#63 - Mini-Myth: Halloween
Halloween is a demonic holiday chock full of sin and endangered by razor blades in trick or treat candy, right? Wrong. Nothing about the origins of Halloween can be called demonic, satanic, or anti-Ch...
29 Okt 201511min
#61 - Mini-Myth: Patrick Henry “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”
“Give me liberty or give me death,” Virginia patriot Patrick Henry was supposed to have said in a stirring speech before the American Revolution. We Buzzkill this quote and show that, like most “quote...
22 Okt 20154min
*Encore Episode* #32 - The Cultural Cold War
The Cold War was about more than nuclear missles and bomb shelters, Buzzkillers. Literature and art were weapons in the Cultural Cold War, according to Professor Greg Barnhisel. He overturns decades-o...
20 Okt 201528min
#60 - Mini-Myth: Magellan Didn’t Circumnavigate the Globe
He may have had a GPS system named after him, but Ferdinand Magellan wouldn’t have needed it during his trip around the globe back in the early 1500s. He only made it halfway, dying in the Phillipines...
15 Okt 20152min
#58 - Mini-Myth: Witches Burned at the Stake at Salem
Burn the witch! Burn the witch! It makes for a dramatic story, with about as final an ending as you can imagine. Suspected witches were nabbed, put on trial, convicted, and burned at the stake in the ...
8 Okt 20152min
#56 - Mini-Myth: Lee Offered His Sword to Grant
It’s a great “Gone with the Wind” romantic-type story. The defeated, but honorable, General Robert E. Lee offered his sword to the victor, U.S. Grant, during the Confederacy’s surrender at Appomattox ...
1 Okt 20152min
#55 - Mini-Myth: Walt Disney
24 Sep 20152min
#53 - Pre Dawn Raid: Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment
The Republican Primary this year will see a lot of havering between all the different candidates. They all will be breaking Ronald Reagan’s famous 11th Commandment, “Thou Shalt Not Speak ill of a Fell...
18 Sep 201511min
