini, possibly history’s greatest showman
Episode 63: Annoying literary genius Edgar Allan Poe
Episode 64: I’m the Vlad guy. Duh.
Episode 65: Legendaray paranormal researchers Ed and Lorraine Warren
Episode 66: The evil Karl and Ilse Koch
Episode 67: The lovely Ozge Kinas, who talked to us about leaving Turkey to become an American citizen
Episode 68: In honor of the 45th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Episode 69: On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters left the ground and sailed into legend status.
Episode 70: Patty Hearst. Or is it Tania?
Episode 71: Oh, look! It’s Kim’s favorite holiday tradition!
Episode 72: Learn the history of Hanukkah
Episode 73: It’s a lovely image, but it’s not entirely accurate.
Episodes 74 & 75: We hang out with our pals Hannah and Mykola Medvedievy. Who says Twitch can’t provide true love and a Ukrainian husband?
Episode 76: There’s probably a lot about vaccinations you don’t know.
Episode 77 & 78: The Crime of the Century!
Episode 79: We talk with massage therapist Larry Chandler, whose visual challenges help him get a different perspective on life.
Episode 80: Oh, you think politics is bad now?? This guy was so corrupt he set a precedent for a Trump impeachment.
Episode 81: Meet Neil Sparks. He’s Australian! So we were very grateful when he agreed to translate our Ned Kelly episode.
Episode 82: Legendary outlaw Henry McCarty
Episode 83: Ambiguous figure Pancho Villa
Episode 84: We celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with some good old Irish ghost stories.
Episode 85: The aftermath of the Boston molasses flood of 1919
Episode 86: Killer Lobster Boy Grady Stiles, Jr.
Episode 87: Downtown Xenia, Ohio after the deadly tornado of April 3rd 1974.
Ep 87: The Xenia Tornado of 1974. A picture of the tornado that destroyed Xenia, Ohio on April 3rd 1974.
Ep 88: We had a fun interview with wellness coach Emma Green! Can't wait to get people back in the studio!!!
Episode 89: Our buddy Matt Fleming, who details for us what it’s like to be an Army helicopter pilot
Episode 90: We present, the 17 Year Cicada!
Episode 91: Crazy smart meteorologist Kirstie Zontini dumbs it down for us as we talk weather.
Episode 92: Bloody Harlan, KY
Episode 93: It’s the end of the world as we know it.
Episodes 94 & 96: David and Louise Turpin, along with their 13 children
Episode 95: We’ve turned a corner.
Episode 97: Did you know the Colonel shot a guy?!?
Episode 98: Henry John Heinz, who went from humble beginnings to condiment magnate
Episode 99: Dave Thomas was a pretty incredible guy.
Episode 100: Milton Hershey, the man who revolutionized chocolate
Episode 101: We have the honor of talking with legendary WW2 hero Jim “PeeWee” Martin.
Episode 102: These ladies have Herculean strength and skill, so we honored them with an episode about Greek mythology.
Episode 103: The Panama Canal
Episode 104: Thanks to Blaine from the Carbon County jail, we decided to spend Spooky October focusing on haunted prisons!
Episode 105: Throwback to 2004 when we visited Steve’s son during his stint at Alcatraz
Episode 106: A two-man cell in the Ohio State Reformatory, one of America’s most haunted prisons
Episode 107: The 100th anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknowns
Episode 108: Sheriff Sid Hatfield, key figure in the Battle of Matewan
Episode 110: The aftermath of the 1871 Chicago fire
Episode 111: The true story of the Twelve Days of Christmas
Episode 113: Walt who? The original fairy tales are not exactly theme park appropriate.
Episode 114: Phil adding 6 more weeks of Winter
Episode 116: The Bonus March of 1932
Episode 117: A primer on the Ukrainian-Russian war. How did we get here, and what can we expect next?
Episodes 118 & 119: The larger-than-life phenomenon that is George Armstrong Custer
Episode 120: The aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
Episodes 121 & 122: Each state has some pretty unusual laws. Find out which ones you’ve been breaking.
Episode 123: Dr. Ray Brown's crystal sphere
Episode 124: A door-knocker mustache
Episode 125: A completely accurate representation of the Federal Witness Protection Program
Episode 115: Sara Kaushal, author of Murder & Mayhem in Dayton & the Miami Valley, comes by the studio to talk about when forensic science goes wrong
Episode 126: Nora’s Journey
Episode 127: Vincenzo Peruggia
Episode 128: Tailgating
Episode 123: The Avenger aircraft, similar to what the Flight 19 planes would have looked like
Episode 130: Superbowl Cities, Philly vs KCM
Episode 132: AI is way smarter than us.
Episode 133: A look at Munchausen’s by Proxy, inspired by the recent release of Gypsy Blanchard.
Episode 134: GOOD GRIEF the justice system is complicate!
Episode 135: Sometimes the Amish don’t know their rules any more than we do.
Episodes 136-137: What’s cooler than being cool? Ice fishing on Lake Erie.