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A Humorous History of Genetics
What makes you... well, you? It's a question humanity has wrestled with since the dawn of recorded history all the way to the modern day. In today's …
3 years, 8 months ago
Tsutomu Yamaguchi: The World's Only (Recognized) Double Atomic Bomb Victim
On August 6th, 1945, Mitsubishi engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi was finally heading home from a three month assignment in Hiroshima... until the United St…
3 years, 8 months ago
Gods of Deception, Part II: Art, History, Fiction and War
As Ben and Noel continue their conversation with novelist and art historian David Adams Cleveland, the group finds themselves going far beyond the wo…
3 years, 8 months ago
Gods of Deception, Part I: Alger Hiss in the Halls of Power
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Alger Hiss was a mover and shaker in the political sphere. Highly educated and deeply connected, Hiss worked as a law…
3 years, 8 months ago
Operation LAC: That Time Uncle Sam Sprayed Poison Across St. Louis
As the US government became increasingly concerned about the possibility of large-scale biological weapons, they decided something must be done: they…
3 years, 9 months ago
CLASSIC - Does the US Confederacy Still Exist in Americana, Brazil?
The guys took a day off to celebrate the 4th of July -- and what better time to share a classic episode about another (very strange) form of patrioti…
3 years, 9 months ago
Millerism, Part II: The Great Disappointment (and the Aftermath)
As the alleged End of the World drew ever closer, William Miller and the Millerism movement became a pop culture phenomenon. Thousands of people quit…
3 years, 9 months ago
CLASSIC - Did a Real-Life Rainmaker Almost Drown San Diego?
In today's episode we are revisiting a classic. Charles Mallory Hatfield considered himself a real-life rainmaker (or, as he preferred to describe hi…
3 years, 9 months ago
Millerism: America’s First End Times Gospel
You might not have heard of William Miller, but in his time he was a pretty big deal. In the first part of this two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max di…
3 years, 9 months ago
Ben Franklin Faked a Rival's Death to Promote His Almanac
Benjamin Franklin was many things: an inventor, a Founding Father, a publisher... and, it turns out, a massive troll. In today's episode, Ben, Noel a…
3 years, 9 months ago