Cow Shoe Camouflage: How Prohibition-era Moonshiners Outsmarted the Feds
Ridiculous History
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🗓️ 25 July 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
During the Prohibition Era, moonshiners and federal agents continually tried to outsmart one another — and one of the moonshiners’ most creative inventions? The bizarre footwear known as Cow Shoes.
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| 0:05.1 | I'm Andrea Gunning, and now we're sharing an all-new story of betrayal. |
| 0:10.3 | Ashley Litten was helping her husband set up a business fanmail account when she discovered |
| 0:14.3 | a terrible secret. I saw a hidden folder, and I opened it. What the hell did I just see? |
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| 0:45.3 | Cecilia Stein is queen. She was telling people the violence since she was going to kill, |
| 0:50.5 | but actually she was taking revenge. Listen to Queen Havoc and her murder cult on the iHeartRadio app, |
| 0:56.5 | Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The True Crime Podcast Sacred Scandal |
| 1:02.4 | returns for a second season to investigate alleged sexual abuse at Mexico's La Luz del Mundo |
| 1:07.6 | Mega Church. Journalist Robert Garza explores survivor stories of pure evil experiences |
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| 1:55.0 | Well, well, well, ridiculous historians. Thank you for tuning in. It is a Friday here as we record, |
| 2:05.3 | and we are excited. We've got some adventures lined up on the weekend. I'm Ben. |
| 2:11.6 | I'm no one. I'm going to have Moonshan on the bayou and Moonshan on the bayou. That's all I got. |
| 2:17.9 | And we've got our super producer, Casey Peckroom. He's going to have Moonshan on the |
| 2:23.8 | behind, Moonshan on the bayou. Right? Casey, you're into Moonshan on the bayou, am I right? |
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