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June 6, 2022Uncategorized

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky and Lived (REBROADCAST of Episode 44)

Originally released July 5, 2021. In 1971, Juliane Koepcke’s airplane was struck by lightning and broke apart 2 miles above the Peruvian Jungle. Miraculously, she was the only one out […]
May 30, 2022Uncategorized

Broken Arrow: The Time We Almost Nuked South Carolina (REBROADCAST of Episode 38)

Originally released May 24, 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 […]
May 23, 2022Uncategorized

The Thing: When The Soviets Spied and Got Caught

In 1945, a wooden plaque of the “Great Seal” was given to the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union. It hung on the wall by his desk for years […]
May 16, 2022Uncategorized

Free Christiania: A Utopian Lawless Place

In the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark, a free-living socialist Utopia has existed for more than 50 years. What started as an abandoned military barracks has become a haven for free-thinkers, […]
May 9, 2022Uncategorized

Abraham Lincoln Invented the Chokeslam 

The “chokeslam” is the move that wrestlers do where they slam their opponent to the ground after lifting them up by the neck. The rumor is that it was invented […]
May 2, 2022Uncategorized

Why Sammy Davis Jr. Left the Church of Satan

Was Sammy Davis Jr. a member of the Church of Satan? It’s widely known that he converted to Judaism after the auto accident that took his eye, but this week, […]
April 25, 2022Uncategorized

The World’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park Ride

Action Park in Vernon, NJ became known as “Accident Park,” “Traction Park,” “Friction Park” and “Class-Action Park” because of the many injuries, accidents and even deaths that occurred there. One […]
April 18, 2022Uncategorized

Overthrowing the Government: The Insurrection in Wilmington (REBROADCAST of Episode 27)

Originally broadcast March 8, 2021. There has been one successful coup d’état in American History – a successful violent overthrowing of a city government in 1898. Sadly, it’s a story […]
April 11, 2022Uncategorized

The U.S. Government Killed 10K People with Alcohol

Bootlegging was an inevitable result of 1920s Prohibition in the U.S. And when the government tried to solve the problem, they ended up with a solution that killed at least […]
April 3, 2022Uncategorized

The Awful Reason There Aren’t More Mummies

Did people in Victorian England eat mummies!? Was the flesh from mummies used for paint? In this episode, we talk about medical cannibalism, bad science and mummification. Then we chat […]