This Is A Disaster

Leigh's favorite band has had their ups and downs.  Aleister Crowley, the occult, magik, summoning bandmates using the dark arts, and a bassist's unannounced flight to Iceland in anticipation of the n...

3 Dec 201929min

Our special guest Craig Baird from Canadian History Ehx takes us to World War 1 Halifax, and the largest accidental man-made explosion in history.  Canadian listeners have definitely seen the Heritage...

27 Nov 201939min

If you're looking to get away... from everything... consider taking a job as a wickie in a lighthouse.  Come with us on a journey back to the Great Lighthouse on Pharos near ancient Alexandria, throug...

19 Nov 201921min

Early English attempts at colonizing the Americas went real well.  Take a journey back to the lost colony of Roanoke, as would-be settlers are greeted with shipwrecks, disease, starvation, and arrows....

13 Nov 20191h 9min

In 1977, Dave Sim created a new kind of comic book anti-hero: a three-foot-tall, bipedal, anthropomorphic aardvark.  Over the course of 300 issues and thirty years, this hero would travel to the moon,...

5 Nov 201945min

Templar curses, corpse-eating pigs, and waking up to a house full of death.  We rejoin our Genoese heroes as they flee Caffa for the safety of home... coughing blood all the way.  Their twelve galleys...

30 Okt 20191h 27min

The path to any great success is paved in failure... it's about what you do in the face of that failure.  In the 1960s, NASA was pushing to win the race to the moon.  Their efforts were nearly deraile...

22 Okt 201930min

Every story starts somewhere.  In the case of the Black Death it starts with Mongol hordes, smug Italians, diseased rodents, and the misery of 14th century Europe.  All of that before we even get to t...

16 Okt 201956min