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Victorians Got Super Weird With Flirting, Part One: "Fan Fiction"
Feb 04, 2025The Victorian Era was, on the surface, a time of almost cartoonish sexual repression. Courtship was governed by rigid sets of rules and heirarchy, and even meeting a prospective partner outside of the...
Why did people hate the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?
Feb 01, 2025Nowadays most people are fans of national parks, but this wasn't always the case. Join the guys as they delve into the strange "birds vs. babies" conflict over Lake Malheur. See omnystudio.com/listene...
First Ladies Who Weren't Wives, Part One: The Niece Will Have To Do
Jan 30, 2025For more than two hundred years, the American public has elected not just a president, but a family. While the position of First Lady of the United States is not outlined in the Constitution, you lite...
Some of History's Funniest Honorifics, Part One: The Babymaker, the Debauchee, and More
Jan 28, 2025Honorifics are perhaps best described as the fancier version of nicknames, with some of the same familiar rules: just like nicknames, you don't get to give yourself an honorific. And, again, just like...
IP, Part Two: The Baffling World of Trademarks
Jan 23, 2025What does it mean to own an idea, a brand, a catchphrase or a concept? In part two of their continuing exploration of the weird world of intellectual property, the guys suss out what exactly is (or is...
A Ton of Inventors Died Due To Their Own Inventions, Chapter Two: Li Si and the Five Pains
Jan 22, 2025The world is riddled with inventors whose discoveries led to their demise. Thomas Midgley, Jr. is the world's worst inventor. Marie Curie discovered radioactivity and it killed her. Li Si invented the...
CLASSIC: The 1904 Racist Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis
Jan 18, 2025A few years after Baron Pierre de Coubertin revived the ancient sporting event known as the Olympics, he brought the games to the U.S. for the first time. The 1904 Summer Olympics were held in St. Lou...
The Ridiculously Ambitious History of the World's Fair, Part Two: Things Don't Always Work Out
Jan 16, 2025On paper -- and, often, in practice -- the world's fair is an astonishing global showcase of groundbreaking innovations. However, as Ben, Noel and Max discover in the second part of this two-part seri...
The Ridiculously Ambitious History of the World's Fair, Part One: A Crazy Plan, and Crazy Success
Jan 14, 2025Have you ever dreamed of going to a science fair as an adult? If so, the world's fair is for you -- these massive international exhibitions occur around the world, usually running for three to six mon...
CLASSIC: Why British Soccer Players Saluted the Nazis
Jan 11, 2025As global tensions grew to a breaking point in the lead-up to World War II, European nations used every available avenue to pursue their goals, including the propagandistic power of sporting events. J...