Robert is joined again by Sofiya Alexandra to continue to discuss one the darkest chapters in all of Irish history. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The podcast delves into a world of drugs and darkness to uncover the conspiracy behind the assassination of three radio journalists in Miami, whose murders remain unsolved to this day.
The speaker expresses a lack of trust in sweet potatoes and highlights challenges he faces with potato farming due to limited land.
The board games that many of us grew up playing in the 90s and early 2000s were assembled by women who were essentially slaves of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Even the popular game Mousetrap was reportedly the worst in terms of poor working conditions.
Hasbro worked with an order of Irish nuns for more than 30 years, using them for cheap labor to make board games. The nuns were allegedly forced to work without pay and some were incarcerated for getting pregnant.
Hasbro is accused of laying off full-time employees and using incarcerated women and nuns to perform unpaid labor in Ireland. The company allegedly paid the nuns to force the women to work without fair compensation, while regular employees were enraged over the use of forced, unpaid labor while they themselves were being laid off.
The speaker goes on a tangent about his experience working with sorting and rating YouTube videos and expresses a desire for an armored vehicle from the British government.
This episode discusses the mistreatment of children in the hands of Catholic church-run institutions in Ireland, particularly during the 20th century.
A commission investigating Ireland's mother and baby homes revealed that some children involved in vaccine trials were taken without consent. While some were from families who agreed to their participation, others were children in mother and baby homes who were not asked due to the nuns' belief that they had mental problems.
Journalists start to investigate Ireland's industrial schools and Magdalen laundries a year after the discovery of a mass grave, both of which are still ongoing at the time.
The process of finding evidence of wrongdoings by malicious groups is often difficult, especially when they have attempted to destroy the evidence themselves.
The island of Koh Tao in Thailand, known for its beautiful beaches and lush scenery, has recently gained a reputation for dark crimes and corruption, including the murder of tourists and a possible cover-up by authorities.
A local historian uncovers evidence of a mass grave of children who died at a Catholic mother and baby home in Tuam, Ireland, by cross-referencing old plans of the building with a modern map. She then seeks out death certificates for all the children who died at the home, but is initially stonewalled by the religious order that ran the home.
In 2001, the Catholic Church made a secret deal to protect themselves from the fallout of the mass child sex abuse by priests and the uncovering of evidence that the Vatican had invested in entities that conflicted with the church's missions. By doing this, they were able to protect themselves from the horrors of the industrial school system exposed in a government report in 2013.
The Pacific Northwest's unprecedented heatwave, which has been disastrous for houseless and air conditioning-lacking residents in cities like Salem, has prompted activists to step up and set up cooling stations to help people get their temperature down. However, local police have been destroying these efforts.