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A biweekly weird-history podcast based in Dallas, TX
WILD & TRUE stories 🤯
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Starring comedians Jimmy Nelson & Scott Crisp
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- 108: Scenes from a Pig-Faced Lady Craze · 54 dk · Bölüm 108This week on an all new Oddball History Podcast, it's the Pig-Faced Lady Craze of 1630-1865--arguably one of the bizarre crazes in recorded history. PLUS: Muladona the…
- 107: A Salute To Bareknuckle Boxing · 1 sa 31 dk · Bölüm 107This week on the Oddball History Podcast, it's a salute to bareknuckle boxers past and… further past. From Georgian London to Ancient Greece and back again, meet the baddest…
- 106: So You've Been Cursed · 1 sa 5 dk · Bölüm 106This week on a very special but possibly cursed Oddball History Podcast, it's curses, curses and more curses, including the TRUTH behind the Curse of Tutankhamen… The GOAT whose…
- 105: 1,000 Ways To Die in Antiquity · 45 dk · Bölüm 105Ancients die in the darnedest ways this week on a very special Oddball History Podcast--including a philosopher who laughed himself to death after seeing a donkey eat some figs…
- 104: Fart History · 55 dk · Bölüm 104So it's come to this: An episode about farts. This week on a very special Oddball History, a 3,925-year-old fart joke from Ancient Sumer; Martin Luther farts at the Devil; Roman…
- 103: Jester? I Hardly Know Her · 1 sa 6 dk · Bölüm 103This week on a very special Oddball History Podcast, Scott learns all about the lost art of court jestering and meets a few of the most famous jesters in history, including…
- 102: So You've Been Marooned · 46 dk · Bölüm 102This week on a very special Oddball History Podcast, it's everything you always wanted to know about marooning (the practice of punishing someone, usually a sailor, by leaving…
- 101: Fun With Historic Murder Plots · 1 sa 10 dk · Bölüm 101This week on a very special Oddball History Podcast it's the lighter side of historic murder plots, from the Roman emperor Nero resorting to Wile E. Coyote technology in an…
- 100: Adventures in Royal Insanity · 57 dk · Bölüm 100It's a mad, mad, mad, mad kings episode this week on the Oddball History Podcast, as Scott gets to know the most bizarre and least sane royals of all time, including the Zhengde…
- 99: Soccer! Soccer! And More Soccer! · 52 dk · Bölüm 99This week on a very special Oddball History Podcast, we shamelessly attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the World Cup with our very own soccer episode, featuring the…
- 98: Popes Gone Wild! · 52 dk · Bölüm 98The popes have gone wild this week on a highly spiritual Oddball History Podcast, from Sergius III having his two immediate predecessors strangled, to Benedict IX more or less…
- 97: A Salute To Birds · 57 dk · Bölüm 97Bird, bird, bird, bird is the word this week on a very special Oddball History Podcast, as Scott learns all about the most legendary birds in history, including the heroic war…
- 96: Cavalcade of Rich Weirdos · 1 sa 2 dk · Bölüm 96This week on a very special Oddball History Podcast it's the Cavalcade of Rich Weirdos--three exceedingly wealthy and almost unbelievably weird men straight from the pages of…
- 95: "1, 2, 3, 4... FIVE EMPERORS???": The Year of Five Emperors · 56 dk · Bölüm 95This week on a very special Oddball History, it's the Year of Five Emperors, a wild, bloody, chaotic time even by the standards of the Roman Empire--from Commodus being strangled…
- 94: The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre & Similar Misadventures · 50 dk · Bölüm 94This week on a very special Oddball History we're lowering ourselves down into the sewer to learn all about the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre, a grisly and all too true comedy of…
- 93: Beef A La History · 1 sa 1 dk · Bölüm 93What's beef? Beef is when you hate someone so much for so long that your hate goes down as a matter of public record, as we learn this week on a very special Oddball History…
- 92: Martians, Martians, Martians!: The Turn of the Century Martian Craze · 57 dk · Bölüm 92This week on a very special Oddball History we're going back to the well of weird history that is the Turn of the 20th Century, to a time when Martians were real (or seemed to be…
- 91: The American Hippo Bill of 1910 · 49 dk · Bölüm 91This week on a very special Oddball History, Jimmy has retired from history podcasting, leaving Scott to ramble about hippopotamuses--specifically the brief period in 1910 when…
- 90: Oddball History Holiday Classic - Part 2 · 1 sa 9 dkCome on in, the water's warm. Part 2 of the Oddball History Holiday Classic Chapters: (00:00) Intro (00:57) The Last Castrato (09:20) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (15:31)…
- 89: Oddball History Holiday Classic - Part 1 · 57 dk · Bölüm 89Check out our favorite segments from the past 2 years. Happy Holidays to you and yours. Chapters: (00:00) Intro (01:58) Jacques Ferron and the RIghteous Donkey (08:46) Ken Allen…
