Cy Young: 511 Wins, 316 Losses and Superhuman Endurance
His 511 career wins sit 94 ahead of second place, a record that would require winning 25 games a year for 20 straight years to break. But the stat left off his Hall of Fame plaque is just as staggerin...
23 Juni 19min
Ian Fleming: The Failed Underachiever Who Created James Bond
You'd expect the architect of the world's most glamorous secret agent to be a suave, disciplined mastermind with a master plan. The reality shatters that expectation completely: Ian Fleming was an aim...
23 Juni 21min
Phil Hartman: The Glue That Held Comedy Together
He was universally beloved, described as a decidedly regular guy, the load-bearing pillar holding entire comedy shows together. So how did the nicest man in Hollywood become the victim of one of show ...
23 Juni 19min
Jimmy Fallon: The Golden Retriever of Late Night TV
He's the king of unabashed celebration, the boyishly joyful face of late night television playing party games with movie stars. But behind that golden retriever energy lies a path paved with dark ulti...
23 Juni 21min
Dan Aykroyd: Blues, Ghosts and a Beautiful Mind
A college dropout who ran an illegal speakeasy became an Oscar-nominated actor, an Emmy-winning writer, a real reserve police deputy, a vodka mogul, and an official Hollywood UFO consultant who genuin...
23 Juni 21min
Donizetti: From Pawnshop Poverty to Opera's Tragic Fall
Picture the king of Italian opera at his dazzling peak, flowers raining onto the stage. Now picture him just a few years later, paralyzed in a Parisian asylum as friends sing his greatest hits directl...
23 Juni 23min
Carl Reiner: The Genius Who Chose the Sidelines
Seven decades of American comedy were fundamentally altered by a broken sewing machine and a severe case of pneumonia. It sounds like an elaborate joke, but it's historical fact, the unlikely chain of...
23 Juni 19min
Theodoric the Great: The Ostrogoth Who Kept Rome Alive
In this episode of pplpod, we explore the life of Theodoric the Great, the Ostrogothic king who rose from royal hostage to conqueror of Italy and one of the most complicated rulers of late antiquity. ...
23 Juni 22min
