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September 18, 2023Uncategorized

New Atlantis and the Other Hemingway

Imagine tying a bunch of rafts together, floating it in the ocean, and then claiming it was an independent island nation. That’s exactly what Ernest Hemingway’s youngest brother, Leicester did […]
September 13, 2023Uncategorized

BONUS EPISODE! Annual Patron Drive Episode 3

As a thank you to our listeners, and as part of a patron drive, we’re releasing excerpts from Joke/Story/Trick, a live web show with amazing guests telling incredible stories. In […]
September 11, 2023Uncategorized

Where’s Tom Browning? The Missing Pitcher

During game 2 of the 1990 World Series, the Cincinnati Reds faced an unusual problem. They couldn’t find one of their pitchers. In this episode, we tell the story of […]
September 6, 2023Uncategorized

BONUS EPISODE! Annual Patron Drive Episode 2

As a thank you to our listeners, and as part of a patron drive, we’re releasing excerpts from Joke/Story/Trick, a live web show with amazing guests telling incredible stories. In […]
September 4, 2023Uncategorized

Unsinkable: The Man Who Wouldn’t Die

Imagine living through one disaster at sea, only to suffer another disaster months later, then again…and again, again and again. Arthur John Priest survived as many as 4 sinking ships […]
August 30, 2023Uncategorized

BONUS EPISODE! Annual Patron Drive Episode 1

As a thank you to our listeners, and as part of a patron drive, we’re releasing excerpts from Joke/Story/Trick, a live web show with amazing guests telling incredible stories. In […]
August 21, 2023Uncategorized

Mass Hysteria and The War of the Worlds – rewind

Originally released July 25, 2022. 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 […]
August 14, 2023Uncategorized

The Man Who Survived BOTH Atomic Bombs in Japan: Tsutomu Yamaguchi – REWIND

Originally released March 21, 2022. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was one of the only people to survive both the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. He was the only one […]
August 7, 2023Uncategorized

Broken Arrow: The Time We Almost Nuked South Carolina – REWIND

Originally released May 23, 2021. In our history, we’ve had at least 32 “Broken Arrow” incidents: instances of nuclear weapons accidents that don’t cause a nuclear war. One of those […]
July 31, 2023Uncategorized

Willy Higinbotham: A Name You Should Know, But Don’t – REWIND

First released November 2, 2020. Willy Higinbotham is considered by many to be the inventor of the world’s first video game. But there’s more – he was also on the […]