Premium 58 - Q&A 7 - Hoosiers: America’s White Russians, or, “finally, the Sus Indiana episode”

[originally published on Patreon Dec 26, 2022]

It's time to discuss the much-anticipated, much-requested question, "why do you keep raising your eyebrows suggestively at any mention of Indiana?" What follows is necessarily an incomplete attempt, but I cover early Indiana state history, the Indiana Treason Trials, the Knights of the Golden Circle, the curious case of the Ishmael family, Indiana eugenics programs, the weird proto-Christian Identity church milieu there, Terre Haute, some discussion of Charlie Manson's early life, a segment on the Interstate Killer Larry Eyler and the bizarre coverup there, a bit on the Kinsey network and the expat Tibetans, Amoco, Eli Lilly, the Symbionese Liberation Army, various spooks, MKULTRA, talking shit on Parks and Recreation, and a revisit to the conceptual framework of the susness of places in general.

episode art by Dakota

Premium Episode 58 Songs:

Goin’ Back to Indiana by the Jackson Five

Indianapolis by the Bottle Rockets

Indiana Wants Me by R. Dean Taylor