Passing Notes with Ashley and Shanda Podcast
1) Season 1 Finale: Caesar Salad Origins, Gnome Liberation Front, Sam Brown, and Roland the Medieval Flatulist
Ashley and Shanda discuss their favorite episodes from Season 1. Ashley gives a brief history of the origin of the Caesar Salad and talks about a prank in the United Kingdom known as the Gnome Liberat...Show More
2) Invisible Threats: The Summer of Hydrogen/ The Broom Method and The Japanese Uranium Plant Accident of 1999
Shanda discusses the hydrogen gas leak that plagued NASA engineers during the mid-1990s and an effect way to detect the invisible and highly combustable gas was to use basic straw brooms. Ashley recou...Show More
3) Past Lives: Children’s Memories and Dorothy Louise Eady
Ashley recounts the stories of two children, Ryan Hammond and James Leininger, who remember their past lives, lists a few statistics discovered by Dr. Jim Tucker and Dr. Ian Stevenson, then discusses ...Show More
4) Survival: Olympic Runner Betty Robinson and Mountaineers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates
Shanda discusses the quick rise of record breaking Olympic medal winning runner Betty “Babe” Robinson who after a plane crash left her so severely injured a stranger took her straight to the morgue, m...Show More
5) Debunked: RMS Titanic Conspiracy and Herbalife Smoothie Shops
Ashley discusses a social media conspiracy claiming that the Titanic was switched with its sister ship The Olympic for possible insurance fraud and how researchers Steve Hall and Bruce Beveridge wrote...Show More
6) Beauty Queens: Joyce McKinney and Mary Leona Gage
Shanda tells the story of pageant winner Joyce McKinney who in 1977, traveled to England from Salt Lake City where she allegedly kidnapped, imprisoned, and raped her Mormon boyfriend Kirk Anderson, an...Show More
7) Mythical Creatures: The Jackalope and The Kraken
Shanda discusses how the Jackalope, a half rabbit half antelope creature, was created by taxidermist Douglas Herrick and his brother in 1932, which helped make their town of Douglas, Wyoming a tourist...Show More
8) Killer Women: Belle Gunness and Judy Buenoano
Shanda talks about murderess Belle Gunness who lured men to her La Porte, Indiana farm from 1884 to 1908, possibly faked her death by setting her house on fire, and is responsible for 14 confirmed mur...Show More
9) Statues: The Vulcan and Big Butter Jesus
Ashley discusses the Vulcan statue located in Birmingham Alabama built by Giuseppe Moretti to represent the city’s iron industry at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Shanda tells the story...Show More
10) New Orleans: Pirate Jean Lafitte and Metairie Cemetery/Josie Arlington
Shanda discusses pirate and successful smuggler Jean Lafitte and how he helped General Andrew Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 in exchange for a pardon for him and his brot...Show More