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Hosted by Darrell · society · EN-US · 34 episodes
True stories of overlooked witnesses at pivotal moments in history and the events they quietly observed.
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Edge of the Story
Send us Fan Mail This is the final episode of The Seven and 5 part audiobook. Have you ever been in a room where something shifted—but no one said it out loud? Share your story at www.edgeofthestory.com/heard . If we feature it, we’ll send you an Edge of the Story notebook—because some observations are worth writing down.
Edge of the Story
Send us Fan Mail In 1955, two brothers running a nine-year-old bookkeeping firm in Kansas City get asked one plain question by a stranger who has nothing to lose by asking it, and by the next morning their storefront can't hold the crowd it built. That's the whole episode in miniature: what one clean question, asked out loud, can do to a room. This week, Darrell and Julia turn that same question toward a very different kind of room: a youth Little League board in Petaluma, California, where a routine "can we see the records" unravels into felony forgery charges, a forty-thousand-dollar concern that widens past sixty thousand, and a person the public record will probably never name. Then they cross the country to Pasadena, Maryland, where a brand-new club president, three weeks into the job and with nothing riding on the old answer, asks the same five words and gets the same result: a resignation, the same day. And they finally answer the question the show left open a season ago, is staying quiet survival, or is it something else, with an actual editorial position instead of a shrug. Every source is in our show notes. We're not investigating stories. We're investigating moments people noticed. Show Notes: Petaluma: NBC Bay Area (nbcbayarea.com/news/local/petaluma-little-league-treasurer-charged), San Francisco Chronicle (sfchronicle.com/crime/article/petaluma-little-league-embezzlement-21353925.php), KRON4 (kron4.com/news/bay-area/former-petaluma-little-league-treasurer-accused-of-60k-grand-theft), Petaluma Patch, KSRO. H&R Block: H&R Block investor relations (investors.hrblock.com/news-releases/news-release-details/100-advertisement-5-tax-service-launches-industry-fifty-years), KCUR (kcur.org/economy/2015-07-08/henry-bloch-credits-luck-for-origins-of-h-r-blocks-tax-business), H&R Block founders page (hrblock.com/tax-center/founders), Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%26R_Block). Pasadena Buccaneers: CBS News Baltimore (cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/former-treasurer-accused-stealing-240k-pasadena-buccaneers-maryland-youth-athletic-club). Wake Forest PTA (filed, not used): WRAL (wral.com/news/local/wake-forest-elementary-pta-treasurer-arrested-embezzlement-february-2026). Have you ever been in a room where something shifted—but no one said it out loud? Share your story at www.edgeofthestory.com/heard . If we feature it, we’ll send you an Edge of the Story notebook—because some observations are worth writing down.
Edge of the Story
Send us Fan Mail In part 4 of The Seven , the ballot campaign has become something no one can control. As Cincinnati closes in on the nineteen fifty-seven All-Star vote, Red Edwards finds himself caught between the truth he has always defended and the consequences of the choices he has made. The machine is moving. The count is coming. And somewhere between seven and eight, everyone involved learns what civic pride can cost. The Seven is a fictional account inspired by the nineteen fifty-seven Cincinnati All-Star ballot box stuffing scandal. The complete paperback edition is available at Darrell Best Books dot com . For more stories behind the stories, listen to the weekly podcast, Edge of the Story . Have you ever been in a room where something shifted—but no one said it out loud? Share your story at www.edgeofthestory.com/heard . If we feature it, we’ll send you an Edge of the Story notebook—because some observations are worth writing down.
Edge of the Story
Send us Fan Mail A man puts a working machine on a conference table. An executive looks straight at it and tells him it is not possible. Everybody in that room already knows why, and not one of them will say it out loud. Fourteen years later he puts his own name on the outside of the machine. Observation Two. Have you ever been in a room where something shifted—but no one said it out loud? Share your story at www.edgeofthestory.com/heard . If we feature it, we’ll send you an Edge of the Story notebook—because some observations are worth writing down.
Edge of the Story
Send us Fan Mail In Part Three of The Seven , Cincinnati’s quiet All-Star ballot campaign begins to outgrow the bars and back rooms where it started. Sportswriter Red Edwards is pressured to shape the story of his city, while the people behind the scheme learn that civic pride comes with a cost. Set against the fictionalized events of the nineteen fifty-seven Cincinnati All-Star ballot box stuffing scandal, this chapter of The Seven follows the moment when momentum becomes machinery - and no one is entirely outside the consequences. The complete paperback edition of The Seven is available at Darrell Best Books dot com . Return each week for a new episode of Edge of the Story . Have you ever been in a room where something shifted—but no one said it out loud? Share your story at www.edgeofthestory.com/heard . If we feature it, we’ll send you an Edge of the Story notebook—because some observations are worth writing down.
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