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September 26, 2022Uncategorized

The Cross Florida Barge Canal

For more than 100 years, there were plans to cut a canal through the middle of the Florida Peninsula. It would have allowed a huge shipping lane from the Gulf […]
September 19, 2022Uncategorized

Royal Family: A Hidden Documentary – REWIND

With the death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, we revisit our 22nd episode all about the Royal Family. In 1969, Queen Elizabeth II and her family were followed around […]
September 12, 2022Uncategorized

The Life and Death of hitchBOT

Was it a social experiment gone wrong? Or did it produce results exactly as intended? In 2014, robotics and communications scholars developed hitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot. It made its way […]
September 5, 2022Uncategorized

To Boldly Go: How Spacemen Poo and Pee – Rewind

Originally released October 5, 2020. Using the bathroom in space has never been easy. And since the early NASA space missions of the 1960s, engineers have been solving this problem […]
August 29, 2022Uncategorized

The Incredible Legend of Theagenes

In Ancient Greece, the incredible athlete known as Theagenes of Thasos was so successful, his legend of being unbeaten followed him into the afterlife. But is it true that even […]
August 22, 2022Uncategorized

The Hottest Coffee: The McDonald’s Coffee Lawsuit

For decades, the story about the woman who sued McDonald’s because her coffee was too hot has been used as an example of frivolous lawsuits. But the truth is much […]
August 15, 2022Uncategorized

Nazis in America: The Madison Square Garden Rally

In 1929, as many as 22,000 Americans met for a Nazi rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden. It was an event of the German-American Bund and attendees cheered while […]
August 8, 2022Uncategorized

Is The Original English Accent Still Alive in Parts of the United States?

On the isolated island community of Tangier, Virginia, the residents speak with a dialect that is entirely unique. It’s part southern drawl, part “brogue,” and some have claimed it’s a […]
August 1, 2022Uncategorized

100th Episode Special: The Dublin Whiskey Fire: Why 13 People Died

For our 100th episode, we’re talking about the awful fire that happened in Dublin, Ireland in 1875. It resulted in 13 people dying, but none of them from the fire! […]
July 25, 2022Uncategorized

Mass Hysteria and The War of the Worlds

Did a radio broadcast about Aliens cause mass Hysteria in America in 1938? The Internet Says…maybe. Orson Welles’s radio performance of H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds has become infamous […]