About this podcast
Two buffoons who want to learn about history!
Our names are Bradley and Kate. We both love to learn about history but also don't want to take it too seriously. Join us as we dive in to random stories, people, events and so much more throughout history. Each episode we will talk about a new topic with a light hearted approach to learn and have some fun.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 158 episodes
- Vat? Nein!: 22 Cells at Nuremburg, Part One · 1 h 11 min · Episode 112A war criminal can still be charming in conversation and that’s exactly why this story matters. We take you inside the Nuremberg jail through the eyes of Dr. Douglas Kelley, a…
- The Earth Needed to Cough: Pompeii · 1 h 11 min · Episode 111Pompeii isn’t just a tragedy locked in plaster. It’s a step-by-step disaster where people make real choices under falling rock, shaking ground, and a sky that turns into night…
- Dieter Being Dieter: Dieter Dengler · 1 h 22 min · Episode 110Hunger, obsession, and sheer stubborn will can shape a person into something almost unbreakable. We’re Bradley and Kate, and we’re telling the true story of Dieter Dengler: a kid…
- Mr. Phips Wild Ride: Sir William Phips · 1 h 26 min · Episode 109A shipbuilder from rural Maine doesn’t usually end up knighted by a king, commanding invasions, and running Massachusetts, but William Phipps is not a usual story. We trace how a…
- Check Your Local Ring Camera: Bohdan Stashynsky Part Two · 1 h 8 min · Episode 108A KGB assassin walks into a West Berlin police station and says the quiet part out loud: “I killed them.” That confession detonates a Cold War secret, because the murders weren’t…
- The Origin of Weird: Richard Roose · 24 min · Episode 45Someone poisons a kitchen ingredient, two people die, and England responds by inventing a punishment so violent it still sounds unreal: boiling a person alive in public. We tell…
- KGB 007: Bohdan Stashynsky Part One · 1 h 6 min · Episode 107A basement water alarm chirps in the night, and somehow that’s the calm before we dive into one of the most unsettling Cold War espionage stories we’ve ever covered. We start…
- Miners, not Minors: The Battle of Matewan · 1 h 20 min · Episode 106A small Appalachian town tells a big American story: who gets to enforce the law when a corporation owns nearly everything around you. We’re Bradley and Kate, and after a quick…
- School Bus Yacht: Shipwreck of the Mignonette · 1 h 0 min · Episode 105A 52-foot yacht sets off on a 15,000-mile voyage from England to Australia, and five minutes of bad luck turns it into one of the most infamous survival stories ever recorded…
- The Origin of Weird: Kamikaze · 32 min · Episode 44“Kamikaze” is one of those words that feels locked to World War II, but the original meaning is older, stranger, and way more revealing. We follow the term back to medieval…
- I'm Batman: William Buckley · 56 min · Episode 104“You’ve got a Buckley’s chance.” It sounds like a throwaway line until you learn it may be rooted in a real man whose survival odds were basically zero. We start with the meaning…
- Disturbance in the Dirt: African Cemetery Under Higgs Beach · 48 min · Episode 103A beach day in Key West can feel like pure escape until you learn what’s under the sand. We tell the story of the African Cemetery at Higgs Beach, a burial ground tied to three…
- The Origin of Weird: Operation Beluga · 24 min · Episode 43A thousand beluga whales. A freezing strait that tightens into a handful of breathing holes. Polar bears waiting at the surface. Then, out of the Cold War backdrop, a Soviet…
- All The Kate's: Victorian Strongwomen · 50 min · Episode 102A woman outlifts the most famous strongman on earth, a trapeze artist turns a “proper” outfit into a midair reveal, and a Welsh powerhouse lives boldly with zero interest in…
- You're Killin' Me Smalls: Robert Smalls · 55 min · Episode 101A Confederate ship slips out of Charleston Harbor before sunrise, glides past guarded checkpoints, and rolls right under the guns of Fort Sumter. The wild part is not the ship…
- The Origin of Weird: The Erfurt Latrine Disaster · 15 min · Episode 42A medieval power meeting goes wrong in the most horrifying way possible: the floor collapses, and dozens of nobles drop into a cesspit. We’re Bradley and Kate, and we’re walking…
- Dino-Mite: The Bone Wars · 53 min · Episode 100Episode 100 calls for a toast, but we’re not celebrating with a feel-good story. We’re cracking open a classic beer and digging into the Bone Wars, a late-1800s feud so petty and…
- He's a Yes Man: 5 Men and Anne Boleyn · 1 h 7 min · Episode 99A queen’s downfall is famous. The five men who died to make the story believable are not, and that’s the part we can’t stop thinking about. We walk through the chain reaction…
- The Origin of Weird: The Cobra Effect · 15 min · Episode 41They tried to fix a snake problem with cash, and accidentally built a snake industry. We’re Kate and Bradley, and we’re telling the infamous real-world story behind the Cobra…
- Captain France: Albert Roche · 54 min · Episode 98A 5-foot-1 farm kid gets told he is too small for war, then he breaks into the French Army anyway. That is not a metaphor, it is Albert Roach’s real World War I origin story, and…
