An odd dad and his 11 year old daughter exploring the strange and unusual in a peculiar world. Discussions will be kept PG-13. Hosted by Dean Boese and Krysta Williams. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/family-plot--4670465/support.
…
continue reading
Ricky C Williams Podcasts
Welcome to "The Ricky C Williams Podcast," a podcast dedicated to understanding and overcoming anger management issues and domestic abuse. Each episode provides valuable insights, practical advice, and powerful stories to help listeners navigate the complexities of these challenging topics. To receive show notes and special gifts, please go to https://www.therickycwilliamspodcast.com/blog
…
continue reading
1
Episode 266 Billy the Kid - The Man and the Myth
55:07
55:07
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
55:07
This week, we head back to the 1800's to meet the man who would become known as Billy the Kid! Born Henry McCarty in New York City, he eventually went west with his Mother and brother with stops in Indiana and Wichita before landing in Silver City New Mexico. His mom died when he was just 14 and his stepdad abandoned him to head to California to st…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 265 Samuel L. Clemens - How he became Mark Twain - America's Favorite Humorist
1:08:12
1:08:12
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:08:12
We have such an episode for you today! We are staying true to both our Missouri and nerdy roots to bring you the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known as Mark Twain, America's Favorite Humorist. We learn of his many jobs including Riverboat Pilot, Prospector, Newspaper man, journalist, printer's devil, and of course, writer extraordinaire! …
…
continue reading
1
Family Role Episode 1 - A Kiln in Cobblepot - A TTRPG Experience
1:13:57
1:13:57
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:13:57
This is an episode of our new TTRPG podcast Family Role. Each week we will alternate between D&D adventures and Call of Cthulhu adventures. Hopefully, we will be joined by cool guests along the way. This week features 8 year old Alexandria 'Lexi' Boese as Grelda the Mighty, a Fey Hexblade Warlock; Arthur Williams portraying Albion Bonze a Tiefling …
…
continue reading
1
Episode 264 Matilda Joslyn Gage - Suffragist, Believer in Equality, and Firebrand
1:14:20
1:14:20
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:14:20
There is so much going on in this episode, I almost don't know where to begin. In his corner, Arthur discusses his new school year, art and Undertales. Then we settle in to learn about Matilda Joslyn Gage. Raised in a home that was a stop for the Underground Railroad, she learned lessons early about equality and doing the right thing and translated…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 263 The Keddie Cabin Murders - The Unsolved Crime that Destroyed a Community
1:07:50
1:07:50
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:50
Man what an episode!! In Arthur's Corner, he discusses his online school and the tragedy of needing a new kitten. Then we dig into the murders in Keddie California. We study the history of the area, what made it popular and what made it begin to fail. We talk about it's engineering marvel, the Keddie Wye. We also look into Glenna 'Sue' Sharp's past…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 262 Creatives in Wartime - The US Ghost Army
1:00:42
1:00:42
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:00:42
We talk about so much in this episode. Arthur takes us to his corner to discuss his new school and a new OC he's literally creating while he talks. Plus we talk Gavin Newsom's hilarious tweets, and the Garfield commercial about fat cats. Then we settle in to discuss this week's topic, the US Ghost Army. Officially they were the 23rd Headquarters Sp…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 261 - The Cash-Landrum UFO Incident - UAPs and a Medical Mystery
1:32:34
1:32:34
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:32:34
This episode is so chock full of content, you might accidentally learn something in the first ten minutes. In Arthur's Corner, among other things, he talks about a recent visit to Children's Mercy Hospital and Dean brings up Josh Gates as Arthur talks his 'hear me out's. We discuss Horrifying History and the fact they posted a snippet of one of Lau…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 260 Ultimate Girlboss - The Story of Clara Barton and the American Red Cross
1:08:28
1:08:28
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:08:28
Well this was as fun an episode to do as (we hope) it is for you to listen to. In Arthur's Corner he talks Dandy's World, getting over illness and his return to school as well as his recent popularity as a young transman on Threads. The rest of the Laura suggested show we discuss Clara Barton, her life as a young, possibly neurodivergent woman, how…
…
continue reading
1
Episode259 The Strange Case of Ricky C. McCormick
38:11
38:11
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
38:11
There is so much going on in this episode, we almost needed a playbook. First, we visit Arthur's Corner to find out he's feeling sick and he recently lost his kitten. After that we dig in the Death of Ricky C. McCormick, a man one psychiatrist diagnosed with having "a brick wall in his mind", We cover his mother, his potential father (we have no re…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 258 - Belle Starr - The Story of the Bandit Queen
1:07:50
1:07:50
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:50
This week we head to Carthage Missouri to attend the birth of a Wild West :Legend, the Bandit Queen Belle Starr, We discuss her birth, her family, her brothers who all came to bad ends, including one who disappeared mysteriously. We discuss her family's ties to the South as the Civil War came and went and her family's move to Scylene, Texas where s…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 257 A Kansas City Tale - The Sad Life of Sands W. Hopkins
57:52
57:52
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
57:52
TRIGGER WARNING - This Episode contains mentions of accidental shootings and murder-suicide. If these are too much for you, please, feel free to skip the episode. You Matter! Well, Friends and Neighbors, pull up a chair and sit a spell as we go back to the birth of Kansas City to talk a little about the early days of Kansas City and a figure that c…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 256 The Forgotten History of Autherine Lucy with Guest Lexi Boese
54:52
54:52
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
54:52
This week on Family Plot, we’re joined by our youngest plotter—8-year-old Lexi Boese—who asked us to tell the story of Autherine Juanita Lucy, the first Black student admitted to the University of Alabama. Her brave enrollment in 1956 was court-ordered and historic… and it ignited the largest anti-integration riot in American history. What followed…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 255 Shelf-Life - A History of Bookstores as Resistance Centers with Kelsey Black
1:48:35
1:48:35
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:48:35
In this episode we are joined by Kelsey Black, of the Book Burrow Bookstore in Pflugerville Texas as we discuss the history of Bookstores as Resistance Centers. We discuss David Ruggles and the first Black-owned bookstore in the United States and how he was a figurative and literal stop on the Underground Railroad, selling books about feminism and …
…
continue reading
1
Episode 254 PRIDE 2025 Special Episode Harvey Milk The Hero We Need
1:04:32
1:04:32
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:04:32
This is such an episode, so full of information that you will not believe it! This week, our second of 2 PRIDE episodes this month, we discuss the life and times of Harvey Milk. We will look into the history of this young gay man who will grow up in the fifties and sixties before becoming a popular merchant and politician in the Castro Street area …
…
continue reading
1
Episode 253 Finding the Real Delphine LaLaurie with Brenda from Horrifying History
58:39
58:39
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
58:39
Arthur couldn't be with us as we recorded the episode, so he recorded his parts early and danged if it don't sound like he was there with us! Arthur was starting on his first shift at McDonald's and was happy with his first day of work. He mentions it in his corner. Meanwhile Dad, Mom and Brenda discuss Delphine LaLaurie, her life and strangeness a…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 252 PRIDE 2025 Special Episode - Why We Love Alice B. Toklas
48:24
48:24
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
48:24
It's time to watch To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar! and get ready for PRIDE! Put on your most rainbow-y outfit and catch this, the first of two special PRIDE episodes this month! Today's episode we introduce Alice B. Toklas. Lover, confidant and essentially spouse to writer Gertrude Stein, she also was a writer in her own right and…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 251 The Inevitable Return of Sharon Kinne
1:19:45
1:19:45
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:19:45
Like a good candy bar, this episode is chock full of nutty goodness! In Arthur's corner he discusses (among other things) a concert he recently attended featuring Staind and Breaking Benjamin, among others. Dean suggests that it was a butt rock concert, promptimg stares from Laura and Arthur. Plus we go back to episode 18 to discuss famed Independe…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 250 Eliza Hamilton with a special introduction by Edward October.
52:50
52:50
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
52:50
Our very special 250th Episode begins with a word of congratulations from the one and only Ed October from OctoberpodAM. The show itself is full of goodness about the life of Eliza, not Alexander Hamilton. We cover this sutprising and interesting woman in our special episode of the Family Plot Podcast. This week's subject was chosen by Laura so we …
…
continue reading
1
Episode 249 Valiant Thor, Phil Schneider and the Guardian UFO Tape - The Weird History of UAPs
1:08:00
1:08:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:08:00
This episode comes with a Trigger Warning as we discuss potential victims of suicide as well as infant mortality in the section After Arthur's Corner and again in our final thoughts. If these things are too much for you, feel free to skip, you matter. That being said, this episode gets weird as we discuss the strange life of Phil Schneider, the mys…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 248 James MacLaine and William Plunkett - Gentleman Bandits of the 1700s
55:44
55:44
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
55:44
Well, we have a gem of an episode here, where we look into the life of James MacLaine and William Plunkett. We follow what we can of their births and young lives as we discuss how the pair came to be the Gentleman Bandits that they were, what famous people they robbed, how they got caught and their final, if quite different, fates. We also discuss …
…
continue reading
1
Episode 247 Victoria C. Woodhull - Spiritualist, Stockbroker, Presidential Candidate and Icon
45:10
45:10
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
45:10
What an episode!!! In Arthur's Corner, he discusses fudge, chocolate chip cookies and 12 Angry Men. We also discuss the neurodivergent line that seems to run through our family. Then we settle down and begin to discuss this week's subject, Victoria California Woodhull. This woman, born to a devout spiritualist and a con man that got them ran out of…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 246 The Story of Hans Island and the Whisky Wars
1:11:14
1:11:14
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:11:14
Well this episode is a ton of fun. We are joined by longtime friend of the Fam, Stand Up Comic and Dutch Uncle Dale Hilton. He requested we cover a topic called the Whisky Wars and it is a doozy. In 1973 Canada and Denmark were unable to agree as to which country owned the kidney-shaped nothing of an island called Hans Island. With neither side wil…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 245 The Greenbrier Ghost - The Murder of Zona Shue
1:16:05
1:16:05
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:16:05
This episode has so much going on, we don't know where to begin. Arthur discusses a recent family visit to Kansas City's Case Park and some rather naughty grafitti he discovered. The family discusses their favorite Kansas City Barbecue joint and Arthur discusses making Spanish Tortillas. All that plus we cover the strange case of the Greenbrier Gho…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 244 Woman on Trial - The Laurie Bambenek Story
58:43
58:43
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
58:43
We cover soooo very much in this episode. The Seven Layer Dip of Hell. Author S. J. Tilly. Stuffed Austrian Shepherds. Sponsor Girls. And so very much more as we head, in spirit, to Milwaukee Wisconsin to talk about the life, trial, and conviction of Lawrencia 'Laurie' Bembenek. We cover her life's story and how she was brutally railroaded into a m…
…
continue reading
1
Episode 243 The Great Chicago Fire - A city wide tragedy in 1871
58:56
58:56
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
58:56
This episode we have so much to talk about, that we barely have time to talk about the episode. We discuss Mrs. O'Leary's cow, the movie 'Near Dark', the Independence Center Mall, more stuff in Arthur's Corner, what it must have been like to be an inmate freed because of the fire and so, so much more. We examine the histroy of the city around the t…
…
continue reading
