Distorted History Podcast

I'm a history teacher and musician and every other week I cover a topic from American history ranging from the important to the cultural to the weird and unusual. Also once a month I produce a bonus episode focusing on the creation on a piece of music be it a modern rock album to classical music or the lore of video game.

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Update frequency: every 7 days
Average duration: 57 minutes
Episodes: 254
Years Active: 2019 - 2025

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Sound Stories Tool Part 1 Beginnings to AEnima

In what started out as an examination of Tool's album Lateralus I ended up telling a slightly longer more interconnected story. This is the first of the 2 parts of that story. As I cover the origins …

00:37:12 | Sat 17 Aug 2024

Butch And Sundance Episode 2

After taking their first steps on the outlaw trail, independent from one another. Both Butch and Sundance each make attempts to avoid such a life before finally embracing their destiny. (4 part serie…

01:13:04 | Sat 10 Aug 2024

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Episode 1

I begin my examination of the lives of famous cowboy outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by focusing on their early lives and first forrays into crime. Part 1 of a 4 part series.

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01:16:57 | Sat 27 Jul 2024

Sound Stories Soundgarden Badmotorfinger

In the wake of an uncertain time for Soundgarden with the departure of their bassist and the loss of a close friend of singer Chris Cornell the band creates one of their most memorable albums.

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00:38:50 | Sat 20 Jul 2024

Unbreakable Elizabeth Packard Part 4: The Fight for Others

Elizabeth had won her freedom and even successfully argued her own sanity in a court room. She was not done fighting however. She would not be satisfied until her children were returned to her and sh…

01:23:07 | Sat 13 Jul 2024

Unbreakable Elizabeth Packard Part 3: The Fight for Sanity

After her eventual release from the asylum Elizabeth Packard still has to prove her own sanity in an effort to stop her husband from having her institutionalized again. 4 part series

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01:18:24 | Sat 29 Jun 2024

Heavy Metal Remaster Part 4 Grunge and Extreme Metal

In this final episode in my series on the history of heavy metal we move into the 90s to examine the Seattle scene that finally brought an end to the glam metal movement as well as emergent extreme m…

01:22:34 | Sat 22 Jun 2024

Unbreakable Elizabeth Packard Part 2: The Fight for Freedom

Elizabeth's life in the asylum after her husband follows through on his threat.
4 part series

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01:06:24 | Sat 15 Jun 2024

Sound Stories Rush 2112

In 1976 the Canadian band Rush hadn't really found theri identity yet. In fact they were very much in danger of being dropped by their record label after the disappointing failure of their 3rd album …

00:32:32 | Sat 08 Jun 2024

Unbreakable Elizabeth Packard Part 1: The Threat

A woman is threatened with being sent to an insane asylum simply for speaking her mind.
4 part series

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01:24:15 | Sat 01 Jun 2024

Titanic Thompson The Fall of a Legendary Gambler Part 2 of 2

Titanic's trip to New York ends in infamy but the story of his slow kind of sad downward spiral is just beginning.

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01:22:58 | Sat 18 May 2024

Sound Stories Mad Season

The story behind the short lived Seattle area super group consisting of members of Alice in Chains, Screaming Trees and Pearl Jam.

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00:32:54 | Sat 11 May 2024

Titanic Thompson Legendary Gambler Part 1 of 2

The tale of a traveling gambler's rise to legendary status in the early 19 hundreds.

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01:13:08 | Sat 04 May 2024

Heavy Metal Remaster Part 3 America in the 80s Glam vs. Thrash

America in the 1980s saw the rise of two very distinct variations of heavy metal.

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01:50:23 | Sat 27 Apr 2024

Attica Prison Uprising Part 4 of 4 Revelations

Will the victims of the events in Attica ever receive any kind of justice from the state.

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01:41:52 | Sat 20 Apr 2024

Sound Stories Metallica And Justice for All

Metallica were riding high of off the success of their 3rd album Master of Puppets. Yet it was at that moment that they suffered an inimaginable tragedy when their friend, bass player, and guiding fo…

00:40:00 | Sat 13 Apr 2024

Attica Prison Uprising Part 3 0f 4 Reprisals and Cover Ups

On Governor Rockefeller's orders rather than continue negotiations New York state police lead the assault on Attica's D year. An assault the leads to the deaths of 29 inmates and 10 hostages. Yet des…

01:10:45 | Sat 06 Apr 2024

Attica Prison Uprising Part 2 of 4 Rebellion

With Commissioner Oswald failing to alleviate the growing tensions in Attica events lead to an unplanned and spontaneous riot on the 9th of September 1971. Yet following the initial violence and chao…

01:28:27 | Sat 23 Mar 2024

History of Heavy Metal Remaster Part 2 NWOBHM

I once again return to my history of heavy metal with new research into the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. While Black Sabbath provide the initial rough blue prints for heavy metal these bands woul…

00:58:13 | Sat 16 Mar 2024

Attica Prison Uprising Part 1 of 4 Boiling Point

As we begin our journey into the Attica prison rebellion we get to see that the inmates in Attica were far from alone in their discontent in relation to the degrading, oppressive and unsanitary condi…

01:14:21 | Sat 09 Mar 2024

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