Gotta Start Somewhere

Video available on Spotify and YoutubeJesse Lee Calhoun lived a life full of criminal activity, racking up nearly 100 separate charges before the age of 40. The problem was that the State of Oregon gave him so many second chances, which Calhoun only used to ramp up his violence, leading to the deaths of at least 5 young women.This podcast runs down all the facts up to this point, as the case is still ongoing and there could be more victims.

In this episode, I discuss Hannibal's legendary crossing of the Alps and detail the three battles that made Hannibal one of the greatest generals of all time: the Battle of Ticinus, the Battle of the Trebia, and the Battle of Cannae. #History #hannibalbarca #secondpunicwar #ancientrome

We discuss the infamous love triangle between King Phillip II and his two lovers, both named Pausanias. How a heated rivalry became deadly and how this led to the rise of Alexander the Great.Watch the video on TikTok, YouTube, Spotify, or Facebook

Here's the quick story about how the US attempted to re-educate nearly 400,000 Nazi POW's they held on the US mainland. We focus on Camp White, one of the more prominent of these re-education campaigns, located in Southern Oregon.

On this short but sweet edition of Gotta Start Somewhere, I announce that I will be making video content in addition to the Podcast. The videos will be available on Spotify or Youtube. I then ramble off the top of my head about things I found interesting and tried out a new lavalier microphone I bought for use in the field. I will return to my nice podcast microphone for Ancient Oregon 3.

In this episode, we pick up where we left off after Peter Skene Ogden visited the Rogue Valley in 1827 and cover the events leading up to the discovery of Gold in the valley and the subsequent flood of miners to Jacksonville in 1852.Music Credit: Miss Francis Johnson (One of the last Taklemans to have seen Ti'lamikh in action and who worked with Edward Sapir to preserve the Takelman Language)Special Thanks and References for this podcast:Various Sources found on the website of historian Thomas Doty - DotyCoyote.comHistory of Oregon: HH BancroftVarious works by Nathan DouthitVarious letters and articles sourced through the Southern Oregon Historical Society

On this episode, we dive into the ancient Indian history of Oregon, the Takelma tribe, their culture, and the ancient village once known as Ti'lomikh (Dilomi). I didn't say it on the podcast, but the intro music for this episode comes directly from Miss Frances Johnson (Quis-Quas-hum), the same Takelman who worked with Edward Sapir and John Peabody Harrington to create many of the sources used to make this podcast. Here is a link to the audio.PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Today we read a 2,000+ year old text that's full of mind-opening one-liners and one of the foundational texts of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching. This helps to show us how the greatest truths are contradictory. How you can't have the good without the bad, and how sometimes less is more. Besides the intro, I created this similar to an audiobook that can play in the background as you try to relax, and trust that this episode will be a relaxing one.