Ep 15: Are We Losing Our F#!king Minds?! Featuring Clinical Psychologist Dr. Mario Scalora, PhD.
03/14/23 • 39 min
This is kind of a surprise bonus episode. I've been working for months on a true-crime series of podcasts from my hometown of McCook, Nebraska, where a heinous double murder was committed out of a love-triangle gone bad--and the people killed had no direct involvement with this salacious three-way affair. It's a bonkers story.
I not only interviewed the lead investigator of the case, but I also talked with the author of a book about it (IN COLD STORAGE, University of Nebraska Press), and will include audio from official police interviews and the murderer's confession.
I wanted to include a forensic psychologist on the podcast to bring some clinical insight into the mindset of the people involved and how normal, everyday people go off the rails and do things they would never rationally do under normal circumstances--and I found one, Dr. Mario Scalora, PhD, from the University of Nebraska. Listen for him on upcoming episodes about this jaw-dropping case.
But I also started talking to Mario about our nation's collective mental health right now and what the hell's been going on with the insane number of mass shootings, the uptick in violent and overall crime, divisiveness and just how people seem really pissed off and angry about everything.
This episode is a result of that extended conversation which I thought was pretty interesting and I hope you do to.
Recorded at the Hi-Way Diner in Lincoln, Nebraska. Go Big Red!
This is kind of a surprise bonus episode. I've been working for months on a true-crime series of podcasts from my hometown of McCook, Nebraska, where a heinous double murder was committed out of a love-triangle gone bad--and the people killed had no direct involvement with this salacious three-way affair. It's a bonkers story.
I not only interviewed the lead investigator of the case, but I also talked with the author of a book about it (IN COLD STORAGE, University of Nebraska Press), and will include audio from official police interviews and the murderer's confession.
I wanted to include a forensic psychologist on the podcast to bring some clinical insight into the mindset of the people involved and how normal, everyday people go off the rails and do things they would never rationally do under normal circumstances--and I found one, Dr. Mario Scalora, PhD, from the University of Nebraska. Listen for him on upcoming episodes about this jaw-dropping case.
But I also started talking to Mario about our nation's collective mental health right now and what the hell's been going on with the insane number of mass shootings, the uptick in violent and overall crime, divisiveness and just how people seem really pissed off and angry about everything.
This episode is a result of that extended conversation which I thought was pretty interesting and I hope you do to.
Recorded at the Hi-Way Diner in Lincoln, Nebraska. Go Big Red!
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EP 14: Encore Episode! Keith Moon's (The Who) Daughter + CBS News Journalist
Traveling this week working on several new episodes including a multi-part true crime series from my home state of Nebraska. A truly American Gothic tale coming soon!
So, this week's episode is an encore of one of our most downloaded shows. Recorded at the famous Pie n' Burger in Pasadena, Ca. which opened in 1963, the diner is located near Cal Tech and is the comfort-food home to many PhD's, rocket scientists, Nobel Prize winners and Hollywood celebrities.
USC student Michael Osborn landed a parttime job there 50 years ago and never left! You'll hear his emotional story that led him to stay on despite his parent's loud and strong objections, eventually buying Pie n' Burger in 1992.
Sitting at the counter, I was thrilled to meet Keith Moon's daughter, Mandy. Keith was the wild, infamous drummer for The Who, who died of an overdose when he was only 32 and Mandy was nine. She talks openly about Keith's troubled life, her own struggles with addiction and being a mom to a transgender child.
Finally, I invited my good friend, Adam Yamaguchi, of CBS News to join me on the podcast since he grew up in the Pasadena area. Adam discusses his Japanese heritage as the first American-born member of his family, the things he's witnessed and learned covering immigration stories for CBS News, and how Japan's strict immigrations policies have hurt its own economic strength and viability--foreshadowing a possible ominous future for the U.S. if we don't find solutions to our migrant challenges.
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Ep 16: American Gothic: Love & Murder Part 1
The title harkens back to the 1930 classic painting, "American Gothic" by Grant Wood which is displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago. Intended to convey a positive image of rural American values, this episode (and future episodes) leans into the other meaning of "gothic", in this instance, relating to something mysterious, grotesque or horrific.
Podcast host, John Murphy, travels back to his hometown of McCook, Nebraska to explore the infamous Hoyt murders from fifty years ago that erupted after a three-way love affair soured, resulting in the killing and heinous butchering of Edwin and Wilma Hoyt, the parents of a daughter entangled in the relationship.
For the first time, recorded interviews of those involved are revealed, as well as detailed and explicit documents from the once sealed case files.
Murphy also interviews lead investigator Lannie Roblee, forensic psychologist, Dr. Mario Scalora PhD, and the author of a detailed book about the crime entitled, "In Cold Storage."
The grisly events played out across three counties in southwest Nebraska during the fall of 1973.
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