About this podcast
Is it comedy? Is it history? Yes. Join us as we tame this vicious two-headed beast of our own creation and explore the depths of forgotten histories that have been deleted from our collective consciousnesses.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 128 episodes
- #121 Vlad the Impaler · 1 h 40 min · Episode 128In this week’s episode, the guys are talking about Vlad Drăculea, a man who enjoyed spearing people in the butt and then leaving them out for all to see… and somewhere along the…
- #120 The Brinks Robbery · 1 h 16 min · Episode 127In this week’s episode, the fellas deep dive a case called The Robbery of the Century, how it went cold for decades, a disgruntled confessor who waited until the 11th hour, and…
- #119 Ancient Marvels: Derinkuyu Caverns · 1 h 17 min · Episode 126In this week's episode, the boys are chatting about what happens when a remodeling project in the heart of Cappadocia, Turkey uncovers a millennia-old marvel that's been…
- Monthly Mini #4 - Nidal Hasan & Christa Pike · 50 min · Episode 125In this, our first Monthly Mini in over a year, the fellas are talking a bit more about executions and the U.S. justice system in light of the recently botched execution of…
- #118 Christopher Columbus · 1 h 44 min · Episode 124In this week’s episode, the guys are celebrating a holiday and talking about a guy… a guy that we think is pretty stupid and awful, but enough about Fred Durst. We also talk…
- #117 Revolutionaries: Che Guevara · 2 h 0 min · Episode 123In this week’s episode, the guys are talking about how a sensitive, idealistic, young doctor became a revolutionary, partisan fighter and how things turned out once he achieved…
- #116 American Executions · 1 h 45 min · Episode 122In this week’s episode, the boys discuss the death penalty in the U.S. Why do we have it? Why don’t we use it more? Why don’t we use it less? What’s up with it going away in the…
- #115 The Life and Crimes of Carl Gugasian · 1 h 47 min · Episode 121In this week’s episode, the guys are talking about the clever and meticulous Friday Night Bank Robber. What made a troubled kid who had turned his life around return to a life of…
- #114 Pseudoscience: Alchemy · 1 h 39 min · Episode 120In this week’s episode, the fellas talk about a pseudoscience that’s maybe a real science sometimes, but is also a pseudoscience most of the time, and we suddenly understand how…
- #113 Penal Colonies: Devil’s Island & Angola, LA · 1 h 50 min · Episode 119In this week’s episode, the boys are celebrating Labor Day and talking about their least favorite places to be forced into labor. What’s worse, an island, surrounded by jungles…
- #112 Guano Mining · 1 h 31 min · Episode 118In this week’s episode, the guys are talking about how worldwide demand for guano impacted world markets. We’re heaping on piles of information about the folks who worked in the…
- #111 Conspiracy Corner: Bronze Age Civilization Collapse · 1 h 56 min · Episode 117In this week’s episode, the fellas are traveling the Eastern Mediterranean on the search for Sea People. Were they the cause of the end of the Bronze Age, were they just one of…
- #110 La Ciudad Blanca: City of the Monkey God · 1 h 39 min · Episode 116In this week’s episode, the guys are going into the rainforest to chase ghosts and legends. From pre-Colombian settlements, to lying wannabe archaeologist spies, to the…
- #109 North American Cryptids: West Virginia · 1 h 45 min · Episode 115In this week’s episode, the boys are stomping through the hollers of West Virginia in search of our favorite hillbilly cryptids. And yes, before you ask, we talk about Mothman…
- #108 Loving v. Virginia · 2 h 10 min · Episode 114In week’s this episode, Riley and Patrick discuss the complexities of how marriage laws evolved through English colonial territories, survived revolution and independence, and…
- #107 The Evolution of Paleontology · 1 h 34 min · Episode 113In this week’s episode, the fellas hypothesize on how crazy it must have been to be the first people to find dinosaur bones. We also mispronounce almost every scientific name we…
- #106 The Whaling Industry · 1 h 59 min · Episode 112In this week's episode, the guys dissect the history of whaling and how it drove industry and naval innovation for years. We also talk a whole lot about blubber, seamen, Moby…
- #105 Corporate Cults: WeWork · 1 h 51 min · Episode 111In this week's episode, the guys are bringing back Corporate Cults and talking about one real unlikeable fella. Come join us as we chant corporate mantras, attend weird…
- #104 Arcane Brain: Psychiatric Medicine - Pt. 2 · 1 h 49 min · Episode 110In this week’s episode, the gang is getting into the slightly more modern history of psychiatry. We’re talking treatment methods that seem more cruel than competent and how…
- #103 Arcane Brain: Psychiatric Medicine - Pt. 1 · 2 h 0 min · Episode 109In this week’s episode, the fellas are going way back in time to uncover the humble beginnings of psychiatry. From people who were legitimately clinically ill to people who were…
