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519 - The 1996 Mount Everest Disaster
We're kicking of Block 2025 with a disaster episode. Specifcally, one of the worst Mount Everest seasons ever.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the …
9 months ago
518 - The Dewey Decimal System
This week, Josh Earl tells us the wild and troubling story of Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System.
This is a comedy/history podcas…
9 months, 1 week ago
517 - The History of Frankenstein
This week we look at the tragic and fascinating life of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley and explore how the novel she started writing as an 18 year …
9 months, 2 weeks ago
516 - Spring-Heeled Jack
In 19th Century London, a bizarre figure terrorised the streets, lashing out with metal claws and blowing fire in people's faces before leaping over …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
515 - The Tenerife Airport Disaster
“Tenerife is an example of the 'Swiss Cheese' Model: dozens of individual events, each of them incredibly unlikely in their own right, aligning again…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
514 - Harvey's Wagon Wheel Resort and Casino Bombing
Early in the morning of the 26th of August 1980, employees at Harvey's Wagon Wheel Resort and Casino discovered a mysterious metallic box. With the m…
10 months ago
513 - The Dismissal, Australia's 1975 Constitutional Crisis
In 1975, for the first and only time in Australia's history, a Prime Minister was sacked. Gough Whitlam was dismissed after months of political manoe…
10 months, 1 week ago
512 - The Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
In 1926, Aimee Semple McPherson was one of the most famous women in America. She was an evangelist and healer who attracted huge crowds, and her popu…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
511 - The Alien Franchise
This week our friend Marcel Blanch-de Wilt drops by to tell us about the history of the Alien Franchise all the way from humble beginnings to a multi…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
510 - The Pez Bandit
This is a special episode - it was recorded live in London in November 2024, in front of our largest audience EVER. The crowd were red hot, and we to…
11 months ago