"Series 7"

Series 7 of the Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope podcast will run from April 12 to July 25, 2021 and feature episodes from #7 and #13 on daring art thefts, sleazy hotels, pseudoscience, and a crazy cult founded by a dentist.

The Garden of Oblivion

the Golden Age of Hollywood's own no-tell motel

From millionaire's mansion to sleazy hotel to Frank Gehry architectural abomination, the sordid history of the Sunset Strip's own Garden of Allah. Read More...

Categories: Entertainment & Media, People & Places, Series 7

Tags: Freeman Bernstein Hollywood motion pictures Presented by #13

Published: May 10, 2021
Edited: May 10, 2021

The Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature

Moron or Madman?

in which science is subordinated to politics

Trofim D. Lysenko (1898-1976) set back the study of biology in the Soviet Union for two generations -- but the lessons you should learn from his story are not the one scientists and philosophers have pushed. Read More...

Categories: Biography, History, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Science & Nature, Series 7, The Marvels of Science

Tags: agriculture biology communism genetics Joseph Vissanorovich Stalin politics Presented by #13 pseudo-science Russia Trofim Denisovich Lysenko Union of Soviet Socialist Republics World War II

Published: April 26, 2021
Edited: April 26, 2021

John Singer Sargent, "Sir Hugh Lane" (1906)

More Lovely and More Temperate

poor estate planning, a daring art theft, and a brief history of Anglo-Irish relations

In which two Irish art students commit a daring daylight museum heist with virtually no planning, and somehow get away consequence-free. Read More...

Categories: Arts & Culture, Series 7

Tags: art art history civil law crime London, England Presented by #13 United Kingdom

Published: April 12, 2021
Edited: May 10, 2021