13 O’Clock Episode 391: Valentine’s Day Special – The Doomed Romance of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love

15 Feb 2024 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

At the dawn of the 1990s, with the explosion of punk and grunge into the mainstream, Nirvana rode the wave to superstardom, becoming the signature sound of disaffected Gen-X’ers. Nirvana’s troubled frontman, Kurt Cobain, had long had problems with drugs and depression, and the sudden thrust into the world’s spotlight didn’t seem to help matters. When he married fellow musician Courtney Love of Hole after only four months of dating, the media wondered if this was going to end in tragedy, if Kurt and Courtney were the Sid and Nancy of the nineties. Sadly, the relationship did end horribly, with Kurt’s suicide in 1994, and ensuing conspiracy theories about Courtney’s possible involvement in his death. Join Tom and Jenny as we go back in time to the heady early 90s, the mainstreaming of punk, and the tragic love story at the center of it all on a grim and grungy Valentine’s Day special.

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13 O’Clock Episode 385: Military Mishaps

4 Jan 2024 / Jenny Ashford / 1 Comment

Like every other organization run by human beings, militaries are fallible, and sometimes the mistakes they make can cost massive amounts of money and/or lives. On this episode of 13 O’Clock, Tom and Jenny discuss a random sampling of some military mishaps of the past century, including the time the Japanese Navy launched a battleship and inadvertently flooded the coastal areas of Nagasaki in 1940; the time a B52 accidentally dropped two atomic bombs on North Carolina in 1961; and the time the British unwittingly invaded Spain in 2002. We’ll also discuss the crazy story of the USS William D. Porter, considered to be the unluckiest ship in the history of the world, as well as several other military mistakes ranging from ridiculous to tragic.

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Episode 320 LIVE: The Lost Cosmonauts and Other Creepy Astronaut Deaths

6 Oct 20226 Oct 2022 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

We all know space as the final frontier, but for some astronauts, was this turn of phrase literally true? On this interplanetary installment, we’ll discuss several creepy and horrific incidents having to do with the space program, from real tragedies like the Apollo 1 fire, the Challenger and Columbia disasters, and the deaths of cosmonauts Valentin Bondarenko and Vladimir Komarov, to more mysterious events, such as the alleged transmissions of the “lost cosmonauts” recorded by the Italian Judica-Cordiglia brothers. Get ready to launch into orbit on a scary and spacefaring episode 320.

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13 O’Clock Episode 317 LIVE: John Wilkes Booth

15 Sep 202215 Sep 2022 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

It’s an American history rabbit hole on today’s installment of 13 O’Clock! Famously, in April of 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC by a well-known actor by the name of John Wilkes Booth. Booth, a vociferous Confederate sympathizer, apparently believed that killing Lincoln would avenge the South’s loss in the Civil War, but things didn’t turn out quite the way Booth thought they would, and both he and several of his co-conspirators ended up hanged or shot for their part in the murder. What could have caused this successful actor to have taken such drastic measures? Travel back through the centuries on this horrific and historical episode 317.

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13 O’Clock Episode 308: Florida Pirates

14 Jul 202214 Jul 2022 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

Arrrggghhh, mateys! On this swashbuckling installment, Tom and Jenny will be exploring the fascinating maritime history of the state they call home, Florida. From the early 1500s to well into the 19th century, numerous pirates prowled the long coastlines of the Sunshine State, preying on treasure-laden Spanish galleons that sailed the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. Cities like St. Augustine on the east coast and Tampa on the west were hotbeds of pirate activity, and to this day, many attractions in the state boast numerous pirate artifacts, and the waters off both coasts are littered with shipwrecks. Famous pirates (or privateers, if you prefer) like Sir Francis Drake, Robert Searle, Henry Jennings, Black Caesar, and the possibly fictitious José Gaspar (after whom Tampa’s annual Gasparilla Festival is named) are among those who plundered the state’s shores, and we’re gonna yo-ho-ho right along with ’em on this seafaring and buccaneering episode 308.

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13 O’Clock Episode 304 LIVE: Native American Code Talkers

16 Jun 202216 Jun 2022 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

One of the most important aspects of any battle is being able to communicate information to your allies without that same information falling into the hands of your enemies. In the United States, during both World Wars, one way this was accomplished was through the use of people known as code talkers. A code talker was a person who would use their knowledge of a little-known language in order to encrypt information, and in the US, most of these code talkers were Native Americans, who used their native languages to establish codes for secret communication. The Navajo code talkers are the best known, but several other nations, including Cherokee, Hopi, Lakota, Choctaw, Comanche, Cree, and Mohawk, also contributed to the war effort, and though appreciation of their valuable service was long in coming, the code talkers finally began receiving some recognition in the early 1980s. Join Tom and Jenny on this fascinating journey into somewhat forgotten history on a cryptic and compelling episode 304.

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13 O’Clock Episode 301 LIVE: Bonnie and Clyde

26 May 202226 May 2022 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

In the annals of American crime, and certainly during the gangster era of the 1930s, there were few couples as notorious and romanticized as Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, along with their gang, traveled throughout the United States from 1931 to 1934, robbing banks, shops, and funeral homes, and killing nine police officers and four civilians during their spree, before being gunned down in an ambush in 1934. Over the years, their myth has only grown in the American consciousness, and the pair have been the subject of numerous films, TV shows, songs, books, and even musicals. Travel with Tom and Jenny back to the Great Depression as we delve into this killer couple on a bullet-riddled episode 301.

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13 O’Clock Episode 287 LIVE: Dr. John Kellogg and the Battle Creek Sanitarium

18 Feb 2022 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

Who knew that cornflakes could be so fascinating?!? The name Kellogg is today remembered primarily in regards to breakfast cereals, but what some people may not know is that there’s a whole intriguing story behind Dr. John Kellogg, inventor of the cornflake among many other things, and the health spa he headed in Battle Creek, Michigan back in the 19th century. Kellogg, a Seventh-Day Adventist, was an early proponent of vegetarianism, light therapy, and physical exercise (among other, stranger things, like sexual abstinence and yogurt enemas) as a way to wellness. He was also remarkably prescient in his early development of nut butters, meat subsitutes, soy milk, granola, and other health foods that modern people take for granted. Unfortunately, he was also REALLY into eugenics, so can’t win ’em all. Join Tom and Jenny as they travel the Road to Wellville on this healthy history of Dr. Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium on a delicious and nutritious episode 287.

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13 O’Clock Episode 282 LIVE: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

13 Jan 202213 Jan 2022 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

Half a century after it was exposed, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study remains one of the darker chapters in American medical history, and led to several reforms in medical ethics, particularly in regard to informed consent for human subjects. Beginning in 1932, the US Public Health Service conducted a study to determine the course that syphilis would take if left untreated. Tragically, the subjects of the study were all impoverished African-American sharecroppers, none of whom were told what the study was for and whether they had syphilis or not. Worse still, the engineers of the study refused to allow the subjects to undergo treatment for the disease, even after penicillin was proven to be an effective remedy; not only did more than a hundred men die as a result of this refusal, but several of the men also passed the disease on to their wives, and some of their children were later born with congenital syphilis as well. Join Tom and Jenny on this grim journey through medical malfeasance on a sickly and somber episode 282.

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13 O’Clock Episode 223 LIVE: The Witchcraft Trial of Margaret Mattson

23 Nov 202023 Nov 2020 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

On today’s spellbinding installment, Tom and Jenny are discussing an interesting and not-very-well-known witchcraft trial from the 17th century. Swedish immigrant Margaret Mattson, suspected of cursing the neighbors’ livestock, was brought before a judge and jury in what was the state of Pennsylvania’s only official witchcraft trial, and one that took place nearly a decade before the much more famous events in Salem. Presided over by state founder and Quaker William Penn, the trial was notable for its outcome, which was quite different than the tragic results of later trials. Hop onto your broomsticks and get ready for the magical journey into colonial American history that is episode 223.

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