LearnOutLoud.com Audio - Ridiculous History Podcast

Chocolate Syrup: From Medicine to Dessert (Tue, May 17, 2022)
Historical Hypocrisy: The Confederacy's Weird Stance on "Individual Rights" (Thu, May 12, 2022)
Juana Maria: The Real-life Story Behind "Island of the Blue Dolphins" (Tue, May 10, 2022)
Curling: The Most Ridiculous Sport? (Thu, May 05, 2022)
Nobuo Fujita Bombed Brookings, Oregon -- and Then Became a Town Hero (Tue, May 03, 2022)
A Teetotaling Preacher Basically Invented Modern Tourism (Thu, Apr 28, 2022)
Ira Aldridge: Actor, Activist and Record-breaker (Tue, Apr 26, 2022)
Lithuanian Book Smugglers Vs. The Russian Empire (Thu, Apr 21, 2022)
The Yule Lads Terrified Children Across Iceland (Tue, Apr 19, 2022)
The Infamous Aurora UFO Incident of 1897 (Thu, Apr 14, 2022)
How The Evil May Day of 1517 Became the Perfect Propaganda Opportunity (Tue, Apr 12, 2022)
Day Drinkers (Sort of) Helped Stop Cholera in London (Thu, Apr 07, 2022)
The Much-Maligned Reign of Swedish Queen Maria Eleonora (Tue, Apr 05, 2022)
Weird Ways People Used to Communicate, Part II: Smoke Signals and Bottled Messages (Thu, Mar 31, 2022)
Weird Ways People Used to Communicate, Part I: Only a Pigeon Away (Tue, Mar 29, 2022)
That Time A Dead Guy Won an Olympic Medal (Thu, Mar 24, 2022)
Julia Barnett Rice Waged an Elitist War on Noise (Wed, Mar 23, 2022)
Ridiculous History Presents: A History of "Adult" Toys, Part 2 (Thu, Mar 17, 2022)
Ridiculous History Presents: A History of "Adult" Toys, Part 1 (Tue, Mar 15, 2022)
The Cobra Effect, Part 2: Four Pests and a Disastrous Success (Thu, Mar 10, 2022)
The Cobra Effect, Part 1: Snakes, Rats, and Unintended Consequences (Tue, Mar 08, 2022)
British Suffragettes Knew Jūjitsu (Fri, Mar 04, 2022)
A Tale of Two Hansons: Busting Myths About the 'First' US President (Wed, Mar 02, 2022)
Did Soldiers in World War I Really Team Up to Fight Wolves? (Fri, Feb 25, 2022)
Slum Tourists: When Wealthy People Toured Chinatown ‘For Fun’ (Wed, Feb 23, 2022)
That Time Victorians Treated Seaweed like Pokemon (Fri, Feb 18, 2022)
Valentine's Day Is So Much Weirder Than We Thought (Tue, Feb 15, 2022)
Weirdest Celebrity Busts, Part II: Mr. David Lee Roth and a Drunken John Wayne (Thu, Feb 10, 2022)
Weirdest Celebrity Busts, Part I: Nixon Smuggled Weed, Arbuckle Was Innocent (Wed, Feb 09, 2022)
CLASSIC: X-Rays, Songs and Soviets: The Stilyagi Story (Thu, Feb 03, 2022)
Tossed Popcorn, Part 2: Chaplin was a Jerk, Brando was Insane (Wed, Feb 02, 2022)
Tossed Popcorn, Part 1: The Wizard of Oz and the Titanic (Fri, Jan 28, 2022)
Peter Freuchen: Explorer, Raconteur, Movie Star and War Hero (Tue, Jan 25, 2022)
Did Honduras and El Salvador Really Go to War over Soccer? (Thu, Jan 20, 2022)
The US Literally Had Nazi Summer Camps (Wed, Jan 19, 2022)
The Emperor of the United States (Thu, Jan 13, 2022)
The Trans-Saharan Ostrich Expedition of 1911 (Wed, Jan 12, 2022)
That Time Everyone Tried To Outlaw War (Fri, Jan 07, 2022)
CLASSIC: Who Solves Murders in Antarctica? (Tue, Jan 04, 2022)
The Lil Ice Age Was Way Less Cute Than It Sounds (Thu, Dec 30, 2021)
Nub City: Florida's Infamous Amputation Scam (Tue, Dec 28, 2021)
London's Tiger King, Part Two: Charles Jamrach Becomes a Problematic Hero (Thu, Dec 23, 2021)
London's Tiger King, Part One: When Exotic Animal's Were The Hottest Flex (Tue, Dec 21, 2021)
The Atlantropa Project, Part Two: What Happened to the Supercontinent? (Thu, Dec 16, 2021)
The Atlantropa Project, Part One: Saving Europe via Supercontinent (Tue, Dec 14, 2021)
People Used Bed Bugs as Medicine for Thousands of Years (Fri, Dec 10, 2021)
The US Literally Threw Pianos From Planes During World War II (Tue, Dec 07, 2021)
The Sinister Side of Little Orphan Annie, Part Two: Drink Your Ovaltine (Thu, Dec 02, 2021)
The Sinister Side of Little Orphan Annie, Part One: Parents Were Terrified (Wed, Dec 01, 2021)
CLASSIC: How White America Tried To Destroy Chinese Restaurants (Thu, Nov 25, 2021)
Russia’s Real-life Ice Queen, Part 2: Weird, Brutal Flexes (Wed, Nov 24, 2021)
Russia’s Real-life Ice Queen, Part 1: The Tsar is a Jerk (Thu, Nov 18, 2021)
That Time a Baboon Worked for the Railroad (Tue, Nov 16, 2021)
Austin and the Texas Archives War (Thu, Nov 11, 2021)
King for a Week: The Strange Story of Otto I (Wed, Nov 10, 2021)
The Bloody Tale of the Sausage War (Thu, Nov 04, 2021)
Modern Thanksgiving, Part Two: Sarah Josepha Hale Finally Gets Her Wish (Tue, Nov 02, 2021)
Modern Thanksgiving, Part One: A Culture War (Thu, Oct 28, 2021)
How Haunted Houses Became A Thing (Wed, Oct 27, 2021)
New England versus Vampires, Part Two: Desperation and Desecration (Thu, Oct 21, 2021)
New England versus Vampires, Part One: The Brutal, Terrifying Life of Early Colonists (Wed, Oct 20, 2021)
Ada Lovelace, Part Two: The Analytical Engine (Fri, Oct 15, 2021)
Ada Lovelace, Part One: How Lord Byron’s Daughter Became a Tech Visionary (Tue, Oct 12, 2021)
The King of Scotland Got Real Weird with Language Experiments (Thu, Oct 07, 2021)
The Rum Riot of Portland, Maine (Tue, Oct 05, 2021)
The Love of Candy Almost Drove a Cactus Extinct (Thu, Sep 30, 2021)
The Australian Prison Break of 1876, Part 2 (Tue, Sep 28, 2021)
The Australian Prison Break of 1876 Part 1 (Thu, Sep 23, 2021)
37 Days of Peril, with Alex Williams (Tue, Sep 21, 2021)
Robert Smalls Stole A Confederate Ship and Sailed to Freedom, Part Two: From Slavery to Congress (Thu, Sep 16, 2021)
Robert Smalls Stole A Confederate Ship and Sailed to Freedom, Part One: Planning the Heist (Tue, Sep 14, 2021)
Sky Pilot: The Man Who Brought Religion to Lumberjacks (Thu, Sep 09, 2021)
CLASSIC: Butter: Protestantism's Secret Ingredient? (Tue, Sep 07, 2021)
Ridiculous Live: The Humor and the Heavy (Thu, Sep 02, 2021)
Flu Julia: The Con Artist Nurse That Made Bank Off Of Misery (Tue, Aug 31, 2021)
History's Dumbest Criminals, Part 2 (Fri, Aug 27, 2021)
History's Dumbest Criminals, Part 1 (Tue, Aug 24, 2021)
That Time People Were Terrified of Libraries (Thu, Aug 19, 2021)
Ostracism: How Ancient Greeks Handled Uncool Politicians (Tue, Aug 17, 2021)
Military Cats, Part 2: Simon Saves the British (Thu, Aug 12, 2021)
Military Cats, Part 1: Spies and Mascots (Tue, Aug 10, 2021)
That Time People Rioted Over a Hot Air Balloon (Thu, Aug 05, 2021)
An Alabama Town Built a Statue Honoring the Insect that Almost Destroyed It (Tue, Aug 03, 2021)
A Prince and His Poodle: The Supernatural Adventures of Rupert and Boy (Thu, Jul 29, 2021)
How One Guy Made Europe Fall In Love With Potatoes (Tue, Jul 27, 2021)
Weird Courtship Rituals, Part Two (Thu, Jul 22, 2021)
Weird Courtship Rituals, Part One (Tue, Jul 20, 2021)
A Brief History of Underwear (Thu, Jul 15, 2021)
One Guy Was Certain Telepathic Snails Would Replace Telegraphs (Tue, Jul 13, 2021)
The Duke of Portland Hated People and Loved Tunnels (Thu, Jul 08, 2021)
Where do Lemonade Stands Come From? (Wed, Jul 07, 2021)
Painless Parker and the Dental Circus (Thu, Jul 01, 2021)
The Rise and Fall of Curative Plane Flights (Tue, Jun 29, 2021)
That Time People Paid Rent With Eels (Mon, Jun 28, 2021)
The Miracle of the Gulls: A Cricket War (Tue, Jun 22, 2021)
A History of Pregnancy Cravings, Part 2: Stereotypes, Superstitions and Science (Thu, Jun 17, 2021)
A History of Pregnancy Cravings, Part 1: Pickles and Ice Cream (Tue, Jun 15, 2021)
The Carrington Event, Part II: Attack of the Sun! (Thu, Jun 10, 2021)
The Carrington Event, Part I: The Sun is Acting Strange (Tue, Jun 08, 2021)
Loveday: Henry VI's Well-intentioned, Terrible Attempt at Making Peace (Thu, Jun 03, 2021)
Classic: Why do British lawyers wear wigs? (Tue, Jun 01, 2021)
That Time Al Capone Ran A Soup Kitchen (Thu, May 27, 2021)
The Phantom Barber of Pascagoula (Wed, May 26, 2021)
Joseph Bonaparte, Cryptid Hunter (Thu, May 20, 2021)
The Mystery of the Devonshire Colic (Tue, May 18, 2021)
The Troubling, Hidden History of Turpentine (Thu, May 13, 2021)
A Race Across the World: From New York to Paris in 1908 (Tue, May 11, 2021)
The Age of the Crakow, Part 2: A Fashion Arms Race, But For Your Feet (Thu, May 06, 2021)
The Age of the Crakow, Part 1: Medieval Europe Went Nuts For Pointy Shoes (Tue, May 04, 2021)
How Pie in the Face Became a Comedy Classic, Part 2: The Fall (of the Pie) (Thu, Apr 29, 2021)
How Pie in the Face Became a Comedy Classic, Part 1: Rise of the Pie (Tue, Apr 27, 2021)
The Great Panjandrum: A Hilariously Terrible Idea (Thu, Apr 22, 2021)
Dr. T. W. Stallings: One Man's Corvid-Hating Quest to Make Oklahoma Literally Eat Crow (Tue, Apr 20, 2021)
Pineapples In Europe, Part 2: People Literally Rented Pineapples to Impress their Friends (Thu, Apr 15, 2021)
Pineapples In Europe, Part 1: A Weird, Cartoonishly Expensive Flex (Wed, Apr 14, 2021)
The Mysterious Dark Day That Terrified New England (Thu, Apr 08, 2021)
The Windham Frog Fight of 1754 (Tue, Apr 06, 2021)
Ancient Mesopotamian Societies Sacrificed Substitute Kings to Eclipses (Fri, Apr 02, 2021)
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Part 2 (Tue, Mar 30, 2021)
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Part 1 (Thu, Mar 25, 2021)
A Currency for Colonies: The Strange Story of "Leprosy Money" (Tue, Mar 23, 2021)
Wyoming Tales, Part 2: Absaroka, the State That Almost Was (Fri, Mar 19, 2021)
Wyoming Tales, Part 1: Walking in the Shoes of Big Nose George (Wed, Mar 17, 2021)
The Rise and Fall of the Flea Circus, Part 2 (Thu, Mar 11, 2021)
The Rise and Fall of the Flea Circus, Part 1 (Tue, Mar 09, 2021)
History's Most Ridiculous (and Deadly) Beauty Trends (Mon, Mar 08, 2021)
Billy Cottrell, the Tyrant Mayor of Cedar Key, Florida (Thu, Mar 04, 2021)
The US and the UK Almost Went to War over a Pig (Tue, Mar 02, 2021)
The 1973 Michigan Pizza Funeral (Thu, Feb 25, 2021)
Elagabalus The Raunchy, Racy High Priest Who Became a Roman Emperor (Tue, Feb 23, 2021)
John Wilkins Started a 17th-century Astronaut Program, Part 2: Wilkins (Tries to) Start a Space Program (Fri, Feb 19, 2021)
John Wilkins Started a 17th-century Astronaut Program, Part 1: Why not aim for the Moon? (Wed, Feb 17, 2021)
Turtle Soup, Part 2: Rise of the Mock Turtle (Fri, Feb 12, 2021)
Turtle Soup, Part 1: A Delicacy of Yesteryear (Tue, Feb 09, 2021)
Stab Yourself to Health and Happiness: The Bizarre Rise of the Lebensweker (Thu, Feb 04, 2021)
The Hatpin Peril (Wed, Feb 03, 2021)
It's a Cat's World, Part 2: The Rise of the Cat Show (Fri, Jan 29, 2021)
It's a Cat's World, Part 1: The Sacred and the Suspicious (Tue, Jan 26, 2021)
Dan Sickles, American Scoundrel, Part 2: The Civil War (Fri, Jan 22, 2021)
Dan Sickles, American Scoundrel, Part 1: How to Get Away with Murder (Wed, Jan 20, 2021)
That Time New York Banned Spitting (Thu, Jan 14, 2021)
Admiral Byrd and the Polar Dairy (Tue, Jan 12, 2021)
Weird 21st Century Predictions from Ages Past, Part 2: Your Personal Plane, A World Without Disaster and Retiring on the Moon (Thu, Jan 07, 2021)
Weird 21st Century Predictions from Ages Past, Part 1: Tesla, Square Tomatoes and Pseudosteak (Tue, Jan 05, 2021)
The Old Rituals of New Years, Part 2: Neuroscience, Resolutions and the Rick Steves Fan Club (Thu, Dec 31, 2020)
Holiday Classic: When the Puritans Canceled Christmas (Thu, Dec 24, 2020)
Holiday Classic: The Strange History of Antarctic Fruitcake (Tue, Dec 22, 2020)
Goodyear and the Mystery of the Ghost Blimp (Fri, Dec 18, 2020)
Benito Mussolini was Super into Wearable Milk (Tue, Dec 15, 2020)
Snowmen as Protest: The Miracle of 1511 (Fri, Dec 11, 2020)
Why are Chimney Sweeps good luck at weddings? (Wed, Dec 09, 2020)
People Have Been Convinced Robots Will Take Their Jobs For Centuries (Fri, Dec 04, 2020)
That Time the US was Terrified of Tomatoes (Wed, Dec 02, 2020)
How the Pandemic Helped (and Hurt) the Struggle for Women's Rights (Thu, Nov 26, 2020)
How a German Prince Built his own Artificial Volcano (Tue, Nov 24, 2020)
The Weird Origin of Pink Lemonade, Part 2: The Rise of Clown Pants (Thu, Nov 19, 2020)
The Weird Origin of Pink Lemonade, Part 1: A Humble Citrus (Wed, Nov 18, 2020)
An Elephant in the Vatican, Part 2: An Elephant in the Reformation (Fri, Nov 13, 2020)
An Elephant in the Vatican, Part 1: The Discovery of Hanno (Wed, Nov 11, 2020)
S T O V E G O B L I N (Thu, Nov 05, 2020)
The US Didn't Always Have Secret Ballots (Tue, Nov 03, 2020)
The Case of the Greenbrier Ghost, Part 2: The Court (Thu, Oct 29, 2020)
Ridiculous History Presents: Criminalia (Wed, Oct 28, 2020)
The Case of the Greenbrier Ghost, Part 1: An 'Everlasting Faint' (Wed, Oct 28, 2020)
The Hand of Glory, Part 2: Recipes, Necropants and Toes (Thu, Oct 22, 2020)
The Hand of Glory, Part 1: A Thief's Theme (Tue, Oct 20, 2020)
Brooms and Witchcraft, Part 2: Inquisitions and Iniquity (Thu, Oct 15, 2020)
Brooms and Witchcraft, Part 1: A Killer in the Rye? (Wed, Oct 14, 2020)
The Beast of Gévaudan, Part 2: The Birth of a Grisly Legend (Fri, Oct 09, 2020)
The Beast of Gévaudan, Part 1: Murders In France (Wed, Oct 07, 2020)
The BBC Convinced People Spaghetti Grows on Trees (Fri, Oct 02, 2020)
The US Waged War on Pinball for Decades (Tue, Sep 29, 2020)
The Misadventures of Wade Boggs, Part 2 (Fri, Sep 25, 2020)
The Misadventures of Wade Boggs, Part 1 (Tue, Sep 22, 2020)
The Tragic Tale of the 'Turnspit Dog' (Thu, Sep 17, 2020)
Knocker-Uppers: The Human Alarm Clocks of the Industrial Age (Tue, Sep 15, 2020)
That Time New York City Rioted Over Shakespeare (Thu, Sep 10, 2020)
Babies in Incubators were Once a Sideshow Attraction (Tue, Sep 08, 2020)
The Rise of the US Camel Corps (Thu, Sep 03, 2020)
The United Kingdom Has A Weird Thing With Swans (Wed, Sep 02, 2020)
The Nazi Super Horse Program, Part 2: A Horse-filled Heist (Thu, Aug 27, 2020)
The Nazi Super Horse Program, Part 1: Equine Eugenics (Tue, Aug 25, 2020)
Railroad Tycoons Decided What Time It Is Now (Fri, Aug 21, 2020)
Why do people 'christen' ships with champagne? (Wed, Aug 19, 2020)
The Hidden History of Jewish Pirates, Part 2: Famous Privateers (Fri, Aug 14, 2020)
The Hidden History of Jewish Pirates, Part 1: Escaping Europe (Tue, Aug 11, 2020)
Ridiculous "Remedies" of the Spanish Flu: The Rise of the Lemon (Fri, Aug 07, 2020)
That Time Rebellious Freemasons Starting Kissing Porcelain Pug Butts (Tue, Aug 04, 2020)
Clever Hans, Part 2: The Rise and Fall of Hans (Thu, Jul 30, 2020)
Clever Hans, Part 1: The Equine Mathematician (Tue, Jul 28, 2020)
Henry VIII and That English Sweat, Part 2: A Disease and a King (Thu, Jul 23, 2020)
Henry VIII and That English Sweat, Part 1: A Pandemic (Wed, Jul 22, 2020)
The Hobo King: Leon Ray Livingston, Chapter Two (Fri, Jul 17, 2020)
The Hobo King: Leon Ray Livingston, Chapter One (Wed, Jul 15, 2020)
The Vikings Made a Fortune in the 'Unicorn' Trade (Thu, Jul 09, 2020)
Did People Really Throw Tar And Feathers On Each Other? (Tue, Jul 07, 2020)
Kate Warne, the Pinkerton Detective Who Saved Abe Lincoln, Part 2: To Rescue A President (Thu, Jul 02, 2020)
Kate Warne, the Pinkerton Detective Who Saved Abe Lincoln, Part 1: The Origin Story (Wed, Jul 01, 2020)
What is Fudge, Part 2: The Rebellion (Thu, Jun 25, 2020)
What is Fudge, Part 1: The Science, The Curious Name (Tue, Jun 23, 2020)
The North Pole, Part 2: The Chase To The North (Fri, Jun 19, 2020)
The North Pole, Part 1: Maps and Legends (Wed, Jun 17, 2020)
The Mysterious Origin of (and Disturbing Problems with) the "Wolf Whistle" (Fri, Jun 12, 2020)
World War I and the Rise of the Peat Moss Bandage (Wed, Jun 10, 2020)
Flashback: Unforeseen Consequences Throughout History: Part 2 (Fri, Jun 05, 2020)
Flashback: Unforeseen Consequences Throughout History: Part 1 (Wed, Jun 03, 2020)
Louis Wain, the Godfather of Cat Memes: Part 2 (Fri, May 29, 2020)
Louis Wain, the Godfather of Cat Memes: Part 1 (Wed, May 27, 2020)
Feedsack Fashion: How Thrifty Inventiveness Transformed America (Fri, May 22, 2020)
Emperor Tiberius Was Debauched, Deranged and Probably Not Fun At Parties (Wed, May 20, 2020)
The Return of Historical Flexes, Part 2: Flexcessiveness (Thu, May 14, 2020)
The Return of Historical Flexes, Part 1: 2 Flex 2 Furious (Tue, May 12, 2020)
The Authors Of Curious George Were On The Run From Nazis (Fri, May 08, 2020)
People Used To Straight Up Drink Gold (Tue, May 05, 2020)
New Zealand's Tragic (And Pretty Hilarious) Exploding Pants Epidemic (Fri, May 01, 2020)
That Time Trainwrecks Became a Spectator Sport (Tue, Apr 28, 2020)
Miguel de Cervantes and the Case of the Fake Don Quixote (Thu, Apr 23, 2020)
The CIA Paid War Spies with Stuff From the Sears Catalog (Tue, Apr 21, 2020)
The Bottle Jumping Hoax (And Riot) (Fri, Apr 17, 2020)
The Bizarrely Disturbing History of People Jumping Out of Cake (Wed, Apr 15, 2020)
HL Hunley: The Mysterious Demise of a Civil War Submarine, with Rachel Lance (Fri, Apr 10, 2020)
Dromomania: The Wanderlust Disease (Wed, Apr 08, 2020)
Key West, Florida Declared a One-Minute War on the United States (Fri, Apr 03, 2020)
That Time the US Literally Banned Sliced Bread (Wed, Apr 01, 2020)
Two Green Children Mystified Woolpit, England (Fri, Mar 27, 2020)
Pepsi Briefly Became the Sixth Largest Navy in the World (Wed, Mar 25, 2020)
The Ponzi Scheme with Chelsea Ursin (Fri, Mar 20, 2020)
The History of MREs with Jacqueline Raposo (Tue, Mar 17, 2020)
Donald Crowhurst Faked a Race Around the World (Fri, Mar 13, 2020)
Calvin Coolidge Skipped Town and Went Fishing for Three Months (While He was President) (Wed, Mar 11, 2020)
The Presidential Dinner That Scandalized America (Thu, Mar 05, 2020)
Was the Lone Ranger Inspired by a Black U.S. Marshall? (Wed, Mar 04, 2020)
Night Soil Men Were the Unsung Heroes of Urban Sanitation (Thu, Feb 27, 2020)
The Tiny Spanish Town That Went To War With France For 100 Years (Wed, Feb 26, 2020)
The Great Diamond Hoax - Part 2 (Thu, Feb 20, 2020)
The Great Diamond Hoax - Part 1 (Wed, Feb 19, 2020)
'Mad' Jack Churchill: The Bagpipe Playing Soldier Who Hunted Nazis with a Longbow - Part 2 (Thu, Feb 13, 2020)
'Mad' Jack Churchill: The Bagpipe Playing Soldier Who Hunted Nazis with a Longbow - Part 1 (Tue, Feb 11, 2020)
Erasto Mpemba: The High School Student Who Disproved Thermodynamics (Thu, Feb 06, 2020)
The Straw Hat Riots of 1922 (Wed, Feb 05, 2020)
The Legend of Tarrare, the Insatiable Glutton Who Ate a Quarter of a Cow Daily (Fri, Jan 31, 2020)
Why Genghis Khan's Great-Great Granddaughter Was Just as Badass (Wed, Jan 29, 2020)
That Time Ernest Hemingway's Younger Brother Started His Own Country (Fri, Jan 24, 2020)
The Ersatz Wild West Shootouts of Palisade, Nevada (Wed, Jan 22, 2020)
The Great Goldfish Gulping Craze That (For Some Reason) Swept America (Thu, Jan 16, 2020)
Pneumatic Tubes: The 'Futuristic' Transport System That's Over 150-Years-Old (Wed, Jan 15, 2020)
Violet Jessop, the Unsinkable Stewardess Who Survived Three Famous Shipwrecks (Thu, Jan 09, 2020)
Abandoned Ship: What Really Happened Aboard the "Mary Celeste"? (Tue, Jan 07, 2020)
That Time America Fell In Love With Competitive Walking (Thu, Jan 02, 2020)
The Weird Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Carols (Tue, Dec 31, 2019)
The Time Salvador Dali Partnered with Walt Disney - Part 2 (Thu, Dec 26, 2019)
The Time Salvador Dali Partnered with Walt Disney - Part 1 (Tue, Dec 24, 2019)
Colonel Blood and the Theft of the Crown Jewels (Thu, Dec 19, 2019)
The Starving Time: When Jamestown Colonists Turned Cannibal, Part 2 (Tue, Dec 17, 2019)
The Starving Time: When Jamestown Colonists Turned Cannibal, Part 1 (Thu, Dec 12, 2019)
The Strange Tradition that Forced Everyone in New York to Move House on the Same Day (Tue, Dec 10, 2019)
French Waiters Once Had to Strike for Their Right to Wear Mustaches (Thu, Dec 05, 2019)
The Honey Trap: Sex in Espionage Throughout History (Tue, Dec 03, 2019)
The Weird, Weird History of Shipping: Part 2 (Thu, Nov 28, 2019)
The Weird, Weird History of Shipping: Part 1 (Tue, Nov 26, 2019)
Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 2 (Thu, Nov 21, 2019)
Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 1 (Tue, Nov 19, 2019)
How Bertha Heyman Conned Her Way Into Show Business (Thu, Nov 14, 2019)
That Time Germany Got Obsessed With Polar Bear Photos (Tue, Nov 12, 2019)
Rose Mackenberg: Houdini's Ghostbuster (Thu, Nov 07, 2019)
Science and Spiritualism: Why were ghost stories so popular in the 1800s? (Tue, Nov 05, 2019)
John of Bohemia, the Blind King Who Charged Into Battle (Fri, Nov 01, 2019)
Kakigōri: The Story of Japan's Famous Shaved Ice (Wed, Oct 30, 2019)
John Edmonstone: The Man Who Trained Darwin (Fri, Oct 25, 2019)
The Death of Luxury Air Travel (Tue, Oct 22, 2019)
The Bizarre Capitulation of Stettin (Thu, Oct 17, 2019)
John Wilkes Booth's Brother Saved Abraham Lincoln's Son (Wed, Oct 16, 2019)
John Clem: The 12-year Old Civil War Hero (Thu, Oct 10, 2019)
Christopher Columbus Was Such A Jerk That Even Spain Turned Against Him (Tue, Oct 08, 2019)
The Kaiser’s Plan to Invade the United States (Thu, Oct 03, 2019)
How Uncle Tom's Cabin Became One of the Most Popular Books in China (Tue, Oct 01, 2019)
Tom Watson Gordy: How One Uncle’s Adventures Inspired Jimmy Carter to Join the Navy (Fri, Sep 27, 2019)
Teddy Bears, Rhinos, Safari and Everywhere Else: A Conversation with Daniel Scheffler (Tue, Sep 24, 2019)
The Gaspee Affair: Rhode Island’s Revolutionary “Tea Party” (Thu, Sep 19, 2019)
Otto Rahn, The Nazi Occultist Who Hated Nazis and Inspired Indiana Jones (Tue, Sep 17, 2019)
4 Times Women in the US Were Actually Arrested for Wearing Pants (Fri, Sep 13, 2019)
Sir Francis Drake and the Great Iowa Swindle (Tue, Sep 10, 2019)
Around the World in a Model T: The Story of Aloha Wanderwell (Thu, Sep 05, 2019)
Why George Washington is Huge in Barbados (Tue, Sep 03, 2019)
John Willis Menard: The First African American Elected To US Congress (Fri, Aug 30, 2019)
The Bloody Revenge of Saint Olga of Kiev (Tue, Aug 27, 2019)
The Super Fight: When Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano Had A Fight That Never Happened (Fri, Aug 23, 2019)
Shame and Fish: The Embarrassing and Tragic Story of François Vatel (Tue, Aug 20, 2019)
Creature Feature: Go Home Nature, You're Drunk (Thu, Aug 15, 2019)
Hunting Fireflies for Fun (and Profit) (Wed, Aug 14, 2019)
The Listener Mail Extravaganza (Fri, Aug 09, 2019)
That Time Ancient Monks Waged War Over A Copyright (Tue, Aug 06, 2019)
Ye Xian: The Story of China's Cinderella (Thu, Aug 01, 2019)
The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis: How One Lucky Forger Almost Destroyed A Nation's Economy (Tue, Jul 30, 2019)
Cow Shoe Camouflage: How Prohibition-era Moonshiners Outsmarted the Feds (Thu, Jul 25, 2019)
Castle Itter: When Germans and Americans Joined Forces in World War II (Tue, Jul 23, 2019)
A Grave Mistake: The Story of Patton's "Abandoned Rear" (Thu, Jul 18, 2019)
Did the US Mafia actually start in New Orleans? (Tue, Jul 16, 2019)
Meet Albert Cashier, the Trans Man Who Fought for the Union in the Civil War (Thu, Jul 11, 2019)
Operation Northwoods: How the US Planned to Attack Itself and Start a War with Cuba (Tue, Jul 09, 2019)
That Time Irish Separatists Invaded Canada (Thu, Jul 04, 2019)
The Night Witches: How an All-female Soviet Bomb Squad Terrorized Nazi Germany (Tue, Jul 02, 2019)
Bug Wars: When We Tried to Turn Insects into Soldiers (Thu, Jun 27, 2019)
Yasuke, the African Samurai (Tue, Jun 25, 2019)
The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I Tried To Make An Army of Super Tall Soldiers (Thu, Jun 20, 2019)
Playboy, Progressive Politics and Stand-up: The Dick Gregory Story with Wayne Federman (Tue, Jun 18, 2019)
I Modi: The Scandalous Erotic Blockbuster Banned By The Vatican (Thu, Jun 13, 2019)
Patriots, Prisoners and Plants: The World of Political Body Doubles (Tue, Jun 11, 2019)
Fort Blunder: The US Fort Mistakenly Built in Canada (Thu, Jun 06, 2019)
The Duke of Edinburgh is Literally a God in Vanuatu (Tue, Jun 04, 2019)
The Honorary Citizens of the United States (Thu, May 30, 2019)
The Nature of Ephemera, with Alex Williams (Tue, May 28, 2019)
The Return of Listener Mail (Thu, May 23, 2019)
That Time Ohio and Michigan Almost Went To War (Tue, May 21, 2019)
The Rise and Fall of Local Scrip: Alternative Currencies of the Great Depression (Thu, May 16, 2019)
The Attack of the Japanese Balloon Bombs (Tue, May 14, 2019)
Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Hoax (Thu, May 09, 2019)
Nosy Boraha: The Pirate's Paradise (And Cemetery) (Tue, May 07, 2019)
How the Black Death Came To Norway On A Ghost Ship (Thu, May 02, 2019)
Susanna Caroline Matilda: The Colonial Grifter Princess (Tue, Apr 30, 2019)
History's Weirdest Flexes, Part 2 (Thu, Apr 25, 2019)
History's Weirdest Flexes, Part 1 (Tue, Apr 23, 2019)
How Robert 'The Fastest Knife in the West End' Liston Conducted a Surgery With a 300% Mortality Rate (Thu, Apr 18, 2019)
How Oliver Cromwell Got Executed Several Years After His Death (Tue, Apr 16, 2019)
Hong Xiuquan: The Younger Brother of Jesus Christ Who Led a Bloody Rebellion in China (Thu, Apr 11, 2019)
How Big Bill Speakman Fought Off North Korea With Beer Bottles (Tue, Apr 09, 2019)
Teddy Roosevelt May Just Have Saved Modern (American) Football (Thu, Apr 04, 2019)
Prohibition, Prescriptions and the Rise of 'Medicinal' Booze (Tue, Apr 02, 2019)
Did Robert E. Lee hate Confederate Memorials? (Thu, Mar 28, 2019)
California Schoolchildren and the Great Squirrel War (Tue, Mar 26, 2019)
When West Virginia Begged the USSR for Foreign Aid (Thu, Mar 21, 2019)
Idiomatic for the People II, Part 2 (Tue, Mar 19, 2019)
Idiomatic for the People II, Part 1 (Thu, Mar 14, 2019)
The Statue of Liberty Almost Lived in Egypt (Tue, Mar 12, 2019)
Agent Garbo: The Strange Tale of the Man Who Saved D-Day (Thu, Mar 07, 2019)
The War of the Stray Dog: How Far Would You Go For Your Pet? (Tue, Mar 05, 2019)
The Tragic Origin Story of Morse Code (Thu, Feb 28, 2019)
Operation Gunnerside: How a Crew of Military Skiers Ruined the Nazi Bomb (Tue, Feb 26, 2019)
How far did Isaac Newton go to hunt down forgers? (Thu, Feb 21, 2019)
How Admiral Horatio Nelson Ended Up Dead in a Barrel of Brandy (Tue, Feb 19, 2019)
English Men Used to Sell Their Wives (Thu, Feb 14, 2019)
How Louisiana Almost Became a Hippo Ranching Hub (Tue, Feb 12, 2019)
The Weird Life of George Washington, Part 2 (Fri, Feb 08, 2019)
The Weird Life of George Washington, Part 1 (Tue, Feb 05, 2019)
Who was the highest paid athlete in history? (Thu, Jan 31, 2019)
Clara, The World's Most Famous Rhinoceros (Wed, Jan 30, 2019)
How the Monopoly Board Game Became a World War II Escape Kit (Thu, Jan 24, 2019)
Idiomatic For The People, Part 1 (Wed, Jan 23, 2019)
Was there a real-life Rapunzel? (Thu, Jan 17, 2019)
Benjamin Franklin's Advice on 'Finding a Mistress' (Tue, Jan 15, 2019)
What does 'Idaho' actually mean? (Thu, Jan 10, 2019)
Uncle Sam Tried to End World War II With Bat Bombs (Tue, Jan 08, 2019)
The American Soldiers Who Defected to North Korea and Became Movie Stars (Fri, Jan 04, 2019)
How a Broken Toilet Foiled a German Sub (Tue, Jan 01, 2019)
Creature Feature: The Dark Tetrad (Thu, Dec 27, 2018)
Gustaf Broman Tried to Cross the Atlantic in a Canoe . . . Or Did He? (Tue, Dec 25, 2018)
The Weird, Surprisingly Recent Origin of the Tooth Fairy (Thu, Dec 20, 2018)
When Vikings Loot The Wrong Town (Tue, Dec 18, 2018)
Were Tulips Really The Bitcoin of the 1600s? (Thu, Dec 13, 2018)
(Some of) History's Dumbest Military Prototypes (Tue, Dec 11, 2018)
The Forty Elephants: London’s All-Female Jewel Thieves (Thu, Dec 06, 2018)
The Malleus Maleficarum: A Real-life Witch Hunter's Bible (Tue, Dec 04, 2018)
The Great London Beer Flood of 1814 (Thu, Nov 29, 2018)
Dr. Seuss Wrote His Most Famous Book On A Bet (Tue, Nov 27, 2018)
Feral Children and the True Story Behind The Jungle Book (Thu, Nov 22, 2018)
When Dentist Sold Dentures Made with Corpse Teeth (Wed, Nov 21, 2018)
The Laxative-laden Journey of Lewis and Clark (Thu, Nov 15, 2018)
The Strange and Spectacularly Disgusting Story of the Great Kentucky Meat Shower (Tue, Nov 13, 2018)
The Bizarre Origin of the Oxford English Dictionary (Thu, Nov 08, 2018)
How Conman Victor Lustig Sold The Eiffel Tower (Twice) (Tue, Nov 06, 2018)
George Carlin Gets Quoted in the Supreme Court: Ridiculous Stand-up Stories with Wayne Federman (Fri, Nov 02, 2018)
The People vs. Lenny Bruce: Ridiculous Stand-up Stories with Wayne Federman (Wed, Oct 31, 2018)
The Life and Times of Ol' Knife Hand (Tue, Oct 23, 2018)
The Ridiculous Story of the World’s First (Documented) Serial Killer (Thu, Oct 18, 2018)
Back When the Rich Ate Corpses (Tue, Oct 16, 2018)
The Mummies of Guanajuato (Thu, Oct 11, 2018)
The Curious Rise of SPAM (Tue, Oct 09, 2018)
The Smooth-talking Takeover of Tabor Bridge (Thu, Oct 04, 2018)
History's Coolest (Non-Human) Political Candidates, Part I (Tue, Oct 02, 2018)
Attack of the Aswang: How the CIA Used Vampires as Weapons of War (Thu, Sep 27, 2018)
A Dead Pope Goes To Court (Tue, Sep 25, 2018)
Who are the Hartlepudlian Monkey Hangers? (Thu, Sep 20, 2018)
William Walker: Filibuster and (Fantastically Bad) President (Tue, Sep 18, 2018)
Lawsonomy: How the Father of the Modern Airline Started His Own Religion (Thu, Sep 13, 2018)
War and Candy: The Infamous Tootsie Roll Air Drop (Tue, Sep 11, 2018)
The Man Who Assassinated Abe Lincoln's Assassin (Thu, Sep 06, 2018)
The Cock Lane Ghost: Haunting, Hoax, Hysteria… or Hilarious? (Wed, Sep 05, 2018)
Roland the Farter and the Weird World of Professional Flatulence (Thu, Aug 30, 2018)
Gregor MacGregor Invented a Country and Convinced People to Invest in It (Tue, Aug 28, 2018)
Angry Feds and Deadly Booze: The Story of the Chemists' War (Thu, Aug 23, 2018)
Project A119: The Cold War Plan to Nuke the Moon! (Tue, Aug 21, 2018)
Adidas Versus Puma: A Tale of Two Brothers (Thu, Aug 16, 2018)
Fanny and Stella: The Cross-Dressing Scandal of Victorian England (Tue, Aug 14, 2018)
Kansas Imprisoned Women For Having STDs (Thu, Aug 09, 2018)
The WWII Naval Battle Won Using Potatoes (Tue, Aug 07, 2018)
The Korean Soldier Who Fought for 3 Armies During WWII (Thu, Aug 02, 2018)
Oregon Was a White Supremacist Paradise (Tue, Jul 31, 2018)
Why did people hate the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge? (Thu, Jul 26, 2018)
The 1904 Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis Hosted a Racist 'Special Olympics' (Tue, Jul 24, 2018)
When Heineken Made Bottles That Could Be Used as Bricks (Thu, Jul 19, 2018)
Why British Soccer Players Saluted the Nazis (Tue, Jul 17, 2018)
The United States That Never Were (Thu, Jul 12, 2018)
Philadelphia's Transylvanian Doomsday Cult: The Cave of Kelpius (Tue, Jul 10, 2018)
Enough About Us: What About You? (Thu, Jul 05, 2018)
Weird Wars Fought For Dumb Reasons (Tue, Jul 03, 2018)
The FBI's Quest to Understand 'Louie, Louie' (Thu, Jun 28, 2018)
The Time a Soviet Premier Was Banned From Disneyland (Tue, Jun 26, 2018)
Kidnapping, Binge Drinking and Costumes: Voter Fraud in the 1800s (Thu, Jun 21, 2018)
Why don't Americans use bidets? (Tue, Jun 19, 2018)
The Earliest Recorded Mooning Killed Thousands (Thu, Jun 14, 2018)
The Presidential Reason Fido Became the Default Name for a Generic Dog (Tue, Jun 12, 2018)
Dock Ellis and the Legend of the LSD No-hitter (Thu, Jun 07, 2018)
Maryland’s State Song was a Diss Track (Tue, Jun 05, 2018)
The Story of Max, South Africa's Famous, Crime-fighting Gorilla (Thu, May 31, 2018)
How Santa Anna Lost His Leg Twice, and Held a Funeral for It (Tue, May 29, 2018)
That Time Chewbacca Needed Bodyguards (Thu, May 24, 2018)
Napoleon Bonaparte Was Attacked by Bunnies -- And Lost (Tue, May 22, 2018)
California Was Named for a Fictional Island Ruled by a Black Amazon Queen (Thu, May 17, 2018)
Ancient Mayan Ritual Alcohol Enemas (Tue, May 15, 2018)
Vermont Was an Independent Republic (Thu, May 10, 2018)
The Capture of Guam Was Bloodless and Quick, All Due to a Misunderstanding (Tue, May 08, 2018)
Are all US Presidents actually related? (Thu, May 03, 2018)
What's the deal with two-dollar bills? (Tue, May 01, 2018)
How James Bond Created a Mexican Dia de los Muertos Tradition (Thu, Apr 26, 2018)
Did Richard Nixon Unwittingly Smuggle Drugs for Louis Armstrong? (Tue, Apr 24, 2018)
3 Times Society Refused to Accept New Books on Science (Thu, Apr 19, 2018)
That Time We Erased a (HUGE) Waterfall (Tue, Apr 17, 2018)
The Poetic Justice of Death by Molten Gold (Thu, Apr 12, 2018)
Japan, Baseball and the Curse of the Colonel (Tue, Apr 10, 2018)
That Time the US Built a Flying Aircraft Carrier (Thu, Apr 05, 2018)
Yes, Those Are Corpses in the Diorama (Tue, Apr 03, 2018)
Weird People Who Built Weird Things (Thu, Mar 29, 2018)
What was the West Point Eggnog Riot? (Tue, Mar 27, 2018)
Lyndon Johnson Chatted on the Phone More than a Teenager (Thu, Mar 22, 2018)
When Germany Sacrificed Sausage For War (Tue, Mar 20, 2018)
Arsenic: The Assassin's Dream Weapon (Thu, Mar 15, 2018)
The Killer Marketing Campaign Behind Guy Fawkes (Tue, Mar 13, 2018)
When Ancient India Beat Machiavelli to the Punch (Thu, Mar 08, 2018)
The Rise of Harvey Wiley's Poison Squad (Tue, Mar 06, 2018)
Step Aside, James Bond: The Strange Stories of Espionage Animals (Thu, Mar 01, 2018)
How MLK influenced Star Trek (Tue, Feb 27, 2018)
What was the 'Great Stink' of London? (Thu, Feb 22, 2018)
How Farmers Built A Barbed Wire Phone Network (Wed, Feb 21, 2018)
The Strange Story of Canadian Margarine Bootleggers (Thu, Feb 15, 2018)
When People Waged War Over Eggs (Tue, Feb 13, 2018)
The Wild West Was Actually Pretty Chill (Thu, Feb 08, 2018)
How A Grudge Match Launched the Ford GT40 (Tue, Feb 06, 2018)
Vitamin Donuts Were A Real Thing (Thu, Feb 01, 2018)
The Rotten, Sausagey Secret Origin of Botox (Tue, Jan 30, 2018)
The Weird World of Meat Jell-O (Gelatin Origin Story) (Thu, Jan 25, 2018)
London Made a Train for the Dead (Tue, Jan 23, 2018)
Roald Dahl: Children's Author and Secret Agent (Thu, Jan 18, 2018)
When did ALL-CAPS type become YELLING? (Tue, Jan 16, 2018)
Why does the Guinness Beer Company Track World Records? (Thu, Jan 11, 2018)
Digging Up James K Polk (For the Third Time) (Tue, Jan 09, 2018)
Presidents Love Their Ridiculous Pets (Thu, Jan 04, 2018)
The Atomic Whoops: When the US Air Force Bombed South Carolina (Tue, Jan 02, 2018)
Waging War With Hallucinogenic Honey (Thu, Dec 28, 2017)
Ben Franklin Tried To Reinvent the Alphabet (Tue, Dec 26, 2017)
The Strange History of Antarctic Fruitcake (Thu, Dec 21, 2017)
When the Puritans Canceled Christmas (Tue, Dec 19, 2017)
Baguettes and Vacation: France versus Bakers (Thu, Dec 14, 2017)
What's the deal with smashing cake at weddings? (Tue, Dec 12, 2017)
Conquest via Bird Poop: One Island at a Time (Thu, Dec 07, 2017)
When Scientists Hid Under Beds To Spy On Kids (Tue, Dec 05, 2017)
When People Thought They Were Made of Glass (Thu, Nov 30, 2017)
Nazis, Churchill and Chocolate (Tue, Nov 28, 2017)
When (and why) did the US start calling its citizens consumers? (Thu, Nov 23, 2017)
Does the US Confederacy still exist in Americana, Brazil? (Tue, Nov 21, 2017)
Did a real-life rainmaker almost drown San Diego? (Thu, Nov 16, 2017)
X-Rays, Songs and Soviets: The Stilyagi Story (Tue, Nov 14, 2017)
Who solves murders in Antarctica? (Thu, Nov 09, 2017)
How White America Tried to Destroy Chinese Restaurants (Tue, Nov 07, 2017)
Butter: Protestantism's Secret Ingredient? (Thu, Nov 02, 2017)
Wharram Percy Versus The Undead (Tue, Oct 31, 2017)
Why do British lawyers wear wigs? (Tue, Oct 24, 2017)
The Wild Hippos of Pablo Escobar (Tue, Oct 24, 2017)
Ridiculous History: Episode Zero (Fri, Oct 20, 2017)
Ridiculous History: Trailer (Wed, Oct 18, 2017)