This week we are back on Floreana Island for more flawed Utopian hijinks. The Baronesse with her two sexy male "assistants" have fully moved onto the island. She very quickly begins playing political games all while stealing everyone's rice. They begin work on a "luxury" hotel but do not get very far before it all starts to fall apart.

Meanwhile the young family living farther into the island successfully gives birth to a healthy baby named Rolfe. *Trigger Warning for a section on a complicated pregnancy* Though the birth is incredibly harrowing both the mother and baby survive the experience and recover.

More wealthy good Samaritans show up to share gifts with the intrepid Floreanans. The Barronesse uses as many of her wiles as she has left to get as much out of each expedition as possible eventually resorting to literally stealing Milk from a baby. But when one wealthy group decides to avoid that camp completely tensions begin to rise and foreshadow a chaotic and possibly violent turn in the

Sources: Eden Undone- A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War 2 by Abbott Kahler

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This week we journey to Floreana Island, in the heart of the Galapagos Islands. Millionaires from all over had started visiting the Galapagos Islands after Charles Darwin did, for the exotic animals and uncharted territory and to bring back plenty of critters and carcasses. Foreign businessmen were also visiting with the intent of figuring out how to profit there, and how to buy the islands for their governments.

Then, three different groups: an odd couple, a family, and a pretend baroness with her two young lovers came to the island separately to all create their own version of utopia, but these 10 people wouldn't even share the island for a before several would meet tragic ends.

Sources: Eden Undone- A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War 2 by Abbott Kahler

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We are Wrapping up the Ma Mandelbaum Story this week and boy is she going out with a bang. We have The SHADIEST of lawyers, wild court cases, Running from the law, vigilantly Private Investigators.

We talk more about Howe and Hummel her silly and corrupt lawyers, The Pinkerton National Detective Agencies. and how ma continued to evade Justice.

Enjoy!

Sources:

“The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss” by Margalit Fox (2025)

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