Sofa King Podcast
by Sofa King Podcast
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Irrational Rage: Why the Smallest Things Make Us Lose Our Minds
Irrational Rage: Why the Smallest Things Make Us Lose Our Minds
About this podcast
The Sofa King podcast is a twice-weekly show dedicated to influential people, popular culture, historical events, true crime and listener suggested topics the hosts find interesting. From conspiracy theories and technology to the mass media and the future, this show explores major issues in way that is simultaneously informative, critical, and humorous. The hosts have big ideas, big opinions, big mouths, and give their take on topics in a way that is both cynical and educational. Adult content, themes, and language.
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- Irrational Rage: Why the Smallest Things Make Us Lose Our Minds · 1 h 18 minEver find yourself irrationally furious over something that absolutely doesn't matter? A shopping cart left in the parking lot, someone driving five under the speed limit, or…
- Collectors: Barf Bags, Bones & Banana Stickers · 1 h 35 minPeople collect some weird shit. Coins, cards, and stamps? Sure, we get it. But what about airline barf bags, banana stickers, bread clips, funeral cards, human hair, teeth, and…
- Would You Rather: Bad Choices, Dumb Arguments & Surprisingly Deep Questions · 1 h 35 minSometimes you don't need a conspiracy, historical disaster, serial killer, or three hours of research to make a podcast. Sometimes you just need three friends, a microphone, and…
- Forever Chemicals: The Poison That Never Leaves · 1 h 26 minForever Chemicals & Microplastics: The Invisible Pollution Inside Us What if the most widespread pollution on Earth isn't something you can see? In this episode, we dive into…
- The AI Species: Are We Creating Our Replacement? · 1 h 37 minArtificial intelligence is moving faster than almost anyone expected, and it seems like every week another headline makes us wonder if we're witnessing the beginning of a…
- Florida Man: America’s Worst Superhero · 1 h 37 minWhat happens when reality is so ridiculous… it sounds fake? In this episode, we dive headfirst into the chaotic legend of Florida Man—a single, mythical entity made up of the…
- The Neubauer Experiment: Playing God with Triplets · 1 h 10 minIn the 1960s and 70s, a secret psychological study set out to answer one of humanity’s biggest questions: Are we shaped by nature… or nurture? Led by child psychiatrist Peter…
- Before NASA: The Incredible Story of Auguste Piccard · 1 h 29 minBefore astronauts, before rockets, and decades before the space race… one man built a metal sphere, attached it to a balloon, and rode it to the edge of space. In this episode…
- Out-of-Place Ancient Artifacts That Break the Timeline · 1 h 22 minSome artifacts don’t belong. Buried in sand. Hidden in shipwrecks. Locked in museum cases. Objects that shouldn’t exist — at least not according to the official timeline. In…
- Vimana: Ancient Flying Machines They Called Myth · 1 h 14 minAncient texts describe flying machines thousands of years before modern aviation — were they myth… or something more? In this episode, we dive into Vimanas — legendary aerial…
- Shanti Devi: The Girl Who Remembered Dying · 1 h 3 minIn this episode of the Sofa King Podcast, we dive into one of the most disturbing and fascinating reincarnation cases ever recorded — the story of Shanti Devi. Born in 1920s…
- Your Mom’s A Ho Ho Ho On Only Sleighs · 43 minTen years in, and somehow we’re still here—older, louder, and more Sofa King unhinged than ever. For this year-end Christmas episode, we turned the mic over to the Skult and…
- Garth Brooks: Friends In Low Places · 1 h 12 minIs Garth Brooks secretly a serial killer… or is the internet just doing what it does best? In this episode of the Sofa King Podcast, we dive headfirst into one of the strangest…
- Hacking the World: The CIA Vault 7 Files · 1 h 5 minWhen WikiLeaks released the Vault 7 files in 2017, the world got an unfiltered look at the CIA’s secret cyber-arsenal—a hidden kingdom of digital weapons designed to slip quietly…
- Salyut 7: The Ghost Ship Above Earth · 59 minIn February 1985, the Soviet space station Salyut 7 went dark. Powerless and frozen, it drifted above the Earth—a ghost in orbit. Months later, two cosmonauts attempted an…
- Into the Valley of Lights: The Hessdalen Phenomenon Explained · 1 h 20 minWatch this episode in Full Video: https://youtu.be/gyrHG74hIHA High in a cold Norwegian valley, a strange light burns without source or mercy. It hovers. It pulses. It darts…
- Ingo Swann: The CIA’s Psychic Spy Who Saw Aliens · 1 h 28 minBefore the government came calling, he painted quiet galaxies. Before the Moon spoke to him, he listened for signals no one else could hear. Ingo Swann was not a psychic. He was…
- The Black Knight Satellite: 13,000 Years of Alien Secrets Orbiting Earth · 1 h 1 minThere’s something circling us.Something that doesn’t belong. Long before the first satellite was ever launched, stories began to surface of a dark shape drifting silently above…
- Episode 752: Project Blue Beam: The Unifying Conspiracy Theory? · 1 h 24 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we put on our tinfoil hats for a doozy of a conspiracy theory—Project Blue Beam. Blue Beam is perhaps the ultimate…
- Episode 751: Dragons: Fossils, Facts, and Fantasy · 1 h 19 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, there be dragons here! We talk about the roots, mythology, fossil record, and biblical stories that helped the term of the…
- Episode 750: Sleep Walking: Sex, Snacks, and Somnambulism · 1 h 16 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk about the strange occurrence of sleepwalking. Though it mostly involves innocent movement in someone’s sleep, it…
- Episode 749:Trees: The Wood Wide Web · 1 h 23 minOn this episode of the Sofa King Podcast, we talk about one of the most important and often misunderstood living beings on the planet. That’s right, we talk about trees. At…
- Episode 748: The State of AI: Part Three · 1 h 20 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we continue our ongoing conversation about The State of Artificial Intelligence. Since GPT came out, AI has exploded into…
- Episode 747: Operation Highjump: The Madness of Antarctica · 1 h 17 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we look at the US Navy’s Operation Highjump. Just a year after WWII, the famous explorer, Admiral Richard Byrd, launched an…
- Episode 746: Siegfried and Roy: A Tale of Tigers · 1 h 24 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk about the magical kings of Las Vegas, Siegfried and Roy. Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn were a magician and…
- Episode 745: The Bobbitts: Love Hurts · 1 h 29 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk about one of the biggest True Crime cases of the 1990s, that of Lorena and John Bobbitt. In June of 1993, Lorena…
- Episode 744: Macho Man: Oh Yeah!!! · 1 h 39 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we look at the colorful life of Randy "Macho Man" Savage. Randy was one of the all-time greats of wrestling. His character…
- Episode 744: Dan Aykroyd: From Ghosts to Spirits · 1 h 27 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we dig into the biography of the one and only Dan Aykroyd. He earned his chops as one of the original cast members on…
- Episode 743: John Candy: The Everyman of Comedy · 1 h 36 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk about the life of an understated comic genius, John Candy. For two decades Candy was in some of the best comedies…
- Episode 742: Happy Science Cult: Neither Happy nor Scientific · 1 h 25 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk about one of the largest cults in Japan—the Happy Science Cult. Yes, that’s really their name. They were founded by…
- Episode 741: Papa Doc Duvalier: The Voodoo Tyrant · 1 h 38 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we explore one of the worst regimes in the West: the dictatorship of Papa Doc Duvalier. François Duvalier came to be the…
- Episode 740: Conan O’Brien: Born for Late Night · 1 h 32 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk about the career of the one and only Conan O’Brien. Conan went from utterly unknown to become one of the all-time…
- Episode 739: Saturday Night Live: Fifty Years of Funny · 1 h 34 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we say a hearty “Live from New York…It’s Saturday Night.” That’s right. We talk all things Saturday Night Live. This…
- Episode 738: Mary Kay Letourneau: Convicted Cougar · 1 h 20 minOn this episode of The Sofa King Podcast, we talk about the ultimate case of forbidden love—the story of Mary Kay Letourneau. Letourneau was made (in)famous in the late 1990s…
- Episode 737: Derinkuyu: The Underground Empire · 1 h 21 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we look at the amazing underground city of Derinkuyu. This tomb of a city is in modern day Turkey and dates back thousands…
- Episode 736: Sacha Baron Cohen: The Delightful Doppelganger · 1 h 37 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk about the many lives of Sacha Baron Cohen. He won awards as Ali G and took over the world as Borat, all through his…
- Episode 735: Move Bombing: West Philadelphia Burned and Razed! · 1 h 31 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we take a look an activist group called MOVE, and how they were eventually assaulted, murdered, and bombed by Philadelphia…
- Episode 734: Mars: The Future of Humanity?On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk the red planet, Mars. There is a lot to unpack here. I mean, yes, it is super cool that errors in interpreting…
- Episode 733: Tim Burton: Godfather of Goth · 1 h 44 minOn this episode of the Sofa King Podcast, we talk about one of the most unique visionaries in all of Hollywood, Tim Burton. It’s hard to even start with his biggest hit since…
- Episode 732: Archimedes: The Warrior Scholar · 1 h 23 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk about the ultimate brain baller, Archimedes. He was born in 287 BC, but he was a genius the likes of which the…
- Episode 731: Annie Palmer: The White Witch of Rose Hall · 1 h 24 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we go back in time to a story of murder, voodoo, torture, and sex. This is the story of Annie Palmer, the White Witch of…
- Bonus Episode 220: Teco Taste Test! · 47 minOn this bonus episode of everyone’s favorite sitcom, the guys celebrate shark week. Brent turns his pool into salt water, so he can buy a great white shark. Brad builds a shark…
- Episode 730: Johnny Carson: The Star Maker · 1 h 28 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk about the GOAT of late night television, Johnny Carson. At his height, he had the power to literally ask a comedian…
- Episode 729: The Phantom of Heilbronn: The Woman Without A Face · 1 h 19 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast we talk about one of the strangest True Crime cases we’ve ever seen—the Phantom of Heilbronn. Also called “The Woman Without…
- Episode 728: The Odd Fellows: Skeletons in the Closet · 1 h 29 minOn this episode of the Sofa King Podcast, we talk about the Order of Odd Fellows. This fraternity slash secret society included Charlie Chaplin, Wyatt Earp, Ulysses S Grant…
- Episode 727: Edward Bernays: Master of Manipulation · 1 h 57 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk about the godfather of propaganda, Edward Bernays. Bernays was Sigmund Freud’s nephew, and stewing in that pot of…
- Episode 726: The Batman · 1 h 43 minOn this episode of the Sofa King Podcast, we talk about the one and only Batman. That’s right, crime fighters! Batman has been a hallmark of American popular culture since he…
- Episode 725: John Ashley: Gangster, Bootlegger, Pirate! · 1 h 29 minOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk about John Ashley. He was the head of the Ashley Gang and was said to rob 40 banks while becoming the head of…
- Episode 724: State of A.I. Part TwoOn this episode of the Sofa King Podcast, we dive back in to the treasure trove of Artificial Intelligence with a talk on the state of A.I. (part 2). This time around, we talk…
- Episode 723: Westall UFO Encounter: Aussies, Cover Ups, and Men in BlackOn this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we explore the skies of the land down under and talk about the Westall '66 Encounter. Also called Melbourne 350, this is a…
