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Things I've Learned While Learning Other Things

Things I've Learned While Learning Other Things

by Joe Morahan/JS Morahan

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Ep 425 A Badge, A Betrayal, & a Body in the Bed 5/5

About this podcast

An idiosyncratic, eclectic look at all things Human. History, War, Sociology, Music, Sports, Politics (little I hope), Philosophy, Artists, Genius, Literature & More because I can't help myself...The interconnectedness of everything in life is astounding. Or, maybe it's just my brother & me!

Episodes

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  • Ep 425 A Badge, A Betrayal, & a Body in the Bed 5/5 · 4 min · Episode 425Fred Hampton Murder 1969 Hanrahan career ruination FBI abuse under Hoover Revealed Church Committee
  • Ep 424 A Badge, A Betrayal, & a Body in the Bed 4/5 · 16 min · Episode 424Hanrahan career ruined He thought he was heir to Mayor Daley's throne Couldn't win a dog catcher position Hampton Civil Rights Case took 13 years Authorities settle with Hampton…
  • Ep 423 A Badge, A Betrayal, & a Body in the Bed 3/5 · 18 min · Episode 423Fred Hampton Shot in Bed Police Raid Black Panthers Special Prosecutors Judge interference. The Fix was in
  • Ep 422 A Badge, A Betrayal, & a Body in the Bed 2/5 · 18 min · Episode 422Fred Hampton Black Panther Party in Chicago Threat to US National Security J Edgar Hoover Confidential Informant The Raid Edward Hanrahan
  • Ep 421 A Badge, A Betrayal, & a Body in a Bed 1/5 · 15 min · Episode 421Chicago Mayor Daley Edward Vincent Hanrahan Democratic Politics Black Liberation Movement Fred Hampton Murder Career Ruination
  • Ep 420 The Real Burning Man 6/6 · 17 min · Episode 420Arsonists Sexual Excitement Freud Fire shooting flames straight up = arousement Bedwetting John Leonard Orr
  • Ep 419 The Real Burning Man 5/6 · 18 min · Episode 419John Leonard Orr Arsonist Investigator to Arsonist 2000 Fires Terry Lee Barton Colorado Heyman Fire Lynch Mobs Bed wetters animal torture Dangerous Triad White People Problem
  • Ep 418 The Real Burning Man 4/6 · 23 min · Episode 418Johne Leonard Orr Arson investigator Turned Arsonist Set 2000+ Fires Terry Lee Barton Colorado Haymen Fire 2002
  • Ep 417 The Real Burning Man 3/6 · 21 min · Episode 417John Leobard Orr Arsonist Investigator Turned Arsonist 2000+ Fires Southern California Life in Prison Author whose Novel arsonist is a stand in for him
  • Ep 416 The Real Burning Man 2/6 · 19 min · Episode 416John Leonard Orr Arson Investigator turned Arsonist Started 2000+ fires
  • Ep 415 The Real Burning Man 1/6 · 20 min · Episode 415John Leonard Orr Hero Arson Investigator whom Started 2000+ fires
  • Ep 414 Body in the Park 11/11 · 27 min · Episode 414The Preppy Murder Tail Jennifer Levin Robert Chambers 34 years in prison Linda Fairstein The Slut shaming Defense Weaponizing Misogyny
  • Ep 413 Body in the Park 10/11 · 18 min · Episode 413Preppy Murder Trial Jennifer Levin Robert Chambers Defense counsel sleaze Jack Litman Manslaughter plea 15 year Prison sentence Tabloid Sleaze Defense Strategy worked, muddied…
  • Ep 412 Body in the Park 9/11 · 23 min · Episode 412The Preppy Murder Trial Jennifer Levin Robert Chambers You can't slander a dead woman Rough sex gone wrong Strangulation Breath Control Tabloid character assassination Jack…
  • Ep 411 Body in the Park 8/11 · 22 min · Episode 411Jennifer Levin Robert Chambers The Preppy Murder Victim Shaming Defense Woman as slut Asking for it
  • Ep 410 Body in the Park 7/11 · 25 min · Episode 410Jennifer Levin Robert Chambers The Preppy Murder Tabloid Sex Frenzy Chokehold Goes Wrong The victim is to blame Linda Fairstein DA
  • Ep 409 Body in the Park 6/11 · 23 min · Episode 409Jennifer Levin Murder Robert Chambers 16 weight classes below Heavyweight class Super Bantum weight Strangulation Petechial Damage arm lock choke hold Asphyxiation
  • Ep 408 Body in the Park 5/11 · 16 min · Episode 408Jennifer Levin Robert Chambers We only become more of who we were Good looks masking Criminal History The price of 'Hooking Up' Women's Liberties Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Ep 407 Body in the Park 4/11 · 21 min · Episode 407Jennifer Levin Robert Chambers JFK jr Good looks. Tall Dark & Handsome Terrible Character Expulsion Criminal Behavior Heroin use Upper East Side Social scene
  • Ep 406 Body in the Park 3/11 · 19 min · Episode 406Defense Attorney Jack Litman Shifting legal culpability High Fees No moral Shame Factor Jennifer Levin
  • Ep 405 Body in the Park 2/11 · 25 min · Episode 405NYC Crime Wave 1980's Durkheim Constant Reached Mayor Rudy Giuliani Broken Windows Law Enforcement Singapore Caning Enforcing the Law Trade off Freedom & Safety
  • EP 404 Body In the Park 1/11 · 21 min · Episode 404Murder of Jenny Levin The Preppy Murder Case NY City in 1986 Mayor David Dinkins Frottage You are your own sheriff Squeegee-men
  • Ep 403 8 Moments that Made The NFL an Empire! 6/6 · 19 min · Episode 403Patrick Mahomes the 13 Second Drive Josh Allen The Buffalo Bills Curse New Definition of Clutch The Goat in waiting
  • Ep 402 8 Moments That the NFL an Empire!5/6 · 16 min · Episode 402Tom Brady The Goat The Impossible 25 point Patriot comeback in the Super Bowl Super Man is in the stadium Shell shocked Atlanta Falcons
  • Ep 401 8 Moments That Made the NFL an Empire! 4/6 · 22 min · Episode 401The Helmet Catch David Tyree's moment in history Eli Manning Tom Brady The Patriots fall just short of Perfection
  • Ep 400 8 Moments that Made The NFL an Empire! 3/6 · 17 min · Episode 400John Elway The Comeback Kid Denver Broncos The Catch The Fumble the Dog Pound in Cleveland An 1980's Dramatic NFL Moment The Cleveland Curse
  • Ep 399 8 Moments that Made The NFL an Empire! 2/6 · 20 min · Episode 399Joe Montana Dwight Clark 49ers Dominate the 1980's Cowboy Decline Dynastic Change The Catch
  • Ep 398 8 Moments that Made The NFL an Empire! 1/6 · 20 min · Episode 398The NFL 1958 Championship The Greatest Game ever Played! Super Bowl Johnny Unitas Joe Namath Mink Coat & the Guarantee
  • Ep 397 The Great Molasses Tragedy 2/2 · 33 min · Episode 397The Great Molasses Tragedy Shoddy Building Practices Lack of Regulatory Oversight 1st Class Action Law Suit in Massachusetts Italian Anarchist Defense Fails
  • Ep 396 The Great Molasses Tragedy 1/2 · 24 min · Episode 396The Great Molasses Tragedy in Boston Unknown Unknowns Probabilities Dominated by Consequences Human Error Incompetency Catastrophic Risk
  • Ep 395 Captain Ahab, Moby Dick & The Fuhrer · 14 min · Episode 395Melville Captain Ahab Moby Dick Walt Whitman Our fearful trip Doomed
  • Ep 394 Captain Ahab, Moby Dick & the Fuhrer · 23 min · Episode 394Melville Moby Dick Hitler OSS Psyche report on the Fuhrer Captain Ahab
  • Ep 393 Captain Ahab, Moby Dick & The Fuhrer · 21 min · Episode 393Hitler Moby Dick Melville 1943 CIA psych analysis on Hitler
  • Ep 434 A Portrait of Paranoia 9/10 · 25 min · Episode 434Stalin Mad clapping Crudity magnified & horrid insults Volatile Temper Cheka Whoopee Cushions
  • Ep 392 Captain Ahab, Moby Dick & The Fuhrer · 23 min · Episode 392Melville Moby Dick Captain Ahab The Pequot utter destruction Charismatic pull
  • Ep 422 A Badge, A Betrayal, & A Body in the Bed 2/5 · 18 min · Episode 422Edward Hanrahan FBI J Edgar Hoover The Black Panther Party Fred Hampton Threat to USA Security Confidential Informant The Raid
  • EP 433 A Portrait of Paranoia 8/10 · 19 min · Episode 433Stalin Nervous breakdown Operation Barbarossa Zhukov
  • Ep 420 The Real Burning Man 6/6 · 17 min · Episode 420John Leonard Orr Pyromaniac Pyromania Freud Sexual Arousal flames shooting up in air
  • Ep 391Captain Ahab, Moby Dick & The Fuhrer · 21 min · Episode 391Melville Moby Dick Captain Ahab Adolph Hitler
  • Ep 390 Captain Ahab, Moby Dick & The Fuhrer · 21 min · Episode 390Melville Captain Ahab Adolph Hitler Moby Dick Eloquence Obsession madness
  • Ep 389 Captain Ahab, Moby Dick & The Fuhrer · 20 min · Episode 389Herman Melville Moby Dick Adolph Hitler Scapegoating Jews Treaty of Versailles November Criminals Obsession
  • Ep 388 Captain Ahab, Moby Dick & The Fuhrer · 18 min · Episode 388Herman Melville The Great White Whale Captain Ahab Albert Speer Obsession Ishmael Calamity The Pequot
  • Ep 387 The Humiliation of Canossa 6/6 · 17 min · Episode 387Humiliation of Canossa Holy Roman Emperor vs The Pope Worms Concordat at Worms Spiritual Matters vs Affairs of State The Rise of the Catholic Church
  • Ep 386 The Humiliation at Canossa · 21 min · Episode 386Humiliation at Canossa Nuclear options of the Pope Excommunication Pope Gregory VII vs Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV
  • Ep 385 The Humiliation of Canossa 4/6 · 25 min · Episode 385Henry IV Pope Gregory VII Submission Humiliation at Canossa Excommunication as the Nuclear weapon in the Pope's Arsenal
  • Ep 384 The Humiliation of Canossa 3/6 · 23 min · Episode 384Pope Gregory excommunicates Henry iv Henry iv deposes the Pope Battle of the titan over Lay Investiture My father excommunicates me in Maui Golf at Kapalua Bay Golf Course
  • Ep 381 The Humiliation of Canossa 2/6 · 23 min · Episode 381Lay Investiture The Gregorian Movement Appointment Powers King or Pope Trump Card Investiture Crisis 1077
  • Ep 378 The Humiliation of Canossa 1/6 · 25 min · Episode 378Pecking Order Hypothesis Bullies Kick the Big Guy in the nuts They Want What You Got Show no weakness, it emboldens competitors Demonstrate Invincibility
  • Lordy Lordy Lordy Lord Jim 2/2 · 26 min · Episode 383Lord Jim Joseph Conrad Moral Ambiguity Duty Courage & Cowardice Shame lasts forever
  • Ep 382 Lordy Lordy Lordy Lord Jim 1/2 · 17 min · Episode 382Lord Jim Joseph Conrad Courage & Cowardice Rights & Duties Abandoning one's duties

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