Episode #171- Who Was The African Samurai? (Part I)
Near the end of Japan's "Warring States" period a remarkable visitor arrived in the country with a group of European Jesuit missionaries. He was a soldier originally from East Africa acting as a bodyg...
24 Jan 20231h 8min
Episode #170- Who Knows Houdini? (Part III)
Houdini had a truly impressive run as an entertainer. In the decade between 1904 and 1913 he developed a number of escapes and illusions that are still considered the gold-standard for stage magicians...
11 Jan 20231h 24min
Episode #169- Who Knows Houdini? (Part II)
Over the course of 1899 Harry Houdini went from being an obscure circus performer to being one of the best known entertainers in America. He became known as the "Handcuff King" and made headlines chal...
28 Dec 20221h 5min
Episode #168- Who Knows Houdini? (Part I)
The word "iconic" gets thrown around pretty loosely these days, but there are some figures who truly earn the descriptor. Micheal Jordan and Mohammed Ali are icons because they truly transcended their...
14 Dec 20221h 8min
Episode #167- Who Was The Fake Asian?
In 1703 a curious character arrived in London claiming to be a native of the island of Formosa. These days Formosa is better known as Taiwan, but in early 18th century it was a place barely understood...
30 Nov 20221h 14min
Episode #166- Who Was Liver Eating Johnson? (ft. Daniele Bolelli)
Some of the most legendary figures to emerge from the history of the American West were the rough-and-ready "mountain men". But, the most legendary mountain man of all had to be the cannibal, Liver Ea...
16 Nov 20221h 10min
Episode #165- What Was The Galileo Affair? (Part III)
There is a story that as Galileo stood in front of the Inquisition and listened as they declared that the Earth did not revolve around the Sun, he whispered under his breath "and yet, it moves". This ...
1 Nov 20221h 37min
Episode #164- What Was The Galileo Affair? (Part II)
Galileo is often credited with inventing the telescope, but he never made that claim. He simply whipped up his own take on the device and sold it to the Republic of Venice before his Dutch competitors...
18 Okt 202258min
