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UFO Files: The Hatfields and McGoblins

Mon, 11 May 2026 05:26:00 -0000

The recent release of the UFO Files left out arguably the most exciting human vs. extraterrestrial encounter in American history: when a group of backwoods Kentucky rednecks spent an August night in 1955 fighting off a dozen goblin-like aliens with a shotgun and a rifle from inside their humble farmhouse. This is the story of The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter aka the Hopkinsville Goblins.

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The Horny Emperor Who Loved To Cosplay

Mon, 04 May 2026 06:23:00 -0000

Zhu Houzhao took over the Ming Dynasty at just 14. He was more interested in women, drinking, and pretending to be a soldier than actually running China. He left his royal court in the hands of his eunuch friends as he hung out in his "Leopard Quarter" all day getting wasted with his exotic animals and prostitutes.

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This is What Happens When A Woman Takes Power

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0000

The Assyrian queen Semiramis is one of the most notorious rulers in ancient history. Not just because she was a woman ruling a violent, male-dominated society. And not because she competently ruled the massive empire for years. Mostly, it turns out, because there were some WILD stories about her, um, dating life.

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The American That Made Hating The Pope Cool

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:29:00 -0000

Lewis Charles Levin was a 19th century Jewish American politician, newspaper editor, and conspiracy theorist who believed that Irish immigrants were soldiers of the Catholic Church sent by the Pope to cause division in our nation. He became a congressman for the state of Pennsylvania and was a major voice in the nativist movement.

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The Horniest Soldiers In American History

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:15:00 -0000

As American soldiers liberated France, they had one thing on their mind: Boning. It turns out that the GIs who were landing in Normandy and fighting in the hedgerows were at least partly motivated by the fact that they were convinced Francewas going to be their own personal Panama City Beach circa Spring Break 2003. Between the famous brothels in Paris, the French having a reputation for... being French, and American propaganda that all but assured our soldiers that they'd be getting laid constantly once they got to Paris, our grandfathers marched through France with pretty much full erections. What followed was a two-year sex party that altered Franco-American relations forever.

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How The Navy Got Its... Reputation

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:57:00 -0000

In 1919, rumors were swirling that a naval base in Newport, Rhode Island, was rife with immoral (gay) behavior. In response, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt commissioned a sting operation. Send fresh, young sailors into the base to honeytrap men into having sex with them. What followed was one of the biggest scandals in U.S. Navy history.

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The Worst Person To Ever Live Bracket

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:22:00 -0000

We put together a 68 person March Madness bracket of some of the most evil and despicable humans to ever grace this planet and decide who is the worst of all time.

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New Orleans' Murderous Hooker

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:58:22 -0000

When you think about prostitutes and serial killers, you generally assume the former is being killed by the latter. But in the case of Bridget Fury, the former IS the latter. Fury was infamous in antebellum New Orleans for killing Johns who didn't pay, mutilating rival ladies of the night, and all other manner of horrific crimes.

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The Starting 9 For Hell’s Baseball Team

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:34:52 -0000

With the MLB season about to start we pick our starting nine for Hell’s baseball team — the most talented and least moral person at every position in MLB history, dead players only. We also pick the All-Heaven starting nine and decide who would win between the two.

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This Is Sparta!

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:45:04 -0000

King Xerxes launched a second invasion of Greece in 480 BC to avenge his father's failures a decade before. The massive Persian army of over 100,000 men was met by Leonidas and his force of 300 Spartans (and roughly 7,000 other soldiers) at a pass in Thermopylae. This three day stand turned the Spartans into martyrs and a rallying cry for the Greek city states.

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The Pacific Theater Was A Nightmare

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:35:47 -0000

Maybe we don't talk about the Pacific Theater in World War 2 as much as we should because we don't want to acknowledge how gross it actually was. The Battle of Peleliu is arguably the best example of how foul it was. Unspeakable war crimes, temperatures exceeding 110 degrees, crabs eating dead bodies that had exploded from the heat, human mutilation by normal men who'd been broken by the savagery of the battle. Peleliu might have been literal hell.

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The King Of Louisiana

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:32:50 -0000

Huey Long was one of the most radical and powerful politicians in American history. Between his time as both the governor of Louisiana and senator he completely steamrolled his enemies and changed the state entirely during the Great Depression.

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The Japanese Ate A Lot of People In WW2

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:05:45 -0000

The Japanese committed a lot of war crimes in World War II but cannibalism wasn’t one of them, though only because cannibalism wasn’t technically a war crime because no one thought to make a rule against it. Still, Imperial Japanese soldiers practiced cannibalism more than you would think, and NOT because of a lack of food. We talk about the instances Japanese soldiers ate Allied troops both as an act of psychological warfare and because they believed it would bring them strength.

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The Devil Worshipping American Intelligence Officer

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:44:47 -0000

Michael A. Aquino Jr. was an American military officer, specialist in psychological warfare, Nazi admirer and Satanist priest who started his own religion. This is the story of the Temple of Set.

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The Greatest Aerial Combat Win Ever

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:56:52 -0000

Captain Royce Williams will receive the Medal of Honor soon, for a secret he kept for 50 years — that during the Korean War, badly outnumbered and outgunned, he took on and defeated 6 Soviet MiGs by himself despite the fact that the Soviet Union was not an official combatant in the Korean War.

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America's Shady History With Saudi Arabia

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:41:10 -0000

The minute President Roosevelt stepped foot on the USS Quincy to meet with Ibn Saud on the Bitter Lake, he changed the course of America's future in the Middle East. We dive deeper into the complex and often rocky relationship the United States has had with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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The Meanest Mormon in History

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 02:00:09 -0000

Porter Rockwell was many things. A man with three wives and twenty-one children, a lawman, and one of the OG Mormons. But above all he was the early Mormon church’s muscle. Their enforcer. And he had no compunction about killing for church leaders like Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.

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The Man Who Wrongly Thought He Could Fly

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 06:19:12 -0000

Franz Reichelt was an Austrian born tailor who became obsessed with the idea of creating a wearable parachute for pilots and aviators. This passion was only fueled by the many peers who doubted his invention and it ultimately led to a day of destiny at the Eiffel Tower in 1912.

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Left Handers Are The Most Oppressed People In Human History

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:51:23 -0000

Rob, a southpaw survivor of human society’s systemic left-handedness oppression, breaks down all the horrible ways basically every civilization throughout human history has demonized, ostracized, and genocided left-handers.

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The Last Viking

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 07:53:54 -0000

Harald "Hardrada" Sigurdsson was a Viking mercenary in the Byzantine Varangian Guard and eventual King of Norway who threw his hat in the ring to conquer England in 1066. He lived an extraordinary life traveling far and wide participating in campaigns against Muslim Caliphates, Bulgarian rebels, and other Norsemen. Find out why he is often considered "The Last Viking."

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The Spy Who Shagged BP

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 02:51:55 -0000

Moe Berg was a defense-first journeyman catcher for the Dodgers, White Sox, Indians, and Red Sox who faced the likes of Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio. He also had multiple Ivy League degrees and was such a trusted spy for the OSS during World War II that FDR personally sent him on missions. But above all, he was kind of a weird guy.

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The Eggnog Riot

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:52:07 -0000

Jefferson Davis was a malcontent long before the American Civil War. The Eggnog Riot or Grog Mutiny was an 1826 drunken Christmas rebellion by dozens of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point including the future President of the Confederate State of America firmly in the midst of the party gone horribly wrong.

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The Worst Company Christmas Party in History

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:25:36 -0000

Forget puking secretaries and handsy office creeps, BY FAR the worst company Christmas party in American history happened on Christmas Eve in Michigan in 1913 when a group of striking miners had their party tragically and violently ruined by strike breaking goons.

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Flying Drunk At Pearl Harbor

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:12:20 -0000

U.S. Army Air Corps pilots Kenneth Taylor and George Welch had a few days off in tropical paradise and decided to let loose at an officer Christmas party. They parlay that into an all night poker game before eventually getting to bed -- three sheets to the wind -- at around 7 am...December 7th, 1941.

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Who Was The Best General Of All Time?

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:09:46 -0000

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The Geriatric Masshole Who Murdered Redcoats

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:35:08 -0000

Samuel Whittemore fought in the American Revolution. He fought despite the fact that he was born in 1696. At 78 years old, Whittemore, who'd already served in two wars prior to the American Revolution, ambushed a British unit, completely by himself. Why? Because the man was A) a fierce patriot who'd been heavily involved in colonial politics for over a decade, and B) an absolute animal. Find out about Whittemore's life and what happened when he took on an entire British unit by himself in 1775 after the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

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The Pilgrims Actually Helped the Indians…To Murder

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:07:27 -0000

The real story behind Thanksgiving.

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The Porn Star Kamikaze Pilot

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:33:58 -0000

Mitsuyasu Maeno was Japan's last kamikaze pilot, but there were a couple of other interesting things about him. First off, he was BORN in 1946, a year after World War 2 ended. Second, he was one of Japan's most famous porn actors. Find out how and why he ended up kamikazing a plane for the glory of Japan.

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The Giant Who Helped Win The American Revolution

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:57:48 -0000

Peter Francisco was an absolute mountain of a man who served in the Continental Army during the American Revoltuion as a teenager. Often refered to as the Virginia Giant, this Portugese orphan turned freedom fighter was Washington's One Man Army who played a pivotal role in multiple battles with his sheer size and strength.

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Animal Cruelty Was Beer Pong For 1600s Germany

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 03:13:59 -0000

For about a hundred or so years between the 17th and 18th centuries, a favorite German party pastime was… throwing animals high into the air and then watching them fall, get crippled, and be clubbed and to death or ripped apart by dogs. The animals included rabbits, badgers, boars, wolves, wildcats, and, of course, foxes, as the game was called “Fox Tossing.” And the German nobility LOVED it.

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Europe's Vampire Hysteria

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 03:12:24 -0000

After the death of a local farmer, Petar Blagojević, a small Serbian town went into full vampire paranoia as nine other villagers suddenly dropped dead after claiming to see Blagojević risen from the grave. Jack Mandaville joins the show to discuss how much of Europe fell into a blood sucking monster craze in the early 18th century.

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The Ghost Kings of England

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 05:07:53 -0000

Does anyone have more unfinished business than a king or queen? Not in England, where the ghosts of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Queen Victoria, King George III, Prince Albert, and more seemingly haunt every single building they ever walked into. We break down the most famous haunting stories from dead British royals.

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The Cult That Inspired David Koresh

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:51:19 -0000

The Koreshan Unity cult is NOT the infamous Waco commune the FBI barbecued in the 90s. Rather, it's a turn-of-the-century Florida cult founded by a man who so badly electrocuted himself that he woke up thinking he was Jesus. It turns out that Cyrus Teed was not the Messiah, but his incredibly whacky teachings sure did intrigue David Koresh, who would go on to take quite a bit of inspiration from this random and fringe historical figure.

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The Butcher of Plainfield Ed Gein

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:57:58 -0000

Ed Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or Plainfield Ghoul, was an American killer and body snatcher who committed unspeakable crimes in Wisconsin in the 1950s. His nightmare farm was filled to the brim with both metaphoric and literal skeletons thanks to severe mommy issues.

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The Bloody Benders

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:18:25 -0000

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The Amelia Earhart Files

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:13:30 -0000

Pioneering female aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared forever on July 2nd, 1937. It has never been determined what happened to Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan. Now, the Trump Administration has promised to release all the files the U.S. Government has on Earhart. In light of this, we break down her (surprisingly incompetent) final flight and the many theories that abound about her fate.

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The History of Panty Raids

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:10:21 -0000

After World War II, panty pandemonium struck American college campuses and organized raids of female dorms became a common prank. If your grandpa went to college in the 1950s, there's a good chance he stole some coed's undies.

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Women's Health Started With Poo And Slavery

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 05:14:05 -0000

Anarcha Westcott (real name Annacay Jackson) was a 13-year-old slave instrumental in the creation of the medical field of gynecology. Instrumental… because she was the instrument. Dr. J. Marion Sims of Alabama performed 30 experimental surgeries on her — without anesthesia — in order to repair her horrific fistulas after a stillbirth at 13 years old. And the surgeries worked. Thanks to Annacay enduring the nightmare that was 1840s medicine, women’s health was advanced tremendously. But holy sh*t did she have to endure.

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The Great Northern War

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 06:25:07 -0000

Long before the Germans tried to fight half of Europe by themselves, Sweden did the same in 1700 during the Great Northern War. Under the leadership of their teenage, war obsessed king, the Swedes spent the better part of two decades overcoming the odds and defeating the Danish, Polish, and Russian armies on a regular basis. Eventually, though, the hot hand turns cold. Record-breaking, lowest temperatures in 500 winters cold. This is the story of the rise and eventual fall of the Swedish empire under Charles XII.

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England’s War on the Poor

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:09 -0000

King Edward III made it illegal to not be poor in 1300s England. At least, illegal if you were already poor. Negotiating for higher wages? Straight to jail. Wearing clothes that made you look wealthy? Straight to jail. Trying to get a better job? Jail. All because the upper classes were annoyed with having to negotiate wages with workers after the Black Death created a labor shortage and the working class gained the upper hand.

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The Harlem Hellfighters

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:29:07 -0000

The 369th Infantry regiment better known as the Harlem Hellfighters were a renowned all-black World War I unit who spent 191 days in action. They were loaned to the French forces and became the Germans worst nightmare on the front lines.

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How Jamaica Accidentally Changed World History

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 07:23:02 -0000

What is the most important person or place in the history of the colonization of the New World? Columbus? Cortez? Jamestown? Nah mon! It’s Jamaica bruh! If it weren’t for the English falling ass-backwards into an unwanted island, nothing would be as it is today.

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Softcore History Theater | Two People Arguing About History | FREE Patreon Preview

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:13:33 -0000

Softcore History presents "Two People Arguing on the Internet, About History," a full-cast comedy audiobook short story following a day in the lives of two people who can't stop being mean to each other in the comments section of a history page on Facebook instead of, you know, doing anything that is actually worthwhile with their time. You can hear this and an entire audiobook's worth of other sketches, plus three years' worth of evergreen history podcasts, on the Softcore History Pareon AD FREE.

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The Confederacy's Drag Queen Hero

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 04:55:52 -0000

On June 28, 1861 Confederate pirates led by Captain George Hollins and Lt. Colonel Richard Thomas Zarvona captured a passenger steamer on the Potomac with an unusual plan of deception. Learn how these men and a flirtatious "mystery woman" became heroes in the south in one of the lesser known conquest of the American Civil War.

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Roman History Expert Answers Our Dumb Questions

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 04:56:17 -0000

Actual expert Alex Petkas, who has a PhD in Classics from Princeton and hosts the history podcast Cost of Glory, joins the show for some inexplicable reason to break down why the Roman dictator Sulla is Rome’s most underrated man, why Caesar wasn’t such a bad guy, and why he left Academia for the internet.

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The Invincible Cowboy Mercenary Oil Baron

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 05:08:13 -0000

Fredrick Russell Burnham experienced one of the most insane and eventful lives in all of human history. From tracking Geronimo and getting into family feuds in the Wild West to fighting in multiple wars in South Africa and stopping an American President from getting assasinated, Burnham was a decorated hero who sought out adventure and eventually found good fortune for his trouble.

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The Manly History Of Makeup

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 05:27:32 -0000

We break down the history of men wearing makeup with beauty writer Cristina Montemayor (@crismontyy), from Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens inventing sunless tanner instead of farming, to the Egyptians and Romans slathering their faces with lead because looking hot was more important than your brain working right.

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Epstein's Lady's Daddy

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 05:49:32 -0000

Robert Maxwell was a media mogul, decorated war hero, member of British Parliament, and Israeli intelligence asset. He was the father to Ghislaine, a rival to Rupert Murdoch, and a spy whose death was more mysterious than his hidden life. Before Jeffrey Epstein there was Captain Bob Maxwell.

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Rome’s Worst Serial Killer Was A Woman

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:08 -0000

Wanton killing was common in Ancient Rome, but most mass murderers were Emperors and Generals. One woman, though, killed hundreds if not more. Not for conquest but for business. And practice. And Nero.

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The Carny Days Of Professional Wrestling

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 05:45:26 -0000

Comedian Uncle Lazer joins the show to break down the history of professional wrestling in the United States, from Civil War campsite brawls to the sports entertainment we know and love today.

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The Prophecy of the Coke-Addled Pope

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 23:27:34 -0000

In 1884 Pope Leo XIII had a vision. A terrible vision. He overheard a conversation between God and the Devil about the destruction of the Catholic Church and the horrors of the 20th Century. Was this vision real? Or was it a product of his love of cocaine wine and some present-day political factors?

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The Original "No Kings" Protest

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 04:17:56 -0000

The French Revolution in 1789 is often regarded as a watershed moment in world history with the violent removal of King Louis XVI and his family from power. Despite its romantic portrayal, this was one of the ugliest and most savage revolts that was covered by blood and feces wall-to-wall. We breakdown what caused the events to set in motion and end with Louis and Marie Antoinette's unpleasant fate.

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The Kennedy Who Should’ve Been President

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 04:19:55 -0000

Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. — aka Joe Jr. aka JFK’s older brother — was the original prince of Camelot. Ordained from birth by his father, Joe Kennedy Sr., to be first Catholic president in American history, Joe was trained for that job his entire life. But along the way he had some interesting thoughts about Adolf Hitler and Brazilian women. Sadly we didn’t get to see how his life panned out because he was KIA in World War II. Still, his life and death feature some fascinating moments.

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The High Priestess of Anarchy

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 05:34:15 -0000

Emma Goldman, one of the most prolific anarchist activists of the Gilded Age, hated injustice and was willing to kill innocent people in order to combat it. She was a renowned anarchist orator who was drawn to the anarchist movement after a brutal childhood and a terrorist attack she found interesting. We recount the story of her rough, fascinating, and contradictory life.

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The Sword Wielding Lunatic Of WWII

Mon, 26 May 2025 04:23:20 -0000

Jack Churchill was an eccentric British Army officer who brought a Scottish broadsword, long bow, and set of bagpipes onto the front lines of World War II. He led Commando missions taking entire towns and escaped from SS concentration camps...twice. Alex Buscemi joins the show to talk about this mad lad.

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Boys Have Always Been Boys

Mon, 19 May 2025 05:28:36 -0000

“Boys will be boys” is, it turns out, a tale as old as time. We run through several historical examples of little boys f*cking sh*t up just for the fun of it, from a kid who started a full blown political riot because he wanted free candy to a drunk stable boy who decided to Ricky Bobby it and ride a chariot onto the track mid-race. Rob’s wife and #boymom Courtney Fox joins the show.

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The Black Lawman Who Arrested The Entire Wild West

Mon, 12 May 2025 05:18:10 -0000

Bass Reeves was a slave turned deputy U.S. Marshal who became one of the most prolific manhunters in the Wild West. He arrested over 3,000 outlaws, collected bounties on some of the biggest gangs of the time, and barely had a scratch on him after three decades in the line of duty. Jack Mandaville helps break down this American legend.

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Russia's Coolest Tyrant

Mon, 05 May 2025 04:33:20 -0000

Czar Alexander III was Russia's second-to-last Czar. He was also, arguably, its coolest, and definitely one of its most oppressive. One day, he'd be lifting heavy deck furniture over his head to impress his in-laws or hunting a bear with a spear. The next, he'd be abolishing basic civil liberties and being so oppressive to Jews that they fled the country en masse. He beat Kaiser Wilhelm II in a drinking contest, and heroically saved his family from a horrific, deadly train derailment that was absolutely his fault. He was an awful, and awfully interesting, guy.

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Are The Wright Brothers Underrated?

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 05:11:19 -0000

Everyone is familiar with the names Wilbur and Orville Wright, but is it possible they are actually overlooked and don't get enough props for their insane accomplishments? We dig a little deeper into these strange men obsessed with conquering the skies, their often unmentioned sister Katharine, everything that led up to that fateful day at Kitty Hawk, and the aftermath of their success.

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The Worst National Security Self-Own Ever

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:41:42 -0000

America didn’t want to join World War 1. America wasn’t going to join World War 1. But one German foreign minister who thought he was way smarter than he actually was had a self-own SO BAD that he forced the United States into the war against his country. This is the story of the Zimmerman Telegram.

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China's Worst Trade War Loss

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 05:33:59 -0000

The First Opium War was a series of military conflicts between the British Royal Navy and the Qing dynasty between 1839 to 1842. After tightening up and restricting trade for England creating a major deficit, China was flooded with opium by agents of the East India Company. Tensions built up between the two nations and the murder of a Chinese man by two British sailors stoked the flames of war.

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Tariffs Didn’t NOT Cause the Civil War

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 04:26:27 -0000

The United States has a long history of questionable tariffs but nothing compares to the “Tariff of Abominations” in 1828. It was an episode in American political and economic history so stupid that you’ll feel bad for absolutely no one… except maybe the slaves.

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The Scrappy Sled Dog That Captivated Our Nation

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:55:07 -0000

Balto was a Siberian Husky sled dog who helped transport life saving medicine to a remote Alaskan settlement. Initially seen as a mediocre pup, this good boy proved his owner wrong and led a pack of 13 others through the final stages of a 674 mile serem relay to prevent the death of hundreds of residents in the gold rush town of Nome. He captured the hearts of America and became an overnight celebrity for his efforts. But did he deserve it? Was his tale perhaps embellished by the national media? We dive into the true story of Balto.

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Who Really Built the Pyramids?

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 05:51:47 -0000

Breaking news about possible new discoveries under the Giza Pyramid Complex have people asking, do we really know who built the pyramids? The answer is yes we really know who built the pyramids. A bunch of blue-collar Egyptians who, much like many construction workers today, were kind of drunk while they were doing it. We break down the well-documented and ridiculous stories that have been discovered by archaeologists over the years the pyramids’ surprisingly relatable builders.

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The Irish Invaded Canada?

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 07:08:52 -0000

After the American Civil War, a large group of Union veterans weren't ready to say goodbye to the battlefield. So, they picked a fight north and attempted multiple invasions on our neighbors in Canada -- all in the name of Irish independence from the Crown. The Fenian Brotherhood and their raids on the Canucks proved life in the 19th century was whatever you wanted it to be.

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The Most Irish Thing That Ever Happened

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 05:11:55 -0000

In honor of Irish Heritage Month we delve into the most offensively stereotypical Irish historical event of all time: The Dublin Whiskey Fire of 1875.

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The Dark Magic Of Aleister Crowley

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 06:00:47 -0000

Alesiter Crowley was an English magician of the dark arts, dirty poet, mountaineer, liberal sex haver, and founder of the Thelema religion. He traveled the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and shocked or banged every human being he came across. Crowley claims to have been contacted by the Egyptian God Horus through a messanger named Aiwass, routinely participated in ceremonial eroticism with men and women, and was too "wicked" for either Mussolini or Hitler. He ultimately had influence on the Beatles, Iron Maiden, David Bowie, Led Zepplein, and L Ron Hubbard. This is the story of the father of modern occultism.

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Reading Is Bad For Women

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:01:21 -0000

If you think social media is unhealthy for people, you’re right. But it’s not a new phenomenon. From the invention of the printing press kicking off 300 years of witch trials, to doctors blaming depression in young girls on unrealistic lifestyles portrayed in cheap 18th-century romance novels, it turns out people have never handled the ability to create and consume their own content well. Author of “The Social Media Detox” Tiege Dooley-Panko joins the show to help break it down.

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Jack the Ripper Caught, Justice Not Served

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:35:22 -0000

*We had a problem with the audio card so we had to pull sound from the camera. Just think of it as a throwback to our garage band days in 2020. I apologize in advance. - Dan*

Jack the Ripper has finally been caught thanks to some incredibly intimate DNA evidence. Polish barber Aaron Kosminski is allegedly the famed killer, but are we convinced? Jessie Wiseman of Crime Corner joins us to break down the new facts.

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When The Mormons Declared War On The Country

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:37:28 -0000

After being threatened with a replacement governor for the territory of Utah, Bringham Young and his Mormon coalition went to war against the U.S. Government from 1857 to 1858. Tensions were high and most of the casualties were innocent civilians passing through the region -- most notably the Baker-Fancher wagon party.

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The Manliest Thing Any Man Has Ever Done

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 05:44:43 -0000

Throughout history, men have always complained that men from the past were WAY more manly, especially in Ancient Rome. And today we're talking about the one time that might have actually been undeniably true. The first hero of the Roman Republic, Mucius Scaevola, did something so astoundingly manly that it changed the course of Roman history forever.

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Operation Iraqi Freedom

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 06:00:07 -0000

Iraq War vet Jack Mandaville joins the show to talk about his experience invading Iraq in 2003 with the 1st Marine Division, what he saw, how he was greeted by the Iraqis, and fighting alongside the guys from Generation Kill.

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Fly Me To The North Pole, Balloon Man

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 07:46:28 -0000

In 1897, Swedish engineer and aeronaut Salomon August Andrée led two other men on a hot air balloon expedition to the North Pole that quickly went incredibly awry. After crashing their balloon in a literal no man's land, the three had to fend off the harsh elements, polar bears, and the decay of their own sanity for months before ultimately succumbing to their bitter demise. The entire misfortune was documented through journals and hundreds of photographs that were found decades later and serves as a cautionary tale to never trust a glory chaser.

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The Anti-Social Drunks Who Changed American History

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:55:03 -0000

What's the most important battle in American history? Gettysburg? D-Day? Saratoga? Nah. It's the Battle of St. Louis, a little-known Revolutionary War battle between St. Louis's drunken, anti-social citizens and a British and Indian force looking to take the Mississippi River for King George. The battle's outcome forever changed the course of history on the western half of the North American continent. For America. For Mexico. For Canada. For Indians. We break down the battle and explain its ramifications.

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When The Pope Went Full Goblin Mode

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 06:30:32 -0000

Pope Benedict IX is often regarded as one of the worst men to take the papal throne. He ascended to the chair of Saint Peter at the age of twenty in 1032 after his old man bought him the position and he proceeded to indulge in habitual sins of the flesh, theft, murder, and even sold his power to the highest bidder. Benny was pontiff three times over the stretch of 16 years, survived assassination attempts and coups, and turned the vatican into a brothel. Find out why many in the Catholic Church refer to him as "a demon from hell disguised in priest clothing."

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Original History Sketches Episode 1 -- FREE PATREON PREVIEW

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 21:39:21 -0000

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Rome’s “Real Man” Propaganda Sounds Just Like Ours

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:28:39 -0000

To fully end the Roman Republic and become Emperor Caesar Augustus, the young, wealthy patrician Octavian needed to get rid of the last man standing in his way: Mark Antony. But how could Octavian turn Rome against the Republic’s most decorated war hero and combat veteran — and Julius Caesar’s top lieutenant? Launch a propaganda campaign that said, “Actually, I’m a true strong Roman and this guy is a soft little b*tch now.” And… it worked! (In large part thanks to Mark Antony being awful at politics. And even worse, in love.)

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Blow Smoke Up Your Ass

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 03:44:44 -0000

The practice of rectal fumigation was a common medical practice in the 17th and 18th centuries that included tobbaco and smoke enamas to treat bowel obstruction, constipation, and even attempt to resusitate still born babies. We dive into one of the many reasons no one trusted doctors for a very, very long time.

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The Father Of History

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:29:30 -0000

Herodotus was a Greek historian and geographer often regarded as the "Father of History" who detailed the Greco-Persian War and his explorations throughout the ancient world. Many peers of his time found his works to be greatly exaggerated, misunderstandings, or totally false. Modern historians have grown to appreciate his accounts of events and see him in a more positive light. Hate him or love him, Herodotus pioneered the entire field of History.

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America's Coolest War Crime

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 07:13:00 -0000

When the United States entered World War 1 no one was quite sure what to expect. What the Germans definitely didn't expect was a bunch of Doughboys armed with Winchester Model 97 pump-action shotguns -- aka Trench Brooms -- blasting gaping holes in their soldiers. The use of these shotguns became so infamous and terrifying that the Kaiser complained, officially, that using them was a war crime. We break down the real info behind these shotguns and how they were used in the First World War.

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The Poison King

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 07:53:55 -0000

Mithridates VI was the King of Pontus from 120 to 63 BC who biohacked his body into immunity from poison, survived being struck by lightning with nothing more than a tiny scar, and became a huge thorn in the side of the Roman Empire.

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The Ugly Duckling Had a Trash Personality

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 16:31:36 -0000

Never meet your heroes? How about never try to be friends with your fans. Charles Dickens found this out the hardest way possible when he let his fanboy and fellow famous author Hans Christian Andersen (The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling) stay at his house for what was supposed to be a two-week visit. Five weeks later the Danish fairy tale author had exhausted the Dickens family with his aggressively socially awkward personality and bizarre Danish customs.

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The Leper King Baldwin

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:20:07 -0000

Baldwin IV was King of Jerusalem from 1174 to 1185 and had the crusader state thriving despite constant attacks from outside Muslim forces led by the great Saladin and struggles with his own body turning on him from leprosy. Despite the physical limitations he still led his army out on the battlefields, made savvy decisions with the high court, and had one of the more successful runs of his time.

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The Vice President Married A Slave?

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:35:58 -0000

With J.D. Vance winning the Vice Presidency you'll probably hear about his wife Usha Vance being the first non-white Second Lady. This is true, but she is NOT the first non-white woman to be married to a Vice President. This is the story of Vice President Richard Johnson -- a legendary hero of the War of 1812 and the ninth Vice President of the United States -- and his wife, a slave named Julia Chinn.

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The Unhinged Life Of Teddy Roosevelt

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 08:01:23 -0000

Teddy Roosevelt was one of the most important U.S. Presidents of the 20th century and a complete lunatic who was always up for an unneccesary challenge. Matt Cooper and Joel Benner join the show to talk about his deranged life outside of politics, The Colonel willing the Rough Riders to glory at San Juan Hill, and how he shaped football into the game we know and love today.

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The Hungarian Sex Vampire

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 07:25:11 -0000

Béla Kiss is one of the most prolific serial killers you’ve never heard of. He had it all — great looks, his own successful business in tin, a mother that loved him too much — but when he caught his second wife cheating on him with a younger man, it unlocked a dark beast within. Jessie Wiseman joins to talk about how this once charismatic, well-liked, swordsman in the sheets became a monster on the loose in war-torn Europe.

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The Mafia Ghosts That Haunted Al Capone

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:25:45 -0000

Ross Bolen joins the show to talk about the ghosts that still linger from The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, the most infamous mafia killing in American history. The victims of Al Capone's henchmen still haunt the area to this day, including the most unfortunate location (and people) you can imagine.

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Emperor Frankenstein And The Philosopher's Stone

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 18:11:35 -0000

Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily from 1198 to 1250, was a curious man. Curious in that he loved doing medical experiments, no matter how totally useless and violent those experiments were. Suffice it to say the amateur surgeon learned a lot, but almost all of it was useless.

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Andrew Jackson Met The Real Blair Witch

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:20:30 -0000

The Bell Witch of Robertson County, Tennessee, on whom the horror film classic ‘The Blair Witch Project’ was based, tormented the Bell family farm from 1817 to 1828. In the meantime, the disembodied spirit attracted thousands of tourists, skeptics, and more. One visitor was none other than Old Hickory himself, determined to see if one of Satan’s underlings could truly frighten him.

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The Trust Fund Ghosts of St. Louis

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 15:16:07 -0000

The Lemp Mansion in St. Louis, Missouri is one of the most haunted homes in the United States. Learn the history of the fabulously wealthy family of 19th-century beer magnates who lived in the mansion, how many of them came to their tragic ends within its walls, and how their ghosts now torment the mansion's visitors -- especially any women using the bathroom.

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The Curious Case Of The Missing Lighthouse Keepers

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:51:19 -0000

We start Halloween Horror Month 2024 with an infamous and unsolved mystery about three lighthouse keepers who went missing in the Flannan Isles of Scotland. Was it banshees? A ghost ship? Murder-suicide? Listen and decide for yourself.

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Can Germans Use The N-Word?

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:52:59 -0000

In 1751 Benjamin Franklin wrote "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind," a letter with a number of interesting observations and ideas, and also one head-scratcher (at least to readers from the present). In it, Franklin noted that he was tired of all the non-white immigrants coming to the New World and ruining white society in Pennsylvania. Which non-white immigrants? Germans.

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The Bearded Queen Egypt Erased

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:29:57 -0000

Hatshepsut is the female Pharaoh you've never heard of. Why? Because the Egyptians erased her. But the queen turned queen regent turned full-on Pharaoh ruled for two decades and accomplished as much as just about anyone who ever sat on the throne, from conquering Kush to opening exotic trade routes in East Africa. There was also some brother-banging, diabetes, and statue HJs, but mostly she lived an accomplished life.

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The Man Who Lived Every Basic Bro's Dream Life

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:07:47 -0000

Titanic Thompson would bet on anything, and usually win. And usually because he was cheating. It's one of the many reasons Titanic is the greatest gambler in American history. He hustled golf at country clubs with a young Ben Hogan. He hustled pool halls across the country with Minnesota Fats. He even cheated the man who fixed the 1919 World Series out of millions. All while dating starlets like Jean Harlow, having features written about him in Sports Illustrated, and competing in the first-ever World Series of Poker. Did Titanic Thompson live every bro's dream life?

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The Rise Of The Last Lion

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 17:03:11 -0000

Winston Churchill was one of the most important historical figures of the 20th century, taking power over the United Kingdom in the midst of World War II. Jack Mandaville joins us to talk about the Last Lion's unhinged upbringing, blood ties to the United States, his storied military and writing careers, and his rise to power through British parliament.

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The Founding Father of Organized Crime

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 06:46:03 -0000

Kyle Bandujo, podcaster and author of the new sports movie book "Movies With Balls", joins the show to talk about one of the most famous figures in American sports scandal history: Arnold Rothstein. Though he was most famous for allegedly fixing the 1919 World Series (a.k.a. the Black Sox Scandal), this distinction does the man's criminal history a disservice. In truth, Rothstein was so much more. Not only a founding father of American organized crime, Rothstein was also America's first Coke Lord.

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The Civil War's Cocktail Hour

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:09:02 -0000

Bleeding Kansas was a series of conflicts between abolitionists and pro-slavery forces after the passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Election fraud, murder, and guerilla warfare were rampant during this five year window that decided whether Kansas would enter the union a free or slave state. Many historians consider it the prequel to the American Civil War.

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Abe Lincoln's Favorite Hate Read

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 15:23:09 -0000

19th Century Southern lawyer-turned-sociologist and noted shut-in George Fitzhugh was "too online" 140 years before the internet was even invented. He stayed inside all day reading newspapers, books, and political pamphlets, rarely leaving home. As with anyone who shapes their worldview only by consuming media, Fitzhugh started to believe some pretty wild ideas. Particularly, that pretty much everyone should be a slave. Black, white, brown -- race didn't matter (much). Most people on Earth should be slaves in Fitzhugh's mind. This take not only made him a famous author and political commentator, it inspired none other than Abraham Lincoln to get back into politics after losing his congressional seat.

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The Real Game Of Thrones

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 08:27:43 -0000

The Wars of Roses were a series of civil wars fought for the English crown from 1455 to 1487. These bloody and nasty conflicts between the Houses of Lancaster and York inspired George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series to the point that you can make direct connections between the real historical figures and characters in his books.

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Would You Eat Hippo? - FREE PATREON PREVIEW

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:22:41 -0000

An American meat shortage in 1910 caused people to get real desperate, real fast. Enter Louisiana Representative Robert F. Broussard, who proposed the American Hippo Bill, which would import hippos from Africa to be raised for food on Louisiana swamp ranches. Oh, what could have been.

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Every Time A President Personally Killed Someone

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:49:33 -0000

Presidents aren't only passive victims. Helpless bystanders as gunmen attempt to kill them. This week we discuss every American president who TOOK lives, from the ones you know like Andrew Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt, to the ones you never would've guessed. And these kills aren't by order or drone strike but, rather, done with their own bare hands. Some presidents killed on the battlefield, but others got their bodies in especially unexpected ways.

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People Will Watch Anything They Can Bet On

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:46:58 -0000

Gilded Age Americans were hungry for entertainment and because of this, somehow, the simple hobby of walking captivated the country. So much so that it briefly developed into our national sport and the most gambled-on athletic competition during the Victorian era. Pedestrianism was the name of the game and its athletes were looking to get any performance edge they could -- cocaine -- to cash in on a sweepstakes of insane cash prizes and international fame.

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The Time Polygamists Took On The Holy Roman Empire

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:42:39 -0000

Not all Protestant movements in the 16th Century had Martin Luther's success. Enter the Münster Rebellion, in which a bunch of anti-Catholic, anti-Lutheran lunatics took over a city, enacted full-on communism (except for its leaders, of course), legalized polygamy so hard it became a sport, and ultimately inspired some of the most metal church decorations in history.

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Rome Refused To Quit

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 16:42:59 -0000

The First Punic War was the first of three conflicts between the established Carthaginians and the rising, upstart Roman Empire. For 23 years these two forces slugged it out in the Mediterranean Sea, Siciliy, and North Africa and suffered immense loses on both sides before the Romans ultimately pulled off the upset and laid the foundation for their rise to becoming the dominant power in the region.

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Communists Killed the Whales

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:38:12 -0000

If you’ve ever wondered why whale sightings are such a big deal or why we need to “save the whales”… it’s because the Soviet Union killed them all. Find out why the communist super power had such a lust for whale blood in this week’s episode.

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Do We Owe France An Apology?

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:42:40 -0000

For decades Americans have sneered at the French for taking a big, fat L in World War 2 -- but are we too hard on France? How many of their contributions to this country -- let alone its freedom -- have we overlooked?? Special guest Jack Mandaville helps us dive in.

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Kamikaze Puppies, Monkey Bombs, and Unfortunately So Much More

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:51:18 -0000

A brief overview of warfare's long, rich tradition of using animals in creative and horrifying ways, from Alexander the Great's war pigs all the way up to... pretty much modern day, actually. It's not great. Featuring special guest host Jessie Wiseman of Crime Corner.

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The Hobo King Of America

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 06:33:31 -0000

Joshua Norton was a 19th century English immigrant who became financially ruined after a deal went south with a Peurivian rice company. After a long legal battle that reached the California Supreme Court, banks took all of his assets and he wandered the streets of San Francisco for the next 20 years. Not one to accept his fate in the gutter, Joshua declared himself Emporer of the United States and commanded the hearts of his fellow Bay Area residents until his death in 1880. Long live the king.

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Is Setting Your Kid On Fire A Dealbreaker?

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 05:39:09 -0000

King Mannesah of Judah is considered one of the worst kings in the Old Testament but is that the reality of the situation or just the perspective of the authors of the Bible? It turns out he might have had some surprisingly good reasons for doing (some) of the supposedly egregious things he did.

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The Big Dumb Conspiracy Iceberg

Tue, 28 May 2024 15:40:19 -0000

In Jake’s final episode, he takes us down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories -- and the history behind them -- that range from somewhat plausible to totally insane, and what unifies all of them.

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A Land Of Giants - FREE PATREON PREVIEW

Fri, 24 May 2024 06:54:52 -0000

Just about every Native tribe has passed down legends of a race of white giants that they defeated to take the Americas. The Cherokee call them the Moon People. The Utes and Paiutes spoke of a group of ten-feet-tall beings living in caves and ironically referred to them as "savages" and "cannibals." We discuss this mysterious society of mountain sized men and women that disappeared off the continent.

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Was Yasuke The First And Only Black Samurai?

Tue, 21 May 2024 02:34:57 -0000

Yasuke was a 16th century African slave that found his way to the far east working for Italian missionaries and became an obsession and friend to one of the most influential warlords in Japan. Yasuke eventually took over as Oda Nobunaga's personal weapon bearer, body guard, and -- many speculate -- earned full samurai status in just 15 months. But did he actually accomplish that feat? We discuss the documented details and make a judgement for ourselves.

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China's History-Based Plan For World Domination

Mon, 13 May 2024 15:14:09 -0000

Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it, but the Chinese are studying history with the explicit hope that they do, in fact, repeat it. National Security and the Rise and Fall of Great Powers is the Chinese Communist Party's examination of how nations over the last 500 years -- from Spain and Portugal to Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States -- gained and lost power. The idea being that the Chinese want to follow that blueprint for themselves. We break down their ideas about how countries rise and fall and what they get right and wrong.

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A Brief History of Humans Eating Oysters

Mon, 06 May 2024 17:31:08 -0000

From cavemen to Rome to post-Civil War America and the present day, humans have been harvesting and eating oysters for hundreds of thousands of years. Jake, who just got back from working an oyster farm for a week (seriously), details how humans came to eat these little gooey delicacies, the wars we've fought over them, and the myths we've created about how horny they make you.

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Drowning In Alcohol

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:09:00 -0000

In celebration of reaching 1,000 reviews on Apple Podcasts, and perhaps in a bit of method podcast hosting, Dan Regester attempts to tell the story of The London Beer Flood of 1814 while flooding his own body with a mixture of Guinness and whiskey. Like the flood itself, Dan's evening ends in disaster. (Maybe come back to this one if this is your first episode.)

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Never Meet Your (Communist) Heroes

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:35:45 -0000

Malcolm Caldwell was a professor at the University of London who loved two things: Communism, and publicly cheerleading Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia. The latter, he insisted, was a beacon of hope for humanity and definitely not killing people by the millions. In 1978, Caldwell was granted an audience with his political and humanitarian hero, but after his meeting with Pol Pot something... interesting happened.

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The Man Who Made Baby Boomers Insufferable

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:24:48 -0000

Thomas Midgley Jr. revolutionized the U.S. auto industry in the early 1900s. But, he may have also been responsible for a violent mid-century American crime wave and lowered IQs across the world.

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The Worst Man To Ever Live

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:56:15 -0000

Hong Xiuquan was the leader of the Taiping Rebellion that killed over 30 million people, the self-proclaimed celestial brother of Jesus Christ, and an inspirational figure to future chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong. He (initally) had the backing of Karl Marx and was a massive thorn in the side of the Qing Dynasty for 14 years after a mental breakdown from failing his civil service exams.

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Modern History's First Great Sex Cult

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:21:54 -0000

The Agapemonites were a Victorian religious cult that checked all the boxes. A leader who thought he was God and also immortal and needed multiple wives? Check, check, and check. A way to separate idiots from their money and possessions? Check. A creepy compound with high walls? Check. But even for a relatively early modern cult Henry Prince and his followers found some fun (see: horrible) ways to make their mark on the history of cults.

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The Most Haunted Beach In America

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 17:08:24 -0000

In 1565 both the French and Spanish were competing to establish a colonial presence on Florida's east coast. That competition came to a quick and violent head (you'll see what we did there) and now the site of their confrontation might be the most haunted beach in America.

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Turning Criminals Into A Hit Squad? What Could Go Wrong!

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:22:50 -0000

Unit 684 was a secret group created by the South Korean Air Force in 1968 tasked with assasinating North Korean leader Kim Il Sung. After three brutal years training on a remote island and suffering multiple executions at the hands of their own trainers, the surviving members and former convicts threw a mutiny and hijacked a bus back to Seoul.

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A Brief History of Butt Medicine

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:58:53 -0000

From ancient drug enemas to World War 1 era, steampunk-esque prostate vibrators, the history of doctors trying to treat what ails a man through his butt is as long as it is weird and gross and, quite often, extremely unfortunate. (Just ask a couple of our former presidents.)

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The Fall Of Rome Is Why You Have A "Landlord"

Mon, 04 Mar 2024 19:32:37 -0000

Hate landlords? You can thank Rome for them. (Just kidding, you'd be paying someone to live on their property either way you bastards, but you just might not call them "landlord.") Either way, the fall of the Western Roman Empire paved the way for Feudalism and traditional monarchy in the Middle Ages.

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The Donner Party's Descent Into Cannibalism

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:27:17 -0000

The Donner-Reed Party was a group of American pioneers who migrated west to California in a wagon train and slowly tumbled into madness after months of mishaps, moronic moves, and murder. After a "shortcut" added weeks to their journey, the group ran out of food, supplies, transportation and turned to cannibalism to survive a brutal winter in the Sierra Nevadas.

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The Mother of Mexicans

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:50:40 -0000

Though Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés is credited with conquering the Aztec Empire the conquest might actually be thanks to his native female interpreter and first baby mama, La Malinche. The Indian noblewoman, who was sold into slavery as a child before being gifted to Cortés after a battle with Mayans and rising to become his interpreter and top diplomat, is thought by many historians to be the reason the Spanish conquest was successful. Needless to say, her legacy in Mexico is... complicated.

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How Humans Became Wheat Puppets

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:40:15 -0000

Did human beings domesticate wheat? Or did wheat domesticate humans? We dive into the long history of humanity's relationship with the plant and how we ultimately went from eating wild wheat to baking bread and conquering the planet.

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The Nepo Baby Who Possibly Stole An Election

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:41:33 -0000

John Quincy Adams was the 6th president of the United States who won his election in controversial fashion over Andrew Jackson in 1824. He spent his youth gallivating around Europe on his daddy's dime, helped author the Monroe Doctirine as Secretary of State, brought Florida into the union, was an incredibly outspoken abolitionist, and kept a pet alligator in the East Room of the White House.

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Making Animals Answer For Their Crimes

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:21:25 -0000

Justice is blind. So blind, apparently, that it doesn't mind if pigs, rats, statues, and other non-human entities are brought to trial. This is the history of the trials of animals and inanimate objects held over the centuries. The charges against them range from murder to vandalism and, as it turns out, these trials were often conducted for surprisingly existential reasons.

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The History of Pirate Mardi Gras

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 18:23:08 -0000

Tampa Bay’s Gasparilla Pirate Festival is a huge city holiday and boasts the third-largest annual parade in the United States. It’s also a drunken, pirate-themed, rage fest based on a lie. Learn about its history as a holiday, Jake and Dan’s Gasparilla experiences, and all you ever wanted to learn about turn-of-the-century tourism.

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Harry Houdini's War With The Afterlife

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 19:09:10 -0000

Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American escape artist, illusionist, actor, and aviator who beefed with spirit mediums and psychics throughout the early 20th century. He went from poor immigrant slumming it with his family in Wisconsin to an international superstar traveling the globe and mystifiying audiences with his wife Bess all throughout Europe and the States.

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This Pope Hated The Second Amendment

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:19:42 -0000

At the Second Council of the Lateran in 1139, Pope Innocent II banned Christians from using ranged weapons against other Christians under threat of excommunication. Was this to disarm the peasantry whose primary combat weapon was bows and arrows? Or were the reasons much... dumber and more selfish?

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The Demon Bear Who Terrorized Japan

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 14:09:44 -0000

During a snow storm in December of 1915, an incredibly intelligent Enzo brown bear launched a series of attacks on dozens of residents in a small Japanese town. The Sankebetsu incident is regarded as the worst animal attack in Japanese history.

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Who Is The Better Father?

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:00:02 -0000

Jake and Dan compete in a historical parenting advice quiz to determine who would be the better father. Enjoy this FREE Softcore History Patreon preview and Merry Christmas to all our Softies out there.

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Christmas Is For Settling Scores

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 17:32:01 -0000

Takanakuy is an annual Christmas tradition where residents of Santo Tomás, Peru call out neighbors they believe have wronged them throughout the year to physical combat. With no court houses in this community tucked away high up in the Andes Mountains, this centuries old tradition is used to settle legal disputes or clean the slate on petty disagreesments in front of the whole town.

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The Worst Botched Executions In History

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:20:15 -0000

Being executed for your crimes is never fun but throughout history, some executions have been much, MUCH worse than others. Specifically, the executions that did NOT go as planned. From beheadings that needed way too many swings of the ax and backup executioners who had no idea what they were doing to the first-ever use of the electric chair in 1890, many an execution has gone horribly wrong. We go over some of the worst.

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Kissinger Kept You Safe (And Put Everyone Else In Danger)

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:39:24 -0000

Henry Kissinger was a pragmatic statesman above all else. Unfortunately, he was also German and, as such, his pragmatism took a lot of dark, destructive turns. His Cold War policy eschewed ideology (and any morsel of morality that might have previously existed) in favor of outcomes. The ends always justified the means to Kissinger when it came to the global stage. Also, this guy f*cked.

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Diary Of A 16th Century Executioner

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:53:24 -0000

Franz Schmidt was a seasoned civil servant killer who hung, decapitated, drowned, burned alive, and crippled criminals' spirits and bodies on the breaking wheel as the head hangman in Nuremberg for 45 years during the Renaissance. He kept a diary detailing all 361 public executions he performed.

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Did Osama bin Laden Have A Point? (No.)

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 05:48:31 -0000

Osama bin Laden’s 2002 “Letter to the American People” recently went viral on TikTok because random Gen Z’ers thought the terrorist architect of 9/11 made some… pretty good points? The actual contents of the letter, however, range from insane to literally fake quotes about Jews attributed to Benjamin Franklin. We break down all the historical inaccuracies and crazy claims in the letter.

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The Drug-Fueled Cults Christianity Stole From

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:56:20 -0000

Learn about the mystery cults that dominated the religious landscape right before Christianity took off in the Greco-Roman world. From fraternity-style initiations to hallucinatory beverages that made you see gods and think you were dead, these cults sounded... pretty fun?

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The Order Of Assassins

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 19:02:12 -0000

For 200 years a radical group of stone cold killers high on opium and hash living in an eagle's nest fortress in Persia terrorized Muslim and Crusade leaders alike. Hasan-i Sabbah, the "Old Man in the Mountain" led an often outnumbered group of Nizari Ismalis to mulitple victories over massive armies and organized hundreds of political hits throughout the Middle East. This devout branch of Islam often knew missions were one way tickets to Allah and happily carried out their responsibilities no matter the risk or amount of time required to eliminate a target. This is the real history of the order that inspired the "Assassin's Creed" video game franchise.

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The Real Witches Shakespeare Ripped Off

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:44:22 -0000

There's nothing like the thrill of the hunt, and for King James of Scotland and England, his favorite prey was witches. This is the story of the North Berwick Witch Trials in late 16th-century Scotland, which were inspired almost entirely by how awesome contemporary witch trials in Denmark and Germany seemed to King James. Hundreds of innocent people were executed but at least we got Macbeth out of it.

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You Won't Believe This 10-Year-Old Girl's Body Count

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:01:41 -0000

Mary Bell was a child murderer, in that she was a literal 10-year-old child when she began murdering, and because her victims were children even younger than her. Learn about one of England's most horrifying murder cases as our hosts squirm in their seats.

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The Villisca Axe Murders

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:11:15 -0000

A small Iowa town was shook to its core in the summer of 1912 after six members of a local affluent family and two of their guests were brutally murdered with an axe inside the comfort of their own home. A lengthy investigation resulted in several oddball suspects but ultimately zero convictions. The case remains unsolved.

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Gaza Has Never Belonged To Anyone Who Lives There

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 05:04:33 -0000

Who does Gaza really belong to? Or Israel/Palestine in general? It's sort of hard to say since the people native to that area have basically NEVER been in charge of it. From the Bronze Age to the end of World War 2 the area we know today as Israel and/or Palestine has been ruled by everyone from the Egyptians and Alexander the Great to the Romans and the British. Basically every empire you've ever heard of. But pretty much never, ever Jews or Palestinians.

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The Witch Who Deserved Her Trial

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 17:51:57 -0000

Throughout history, women accused of witchcraft have been wrongly executed. Mary Bateman, known as the Yorkshire Witch, was not one of those women. She absolutely earned her date with the hangman.

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How To Train Your Demon

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:54:44 -0000

Halloween Horror Month kicks off with a detailed look at how the ancient ruler of Israel King Solomon learned to summon demons, the time he got sent to horny jail by God, and the corporate hierarchy of hell.

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The Violent Life And Dejected Death Of Geronimo

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:19:44 -0000

Geronimo was seen as both the last great defender of the Native American way of life and a stubborn, savage holdout who put Apache lives in danger in the name of revenge. His life was a rollercoast ride of peaks and valleys -- constantly at odds with both the Mexican and US Governments. From North America's most wanted fugitive terrorizing Southwestern settlers to glorified parade decoration for Teddy Roosevelt's inauguration, the slow burn of Geronimo's story was ultimately a tragic and bitter existence.

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How Hollywood Killed Your Dad’s Favorite Comedian

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:41:15 -0000

Long before the first SAG strike, Hollywood’s working conditions and lack of fair pay weren't just questionable, they were INSANE. So bad, in fact, that it helped lead to the early death of Curly Howard of The Three Stooges, who was forced to film despite suffering multiple strokes and other severe health issues. The Stooges were also robbed of millions by their studio, Columbia Pictures, who refused to share with their biggest comedy stars how popular they really were.

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The Emo Christians Who Thought God Was A Poser

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:09:14 -0000

This week, learn about the ancient belief system of Gnosticism, its insane creation myth, and the lion serpent that keeps us all entrapped in a material hell.

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The Brutally Metal Deaths Of Catholic Saints

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:19:18 -0000

From having their skin flayed off with knives to arena bears and school children ripping limbs clean off their body, sainthood typically meant dying in the most horrific and torturous ways possible. You probably didn't hear about these stories in Catholic School.

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No One Will Remember You

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:11:02 -0000

The Zanj Rebellion — an African slave uprising in modern Iraq from 869 AD TO 883 AD during the reign of the Abbasid Caliphate — was a massively consequential event for arguably the world’s most powerful empire at the time and certainly for those involved in the revolt. Ever heard of it? Probably not. Nothing matters. No one will remember you.

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Venetians Loved Touching Tips

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:28:36 -0000

Armed with nothing more than sharpened sticks, thousands of Venetian tradesman would battle each other on bridges for glory and the entertainment of their fellow citizens. Learn about this violent pastime that lasted hundreds of years, and how the sport "evolved" over time.

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The California Water Wars

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:38:08 -0000

As Los Angeles expanded during the late 19th century, it began outgrowing its water supply. So, city officials decided to build a pipeline north and slurp up all the precious snow melt from the Sierra Nevadas bleeding Owens Valley dry. The resident farmers in the area didn't take kindly to this threat against their livelihood and conflict soon popped off with the help of an abundance of dynamite and the backing of a local (potentially mob run) bank.

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Too Rich To Be Gay

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:43:41 -0000

Despite it being socially acceptable (and encouraged) for men to sleep with other men, the sexual environment in Ancient Rome was absolutely NOT liberated or healthy, especially if you were poor, or a woman, or liked oral.

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The Great American Bar Tab

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:52:31 -0000

After signing the U.S. Constitution in 1787 the Founding Fathers hit the bars and left a tab for the ages. By our count, America's founders averaged about 20 drinks per man. Plus we break down some other notable party tabs throughout history, including how many pregnant leopards one Chinese emperor was forced to kill in order to serve his favorite appetizer.

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Rome's Greatest Enemy

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:07:38 -0000

Hannibal Barca was a Carthaginian general during the Second Punic War against Rome and considered one of the greatest military minds of his time. He took an army of 90,000 soldiers and 40 war elephants and marched across the Pyrenees and Alps to bring the fight to the Romans and terrorized the legions for years before ultimately failing to reach the capital and slowly losing the conflcit. Even in defeat, Hannibal gained the respect of his enemies and his tactics are studied to this day.

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The Unluckiest D-Day Paratroopers With Saving Private Ryan Star Max Martini

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 12:28:36 -0000

Saving Private Ryan star Max Martini joins the show to talk about his experience filming one of the greatest historical movies of all time and we tell the stories of the unluckiest paratroopers who dropped into France the night before D-Day.

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The Serial Killer Who Thought He Was A Cowboy

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 23:37:44 -0000

John Wesley Hardin was a 19th-century serial killer who cosplayed as an Old West outlaw. He was a degenerate gambler with an impulsive trigger finger for anyone who disrespected him, the Republic of Texas, or the sanctity of sleep. He had plenty of run-ins with the law -- including multiple encounters with "Wild Bill" Hickok -- and had a body count the size of the Lone Star State.

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Two Dumb Reasons The American Revolution Happened

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 14:52:57 -0000

A number of noble ideas and beliefs inspired the American Revolution. But history is layered. And full of morons. In this episode, we focus on two such morons: a banker/gambling addict whose financial ethics (and judiciousness) almost single-handedly precipitated a global banking crisis that led directly to the Boston Tea Party, and a very famous, well-meaning whistleblower who put WAY too much faith in the ability of political radicals to act reasonably.

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Oppenheimer Was A Real Weird Dude

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:34:46 -0000

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, smoked four packs a day, enjoyed drinking cocktails made with pure ethanol, was hazed mercilessly at summer camp, and grew up loving rocks. In short, he was kind of a huge weirdo. Learn all this and more about Oppenheimer, the man who ushered in our nuclear age.

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The Real Indiana Jones Was Good Will Hunting Meets Jurassic Park

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 19:22:28 -0000

Roy Chapman Andrews, the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones, led a series of expeditions to the Gobi Desert in China and famously first discovered fossilized dinosaur eggs. Andrews also died almost a dozen times while fighting off bandits, a horde of poisonous snakes, and a boat-hating whale.

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The Time Love Lost

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:36:03 -0000

Can love really conquer all? The stunningly beautiful, 19th Century French socialite and heiress Blanche Monnier, whose mother locked her in an attic for 25 years so that she wouldn’t marry a poor man, would probably say no.

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The Pennsylvania Tsunami That Was Armed And On Fire

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:26:32 -0000

What happened when Andrew Carnegie and his robber baron friends made a few cosmetic adjustments to an important dam to upgrade the aesthetics of their fishing club? Just the Johnstown Flood, the most violent flood in American history.

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The Other Book of Mormon

Tue, 30 May 2023 15:59:30 -0000

Is Brigham Young REALLY the heir to Joseph Smith? After Smith was killed in 1844 there was not one but TWO claimants to lead the Mormon Church. The other would-be Polygamy Pope was James Strang, a lawyer and self-described "cool philosopher" who claimed to have been named Smith's heir by the Latter Day Saints founder himself. And Strang (conveniently) had the legal documents to prove it! The split eventually led Strang and his followers to Beaver Island, Michigan, where things kept getting weirder.

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This Episode Could Get Us Excommunicated (Seriously)

Mon, 22 May 2023 16:07:27 -0000

The Catholic Church has a long and bizarre history with holy relics, but the story of The Holy Prepuce — aka baby Jesus’s circumcised foreskin — is easily the weirdest of them all. So odd that Pope Leo XIII issued a decree in 1900 that if a Catholic talked about it (or made fun of it) they could be immediately excommunicated from the Church.

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The Troll Who Won World War 2

Mon, 15 May 2023 19:25:07 -0000

Juan Pujol Garcia was a Spanish chicken farmer turned self-made spy. A fervent hater of fascism, he decided to volunteer as a spy for the Nazis and then feed them bogus info from himself and a network of totally fictional agents he said were working for him in London. He was so trusted, and the Nazis were so stupid, that he became their most important spy during the war. His influence was so great that may have given the Allies the intelligence advantage they needed to win World War 2.

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Guess The Dead Language - Free Patreon Preview

Thu, 11 May 2023 19:40:15 -0000

Think you'd know Latin if you heard it? Can you understand Middle English? Can you even possibly guess what ancient Aztec or Sumerian sounds like? Tune in and guess along with our hosts as they attempt (and fail miserably) to identify what dead languages are being spoken to them.

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The Time Dracula Saved Jesus

Mon, 08 May 2023 18:00:31 -0000

Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini was a 15th-century smut writer who climbed all the way up the Papal ladder and became Pope Pius II, head of the Catholic Church. But his reign was during a time of major crisis for the religion. After the fall of Constantinople, with limited options to fight off the Turks, he turned to Vlad the Impaler to save Europe from Muslim rule.

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When A Fruit Became God

Mon, 01 May 2023 18:34:45 -0000

What happens when you eliminate religion during a cultural revolution? Sometimes people, looking to fulfill their spiritual needs, start worshipping mangos. From mango shrines to mango cigarettes, China under Mao went all in on worshiping mangos in the 1960s.

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The King Who Beat Off Sea Men

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:42:54 -0000

Ramesses III took power in Egypt during the Late Bronze Age Collapse, a literal regional apocalypse caused by a horrifying invading horde known as the Sea Peoples and the fact that sun didn’t shine for about 20 years, making farming… difficult. Despite the invading horde and severe lack of food — and facing the first worker strike in human history — the guy did pretty well. But not everyone was a fan.

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Boston’s Streets Ran Brown With Blood

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 18:39:09 -0000

The Great Molasses Flood was a disaster that occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston after a large storage tank of the viscous substance burst and rushed through the streets killing 21 residents and injuring 150 more.

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Get Back To Work, Peasant

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 17:57:23 -0000

The guys discuss a meme floating around the internet that claims medieval peasants had more time off than modern workers. Spoiler alert! That’s not really true. Learn about peasant life this week and be thankful for your soulless corporate job.

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China Definitely Isn’t Apologizing For This

Tue, 04 Apr 2023 14:01:23 -0000

The history of African slaves being sent across the Atlantic is well-known, but hundreds of years before Columbus arrived in America the Chinese were importing their own African slaves to do their hard labor, attempt dangerous underwater repairs to ships, and work as “ornamental” palace attendants.

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Mostly Hostile Riots

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:53:52 -0000

Riots and angry mobs causing death and destruction are nothing new. In fact, the world has a long and rich history of people causing a commotion over the smallest inconveniences, impolite gestures, wrongdoings, and personal beefs. From a Roman soldier mooning a large group of Jewish pilgrims to a stadium of drunk baseball fans getting overzealous on ten-cent beer night, we cover some of the most absurd uproars in the last 2000 years.

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History’s Worst Tailgate

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:27:08 -0000

Washington D.C.’s upper crust decided it would be fun to tailgate Bull Run, the first major battle of the American Civil War. And, once there, they tried their hardest to armchair quarterback the Union Army. But things got a lot less fun once their side started charging at them in a panicked retreat.

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New Orleans Is Littered With Irish Bones

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:55:13 -0000

St. Patrick’s Day might seem like a bigger deal in the Northeast and Midwest but New Orleans was actually the second most frequent port of entry for Irish immigrants to the United States. They didn’t necessarily have a great time living in the Big Easy, however. SUBSCRIBE to our Patreon for exclusive audio, video, and written content.

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St. Patrick Is A Liar And A Murderer

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 19:11:42 -0000

Fifth-century Romano-British slave turned bishop, Maewyn Succat, was on a mission to convert the entire island of Ireland to Catholicism by any means necessary. From dueling pagan magicians with fire to raising dozens of dead back to life, St. Patrick took no prisoners in his conquest for God.

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The Tiny War Hero Dog Who Stole America’s Heart

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 19:14:29 -0000

This week we learn about Sergeant Stubby, a Boston Terrier who fought for the United States during World War 1. He was no mere mascot, though. He saw plenty of combat and ended up outranking his owner, all while accomplishing quite a bit more than most humans ever do in their military careers

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Ancient Arabia’s Inter-Dimensional Fire Beings You Could Bone

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:55:38 -0000

Like any culture or region, Islam and pre-Islamic Arabia had stories about a number of mythical creatures. One in particular, though, was codified into official existence by the Quran. They’re made of fire. You can hook up with them. They can eavesdrop on Heaven unless God shoots meteors at them. And they’ll write your poems for you. Meet the Jinn (aka genies).

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The Land Of Trashy Brawls

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 05:46:45 -0000

Rough-and-tumble was a free-for-all fighting style in the colonial South wherein contestants would bite, dig, and tear into each other's eye sockets and testicles all in the name of defending their honor. It makes current-day mixed martial arts look like ballet.

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The Sex King

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 13:34:37 -0000

Charles II of England was quite possibly the horniest king alive. From staging orgies to anointing royal mistresses, learn about his exploits and the absurdity of his reign in this week’s episode.

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The Jester Who Got Too Serious

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 15:29:05 -0000

Jeffrey Hudson, “Court Dwarf” for Queen Henrietta Maria of England, was the most famous jester in Europe during the early 17th Century. But like all great comedians, he started to take himself WAY too seriously. It went badly.

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Make America Drunk Again

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 20:13:19 -0000

The guys discuss the events that led up to Prohibition and the 18th Amendment, specifically the outrageous amounts of alcohol Americans consumed throughout the country's history prior to its brief outlawing.

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The Korea Axe Murder Incident And Operation Paul Bunyan

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 19:14:59 -0000

The 1976 murders of U.S. Army officers Captain Arthur Bonifas and First Lieutenant Mark Barrett by North Korean soldiers, which stemmed from a tree-trimming disagreement at the DMZ, provoked a forceful response from the United States in the form of Operation Paul Bunyan. SUBSCRIBE to our Patreon for exclusive audio, video, and written content.

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The Sex Cult Reject Who Assassinated A President

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 19:06:21 -0000

Charles Guiteau was a failed clergyman, lawyer, bill collector, and cult member who falsely believed he played a massive role in the election of James Garfield. Feeling snubbed of a reward from the Republican Party after the inauguration of the president, this lunatic decided the only logical thing to do was to assassinate the leader of the free world. SUBSCRIBE to our Patreon for exclusive audio, video, and written content.

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Stop Hiking in Russia

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 16:35:37 -0000

Another Russian mountain mass-death mystery is brought to the table and the guys have to figure out what went down. Perhaps a camping trip to Siberia might be ill-advised.

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A Short History of Shrinkage

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 02:16:59 -0000

The 1967 Koro Panic in Singapore saw hundreds of healthy men and boys rush to the hospital convinced their penises were disappearing. This and other shrinkage panics across history — such as medieval witches stealing dongs and keeping them as living, slithering, worm-like pets — highlight a male, cross-cultural fear that supernatural forces are out to steal their pieces.

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They’ve Found Santa’s Tomb

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:46:01 -0000

The secret location of the tomb of St. Nicholas — aka Santa Claus — has been potentially discovered in southern Turkey. But are Santa’s bones inside? Learn about the long history of Catholics pillaging Santa’s corpse and the miracles St. Nicholas performed that you definitely have NOT heard about.

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The Warlord Who Bullied Gods

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:14:56 -0000

Zhang Zongchang was a Chinese general whom Time Magazine dubbed "The Basest Warlord". He was addicted to gambling and sex and relished trolling his enemies, friends, and the gods themselves. He pulled himself out of poverty and eventually became the military governor of his hometown Shandong, where he was a major player in the opium trade and one of the funnier leaders in the Fengtian Clique.

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The Grocery Store That Won The Cold War

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 18:26:00 -0000

Boris Yeltsin was the first democratically elected leader of the Russian Federation, and also quite possibly the drunkest. Learn of his escapades across the world and how a Houston grocery store led to the fall of the Soviet Union.

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The Most Sl*t-Shamed Woman In History

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 18:30:34 -0000

Messalina, the Empress of Rome from 41 AD to 48 AD, had rumors about her so messed up that even the meanest girl from your high school would think her enemies went too far. The weirdest part about the rumors, though? They weren’t even necessary. The actual stuff Messalina did was bad enough.

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Dogfights, A War Hero Pigeon, And An Australian Berserker

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:58:11 -0000

This week we cover four unique but equally bizarre tales from World War I including pilots being shot down in no man's land, a tough and durable bird that saved a battalion, and one of the most Australian stories imaginable.

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Dolphins, Acid, And Handies

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:34:35 -0000

This week we explore the NASA-funded experiments that involved giving LSD to dolphins, discuss animal consent, and the ethics of living "intimately" with a dolphin for six months.

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The Yelp Reviews of 18th Century London Prostitutes

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 15:41:10 -0000

If you were in search of a prostitute in 1700s London you needed to look no further than Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies, a pocketbook with reviews (and addresses) of over 150 of London’s ladies of the night. We read real hooker reviews from the 1788 edition of the pocketbook.

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The Failed Farmer Who Blew Up An Elementary School

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 18:56:02 -0000

In Bath Township, Michigan on May 18th, 1927 Andrew Kehoe killed 38 elementary schoolchildren, and six adults, and injured nearly 60 others. It was the first recorded school bombing in U.S. History and the world’s earliest known suicide car bombing.

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Whiskey, Aliens, and A Two-Faced Man

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 04:14:10 -0000

Jake takes us through three spooky tales: one real, one a hoax, and one that is disputed. Find out which real-life horror is fact in this week’s episode.

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The Woman Who Apologized Herself To Death With Jessie Wiseman

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:32:59 -0000

The Pendle Witch Trials of 1612 are arguably the most famous witch trials in English history, and they all began because one girl, who definitely did not have magical powers, turned herself in to authorities for the crime of having magical powers.

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Halloween Pranks Use To Just Be Terrorism

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 16:32:20 -0000

From causing city trolleys to crash to almost burning down Detroit, Halloween was once a holiday of mayhem so destructive that it was almost banned in our country during the Great Depression.

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The Real Curses Of Classic Horror Films

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 18:21:02 -0000

The guys continue spooky month and dive into famous curses surrounding classic horror movies including Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen, and Poltergeist.

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Catholic Witches And Their Shadow Demon Sex Cult

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 13:41:33 -0000

One of the most famous witch trials in history involved a Jesuit priest, sex with the dark realm, drinking a baby’s blood, and a witness who didn’t expect to be cross-examined.

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The Money Problems Of The Founding Fathers

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:17:06 -0000

From Alexander Hamilton's wife having to go around with a collection basket to pay for his funeral to George Washington's vice for the sweet stuff, our Founding Fathers were reckless with their wealth.

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The Oldest Man On Death Row

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 01:52:33 -0000

Ray and Faye Copeland, a farming couple who stole cattle, forged checks, and murdered drifters on their Missouri farm were the oldest people ever put on death row.

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We Never Really Wanted Actual News

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 16:07:22 -0000

How did Pulitzer, Hearst, et al. sell papers? It wasn’t with the high-brow stuff. They sent reporters to hospitals to write about the gruesome murders and horrible (or embarrassing, alcohol-fueled) injuries a city’s residents had suffered that day. We break down a paper full of those stories -- the August 23rd, 1897 edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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The Worst Crusade Ever

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 19:49:00 -0000

Sometimes you have to crack a few of your fellow Christians' eggs to make a Holy Land omelet. The 4th Crusade was one Pope's call to action gone horribly wrong, featuring a few idiotic side missions that ultimately submarined the main quest, and one of the Catholic Church's biggest blunders in its storied history of mistakes.

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How Florida Made America

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 01:36:00 -0000

We dive into the history of The Republic of West Florida. Learn how Florida is basically responsible for everything America is today, for better and for worse.

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The Hardcore Jewish Kingdom You Never Heard Of

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 17:22:00 -0000

The Kingdom of Himyar in modern-day Yemen may have converted to Judaism for political reasons in 380 A.D. but eventually they went harder than anybody to rep their beliefs. And by that we mean they slaughtered a bunch of Christians.

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The Titanic Was On Fire With Jessie Wiseman

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 18:32:00 -0000

Jessie Wiseman joins the boys to talk about the lesser known details about the sinking of the Titanic.

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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles All Hate This Guy

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 18:29:00 -0000

Frano Selak is the luckiest unlucky person in history. Learn how he survived 7 brushes with horrible, violent death, and what he’s up to today.

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Hitler And The Pope

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:58:00 -0000

Newly released Vatican records detail how Hitler used the Catholic Church's abuse to blackmail Pope Pius XII into not being too mean to the Third Reich.

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Out For The Duel

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 17:42:00 -0000

Two high-society Austrian noblewomen clashed over flowers and it ended in a topless sword fight.

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Visit Antarctica! Eat Dogs And Die

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 19:27:00 -0000

Douglas Mawson ventured to Antarctica, TWICE, but it almost cost him his life. Find out how he almost died getting his literal rocks off in a frozen wasteland.

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Do You Want To Build A Snowman?

Mon, 04 Jul 2022 17:00:00 -0000

In 1511 the people of Brussels, while suffering through a brutal winter known as "The Winter of Death", took to the streets and expressed their displeasure with the ruling classes and life in general by... sculpting snowmen and making them do wildly inappropriate things with each other.

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Smoke ’Em If You Got ’Em

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:05:00 -0000

We discuss the most important women's movement of the last century: the march to smoke cigarettes.

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The Inventor Of Mommy Issues

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 03:03:00 -0000

The guys talk about the coed killer’s disdain for his mother, his adventures in cat killing, and his unintentional contribution to the field of criminal profiling.

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Ghost Party

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:25:00 -0000

In the late 19th Century, one Chicago family found itself living in a house that turned out to be aggressively haunted. But these weren't normal ghosts. These were cool ghosts who loved to party.

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Don’t Fall In Love In The Wild West

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:37:00 -0000

A psycho trust fund kid, an aging but talented performer, and Wyatt Earp. Dodge City, Kansas was not a great place to "love" and "be loved"... or just to live in general. There's a reason the saying goes, "Get the hell outta Dodge."

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Thank You Sirhan May I Have Another?

Mon, 30 May 2022 22:57:00 -0000

This week we talk about RFK and Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin so nice they named him twice. We dive deep into the Robert Kennedy assassination and some of its mysterious circumstances. We’re just asking questions!

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The Lost City of Wieners

Tue, 24 May 2022 01:10:00 -0000

The recently discovered ancient city of Karahan Tepe has changed everything -- seriously, everything — we know about human history, and it’s covered in dongs.

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New York Clowns vs. Canadian Firefighters

Mon, 16 May 2022 23:19:00 -0000

A group of liquored up traveling clowns and volunteer firefighters go into a Toronto brothel in 1855. Mayhem ensues.

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The US Navy’s Dumbest Boat

Tue, 10 May 2022 01:00:00 -0000

This week we cover the USS William D Porter. A Naval destroyer that, for better or worse, was so good at destroying that it almost killed FDR… twice.

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Rosie The Riveter Could Never

Tue, 03 May 2022 00:32:00 -0000

Massachusetts Puritan colonist Hannah Duston was the first woman to ever have a statue erected in her honor in the United States. But was what she did worthy of a monument?

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Wastin’ Away Again In Slave-a-ritaville

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 22:36:00 -0000

The American Confederacy in Brazil? This week we talk about the southern rebels who took the L in the Civil War and picked up shop to continue their Dixieland Delight in South America.

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Easter Is Stolen IP

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 16:34:00 -0000

This week Jake tries to dunk on Jesus and fails, Rob thinks Six Flags is the same as Disney, and we all learn about the pagan traditions that live on in modern Easter celebrations.

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The Worst Way Any Japanese Soldier Died During WW2

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:47:00 -0000

Human beings might be at the top of the planet's food chain but we've taken some L's to animals over the years, none worse than what happened to the Japanese soldiers who, near the end of World War II, retreated into the swamps of Burma's Ramree Island and found ancient, bloodthirsty predators waiting for them.

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Thank God Native Americans Killed Everything That Used To Live Here

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:41:00 -0000

This is the story of the FIRST colonization of the Americas, some 13,000ish years ago. Humans arrived here for what turned out to actually be the second time and, like people are wont to do, they killed the other people living here and, more importantly, the giant nightmare monsters that called the Americas home.

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Classic Hollywood’s ”Unsolved” Murders

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 00:42:00 -0000

The guys talk about the golden age of Hollywood's most unusual deaths, including a sketchy accidental fatality on William Randolph Hearst's yacht, a teenaged starlet's older lover's suspicious death, and a famous actress's suicide that was super obviously NOT a suicide.

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The Cancelled Goat Ball Doctor

Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:52:00 -0000

This week we learn about J.R. Brinkley, a shady doctor with even shadier practices that had an election stolen from him, his radio platform stolen, and probably stole some goat balls himself.

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Russia: The Bridesmaid of Europe

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:40:00 -0000

Breaking down how the Russian invasion of Ukraine is just the latest in a long history of Russia trying to prove that it's way more powerful and important than it really is, from the nation declaring Moscow the "Third Rome" after the fall of Constantinople to its epic fails in the Crimean War and the Russo-Japanese War.

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China’s Hooker Pirate Queen

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:54:00 -0000

Ching Shih was a prostitute who pulled herself up by the stilettos and became one of the most successful pirates in world history.

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The Pope Blessed Murder In Florence

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 01:19:00 -0000

This week we cover the Pazzi Conspiracy, a plot to assassinate the Medici banking family, and how the Pope kind of OK’d the whole thing.

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Ancient Egypt Was #AntiWork

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 01:47:00 -0000

Ancient Egypt seems like a long time ago, but this recovered sick leave document from 1250 BC proves that Egyptians were just like us: drunks who hated work and had a rough time when the women in their house were menstruating.

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The Helen Keller 9/11 Connection With Jessie Wiseman

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 02:20:00 -0000

Jessie Wiseman joins the boys as we burn on Helen Keller.

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Africa’s Nerd Holocaust

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:54:00 -0000

We dive into the history of Africa’s most brutal dictator, Macías Nguema. From banning glasses and murdering statisticians to a holiday-themed massacre, this guy does it all.

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The Media Has Always Sucked With Guest Producer Jack Mandaville

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:01:00 -0000

Everyone hates the modern media, but when did the modern American media actually form? The invention of cable news? The Yellow Journalism of the late 19th Century? The answer is much older, and it’s all Mexico’s fault. (Sort of. Not really at all, actually.)

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Snitches Get Meathooks

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:22:00 -0000

This week we're talking Lufthansa heist and the dirtbags that inspired the movie "Goodfellas."

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Did The UNABOMBER Have A Point?

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:38:00 -0000

No, he did not.

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Too German To Live

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 05:15:00 -0000

Anti-German sentiment was at an all-time, absolutely bananas high during World War 1. Unfortunately for German immigrant Robert Prager, a local coal mining union used that as an excuse to lynch him just outside St. Louis, Missouri in 1918.

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Did Socrates Even Lift?

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 02:03:00 -0000

New year, new you. We talk about the history of the most common resolution that generations of people fail each year: physical fitness. From Vikings lifting ship masts to Ancient Greek wrestlers fireman carrying full grown bulls up hills, exercising has always been a never ending journey to personal disappointment.

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Make Christmas Great Again

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 01:25:00 -0000

We go over the best Christmas traditions that have been lost to history including pets gaining the ability to speak human languages at midnight on Christmas Eve, Icelandic trolls who have a thirst for bones, and a Christmas party king called “The Lord of Misrule” who can command all partygoers to get as drunk as he or she desires.

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Creepy Christmas Tradition Origins

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 01:13:00 -0000

From Santa getting his start by paying off prostitutes to Krampus’ weird foot situation and a cat in Iceland that eats kids for being too poor, Christmas traditions have some troubling origins(Carolers most of all).

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Music: No Poors Allowed

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:14:00 -0000

The guys cover how audio recordings have changed throughout time, and how the man keeps trying to keep us from stealing tunes.

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The Gods Must Be Horny

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 02:28:00 -0000

In honor of the Christmas season we break down the most famous virgin births in history from Jesus in the Quran to ancient Egyptian miracle births and multiple babies — including one in the Bible — who popped out of their moms as fully developed men.

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Never Let The Truth Get In The Way Of A Good Disney Movie

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 03:03:00 -0000

Jared Borislow joins Dan Regester and Rob Fox to talk about the true and horrifying story of real Pocahontas compared to her animated Disney counterpart.

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Field Of Nightmares

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 01:44:00 -0000

The most detestable baseball team in history isn’t the Chicago Black Sox or the Houston Astros. It’s the 1911 Wyoming Penitentiary All-Stars, a baseball team made up of rapists and murderers who were told every time they won a game they would get years off their sentences, or get their death penalties commuted, so long as they made the state officials gambling on them money.

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Drinking And Driving Killed JFK... Kind Of

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 02:00:00 -0000

Listen in as we breakdown the tale of drunken secret service agents, their night before the JFK assassination, and how no one thought it was that big of a deal except for one wet blanket.

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The Bisexual STD-Riddled Rockstar Poet

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:36:00 -0000

Lord Byron was a rockstar poet considered to be the first modern celebrity. He gallivanted around the Mediterranean sleeping with any person that crossed his path, drank out of monk skulls, and owned his own zoo of animals.

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Tweens Are Not to Be Trusted

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 01:05:00 -0000

The Salem Witch Trials were pretty much entirely fueled by bored tweens pretending to be possessed by innocent old ladies and poor people.

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Not Another Gruesome German Murder

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:51:00 -0000

In another grisly tale from Germany, we dive into the Hinterkaifeck murders, the circumstances surrounding the nightmare, and the possible suspects.

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The Serial Killing Perverted Vampire With Jessie Wiseman

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 02:54:00 -0000

Jessie Wiseman joins the boys to talk about serial killer Peter Kürten --better known as the Vampire of Dusseldorf -- who would drink and lubricated himself with the blood of his victims in 1920s Germany.

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Cranking Ghosts In Gettysburg

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 01:24:00 -0000

Ghosts who aren’t invited to parties. Ghosts who like to watch ladies sleep. Impromptu amputation shows in basements. Gettysburg ghosts have it all. We run through the best ghost stories from America’s most famous battlefield.

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Colonialism Was Tasty

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:35:00 -0000

From flavoring food to enlarging your balls, the guys dive into the wonderful history of spices.

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Soviet Karate Sniper Assassin

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 01:14:00 -0000

Alexander "Superkiller" Solonik was a cold-blooded hitman who took out some of the biggest mob bosses in the Soviet Union and 1990s Russia. He was a blackbelt super soldier that escaped prison on several occasions, racked up millions of dollars in contracts, and dated Russian super models and bottle service girls.

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Chariots of Ire, Stadiums of Blood

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 01:08:00 -0000

Philly fans and SEC football lunatics have nothing on Eastern Roman Empire chariot racing supporters. Constantinople chariot racing factions regularly rioted and murdered each other by the thousands. Rooting for a certain chariot racing team was so important that emperors had to choose which team they supported in order to gain favor with the masses. Chariot racing insanity came to a head with the Nika Riots, in which 30,000 chariot racing fans were murdered after they burned down most of the city.

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Most Of Football’s History Is Just Murder

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 18:11:00 -0000

We cover the bizarre origins of medieval football, an American college team fleeing Cuba, and live animal mascots in this week’s episode featuring special guest former Texas A&M defensive lineman Jay Arnold.

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Talking Occultism With Jack Mandaville

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 21:51:00 -0000

Special guest Jack Mandaville joins us to cover the occult inspiration for the Third Reich’s racial purity policies and obsession with mythical artifacts.

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She’d Do Anything...For The Story

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 01:18:00 -0000

Journalist Nellie Bly checked herself into a 19th Century insane asylum to expose its horrors, discovered Helen Keller, was captured in World War 1, tried and succeeded at going around the world in less than 80 days, and became one of America’s GOAT investigative journalists ever along the way.

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You Expect Me To Fly This Elevator?

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 01:16:00 -0000

The Elevator Operator Strike of 1945 was spurred by a desire for higher wages and better treatment after the end of World War 2. So, naturally, the building owners just switched to automatic elevators. But that wasn’t easy either, it turned out, because everyday people were terrified of operating an elevator without any training.

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The History Of Pets

Tue, 10 Aug 2021 01:53:00 -0000

The domestication of cats and dogs, wacky Russian Silver Foxes that wag their tails, and a bunch of weird pets owned by people throughout history - learn all about our furry best friends on this week’s episode.

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John Paul Jones: Sinking British Ships And Invading Russian Lips

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 00:28:00 -0000

Dan, Rob, and Cooper talk about the complicated Scot who is often regarded as the father of the US Navy -- John Paul Jones. From helping the U.S. win independence to fighting Turks in the Black Sea on behalf of Catherine the Great, JPJ lived an action-packed 45 years mostly on water or inside the warm embrace of a European woman.

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The Worst Olympics Ever

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 01:42:00 -0000

The 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis were the worst Olympics ever held. The Marathon involved a purposeful dehydration experiment and a runner who cheated by riding 11 miles in a car, the swimming events were all done in a pond, and people from various third world countries were forced to compete in what the media dubbed the “Savage Olympics”.

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The Inept Train Robber Who Became A Must See Corpse

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:56:00 -0000

Elmer McCurdy was perhaps the worst outlaw in the Wild West but his dead body became a show stopping attraction in everything from back road carnivals to Hollywood films over the course of a literal half century. Dan, Rob, and Jake talk about the extreme embodiment of success after death.

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There Will Be Blood Feuds

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 01:40:00 -0000

Trying to handle that dispute over the fence line with your neighbor? Learn how not to as Jake, Dan, and Rob dive into the wild and wonderful world of blood feuds in 1800s America. To work out how much life insurance coverage you need, and compare personalized quotes to find your best price, head to Policygenius.com and get your best quote in minutes.

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Pregnant? Stop Being Such A Witch About It

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:02:00 -0000

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and Jake Goldman are joined by Rob’s pregnant wife Courtney to talk about the history of pregnancy, birth control, pain management, and childbirth in the Middle Ages and why if a woman was good at any of that she was a witch and deserved to be burned alive.

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The One-Eyed Canadian Berserker Who Liberated A Controlled City

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 01:25:00 -0000

Dan, Jake, and Rob are joined by Iconoblast's Matt Cooper to talk about Leo Major -- a Canadian scout and sniper who stormed the beaches of Normandy, took hundreds of POWs, and liberated a Dutch town of 50,000 by himself.

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The Original Jaime Lannister

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 01:34:00 -0000

Götz von Berlichingen was a mercenary knight during the end of one of the bloodiest eras in history. He had a metal hand, and also invented a common profanity all of us say every day.

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No One Cares About Lesbians

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 02:14:00 -0000

Rob Fox, Jake Goldman, Dan Regester and special guest Veronica Ruckh go through the history of lesbians from ancient Egypt's reputation for being a girl on girl sin-fest to medieval Middle East believing that women were attracted to other women because they ate too much celery.

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The Unkillable Irish Hobo

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 01:28:00 -0000

In 1932 a New York bar owner and his connected friends took out an insurance policy on an alcoholic homeless man and did everything in their power to kill him. This is the story of how they failed over and over again.

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The Murdering Elephant That Made Hollywood Happen

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:35:00 -0000

Jake, Dan, and Rob breakdown the life and trials of Topsy the elephant. Was she a serial killing beast? Or just a victim of circus circumstance? Find out the grizzly details of her death, and their consequences on this week’s episode.

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The Most Overrated Civilizations In History With Jack Mandaville

Mon, 24 May 2021 15:25:00 -0000

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and special guest Jack Mandaville discuss the most overrated civilizations in world history.

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The Comically Bad Assassination Of Franz Ferdinand

Tue, 18 May 2021 01:32:00 -0000

Dan, Rob, and Jake break down the comedy of errors that somehow resulted into the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the butterfly effect that has shaped our modern world as a result.

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P.T. Barnum’s Circus Of Dead Elephants, Boiling Whales, and Monkey Mermaids

Tue, 11 May 2021 04:41:00 -0000

Jake, Dan, and Rob discuss P.T. Barnum’s rise to fame including leasing old slaves, sewing monkeys to fish, and adopting tiny boys from their parents and putting them in the circus.

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The Time New York City Tried To Kill All Doctors For Being Creeps

Tue, 04 May 2021 02:15:00 -0000

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and Jake Goldman explore the 1788 Doctors’ Riot in New York City, during which the people of New York formed a mob to attack doctors for allegedly grave robbing their deceased loved ones to use for anatomical dissection and other experiments. Once they got into the labs the mob saw… some messed up stuff.

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The Luckiest Moron To Ever Live

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 02:02:00 -0000

Dan, Rob, and Jake discuss the insanely dumb rags to riches story about a man who couldn't stop failing his way to success in Colonial America -- "Lord" Timothy Dexter.

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Most Of History’s Leaders Were Wasted

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 01:33:00 -0000

Jake, Dan, and Rob explore the different substances that may have altered the course of human history and the leaders who imbibed in them.

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Ancient Birth Control Was A Little Dicey

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 03:28:00 -0000

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and special guest Veronica Ruckh talk about what it was like to get and be pregnant in ancient times, including the birth control plant that was so popular that the Romans banged it into extinction, other birth control theories ancient doctors had like “Just the tip!”, birthing practices such as tying a woman to a ladder and shaking her so the baby would fall out, and ancient pregnancy tests that sound really not fun for the woman.

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East India Company: Drugs, Pirates, And Corporate Bailouts

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 01:01:00 -0000

The East India Company helped shape the modern world in the worst possible ways. Dan, Rob, and Jake break down the true "enemy of the human race" that terrorized the globe for over 200 years on an empire's dime.

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The Countess Who Bathed In Virgin Blood

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 02:52:00 -0000

Rob, Dan, and Jake break down the horrifying story of Elizabeth Bathory, the Hungarian Countess who bathed in blood, beat virgins senseless, and could easily take Rob or Dan home after they had a few drinks.

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The Worst Year In Human History

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:02:00 -0000

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and Jake Goldman break down the worst year in human history, a year so bad it makes 2020 look like the Roaring Twenties. We’re talking 536 A.D., when the whole world literally lost most of its food and sunlight for 18 months and most of the world was at war. Then, a few years later, a 200 year Bubonic Plague pandemic hit (and the wars didn’t stop).

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The Spy Who Sold Soviets Secrets For Stacks And Snatch

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 02:23:00 -0000

The boys go deep into the life of CIA mole Aldrich Ames. This giant piece is solely responsible for the most deaths of American field agents and is the ultimate simp who committed treason to pay off his alimony and mistress's shopping hobby.

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Night Witches vs.

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:35:00 -0000

Jake, Dan, and Rob discuss the women of the Soviet 588th night bombing regiment. These ladies dropped bombs from the equivalent of wooden RC planes and took out some along the way, all while suffering minimal casualties. Tune in for babes and bombs, stay for Rob defending Hitler.

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Punting On Black History Month

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 02:24:00 -0000

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and Jake Goldman discuss the Land of Punt, the ultra wealthy ancient African kingdom that Egyptian Pharaohs traded with for gold, super inadvisable pet baboons, perfume, and dwarves.

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Behind The Lens With The Tuskegee Airmen, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, And Shaft

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:02:00 -0000

Gordon Parks went from playing the piano at a Minnesota brothel to becoming the first black director in Hollywood. Dan, Jake, and Rob go through the insanely jam-packed life of the man behind the creation of Blaxploitation and some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century.

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Three Heroes Describe Surviving The Texas Freeze

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 04:09:00 -0000

Rob, Dan, and Jake break down what it’s like to live through a historic event — the Texas freeze. We break down what happened to us and the people we know this past week in Austin, how awful Texans are at handling weather, how much we want to punch all of our politicians (left and right) in their stupid faces, and if we think Texas learned ANY lessons.

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The Black Pirate Who Threw A No-No On LSD

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 03:16:00 -0000

Jake, Dan, and Rob break down the antics of 70s Pittsburgh Pirate pitcher, Dock Ellis. Between advocating for numerous causes to throwing a no-hitter whacked out on LSD, Dock lived a wild life and led an even more redeeming story in his later years.

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Enron Was Ahead Of Its Time

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 03:29:00 -0000

Enron went from blue chip stock to pennies on the dollar overnight. From cooking the books to shifting their business model several times the rise and fall of this Houston based energy company was an absolute nightmare for its 29,000 employees in 2001.

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America Used to Think Catholics Were Wizard Worshipping Slaves

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 03:56:00 -0000

With Joe Biden becoming the second Catholic president ever Rob, Dan, and Jake break down the hilariously absurd bigotry that was freely lobbed at Al Smith and JFK, the first two Catholics who ran for president — basically the KKK and Protestant leaders tried to convince America that Catholics were slaves to a wizard king (the Pope) and would betray America.

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The CIA Has A Bit Of A Drug Problem

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:36:00 -0000

From shipping a ton of cocaine to spiking the office coffee with LSD, get your tinfoil hats ready as we discuss the wild and (mostly) true cases of the CIA and their antics involving narcotics.

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That Other Time They Stormed The Capitol

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 03:53:00 -0000

Burning government buildings, a president leaving his wife to go down in flames, and a hurricane tornado that saved the day from our country's oldest foe. Dan, Rob, and Jake cover the capture and arson of Washington D.C. in 1814

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Russia’s First Queen Tricked A Lot of People Into Getting Murdered

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 04:49:00 -0000

Rob, Dan, and Jake break down the history of Saint Olga of Kiev, the first queen of Russia and the woman who introduced Christianity to the country — specifically her year long rampage in which she kept (really easily) tricking the people of the country that assassinated her husband into getting brutally murdered. She isn’t the patron saint of revenge but she should be.

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The Rasputin Episode

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:52:00 -0000

Much like the Russian man of mystery himself, this episode gets off the rails quick and refuses to die.

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John Dillinger: The Bank Robbing Shortstop Who Stole America’s Heart

Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:01:00 -0000

We go deep into the short but jam-packed life of American gangster and minor league shortstop John Dillinger.

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Hanukkah Can Kick Rocks, Jewish Mardi Gras - Purim - Is Where It’s At

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 03:48:00 -0000

Tis the season to celebrate fighting off mass extermination. Jake leads Dan and Rob through the ancient Jewish holiday of Purim.

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Saturnalia: The Roman Christmas

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:44:00 -0000

Held in mid-December, Saturnalia is an ancient Roman pagan festival honoring the agricultural god Saturn. It's the source of many traditions we now associate with Christmas but with orgies.

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Viking Jesus Ragnar Lothbrok

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 03:55:00 -0000

Ragnar Lothbrok. What's true? What's myth? We break down the demigod of Viking past and his invasion of Paris.

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John Smith’s Mercenary Pirate Life Before Pocahontas

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 04:50:00 -0000

We cover the rad and insane life of John Smith before his years with Pocahontas.

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Pompeii’s Graffiti Proves Ancient Rome Had Twitter And Yelp For Brothels

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 05:51:00 -0000

Pompeii's perfectly preserved and absurdly raunchy graffiti is proof that the ancient world had social media and that people have always thought and are funny.

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Catapulting Messengers And Comedic Relief War Dwarfs: A History Of Jesters

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 03:40:00 -0000

From farting songs for the laughter of kings to taunting dying enemies on medieval battlefields, we break down the long, bizarre history of jesters.

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The Time A Presidential Candidate Died Mid-Election

Tue, 03 Nov 2020 06:05:00 -0000

Boosh fills in for Rob to talk about the only US election where one of the two presidential candidates died in the middle of voting.

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New Orleans’ Most Evil Citizen Was A Bipolar Cougar

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 03:34:00 -0000

Madame Delphine LaLaurie, the most evil resident in the history of New Orleans, was run out of the city for torturing and mutilating her slaves. She was also a gold digging cougar and a real buzzkill on ghost tours.

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The Witch Who Was Actually Pretty Rad Other Than The Infant Sacrifices

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 04:18:00 -0000

Noted witch expert and ex-TSM show runner Veronica Ruckh joins Softcore History to read Dan’s fortune with Tarot cards and discuss La Voisin, a purveyor of black masses and one of the most infamous witches in history.

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The KGB Is Great At Framing Aliens For Mass Murder

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 05:39:00 -0000

The boys breakdown the Dyatlov Pass Incident where 9 Russian hikers died in the Northern Ural Mountains in extremely mysterious ways.

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H.H. Holmes Built A Murder Castle In Chicago Because The 19th Century Had No Rules

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 05:24:00 -0000

Alex Buscemi joins the boys to talk about the first known serial killer in American history, H.H. Holmes.

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The Civil War Was Won By A Hooker Loving Murderer And A Cosmo Columnist

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 05:53:00 -0000

Gettysburg was won by two unlikely heroes and a decision to completely defy orders. We dive into one of the most important days in American history and the rogue officer who stumped the Confederacy with his dopey pivot.

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Was The 1518 Dancing Plague Caused By A Tween Ghost?

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 04:18:00 -0000

In 1518 hundreds of people literally danced to death in what's now France. What caused an estimated 400 people to footloose into an early grave? Jake, Rob, and Dan investigate.

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The Mad Hatter That Avenged Abe Lincoln

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 23:37:00 -0000

Boston Corbett went from small town hat maker to the national hero who gunned down John Wilkes Booth. His life was more insane than his mercury soaked brain.

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The First Joke Ever Recorded, Temple Orgies, And Con Men In Ancient Sumer

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 07:04:00 -0000

We dive into the first known human civilization of Sumer and find common ground with this ancient group of people who really just wanted to get drunk, fire off some jokes, and vent about their problems in a lion infested Middle East.

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The Time A Rotting Corpse Was Put On Trial By The Pope

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 04:17:00 -0000

Cancel culture is nothing new. We dive into The Cadaver Synod where a dead man was wheeled into an actual court room by the Pope to answer for the crimes of his life.

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The Tennessee Vampire Who Conquered Latin America

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 03:47:00 -0000

William Walker was a lawyer, doctor, and complete lunatic from Tennessee who conquered and took control of multiple Latin American countries in the mid 1800s. We take a deep dive into "The Grey Eyed Man of Destiny" and the true power of self-belief.

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