Ridiculous History
Show • 890 episodesCLASSIC: A Dead Pope Goes To Court
May 3 • 27m
A Ridiculous History of Tupperware
Apr 24 • 45m
Paul Is Dead, Part Two: Welcome to the Walrus
Apr 17 • 45m
Paul Is Dead, Part One: The Beatles versus MI5
Apr 15 • 50m
We're Late for the April Fools' Episode
Apr 3 • 42m
The Ridiculous History of Vending Machines
Apr 1 • 1h 2m
A Ridiculous History of Processed Cheese
Mar 20 • 32m
CLASSIC: Oregon Was a White Supremacist Paradise
Mar 15 • 43m
Introducing: ScienceStuff
Mar 15 • 59s
Introducing: SNAFU Season 3: Formula 6
Mar 14 • 2m
CLASSIC: Weird Wars Fought For Dumb Reasons
Feb 20 • 44m
IP, Part Two: The Baffling World of Trademarks
Jan 23 • 49m
CLASSIC: Why don't Americans use bidets?
Jan 4 • 32m
The Story of Claudette Colvin, with Nimene Wureh
Dec 31, 2024 • 40m
CLASSIC: How did Fido become the default name for dogs?
Dec 28, 2024 • 39m
Big Parma
Dec 26, 2024 • 40m
Whatever Happened to Mac Tonight?
Dec 26, 2024 • 47m
The First Recorded Christmas Was The Latest Birthday Party Ever
Dec 24, 2024 • 36m
CLASSIC: Dock Ellis and the Legend of the LSD No-hitter
Dec 21, 2024 • 37m
Whoops! All Quizster, Part Two: A Ridiculous History of HowStuffWorks
Dec 19, 2024 • 42m
Whoops! All Quizster, Part One: The Gang Reunites
Dec 17, 2024 • 40m
CLASSIC: Maryland’s State Song was a Diss Track
Dec 14, 2024 • 39m
Neckties are Utterly Ridiculous
Dec 3, 2024 • 41m
CLASSIC: How Santa Anna Lost His Leg Twice, and Held a Funeral for It
Nov 30, 2024 • 42m
CLASSIC: That Time Chewbacca Needed Bodyguards
Nov 23, 2024 • 41m
How Emergency Call Lines Became A Thing
Nov 21, 2024 • 52m
Are the Vikings to Blame for Cats?
Nov 19, 2024 • 30m
CLASSIC: Napoleon Bonaparte Was Attacked by Bunnies -- And Lost
Nov 16, 2024 • 36m
The Most Ridiculous Weather of Baseball
Nov 14, 2024 • 41m
Bhutan Grades Itself On Happiness
Nov 12, 2024 • 45m
The World's Weirdest Sports, Part Two: Literal Murderball
Nov 7, 2024 • 42m
CLASSIC: Ancient Mayan Ritual Alcohol Enemas
Nov 2, 2024 • 50m
One Guy Was So Good At Violin That People Thought He Worshipped Satan
Oct 31, 2024 • 53m
Credit Scores are Absolutely Ridiculous
Oct 29, 2024 • 48m
CLASSIC: That Time Vermont Was an Independent Republic
Oct 26, 2024 • 44m
Spontaneous Generation, Part Two: "Broth Science"
Oct 24, 2024 • 35m
Spontaneous Generation, Part One: Mice and Grain
Oct 22, 2024 • 40m
Ridiculous Royal Deaths, Part 5: A Blind and Bloody Finale (For Now)
Oct 17, 2024 • 39m
Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart was Darn Near Unkillable
Oct 15, 2024 • 38m
CLASSIC: Are All US Presidents Actually Related?
Oct 12, 2024 • 32m
Post-Presidential Careers, Part Two: Adams, Taft, And More
Oct 10, 2024 • 42m
Post-Presidential Careers, Part One: Happy Birthday, Jimmy!
Oct 8, 2024 • 37m
CLASSIC: What's the deal with two-dollar bills?
Oct 5, 2024 • 58m
Mark Twain Was a Terrible Investor, Part One: The Legend of "Josh"
Oct 1, 2024 • 43m
CLASSIC: How James Bond Created a Mexican Dia de los Muertos Tradition
Sep 28, 2024 • 27m
What is Karaoke? Part Two: Going Global; Careful What You Sing
Sep 26, 2024 • 34m
What is Karaoke? Part One: An Origin Story
Sep 24, 2024 • 34m
The Nebraska Episode
Sep 19, 2024 • 31m
Occupy Alcatraz!
Sep 17, 2024 • 39m
CLASSIC: 3 Times Society Refused to Accept New Books on Science
Sep 14, 2024 • 51m
CLASSIC: That Time We Erased a (HUGE) Waterfall
Sep 7, 2024 • 29m
Patents Are Absolutely Bonkers: An Origin Story
Sep 5, 2024 • 48m
CLASSIC: The Poetic Justice of Death by Molten Gold
Aug 31, 2024 • 33m
You Auto-go to the Drive-in, Part Two: Driving In and Out of History
Aug 29, 2024 • 45m
You Auto-go to the Drive-in, Part One: Cars Meet Cinema
Aug 27, 2024 • 35m
CLASSIC: Japan, Baseball and the Curse of the Colonel
Aug 24, 2024 • 37m
The Disturbing History of Last Meals, Part Two: Famous Final Snacks
Aug 22, 2024 • 38m
The Disturbing History of Last Meals, Part One: A Creepy Origin Story
Aug 20, 2024 • 35m
CLASSIC: That Time the US Built a Flying Aircraft Carrier
Aug 17, 2024 • 33m
Introducing: Weird Little Guys
Aug 16, 2024 • 3m
CLASSIC: Yes, Those are Corpses in the Diorama
Aug 15, 2024 • 38m
CLASSIC: Weird People Who Built Weird Things
Aug 13, 2024 • 36m
CLASSIC: What was the West Point Eggnog Riot?
Aug 10, 2024 • 43m
The Noble -- and Kind of Ridiculous -- History of Butlers
Aug 8, 2024 • 37m
CLASSIC: Lyndon Johnson Chatted on the Phone More than a Teenager
Aug 6, 2024 • 28m
The Founding of the Smithsonian, Part One: The Remains of the James
Jul 30, 2024 • 30m
CLASSIC: Arsenic: The Assassin's Dream Weapon
Jul 27, 2024 • 38m
The Orphan Train: That Time the US Auctioned Children Via Rail
Jul 25, 2024 • 43m
20 Questions: A Ridiculous Crossover, Part Two
Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 13m
CLASSIC: The Killer Marketing Campaign Behind Guy Fawkes
Jul 20, 2024 • 46m
CLASSIC: When Ancient India Beat Machiavelli to the Punch
Jul 18, 2024 • 29m
Introducing Season 2: MEDBURG
Jul 15, 2024 • 2m
CLASSIC: The Rise of Harvey Wiley's Poison Squad
Jul 13, 2024 • 35m
CLASSIC: How Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Influenced Star Trek
Jun 29, 2024 • 33m
Popeye Changed America, Part Two: Popeye Ain't Perfect
Jun 27, 2024 • 37m
Popeye Changed America, Part One: A Breakout Star
Jun 25, 2024 • 36m
CLASSIC: What was the 'Great Stink' of London?
Jun 23, 2024 • 40m
CLASSIC: How Farmers Built A Barbed Wire Phone Network
Jun 15, 2024 • 32m
CLASSIC: The Strange Story of Canadian Margarine Bootleggers
Jun 8, 2024 • 41m
Malta: Tiny and Amazing, Just Like The Dog
Jun 6, 2024 • 39m
The Ridiculous History of Credit Cards
Jun 4, 2024 • 57m
CLASSIC: San Francisco's Egg War
Jun 1, 2024 • 40m
Introducing: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)
Jun 1, 2024 • 3m
Skyscrapers, Part Two: An Arms Race to the Sky
May 30, 2024 • 36m
Skyscrapers, Part One: A Guy and a Birdcage
May 28, 2024 • 36m
CLASSIC: The Wild West Was Actually Pretty Chill
May 28, 2024 • 33m
On Theme, Part Two: The Cyclical Evolution of Music
May 23, 2024 • 47m
On Theme, Part One: Ernest Hogan's Success and Regret
May 21, 2024 • 37m
CLASSIC: How A Grudge Match Launched the Ford GT40
May 18, 2024 • 51m
The QWERTY Keyboard is Purposely Bad
May 16, 2024 • 42m
Auction Houses: It's Not *All* Money Laundering
May 14, 2024 • 53m
CLASSIC: "Vitamin Donuts" Were A Real Thing
May 11, 2024 • 33m
Thomas Nast, Part One: The Cartoonist Who Shaped America
May 7, 2024 • 32m
CLASSIC: The Rotten, Sausagey Secret Origin of Botox
May 4, 2024 • 34m
Books You Can't Read -- By Design!
May 2, 2024 • 44m
La Maupin: The Swordfighting Opera Singer of France
Apr 30, 2024 • 58m
CLASSIC: The Weird World of Meat Jell-O (A Gelatin Origin Story)
Apr 27, 2024 • 38m
A History of Roller Coasters, Part Two: Higher, Faster, More Expensive
Apr 25, 2024 • 48m
A History of Roller Coasters, Part One: Early Ups and Downs
Apr 23, 2024 • 45m
CLASSIC: London Made a Train for the Dead
Apr 20, 2024 • 32m
The Page-turning Evolution of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Apr 18, 2024 • 47m
A Ridiculous History of Worcestershire Sauce
Apr 16, 2024 • 42m
CLASSIC: Roald Dahl: Children's Author and Secret Agent
Apr 13, 2024 • 39m
Micronations: How Liechtenstein Became A Country
Apr 11, 2024 • 37m
Why Are There So Many Captain Marvels?
Apr 9, 2024 • 53m
CLASSIC: When did ALL-CAPS type become YELLING?
Apr 6, 2024 • 37m
Look at Us, Late to the Ridiculous History of Easter
Apr 4, 2024 • 47m
Royal Deaths, Part Four: The Unfortunate Lives of Scottish Kings
Apr 2, 2024 • 34m
The Delaware Wedge, Part Two: The Wedge and The Horn
Mar 28, 2024 • 30m
The Delaware Wedge, Part One: A Tiny State with Massive History
Mar 26, 2024 • 27m
Back to the Choo-ture: the Enduring Nostalgia of Model Trains
Mar 21, 2024 • 54m
PEZ: Candy or Anti-smoking Aid?
Mar 19, 2024 • 41m
Mobituaries with Mo Rocca, Part Two: What's Past is Prologue
Mar 14, 2024 • 42m
Mobituaries with Mo Rocca, Part One: Mo Eulogizes The Pager
Mar 12, 2024 • 44m
Awful Candy, Part Two: Peeps, Licorice, Wax Lips and More
Mar 7, 2024 • 28m
It Is Literally Time For The Leap Year Episode
Feb 29, 2024 • 48m
The Ridiculous History of Hot Sauce
Feb 27, 2024 • 56m
CLASSIC: Why does the Guinness Beer Company Track World Records?
Feb 22, 2024 • 32m
20 Questions: A Ridiculous Crossover, Part One
Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 5m
Tecumseh's Curse, Part Two: Boy, It's Tough to be President
Feb 15, 2024 • 55m
Tecumseh's Curse, Part One: Rise of The Prophet
Feb 13, 2024 • 47m
History Is Absolutely Riddled With Famous Mistranslations
Feb 8, 2024 • 48m
The Puzzler Returns, Part Two: A Field Trip to the CIA
Feb 1, 2024 • 43m
The Puzzler Returns, Part One: Puzzles and Spies
Jan 30, 2024 • 44m
A Boeing Wonderland, Part Two: A Fake Rooftop City For All!
Jan 25, 2024 • 44m
Calvin Coolidge Was Super Weird...and Surprisingly Cool
Jan 19, 2024 • 44m
The Ridiculous History of Baseball Caps: How One Hat Traveled the World
Jan 16, 2024 • 48m
Breeching: A Weird Historical Obsession with Children's Pants
Jan 11, 2024 • 40m
CLASSIC: Digging Up James K Polk (For the Third Time)
Jan 4, 2024 • 34m
The History of Soda Pop is So Weird, Part One: The Saga of Spicy Water
Dec 26, 2023 • 46m
The Puzzler, Part Two: Waldo, Rubik, and More
Dec 21, 2023 • 43m
The Puzzler, Part One: The Crossword Moral Panic
Dec 19, 2023 • 32m
Christmas Has A Dark Side: The Krampus Episode
Dec 14, 2023 • 45m
Scientists Who Were Horrifically Persecuted, Part Two: Alan Turing
Dec 7, 2023 • 31m
Serious Diseases with Seriously Funny Names, Part One: Dropsy
Nov 30, 2023 • 37m
Oh Man, James Joyce was a Dirty Dude!
Nov 28, 2023 • 42m
What's the Deal with Turkey on Thanksgiving?
Nov 23, 2023 • 46m
Tammany Hall: America's Early Puppet Masters
Nov 21, 2023 • 53m
The Hoover Dam is Ridiculous, Part Two: The Audacity!
Nov 16, 2023 • 32m
The Hoover Dam is Ridiculous, Part One: Man Versus Nature
Nov 14, 2023 • 39m
CLASSIC: Waging War With Hallucinogenic Honey
Nov 9, 2023 • 23m
CLASSIC: Ben Franklin Tried To Reinvent the Alphabet
Nov 7, 2023 • 29m
CLASSIC: When the Puritans Canceled Christmas
Nov 2, 2023 • 28m
How Did Trick-Or-Treating Become a Thing?
Oct 31, 2023 • 59m
Scientists Who Were Horrifically Persecuted, Part One
Oct 20, 2023 • 52m
The Crappy, Commodious History of Toilets
Oct 17, 2023 • 47m
Aaron Burr, Part Two: The Fall of a Guy Nobody Liked
Oct 12, 2023 • 45m
Aaron Burr, Part One: The Rise of a Guy Nobody Liked
Oct 10, 2023 • 42m
My Cultura Conversations: Our Voices, Our Stories, Our Experiences
Oct 9, 2023 • 41m
Introducing: McCartney A Life in Lyrics
Oct 6, 2023 • 8m
Royals Who Died on the Toilet: Our Classiest Episode Yet
Oct 5, 2023 • 35m
That Time Indiana Tried to Change Pi
Oct 3, 2023 • 41m
Why Don't People Wear White After Labor Day?
Sep 28, 2023 • 30m
Michigan Has Its Own Bermuda Triangle
Sep 26, 2023 • 45m
The Road to Modern Basketball, Part Two: How Dribbling Became A Thing
Sep 21, 2023 • 50m
The 10th President's Grandson is Alive Today
Sep 15, 2023 • 38m
Stuff That Got Left Over: Nukes
Sep 12, 2023 • 34m
Introducing American Filth
Sep 8, 2023 • 1m
Ralph Nader Versus Big Auto
Sep 8, 2023 • 43m
CLASSIC: Baguettes and Vacation: France versus Bakers
Sep 5, 2023 • 24m
Everyone Was Covered in Poop: A Grimy History of Soap
Aug 31, 2023 • 44m
Behind the Logo: The Story of the Nike Swoosh
Aug 30, 2023 • 37m
The Architecture of Spite, Part Two: Macy's and The Skinny House
Aug 22, 2023 • 34m
World War II's Alaskan Front: The Aleutian Island Campaign
Aug 10, 2023 • 47m
Micronations: The Amazing Story of Vatican City
Aug 8, 2023 • 49m
The FBI versus Hip-Hop
Aug 3, 2023 • 49m
The Inventor of the Saxophone Had Some of the World's Worst Luck
Aug 2, 2023 • 54m
Animals On Trial, Part 2: Legal Personhood "Goes Wild"
Jul 27, 2023 • 41m
Animals On Trial, Part 1: Tons of Animals Went to Kangaroo Courts
Jul 25, 2023 • 50m
Broken Arrows, Part 2: In Which Actions Have Consequence
Jul 20, 2023 • 49m
Broken Arrows, Part 1: Whoops, Where's Our Nuke?
Jul 18, 2023 • 39m
New Providence: That Time Pirates Had A Government
Jul 13, 2023 • 56m
Tons of People Married Their First Cousins
Jul 11, 2023 • 51m
Lost Media, Part 2: The Magnificent Ambersons
Jul 6, 2023 • 39m
The Ridiculous History of "Snake Oil"
Jul 4, 2023 • 52m
Badass of the Week, Part 2: Rise of the Kung Fu Werewolf
Jun 29, 2023 • 41m
Introducing: Supreme: The Battle For Roe
Jun 28, 2023 • 2m
Badass of the Week, Part 1: An Origin Story
Jun 27, 2023 • 33m
That Time Abe Lincoln Trolled His Way Into a Real-life Duel
Jun 22, 2023 • 36m
The Creation of (and Backlash Against) Father's Day
Jun 20, 2023 • 40m
How Horrible Chocolate Helped Win World War II
Jun 8, 2023 • 30m
Micronations: How a Guy Got Ran Out of Town and Created San Marino
Jun 6, 2023 • 43m
The Library of Congress is Full of Super Weird Stuff
Jun 1, 2023 • 36m
That Time A Guy Literally Bought The London Bridge
May 30, 2023 • 40m
We Got Super Into Toy Cars, Part Two: Rivalry and Nostalgia
May 25, 2023 • 29m
We Got Super Into Toy Cars, Part One: Matchbox versus Hot Wheels
May 23, 2023 • 43m
Why The Creator of Mother's Day Got So Mad About Mothers' Day
May 18, 2023 • 31m
Micronations: Monaco is More than a Casino!
May 16, 2023 • 55m
Fonts They Love to Hate, Part Two: Papyrus, Times New Roman and Beyond
May 11, 2023 • 47m
Fonts They Love to Hate, Part One: Origins of Comic Sans
May 9, 2023 • 34m
Even More Ridiculous Royal Deaths
May 4, 2023 • 42m
A (Completely Different) History of Sampling: Free Stuff
May 2, 2023 • 45m
A History of Sampling, Part Two: Creativity in Court
Apr 27, 2023 • 56m
A History of Sampling, Part One: An Origin Story
Apr 25, 2023 • 52m
How Did Monster Trucks Become a Thing?
Apr 20, 2023 • 52m
The Ridiculous, Scrumptious Desserts of Mardi Gras
Apr 18, 2023 • 50m
Introducing: Founding Son John Quincy Adams America
Apr 14, 2023 • 3m
The Amazing History of Japanese Toys, Part Two: The World Takeover
Apr 13, 2023 • 33m
The Amazing History of Japanese Toys, Part One: A Serious Business
Apr 11, 2023 • 32m
The Weird Journey of the $2 Bill
Apr 6, 2023 • 32m
The Fascinating History of Ice Cream Trucks
Apr 4, 2023 • 47m
CLASSIC: What's the Deal with Smashing Cake at Weddings?
Mar 23, 2023 • 29m
THE LAST SOVIET - EP 5: Three Hot Days in August
Mar 22, 2023 • 28m
CLASSIC: Conquest via Bird Poop: One Island at a Time
Mar 21, 2023 • 32m
The Architecture of Spite, Part One: Lovers, Loiterers and Murderers
Mar 16, 2023 • 43m
Turn, Turn, Turn: A History of Turn Signals
Mar 14, 2023 • 31m
A Legally Haunted House
Mar 8, 2023 • 41m
The Oddly Dark History of Crash Test Dummies (Not The Band)
Mar 7, 2023 • 50m
The Deeply Weird Stories of Patron Saints
Mar 2, 2023 • 40m
Let's Start a Coup! Ep 1 – A Basket Full of Fascists
Feb 27, 2023 • 40m
Weird Epidemics, Part One: From Sweating to Pokemon
Feb 23, 2023 • 49m
CLASSIC: When Scientists Hid Under Beds To Spy On Kids
Feb 21, 2023 • 37m
Surprising Former Careers, Part III: Goldberg, Trudeau and Buscemi
Feb 16, 2023 • 31m
Introducing: The Last Soviet
Feb 15, 2023 • 3m
It Turns Out Blue Laws Aren't Entirely Terrible
Feb 14, 2023 • 47m
The Origin of Moby Dick, Part Two: Horrors At Sea
Feb 9, 2023 • 45m
The Origin of Moby Dick, Part One: Mocha Dick
Feb 7, 2023 • 28m
The (Weirdly Crooked) History of the Food Pyramid
Feb 2, 2023 • 46m
That Time Europeans Went Nuts For Dancing
Jan 31, 2023 • 37m
Star Trek Almost Never Happened, Part Two: In Which We Boldly Go
Jan 26, 2023 • 44m
Star Trek Almost Never Happened, Part One: Pilots and Peril
Jan 24, 2023 • 39m
“It’s Edible!” The Origin of Breakfast Cereal, Part Two
Jan 19, 2023 • 54m
“It’s Edible!” The Origin of Breakfast Cereal, Part One
Jan 17, 2023 • 37m
Would-be Presidents, Part One: If At First You Don't Succeed...
Jan 12, 2023 • 51m
The Leaf Blower Episode
Jan 11, 2023 • 44m
The US Navy Teamed Up With Mobsters, Part Two: The Mob Goes to War
Jan 5, 2023 • 42m
The US Navy Teamed Up With Mobsters, Part One: Luciano Gets Lucky
Jan 3, 2023 • 55m
CLASSIC: When People Thought They Were Made of Glass
Dec 29, 2022 • 29m
CLASSIC: Nazis, Churchill and Chocolate
Dec 27, 2022 • 27m
Ridiculous Royal Deaths, Part Two: Don't Drink Mercury
Dec 22, 2022 • 44m
Ridiculous Royal Deaths, Part One: Revenge of the Buck-Toothed
Dec 20, 2022 • 38m
Introducing: Red Elvis
Dec 20, 2022 • 2m
Introducing: 12 Ghosts from Grim & Mild
Dec 16, 2022 • 1m
CLASSIC: When Dentist Sold Dentures Made with Corpse Teeth
Dec 15, 2022 • 32m
From Mesopotamia to Hot Dogs: A History of Mustard
Dec 13, 2022 • 49m
Coca-Cola, Dr. King, and the Civil Rights
Dec 8, 2022 • 37m
William Mitchell Was Basically a Real-life Willy Wonka
Dec 6, 2022 • 40m
A Circus, or a Cult? The Strange Story of Shen Yun
Nov 29, 2022 • 36m
How A Massive Turkey Screw-up Created TV Dinners
Nov 24, 2022 • 53m
J. Paul Getty, Part Two: A Kidnapping Discount
Nov 22, 2022 • 33m
J. Paul Getty, Part One: Money Doesn't Make You Happy
Nov 17, 2022 • 35m
Introducing: Jordan Klepper Fingers The Conspiracy
Nov 16, 2022 • 1m
Have you heard of Andorra?
Nov 15, 2022 • 31m
Introducing: Stealing Superman
Nov 11, 2022 • 2m
How Smart Was Alex the Grey Parrot?
Nov 10, 2022 • 40m
Surprising Former Careers, Part 2: Truman Can't Sell Hats
Nov 8, 2022 • 40m
The Ancient -- and Surprisingly Divisive! -- Story of Ketchup
Nov 3, 2022 • 56m
The Bizarrely Xenophobic Origins of Scotch Tape
Nov 1, 2022 • 49m
Introducing: OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate
Oct 31, 2022 • 2m
Lost Media, Part Two: We Didn't Start The Fire
Oct 27, 2022 • 30m
Lost Media, Part One: What Happened to All Those Silent Films?
Oct 26, 2022 • 38m
A Ridiculous History of Hot Tubs
Oct 20, 2022 • 45m
Eugene V Debs, Part Two: A Prisoner Runs For President
Oct 18, 2022 • 1h 3m
Eugene V Debs, Part One: Railroad Workers Fight The Power
Oct 13, 2022 • 34m
The Michelin Man was an Unhinged Lunatic
Oct 11, 2022 • 52m
Introducing: Mobituaries
Oct 7, 2022 • 2m
The Yukio Mishima Story, Part Two: Mishima's End
Oct 6, 2022 • 50m
The Yukio Mishima Story, Part One: Confessions of a Mask
Oct 5, 2022 • 46m
Wait, How Do I Know It's Funny? A Rollicking History of Laugh Tracks
Sep 29, 2022 • 47m
Who, exactly, were the Luddites?
Sep 27, 2022 • 42m
Instant Noodles Changed The World, Part Two: Going Global
Sep 22, 2022 • 33m
Instant Noodles Changed The World, Part One: An Origin Story
Sep 20, 2022 • 31m
The Accidental Invention of Holding Music
Sep 15, 2022 • 31m
Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions: Flyin' or Dyin', Part Two
Sep 13, 2022 • 39m
Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions: Flyin' or Dyin', Part One
Sep 8, 2022 • 31m
Wilhelm Reich and Orgone, Part 2: Willy vs. The Feds
Sep 7, 2022 • 50m
Introducing: Sisters of the Underground
Sep 3, 2022 • 1m
Wilhelm Reich and Orgone, Part 1: Sexy Psychoanalysis
Sep 1, 2022 • 47m
The History of Pringles: Once You Pop...
Aug 30, 2022 • 55m
Lincoln Loved Cats, and Other Presidential Pets
Aug 25, 2022 • 45m
CLASSIC - Presidents Love Their Ridiculous Pets
Aug 23, 2022 • 32m
What Happened to Ronald McDonald? Part Two: Supersizing A Mystery
Aug 18, 2022 • 59m
What Happened to Ronald McDonald? Part One: Everybody Loves A Clown
Aug 16, 2022 • 55m
The 1904 St. Louis Marathon Was Absolutely Bonkers
Aug 11, 2022 • 59m
Andrew Jackson Beat the Snot Out of His Would-be Assassin
Aug 9, 2022 • 57m
A Ridiculous History of Reality TV, Part Two: Reality Goes Global
Aug 2, 2022 • 40m
A Ridiculous History of Reality TV, Part One: An Origin Story
Jul 28, 2022 • 41m
Surprising Former Careers of the Famous
Jul 26, 2022 • 48m
A Humorous History of Genetics
Jul 21, 2022 • 49m
Gods of Deception, Part II: Art, History, Fiction and War
Jul 14, 2022 • 30m
Gods of Deception, Part I: Alger Hiss in the Halls of Power
Jul 12, 2022 • 31m
Operation LAC: That Time Uncle Sam Sprayed Poison Across St. Louis
Jul 7, 2022 • 39m
CLASSIC - Does the US Confederacy Still Exist in Americana, Brazil?
Jul 5, 2022 • 34m
Millerism, Part II: The Great Disappointment (and the Aftermath)
Jun 30, 2022 • 41m
CLASSIC - Did a Real-Life Rainmaker Almost Drown San Diego?
Jun 28, 2022 • 29m
Millerism: America’s First End Times Gospel
Jun 23, 2022 • 46m
Ben Franklin Faked a Rival's Death to Promote His Almanac
Jun 21, 2022 • 32m
Why was Phrenology a Thing? Part I: The Rise of Dr. Finger
Jun 14, 2022 • 45m
Nancy Wake, the White Mouse of the French Resistance
Jun 9, 2022 • 43m
Disco Demolition Night: How Disco Died at a White Sox Game
Jun 2, 2022 • 50m
Bolivia Fought -- And Lost -- A War For Bird Poop
May 31, 2022 • 30m
Why You Can't Say "MacBeth" in a Theater
May 26, 2022 • 53m
Operation Mincemeat: Britain's Ghoulish Plan to Fool the Nazis
May 24, 2022 • 44m
Paradise Lost: Crime in Miami Trailer
May 23, 2022 • 1m
Who the heck was Joseph Warren?
May 19, 2022 • 41m
Chocolate Syrup: From Medicine to Dessert
May 17, 2022 • 42m
Juana Maria: The Real-life Story Behind "Island of the Blue Dolphins"
May 10, 2022 • 31m
Introducing: Wheel Woman
May 5, 2022 • 1m
Curling: The Most Ridiculous Sport?
May 5, 2022 • 43m
Nobuo Fujita Bombed Brookings, Oregon -- and Then Became a Town Hero
May 3, 2022 • 27m
A Teetotaling Preacher Basically Invented Modern Tourism
Apr 28, 2022 • 32m
Ira Aldridge: Actor, Activist and Record-breaker
Apr 26, 2022 • 47m
Lithuanian Book Smugglers Vs. The Russian Empire
Apr 21, 2022 • 43m
The Yule Lads Terrified Children Across Iceland
Apr 19, 2022 • 33m
The Infamous Aurora UFO Incident of 1897
Apr 14, 2022 • 34m
How The Evil May Day of 1517 Became the Perfect Propaganda Opportunity
Apr 12, 2022 • 46m
Day Drinkers (Sort of) Helped Stop Cholera in London
Apr 7, 2022 • 38m
The Much-Maligned Reign of Swedish Queen Maria Eleonora
Apr 5, 2022 • 41m
Weird Ways People Used to Communicate, Part I: Only a Pigeon Away
Mar 29, 2022 • 30m
That Time A Dead Guy Won an Olympic Medal
Mar 24, 2022 • 28m
Julia Barnett Rice Waged an Elitist War on Noise
Mar 23, 2022 • 42m
Ridiculous History Presents: A History of "Adult" Toys, Part 2
Mar 17, 2022 • 1h 3m
Introducing: Ridiculous News
Mar 16, 2022 • 1m
Ridiculous History Presents: A History of "Adult" Toys, Part 1
Mar 15, 2022 • 56m
The Cobra Effect, Part 2: Four Pests and a Disastrous Success
Mar 10, 2022 • 41m
The Cobra Effect, Part 1: Snakes, Rats, and Unintended Consequences
Mar 8, 2022 • 41m
British Suffragettes Knew Jūjitsu
Mar 4, 2022 • 52m
Introducing: Inventing Anna
Mar 2, 2022 • 2m
A Tale of Two Hansons: Busting Myths About the 'First' US President
Mar 2, 2022 • 39m
Did Soldiers in World War I Really Team Up to Fight Wolves?
Feb 25, 2022 • 43m
Introducing: Big Brother
Feb 24, 2022 • 2m
Slum Tourists: When Wealthy People Toured Chinatown ‘For Fun’
Feb 23, 2022 • 44m
That Time Victorians Treated Seaweed like Pokemon
Feb 18, 2022 • 51m
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Feb 15, 2022 • 1h 16m
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Feb 10, 2022 • 1h 1m
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Feb 9, 2022 • 1h 12m
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Feb 3, 2022 • 35m
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Feb 2, 2022 • 1h 7m
Tossed Popcorn, Part 1: The Wizard of Oz and the Titanic
Jan 28, 2022 • 59m
Peter Freuchen: Explorer, Raconteur, Movie Star and War Hero
Jan 25, 2022 • 49m
Did Honduras and El Salvador Really Go to War over Soccer?
Jan 20, 2022 • 42m
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Jan 19, 2022 • 41m
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Jan 13, 2022 • 51m
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Jan 12, 2022 • 50m
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Jan 7, 2022 • 46m
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Jan 4, 2022 • 31m
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Dec 30, 2021 • 36m
Nub City: Florida's Infamous Amputation Scam
Dec 28, 2021 • 44m
The Atlantropa Project, Part Two: What Happened to the Supercontinent?
Dec 16, 2021 • 29m
The Atlantropa Project, Part One: Saving Europe via Supercontinent
Dec 14, 2021 • 29m
People Used Bed Bugs as Medicine for Thousands of Years
Dec 10, 2021 • 34m
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Dec 7, 2021 • 29m
CLASSIC: How White America Tried To Destroy Chinese Restaurants
Nov 25, 2021 • 36m
Russia’s Real-life Ice Queen, Part 2: Weird, Brutal Flexes
Nov 24, 2021 • 32m
Russia’s Real-life Ice Queen, Part 1: The Tsar is a Jerk
Nov 18, 2021 • 25m
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Nov 16, 2021 • 33m
Austin and the Texas Archives War
Nov 11, 2021 • 37m
King for a Week: The Strange Story of Otto I
Nov 10, 2021 • 38m
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Nov 4, 2021 • 40m
Modern Thanksgiving, Part One: A Culture War
Oct 28, 2021 • 33m
Introducing: Haileywood
Oct 27, 2021 • 2m
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Oct 27, 2021 • 46m
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Oct 21, 2021 • 35m
Ada Lovelace, Part Two: The Analytical Engine
Oct 15, 2021 • 39m
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Oct 7, 2021 • 50m
The Rum Riot of Portland, Maine
Oct 5, 2021 • 42m
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Sep 30, 2021 • 32m
The Australian Prison Break of 1876, Part 2
Sep 28, 2021 • 31m
The Australian Prison Break of 1876 Part 1
Sep 23, 2021 • 31m
37 Days of Peril, with Alex Williams
Sep 21, 2021 • 57m
Sky Pilot: The Man Who Brought Religion to Lumberjacks
Sep 9, 2021 • 48m
CLASSIC: Butter: Protestantism's Secret Ingredient?
Sep 7, 2021 • 35m
Ridiculous Live: The Humor and the Heavy
Sep 2, 2021 • 57m
Flu Julia: The Con Artist Nurse That Made Bank Off Of Misery
Aug 31, 2021 • 44m
Introducing: Newton's Law
Aug 29, 2021 • 2m
History's Dumbest Criminals, Part 2
Aug 27, 2021 • 1h 2m
History's Dumbest Criminals, Part 1
Aug 24, 2021 • 1h 2m
That Time People Were Terrified of Libraries
Aug 19, 2021 • 38m
Ostracism: How Ancient Greeks Handled Uncool Politicians
Aug 17, 2021 • 36m
Military Cats, Part 2: Simon Saves the British
Aug 12, 2021 • 30m
Military Cats, Part 1: Spies and Mascots
Aug 10, 2021 • 39m
That Time People Rioted Over a Hot Air Balloon
Aug 5, 2021 • 34m
A Prince and His Poodle: The Supernatural Adventures of Rupert and Boy
Jul 29, 2021 • 42m
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Jul 27, 2021 • 1h 2m
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Jul 25, 2021 • 52m
Weird Courtship Rituals, Part Two
Jul 22, 2021 • 51m
Weird Courtship Rituals, Part One
Jul 20, 2021 • 1h 0m
A Brief History of Underwear
Jul 15, 2021 • 1h 2m
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Jul 13, 2021 • 30m
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Jul 8, 2021 • 43m
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Jul 7, 2021 • 41m
Painless Parker and the Dental Circus
Jul 1, 2021 • 48m
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Jun 29, 2021 • 46m
That Time People Paid Rent With Eels
Jun 28, 2021 • 48m
That Time People Paid Rent With Eels
Jun 25, 2021 • 52m
The Miracle of the Gulls: A Cricket War
Jun 22, 2021 • 38m
A History of Pregnancy Cravings, Part 1: Pickles and Ice Cream
Jun 15, 2021 • 41m
The Carrington Event, Part II: Attack of the Sun!
Jun 10, 2021 • 22m
The Carrington Event, Part I: The Sun is Acting Strange
Jun 8, 2021 • 25m
Classic: Why do British lawyers wear wigs?
Jun 1, 2021 • 33m
That Time Al Capone Ran A Soup Kitchen
May 27, 2021 • 33m
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May 26, 2021 • 39m
The Phantom Barber of Pascagoula
May 26, 2021 • 39m
Joseph Bonaparte, Cryptid Hunter
May 20, 2021 • 54m
The Mystery of the Devonshire Colic
May 18, 2021 • 45m
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May 13, 2021 • 1h 0m
Introducing: Ephemeral Season 2
May 12, 2021 • 2m
A Race Across the World: From New York to Paris in 1908
May 11, 2021 • 1h 3m
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Apr 27, 2021 • 24m
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Apr 22, 2021 • 28m
Pineapples In Europe, Part 1: A Weird, Cartoonishly Expensive Flex
Apr 14, 2021 • 46m
The Mysterious Dark Day That Terrified New England
Apr 8, 2021 • 33m
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Apr 6, 2021 • 42m
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Apr 2, 2021 • 33m
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Part 2
Mar 30, 2021 • 45m
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Mar 25, 2021 • 26m
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Mar 23, 2021 • 37m
Wyoming Tales, Part 2: Absaroka, the State That Almost Was
Mar 19, 2021 • 45m
Wyoming Tales, Part 1: Walking in the Shoes of Big Nose George
Mar 17, 2021 • 39m
The Rise and Fall of the Flea Circus, Part 2
Mar 11, 2021 • 45m
The Rise and Fall of the Flea Circus, Part 1
Mar 9, 2021 • 31m
History's Most Ridiculous (and Deadly) Beauty Trends
Mar 8, 2021 • 56m
Billy Cottrell, the Tyrant Mayor of Cedar Key, Florida
Mar 4, 2021 • 45m
The US and the UK Almost Went to War over a Pig
Mar 2, 2021 • 51m
Introducing: Black Cowboys
Feb 26, 2021 • 1m
The 1973 Michigan Pizza Funeral
Feb 25, 2021 • 35m
Elagabalus The Raunchy, Racy High Priest Who Became a Roman Emperor
Feb 23, 2021 • 53m
Turtle Soup, Part 2: Rise of the Mock Turtle
Feb 12, 2021 • 24m
Turtle Soup, Part 1: A Delicacy of Yesteryear
Feb 9, 2021 • 37m
The Hatpin Peril
Feb 3, 2021 • 45m
It's a Cat's World, Part 2: The Rise of the Cat Show
Jan 29, 2021 • 27m
It's a Cat's World, Part 1: The Sacred and the Suspicious
Jan 26, 2021 • 33m
Dan Sickles, American Scoundrel, Part 2: The Civil War
Jan 22, 2021 • 28m
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Jan 20, 2021 • 33m
That Time New York Banned Spitting
Jan 14, 2021 • 52m
Introducing a New Season of Here’s The Thing with Alec Baldwin
Jan 13, 2021 • 38m
Admiral Byrd and the Polar Dairy
Jan 12, 2021 • 32m
The Old Rituals of New Years, Part 1: Slap the King and Dye those Eggs
Dec 30, 2020 • 36m
Holiday Classic: When the Puritans Canceled Christmas
Dec 24, 2020 • 28m
Holiday Classic: The Strange History of Antarctic Fruitcake
Dec 22, 2020 • 29m
Goodyear and the Mystery of the Ghost Blimp
Dec 18, 2020 • 39m
Benito Mussolini was Super into Wearable Milk
Dec 15, 2020 • 41m
Snowmen as Protest: The Miracle of 1511
Dec 11, 2020 • 29m
Introducing: 'Uprising: A Guide From Portland'
Dec 9, 2020 • 2m
Why are Chimney Sweeps good luck at weddings?
Dec 9, 2020 • 39m
People Have Been Convinced Robots Will Take Their Jobs For Centuries
Dec 4, 2020 • 43m
That Time the US was Terrified of Tomatoes
Dec 2, 2020 • 39m
How the Pandemic Helped (and Hurt) the Struggle for Women's Rights
Nov 26, 2020 • 29m
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Nov 24, 2020 • 36m
The Weird Origin of Pink Lemonade, Part 2: The Rise of Clown Pants
Nov 19, 2020 • 27m
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Nov 18, 2020 • 26m
An Elephant in the Vatican, Part 2: An Elephant in the Reformation
Nov 13, 2020 • 41m
An Elephant in the Vatican, Part 1: The Discovery of Hanno
Nov 11, 2020 • 30m
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Nov 5, 2020 • 29m
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Nov 3, 2020 • 48m
The Case of the Greenbrier Ghost, Part 2: The Court
Oct 29, 2020 • 38m
Ridiculous History Presents: Criminalia
Oct 28, 2020 • 38m
The Case of the Greenbrier Ghost, Part 1: An 'Everlasting Faint'
Oct 28, 2020 • 37m
The Hand of Glory, Part 2: Recipes, Necropants and Toes
Oct 22, 2020 • 17m
The Hand of Glory, Part 1: A Thief's Theme
Oct 20, 2020 • 32m
Brooms and Witchcraft, Part 2: Inquisitions and Iniquity
Oct 15, 2020 • 28m
Brooms and Witchcraft, Part 1: A Killer in the Rye?
Oct 14, 2020 • 28m
The Beast of Gévaudan, Part 2: The Birth of a Grisly Legend
Oct 9, 2020 • 23m
The Beast of Gévaudan, Part 1: Murders In France
Oct 7, 2020 • 33m
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Oct 2, 2020 • 45m
The US Waged War on Pinball for Decades
Sep 29, 2020 • 46m
The Misadventures of Wade Boggs, Part 2
Sep 25, 2020 • 33m
The Misadventures of Wade Boggs, Part 1
Sep 22, 2020 • 48m
The Tragic Tale of the 'Turnspit Dog'
Sep 17, 2020 • 36m
Knocker-Uppers: The Human Alarm Clocks of the Industrial Age
Sep 15, 2020 • 32m
That Time New York City Rioted Over Shakespeare
Sep 10, 2020 • 49m
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Sep 8, 2020 • 41m
The Rise of the US Camel Corps
Sep 3, 2020 • 43m
The United Kingdom Has A Weird Thing With Swans
Sep 2, 2020 • 42m
Introducing 'Criminalia'
Aug 28, 2020 • 2m
The Nazi Super Horse Program, Part 2: A Horse-filled Heist
Aug 27, 2020 • 28m
The Nazi Super Horse Program, Part 1: Equine Eugenics
Aug 25, 2020 • 30m
Railroad Tycoons Decided What Time It Is Now
Aug 21, 2020 • 37m
Why do people 'christen' ships with champagne?
Aug 19, 2020 • 40m
The Hidden History of Jewish Pirates, Part 2: Famous Privateers
Aug 14, 2020 • 40m
The Hidden History of Jewish Pirates, Part 1: Escaping Europe
Aug 11, 2020 • 21m
Ridiculous "Remedies" of the Spanish Flu: The Rise of the Lemon
Aug 7, 2020 • 43m
That Time Rebellious Freemasons Starting Kissing Porcelain Pug Butts
Aug 4, 2020 • 45m
Clever Hans, Part 2: The Rise and Fall of Hans
Jul 30, 2020 • 26m
Clever Hans, Part 1: The Equine Mathematician
Jul 28, 2020 • 30m
Henry VIII and That English Sweat, Part 2: A Disease and a King
Jul 23, 2020 • 25m
Henry VIII and That English Sweat, Part 1: A Pandemic
Jul 22, 2020 • 33m
The Hobo King: Leon Ray Livingston, Chapter Two
Jul 17, 2020 • 38m
The Hobo King: Leon Ray Livingston, Chapter One
Jul 15, 2020 • 33m
The Vikings Made a Fortune in the 'Unicorn' Trade
Jul 9, 2020 • 45m
Did People Really Throw Tar And Feathers On Each Other?
Jul 7, 2020 • 38m
What is Fudge, Part 2: The Rebellion
Jun 25, 2020 • 25m
What is Fudge, Part 1: The Science, The Curious Name
Jun 23, 2020 • 26m
The North Pole, Part 2: The Chase To The North
Jun 19, 2020 • 43m
The North Pole, Part 1: Maps and Legends
Jun 17, 2020 • 29m
World War I and the Rise of the Peat Moss Bandage
Jun 10, 2020 • 35m
Flashback: Unforeseen Consequences Throughout History: Part 2
Jun 5, 2020 • 28m
Flashback: Unforeseen Consequences Throughout History: Part 1
Jun 3, 2020 • 39m
Louis Wain, the Godfather of Cat Memes: Part 2
May 29, 2020 • 44m
Louis Wain, the Godfather of Cat Memes: Part 1
May 27, 2020 • 31m
Feedsack Fashion: How Thrifty Inventiveness Transformed America
May 22, 2020 • 36m
Emperor Tiberius Was Debauched, Deranged and Probably Not Fun At Parties
May 20, 2020 • 43m
The Return of Historical Flexes, Part 2: Flexcessiveness
May 14, 2020 • 27m
The Return of Historical Flexes, Part 1: 2 Flex 2 Furious
May 12, 2020 • 41m
The Authors Of Curious George Were On The Run From Nazis
May 8, 2020 • 29m
People Used To Straight Up Drink Gold
May 5, 2020 • 31m
New Zealand's Tragic (And Pretty Hilarious) Exploding Pants Epidemic
May 1, 2020 • 30m
That Time Trainwrecks Became a Spectator Sport
Apr 28, 2020 • 33m
Miguel de Cervantes and the Case of the Fake Don Quixote
Apr 23, 2020 • 35m
The CIA Paid War Spies with Stuff From the Sears Catalog
Apr 21, 2020 • 28m
The Bottle Jumping Hoax (And Riot)
Apr 17, 2020 • 32m
The Bizarrely Disturbing History of People Jumping Out of Cake
Apr 15, 2020 • 45m
Dromomania: The Wanderlust Disease
Apr 8, 2020 • 35m
Key West, Florida Declared a One-Minute War on the United States
Apr 3, 2020 • 45m
That Time the US Literally Banned Sliced Bread
Apr 1, 2020 • 51m
Two Green Children Mystified Woolpit, England
Mar 27, 2020 • 47m
Pepsi Briefly Became the Sixth Largest Navy in the World
Mar 25, 2020 • 53m
The Ponzi Scheme with Chelsea Ursin
Mar 20, 2020 • 49m
The History of MREs with Jacqueline Raposo
Mar 17, 2020 • 51m
Donald Crowhurst Faked a Race Around the World
Mar 13, 2020 • 35m
The Presidential Dinner That Scandalized America
Mar 5, 2020 • 31m
Was the Lone Ranger Inspired by a Black U.S. Marshall?
Mar 4, 2020 • 41m
Night Soil Men Were the Unsung Heroes of Urban Sanitation
Feb 27, 2020 • 49m
The Tiny Spanish Town That Went To War With France For 100 Years
Feb 26, 2020 • 33m
The Great Diamond Hoax - Part 2
Feb 20, 2020 • 21m
The Great Diamond Hoax - Part 1
Feb 19, 2020 • 34m
Erasto Mpemba: The High School Student Who Disproved Thermodynamics
Feb 6, 2020 • 33m
The Straw Hat Riots of 1922
Feb 5, 2020 • 40m
Why Genghis Khan's Great-Great Granddaughter Was Just as Badass
Jan 29, 2020 • 35m
That Time Ernest Hemingway's Younger Brother Started His Own Country
Jan 24, 2020 • 46m
The Ersatz Wild West Shootouts of Palisade, Nevada
Jan 22, 2020 • 34m
The Great Goldfish Gulping Craze That (For Some Reason) Swept America
Jan 16, 2020 • 38m
Abandoned Ship: What Really Happened Aboard the "Mary Celeste"?
Jan 7, 2020 • 41m
That Time America Fell In Love With Competitive Walking
Jan 2, 2020 • 39m
The Weird Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Carols
Dec 31, 2019 • 34m
The Time Salvador Dali Partnered with Walt Disney - Part 2
Dec 26, 2019 • 24m
The Time Salvador Dali Partnered with Walt Disney - Part 1
Dec 24, 2019 • 29m
Colonel Blood and the Theft of the Crown Jewels
Dec 19, 2019 • 47m
The Starving Time: When Jamestown Colonists Turned Cannibal, Part 2
Dec 17, 2019 • 21m
The Starving Time: When Jamestown Colonists Turned Cannibal, Part 1
Dec 12, 2019 • 26m
French Waiters Once Had to Strike for Their Right to Wear Mustaches
Dec 5, 2019 • 38m
The Honey Trap: Sex in Espionage Throughout History
Dec 3, 2019 • 29m
The Weird, Weird History of Shipping: Part 2
Nov 28, 2019 • 21m
The Weird, Weird History of Shipping: Part 1
Nov 26, 2019 • 30m
Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 2
Nov 21, 2019 • 33m
Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 1
Nov 19, 2019 • 32m
How Bertha Heyman Conned Her Way Into Show Business
Nov 14, 2019 • 42m
That Time Germany Got Obsessed With Polar Bear Photos
Nov 12, 2019 • 42m
Rose Mackenberg: Houdini's Ghostbuster
Nov 7, 2019 • 39m
John of Bohemia, the Blind King Who Charged Into Battle
Nov 1, 2019 • 31m
Kakigōri: The Story of Japan's Famous Shaved Ice
Oct 30, 2019 • 31m
John Edmonstone: The Man Who Trained Darwin
Oct 25, 2019 • 32m
The Death of Luxury Air Travel
Oct 22, 2019 • 41m
The Bizarre Capitulation of Stettin
Oct 17, 2019 • 23m
John Wilkes Booth's Brother Saved Abraham Lincoln's Son
Oct 16, 2019 • 27m
John Clem: The 12-year Old Civil War Hero
Oct 10, 2019 • 30m
The Kaiser’s Plan to Invade the United States
Oct 3, 2019 • 33m
How Uncle Tom's Cabin Became One of the Most Popular Books in China
Oct 1, 2019 • 38m
The Gaspee Affair: Rhode Island’s Revolutionary “Tea Party”
Sep 19, 2019 • 23m
Otto Rahn, The Nazi Occultist Who Hated Nazis and Inspired Indiana Jones
Sep 17, 2019 • 27m
4 Times Women in the US Were Actually Arrested for Wearing Pants
Sep 13, 2019 • 49m
Sir Francis Drake and the Great Iowa Swindle
Sep 10, 2019 • 38m
Around the World in a Model T: The Story of Aloha Wanderwell
Sep 5, 2019 • 27m
Why George Washington is Huge in Barbados
Sep 3, 2019 • 48m
John Willis Menard: The First African American Elected To US Congress
Aug 30, 2019 • 26m
The Bloody Revenge of Saint Olga of Kiev
Aug 27, 2019 • 36m
Shame and Fish: The Embarrassing and Tragic Story of François Vatel
Aug 20, 2019 • 34m
Creature Feature: Go Home Nature, You're Drunk
Aug 15, 2019 • 1h 32m
Hunting Fireflies for Fun (and Profit)
Aug 14, 2019 • 37m
The Listener Mail Extravaganza
Aug 9, 2019 • 34m
That Time Ancient Monks Waged War Over A Copyright
Aug 6, 2019 • 26m
Ye Xian: The Story of China's Cinderella
Aug 1, 2019 • 27m
Cow Shoe Camouflage: How Prohibition-era Moonshiners Outsmarted the Feds
Jul 25, 2019 • 30m
Castle Itter: When Germans and Americans Joined Forces in World War II
Jul 23, 2019 • 24m
A Grave Mistake: The Story of Patton's "Abandoned Rear"
Jul 18, 2019 • 24m
Did the US Mafia actually start in New Orleans?
Jul 16, 2019 • 27m
That Time Irish Separatists Invaded Canada
Jul 4, 2019 • 27m
Bug Wars: When We Tried to Turn Insects into Soldiers
Jun 27, 2019 • 30m
Yasuke, the African Samurai
Jun 25, 2019 • 28m
I Modi: The Scandalous Erotic Blockbuster Banned By The Vatican
Jun 13, 2019 • 33m
Patriots, Prisoners and Plants: The World of Political Body Doubles
Jun 11, 2019 • 49m
Fort Blunder: The US Fort Mistakenly Built in Canada
Jun 6, 2019 • 33m
The Duke of Edinburgh is Literally a God in Vanuatu
Jun 4, 2019 • 24m
The Honorary Citizens of the United States
May 30, 2019 • 41m
The Nature of Ephemera, with Alex Williams
May 28, 2019 • 39m
The Return of Listener Mail
May 23, 2019 • 31m
That Time Ohio and Michigan Almost Went To War
May 21, 2019 • 32m
The Attack of the Japanese Balloon Bombs
May 14, 2019 • 34m
Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Hoax
May 9, 2019 • 43m
Nosy Boraha: The Pirate's Paradise (And Cemetery)
May 7, 2019 • 24m
How the Black Death Came To Norway On A Ghost Ship
May 2, 2019 • 33m
Susanna Caroline Matilda: The Colonial Grifter Princess
Apr 30, 2019 • 53m
History's Weirdest Flexes, Part 2
Apr 25, 2019 • 26m
History's Weirdest Flexes, Part 1
Apr 23, 2019 • 30m
How Oliver Cromwell Got Executed Several Years After His Death
Apr 16, 2019 • 25m
How Big Bill Speakman Fought Off North Korea With Beer Bottles
Apr 9, 2019 • 23m
Teddy Roosevelt May Just Have Saved Modern (American) Football
Apr 4, 2019 • 23m
Prohibition, Prescriptions and the Rise of 'Medicinal' Booze
Apr 2, 2019 • 30m
Did Robert E. Lee hate Confederate Memorials?
Mar 28, 2019 • 28m
California Schoolchildren and the Great Squirrel War
Mar 26, 2019 • 27m
When West Virginia Begged the USSR for Foreign Aid
Mar 21, 2019 • 29m
Idiomatic for the People II, Part 2
Mar 19, 2019 • 36m
Idiomatic for the People II, Part 1
Mar 14, 2019 • 48m
The Statue of Liberty Almost Lived in Egypt
Mar 12, 2019 • 32m
Agent Garbo: The Strange Tale of the Man Who Saved D-Day
Mar 7, 2019 • 39m
The War of the Stray Dog: How Far Would You Go For Your Pet?
Mar 5, 2019 • 34m
The Tragic Origin Story of Morse Code
Feb 28, 2019 • 33m
Operation Gunnerside: How a Crew of Military Skiers Ruined the Nazi Bomb
Feb 26, 2019 • 25m
How far did Isaac Newton go to hunt down forgers?
Feb 21, 2019 • 27m
How Admiral Horatio Nelson Ended Up Dead in a Barrel of Brandy
Feb 19, 2019 • 33m
English Men Used to Sell Their Wives
Feb 14, 2019 • 22m
How Louisiana Almost Became a Hippo Ranching Hub
Feb 12, 2019 • 40m
The Weird Life of George Washington, Part 2
Feb 8, 2019 • 31m
The Weird Life of George Washington, Part 1
Feb 5, 2019 • 42m
Who was the highest paid athlete in history?
Jan 31, 2019 • 28m
Clara, The World's Most Famous Rhinoceros
Jan 30, 2019 • 44m
How the Monopoly Board Game Became a World War II Escape Kit
Jan 24, 2019 • 28m
Idiomatic For The People, Part 1
Jan 23, 2019 • 1h 2m
Was there a real-life Rapunzel?
Jan 17, 2019 • 27m
Benjamin Franklin's Advice on 'Finding a Mistress'
Jan 15, 2019 • 29m
What does 'Idaho' actually mean?
Jan 10, 2019 • 22m
Uncle Sam Tried to End World War II With Bat Bombs
Jan 8, 2019 • 34m
How a Broken Toilet Foiled a German Sub
Jan 1, 2019 • 23m
Creature Feature: The Dark Tetrad
Dec 27, 2018 • 1h 2m
Gustaf Broman Tried to Cross the Atlantic in a Canoe . . . Or Did He?
Dec 25, 2018 • 37m
The Weird, Surprisingly Recent Origin of the Tooth Fairy
Dec 20, 2018 • 26m
When Vikings Loot The Wrong Town
Dec 18, 2018 • 37m
Were Tulips Really The Bitcoin of the 1600s?
Dec 13, 2018 • 29m
(Some of) History's Dumbest Military Prototypes
Dec 11, 2018 • 54m
The Forty Elephants: London’s All-Female Jewel Thieves
Dec 6, 2018 • 41m
The Malleus Maleficarum: A Real-life Witch Hunter's Bible
Dec 4, 2018 • 32m
The Great London Beer Flood of 1814
Nov 29, 2018 • 25m
Dr. Seuss Wrote His Most Famous Book On A Bet
Nov 27, 2018 • 34m
Feral Children and the True Story Behind The Jungle Book
Nov 22, 2018 • 28m
When Dentist Sold Dentures Made with Corpse Teeth
Nov 21, 2018 • 31m
The Laxative-laden Journey of Lewis and Clark
Nov 15, 2018 • 29m
The Bizarre Origin of the Oxford English Dictionary
Nov 8, 2018 • 43m
How Conman Victor Lustig Sold The Eiffel Tower (Twice)
Nov 6, 2018 • 1h 0m
The Life and Times of Ol' Knife Hand
Oct 23, 2018 • 27m
The Ridiculous Story of the World’s First (Documented) Serial Killer
Oct 18, 2018 • 34m
Back When the Rich Ate Corpses
Oct 16, 2018 • 34m
The Mummies of Guanajuato
Oct 11, 2018 • 28m
The Curious Rise of SPAM
Oct 9, 2018 • 45m
The Smooth-talking Takeover of Tabor Bridge
Oct 4, 2018 • 29m
History's Coolest (Non-Human) Political Candidates, Part I
Oct 2, 2018 • 53m
Attack of the Aswang: How the CIA Used Vampires as Weapons of War
Sep 27, 2018 • 29m
A Dead Pope Goes To Court
Sep 25, 2018 • 25m
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Sep 20, 2018 • 31m
William Walker: Filibuster and (Fantastically Bad) President
Sep 18, 2018 • 40m
Lawsonomy: How the Father of the Modern Airline Started His Own Religion
Sep 13, 2018 • 49m
War and Candy: The Infamous Tootsie Roll Air Drop
Sep 11, 2018 • 30m
The Man Who Assassinated Abe Lincoln's Assassin
Sep 6, 2018 • 33m
The Cock Lane Ghost: Haunting, Hoax, Hysteria… or Hilarious?
Sep 5, 2018 • 38m
Roland the Farter and the Weird World of Professional Flatulence
Aug 30, 2018 • 33m
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Aug 28, 2018 • 55m
Angry Feds and Deadly Booze: The Story of the Chemists' War
Aug 23, 2018 • 28m
Project A119: The Cold War Plan to Nuke the Moon!
Aug 21, 2018 • 26m
Adidas Versus Puma: A Tale of Two Brothers
Aug 16, 2018 • 41m
Fanny and Stella: The Cross-Dressing Scandal of Victorian England
Aug 14, 2018 • 34m
Kansas Imprisoned Women For Having STDs
Aug 9, 2018 • 30m
The WWII Naval Battle Won Using Potatoes
Aug 7, 2018 • 31m
The Korean Soldier Who Fought for 3 Armies During WWII
Aug 2, 2018 • 22m
Oregon Was a White Supremacist Paradise
Jul 31, 2018 • 41m
Why did people hate the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?
Jul 26, 2018 • 30m
When Heineken Made Bottles That Could Be Used as Bricks
Jul 19, 2018 • 31m
Why British Soccer Players Saluted the Nazis
Jul 17, 2018 • 39m
The United States That Never Were
Jul 12, 2018 • 43m
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Jul 10, 2018 • 44m
Enough About Us: What About You?
Jul 5, 2018 • 36m
Weird Wars Fought For Dumb Reasons
Jul 3, 2018 • 44m
The FBI's Quest to Understand 'Louie, Louie'
Jun 28, 2018 • 46m
The Time a Soviet Premier Was Banned From Disneyland
Jun 26, 2018 • 42m
Kidnapping, Binge Drinking and Costumes: Voter Fraud in the 1800s
Jun 21, 2018 • 32m
Why don't Americans use bidets?
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May 24, 2018 • 40m
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May 22, 2018 • 35m
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May 15, 2018 • 48m
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May 10, 2018 • 43m
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May 3, 2018 • 30m
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May 1, 2018 • 56m
How James Bond Created a Mexican Dia de los Muertos Tradition
Apr 26, 2018 • 25m
Did Richard Nixon Unwittingly Smuggle Drugs for Louis Armstrong?
Apr 24, 2018 • 36m
3 Times Society Refused to Accept New Books on Science
Apr 19, 2018 • 49m
That Time We Erased a (HUGE) Waterfall
Apr 17, 2018 • 27m
The Poetic Justice of Death by Molten Gold
Apr 12, 2018 • 31m
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Apr 10, 2018 • 35m
That Time the US Built a Flying Aircraft Carrier
Apr 5, 2018 • 31m
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Apr 3, 2018 • 37m
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Mar 29, 2018 • 34m
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Mar 27, 2018 • 41m
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Mar 22, 2018 • 26m
When Germany Sacrificed Sausage For War
Mar 20, 2018 • 26m
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Mar 15, 2018 • 36m
The Killer Marketing Campaign Behind Guy Fawkes
Mar 13, 2018 • 44m
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Mar 8, 2018 • 27m
The Rise of Harvey Wiley's Poison Squad
Mar 6, 2018 • 33m
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Mar 1, 2018 • 53m
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Feb 27, 2018 • 29m
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Feb 22, 2018 • 38m
How Farmers Built A Barbed Wire Phone Network
Feb 21, 2018 • 31m
The Strange Story of Canadian Margarine Bootleggers
Feb 15, 2018 • 39m
When People Waged War Over Eggs
Feb 13, 2018 • 37m
The Wild West Was Actually Pretty Chill
Feb 8, 2018 • 31m
How A Grudge Match Launched the Ford GT40
Feb 6, 2018 • 45m
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Feb 1, 2018 • 29m
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Jan 30, 2018 • 30m
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Jan 25, 2018 • 35m
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Jan 23, 2018 • 31m
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Jan 18, 2018 • 36m
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Jan 16, 2018 • 34m
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Jan 11, 2018 • 29m
Digging Up James K Polk (For the Third Time)
Jan 9, 2018 • 33m
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Jan 4, 2018 • 31m
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Jan 2, 2018 • 29m
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Dec 28, 2017 • 22m
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Dec 26, 2017 • 28m
The Strange History of Antarctic Fruitcake
Dec 21, 2017 • 27m
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Dec 19, 2017 • 27m
Baguettes and Vacation: France versus Bakers
Dec 14, 2017 • 24m
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Dec 12, 2017 • 27m
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Dec 7, 2017 • 30m
When Scientists Hid Under Beds To Spy On Kids
Dec 5, 2017 • 35m
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Nov 30, 2017 • 26m
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Nov 28, 2017 • 26m
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Nov 23, 2017 • 39m
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Nov 21, 2017 • 32m
Did a real-life rainmaker almost drown San Diego?
Nov 16, 2017 • 27m
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Nov 14, 2017 • 30m
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Nov 9, 2017 • 26m
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Nov 7, 2017 • 34m
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Nov 2, 2017 • 34m
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Oct 31, 2017 • 27m
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Oct 24, 2017 • 29m
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Oct 24, 2017 • 30m
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