Family Plot
An odd dad and his 11 year old daughter exploring the strange and unusual in a peculiar world. Discussions will be kept PG-13. Hosted by Dean Boese and Krysta Williams. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/family-plot--4670465/support.
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October 9, 2025 • 57 mins
This episode is a doozy. For spooky season we dig into the life and crimes of the infamous duo, William Burke and William Hare. During a time when resurrectionists ran rampant, Burke and Hare cchanged the game. Instead of digging up fresh corpses for the medical establishment to practice upon, they killed people (through a method called burking) and sold their bodies as fresh corpses. We cover the history of medical science at ...
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Well, we cram a whole lotta information into not so much time this epsiode. This episode takes us to New York City to visit The Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral and to Boston to visit the Old North Church. We cover the history of these Crypts, find out when they were built, why they were built and what led to their underground storage spaces for the dearly departed. We cover their hauntings and appearances in popular cult...
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September 25, 2025 • 59 mins
TW: We do at one point briefly discuss suicide, so if this is a problem for you, feel free to skip the part about the spooklight's origins, which is where the discussion happens. This week, Arthur talks school ande grandma, Laura talks her recent birthday (other Virgos holla!) and then we talk the Hornet Spooklight. Seen over E 50 Road better known as spooklight road to the locals. The area is also called the Devil's Promenade ...
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September 24, 2025 • 46 mins
In this episode, we jump to our second campaign, a Call of Cthulhu based campaign called Lore for the Pages. In this episode, our heroes inherit both a bookstore and a home from KH Hillman, a bookseller who for years has been selling Cthulhu Mythos and occult books and objets d'arts by mail to unscrupulous buyers. Now, our heroes have to reclaim these lost objects before they are used to cause more problems. The first adventure ...
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September 18, 2025 • 55 mins
This week, we head back to the 1800's to meet the man who would become known as
Billy the Kid! Born Henry McCarty in New York City, he eventually went west with his Mother and brother with stops in Indiana and Wichita before landing in Silver City New Mexico. His mom died when he was just 14 and his stepdad abandoned him to head to California to start mining. Henry's first criminal act was to steal food for which he served ten d...
Billy the Kid! Born Henry McCarty in New York City, he eventually went west with his Mother and brother with stops in Indiana and Wichita before landing in Silver City New Mexico. His mom died when he was just 14 and his stepdad abandoned him to head to California to start mining. Henry's first criminal act was to steal food for which he served ten d...
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September 11, 2025 • 68 mins
We have such an episode for you today! We are staying true to both our Missouri and nerdy roots to bring you the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known as Mark Twain, America's Favorite Humorist. We learn of his many jobs including Riverboat Pilot, Prospector, Newspaper man, journalist, printer's devil, and of course, writer extraordinaire! We talk his rivalry with Bret Harte and the flop that was Ah Sin. We discuss his ...
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September 10, 2025 • 73 mins
This is an episode of our new TTRPG podcast Family Role. Each week we will alternate between D&D adventures and Call of Cthulhu adventures. Hopefully, we will be joined by cool guests along the way. This week features 8 year old Alexandria 'Lexi' Boese as Grelda the Mighty, a Fey Hexblade Warlock; Arthur Williams portraying Albion Bonze a Tiefling Monk and Laura Williams as Noelle 'Dutch' Bunny, a Harengon Sharp Shooter. Mus...
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September 4, 2025 • 74 mins
There is so much going on in this episode, I almost don't know where to begin. In his corner, Arthur discusses his new school year, art and Undertales. Then we settle in to learn about Matilda Joslyn Gage. Raised in a home that was a stop for the Underground Railroad, she learned lessons early about equality and doing the right thing and translated those messages into a voice for the right of women to vote, to invent, to live on...
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August 28, 2025 • 67 mins
Man what an episode!! In Arthur's Corner, he discusses his online school and the tragedy of needing a new kitten. Then we dig into the murders in Keddie California. We study the history of the area, what made it popular and what made it begin to fail. We talk about it's engineering marvel, the Keddie Wye. We also look into Glenna 'Sue' Sharp's past, what led to her moving from Massachussetts to California with her five children...
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August 21, 2025 • 60 mins
We talk about so much in this episode. Arthur takes us to his corner to discuss his new school and a new OC he's literally creating while he talks. Plus we talk Gavin Newsom's hilarious tweets, and the Garfield commercial about fat cats. Then we settle in to discuss this week's topic, the US Ghost Army. Officially they were the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops trained in what was then called Camp Pines but these days is called ...
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August 14, 2025 • 92 mins
This episode is so chock full of content, you might accidentally learn something in the first ten minutes. In Arthur's Corner, among other things, he talks about a recent visit to Children's Mercy Hospital and Dean brings up Josh Gates as Arthur talks his 'hear me out's. We discuss Horrifying History and the fact they posted a snippet of one of Laura's stories,and we talk Octoberpod and of course we discuss the Cash-Landrum UFO I...
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August 7, 2025 • 68 mins
Well this was as fun an episode to do as (we hope) it is for you to listen to. In Arthur's Corner he talks Dandy's World, getting over illness and his return to school as well as his recent popularity as a young transman on Threads. The rest of the Laura suggested show we discuss Clara Barton, her life as a young, possibly neurodivergent woman, how she grew up with only one close friend and the love of her family leading to her f...
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July 31, 2025 • 38 mins
There is so much going on in this episode, we almost needed a playbook. First, we visit Arthur's Corner to find out he's feeling sick and he recently lost his kitten. After that we dig in the Death of Ricky C. McCormick, a man one psychiatrist diagnosed with having "a brick wall in his mind", We cover his mother, his potential father (we have no real idea who that might be) his unsuccessful attempts at becoming educated, his aun...
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July 24, 2025 • 67 mins
This week we head to Carthage Missouri to attend the birth of a Wild West :Legend, the Bandit Queen Belle Starr, We discuss her birth, her family, her brothers who all came to bad ends, including one who disappeared mysteriously. We discuss her family's ties to the South as the Civil War came and went and her family's move to Scylene, Texas where she drove one of the wagons. She idolized the James-Younger gang and learned how to...
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July 17, 2025 • 57 mins
TRIGGER WARNING - This Episode contains mentions of accidental shootings and murder-suicide. If these are too much for you, please, feel free to skip the episode. You Matter!
Well, Friends and Neighbors, pull up a chair and sit a spell as we go back to the birth of Kansas City to talk a little about the early days of Kansas City and a figure that came out of it named Sands. W. Hopkins. A child who lost his parents young, was rais...
Well, Friends and Neighbors, pull up a chair and sit a spell as we go back to the birth of Kansas City to talk a little about the early days of Kansas City and a figure that came out of it named Sands. W. Hopkins. A child who lost his parents young, was rais...
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July 10, 2025 • 54 mins
This week on Family Plot, we’re joined by our youngest plotter—8-year-old Lexi Boese—who asked us to tell the story of Autherine Juanita Lucy, the first Black student admitted to the University of Alabama. Her brave enrollment in 1956 was court-ordered and historic… and it ignited the largest anti-integration riot in American history. What followed was a shameful twist: Lucy was expelled “for her safety”—a coward’s move cloaked as ...
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July 3, 2025 • 108 mins
In this episode we are joined by Kelsey Black, of the Book Burrow Bookstore in Pflugerville Texas as we discuss the history of Bookstores as Resistance Centers. We discuss David Ruggles and the first Black-owned bookstore in the United States and how he was a figurative and literal stop on the Underground Railroad, selling books about feminism and the abolitionist movement. We talk the FBI's illegal COINTELPRO and how they went a...
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June 26, 2025 • 64 mins
This is such an episode, so full of information that you will not believe it! This week, our second of 2 PRIDE episodes this month, we discuss the life and times of Harvey Milk. We will look into the history of this young gay man who will grow up in the fifties and sixties before becoming a popular merchant and politician in the Castro Street area of San Francisco. We cover his political career and his murder in this special, le...
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June 19, 2025 • 58 mins
Arthur couldn't be with us as we recorded the episode, so he recorded his parts early and danged if it don't sound like he was there with us! Arthur was starting on his first shift at McDonald's and was happy with his first day of work. He mentions it in his corner. Meanwhile Dad, Mom and Brenda discuss Delphine LaLaurie, her life and strangeness and how cruel she was to her slaves. We also discuss the wider specter of slavery,...
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June 12, 2025 • 48 mins
It's time to watch To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar! and get ready for PRIDE! Put on your most rainbow-y outfit and catch this, the first of two special PRIDE episodes this month! Today's episode we introduce Alice B. Toklas. Lover, confidant and essentially spouse to writer Gertrude Stein, she also was a writer in her own right and one of her books The Alice B. Toklas contained a recipe for Haschich Fudge that m...
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