81: November Rain Trilogy pt 2 and John Murray Spear pt 1
This week, we continue the saga behind the making of Guns N’ Roses’ November Rain music video and dive into the bizarre tale of John Murray Spear, a 19th‑century activist‑turned‑spiritualist who claim...
6 Aug 20251h 50min
80: Night Watchmen Theory and November Rain Trilogy pt 1
This week we deep dive into how ADHD is a holdover from hunter-gatherer societies and how a short story written by a friend inspired Guns N' Roses to create the most ambitious music video trilogy ever...
30 Juli 20251h 53min
79: Choctaw Irish Friendship and Pigeons
This week we deep dive into the historic bond between the Choctaw Nation with Ireland and how pigeons were domesticated, leading to some absolutely bonkers looking breeds. A listener email tells the s...
23 Juli 20251h 33min
78: The Carrington Event and The First Renaissance Faire
This week we deep dive into the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history that happened in 1959 and how the Red Scare of the 1950s directly led to the founding of the now iconic Renaissance P...
16 Juli 20251h 41min
77: KUMITA3!! (500 Open Stabs Round 3)
The ancient tournament of Kumitab returns as we pit some of our craziest subjects against one another including Rube Waddell, an Aswang, and Pepsi bottle cosplay Nixon.Email your closed tab submission...
9 Juli 20251h 5min
76: Listener Email Extravaganza!
Many of you have sent Listener Email submissions that were on the longer side, so we dedicated an entire episode for them to aerate like a fine wine! Amongst many things, we learn about the notorious ...
2 Juli 20251h 9min
75: The Joker as Iranian Ambassador and Dora Richter
This week we deep dive into the oft overlooked subplot of Batman's 1988 storyline "A Death in the Family" in which the Joker is recruited by the Ayatollah Khomeini himself to Iran's ambassador to the ...
25 Juni 20251h 30min
