89: Manzanar Baseball Project and The Midnight Cave Experiment
This week we deep dive into activist Dan Kwong's efforts to restore a baseball field at a former California internment camp and about researchers who lived in subterranean caves for months at a time w...
1 Loka 20251h 33min
88: Self-Experimenting Medical Researchers and Sybil Ludington
This week we deep dive into the absolutely disgusting history of medical researchers who experimented on themselves and the story of teenager Sybil Ludington, the unfortunately nicknamed "female Paul ...
24 Syys 20251h 16min
87: Sushi Row pt 2 and Historical Laxatives
This week we conclude the story of Sushi Row with how Koda Farms' development of their proprietary Kokuho Rose rice allowed Kawafuku to become the first Sushi bar in Los Angeles and how historical cur...
17 Syys 20251h 25min
86: Time Colonization and Sushi Row pt 1
This week we deep dive into how Monochronic culture forced its will on the Polychronic world and how Ventura Blvd in Los Angeles earned the moniker of Sushi Row by housing the greatest concentration o...
10 Syys 20251h 36min
85: History of Lawns and The 1903 Oregon Train Robbery
This week we deep dive into how a newly founded America's insecurity about their status in the world led to their obsession with front lawns (and 9/11?) and the story of Portland's most polite train r...
3 Syys 20251h 28min
84: Three-Point Hitch and Global Thai Program
This week we deep dive into how an obsessive Irish mechanic changed the world of tractors after a handshake deal with Henry Ford and how in the early 2000s, the Thai government embarked on a mission o...
27 Elo 20251h 31min
83: Ken Allen and Medieval Russian Kid Art
This week we deep dive into the life of Orangutan Ken Allen, the San Diego Zoo's most infamous escape artist and how the drawings of young boy named Onfim gave art historians insight into what life wa...
20 Elo 20251h 23min
82: John Murray Spear pt 2 and November Rain Trilogy pt 3
This week, we conclude the sagas of John Murray Spear, a 19th‑century activist‑turned‑spiritualist who claimed the ghost of Benjamin Franklin ordered him to build a “Mechanical Messiah” to usher in a ...
13 Elo 20251h 43min
