Episode 9 Narrated and executive produced by Aaron Mahnke, with Robin Miniter as Senior Producer, research and writing help from the Grim & Mild team, and audio production from Otis Gray.   Episode Sources Recent News “A Wisconsin man has won the Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest,” NPR, July 24, 2023, https://www.npr.org/2023/07/24/1189719385/a-wisconsin-man-has-won-the-ernest-hemingway-look-alike-contest “Bell tolls for Wisconsin man who wins Hemingway look-alike contest,” AP, July 23, 2023, https://apnews.com/article/hemingway-lookalike-key-west-3c2a00b465339ae5f88cc5d8e4848af4 “Giant 'doomsday fish' has close encounter with divers off Taiwan,” Yahoo!life, July 18, 2023, https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/giant-doomsday-fish-close-encounter-081056514.html “A giant oarfish: the mirrored harbinger of earthquakes,” Guardian, August 7, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2023/aug/08/a-giant-oarfish-the-mirrored-harbinger-of-earthquakes “Nearly 20 Years Later, Message In A Bottle From Nantucket Found In West Indies,” Nantucket Current, July 17, 2023, https://nantucketcurrent.com/news/nearly-20-years-later-message-in-a-bottle-from-nantucket-found-in-west-indies “Nantucket fisherman's message in a bottle found nearly 20 years later in West Indies,” WCVB5, July 19, 2023, https://www.wcvb.com/article/message-in-a-bottle-nantucket-fisherman-michigan-intern-west-indies-cassidy-beach-pennel-ames/44589861  Old News “Alive From the Dead, Almost.” North Star. 11/6/1848. https://www.newspapers.com/image/518664256/?terms=Phineas%20Gage&match=1 Bedford, Dorvall. “The Little-Known Story of the First Washington Monument.” Smithsonian Magazine. 12/14/2022. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-little-known-story-of-the-first-washington-monument-180981268/ Cherry, MSEd, Kendra. “Phineas Gage: His Accident and Impact on Psychology.” Very Well Mind. Updated 11/29/2022. https://www.verywellmind.com/phineas-gage-2795244 History.com Editors. “Prohibition.” HISTORY. A&E Television Networks.  10/29/2009. Updated 4/24/2023. https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition Mejia, Paula. “Why the U.S. Navy Once Had a Concrete Ice Cream Barge.” Atlas Obscura. 7/5/2018. ​​https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-did-navy-sailors-eat O’Brien. “That Time the Navy Spent a Million Dollars on an Ice Cream Barge.” Observation Post. Military Times. 7/21/2021. https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2021/07/21/that-time-the-navy-spent-a-million-dollars-on-an-ice-cream-barge/ O’Driscoll, Kieran and Leach, John Paul. “ “No Longer Gage”: An Iron Bar Through the Head.” British Medical Journal. 12/19/1998. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1114479/ Scharf, John Thomas. “History of Western Maryland.” Allegany County: Genealogical Publishing Com., 2003. https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_Western_Maryland/ntVpHBIz0hAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22washington%20monument%20near%20boonsboro%22 Sparks, Taylor. “Sailors Scream For Ice Cream!” U.S. Naval Institute. August 2022. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/august/sailors-scream-ice-cream Talmon, Noelle. “Wartime Ice Cream: The Secret Weapon to Boosting Morale.” Ripley’s Believe It or Not! 11/2/2021. https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/wartime-ice-cream-the-secret-weapon-to-boosting-morale/ “The Phineas Gage Story.” Cummings Center for the History of Psychology. The University of Akron. https://www.uakron.edu/gage/story.dot Twomey, Steve. “Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient.” Smithsonian Magazine. January 2010. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/ US Naval Institute Staff. “A Hundred Years Dry: The U.S. Navy’s End of Alcohol at Sea.” US Naval Institute. 7/1/2014. https://news.usni.org/2014/07/01/hundred-years-dry-u-s-navys-end-alcohol-sea “Washington Monument.” National Park Service. Updated 12/22/2022. https://www.nps.gov/wamo/learn/historycult