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Family Plot

Family Plot

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 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.

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  • Episode 284 The Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project - A Saint Louis tale of Greed and Absurdity

    Episode 284 The Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project - A Saint Louis tale of Greed and Absurdity
    Jan 22 2026
    2026 has been an interesting year for us and so far, all the episodes, we've done have had a real world echo to something happening in our world right now. This was unplanned and this week continues that trend as we discuss the Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project. An attempt in Saint Louis to create a new type of housing for the urban poor was met with removal of any communal or public space, to maximize efficiency, segregation, patrols to keep 'able bodied men' from getting free rent by living with their families, and no funding for maintenance which instead of lifting up the urban poor, just pointed them at a life of crime in this episode where we discuss the history of this Saint Louis housing project, what the idea or originally was versus what it becoame and then how instead of spending billions for corporate welfare, we could instead spend those same billions actually helping people and stimulating the economy. We get more than a little political and more than tired of the status quo in this episode of the Family Plot Podcast! #AbolishIce

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    49 mins
  • Episode 283 - The Yuba County 5 with Courtney from Book of the Dead Podcast

    Episode 283 - The Yuba County 5 with Courtney from Book of the Dead Podcast
    Jan 15 2026
    Wow do we have an episode for you! First we are joined by Courtney from Book of the Dead Podcast who is an amazing podcaster with an amazing show! We also take a moment to comment on the murder of Renee Good and while we don't do a deep dive because it is political, we do make it clear that a) it was, in fact, a murder and b) we make it clear that it wasn't right and we are here for those listeners who may be lost, hurt or confused in these dark times. Then we dig into the Yuba County 5, a California cold case that ranks right up there with the Dyatlov Pass Incident for being unsolvable Maybe higher because a slab avalance seems the likely solution to that mystery...but there is no easy answer to the Yuba County 5. Why would five men drive miles out of their way into the Plumas County forest? Why would they get out of a car that had half a tank of gas, was mechanically sound, and not stuck. Why would they hike 19 miles to a forest service trailer where at least three men died along the way? Why was a fifth man discovered dead in a forest service trailer with several weeks growth of beard? Why did he die from exposure and malnutrition when the trailer had both food and heat? Why did he have another man's shoes with him what happened to the one man who was never found and who's gold watch was also found in the trailer? We ask all these questions but there aren't really any answers in this mysterious, historical, true crime deep dive into a cold case from all the way back in 1978.

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    55 mins
  • Episode 282 - Ida B. Wells - Her Power, Pen and Protests

    Episode 282 - Ida B. Wells - Her Power, Pen and Protests
    Jan 8 2026
    Our latest episode goes hog wild as we talk about the heroic Ida B. Wells. From taking care of her brothers and sisters at the age of 16 after her parents and brother died of yellow fever to teaching in black schools to writing for local papers and taking on lynchings in the South. And this wasn't even forty years after the Brooks Sumner Affair where South Virginia's Senator Preston Brooks attacked Massachussets Senator Charles Sumner hitting him over the head many times after he gave a powerful Anti-Slavery speech. And this was a black woman born into slavery who told the truth about lynchings in a way the South was not ready to hear. A lynch mob would tear her newspaper asunder, force the papers owner to sign a retraction at gunpoint while she happened to be in New York...and in New York she stayed continuing to write the truth about lynchings in the South, even going to England where she spoke publicly about the issue, embarassing the US abroad. Even when she campaigned for women's suffrage, she refused to march in the back, jumping in the middle of the parade as it happened walking with white female suffragists. Largely forgotten by history, she was quoted by US. President Joe Biden when he signed the US first anti-lynching law in 2022. So come with us down the trail of history and lets learn about this firebrand in our first informational episode of 2026!

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    59 mins
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