Victorians Got Super Weird With Flirting, Part Two: Courtship and Calling Cards
Cast your mind back to the Victorian Era, when countless singles and would-be paramours struggled to circumvent strict social mores in the search for true love. In the second part of this two-part ser...
6 Helmi 202537min
Victorians Got Super Weird With Flirting, Part One: "Fan Fiction"
The Victorian Era was, on the surface, a time of almost cartoonish sexual repression. Courtship was governed by rigid sets of rules and heirarchy, and even meeting a prospective partner outside of the...
4 Helmi 202541min
Why did people hate the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?
Nowadays most people are fans of national parks, but this wasn't always the case. Join the guys as they delve into the strange "birds vs. babies" conflict over Lake Malheur.See omnystudio.com/listener...
1 Helmi 202531min
First Ladies Who Weren't Wives, Part One: The Niece Will Have To Do
For more than two hundred years, the American public has elected not just a president, but a family. While the position of First Lady of the United States is not outlined in the Constitution, you lite...
30 Tammi 202540min
Some of History's Funniest Honorifics, Part One: The Babymaker, the Debauchee, and More
Honorifics are perhaps best described as the fancier version of nicknames, with some of the same familiar rules: just like nicknames, you don't get to give yourself an honorific. And, again, just like...
28 Tammi 202539min
IP, Part Two: The Baffling World of Trademarks
What does it mean to own an idea, a brand, a catchphrase or a concept? In part two of their continuing exploration of the weird world of intellectual property, the guys suss out what exactly is (or is...
23 Tammi 202549min
A Ton of Inventors Died Due To Their Own Inventions, Chapter Two: Li Si and the Five Pains
The world is riddled with inventors whose discoveries led to their demise. Thomas Midgley, Jr. is the world's worst inventor. Marie Curie discovered radioactivity and it killed her. Li Si invented the...
22 Tammi 202536min
CLASSIC: The 1904 Racist Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis
A few years after Baron Pierre de Coubertin revived the ancient sporting event known as the Olympics, he brought the games to the U.S. for the first time. The 1904 Summer Olympics were held in St. Lou...
18 Tammi 202533min
