Yesteryear's News Today (CLASSIC)
A weekly podcast where we discuss the weeks news events from years long past Beginning with the week of January 1st 1901 and working our way through the next century one year at a time Each week a new year
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 74 minutes
- Episodes
- 25
- Years Active
- 2015
#23 Old Timely Boxing and Making Lovecraft - This Week in 1923
A couple of day's late due to technical difficulties (no fault of our own we swear) we're up and running again. This week we're talking about one of the most dramatic sporting moments of the 20th cen…
01:15:05 |
Mon 14 Sep 2015
#22 Mary Winchester's Mystery House - This Week in 1922
This week, Mary Winchester dies & with her, the truth behind her mystery house. Another mining disaster rocks England, and a man named Dolittle does quite a bit.
01:08:38 |
Mon 14 Sep 2015
#21 Another Killer, Another Air Disaster - This Week in 1921
Another year, another serial killer, airship disaster and more strange news from this week in 1921
00:52:07 |
Mon 14 Sep 2015
#20 A 1920's Serial Killer - This Week in 1920
This week we step into the roaring twenties and take a look at the first commercial radio broadcast, a tragedy in baseball, and ruthless serial killer, Carl Panzram. All making the news, this week in…
01:09:13 |
Mon 14 Sep 2015
SE: Shoulder Arms Commentary
Originally removed from our feed because we weren't happy with how it turned out, here is our commentary on Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms (as discussed in our episode for "This Week in 1918)
00:46:56 |
Mon 14 Sep 2015
#19 Airships and Comicstrips - This week in 1919
The latest episode of Yesteryear's News Today (July 12th 2015) in which Shane & Johnny look at some more lighter-than-air advances, a classic comic-strip by Frank King and anything else that was maki…
01:11:26 |
Mon 14 Sep 2015
#18 A Farewell To Arms - This Week In 1918
As the war winds down, we look at one of the other mass killers of the year, The Spanish Flu. Released this week was "Shoulder Arms" by Charlie Chaplin. And we discuss the works of Ernest Hemingway, …
00:59:55 |
Mon 14 Sep 2015
#17 And The War Goes On - This Week in 1917
This weeks marks the 3 year anniversary of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, and the event that would send the world into one of the most disastrous conflicts in history. As America enters the wa…
01:15:26 |
Mon 14 Sep 2015
#16 Tolkien and The Great War, 1916
World War 1 reaches the half way mark, and J.R.R Tolkien ships off to France. The commander-in-chief signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America. And the English Starling bird is on trial fo…
01:21:02 |
Mon 14 Sep 2015
#14 Martians, Mothers, and Witches. This week in 1914
A Little Green Man is spotted in Texas, Mother's Day is made official by orders of the commander-in-chief himself, Witchcraft is discussed at length, and our imaginations might hold the answers to tw…
01:14:31 |
Mon 14 Sep 2015
#13 Three Tales of Mystery from This Week In 1913
In which we pitch the next three seasons of True Detective.Stories include, a murder in a pencil factory, The investigation into a mysterious madman. And the case of Bobby Dunbar.The photo's we refer…
01:15:45 |
Mon 14 Sep 2015
#12 The week the Titanic sank
The week of one of the biggest news stories of the 20th century, we chose to ignore most of it and instead talk about Kim Il-sung & North Korea, the first woman to fly across the English channel, Bra…
01:05:06 |
Sun 13 Sep 2015
#11 The Black Hand Return and The works of Animator Winsor McCay
One for the lawmen, as members of The Black Hand are hauled off to the big house. Tragedy strike in Alabama, when an explosion kills 128 at the Pratt Company coal mine. And We look at the works of An…
01:15:16 |
Sun 13 Sep 2015
SE: Historic Hoaxes
April Fools Day 2015 has passed, and we've survived it without falling for any outlandish claims. But in the spirit of that ridiculous day, we take a look at some bogus news stories that made the pap…
01:35:30 |
Sun 13 Sep 2015
#10 Edison's Frankenstein, How Strangers Argued in 1910 and More News from The Week
In which we discuss the bizarre crimes of the week; the first motion picture adaption of Mary Shelly's iconic novel, Frankenstein. How people held long distant arguments before the age of the interne…
01:26:30 |
Sun 13 Sep 2015
#9 Race for The Poles, This Week in 1909
President Lincoln travels 100 years into the future and conquers Mars, Roosevelt exits and Taft steps in, the race for the poles heats up, and somewhere a family is mourning the death of George Mille…
01:34:27 |
Sun 13 Sep 2015
#8 Black Hand Society, Flea Circuses and More from This Week in 1908
A man finds a displaced arm in a wood pile, another man starts his very own flea circus, rebellion is stirring once again in Russia, and many Italian-American Citizens are living in fear after receiv…
01:02:32 |
Sun 13 Sep 2015
#7 First Trial of the Century and Casting our 1907 cop movie
We cast Shia Labeouf in the action packed adaption of the true 1907 man hunt for four California bank robbers, tell the bizarre (and mostly just sad) story of Evelyn Nesbit & the murder of her former…
01:22:34 |
Sun 13 Sep 2015
SE: The Donner Party
It's Friday the 13th, and we take a look at one of the harshest incidences of bad luck in the old west, The Tragic Expedition of The Donner Party.If you want to know more about their story, read the …
00:47:24 |
Sun 13 Sep 2015
#6 Murder of a Senitor, The Dynamite Express and More
This week we have the Idaho coal miners strike, the Dynamite Express, and the events that led to the murder of senator Steunenberg as a result. Then, Shane recounts the story of the (phony)Lord Barri…
01:38:52 |
Sun 13 Sep 2015
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