Wikireadia: The Podcast that reads Wikipedia.

Agent 355 was -- possibly -- a spy for George Washington et. al. during the American Revolutionary War. Notably, she was a she. The original Wikipedia entry lives at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age...

15 Aug 20217min

This episode, from Wikipedia: QAnon is a disproven far-right conspiracy theory alleging that a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles operate a global child sex trafficking ring and conspired agai...

10 Aug 20211h 32min

In 1948, political novelist George Orwell released his archetypal dystopian, surveillance-state, oppressed-public romance novel: Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (a.k.a., 1984). In doing so, he freaked o...

2 Aug 20211h 8min

Meet Richard Prince, the NY artist who used appropriation of other artists' works to create his own art, most famously by reusing images of the Marlboro Man advertising campaign, and covers from pulp ...

25 Juli 202126min

Detroit Tigers cap, mustache, male short-shorts in a red Ferrari? That's Magnum, sir. The original Wikipedia page lives at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum,_P.I. From ChatGPT: Magnum P.I. is an A...

23 Mars 202133min

In 1968, Paul and Anne Ehrlich published their best-selling book The Population Bomb. In it, they predicted that as the world population outpaced food production, widespread famine would bedevil the f...

19 Mars 202125min

A clear day over the Grand Canyon and two commercial airliners run right into each other. 128 perish, no survivors. The original entry lives at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Grand_Canyon_mid-ai...

18 Mars 202126min

Keep going south until you can go south no more and you wind up at McMurdo Station, a scientific outpost in the Antarctic. The original Wikipedia page lives at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_...

15 Mars 202118min