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Do Go On

467 - The Pinkerton Detective Agency

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

Fact, History, Facts, Comedy

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

To kick of BLOCK2024, we learn about the history of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, one of the first of its kind, with a varied and fascinating history.


This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 13:54 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).


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Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.  


REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://pinkerton.com/our-story/history

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pinkerton-National-Detective-Agency

https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-pinkertons

https://pinkerton.com/our-insights/blog/pinkerton-lincoln-and-mcclernand-at-the-secret-service-headquarters 

https://www.intelligence.gov/evolution-of-espionage/civil-war/union-espionage/allan-pinkerton 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/james-agency/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/outlaw-hunters-163405565/ 




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Transcript

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0:00.0

Dave Blockbuster Toba is on this week.

0:03.0

Oh my gosh this weekend October 5 and 6 2024.

0:07.0

I'll be there.

0:08.0

Jess will you be there?

0:09.0

Let me check my calendar.

0:10.0

Yeah, I'll be there.

0:11.0

Matt, will you be there?

0:12.0

Yeah, I'm gonna be there. I'm going to be there.

0:13.0

And it's so exciting because also this week, Block Tober begins.

0:18.0

So there'll be episodes in your feeds that are Blocktastic.

0:21.0

Yes, Matt, it will be Blocktastic and we're talking about block live this weekend. You can watch the shows anywhere in the world. These are live streamed. You can tune in on the Saturday to see Book Sheet and then a Do Go One episode,

0:35.0

One Ticket, and then you can tune in on the Sunday to say who knew it with Matt Stewart

0:38.6

and do go on separate ticket. But if you buy both tickets together in the same

0:42.0

transaction I'm told you get an automatic discount.

0:45.0

They become some sort of super ticket like a Voltron type situation.

0:48.0

They come together and you can watch it live.

0:50.0

Like May and Voltron, they come together. That was just a memory of me when

0:55.8

was in an orgy with Voltron. And you can watch it live or on catch up and you can

1:01.4

get tickets at do go on pod.com.

1:04.4

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1:12.1

They love it because it's super tasty. You love it because

1:17.8

it's made with regenerative wheat and it's got only the essentials, no nasties. Farmers love it because their fields are buzzing with birds, bugs and bees again.

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