Ep. 236 - The Old Ozarks - The Rurnt Day of Major Wolf (S2:E4)
Welcome to the Old Ozarks with Dr. Brooks Blevins...
This week, we're talking milk gone bad, mythical giants, and one very "rurnt" 72 hours — a Confederate major's real-life brush with a firing squad that came down to a president's telegram and a matter of hours.
We'll start with Blinky Blue John, the Ozarks' own giant of legend, whose curious name traces back to superstitions about witches souring milk, before landing on the region's favorite way to say something's gone completely to pieces: "rurnt."
Then it's on to the long sweetenin', the harrowing true story of Major Enoch Wolf of Ford's…
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