#138 - Hitler’s Early Years
Super Buzzkiller Prof Philip Nash joins us to examine some of the zillion myths surrounding Adolf Hitler and his early years. We discuss the myth of his brutal childhood and youthful poverty, the comp...
13 Sep 20161h 6min
#137 - Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel
Everybody knows that Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, but how did he do it? Did he really paint the entire ceiling from atop a scaffold while reclining on his back? Well, not really. In some c...
6 Sep 20165min
#136 -Mini-Myth: Ring Around the Rosie
“Ring Around the Rosie” has been a popular nursery rhyme for a very long time. Many of us learned it when we were children. But we often hear people claim that the rhyme is traceable to the time of th...
1 Sep 20164min
#135 - Bridge on the River Kwai
In the Academy Award-winning film, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Colonel Nicholson is portrayed as a man who willingly betrays his country and his men for an easier ride as prisoner of war. He collabo...
30 Aug 20164min
#134 - Mini-Myth: JFK Hatless at Inauguration
The silk top hat was common headwear in high society from the middle of the 18th century all the way to at least the beginning of the 20th. By the middle of the 20th century, however, the top hat was ...
25 Aug 20163min
#133 - Stonehenge
Who built the ancient monument, Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain in England. Merlin and King Arthur? The Devil? The Druids? And what was it used for? Religious rituals? As a solar or seasonal calendar? ...
23 Aug 20168min
#132 - Mini-Myth: African-American Athletes at the 1936 Olympics
Like most Americans, I suppose I assumed that Jesse Owens was the only African-American athlete at the 1936 Olympic Games. A new documentary, Olympic Pride, American Prejudice not only shows that ther...
18 Aug 20164min
#131 - The Olympics
The idea that the “original” Olympics in ancient Greece (which ran from 776 BC to AD 393) were only open to amateurs, void of cheating and corruption, free from commercialism, and a time of peace acro...
16 Aug 20169min
