American Timelines
Amy & Joe discuss true crime & pop culture and crazy events through history year by year. Amy takes a deep dive on something creepy while Joe tells us about wacky stuff that happened. Amy likes murder, Joe likes old sitcoms, and they podcast to escape the monotony of adulthood.
Episodes
May 7, 2025 • 68 mins
April & May 1944: Lena Baker, Charlie Chaplin & The Castle Warden Fire
Joe is joined by Steve from the Gruff & Loud Show and the Debra Jo Ruppiverse to discuss April and May of 1944. Stories include The first and last woman to ever be executed in the electric chair in Georgia, A haunted castle fire, and Chat GPT hipster styled story about Charlie Chaplin & the Mann Act. Plus some birthdays and other stuff.
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March 26, 2025 • 53 mins
Author Roger Newman joins Artstar and Joe to discuss his novel, BOYS.
Imagine a young boy whose family is killed by the Ku Klux Klan during the Great Depression and is raised by the farmer whose farm he hides on, alongside the farmer’s son. The two boys—one Black, one White— come to view themselves as brothers.
When the brothers head off to fight in segregated military units in World War II, they are separated by diverging militar...
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March 17, 2025 • 48 mins
Episode 239. Amy and Joe jump into March 1944. WW2 is going strong, a soldier survives a jump from a plane without a parachute, Bob Hope hosts the Oscars, a Jewish Mobster who invented Murder Inc. dies, a child is executed after being wrongfully convicted of murder, and Amy covers a French serial killer doctor who pretended to be part of the Resistance.
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February 17, 2025 • 45 mins
Joe interviews author Robert B. O’Connor about his World War 2 based book: Jeep Show, as well as some other topics such as soccer, baseball, cigars and weed!
Robert B. O’Connor is the author of the WWII novel Jeep Show – A Trouper at the Battle of the Bulge (https://jeepshowbook.com/)
and the non-fiction Gumptionade – A Booster for Your Self-Improvement Plan. Two radically different books about morale.
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January 24, 2025 • 36 mins
Amy is back to tell us all about the tragedy of the lynching of Willie James Howard. Plus: Birthdays galore with Bonnie Franklin, Angela Davis, Joe Frazier and Stockard Channing.
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January 2, 2025 • 65 mins
Addy Kapur episode: Recorded December of 2024.
Addy Kapur is a software developer, a photographer, a father, a husband, a native Delhiite, a comedian and a cook.
Listen as we get to know Addy Kapur who met Joe in 2019 at the Queen City Comedy Experience Festival while photographing the Nate Bargatze show and meet and greet. Follow along as we learn about Addy’s journey from the vastly populated Delhi where he was forced to pla...
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December 11, 2024 • 47 mins
Episode 235: The Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident w/ Artstar and Hunter Brame
Hunter shares the tale of The Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident, while John Denver and Ben Kingsley are born. Hunter also gives us some in-depth Hitler knowledge. Artstar is a real man.
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November 26, 2024 • 63 mins
he Hopevale Martyrs: November & December 1943 with Artstar and Hunter Brame
The mighty Artstar tells us about the Hopevale Martyrs, while Joe overviews Sam Shepard, Keith Richards, Joni Mitchell and Jim Morrison being born, U.S. Marine Sergeant Herbert J. Thomas, An unusual game involving the Ohio State Buckeyes & Illinois Illini, The U.S.Navy destroyer USS William D. Porter firing a torpedo at the president of the US, Leonard B...
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October 21, 2024 • 93 mins
Adam Cufr episode:
Recorded September of 2024. Friendcheck #9, Episode 233.
Adam Cufr is a father, a husband, a drummer, a veteran and a
Retirement Income Certified Professional
Listen as we get to know Adam Cufr, an upstanding gent who
happened to go to high school with Gruff and Joe. Listen as we discuss Adam’s beginnings as a boy playing with girls, playing drums in bands and in school, getting his first
drumset from Santa...
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October 2, 2024 • 56 mins
Episode 232: 1943: Huntz Hall: Don't Kill Your Friends.
Joe is joined by the very rev Gary Hall, son of legendary comedian
Huntz Hall of Bowery Boys & Dead End Kids fame to discuss Huntz Hall in the 40's.
Including his WW2 training video, Don’t Kill Your Friends. We also discuss his friendship with Shemp Howard, his comparisons to the Beastie Boys, Milton Berle babysitting, his impression of a machine gun that got him cast, hi...
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September 16, 2024 • 68 mins
A True Friend, A Stoner & a former Prince Albert Haver
The Gruff episode: Recorded August of 2024. (Friendcheck #8, American Timelines # 231)
Steve Bishop aka Gruff from the Gruff & Loud Show is an Ohioan, a Stoner, a Damn Good Friend, and once had a Prince Albert.
Before we move any further down the friend check path, let's take a pause and get to know the co-host of the Friend Check episodes a little better: Gruff.
Listen as w...
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September 4, 2024 • 49 mins
Amy’s back to jump back into 1943 and the mysterious murder of a somewhat famous actor. Did he get stabbed with a stiletto? Why was he in a bathing suit?
Plus: Robert Dinero's birthday, Mussolini escapes, Kennedy is a hero, an airshow tragedy in St. Louis, and more!
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August 7, 2024 • 90 mins
A Pharma Consultant Who Grew Up On a Farm
Adam Bianchi episode: Recorded July of 2024. (Friendcheck #7, American Timelines # 229)
Adam Bianchi is a father, a husband, a farm-boy, a Spring Valley Viking, a UNC Tarheel, and a Pharma Consultant!
Listen as we get to know Adam Bianchi who may have never even met Joe before, but became his friend because he’s married to one of Joe’s favorite comedians. Listen as we discuss Adam's ...
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July 23, 2024 • 45 mins
1943: Unit 731 (Episode 228-May to July)
Amy’s back to jump back into 1943 with Joe. Amy tells us about the Japanese Unit 731 during World War 2 and all of the awful torture they became famous for while Joe covers the following timeline topics:
Mussolini resigning, Sharon Gless and Mick Jagger being born, Batman and Robin coming to the big screen, The Phil-Pitt Steagles, The Detroit & Beaumont Race Riots, The Tuskegee Airmen, The...
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July 10, 2024 • 57 mins
Hunter Brame aka Pilot Babboo is back to school Joe about awesome lady pilots in WW2. We talk Nancy Harkness Love, Jacqueline Cochran, the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS), Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) and so much more.
art of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com.
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May 30, 2024 • 70 mins
1943: Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? (Episode 226-Jan to Apr)
Amy’s back to jump into 1943 with Joe. Amy tells us about a woman found dead in a tree, while Joe covers the following timeline topics:
The invention of Nachos & Duct Tape
The Birthdays of George Harrison, Janis Joplin, Joe Pesci & Christopher Walken
WW2 Rationing
Volcanoes Appearing
Women Marines & Pilots
And much more!
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May 16, 2024 • 96 mins
Friend Check: A People Development Consultant-Foodie Podcaster: Abby Elfman (Episode 225)
Recorded August of 2023.
Abby Elfman is a podcaster, an Atascocita Eagle, a UT San Antonio Roadrunner, a voice actor, an improviser and a People Development Consultant!
Listen as we get to know Abby Elfman who became Joe’s friend when they worked together on a sketch show in Charlotte back in 2019. We talk about deviant lifestyles, Abby’s ...
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April 27, 2024 • 62 mins
Hunter Brame returns to assist Joe in discussing Dewey Beard, a native who was forced off of his land on multiple occasions, and was part of some notable historical moments in US history. We talk Wounded Knee, Battle of Little Big Horn, General Custar’s smokin’ hot wife, Libbie Custar and their sexy 1800’s version of sexting among other things. PLUS Hunter tells us another recent story of almost pooping his pants while flying.
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April 10, 2024 • 78 mins
Joe is joined by Hunter Brame, WW2 Buff, pilot and beard and glasses wearer to do a biography episode about Audie Murphy, the real life Captain America. We planned to talk Dewey Beard too, but we ran out of time. Enjoy.
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March 26, 2024 • 100 mins
Friend Check: An Architect Usher: Aaron Moody (Episode 222)
Aaron Moody episode: Recorded March of 2023.
Aaron Moody is an architect and a volunteer usher at a performing arts center, and he volunteers at the Queen City Comedy Experience Festival to help things run smoothly, along with his wife Meg.
Aaron and Meg are super fun to be around, and they support the local comedy community in Charlotte whenever they can.
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