Podcast Episodes

Re-Release: Cut it out, do literally anything else - Climbing Mt. Everest

Imagine you have a lot of money and months of free time, so you decide to climb the highest mountain we've got. That's good for you, but if you die t…

6 months, 1 week ago

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Re-Release: Paradise Lost - The Salton Sea

Remember the 1950s? We don't either, and it wasn't like, ideal for women and minorities... but there WAS this idea of a place you could go to get awa…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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Re-Release: Lost in Time - The burying of Pompeii from the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius

Let's go back to our Volcano Series for Natural Disaster Week! Today, we'll tell the story of how Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried when Mt. Vesuvi…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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Can you recommend a Natural Disaster podcast?

🌋 Volcanoes

Ep 38: Volcanoes Pt 1 - Mt. Toba's Echo: Journey into Earth's Cataclysmic Past

A prehistoric eruption so massive it may have nearly wiped o…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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Ep 219: A wild way to dispose of a body - The Murder of Helle Crafts

Episode 219

We've said it before, and we'll say it again - divorce is an option. It's not great, people will be sad, kids will be traumatized, but it's WORSE to …

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Can you recommend a Book podcast?

Episodes:

Ep 7 - Part 1: Dorian Gray-t Expectations - Oscar Wilde's wild rideOscar Wilde’s wit, scandal, and downfall - the wild ride of one of litera…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Ep 218: Mystery Deaths at the Bicentennial - Legionnaires' Disease

Episode 218

It's 1976 - thousands of US Veterans in the American Foreign Legion meet up in Philly for a few days of meetings and camaraderie (and we assume not t…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

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Can you recommend an Animal podcast?

Ep. 47: Doomed to fail species? The story of the passenger pigeon

Once the most abundant bird in North America, they darkened the skies in flocks of m…

7 months ago

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Ep 217: James and the Giant Bitcoin - James Howells

Episode 217

What would you do if you accidentally threw away a fortune? In this episode, we dig into the story of James Howells — the IT worker who tossed out a …

7 months ago

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Can you recommend an Ancient History podcast?

Ep 2 - Part 2: Nero: The Fiddling Tyrant

Rome’s most infamous emperor, accused of burning his own city and fiddling while it fell into chaos.

Ep 12 - P…

7 months, 1 week ago

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