Enter the Rabbit Hole

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  • Each week, your hosts Will and Alisha, dive into and dissect the weird, the momentous, and the downright interesting.
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  • P is for Prison Reform - Straight to Jail!

    P is for Prison Reform - Straight to Jail!
    Dec 9 2021
    This week on Enter the Rabbit Hole, Will and Alisha are taking a bite out of crime... statistics and prevention. We answer burning questions like: Why are there so many incarcerated people in the US prison system? How can we lower recidivism rates? And why do Norway's prisons look like a vacation resort that I can't afford? Join us as we take a deep dive into the prison system and how we can possibly make it better. Sources: Websites: Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Total https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All Articles: SC has one of the lowest recidivism rates in country, new survey shows. Here's why (Emily Bohatch, The State, Jul 2021) https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/sc-has-one-of-the-lowest-recidivism-rates-in-country-new-survey-shows-heres-why/ar-AAM7dtn A systematic review of criminal recidivism rates worldwide: 3-year update (Denis Yukhnenko, Shivpriya Sridhar, Seena Fazel, Nov 2020) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743246/ How Norway Is Teaching America To Make Its Prisons More Humane (Laura Paddison, Huff Post, Aug 2019) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/norway-american-prison-system-reform_n_5d5ab979e4b0eb875f270db1 How Norway turns criminals into good neighbours (BBC News, July 2019) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-48885846 In Icelandic prisons, the cells are open and inmates do the weekly food shop (Francis Pakes, The Independent, Nov 2018) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/i-deliberately-sent-myself-to-prison-in-iceland-they-didn-t-even-lock-the-cell-doors-there-a8622216.html I toured prisons around the world — and the system that seems the most relaxed is also one that works (Baz Dreisinger, Business Insider, Jul 2018) https://www.businessinsider.com/norways-prisons-are-better-than-the-american-prisons-2018-6?op=1 These Programs Are Helping Fix A Broken U.S. Prison System (Robbie Crouch, Huff Post, Dec 2017) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/recidivism-programs-prison_n_6655392 Not the worst, but not Norway: US prisons vs. other models (Christopher Zoukis, Huff Post, Sep 2017) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/not-the-worst-but-not-norway-us-prisons-vs-other_b_59b0772ae4b0c50640cd646d 39% of Prisoners Should Not Be in Prison (Lauren-Brooke Eisen and Inimai Chettiar, Time Magazine, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU, Dec 2016) https://time.com/4596081/incarceration-report/ World Prison Population List|Eleventh Edition (US Dept of Justice, 2015) https://nicic.gov/world-prison-population-listeleventh-edition 6 Reasons Why Prison Is Better In Europe Than America (Erin Fuchs, Business Insider, May 2014) https://www.businessinsider.com.au/vera-institute-european-american-prison-report-2014-5 Top 10 Modern Prison Programs (rushfan, Listverse, Aug 2008) https://listverse.com/2008/08/14/top-10-modern-prison-programs/ If Prisons Don’t Work, What Will? (Emily Bazelon, New York Times, April 2019) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/opinion/mass-incarceration-sentencing-reform.html The Hidden Cost of Incarceration (Beatrix Lockwood and Nicole Lewis, The Marshall Project, Dec 2019) https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/12/17/the-hidden-cost-of-incarceration Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020 (Wendy Sawyer and Peter Wagner, Prison Policy, March 2020) https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html ‘I Had Nothing’: How Parole Perpetuates a Cycle of Incarceration and Instability (Raven Rakia, The Appeal, Apr 2019) https://theappeal.org/how-parole-perpetuates-a-cycle-of-incarceration-and-instability/ The Purgatory of Parole Incarcerations During the Coronavirus Crisis (Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, Apr 2020) https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-purgatory-of-parole-incarcerations-during-the-coronavirus-crisis Time Served in State Prison, 2016 (Danielle Kaeble, US Department of Justice, Nov 2018) https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/tssp16.pdf 50-State Comparison: Expungement, Sealing & Other Record Relief (Restoration of Rights Project, 2020) https://ccresourcecenter.org/state-restoration-profiles/50-state-comparisonjudicial-expungement-sealing-and-set-aside/ Furloughs and Recidivism (US Department of Justice, 1991) https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/furloughs-and-recidivism Expunging and Sealing Criminal Records (Center for American Progress, Kenny Lo, April 2020) https://americanprogress.org/article/expunging-clearing-criminal-records/ https://www.standard.net/opinion/beyond-bars/2019/mar/25/beyond-bars-parole-not-impossible-if-you-follow-the-rules/ Videos: 5 Incredible Prison Rehabilitation Programs (Great Big Story, Nov 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmqL65ZBx44&ab_channel=TEDxTalks PRISON PROGRAMS THAT WORK (Eddie Conway, The Real News, Dec 2018) https://therealnews.com/prison-programs-that-work Prison: how to break the cycle of reoffending? (The Economist, Oct 2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBUSzXvMWCk&ab_channel=CNBCMakeIt
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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Side Quest - Botched Assassinations: Big Momma and the Agents of SCUM

    Side Quest - Botched Assassinations: Big Momma and the Agents of SCUM
    Nov 10 2021
    What do Andy Warhol and JFK have in common? They both spent a long time gawking at Marilyn Monroe. And what's more: both of them had people who wanted 'em dead! Join Alisha and Will as we talk about some of history's biggest #assassinfails. We've got it all: radical manifestos; Nazis ; toilet snipers ; Nazis; septuagenarian bombers; and of course, Nazis! So come with us as we once again Enter the Rabbit Hole... Sources: Richard Paul Pavlick Richard Paul Pavlick (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Paul_Pavlick The Person Who Tried to Kill Kennedy First (Lily Rothman, Time, Dec 2015) https://time.com/4141628/richard-pavlick-kennedy-assassination/ Years ago, the Belmont postmaster delivered (Ray Duckler, The Concord Monitor, Sep 2013) https://www.concordmonitor.com/Archive/2013/09/jfk-cm-092713 The Kennedy Assassin Who Failed (Dan Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, Dec 6, 2012) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-kennedy-assassin-who-failed-153519612/ Richard Pavlick, 88, accused of JFK threat (The Boston Globe, Nov 1975) https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55122279/richard-pavlick-88-accused-of-jfk/ Valierie Solanas https://www.biography.com/news/andy-warhol-valerie-solanas-shot http://kunsthallezurich.ch/sites/default/files/scum_manifesto.pdf https://www.history.com/news/andy-warhol-shot-valerie-solanas-the-factory https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/valerie-solanas-assassination-attempt-on-andy-warhol/ https://www.biography.com/artist/andy-warhol https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/08/untangling-andy-warhol Mossad and the Nazis Not Just Mengele | The Mossad’s Botched Assassination Attempts on Nazi War Criminals (Ofer Aderet, Haaretz, Sep. 2017) https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-mossads-botched-assassination-attempts-on-nazi-war-criminals-1.5449633 Why the Mossad failed to capture or kill so many fugitive Nazis (Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Washington Post, Sep. 2017) https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-the-mossad-failed-to-capture-or-kill-so-many-fugitive-nazis/2017/09/22/e74b964c-9e30-11e7-9c8d-cf053ff30921_story.html The truth about the Mossad (Ian Black, The Guardian, Feb 2010) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/19/ian-black-mossad-dubai The Daring Israeli Spy Operation to Capture Nazi Mass Murderer Adolf Eichmann (Erin Blakemore, History.com, May 2019) https://www.history.com/news/adolf-eichmann-nazi-capture-holocaust-trial-mossad How a famous former Nazi officer became a hitman for Israel (Chris Woolf, The World, Mar 2016) https://theworld.org/stories/2016-03-30/how-famous-former-nazi-officer-became-hitman-israel Queen Elizabeth II What is Trooping the Colour? (royal.uk) https://www.royal.uk/trooping-colour 41 Facts About the Royal Family You Probably Didn't Know (Jack Royston, Newsweek, Apr 2021) https://www.newsweek.com/facts-about-royal-family-didnt-know-queen-meghan-harry-diana-william-1616000 Queen Elizabeth II: The Many Attempts to Assassinate the Royal (Rachel Chang, biography.com, Oct 2020) https://www.biography.com/news/queen-elizabeth-ii-assassination-attempts Queen Elizabeth ASSASSINATION attempt: How a TEENAGER tried to shoot the Queen (Kate Whitfield, The Express, Jun 2019) https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1135342/queen-elizabeth-assassination-attempt-trooping-the-colour-teenager-shoot-queen-horse New Zealand teen attempted to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during 1981 Dunedin visit (Michael Walsh and Nick Fogarty, ABC News, Jan 2018) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-17/queen-elizabeth-assassination-attempt-christopher-john-lewis/9334230 The day the IRA tried to bomb the Queen: Provos' failed bid to kill Monarch at Sullom Voe is a forgotten episode in Scots history (Steven Taylor, The Daily Record, Apr 2016) https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/day-ira-tried-bomb-queen-7720396 Security lapse risked Queen's life (The Scotsman, Oct 2009) https://www.scotsman.com/news/security-lapse-risked-queens-life-2512457 MI5 blamed BP for security lapse before IRA bomb attack on Queen at Sullom Voe (Paul Riddell, The Shetland Times, Oct, 2009) https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2009/10/27/mi5-blamed-bp-for-security-lapse-before-ira-bomb-attack-on-queen-at-sullom-voe Families' pride in drivers who prevented disaster (Gemma Jones, The Daily Telegraph, Jan 2009) https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/families-pride-in-drivers-who-prevented-disaster/news-story/a8dce2eb34922815bafa5b115cc014c6 Revealed: the Aussie plot to kill the Queen (The Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 2009) https://www.smh.com.au/national/revealed-the-aussie-plot-to-kill-the-queen-20090128-7rlo.html Sullom Voe (Explosion) (House of Commons, May 1981) https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1981-05-14/debates/a7d49041-8731-4415-aa90-9f9e9527ba26/SullomVoe(Explosion)
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    2 hrs
  • O is for Operation Midnight Climax Part III - Dirty Martinis

    O is for Operation Midnight Climax Part III - Dirty Martinis
    Nov 3 2021
    The San Francisco heat left the room stifling. I felt like a turkey on the afternoon of Thanksgiving, basting in my own juices as I sat on the rim of my porcelain toilet. And that's when she walked in. She was a dame. The kinda dame with legs that went all the way up, and then all the way back down. A dame. The kinda dame that you would like to take for a drink, and then - like the gentleman you are - treat her to a nice cocktail of gin and LSD. A dame. The kinda dame that you wanted to watch have sex with an accountant, or a pilot, or a US congressman. She was a dame, and as I sat there gulping my pitcher of martini like it would keep the devil at bay, I thought to myself "I can't wait to offer her a job.". Join Alisha and Will for the climax as they once again delve into the world of sex, drugs, and George Hunter White on this week's Enter the Rabbit Hole. Sources: Articles: Guide to the George White Papers, 1932-1970 M1111 https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6k40059b/ Operation Midnight Climax, The CIA’s mind-control drug program (Jordan Fearn, History of Yesterday, Aug 2021) https://historyofyesterday.com/operation-midnight-climax-36d42a4b39cf The Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control Experiments (Stephen Kinzer, Politico, Sep 2019) https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/15/cia-fort-detrick-stephen-kinzer-228109/ The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief' (Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR Sep 2019) https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief Brainwashed : The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada (The Fifth Estate, Dec 2017) https://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2017-2018/brainwashed-the-secret-cia-experiments-in-canada Project MKUltra: When the CIA Tested LSD on Unsuspecting Americans (Josh Clark, How Stuff Works, Jun 2019) https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/cia-lsd.htm Operation Husky: How Mobster Lucky Luciano Aided The U.S. In WWII (John Kuroski, allthat’sinteresting.com, Dec 2017) https://allthatsinteresting.com/operation-husky-lucky-luciano 1953–1964: Operation Midnight Climax — CIA’s lurid ventures into sex, hookers and LSD (Alliance for Human Research Protection, Jan 2015) https://ahrp.org/1953-1964-operation-midnight-climax-cias-lurid-ventures-into-sex-hookers-and-lsd/ 'Apparently Useless': The Accidental Discovery of LSD (Tom Shroder, The Atlantic, Sep 2014) https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-accidental-discovery-of-lsd/379564/ Operation Midnight Climax: How the CIA Dosed S.F. Citizens with LSD (Troy Hooper, SF Weekly, Mar 2012) https://www.sfweekly.com/news/operation-midnight-climax-how-the-cia-dosed-s-f-citizens-with-lsd/ Albert Hofmann, Inventor of LSD, Embarks on Final Trip (David Biello, Scientific American, April 2008) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inventor-of-lsd-embarks-on-final-trip/ Sex, Drugs and the CIA (Douglas Valentine, Counterpunch, June 2002) https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/06/19/sex-drugs-and-the-cia-2/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/06/19/sex-drugs-and-the-cia-3/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/06/19/sex-drugs-and-the-cia/ The Diaries Of a CIA Operative (John Jacobs and Paul Avery, The Washington Post, Sep 1977) https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/09/05/the-diaries-of-a-cia-operative/65b08a3e-c95a-434e-b1c6-c05f726a3a6f/ Secret Agents, Secret Armies: The Short Happy Life of the OSS (National World War II Museum, May 2020) https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/wwii-secret-agents-the-oss OSS: The Predecessor of the CIA (Sarah Pruitt, History.com, Aug 2018) https://www.history.com/news/oss-the-predecessor-of-the-cia The True Story of Brainwashing and How It Shaped America(Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2017) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-brainwashing-and-how-it-shaped-america-180963400/ Brainwashed (Monica Kim, Foreign Policy, Feb 2019) https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/18/brainwashed-north-korea-prisoners-of-war-monica-kim/ From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets (Stephen Kinzer, The Guardian, Sep 2019) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/06/from-mind-control-to-murder-how-a-deadly-fall-revealed-the-cias-darkest-secrets In the 1970s, Congress investigated intelligence abuses. Time to do it again? (Timothy B. Lee, Washington Post, June 2013) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/06/27/in-the-1970s-congress-investigated-intelligence-abuses-time-to-do-it-again/ Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/church-committee.htm The Search for the Manchurian Candidate (John Marks, 1991) https://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks6.htm When the CIA ran a LSD sex-house in San Francisco (Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle April 2016)...
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    1 hr and 12 mins

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