One Last Good Story

About One Last Good Story

History, Mystery, Conspiracy-Facts | Tired of shallow takes and endless spin? Buckle up — One Last Good Story is the one-hour solo rocket ride that actually makes sense of the world… and always leaves you smiling. Every episode, host Bill McDade sits down at the mic and drops a massive deep dive that breaks one topic wide open — history’s forgotten lessons, today’s explosive science, geopolitics, economics, politics that actually matter, personal development, fashion, poetry, visual art, music, agriculture, food, and even smarter shopping. It’s built for sharp minds, curious humans, and every regular American who wants real insight without the noise. Think the heavily researched storytelling of The Why Files, the raw straight-talk of Joe Rogan and Shawn Ryan, the wide-open curiosity of Danny Jones and Julian Dorey, and the intimate, no-BS honesty of WTF — all rolled into one unfiltered voice speaking directly to you. Something for everyone. Zero filler. And every single episode ends exactly as the title promises: One Last Good Story that lifts you up and sends you back into the world a little wiser and a lot more hopeful. Smart. Honest. Warm. And it always ends on a high. Subscribe now — your new favorite hour starts here.

Publisher

Bill McDade

Category

history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Mar 2026

Latest episode

8 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

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   8 Apr 2026

   Part 1 LBJ's Mistress Exposed The Texas Plot That Killed JFK - AUDIO ONLY

   "Those Irish Mafia sons of bitches will never embarrass me again." Six in the morning. November 22, 1963. A phone rings in Dallas. The voice on the other end belongs to the man who will be sworn in as President of the United States just hours later — while his predecessor’s blood is still wet on his wife’s pink suit. This is not a theory. This is the story the official investigations never finished. Welcome to One Last Good Story, Episode 5 – Part 1: LBJ’s Mistress Exposed – The Texas Plot That Killed JFK (And Why RFK Knew). For sixty years, the world has been chasing grassy knolls, magic bullets, and Zapruder frames. But what if the real story was being built in real time… by Robert F. Kennedy himself? In the fall of 1963, the Attorney General wasn’t hunting the Mob or foreign spies. He was quietly building the most explosive federal case of his life — against a man who worked forty feet from the Oval Office. Using the FBI, Senate investigators, and Life Magazine (the X of its day), RFK had wiretaps, witnesses, and a paper trail that ran from a West Texas cotton field straight to the Vice President’s door. Then Dallas happened. The file went cold. And the target became President. In this episode we pull the thread RFK never got to finish: The convicted fraudster who walked into a grand jury in 1984 and named eight murders — including JFK — pointing directly at Lyndon B. Johnson. The letter his lawyer hand-delivered to the Department of Justice… that actually exists and you can read. The Texas Justice of the Peace who ruled a man shot five times with a bolt-action rifle a “suicide”… until a grand jury changed it to homicide 23 years later. The fingerprint on the sniper’s nest box that matched a convicted murderer tied to LBJ. The stolen Senate election decided by 202 phantom votes written in the same handwriting, in alphabetical order. The Life Magazine exposé — fed by RFK’s Justice Department — that was set to run in December 1963 and destroy the Vice President… until November 22 changed everything. And the Dallas woman who kept talking for forty years — the one who said she was LBJ’s mistress for 21 years, bore his son, and took that chilling early-morning phone call the day the President died. Every claim in this episode is labeled: grand jury record, sworn testimony, on-camera interview, or court document. No Reddit rumors. No tin-foil. Just the case the prosecutor was building… until his brother was killed and the man he was investigating became the most powerful person on Earth. This is Part 1. The motive. The bodies. The mistress. The cover-up that started the moment the motorcade turned onto Elm Street. Part 2 drops next week — and it goes straight into the infrastructure: the fired CIA director who ended up investigating his own boss’s murder, the Bay of Pigs grudge, the Texas oil money, and the men who had already done this kind of thing before. If you’ve ever wondered why the truth feels like it’s been hiding in plain sight for sixty years… this is why. Show notes, sources, citations, and every disputed claim are linked below (YouTube, Patreon, Spotify, Apple, OneLastGoodStory.com (http://OneLastGoodStory.com)). Drop a 🔥 if you’re ready for the rest of the file. Comment the one question this episode left you with. And if you believe stories this big should still be told… hit subscribe and turn on notifications. We’re just getting started. One Last Good Story — because some truths don’t go away. They wait. #JFKAssassination #LBJ #MadeleineBrown #RFK #JFKConspiracy #BillieSolEstes #TexasPolitics #OneLastGoodStory

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   2 Apr 2026

   12,000 Year Old Tesla Towers Discovered on Pacific Island – Linked to 1965 UFO Landing

   400 mysterious concrete cylinders with iron-reinforced shafts and iron cones at their bases sit buried under gravel mounds on a remote South Pacific island. They predate the pyramids by thousands of years. No burials. No artifacts. Just precision engineering. Then, in 1965, a UFO lands in a French lavender field and leaves behind the exact same cylindrical hole with hardened soil and compression marks. What connects them? Nikola Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower grounding system — built 60 years later from first principles — and a genetic signal in human DNA that mainstream archaeology still can’t explain. This is Episode Zero of One Last Good Story. We explore the missing pieces of human history that the textbooks won’t touch. No conclusions forced on you — just the evidence, the questions, and one last good story at the end that will stay with you. In this episode: Captain Cook spots the Isle of Pines The Kanak oral tradition that archaeologists ignored 400+ tumuli dated up to 12,900 years old (Golson & Chevalier reports) Tesla’s Earth-as-resonator experiments and the Wardenclyffe ground shaft The documented Valensole UFO landing (GEIPAN PAN D case) and the identical central support hole Population Y DNA linking Pacific navigators to South America 15,000+ years ago Primary Sources (Read Them Yourself – No Spin) • Luc Chevalier 1963 Report on the Tumuli (French original): http://www.archeologie.nc/docus/tumulcheval.pdf (http://www.archeologie.nc/docus/tumulcheval.pdf) • Jack Golson 1959-1960 Excavation Reports & Radiocarbon Dates: See “Recovering a Primal Event” paper (full PDF): https://www.academia.edu/43699827/RECOVERING_A_PRIMAL_EVENT_IN_SOUTH_PACIFIC_PREHISTORY_NEW_CALEDONIAS_TUMULI_TOWARD_RESOLUTION (https://www.academia.edu/43699827/RECOVERING_A_PRIMAL_EVENT_IN_SOUTH_PACIFIC_PREHISTORY_NEW_CALEDONIAS_TUMULI_TOWARD_RESOLUTION) • GEIPAN Official Valensole Case File (PAN D – Unexplained): https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/cas/1965-07-00050 (https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/cas/1965-07-00050) • Pontus Skoglund et al. 2015 Nature Paper on Population Y: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14895 (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14895) (or full PDF via Reich Lab) • Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 645,576 (1897) – Magnetic Resonance Coupling & Wireless Power: https://patents.google.com/patent/US645576A/en (https://patents.google.com/patent/US645576A/en) French sources (non-English research) confirm the same details: the tumuli remain unexplained, Valensole is still officially “D” (unidentified), and the physical match between the mound shafts and the landing trace is striking. If this episode lights a fuse for you — if you’ve ever wondered what we’re missing about ancient human capability — drop a comment with your biggest takeaway. Which part surprised you most: the concrete dates, the Tesla parallel, the UFO hole, or Marie’s oral tradition? Hit LIKE if you want more episodes like this. SUBSCRIBE and turn on notifications — we’re just getting started. Share this with someone who loves real mysteries (not the fake stuff). One Last Good Story. Stories worth telling. People worth knowing. New episodes drop regularly. #OneLastGoodStory #TeslaTowers #IsleOfPines #ValensoleUFO #AncientMysteries #PopulationY #Wardenclyffe

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   1 Apr 2026

   APRIL FOOLS: The Day the World Got Pranked… And We Still Can’t Agree Why

   April 1st. One day a year the entire planet agrees: nothing is Stone Cold Fact. Your coffee, your news feed, even your girlfriend’s pregnancy test — all suspect. But behind the whoopee cushions and fake spiders hides one of history’s strangest truths: April Fools’ Day may be the most significant date on the calendar. Assassinations, empires, trillion-dollar companies, the birth of the U.S. government itself — all landed on April 1st. And most of us still spend the day just checking our backs for sticky notes. In this episode we finally hunt down the real origin of April Fools’ Day — and spoiler: historians have been fighting about it for 400 years with no clear winner. We play the ultimate game — April Fools or Stone Cold Fact? — revealing real events that sound completely made up (the U.S. House of Representatives opening for business, Apple Computer being born, the RAF launching, Gmail dropping a gigabyte of free storage when everyone thought it was a prank…). Then we countdown the greatest pranks in human history: The BBC’s legendary 1957 Spaghetti Harvest (yes, people called to ask how to grow spaghetti trees) The Guardian’s fake country of San Serriffe (a semicolon-shaped island with typeface cities) Sports Illustrated’s Sidd Finch, the Buddhist monk who threw 168 mph fastballs Taco Bell “buying” the Liberty Bell (the only prank that forced a White House response) And the one that made people actually float… or so they swore. We also go dark: the pranks that went horribly wrong — including the 1946 tsunami that killed 159 people because some dismissed the warnings as an April Fools joke. The lesson? When the alarms go off on April 1st… you still check. And as always, we close with One Last Good Story — the unforgettable tale of 93-year-old Vinnie Colasanti, the lifelong prankster who pulled off one final, heart-stopping April Fools masterpiece on his daughter… from his deathbed. You will laugh, you will cry, and you will never look at April 1st the same way again. If you love The Why Files, Joe Rogan, Danny Jones, Julian Dorey, or Shawn Ryan — this episode is built for you. Drop a comment: What’s the best (or worst) April Fools prank you’ve ever pulled or been hit with? 📌 Subscribe to One Last Good Story and never miss an episode where history, mystery, and humanity collide. New episodes drop every week. 🎧 Full audio also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & everywhere else.

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   27 Mar 2026

   Catholic Mystery The Two Saint Patricks

   This isn’t sanitized Sunday-school history. This is the messy, human, inconvenient truth—the kind that makes legends worth keeping. If you love The Why Files, Joe Rogan deep dives, Danny Jones, Julian Dorey, or Shawn Ryan—raw stories, zero agenda, maximum truth—you’re home They taught you St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. Here’s what they left out: Ireland never had snakes. Not one. The island was under a glacier until 10,000 years ago. So what the hell did he really drive out? And here’s the part the Church spent centuries trying to bury: there may have been two St. Patricks. In this raw, no-BS deep dive, Bill McDade rips the glossy legend apart and gives you the real man—the kidnapped British teenager sold into slavery on a freezing Irish mountain, the runaway who walked 200 miles on a dream, the ex-slave who went back to the country that chained him, the guy who survived betrayal by his closest friend over a secret sin he carried for 30 years. Drop a LIKE if this episode wrecked you in the best way. SUBSCRIBE—we’re just getting started. New episodes drop weekly. One Last Good Story at a time. Confessio (full English translation): https://www.confessio.ie/etexts/confessio_english (https://www.confessio.ie/etexts/confessio_english) Letter to Coroticus: https://www.confessio.ie/etexts/epistola_english (https://www.confessio.ie/etexts/epistola_english) T.F. O’Rahilly’s groundbreaking 1942 paper: https://www.academia.edu/11782582/The_Two_Patricks (https://www.academia.edu/11782582/The_Two_Patricks) Prosper of Aquitaine’s contemporary record of Palladius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladius_(bishop_of_Ireland) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladius_(bishop_of_Ireland)) Why Ireland truly has no snakes: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-real-reason-ireland-has-no-snakes/ (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-real-reason-ireland-has-no-snakes/) Slemish Mountain (Patrick’s slave mountain): https://discovernorthernireland.com/listing/slemish-mountain/67347101/ (https://discovernorthernireland.com/listing/slemish-mountain/67347101/) Bell of St. Patrick (National Museum of Ireland): https://www.museum.ie/en-ie/collections-research/collection/the-treasury/artefact/the-bell-of-st-patrick-and-its-shrine/95577a65-66da-4228-869b-0e3644273d32 (https://www.museum.ie/en-ie/collections-research/collection/the-treasury/artefact/the-bell-of-st-patrick-and-its-shrine/95577a65-66da-4228-869b-0e3644273d32) Downpatrick burial controversy & John de Courcy’s “discovery”: https://voicesfromthedawn.com/mound-of-down/ (https://voicesfromthedawn.com/mound-of-down/) Tripartite Life of Patrick (the medieval “edited” legend): https://archive.org/download/tripartitepatrick00stokuoft/tripartitepatrick00stokuoft.pdf (https://archive.org/download/tripartitepatrick00stokuoft/tripartitepatrick00stokuoft.pdf) Thank you for watching. Stories worth telling. People worth knowing. See you in Episode 3. #StPatrick #IrishHistory #TwoStPatricks #OneLastGoodStory #RealHistory #Podcast

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   27 Mar 2026

   12,000 Year Old Tesla Towers Found on Pacific Island? (UFO Evidence) AUDIO

   On a remote island in the Pacific, there are ancient concrete cylinders — some over 12,000 years old — each built around a vertical shaft iron-reinforced sunk deep into the ground. Somebody or something built them. Nobody claimed them. Nobody has fully explained them. Nikola Tesla drew almost the same structure in 1901. In 1965, a French farmer watched a craft land in his lavender field. When investigators arrived, they found a cylindrical hole pressed into the earth — same diameter, same depth profile as that on the Pacific island. The French government classified the case, PAN-D. It's still open. This episode connects four things that have no business being connected — and then asks the only honest question left: what are we missing? In this episode: The Tumuli mounds of the Isle of Pines (New Caledonia) — potentially 11,000–12,900 BCE, predating the pyramids, predating Roman concrete What Golson and Chevalier actually found when they excavated — and why the dating caused a quiet uproar Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower and his 1901 grounding system for global wireless power — and the structural overlap that's hard to dismiss Population Y and elevated Denisovan DNA: genetic evidence of Pacific crossings that don't fit the accepted human timeline The 1965 Valensole UFO landing — GEIPAN-classified, still unresolved Kanak oral tradition, telluric currents, and what modern geophysics might be telling us And we close with Marie and Étienne — One Last Good Story 0:00 — Intro & The Mystery Setup 2:45 — Isle of Pines Mounds & Ancient Dates 12:30 — Golson & Chevalier Excavations 18:45 — Pyramids, Stonehenge, Roman Concrete: A Comparison 25:10 — Pacific Seafaring Evidence (28,000+ years ago) 32:00 — Denisovan DNA & The Population Y Puzzle 38:20 — Tesla's Earth Resonator & Wardenclyffe Tower 55:40 — Valensole 1965: The Connection 1:05:00 — One Last Good Story: Marie & Étienne https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-mystery-of-the-tumuli/ (https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-mystery-of-the-tumuli/) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380459377_New_'mysterious_mounds'_in_Southern_Melanesia_An_archaeological_study_of_the_Tivoli_plateau_Lifou_Loyalty_Islands_New_Caledonia_and_regional_comparisons (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380459377_New_) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Pines_(New_Caledonia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Pines_(New_Caledonia)) https://patents.google.com/patent/US645576A/en (https://patents.google.com/patent/US645576A/en) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower) Valensole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_France (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_France) GEIPAN official investigations: https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/ (https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/) Population Y (Nature 2015): https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18029 (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18029) Jebel Irhoud (315k ya Homo sapiens): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebel_Irhoud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebel_Irhoud)

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   21 Mar 2026

   12,000 Year Old Tesla Towers Found on Pacific Island? (UFO Evidence)

   A new insight that changes our understanding of the earth's electric capacity, human history, Nikolas Tesla & confirmed facts about a French UFO/UAP sighting that brings it all together. On a remote island in the Pacific, there are ancient concrete cylinders — some over 12,000 years old — each built around a vertical iron-reinforced shaft sunk deep into the ground. Somebody or something built them. Nobody claimed them. Nobody has fully explained them. Nikola Tesla drew almost the same structure in 1901. In 1965, a French farmer watched a craft land in his lavender field. When investigators arrived, they found a cylindrical hole pressed into the earth — same diameter, same depth profile as the ones on that Pacific island. The French government classified the case PAN-D. It's still open. This episode connects four things that have no business being connected — and then asks the only honest question left standing: what are we missing? IN THIS EPISODE: The Tumuli mounds of the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia — potentially dated 11,000 to 12,900 BCE, predating the pyramids and Roman concrete by thousands of years What archaeologists Golson and Chevalier actually found when they excavated — and why the dating caused a quiet uproar in the academic community Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower and his 1901 grounding system for global wireless power — and a structural overlap with these mounds that is very hard to dismiss Population Y and elevated Denisovan DNA: genetic evidence of Pacific crossings that don't fit the accepted human timeline The 1965 Valensole UFO landing — GEIPAN-classified, still unresolved after six decades Kanak oral tradition, telluric currents, and what modern geophysics may be quietly confirming And we close with Marie and Étienne — a good story, the kind worth keeping No conclusions handed to you. Just the shape of a question big enough to matter. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 — Intro and The Mystery Setup 2:45 — Isle of Pines Mounds and Ancient Dates 12:30 — Golson and Chevalier Excavations 18:45 — Pyramids, Stonehenge, Roman Concrete: A Comparison 25:10 — Pacific Seafaring Evidence (28,000+ years ago) 32:00 — Denisovan DNA and The Population Y Puzzle 38:20 — Tesla's Earth Resonator and Wardenclyffe Tower 48:15 — The Underground Shaft Parallel 55:40 — Valensole 1965: The Connection 1:05:00 — One Last Good Story: Marie and Étienne New episodes weekly at OneLastGoodStory.com (http://OneLastGoodStory.com) Newsletter, early access, and more: OneLastGoodStory.com (http://OneLastGoodStory.com) Support the show: Patreon link coming soon YouTube: One Last Good Story with Bill McDade X/Twitter: @1LastGoodStory Audio available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and everywhere you listen. Stories worth telling. People worth knowing.

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