When beloved family patriarch, Gary Ferris went missing, his family looked everywhere on their

property until they came across something horrifying. It's a homicide.

Absolutely. The blame game in this family went round and round. This is Blood is Thicker,

the Ferris Wheel. I don't see how anyone can look at this story and think they were happy.

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your podcast. This is a valedictory conversation about your amazing career. And I want to start it

I want to start it, I want to start it

at what I think you'll find an interesting place.

But the gentleman my audience probably doesn't

know the name of, Donald Jeffrey Herbert,

otherwise known as Mr. Wizard.

Bill, please.

Why is Mr. Wizard important to you?

I changed my life.

So everybody, my understanding is Don Herbert was an actor, but he liked science.

He liked kids, so he would do these science demonstrations.

And the original show was called Watch Mr. Wizard.

And I watched it in black and white, and I'm pretty sure it was on our very own CBS.

And I believe, this is based on what I've read

Not on what I remember it was started a CBS in Philadelphia and then as far as I could tell became nationally syndicated and he did look at this cool thing look at this cool thing and the premise was you the student you the viewer rather would come to mr. wizard's house and you would hang out with mr wizard and he would do these

cool things and so we'd have kids usually people of european ancestry uh show up and do science demonstrations and it just

fabulous it was fabulous and it captivated you captivated the country and it came at a time when

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