286 - Elizabeth Holmes and the Edison Machine (with Naomi Higgins)
Forbes named Elizabeth Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America in 2015, but all was not as it seemed. Join us as special guest Naomi Higgins takes us through this wi...
14 Apr 20212h 13min
285 - The Kentucky Meat Shower and other Strange But True Stories
On 3 March 1876, large chunks of meat rained down from the sky over Olympia Springs in Bath County, Kentucky, but what was this mystery meat? Tune in to hear this and many other STRANGE but TRUE stori...
7 Apr 20211h 19min
284 - McDonalds Monopoly Heist
Who doesn't love a heist story? This one has undercover operations, tapped phones... and Ronald McDonald.Matt’s New Interview Show: ‘Matt Your Heroes’: https://youtu.be/VVsVGkzVNZQ Support the show an...
31 Mar 20211h 9min
283 - The Maze Prison Escape (with Nick Mason)
In the 1980s, The Maze Prison in Northern Ireland was considered to be the more secure prison in Europe. A prison, within a prison inside an army base, it was considered to be 'escape proof'. Imprison...
24 Mar 20211h 57min
282 - P.T. Barnum ; "The Greatest Showman"
Surely a man depicted by Hugh Jackman was a great guy .... right? Well, that's a little questionable. But you still have to admit that P.T. Barnum fit a lot into a lifetime, and made a lot of money al...
17 Mar 20212h 11min
281 - George Mallory and The 1924 Mount Everest Expedition
We all know that Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first to summit Mount Everest... Or were they? In 1924, thirty years earlier George Mallory and Andrew Irvine were seen close to the summit ...
10 Mar 20212h 1min
280 - World War One (part two)
We continue on from last week's episode about World War One (part one), with World War One (part two)!Get tickets to our live shows this March/April:Prime Mates: https://www.trybooking.com/BPEUIBook C...
3 Mar 20212h 9min
279 - World War One (part one)
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (episode 276) kicked off one of the deadliest wars of all time, this episode is about World War One (aka the Great War aka the War To End All Wars).Buy ti...
24 Feb 20211h 48min
