Tig Notaro: How a Cancer Diagnosis Made Comedy History
Four days after being diagnosed with cancer in both breasts, a deadpan comedian walked onto the stage at Largo in Los Angeles and opened with the line, "Good evening, hello, I have cancer, how are you...
23 Jun 20min
U2: 50 Years of Reinvention, Egos, and Survival
When U2 pushed a free album onto 500 million iPhones, the reaction wasn't gratitude, it was outrage, with one critic calling it "rock and roll as dystopian junk mail." How does the most intimately con...
23 Jun 22min
Vercingetorix: The Gaul Who Nearly Beat Julius Caesar
He united dozens of warring tribes, built a grassroots army from scratch, and forced Rome's greatest military genius to bleed for every inch of Gaul, yet history forgot his actual name. We only have a...
23 Jun 21min
Walter Reuther: The Man Who Built the Middle Class
In 1948, a shotgun blast ripped through a Detroit kitchen window and shattered a labor leader's arm into 150 pieces. Bleeding out on the floor, he didn't panic, he screamed curses at his attackers, ca...
23 Jun 25min
Weird Al: How an Accordion Nerd Outlasted Every Pop Star
In 1979, an architecture student stood in a college restroom with an accordion, recording a parody of "My Sharona" about lunch meat because the tiled room had perfect echo. That bizarre bathroom tape ...
23 Jun 20min
Tony Blair: The Turnaround CEO of British Politics
A 19-year-old Oxford student who modeled himself on Mick Jagger, played guitar in a band called Ugly Rumours, and worked as a rock promoter somehow became the youngest British prime minister of the 20...
23 Jun 20min
Huey Long: The Kingfish and America's Brush with Dictatorship
He once passed 44 laws in two hours, built the tallest state capitol in the country, punched a sitting governor, and promised to make every man a king, before dying in a hallway shootout involving rou...
23 Jun 21min
Jack Paar: The Host Who Walked Off Live TV and Won
On February 11, 1960, the king of late-night television looked into the camera, announced he was leaving, and walked off mid-broadcast, abandoning the most profitable show on TV over a censored joke a...
23 Jun 20min
