Caesar Part 4: In Which We Discuss All Things Tangentially Related
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start out by discussing the fascinating story about how the statue of Shakespeare in Central Park, New York, got there, what John Wilkes Booth’s Brother did ...
23 Tammi 53min
The Incredible Story of U-47 and “The Bull of Scapa Flow”
Scapa Flow lies barely seven degrees below the Arctic Circle, in the cold, windswept Orkney Islands at the northern tip of Scotland. Measuring 10 kilometres wide by 8 kilometres long with an average d...
22 Tammi 19min
The Nazi Kamikaze Squadron
On the first of April, 1945, a combined American and British Empire fleet appeared off Okinawa, the southernmost of the Japanese Home Islands. Operation Iceberg, the final naval battle of the Second W...
21 Tammi 30min
The 1990s were Weird
Anybody reading remember the film Jingle All The Way, you know the one where Arnold Schwarzenegger body checks his way through a crowd of harried single mums, is an accessory to a bomb threat and phys...
20 Tammi 22min
Caesar Part 3: The Real Story of the Ides of March
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start out by discussing in more detail the events surrounding Caesar’s momentous decision to cross the Rubicon, then jump into the real story of what happene...
19 Tammi 1h 15min
Caesar Part 2: Julius Caesar’s Pirate Adventure and the Long Lost Location of the Rubicon
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start out by discussing how a teenage Julius Caesar became the head of his rather prominent family. We then move on to his little month-long or so pirate adv...
16 Tammi 35min
Who Started the Lizard People Conspiracy Theory?
People have been referencing sentient reptilian entities, sometimes humanoid, sometimes not, going back to some of the earliest written works and legends known to man. In more modern times, accordin...
15 Tammi 25min
Who Started the Flat Earth Conspiracy Theory, How Many Believe This, and What Do They Believe?
Contrary to popular belief, a decent percentage of the human population has known definitely the Earth was roughly spherical for over two thousand years. Hardly impressive, as noted in our BrainFood S...
14 Tammi 26min
