142: Year Without a Summer
This week we learn how in 1816, the catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia shifted the world's temperature and atmosphere, causing crop failures and major food shortages. A listener email...
4 Nov 56min
141: History of Universal Monsters
On this very special Halloween episode, we learn how nepo baby Carl Laemmle Jr. gave birth to the Universal Monster Universe and how themes of sexuality and political persecution have kept these chara...
28 Okt 1h 16min
140: Black Angels of Staten Island
This week we are joined by no guest at all, just the normal, regular co-host named Kaveh who adds his medical expertise to Hannah’s tab about the Black Angels, the 300 black nurses who made history by...
21 Okt 1h 10min
139: Oops! All Listener Emails
This week we learn dedicate the entire episode to all the emails that listeners have sent in including a live reading of a pig butchering text exchange, bile cow liver antibiotics, and an extended dis...
14 Okt 1h 3min
138: Green-Wood Cemetery
This week we learn how a corpse fluids seeping into NYC drinking water led to the creation of one of America’s first rural cemeteries. A listener email explains how the euthanizing of a squirrel becam...
7 Okt 55min
137: The Toronto Circus Riot
This week we learn how a brawl between a Canadian firefighting fraternal organization connected to the Orange Order and visiting American circus clowns led to the complete restructuring of the entire ...
30 Sep 1h 7min
136: China's Pirate Queen Zheng Yi Sao
This week we learn how Shi Yang formed the Red Flag Fleet by uniting thousands of pirates and wreaked havoc over the South China Sea. A listener voice memo describes the most insane KFC comic of all t...
23 Sep 1h
135: Underwater Lakes
This week we learn about ancient salt deposits at the bottom of the ocean lead to the insane phenomenon of what scientists refer to as "Hot Tubs of Despair." A listener email explains how the Church u...
16 Sep 56min
