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Is This Good?

Matthew Osten

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Matt Osten welcomes hilarious guests to boldly, conclusively, and scientifically decide what things in this big, wide world are good. Produced by audio maestro and holder of strong opinions, Jason Doyle.
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The Twisted Roots podcast is hosted by genealogist Dale Sheldon. He shares true crime stories with the facts and descriptions coming directly from the original source documentation. From famous unsolved cases, to small town murders lost for a century, here you will discover what really happened. When the truth is stranger than fiction, there is no need to make it up.
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After traveling the world and living abroad for about 10 years in total, there are many lessons I have learned along the way - but there is also so much information I wish someone could have told me about in advance... SO! I created this podcast to share that information and help fellow travel enthusiasts like me! New episodes will be uploaded weekly~
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S2E3: On a brisk October's night in 1927, the smell of rain in the air, a fashionable young lady had recently arrived in the city of Minneapolis to attend college for piano. After finishing a long night attending to a party at the Jolly Peasant Tea Rooms, a job she had aquired only days before, she headed home. She stepped off the streetcar, just a…
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S2E5 - The tale of Sweeney Todd that most of us are familiar with today takes place on Fleet Street in London in about 1846. The murderous barber serviced dozens of the citizens of that grand city, sent them falling through a trap door into the deep basement below, where his neighbor Mrs. Lovett would grind them down into her meat pies. But what is…
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD, & Rachel discuss getting stuck in the dessert, cutting down the oldest tree in the world, turning your car off in traffic, experiencing a living wake, you never know what your last meal will be, indoor gloves, playing blackjac…
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Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. Prints made after the Flemish artist’s designs were routinely sent from Europe to the Spanish Americas, where artists used them to make all manner of objects. Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America (Get…
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s Mailbag episode, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss old wives tales we believe in, homespun remedies, fish hiccups, how to talk to drunks at a bar, the most boring job in the world, grave robbers, stealing from Amazon, anti-returners, how long you can lend some…
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S2E4: In Atlanta, Georgia in the Fall of 1928, a brief crime spree leads to the death of two young clerks. The story of the handsome young killer will take us through an unexpected journey of wealth and privilege that will end in a surprising but perhaps familiar setting. Genealogist Dale Sheldon shares the story of the Handsome Thrill Killers of 1…
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss telephone repairman gossip, the Oasis reunion, Is This Good? getting name-checked in a rap song, Ratatouille screwed us, a devastating trivia loss, the man with the dragon-scaled pants, a Burning Man breakup, s…
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s show, Emma Hunter (Letterkenny) joins Matt & JD to discuss living with hippies, the horror of eating outdoors, picnics are for kids, British moms love a porch, soulmates aren’t real, the importance of vanity, love at first sight, calling your spouse yo…
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🐾 Listen to this episode WITHOUT ADS. Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss celebrities moving their kids into college, a new food app called Uber Deletes, swearing in front of kids, signs you’re listening to too much reggae, hiking with a gun, giving strangers a lift, city people …
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s show, Taylor Cox (Girls5eva) joins Matt & JD to discuss getting punched in the face, why the best charity is anonymous, separating twins at birth, creating a kids table at a restaurant, telling a child to shut up, the horniest part of Harry Potter, a n…
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Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on the firsthand narratives of migrant youth in Los Angeles, California to produce Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United Stat…
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S2E2: This episode is the second in our Jack the Ripper Files. Periodic future episodes will be dedicated to each of the victims and suspects of the infamous Jack the Ripper murders that took place in Whitechapel, London in 1888. In this episode we will focus on Martha Tabram, whom many was the first victim of Jack the Ripper. We will travel throug…
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Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico (Duke UP, 2024), Claudio Lomnitz examines the Mexican state in relation to this extreme violence, uncovering a reality that challenges the familiar narratives of “a war o…
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🐾 Join our Patreon to listen to the FULL episode! https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s Patreon-only episode, Matt, JD, and Rachel discuss why they had a show censored on YouTube, human vs. digital censorship, nude models in drawing class, trying to control your own nickname, the last time we got goosebumps, unexpected Olympic victories, to…
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When General Porfirio Díaz assumed power in 1876, he ushered in Mexico's first prolonged period of political stability and national economic growth--though "progress" came at the cost of democracy. Indigenous Autocracy presents a new story about how regional actors negotiated between national authoritarian rule and local circumstances by explaining…
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s show, Trey Kerby (No Dunks) joins Matt & JD to discuss the weirdest ways to describe someone’s body, short people taking exit row seats, everything you’re doing wrong in the bathroom, the most unnecessary inventions, rich people don’t want you to know …
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S2E1: In this new format episode of Twisted Roots, genealogist Dale Sheldon tells the true story of a murder within his own family. In the barn of a secluded ranch in Washington State in 1914, a man is brutally murdered by persons unknown. His wife, (and Dale's 2nd great-aunt), is put through the ordeal of a trial - her four children scattered to v…
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD, & Rachel discuss why people hate Howie Mandel’s podcast, the Tecate rebrand, fun ways to get a black eye, cameramen are our unsung Olympic heroes, arguing: not as fun as it used to be, artisanal mozzarella, having to tell some…
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s Summer Mailbag episode, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss honking at golfers, sticking it to the man, embarrassing your children, giving airplanes the finger, showing your barber a picture of the haircut you want, the worst rebrands of all-time, pizza slogans,…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E16: In this episode we discover the lost origins of Susannah Sheldon, never before discovered or shared. She was an "afflicted girl" who has been largely forgotten compared to other figures in the trials and yet was one of the mo…
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss Olympic nitpicks, AI fan mail, new TVs are too good, waiting on someone hand AND foot, saving someone’s life with your phone, Robert Downey Jr... is BACK, the Sphere is overrun with chompers, lose-lose situatio…
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s very Olympic show, J.E. Skeets and Nora Artinian (Summer of Champions) join Matt and JD to discuss shooting at drones, the dumbest sports to combine into one event, bringing back Tug of War, winners let people watch them pee, a pro-PED competition, run…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E15: At just an hour past midnight, on a cool pleasant evening in an opulent neighborhood that edged along the Osage Country of Tulsa, Oklahoma - the sound of shots and a woman screaming were heard. A talented young lawyer had bee…
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss deepfakes of your friends, doggie AI, driving your kids around town, facial fitness gum, being addicted to chewing, men’s beauty standards over time, ways to dodge Covid, a heated geography quiz, how a cigarett…
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Throughout the 1920s Mexico was rocked by attempted coups, assassinations, and popular revolts. Yet by the mid-1930s, the country boasted one of the most stable and durable political systems in Latin America. In the first book on party formation conducted at the regional level after the Mexican Revolution, Sarah Osten examines processes of politica…
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood 🐾 On today’s show, Daniel Ralston (The True Story Of The Fake Zombies) joins Matt & JD to discuss rock’n’roll frauds, good advice from Jason Reitman, buying your own karaoke songs to use at the bar, fighting hair loss, America’s greatest bald men, the ethics of a…
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Why did José de León Toral kill Álvaro Obregón, leader of the Mexican Revolution? So far, historians have characterized the motivations of the young Catholic militant as the fruit of fanaticism. Robert Weis's book For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers new insights on how diverse sec…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E14: This episode marks the beginning of our Jack the Ripper Files. Periodic future episodes will be dedicated to each of the victims and suspects of the infamous Jack the Ripper murders that took place in Whitechapel, London in 1…
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🐾 Listen to the FULL episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s Patreon-exclusive episode of The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel breakdown their fiery Las Vegas weekend including: The difference between traveling alone and traveling with your wife, natural anesthetics, worst fonts on The Strip, yelling at meat,…
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood 🐾 On today’s show, Nina Oyama (Deadloch) joins Matt & JD to discuss having a sex tape stolen, doing detective work in a foreign country, the weirdest way to trend on Twitter, elaborate revenge fantasies, going to Nicole Kidman’s school, same sex education, hangin…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E13: In this episode we explore a new story and reveal information that has not been discovered in well over a century. The earliest and most successful of the extreme stage mothers, a predecessor of the ladies in the wings who ex…
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood 🐾 Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss recording in a bathroom, building a pool, when you’re too old for sports, using the computer mouse as a fidget spinner, urban archaeology, America has the worst animals, swearing in a professional setting, th…
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Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their children to escape the violence of the drug war. The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos …
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In The Mexican Revolution: A Documentary History (Hackett, 2022), "Henderson and Buchenau have done an excellent and thoughtful job of collecting a wide range of voices for students to learn about the Mexican Revolution and its causes, both from ‘above’ and from ‘below’. I’m particularly appreciative of the authors’ inclusion of women’s voices and …
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood 🐾 On today’s wild show, Wes Larson (Tooth & Claw) joins Matt & JD to discuss going viral for tackling a bear, forcing your friends to wrestle dangerous animals, helping critters get away from predators, how to save yourself during a grizzly attack, a surprising t…
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In Surgery & Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), Elizabeth O’Brien foregrounds the racial and religious meanings of surgery to draw important connections between historical and contemporary politics regarding fetal and maternal healthcare. She traces practices of caesarean …
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E12: In this episode of Twisted Roots, Dale and CT explore the truth behind the famous nursery rhyme "The Muffin Man". Originating from the Gullet Shut in Shrewsbury, England we go on a journey through time to Bath, London, and ev…
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood 🐾 Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss poorly named colors, why it’s easier to be patriotic outside your own country, being attacked by your own dog, excuses for not having a threesome, roundabouts are more complicated than people think, cold tea,…
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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood 🐾 On today’s show, Tyler Jackson (All The Jokes) joins Matt & JD to discuss being yelled at by music nerds, the weirdest towns in Alaska, the problem with solo road trips, being ashamed of hitting the snooze button, how Japan curbed upskirt photography, why influ…
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[Note: This is an original format episode. Please also try the new format beginning 8 Aug 2024, Season 2 - Episode 1] S1E11: After decades of unfair treatment, hardship, and imprisonment - a grandfather must face the tragic death of his beloved granddaughter at the hands of her jealous boyfriend. In this episode we share clips of our interview with…
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