The Poetic Justice of Death by Molten Gold
Ridiculous History
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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It's a grisly death familiar to many fans of fiction and fantasy -- a hapless, greedy villain meets their end by having molten metal, often lead or gold, poured upon them or down their throats. But was this morbid means of execution ever used in real life? Join Ben and Noel as they dive into the deadly science of real-life murder by molten gold.
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| 0:00.0 | Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House on the Prairie Books. |
| 0:04.0 | She's one of the most important American children's authors of the 20th century. |
| 0:10.0 | Inspiration for a hit television show. |
| 0:12.0 | Women will come up to me crying saying, |
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| 0:16.0 | As a kid, I idolized Laura. |
| 0:18.0 | And last summer, I went on the road in search of the real Laura. |
| 0:22.0 | What I found is a complicated person alongside the complicated country she represents. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Glinnis McNickel, and this is Wilder. |
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| 0:38.0 | What do a flirtatious gambling double agent in World War II? |
| 0:42.0 | An opera singer who burned down an honorary to Kidnap her lover. |
| 0:46.0 | And a pirate queen who walked free with all of her spoils, have in common. |
| 0:52.0 | They're all real women who were left out of your history books. |
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| 1:07.0 | Malibu was ruled by one man, Mickey Dora, a surfer, a con man, a menace. |
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| 1:21.0 | An evil undercurrent runs through the surf world, and it all goes back to Mickey. |
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| 1:51.0 | There are warning friends and neighbors, strangers, fellow history buffs alike. |
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