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Shame and Fish: The Embarrassing and Tragic Story of François Vatel
In this episode, Ben and Noel dive into the story of François Vatel, a majordomo who was tasked with organizing an extravagant royal banquet in 1671.…
6 years, 10 months ago
Creature Feature: Go Home Nature, You're Drunk
Join the guys as they make a return appearance on Creature Feature, the podcast that takes a critter’s eye view to explore how animal behavior parall…
6 years, 10 months ago
Hunting Fireflies for Fun (and Profit)
From the 1960s well into the 1990s, thousands of children in the United States were actually paid to hunt fireflies. Join the guys as they explore th…
6 years, 10 months ago
The Listener Mail Extravaganza
The guys often end the show by asking you and your fellow listeners for your own takes on everything from strange town names, crackpot military exper…
6 years, 10 months ago
That Time Ancient Monks Waged War Over A Copyright
The first modern copyright law was the Statute of St. Anne, passed in Great Britain in 1710. However, copyright disputes themselves are much older --…
6 years, 10 months ago
Ye Xian: The Story of China's Cinderella
We've all heard the story of Cinderella -- it's one of the world's most popular fairy tales! However, this story exists in multiple versions across t…
6 years, 10 months ago
The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis: How One Lucky Forger Almost Destroyed A Nation's Economy
Artur Virgilio Alves dos Reis had a gift. He wasn't the smartest kid growing up, nor was he the most athletic -- he was, however, one of Europe's mos…
6 years, 10 months ago
Cow Shoe Camouflage: How Prohibition-era Moonshiners Outsmarted the Feds
During the Prohibition Era, moonshiners and federal agents continually tried to outsmart one another — and one of the moonshiners’ most creative inve…
6 years, 11 months ago
Castle Itter: When Germans and Americans Joined Forces in World War II
With one notable exception, American and German forces were bitterly opposed to one another during World War II -- that exception? The Battle of Cast…
6 years, 11 months ago
A Grave Mistake: The Story of Patton's "Abandoned Rear"
When George S. Patton decided to found a tank training school in the tiny French village of Bourg, the mayor approached him in tears. "An American so…
6 years, 11 months ago