Podcast Episodes

The Burke and Hare Murders

The Burke and Hare murders were a series of 16 killings committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were underta…

4 years, 4 months ago

John Dillinger

John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American gangster of the Great Depression. He led a group known as the "Dillinger Gang"…

4 years, 4 months ago

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817[a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist…

4 years, 4 months ago

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. It employs several narrative styles, including stream of consciousness. Pu…

4 years, 5 months ago

Homeopathy

Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific[1][2][3][4] system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel …

4 years, 5 months ago

Jim Bakker

James Orsen Bakker (/ˈbeɪkər/;[1] born January 2, 1940) is an American televangelist and convicted fraudster. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted th…

4 years, 5 months ago

The Black Sox Scandal

The Black Sox Scandal was a Major League Baseball game-fixing scandal in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of throwing the 19…

4 years, 5 months ago

Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. Rand's fourth and final novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus …

4 years, 6 months ago

Pablo Esco-Bear

Andrew Carter Thornton II (October 30, 1944 – September 11, 1985) was a former narcotics officer and lawyer who became the head member of "The Compan…

4 years, 6 months ago

Famous Historical Animals

This week, Cecil takes us through a series of some of history's most courageous, most loyal, and most memorable animals.

Our theme song was written a…

4 years, 6 months ago