226 - Shaka Zulu
Shaka Zulu! I'm guessing you've heard the name. Also guessing you know very little about his story. Most don't seem too. Which is a shame because it's such a great story! Shaka took the small Zulu tri...
11 Jan 20212h 22min
225 - Navajo Code Talkers
Can you imagine fighting a war for a country that had removed you from the land your ancestors lived on for centuries - a country actively trying to erase your language and culture? That’s exactly wha...
4 Jan 20212h 13min
224 - Viktor Frankl/2020 Year End Recap
Viktor Frankl and his logotherapy. This is the topic we examine this week to carry on the Timesuck tradition of ending the year on a little inspirational note. Frankl had everything taken from him - h...
28 Des 20202h 17min
223 - The Craigslist Killer
Phillip Markoff. AKA, the Craigslist Killer. On the surface, Markoff seemed like a normal guy. A guy on the path to a lot of success. He was a six-foot-three, athletic-framed, blonde hair and blue-eye...
20 Des 20202h 19min
222 - General Butt Naked
General Butt Naked aka Joshua Blahyi is a complicated figure. He is now a Liberian Christian missionary helping victims or Liberia's first civil war rebuild their lives. In the early 90s, he was one o...
14 Des 20202h 27min
221 - The Dark Ages
The Dark Ages. We attempt to suck a MASSIVE topic today. A thousand year's worth of European history. And actually, since we compare life in the Dark Ages to life in the Roman Empire, we end up coveri...
7 Des 20202h 27min
220 - The Truck Stop Killer: Robert Ben Rhoades
Robert Ben Rhoades, born in 1945, started driving big rigs across America’s interstates and major highways in the mid-1970s, and he seemed to most like an unassuming and harmless trucker for the next ...
30 Nov 20201h 54min
219 - Annie Oakley
At the height of her career, sharpshootin' Annie Oakley the talented sharpshooter was the most famous woman in America, if not the world - dazzling audiences and setting records as she fired at clay p...
23 Nov 20202h 17min
