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The History of Morning Routines, Part One: Thank Goodness People Learned to Wash Themselves
Jun 03, 2025Regardless of culture or country, most people have some sort of morning routine. This could be a simple as a shower, a shave and brushing one's teeth -- on the other hand, some morning routines are el...
CLASSIC: Attack of the Aswang: How the CIA Used Vampires as Weapons of War
May 31, 2025Horror fans can tell you there's more than one type of vampire -- in fact, there are hundreds of vampire-like fiends in cultures around the world. In most cases these are dismissed as spooky stories f...
The Ridiculous -- and Surprisingly Dangerous -- History of Hair Dye
May 29, 2025Whether we're talking jet black, stunning platinum or fire engine red, there's just something fascinating about hair as a fashion statement. And, of course, forms of hair dye have been used since anti...
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: That Super Humble Statue of Zeus
May 27, 2025Statues are sort of a big deal. Even today, most folks you meet don't have a statue of themselves. So it comes as no surprise that back in the day, one statue in particular became a wonder of the anci...
CLASSIC: Who are the Hartlepudlian Monkey Hangers?
May 27, 2025Years ago, if you wanted to start a fight in Hartlepool in north eastern England, all you'd have to do is start calling people 'monkey hangers'. But why? Join the guys as they explore how the Napoleon...
HP Lovecraft Was A Super Weird Dude, Part Two: The Horror Stories That Changed The World
May 22, 2025Newly inspired by his recent associations in amateur magazine circles, HP Lovecraft returns to fiction. In the second part of this series, Ben, Max and special guest Jonathan Strickland witness Lovecr...
HP Lovecraft Was A Super Weird Dude, Part One: Childhood Tragedy
May 20, 2025Love him or hate him, there's no denying that Howard Phillips Lovecraft fundamentally altered the course of horror and speculative fiction. So how did he become one of the most influential authors in ...
CLASSIC: William Walker: Filibuster and (Fantastically Bad) President
May 17, 2025In today's Classic episode, Ben, Noel, Casey In Spirit and Max explore a bizarrely American story. The adventurer and filibuster William Walker was, in his heyday, lauded as an American hero for his r...
Accidental Inventions of the 20th Century, Part Two: The Slinky and the Post-it Note
May 15, 2025While things like the Slinky and the Post-it Note may seem pretty ubiquitous, simple ideas today, they each have their own bizarre accidental origin story. In the second part of this week's two-part s...
Accidental Inventions of the 20th Century, Part One: Penicillin, X-Rays and the Microwave Oven
May 13, 2025Humans have always been compelled by curiosity -- sometimes, this leads to misfortune, but other times... curiosity and accident can also lead to world-changing innovations. In part one of this week's...