Flipping Tables

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Like many of you, I watched a viral video of a gorgeous woman walking through her house, opening her Bible to Matthew 25 and reading the passage on "the least of these". This was in response to a TikTok comment of someone lashing out at Jen because she (the commenter) "was maga and loved Jesus". After calmly reading the Bible, Jen simply says "sounds pretty liberal to me" and ends the video.
That simple video caused MAGA to call Jen's job where she works as an OB Nurse to get her fired, reported her online and tried to call her licensing board to get her nursing license revoked! Because she read the Bible and they didn't like it. She even had to have private security when she spoke at a conference.
And that is how I met a kind, compassionate, funny, loving lady who shares my alma mater. We talk about our journey's through faith, Liberty, growth, change, and what it means to love your neighbor.

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My grandma Ena was a pilot and they were her favorite stories to tell. I am sure its no surprise that I grew up with Amelia Earhart as one of my heroes. The woman who flew so that my grandma could fly.
She vanished into the sky—and into one of the greatest mysteries of the modern age.
In this episode, we fly into the world of Amelia Earhart, a woman who refused to stay grounded, refused to stay compliant and traditional in a time when society expected her to. She became record-breaking aviator and one of the most famous women in the world. The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. A symbol of independence, grit, and relentless ambition.
But Earhart wasn’t just chasing records—she was chasing the edge of possibility itself.
In 1937, she set out on a daring attempt to circumnavigate the globe, navigating thousands of miles over open ocean with only the tools and technology of her time. Somewhere over the vast Pacific, near a tiny speck called Howland Island… she disappeared.
No confirmed wreckage. No distress call that told the full story. Just silence.
In this episode, we’ll trace her rise from a curious, rebellious girl to one of the most famous pilots in history and then dive headfirst into the theories, investigations, and unanswered questions that have kept her story alive for nearly a century.
And we will take a brief flyover to meet the Night Witches of the USSR's air service.
This episode is to celebrate Women's History month with women who paved a runway for those who would come later!

Rachel Hartigan, Lost: Unsolved Mysteries of Amelia Earhart and the Bermuda Triangle
Susan Butler, East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart
Doris L. Rich, Amelia Earhart: A Biography
Mary S. Lovell, The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart
Candace Fleming, Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Ric Gillespie, Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance
Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long, Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved
Mike Campbell, Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last
Fred Goerner, The Search for Amelia Earhart
Vincent V. Loomis, Amelia Earhart: The Final Story
Les Kinney, Amelia Earhart: Beyond the Grave
Theodore G. Tharpe, Crash and Sink: The Salvage of the Earhart Electra
National Geographic Society, “Amelia Earhart Biography and Disappearance”
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, “Amelia Earhart”
Library of Congress, “Amelia Earhart Papers”
FBI Records: The Vault, “Amelia Earhart”
TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery), “Amelia Earhart Project Research”
U.S. Navy Historical Center, “Earhart Search Operations 1937”
PBS American Experience, Amelia Earhart
History Channel, “Amelia Earhart Disappearance Theories”

This episode is brought to you by Ground News. Subscribe for 40% off their vantage plan at groundnews.com/tables. Project MKUltra was a secret research program run by the Central Intelligence Agency beginning in 1953 during the Cold War. Its goal was to explore methods of mind control, interrogation, and psychological manipulation, partly out of fear that rival nations like the Soviet Union were developing similar techniques.

The program funded dozens of experiments at universities, hospitals, and prisons. Researchers tested drugs such as LSD, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, electroshock, and other methods to see whether human behavior and memory could be controlled. Many subjects were not informed they were part of experiments, and some were exposed to powerful drugs without consent.

The program remained secret until the 1970s, when investigations by the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities revealed the experiments. Much of the documentation had already been destroyed on orders from CIA director Richard Helms.

MKUltra became one of the most controversial intelligence programs in U.S. history and led to new oversight of intelligence agencies and stricter ethical rules for human experimentation.

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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was a 40-year medical experiment conducted by the United States Public Health Service in Macon County, Alabama to observe the natural progression of untreated syphilis in Black men.

Beginning in 1932, researchers recruited about 600 poor African American sharecroppers—399 who had syphilis and 201 who did not. The men were told they were being treated for “bad blood,” a local term used to describe various illnesses. In reality, they were not given proper treatment, even after Penicillin became the widely accepted cure for syphilis in the 1940s. Instead, doctors deliberately withheld treatment so they could study how the disease damaged the body over time.

Participants were misled about the nature of the study and were subjected to painful procedures such as spinal taps while being told they were receiving medical care. Many men died from syphilis or related complications, infected their wives, and children were born with congenital syphilis.

The study continued until 1972, when a whistleblower, Peter Buxtun, exposed it to the press. Public outrage led to congressional hearings, a class-action lawsuit, and major reforms in medical research ethics, including stricter informed consent requirements and oversight by institutional review boards.

In 1997, Bill Clinton formally apologized on behalf of the U.S. government to the surviving participants and their families. The scandal remains one of the most infamous examples of unethical human experimentation in American history and contributed to long-lasting distrust of the medical system among many African Americans.

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Another crossover episode from my true crime podcast Highway to Hell because of its relevance to whats going on today. If you are a true crime and travel fan please check us out wherever you listen to podcasts.
After his sweetheart deal in 2008, Epstein was able to reintegrate into life and maintain his trafficking ring without any loss in wealth, associations or connections.
This episode tracks his life and dealings from 2008 to his death in 2019, the aftermath of his cruelty, the arrest and trial of Ghislaine Maxwell and the recent release of the Epstein files.
As of now, no man involved with Epstein and his human trafficking has been arrested in the US
Sources
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