Peace Talkz

Erik and Heather talk about the wildest deaths in history!

Heather and Erik talk about the Night Witches of WW2.

Heather and Erik talk about the Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Feud.

Erik and Heather talk about the life and work of Norman Rockwell.

Heather and Erik talk about the film Strange than Fiction.

Heather and Erik talk about the Alice and Eleanor Roosevelt Feud.

Erik and Heather talk about the Peter Jackson's 1996 film The Frightners

Erik and Heather talk about The Neverending Story

Heather and Erik talk about girl scout cookies.

Erik and Heather talk about the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora.

Erik and Heather talk about the Sci Fi original series Eureka.

Heather and Erik talk about Governeur Morris.

Erik and Heather talk about the Return to Oz.

Heather and Erik talk about the 1987 film The Princess Bride directed by Rob Reiner. Reference: As You Wish Inconceivable Tales From The Making Of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes

Heather and Erik talk about Flatland.

Erik and Heather talk about Jim Varney and the character Ernest.

Erik and Heather talk about Stephen King's 1997 The Shining television miniseries.

Heather reads the short story The Chocolate Box by Agatha Christie.

Erik talks about his favorite stories from the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark trilogy.

Heather and Erik talk about the history of some candy.

Erik and Heather discuss haunted places in the U.S.

Erik and Heather talk about lycanthropy and werewolves.

Heather and Erik discuss the deadliest hurricane in history Isaac's Storm. Source: Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

Erik and Heather talk abou the ancient and modern wonders of the world.

Erik and Heather talk about the films Twister and Twisters.

Heather and Erik discuss the New London School Explosion.

Erik and Heather discuss soft serve ice cream.

Heather and Erik talk about Christine the novel by Stephen King and the John Carpenter film.

Heather and Erik continue their discussion on the Dassler feud. Source: Sneaker Wars by Barbara Smit

Heather and Erik discuss the feud between the Dassler brothers.

Erik and Heather discuss the mysteries of The Bermuda Triangle.

Erik and Heather talk about the cult classic Tremors.

Heather and Erik talk about the Love Canal. Resources: O’Brien, Keith. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe. Pantheon, 2022. PBS: American Experience. (2024, April 23). Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal [Documentary]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR4YBDzPzd0&t=6731s

Erik and Heather talk about the Wall of Sound.

Erik and Heather talk about the film The Shawshank Redemption and Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption.

Heather and Erik talk about Samuel Morse. Sources: BitLaw Summary and Analysis. O’Reilly et al. v. Morse et al., 56 US 62, Supreme Court 1853. Retrieved from: https://www.bitlaw.com/source/cases/patent/O'Reilly.html Boro, Joseph (Sept. 26, 2013). The history of Morse code. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNoOYeS0gs0 Encyclopedia Britannica (May 2024). Morse code communication. Retrieved from: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Morse-Code Maranzani, Barbara (Oct 5, 2023). 6things you may not know about Samuel Morse. Hsitory.com. Retrieved from: https://www.history.com/news/six-things-you-may-not-know-about-samuel-morse Winn, Melissa (8/22/2023). A personal tragedy inspires the first instant messaging. Retrieved from: https://www.historynet.com/morse-code-messaging/

Erik and Heather discuss the movie Terminator 2 Judgment Day.

Heather and Erik talk about bears.

Heather and Erik discuss the survival story of Juliane Koepcke.

Erik and Heather talk about 1408.

Heather and Erik talk about their favorite The Twilight Zone episodes.

Heather and Erik discuss the Boyce, Sneed trial. Source: Vengeance is Mine by Bill Neal

Heather and Erik discuss the Boyce Sneed Feud. Source: Vengeance is Mine by Bill Neal

Erik and Heather talk about Rod Serling.

Heather and Erik talk about the musical artist "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Heather and Erik discuss the mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya.

Erik and Heather talk about the cult classic film Galaxy Quest.

Heather and Erik talk about the origin of expressions.

Heather and Erik talk about the Robert Hooke and Sir Issac Newton Feud. Resources: Ball, Johnny. 2017. Wonders Beyond Numbers: A brief history of all things mathematical. Bloomsbury Sigma. Bechler, Zev. 1974. “Newton’s 1672 Optical Controversies: A Study in the Grammar of Scientific Dissent.” In The Interaction Between Science and Philosophy, edited by Yehuda Elkana and Samuel Sambursky, 115–142. Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities Press.  Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan. 2003. Newton’s Principia for the Common Reader. Oxford University Press.  Gal. 2002. Meanest Foundations.  Guicciardini, Niccolo. 2005. “Reconsidering the Hooke-Newton Debate on Gravitation: Recent Results.” Early Science and Medicine 10: 510–17. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4130420.  Herivel, John. 1965. The Background to Newton’s Principia.  Hooke, Robert. 1674. “An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations.” http://echo.mpiwgberlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView/ECHOzogiLib?mode=imagepath&url=/mpiwg/online/pe rmanent/library/XXTBUC3U/pageimg.  Newton, Isaac. 1960. “Correspondence of Isaac Newton, Vol 2” 2: 431–48.  Schopenhauer. 2013. “Schopenhauer on Newton and Hooke.” The Monist 23: 439–45. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27900444.  Sfetcu, Nicholae. 2019. Isaac Newton vs. Robert Hooke on the law of universal gravitation. https://philarchive.org/archive/SFEINV-2#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20disputed,ideas%20expressed%20in%20previous%20works. Whiteside, D. T. 1991. “The Pre-History of the ‘Principia’ from 1664 to 1686.” Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 11–61. 

Erik and Heather discuss the Indian Film RRR.