207. Escape from Alcatraz

In San Francisco Bay sits the once mighty fortress, a place that held America's most dangerous criminals, a concrete prison built upon Devil's Island, surrounded by a tempestupus sea, fearsome winds and shark infested waters, a prison no man could escape... or so they claimed... Hosted by Katie Charlwood  I'm On tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade  Season 2 coming soon! Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: [email protected]      See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's it really like growing up as the daughter of an NBA player and the sister of a global icon? Shaya Bryant — daughter of NBA and European league legend Joe "Jellybean" Bryant, and sister of Kobe Bryant — joins Born To The Game for Part 1 of a deeply personal two-part conversation about family, legacy, identity, and life behind the fame. In this episode, Shaya opens up about: Growing up in a basketball family and moving overseas to Italy and Switzerland as a kid Learning Italian in months and the culture shock of returning to Philadelphia Her tight-knit bond with Kobe growing up — "thick as thieves," pranks, and no real fights Kobe's early work ethic, 6am gym sessions, and the moment that shaped the Mamba Mentality Her father Joe "Jellybean" Bryant as a present, playful dad and the lessons he instilled Navigating fame, privacy, and protecting her peace from public perception Motherhood, grief, and carrying her family's legacy forward on her own terms This is Part 1 of 2 — Part 2 drops next week with even more of Shaya's story. New episodes are live every Tuesday. Full videos are live every Wednesday on YouTube. Subscribe to Born To The Game for more honest conversations about culture, family, entertainment, ambition, and legacy. Find The Show: Born To The Game Podcast  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Eva Braun is a figure from history sometimes portrayed as a feather-brained ditz, and others as a master manipulator and powerful political player in the Third Reich. The thing about Eva Braun is that no-one really knew who she was until after the war ended and she was dead. But who really was HItler's mistress and very very brief wife? Listen now. Hosted by Katie Charlwood  I'm On tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: [email protected]      See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Unit 731 is one of WWII's lesser known horrors. Imperial Japan's covert biological warfare research and development unit that engaged in brutal and inhumane experimentation on victims known as "logs." These prisoners were infected with pathogens, deadly diseases from dysentery to the plague, studied and vivisected, all for the good of the Empire, and spearheaded by the sinister microbiologist Shiro Ishii. Hosted by Katie Charlwood  I'm On tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: [email protected]    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ilse Koch is one of the most notorious women of the Third Reich, a women whose crimes were so heinous, she would be known worldwide as the Bitch of Buchenwald, stories of her deeds printed in newspapers across the world. But did this woman really parade around the slave labour camp in nothing but lingerie, was she riding around the camp on her horse selecting prisoners for punishment and worst of all, did she take the skin of tattooed prisoners and had them turned into lampshades? Hosted by Katie Charlwood  Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: [email protected]    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Coco Chanel is one of the most iconic names in fashion, popularised the tan, invented the little black dress LBD, etc, unfortunately she was also a Nazi collaborator.  Hosted by Katie Charlwood  BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Resources Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: [email protected]    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aaron Burr is a man you may know as the guy who lost a popularity contest to Thomas Jefferson and then shot a guy who rap-sings. But the story of Aaron Burr, Sir, is much more interesting that Lin Manuel Miranda put on the stage. So curl up with your cocoa and lets hear all about Aaron Burr! Hosted by Katie Charlwood  BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Resources Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: [email protected]    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

During the Civil Rights Era, a new diagnosis emerged, a very specific form of schizophrenia that disproportinally targed Black Men...   Hosted by Katie Charlwood  BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Resources Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: [email protected]    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

200th Episode!!! We're on episode 200 and to celebrate here is a bonus episode about a murderess, Lady Bluebeard, Butcher of Men, Hell's Bell, the one, the only, Belle Gunness, a woman who may be America's most prolific serial killer. Just when you thought the story couldnt get worse, it did. Hosted by Katie Charlwood  BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Resources Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!! Pre-order Becoming Venus  Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: [email protected]    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The United States of America is 250 years old..ish, but in becoming the USA, entire communities, nations and cultures were crushed beneath teh wheel of "progress." Indigenous people in North America were removed from their land, had their practices, knowledge and culture stripped from them. One of the major cogs in the assimilation machine was the Native American boarding school system. A system of abuse that caused trauma that affected generations, inherited wounds. Hosted by Katie Charlwood  BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Resources Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: [email protected]  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.