An Hour of Your Life

This week we had the pleasure of speaking with proud Appalachian and author Andrew K. Clark. We discuss folk legends, traditional versus self-publishing, and how Appalachia is probably one of the greatest places on earth.    Pre-order Where Dark Things grow at www.andrewkclark.com. 

This week is part one of a two part series about Ohio's Great Lake, Lake Erie

We have moved and discovered that we now live in area with a small Amish Community.  We decided that we should research and educate ourselves.  

We thought with all the legal cases flying around we would try to break it down and simplify the U.S. Justice System and process.  Were we ever wrong! What we planned to be a single episode is going to turn into a two parter (we hope). So listen up, and try to follow our ramblings as we soon discover we are in way over our heads.

WARNING: This week we will talk about medical, child and pet abuse as well as suicidal ideations. Believe it or not, we were talking about this topic long before Gypsy Rose.  We thought now would be a good time to talk about it.

This week we look into Artificial Intelligence, or AI.  We gave it our best shot but as we soon learned, we are nowhere near smart enough to figure out AI.  But, we are smart enough to know that few people can.  Especially folks trying to regulate and write laws governing AI.  We don't feel so bad anymore.

We are back!!! What a year it has been! Better listen to this episode to catch up on what has happened. 

This may become a tradition for An Hour of Your Life.  This episode is dedicated to the cities from where the teams playing in the Super Bowl are from. This year we are featuring Kansas City and Philadelphia.

In this episode we get into the power grid in the United States and North America.  Complicated, bureaucratic, vulnerable and vital. Plus, as a bonus, we talk about the Zimmer Power Plant near Cincinnati, Ohio. 

This is another one of those topics that you don't know what you don't know.  Who would have thought there is a history to the practice of Tailgating. Go Bengals!!!

We decided this week to talk about some of the more infamous heists in recent and semi-recent history.

Nora is a six year old little girl who has intractable epilepsy.  On this episode, Steve and Kim talk to her mom about the challenges that the disorder presents to a family, some resources, and a wealth of information about epilepsy awareness.  Here is a list of resources: https://www.dannydid.org/about-us/ https://hannahtopia.com/ https://www.brainrecoveryproject.org/ https://charliefoundation.org/ https://www.epilepsy.com/ https://realmofcaring.org/ Do No Harm (Film) The Great Katie Kate Explains Epilepsy (Book)  

Do you need to get out of town?  Do you have any relevant testimony? Listen to this week's episode about the Witness Protection Program. Disclaimer:  Sorry if we doxxed anybody.  We sincerely apologize!

We are back after our sabbatical.   Our return episode is Victorian Slang.  We came up with this idea while driving back from Florida and Steve made up a word to describe something. Kim went the next step and started looking up other slang terms and the episode was born.

With this week's episode about the flight of Navy Avengers called Flight 19 and the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.  You get to choose if you are on Team Steve or Team Kim.  Rational and plausible or supernatural forces at work. Whichever, Steve dug up some fascinating details and did his best to piece together multiple accounts of Flight 19 to give you one complete account.  Kim was able to explore the supernatural and "other" theories to what causes so many dissaperances within the Bermuda Triangle. Both go into their own conclusions and analysis.

Who would have thought it would have taken two episodes to get though the strange laws in the United States! In this episode we finish up by starting in Kentucky wind up in Wyoming.

Every state has some peculiarities.  Some of these peculiar things are so peculiar the state saw fit to make a law about it.

This week is the anniversary of the San Francisco Earthquake 1906.  On April 18th of 1906 an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 hit San Fransisco.  The damage from the quake and the resulting fires nearly destroyed the city killing an estimated 3000 people.  In this episode we try to tale the stories of the survivors and capture the human side of the disaster.  

This week we continue our tale of George Armstrong Custer.  Listen and decide for yourself, hero or villain while you try and sort out what is fact and what is fiction.

This week we take on such a colorful character that it is going to take two episodes to fit it all in.  We are talking about George Armstrong Custer.  Hero or villain?  Listen and decide for yourself.

We thought we should talk about the war in Ukraine.  In this episode we break down the key players and organizations and their roles in what is happening as we speak. Join us in our hopes and prayers for peace.

Here is a story you may have never heard. This episode tells the story of the WWI Veterans and their fight to claim the bonuses they were promised after the war.  The Army was sent to clear them out of their camps in Washington D.C.  A very sad day in American history.

This week we interview local author and blogger Sara Kaushal, the writer of "Murder & Mayhem in Dayton and the Miami Valley". What happens when forensic science goes wrong?  Listen and find out!

Everything you ever wanted to know about the beast and the tradition of Groundhog Day!

So you think you know the fairy tales?  This week we read you the original version of some fairy tales as written. If you don't feel like reading to your kids tonight we suggest don't play this podcast for them to put them to sleep...

There were some pretty nasty jobs back in the day.  That is all I need to say about this episode.

In my wildest dreams I never dreamed there would be so much about this song.  We thought we record a quick episode to take it easy for Christmas and the holidays.  We ever wrong!!!

With this episode we talk about the Great Chicago Fire and Mrs. O'Leary's cow.  In all seriousness, the Chicago Fire was a terrible tragedy to the great City of Chicago with many lives and much property lost.  We will go back to the humble beginnings of Chicago and the conditions that set the perfect storm for a city to burn.

If this is your first time listening to An Hour of Your Life don't judge us by this episode.  From pity parties to trailer parks this is our annual show where we use a whole lot of words to say a lot of of nothing.  But you will get to know us better.

Violence, bloodshed, scandal and more in this tale of the Battle of Matewan, West Virginia!

This year on November 11th is the 100th anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.  We wanted to honor those interred there and tell the story of Arlington National Cemetery and the Tomb of the Unknowns. With our deepest respect.

This week ends Spooky October with a look at one of the most haunted prisons in the United States.  The Ohio State Reformatory has earned that title as well as being the Hollywood of Prisons.  Listen to this episode to learn about where many of the movies you enjoy and TV shows you have watched have been filmed.

Join us this week as week cover the history and the haunted history of Alcatraz Island!

It is Spooky October!  We were going to do ghost ships but after visiting the Carbon County Jail in Carbon County, Pennsylvania we decided we found our Spooky October theme!.  Special thanks to Blaine.

Learn about the the history and need for a shortened crossing from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.  This is an amazing story about the building of the Panama Canal.  There is so much more to this tale than digging a ditch.

The Olympics are starting this week so we thought we would tell some tales of Greek Mythology.

This weeks episode is one the most special episodes we have produced.  We had the great honor to meet one of our Nation's National Treasures, Mr. Jim "Pee Wee" Martin.  Jim served in G Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during World War II.  Jim jumped into Normandy on D-Day, he jumped into Holland as part of Operation Market Garden and he fought in the Battle of the Bulge near and around Bastogne, Belgium.  He found himself In Berchtesgaden, Germany at the end of the War.  Jim just celebrated his 100th birthday.  

After taking a pause for the 4th of July we come back this week to conclude our series on food giants.  This week we cover Milton Hershey.  What amazed us is the similarities with the other food entrepreneurs.  Vision, persistence and setbacks, but nothing that stoped his dream. We should we also mention his generosity and a passion for remembering where he came from.

We were very happy to talk about a truly fine human being, Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's Hamburgers. Aside from starting a billion dollar business Dave was a true philanthropist with a passion for education and adoption. We encourage you to visit davethomasfoundation.org.  

This week we continue our series of food giants with the story of Henry John Heinz of Heinz Ketchup fame. We hope you never take ketchup for granted again.   There is so much more to its story than you would imagine.

In this episode we cover the story of Colonel Harland Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken Fame. He is definitely one of the most colorful people we have talked about.  There are some good life lessons in this episode. Mostly never give up in the face of adversity, even if you create the adversity.  

This week we conclude our story about the Turpin Family.  Find out what happened after police raided 100 Muir Woods Dr, how David and Louise fared in court, and where the Turpin siblings are now.

An Hour of Your Life has officially declared Victory Over Corona or Victory Over Virus Day!  June 2nd is the last day for health mandates in the State of Ohio. On June 3rd all health mandates in the State of Ohio are lifted.  (With a few exceptions.) In this episode we review the timeline in Ohio and reflect on our memories and how it effected us and our thoughts on the events as they happened.

Last week, we we promised to lighten it up.  It didn't happen.  You may have heard of David and Louise Turpin and their 13 children.  This week, hear their origin story and what happened after an 18 year old man fell for a ten year old girl. 

There are a lot of things to be worried about.  In this episode we discuss Electromagnetic Pulse, Infrastructure and Cybersecurity and how vulnerable we all are.

Welcome to The Miami Valley's most useful podcast!! Each week we'll bring you all the news about what's happening in the Greater Dayton area.  Find out more at the937podcast.com, and look for our first episode beginning May 19!

In this episode we tell the story of Bloody Harlan.  Harlan is a small county in Southeastern Kentucky that became famous for a bloody labor dispute between the coal miners and the coal copanies in the 1930's.   

Join us as we talk with Meteorologist Kirstie Zontini of the WHIO-TV Weather Team.  After this episode you will appreciate on a whole new level the amount of effort our meteorologists go through daily to give us the best picture they can of what the weather will be.  We also learned the extraordinary measures they take to ensure our safety during severe weather.

They are coming!  In this episode you will learn more about the 17 Year Cicada or as they are sometimes called Brood X than you probably ever knew before!

In this episode we talk to Matt and learn what it takes to be a Helicopter Pilot for the U.S. Army.  Learn about the training it takes to become a pilot and a little about the missions an aviator might see.

This week we talk with sleep, Beach Body, and yoga coach Emma G.  What's sleep consulting?  How do you find a Beach Body coach? Where did yoga come from? Listen and find out!