Podcast
Private Dicks
Hosted by Richard Steudle, RJ McCarthy and Rick Getz · EN
Three Richards Solve the Worlds Greatest Mysteries 100% of the Time
19episodes
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The Wizard of Menlo Park – Thomas Alva Edison – PD 96
4d ago00:40:49Tap to summarizeToday we are going to learn about America’s Greatest inventor. Or is he? America’s greatest innovator? Maybe America’s first nightmare CEO – Absolutely. He was deaf, he was from a small town, but he lit up the world. Did he murder some one to get there? Maybe. Listen up This is the brother episode to Nikola Tesla episode and then I hope you enjoy it. All we had to do to solve this case was investigate the following websites; https://www.thomasedison.org/brief-biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Westinghouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Oregon_(1883) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Leonard_Pope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Swan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruplex_telegraph https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/edison%E2%80%99s-first-patented-invention-the-electrographic-vote-recorder-edison-thomas/CQHUS5HlosillQ?hl=en https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2025/joseph-swan-8409/ https://sciencewithkids.com/Science-history/timeline-Edison-inventions.html https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150206-the-most-racist-movie-ever-made https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Edison https://www.biography.com/inventors/thomas-edison https://www.history.com/articles/thomas-edison https://www.century.tech/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Thomas-Edison-Biography.pdf https://www.loc.gov/static/collections/edison-company-motion-pictures-and-sound-recordings/articles-and-essays/biography/life-of-thomas-alva-edison.html https://www.thomasedison.org/inventions https://edison.rutgers.edu/life-of-edison/biographical-essays/education/new-york-1869-1870 https://edison.rutgers.edu/life-of-edison/inventions?catid=91&id=543:vote-recorder&view=article https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canadian-intellectual-property-office/en/patents-learn-basics-inventing-next-big-thing-learn-why-patents-matter https://studyguides.com/study-methods/study-guide/cml9key9z41n30192e9nt0gp0 https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-light-bulb https://www.cio.com/article/266493/consumer-technology-thomas-edison-joseph-swan-and-the-real-deal-behind-the-light-bulb.html https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/december-31/edison-demonstrates-incandescent-light https://guides.loc.gov/this-month-in-business-history/april/jp-morgan-born https://www.nps.gov/edis/learn/historyculture/mary-stillwell-edison.htm https://www.rutgers.edu/news/thomas-edisons-first-wife-may-have-died-morphine-overdose https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/from-edisons-light-bulb-to-the-ball-in-times-square-33743920/ https://www.neh.gov/divisions/research/featured-project/heartbreak-menlo-park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_Miller_Edison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Miller_Edison If you had fun listening, please go give us a rating on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. We are on YouTube too, so please come join us there if that is your platform. One of us will even interact with you there if you have comments. If you like true crime comedy and want to get outraged, go check out our mother podcast, Unethical Podcast! Studies in ethically charged and controversial cases. For early access to episodes of Private Dicks, uncut videos of the Original recordings, all of Unethicals content and so much more getting added every day, go to www.patreon.com/unethicalpodcast Email the us at PrivateDicksDetectiveAgency@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/privatedicks Sound by: SoundJay.com and fesliyanstudios.com
Transcribe →PD Re-Run – The Lost Files of Nikola Tesla – PD11
2w ago01:51:20Tap to summarizeCOPIED FROM ORIGINAL EPISODE – Only reposting cause it has to do with next weeks episode! In this episode, our client is Tali Hall from the Murder Savvy Podcast She hires us to find out what ever happened to the lost files of Nikola Tesla. They were pretty easy to find and along the way we learned about the ACDC war, Serbia has the coolest money, Mark Twain was friends with Tesla, how not to make money, and the love a man can have for a pigeon. If you can’t wait to get more Dicks, go to www.patreon.com\unethicalpodcast where there are 16 more episodes waiting. If you have a case for us to solve, call 1 (855) PRVT-DIX and leave us a message. Go listen to our mother podcast, Unethical Podcast! To find these files, all we needed to do was look at these websites: https://www.britannica.com/story/nikola-teslas-weird-obsession-with-pigeons https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/spying-tesla https://www.lapeniche.net/the-tesla-conspiracy-a-genius-and-the-fbi/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/26/thomas-edison-the-electric-chair-and-a-botched-execution-a-death-penalty-primer/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tesla-free-energy/ https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla/Nikola%20Tesla%20Part%2003%20of%2003 https://racingnelliebly.com/weirdscience/did-nikola-tesla-cure-mark-twains-constipation/ https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/01/11/twain-and-tesla/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/131003-nikola-tesla-surprising-facts-statue-museum-science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Electric_Light_and_Manufacturing https://www.biography.com/news/thomas-edison-nikola-tesla-feud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/timeline/1856-birth-nikola-tesla https://www.history.com/news/nikola-tesla-files-declassified-fbi https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_mispapers.html https://www.scienceme.com/the-life-of-nikola-tesla https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nikola-tesla-inventor-extraordinary-life/ https://www.power-and-beyond.com/whats-the-difference-between-ac-and-dc-power-a-915187/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-rise-and-fall-of-nikola-tesla-and-his-tower-11074324/ https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/nikola-tesla Sound by SoundJay.com and fesliyanstudios.com
Transcribe →PD Side Quests – The Knights of the Round Table – Sir Meliant – E16
3w ago00:08:51Tap to summarizeI love this dorky shit. Another knight guys. Another short one, but a goodie. We learn some stuff. Enjoy
Transcribe →PD Side Quests – The Knights of the Round Table – Sir Brandelis – E15
3w ago00:19:26Tap to summarizeAnother Knight! This time Sir Brandelis. I told you he probably hated Sir Gawain. Let’s see if he did. Knights for a couple weeks Sorry I’m a day late Love ya dickheads. I really do.
Transcribe →PD Side Quests – The Knights of the Round Table – Sir Lovel, Bard of Camelot – E14
May 700:16:03Tap to summarizeAnother knight for you! I know it’s a short episode, but we are releasing one knight a week for the next 2 weeks (2 more weeks) Love ya dick heads
Transcribe →Not See or Not See Hunter? – The Isdal Woman – PD 95
Apr 2200:24:10Tap to summarizeToday we go to Norway to solve a big one. One that has been around since the 70s You might know it, but we solved it. And it was easy. All we had to do to solve this case was investigate the following websites; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isdal_Woman https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39369429 https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/isdalwoman https://binreminded.medium.com/the-isdal-woman-a-new-perspective-77d89dff7103 https://www.jahernandez.com/posts/the-isdal-woman-of-norway https://www.nzz.ch/english/new-leads-in-unsolved-1970-death-lead-to-nazi-allied-swiss-banker-ld.1741613 https://groups.jewishgen.org/probe?r=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.jewishgen.org%2Fg%2Fmain%2Ftopic%2Flong_shot_who_was_the_isdal%2F70475383 https://binreminded.medium.com/have-i-solved-part-of-the-forty-eight-year-old-isdal-woman-mystery-44f74c492ab3 https://www.futilitycloset.com/2014/01/03/the-isdal-woman/ https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Isdal_Woman https://medium.com/@thefigfiles/the-unsolved-case-the-isdal-woman-66c937e89caf https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/yzvekr/the_isdal_woman_is_not_as_complex_as_portrayed/ https://www.thetruecrimedatabase.com/case_file/isdal-woman/ https://www.numbeo.com/crime/in/Bergen If you had fun listening, please go give us a rating on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. We are on YouTube too, so please come join us there if that is your platform. One of us will even interact with you there if you have comments. If you like true crime comedy and want to get outraged, go check out our mother podcast, Unethical Podcast! Studies in ethically charged and controversial cases. For early access to episodes of Private Dicks, uncut videos of the Original recordings, all of Unethicals content and so much more getting added every day, go to www.patreon.com/unethicalpodcast Email the us at PrivateDicksDetectiveAgency@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/privatedicks Sound by: SoundJay.com and fesliyanstudios.com
Transcribe →The Siberian Wakanda – The Tunguska Event – PD94
Apr 800:54:14Tap to summarizeToday we solve the mystery of what really happened in the Siberian Tiaga in the early parts of the 1900s. Let me tell you. Of course, aliens are a theory All we had to do to solve this case was investigate the following websites; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoric_iron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kulik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evenki_people https://www.nasa.gov/history/115-years-ago-the-tunguska-asteroid-impact-event/ https://www.britannica.com/event/Tunguska-event https://armagh.space/weather/history/tunguska-event https://allthatsinteresting.com/tunguska-event https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/estimated-megatons-of-nuclear-weapons-deliverable-in-first-strike https://www.historyexpose.com/things/tunguska-event https://www.britannica.com/place/Siberia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia_(1894%E2%80%931917) https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/asteroid-fast-facts/ https://www.iberdrola.com/about-us/our-innovation-model/meteorites-earth https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/asteroid-or-meteor/en/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clatsop_County,_Oregon#/media/File:Map_of_Oregon_highlighting_Clatsop_County.svg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14524/ If you had fun listening, please go give us a rating on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. We are on YouTube too, so please come join us there if that is your platform. One of us will even interact with you there if you have comments. If you like true crime comedy and want to get outraged, go check out our mother podcast, Unethical Podcast! Studies in ethically charged and controversial cases. For early access to episodes of Private Dicks, uncut videos of the Original recordings, all of Unethicals content and so much more getting added every day, go to www.patreon.com/unethicalpodcast https://linktr.ee/privatedicks Sound by: SoundJay.com and fesliyanstudios.com
Transcribe →PD Side Quests – The Knights of the Round Table – Sir Florence – E13
Mar 2500:18:10Tap to summarizeLittle Ears for your ears. God I love learning about the knights. Love Richard
Transcribe →Cow Vigilantes – The Bhiwani Killings (feat. Sumit Swami) – PD93
Mar 1100:47:49Tap to summarizeDickheads, We are back with another episode! Sumit is back as guest and Richard wanted to bring us to India, to make him feel at home. We had a lot of laughs in this and we learnt a lot about India, its religion and politics and how they ally together in many ways. All we had to do to solve this case was investigate the following websites; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Bhiwani_killings https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64701344 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65229522 https://cjp.org.in/november-2024-surge-in-cow-vigilantism-rising-violence-and-legal-apathy-in-north-india/ https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/1/3/how-cow-vigilantism-is-undermining-the-rule-of-law-in-india https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_cow_vigilante_violence_in_India https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/14/who-is-monu-manesar-indian-vigilante-accused-of-inciting-haryana-violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajrang_Dal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8239506/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_slaughter_in_India If you had fun listening, please go give us a rating on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. We are on YouTube too, so please come join us there if that is your platform. One of us will even interact with you there if you have comments. If you like true crime comedy and want to get outraged, go check out our mother podcast, Unethical Podcast! Studies in ethically charged and controversial cases. For early access to episodes of Private Dicks, uncut videos of the Original recordings, all of Unethicals content and so much more getting added every day, go to www.patreon.com/unethicalpodcast https://linktr.ee/privatedicks Sound by: SoundJay.com and fesliyanstudios.com
Transcribe →These Guys are Dirtbags – Escape From Alcatraz – PD92
Feb 2501:13:07Tap to summarizeDICKHEADS! Nice to know you read these! Richard brings RJ a story about the three men that supposedly escaped from Alcatraz in the 60’s. It involves fake dummies, popular mechanics, 133 IQs and Clint Eastwood. You’ll love it. Our solve is a little benign, but isn’t that life sometimes? All we had to do to solve this case was investigate the following websites; https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/alcatraz-escape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1962_Alcatraz_escape https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240607-it-was-the-cleverest-escape-in-the-prisons-30-years-the-men-who-broke-out-of-alcatraz-with-a-spoon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alcatraz_escape_attempts https://www.historyhit.com/how-did-3-people-seemingly-escape-from-alcatraz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz_Federal_Penitentiary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stroud https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Morris https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anglin https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Anglin https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_West_(criminel) https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/West-16857 https://www.newser.com/story/254541/key-to-infamous-1962-alcatraz-break-popular-mechanics.html https://www.goldengate.org/january-2024-update-on-the-golden-gate-bridge-suicide-deterrent-system/ If you had fun listening, please go give us a rating on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. We are on YouTube too, so please come join us there if that is your platform. One of us will even interact with you there if you have comments. If you like true crime comedy and want to get outraged, go check out our mother podcast, Unethical Podcast! Studies in ethically charged and controversial cases. For early access to episodes of Private Dicks, uncut videos of the Original recordings, all of Unethicals content and so much more getting added every day, go to www.patreon.com/unethicalpodcast https://linktr.ee/privatedicks Sound by: SoundJay.com and fesliyanstudios.com
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