Killer Means Awesome

As an expert draftsman, inventor, and scientist, Lewis Howard Latimer helped Alexander Graham Bell patent the telephone and became Thomas Edison’s most trusted partner. Credited with inventing carbon ...

17 Okt 202355min

Get out of the way, it’s Fighting Shirley Chisholm coming through! Chisholm was ‘unbought and unbossed’ — from childhood poverty and time split between Barbados and Brooklyn to a pioneering career in...

29 Sep 202359min

The original work hard, play hard executive, Cleopatra is known for high profile liaisons with Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. Ruling over a vast Egyptian empire for more than two decades...

11 Sep 202358min

Before there was Alexander the Great, there was Cyrus the Great. Through military conquests, strategic alliances, and centralized administration, he established the first Persian empire stretching fro...

25 Aug 202357min

Fasten your seatbelts for the incredible story of Arthur Whitten Brown and John Alcock, two young aviators who attempted the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic ocean in 1919, eight years before...

11 Aug 20231h 10min

He lived on the street, heckled Plato, and loved dogs. Today Diogenes is considered one of the preeminent philosophers of Ancient Greece. Killer Biographies is now season two of the Killer Means Awes...

28 Jul 202350min

Margaret Rudkin was worried about her son’s asthma. In an effort to help him, she wound up starting one of the most iconic brands in the world and a company which today generates billions in annual sa...

26 Jun 202346min

Deities! Snakes! Hidden vaults of ancient treasure! In the last years of his life, the Indian lawyer and holy man T.P. Sundararajan took up a new cause - finding out just what was stored in the mys...

18 Jun 202348min