250 - The Mad Trapper Of Rat River
Do Go On
Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2020
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Our 250th episode is all about the Mad Trapper Of Rat River. When Canadian authorities paid a visit to a remote log cabin, they didn't expect the man inside to shoot at them through door and then lead them on one of the longest and most grueling manhunts in history.
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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
Alan Phillips, Who was the Mad Trapper Of Rat River, Macleans 1955:
https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1955/10/1/who-was-the-mad-trapper-of-rat-river#!&pid=28
Canadian Encyclopedia, Edward Butts:
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/albert-johnson
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/article/wilfrid-reid-may
All That’s Interesting, a really great article by Andrew Lenoir
https://allthatsinteresting.com/mad-trapper-albert-johnson
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. |
| 0:02.8 | Visit Planet Broadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. |
| 0:06.6 | Hey everyone, just stay here dropping in at the start of the episode to tell you |
| 0:10.2 | that what you're about to hear is our 250th episode. |
| 0:14.1 | Whoa! |
| 0:15.1 | And because of that, it was recorded and streamed live at Stupid Old Studios. |
| 0:19.8 | And if you want to watch the fun, you can still catch up on it at sospresents.com. |
| 0:23.9 | And if you get a ticket to that, you can also get a season pass, which means you can watch |
| 0:27.6 | the last two weeks episodes, as well as our final stream this Saturday, August the 8th, |
| 0:34.2 | 12pm Melbourne time. |
| 0:36.8 | And if you have a ticket to this one, it also means we had our 250th birthday party after |
| 0:40.5 | that, which was a lot of fun. |
| 0:42.6 | And we had all our former report givers sending in videos for a fun quiz. |
| 0:46.5 | So if you have a ticket, you'll see the likes of Nick Mason, Mr. Sunday movies, Claire |
| 0:50.4 | Tonti, Alistair Nandy from Two in the Think Tank, Joel Dusha, Carl Chandler, Josh El, |
| 0:55.9 | Naomi Higgins, Sam Tonkin from Listen Now. |
| 0:58.8 | Ah, it was such a great time. |
| 1:00.6 | The only other thing I have to say is you'll notice that Matt's microphone sounds a little |
| 1:04.6 | different to ours. |
| 1:05.6 | That's because Matt was feeling a little under the weather. |
| 1:07.9 | So just to be safe, he went and got a COVID test and was isolating from us, which he's |
| 1:11.3 | since been absolutely cleared of. |
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