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We're getting back on the wagon, dusting off our boots, and hooking up the mics. Mark and Dan get back into the swing before a brand new season of History, Interviews and more kicks off.

Mark and Dan talk a little politics, opine on Solar Batteries and Flake's Mistake, UFOs and the Phoenix lights, and Dan reaffirms his status as a Hot Tub Person

Mark tells the story of Red Knolls near Safford, a forgotten piece of Arizona's history. Originally a native stronghold, then a camping spot for the first Europeans to enter the Southwest, to a cattle corral, movie backdrop and outdoor playhouse, Red Knolls has had a long and storied life on the plains of the eastern Gila Valley.

Bing Crosby's Bagpipe Christmas, Non-Internet Trolls, Male nail polish, Dan pretends to remember Cotillion, The Six synthesizers of Henry's Wives, Low Waste culture, and Windows 10 is stupid.

At the turn of the twentieth century, a pretty trainwreck of an Arizona Lady robs a stagecoach and begins a life of infamy as one of Arizona's last stagecoach robbers.

Dan and Mark discuss why IT looks like it's never doing anything, the "danger" of hexavalent Chromium, camping on the rim (a different trek) and more general BS

In 1890, a drunken blacksmith unwittingly fails to prevent the deaths of 100+ people in the dead of night in the deep Arizona canyonlands. This episode we talk about the Walnut Grove Dam collapse.

Mark and Dan talk Arizona politics, SpaceX destroys Facebook's dream of a captive populace, Trump goes to Mexico and acts predictably, Decimation and water genocide; After the break, Grand Theft Auto, Magic, Real-life Twisted Metal, Work poop and more.

Mark, and Karen talk to Bree from the oDDity Wine CollectiVe about wine movies, food and whatever comes to mind in downtown Clarkdale, Az.

Mark tells a tale of how Arizona became a state, while conveniently glossing over the Mexican-American war.

Dan and Mark talk No Man's Sky, the video game; a spontaneous concert in the woods, dan's lawn woes with his HOA, and more.

In this mini-episode Mark talks about the Perry Mesa Tradition ruins between Black Canyon City and Cordes Junction. Take a quick listen and learn about Arizona 600+ years ago.

We talk wine, enology and what its like to start a new wine label with Bree Nation of AZ Stronghold and The oDDity Wine CollectiVe.

Karen and Mark discuss their first foray back to Tucson in a while, and it's eye-opening. Tucson might just not smell as bad anymore...

La noche, la luna, los amantes, el hacha - El Tiradito. The night, the moon, the lovers, the axe - The little castaway. Karen and Mark present the story of El Tiradito and discuss their trip to see the shrine.

Tucson doesn't smell (as bad) anymore; Dan's Cardboard Fetish (Magic: The Gathering); Unexpected Breakfast; No Man's Sky hype is legit crazy; Lock - Stock - Sword-in-Rock; Vegan Discrimination; Baby Boomers aren't Banner Blind; Watermelon, Hay bales and Instagram; Printers suck; Craigslist Murderers

A tale from the Old West: The Glanton gang either gets well-deserved comeuppance or is senselessly murdered by savages, depending on which account you read. Hint: They deserved it.

In early May of 1910, train robberies were a memory of the Old West. Arizona’s eyes were fixed on a bright, agricultural future in the Salt River Valley and the prospect of putting her lawless cowboy past behind her. This week's tale is the story of two boys from Oklahoma who took their fortunes into their own hands and headed west to be cowboys; and how, one fateful morning, they ended up on the wrong side of a real-life game of Cops n Robbers across the southern Arizona desert, chased by one of Arizona's most accomplished sons.