Each episode, hosts Kaveh Taherian and Hannah Hillam choose one of their countless open browser tabs and finally take the time to read and discuss its contents until they gain enough strength to close that tab once and for all.
This week we deep dive into how Billionaire James Crocker built a fence around a German immigrant's home in San Francisco and how legendary arson investigator John Orr's passion project doubled as a confession for some of California's worst fires. A listener email explains how the first ever women’s college basketball game was played at Smith College in 1893.
Episode Tabs:
The Man Who Built a 40-Foot Spite Fence Around His Neighbor’s Home
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/94298/crocker-spite-fence-san-francisco
He Was Both Fire Captain And Prolific Arsonist. His Novel Put Him In Prison.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-29/john-orr-glendale-fire-captain-prolific-arsonist
Listener Tabs:
Stone of Blarney, Meet Head of Lenin
https://lasvegassun.com/blogs/kats-report/2015/jul/10/stone-blarney-meet-head-lenin/
March 22, 1893: First Women’s Collegiate Basketball Game
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/first-womens-collegiate-basketball-game/
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