2: Anna Nicole Smith & the Downfall of the KKK

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True Crime, History, Comedy

4.8 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

WARNING: The audio in this episode is rough. What can we say? We were young(ish), dumb, and thought we’d save a little money by sharing one microphone. Yeah. The audio quality improves drastically after episode 9.

In this episode, Kristin talks about world-class asshole D.C. Stephenson. Stephenson led the Klu Klux Klan through a period of unprecedented growth, but his violent crime against a white woman took him down. His trial captivated the nation and ultimately led to the downfall of the KKK’s second wave.

Brandi lightens things up (thank God), with everyone’s favorite Guess model/reality TV star/day shift stripper, Anna Nicole Smith. When she was just 26, Smith married an 89-year-old billionaire. When he died a year later, Smith battled her late husband’s descendants over her share of the estate. The case went all the way to the supreme court. Twice. Yeah. Buckle up, folks.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
“D.C. Stephenson Trial” Famous-trials.com
“Murder Wasn’t Very Pretty: The Rise and Fall of D.C. Stephenson” Smithsonian Magazine
IndianaHistory.org
“Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1928” By Leonard J. Moore

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“Paw Paw and Lady Love” by Dan P. Lee for New York Magazine

Transcript

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0:00.0	Brandy? Yes, Kristen. Are we experts? What? Anything? No, no we are not. So we're just two
0:10.8	ladies who love black eyeliner, a cold can of fresca, and a really juicy lawsuit.
0:16.7	Damn Skippy. I'm Brandy Egan.
0:19.6	And I'm Kristen Pitts. Let's go to court. On this episode I'll talk about
0:24.7	K K K K. K. leader D.C. Stevenson whose vicious attack on a white woman
0:29.0	ultimately led to the decline of the K K K. K. And I'll be talking about Anna Nicole Smith,
0:34.0	the playboymate who famously contested
0:37.0	her 90-year-old husband's will
0:38.0	and took the fight all the way to the Supreme Court.
0:41.0	Brandy?
0:42.0	Yes, Kristen?
0:43.0	We have a sponsor.
0:45.0	We do?
0:46.0	No.
0:47.0	Wouldn't it be cool though?
0:51.0	It sure would.
0:52.8	In the meantime, let's make this sponsored by my husband, the Gaming Historian,
0:57.8	who every week sets us up with our audio equipment.
1:01.1	Head on over to the YouTube channel, Gaming Historian.
1:05.0	The name of the show.
1:07.0	That is the U-Gaming Historian.
1:10.0	Don't forget the U people. You'll go somewhere else.
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