Episode 69: Pullman Porters and the Hitler Diaries? Nice.
Madness Madness!
English - September 29, 2022 21:00 - 2 hours - 62.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsTrue Crime Comedy cults scams humor culture history crime Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
George Pullman, it should be universally agreed, was a huge piece of shit. Nobody who isn't a huge piece of shit has himself buried in hundreds of cubic feet of concrete and railroad ties to keep his employees from besmirching his corpse. Today we'll be talking about the Pullman Porters, black men and women who migrated north for a better life after the War the South Started Because They Didn't Want to Stop Owning Other Human Beings and found work—up to 400 hours of it per month! This did ultimately lead to unionization, but not before a whole lot of racism from both the Pullman Company and the existing employees' union. Then we'll hear about The Hitler Diaries, which aired for 8 seasons on The CW and starred Ian Somerhalder. Wait, no. The Hitler Diaries were a different thing, but were also fake. Join us for our 69th* episode, won't you?
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