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Paul G's Corner
by PAUL G NEWTON
Where monsters don’t hide, heroes don’t come easy, and the only way to know the difference is to Think Your Way Through It. paulgnewton.substack.com
Episodes
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The Nuclear Bomb We Lost in Georgia
In this episode of Paul G’s Corner Most people think history is made up of dates, speeches, and grainy footage of important people standing behind microphones. But sometimes history is just an object. Something built, something carried, something dropped, and then something that was never found...
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Buried Alive. 26 Children. One California Quarry
Buried Alive: 26 Children. One Quarry. Chowchilla, California – July 15, 1976 We’ve all seen the buried-alive clock on television.The confined space.The ticking air supply.The rescue that comes down to inches. Most of the time it’s fiction. On July 15, 1976, it wasn’t. Twenty-six children and…
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Church Rock, 1979
On July 16, 1979, at approximately 5:30 a.m., an earthen dam at the United Nuclear Corporation uranium mill in Church Rock, New Mexico, breached. The tailings pond behind it held acidic liquid waste and radioactive solids from uranium processing. When the dam gave way, an estimated 94 million...
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The Day Philadelphia Dropped a Bomb on Itself
On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto a residential neighborhood. That sentence is not metaphorical. In this episode of Paul G’s Corner, we examine the MOVE bombing on Osage Avenue. A standoff between the city and a radical communal group escalated step by step until...
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Don’t Boil the Water. Charleston WV
n January 2014, something quietly broke in West Virginia. A storage tank leaked a coal-processing chemical called MCHM (meth-uhl cyclo-hex-ane meth-uh-nol) into the Elk River, just upstream from Charleston’s main water intake. Within hours, 300,000 people were told to stop using their tap water...
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Panic in Paradise
On a quiet Saturday morning in 2018, Hawaii got the worst text message imaginable:Ballistic missile inbound. This is not a drill. For 38 minutes, an entire state waited for nuclear fire that never came. This episode of Paul G’s Corner isn’t about the button that got pressed. It’s about the people...
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Legionnaires: The Outbreak No One Saw Coming
In 1976, hundreds of American Legion veterans walked into a Philadelphia hotel for a weekend of reunions, war stories, and cheap drinks. Within days, dozens would be dead. No suspect. No pattern. No explanation. Just fear, fever, and the unsettling sense that something in the building was hunting...
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The Night The World Almost Ended… And Nobody Noticed
Nothing says welcome back to Paul G’s Corner like learning the world nearly cooked itself in 1969 while everyone was cheering for astronauts and yelling about Vietnam. History loves to hide the real disasters under a pile of shiny nonsense.That is where I come in. I bring you the stories that…
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The Day the Mail Became a Weapon
Most Americans remember the smoke, the debris, the sirens of September 11.Far fewer remember what came next. A week later, before the country even finished counting its dead, something quieter slipped into the bloodstream of daily life. Not a plane. Not a bomb. A letter. Inside it was dust —…
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The Christmas Panic That Changed Every Door in America
One word. Seventy-three dead.On Christmas Eve, 1913, someone yelled fire in a packed miner’s hall — and changed building safety forever. Every outward-swinging door, every glowing exit sign, exists because of that single night. This episode isn’t about tragedy — it’s about the price of progress....
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The Fortune Teller Killer
Chicago. 1912.The air hung heavy—coal smoke and lake wind trapped between brick tenements and unkept promises. It was an age of mediums and miracle cures, when grief was a business and hope came bottled or candle-lit. In a modest parlor on Ogden Avenue, Louisa Lindloff offered comfort to the...
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Project Pluto: The Missile That Wouldn’t Die
In 1964, deep in the Nevada desert, America tried to make a nuclear reactor fly.At a place called Jackass Flats — a name too perfect to be a coincidence — engineers tested an engine that could have changed the course of history or ended it entirely. They called it Project Pluto, a nuclear-powered...
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The Nurse Who Walked Through Hell (and Took Notes)
Some people escape their past. Others study it, survive it, and turn it into a lesson for the rest of us. This week on Paul G’s Corner, I talk with Meg Hall, a nurse who grew up in a home defined by control, chaos, and cruelty — and somehow came out the other side determined to heal others. From...
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The Buffet of Flies — When Delivery Apps Eat Their Own
The American dream didn’t vanish—it got shrink-wrapped, up-charged, and delivered late. This week on Paul G’s Corner, I talk with Micco Costello, a former restaurant owner turned activist who’s calling out the predatory games played by big delivery apps. Michelle watched as billion-dollar…
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From Bad Pitches to Bold Ideas: Eugene Mandelcorn in the Corner
This week in Paul G’s Corner, we sit down with Eugene Mandelcorn — a man who’s heard more bad film pitches than a Little League coach on a losing streak. Eugene ran an international filmmakers’ group for twenty years, spent another decade selling films around the globe, and now runs a studio...
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Staged Terror, Signed in Blood
In 1962, the Pentagon’s highest brass drafted a plan that reads today like madness on paper. They called it Operation Northwoods. The logic was simple, the methods monstrous: stage terrorist attacks on American soil, blame Cuba, and unleash the cry for war. The proposals were not scribbles from a...
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Six Nuclear Weapons Still Missing.
They call it Project Broken Arrow. A phrase meant to sound clean, contained, under control. But the truth is anything but. Since the 1950s, American bombers have dropped nuclear weapons into oceans, onto farmland, even across foreign soil. Some were recovered. Others… vanished. The official line...
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The School That Melted a Child’s Head
In 1927, a hospital “cure” for ringworm burned a child’s skull. He wore a hat for eighty years. This is the record—how a promise of progress became a lifetime of harm. Get full access to Paul G's Corner at paulgnewton.substack.com/subscribe
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The Woman Who Glowed in the Dark
Karen Silkwood knew too much. What happened to her on that empty Oklahoma highway still echoes in Congress, in courtrooms—and in the dark. This is The Woman Who Glowed in the Dark.A true story. A corporate betrayal. A radioactive legacy. Get full access to Paul G's Corner at...
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The Bombs We Chose to Forget
February 1984. A second bomb rips through the National War College. No casualties. No arrests. Just another hole in the floor and a deeper one in the American psyche. Most people don’t remember it ever happened. They should. This week’s story isn’t about a movement. It’s about a method. A…
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Explode the Moon
The Moon That Almost Changed Everything: The Secret Plan That Could’ve Altered History What if I told you there was a time when the United States came this close to doing something so outlandish, so dangerous, that it could have irrevocably changed the course of history? Something so bizarre that...
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Burn the Page
Some stories linger. Some stories haunt you. And some stories burn into your mind so deeply, you’ll never escape them. That’s what a story is supposed to do. But that’s not what most stories are anymore. Most stories? They’re gutless. Manufactured, hollow, designed to pass through you like...
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The Accident That Saved Millions
In the trenches of World War I, death didn’t always come from bullets. Soldiers who survived the battlefield often fell to something worse—a silent, unseen force that slipped into their wounds, turning scratches into death sentences. One of those men was Private James Calloway. He didn’t die in…
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Nobody Cares About Your Feelings—And That’s Your Power
You’ve been lied to. Someone told you that your feelings shape the world. That if you’re upset, everything should stop. That if you’re offended, people should change. But here’s the truth: Nobody cares about your feelings. Reality doesn’t bend for feelings. The economy won’t wait. War won’t…
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Paul G’s Corner: Zach McKenzie – Don’t Dish It Out If You Can’t Take It
Country music has been through a lot lately—some of it good, some of it... let’s just say different. But if you’re looking for music that actually means something, music that hits where it’s supposed to, then you’re in the right place. This week on Paul G’s Corner, I’m talking to Zach...
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🔥 AI, Cybersecurity & The Death of Hollywood – A No-BS Chat with Kenneth Harrell 🔥
💀 AI is coming for your job. Cybercriminals are watching you. Hollywood is dying. Let’s talk about it. Welcome to Paul G’s Corner, where I only talk to people I actually want to talk to—no more randoms with an email address. Today’s guest? Kenneth Harrell—cybersecurity guru, AI enthusiast…
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From Killer Pig Farms to Life’s Darkest Laughter: Paul G and Jim Dalling Tackle the Chaos
What happens when you combine a psychotherapist-turned-clown with a podcaster who refuses to pull punches? You get Paul G’s Corner: raw, unfiltered, and downright electric. This episode dives headfirst into the madness—killer pig farms, the wild reality of feral hog hunts, the art of turning...
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Rhayne Thomas
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Adrienne Tichy
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Bracha Goetz: The Pleasure Ladder and Lasting Change
Most advice about bad habits tells us to resist harder. Bracha Goetz asks a more useful question: what pleasure is the habit supplying, and what could replace it with something that actually lasts? If you have ever known exactly what you should stop doing and reached for it anyway, this...
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Charles Read
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Christa Gagnon
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Clarissa Burt: Reinvention, Resilience, and the Work of Self-Esteem
More Than a Public Image Clarissa Burt has spent decades in public-facing work—as a former supermodel, actor, media personality, producer, author, and founder of In the Limelight Media. But our conversation is less about glamour than the distance that can exist between how the world sees someone...
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Daniel Krynzel
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Daniel Laudon
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Dr Tie
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Dr. Katrina Nguyen
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Elayna Fernandez
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Gaming
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Guy Morris
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Halima Bailey
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James Gearhardt
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Jason Hunt
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John Foley Music as Therapy
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Jeevan Matharu
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Jonathan Segal: From Television Music to Space Vacation
A Musician Who Never Stayed in One Lane Jonathan Segal grew up in a musical family. His parents met at Juilliard, his mother sang in the chorus of the New York City Opera, his father wrote songs, and Jonathan began playing piano when he was five. That beginning led to an unusually varied working...
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Josh Irwin
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Lauren Foster
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Leibowitz
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Linda Strader
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Where monsters don’t hide, heroes don’t come easy, and the only way to know the difference is to Think Your Way Through It.
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