491 - Rube Waddell: Baseball's Zaniest Pitcher

This week’s episode is about one of the most polarising bands of all time, The Shaggs! They've been described as both the best and the worst band of all time and have had many big name fans over the y...

3 Mai 20231h 46min

This week Dave takes us on a whistle stop tour through some of history's wildest, weirdest and wackiest Popes, all on the way to talking about a man who was possibly the wildest of them all... Pope Be...

26 Apr 20231h 39min

In the early 90's, having just graduated from College, Chris McCandless packed a bag and took off on a roadtrip. He spent the next couple of years travelling, and his story has become something of a m...

19 Apr 20231h 28min

On the 26th of May, 1971 Qantas received a phone call, there was a bomb on flight 755 from Sydney to London, if the plane dropped below 20,000 feet it would go off. Tune in to hear the story!This is a...

12 Apr 20231h 41min

In 1925, the town of Nome in rural Alaska found itself facing a potentially catastrophic outbreak of diphtheria. Almost completely cut off from the rest of the world by the harsh Winter, the only way ...

5 Apr 20232h 8min

It's a heist episode, and it's the best kind of heist - a bunch of old men, out for one last job. This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 00:03:56 (though as always, we go...

29 Mar 20231h 34min

We're joined by KFC enthusiast Bec Petraitis to tell us about the wild early life of Colonel Sanders - there's gun fights and so many career changes, it's a wild ride.This is a comedy/history podcast,...

22 Mar 20232h 34min

On the evening of January 17, 1950, employees of the Brink's Company in Boston, Massachusetts, were surprised by 5-7 masked men. Within minutes, they’d stolen more than $2.7 million in cash, checks an...

15 Mar 20231h 59min