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Warning: this episode could upset some people. Alcohol, alcoholism, genocide, white supremacy, eugenics are all on display here. And they're also all connected, at least in North Carolina history. Real history for real people. This episode is about hating the criminal instead of the crime. And there's a very real difference between the two. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jocoyo/message

Find me someone that does not like the TV show Young Sheldon… Actually, don't. I don't want to meet that person. It seems like a stretch, but there's so much of a connection to eastern North Carolina, including Johnston county. Makes me love the show even more. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jocoyo/message

I absolutely love it when we uncover almost uniquely geological marvels that exist under our feet, and in our backyard. Johnston County, and East, North Carolina, are home to thousands of lakes. You've never seen them, you say? You would know if we had thousands of lakes? Well, let's take a trip. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jocoyo/message

This is episode number 100… Wow… This episode gives us no new historical information. It is a look back at the most listened to episodes and some of the stuff that went into making them. It is commemorative episode of me just saying thank you. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jocoyo/support

No one would ever accuse central North Carolina of being a hotbed of science-fiction history. Yet, here we are. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jocoyo/support

There's a place in Johnston County that's older than the hills… Quite literally. It is completely out of place and a freak of nature. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jocoyo/support

This is the case where a tree likely change the course not just American, but also world history. In 1844, Henry Clay of Kentucky, sat under an oak tree in Raleigh and wrote a letter. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jocoyo/support

Hilery wanted a chance for his children. Legacy that they could build on. A legacy was made, but not by him and not the way that he wanted. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

What's in a name? Success. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

Death at an early age was fairly common and colonial and early North Carolina's history. So were multiple marriages as a result of the death of a spouse. It's because it didn't have doctors back then, right? Wrong. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

This is the story about the Hunter family, two members of which were instrumental in the creation of North Carolina, although in very different ways --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

Turning a person into a hero is not doing anybody any favors. It gives you unrealistic expectations of that person and paints an untrue biography. Such as the case with Ralph Lane. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

For all of our talk about colonial leaders and shapers of North Carolina history, they were millions of people who are not spoken about have not been spoken about and without hermit their contributions could not have happened. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/support

By all accounts, Josiah Martin was not a bad guy. Just the absolute wrong guy… In the absolute wrong place… At the absolute wrong time. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/support

John Hinton and his family, along with thousands of other North Carolinians in the colonial period, faced an identity crisis and some very hard choices. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/support

John Hinton was loyal to the crown. It seems even to a fault. For new students of the regulator conflict in North Carolina, it would be easy to spot seeds of the revolution in it. So imagine being neighbors of the regulators while also being a law maker for the British government. This is where we find John Hinton. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/support

The first recorded land deeds and land owners in the modern day county of Wake Meant that John Hinton was playing an outsized role in the development of the colony and later state Of North Carolina. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/support

To become a surveyor in colonial America made that you had made the big time. Your chance had come. It was up to people like John Hinton to take advantage of it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/support

For poor and poverty stricken young English man, making the trip over to America in the 17th and 18th centuries Was full of risk and danger. Sometimes, those are the only things that will work --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/support

Before there was Johnston County, Wake County, or even a Carolina, North or South, there was Nansemond County and the forgotten people that it was named for. Before the English came, this is partly their story. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodliestsoil/support

Another gold rush, a shipwreck, a hurricane, and an overlooked cause for war. All here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

What do you do when opportunity comes your way? Do like Johannes Reith and grab onto it like it's going to run away. What happens when another one comes? Use both hands and grab again. This is a success story if I've ever heard one. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

"Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb". Wise words from Smashmouth. Admittedly, that band wasn't known for its wisdom, but it certainly works here. What kind of wisdom have we lost in our desire to gain knowledge? This is a story about a Greek fable, once widely known, that shaped American history in good and bad ways. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

If there has been a person with more of a whirlwind life than Maggie Williams...Well, I’m not actually sure that person exists. But I guess that’s what happens when you marry a person that treats the line between genius and insanity like a jump rope. Spoiler alert: Big crossover event. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

The Meadow/Newton Grove area of southeastern Johnston County has stories to tell. This one involves the old Whig Party and a man that acted on his conscience, changing the religious aspect in Johnston County and eastern NC permanently. A Monk that wasn't a monk, but was deeply religious, nonetheless. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

How does Johnston County keep producing music legends? What does this legend have to do with the Battle of Bentonville? In a word: Everything. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

This episode is about how the wheels go round and round, but these are not on the bus.  Well, that's not entirely true.  But these wheels are the wheels of history, so to speak, and how things tend to just happen over and over. In this episode, we find that Cary, the pre-Civil War South, and Old England are on a stage in which each must play a part. In this case, the same part. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

How does a living legend when awards for a song 40 years after he died? What does that have to do with eastern North Carolina? Listen and you’ll see. It’s a good story. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message

Extinct counties, proposed counties, petitions, attempted secession from Johnston County, and Facebook polls...All that glitters is not gold. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

The south eastern area of Johnston county has a really, really rich history. Music, civil rights... The middle of the 20th century saw bus bombings, sit-ins, and hard fought struggles to achieve justice, equality, and equity across America. In 1960, the town of Dunn, North Carolina saw all three. We will even throw in a rock 'n' roll legend for good measure. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

The fight for civil rights in Johnston county and North Carolina Seems to be a long and frustrating one, Especially to five young men from the neighborhood of Sorrow Valley in Benson --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

Only 80 years ago events concerning Johnston County residents and their neighbors helped start the civil rights movement. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

So like, everyone around Johnston county knows about the Howell theater. Right? Did you know about it hosting a world premiere? Do you know what’s under the Smithfield Wal-Mart parking lot? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

October 12: Pretty important day for all of us, especially if you’re in a boat in the Atlantic or a plane in the Pacific. Or if you recite the Pledge of Allegiance. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

Soda bottles, peanuts, root beer, and “soft” drinks. In this episode, we’re going into soda history with a Johnston twist. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

An episode of full circles and radio waves. Things don’t really change as much as we think they do. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

Have you ever looked at a map of North Carolina and noticed how it cuts out into the sea? Do you ever see how Johnston county seems to be in a bull’s-eye for hurricanes because of it? Well, it ain’t just hurricanes that come after us. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

But if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need. From cars to highways to little piggies to alcohol, the good citizens of Johnston County have nearly always displayed a strong independent streak. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

Dirt track racing in Johnston had a world famous observer one Sunday. You’ll have to hear it to believe it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

So, what in the world do Hulk Hogan, Ted Turner, and Sylvester Stallone have to do with Johnston County?  Just a man and his will to survive. It's the Eye of the Tiger, man! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

Ahhh, dueling and politics. Like a hand in a glove for a large part of American history. North Carolina and Johnston County know it well. A dusty street at high noon is not necessary. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

A quarantine-inspired episode. We've been here before. In fact, the similarities run much deeper than just a disease outbreak. The last time we had something like this, there was another Bernie Sanders-type guy running in Democratic circles, too.  But there were also some pretty glaring differences, too. Some of them involved a healthy bit of Marrow. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

Making a constitution Is apparently not very easy. Maybe that’s why we do it so rarely. But leave it to Johnston county to try to find a way to be involved in the creation of two. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

Salem, Massachusetts and Smithfield, North Carolina have waaay more in common than meets the eye. Colonial era? ✅ Dependent on a water source?✅ Strong early religious presence? . ✅ Witches? ?

Vampires, Frankenstein, zombies, ghosts, and "Acid Park"???? If you grew up in the 70's-90's in Johnston County and surrounding areas, you heard of "Acid Park". You heard stories, horrible to tell and terrifying in content, but they were no different than the stories about these monsters of legend. This is an episode on the things that make us afraid, with a JoCoYo twist. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

What do Captain Marvel, the Cold War, Amelia Earhart, astronauts, the Rudy Theatre, and a pet rooster have in common? Answer: One amazing "force of nature" of a person, Myrtle Thompson. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

This episode continues the story of the Norris family from the previous episode "Little Runaway". Leaving home seems to be family trait with these guys. This is a story of one Norris that didn't like the outcome of the American Civil War. So, he left...and took 20,000 people with him. In 2020, their descendants haven't forgotten him. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

Every kid talks of running away at some point, don't they?  Well, here's an 11 year old who did. He entered a life at sea and got embroiled in the first naval battle in colonial history. And there was this path... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

What does an atomic bomb have to do with the grocery store and check out times? What are you talking about?? Yep, We’re in the middle and connecting it all together. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

A massive hurricane, George Washington, the acquisition of Florida, and a counterfeit operation. All here. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

Sometimes we aren’t very smart. In fact, sometimes we’re pretty stupid. To me, stupidity is when you’re well aware of the existence of something but you deny it because you just don’t want it to exist. This is the story about how Johnston almost stupided itself out of a community college. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support