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The podcast where we choose a subject, read a single Wikipedia article about it, and pretend we’re experts. Because this is the internet, and that’s how it works now.

Episodes (50)

Exxon Valdez

Exxon Valdez

August 27, 2025 39m S1E437
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989. The spill occurred when Exxon Valdez, an oil supertanker owned by Exxon...
Olestra / Olean

Olestra / Olean

August 13, 2025 33m Episode 435
Olestra (also known by its brand name Olean) is a fat substitute food additive that adds no metabolizable calories to products. It has been used in the preparation of otherwise high-fat foods, thereby...
Pluto

Pluto

August 06, 2025 40m Episode 434
Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to...
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Patreon Bonus Episode Teaser - July Bonus - My Immortal Fan Fiction

July 31, 2025 8m
This is a teaser episode of our Patreon Bonus Episode. This is the first few minutes of that particular episode to let non-patrons sample that content.   You can become a patron here:...
Defenestration

Defenestration

July 30, 2025 36m S1E433
Defenestration (from Neo-Latin de fenestrā[1]) is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.[2] The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618...
Moving Day

Moving Day

July 23, 2025 40m Episode 432
Moving Day was a tradition in New York City dating back to colonial times and lasting until after World War II. On February 1, sometimes known as "Rent Day", landlords would give notice to their...
Mark Twain

Mark Twain

July 16, 2025 36m Episode 431
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United...
The Juniper Tree

The Juniper Tree

July 09, 2025 36m Episode 430
"The Juniper Tree" (also "The Almond Tree"; Low German: Von dem Machandelboom) is a German fairy tale published in Low German by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812 (KHM 47).[1] The...
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Optograms and Wife Salves

July 02, 2025 34m
Optography is the process of viewing or retrieving an optogram, an image on the retina of the eye. A belief that the eye "recorded" the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and...
Charge of the Light Brigade

Charge of the Light Brigade

June 25, 2025 34m Episode 428
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a military action undertaken by British light cavalry against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, resulting in many casualties to the...
The Barkley Marathons - The Immortal Horizon - Part 2

The Barkley Marathons - The Immortal Horizon - Part 2

June 18, 2025 34m Episode 427
The Barkley Marathons is an ultramarathon trail race held each year in Frozen Head State Park in Morgan County, Tennessee, United States. Described as "The Race That Eats Its Young", it is known for...
The Barkley Marathons - The Immortal Horizon

The Barkley Marathons - The Immortal Horizon

June 11, 2025 1h 2m S1E426
https://www.thebeliever.net/the-immortal-horizon/   The Barkley Marathons is an ultramarathon trail race held each year in Frozen Head State Park in Morgan County, Tennessee, United States. Described...
Operation Channel Fireball & Operation Fantasia

Operation Channel Fireball & Operation Fantasia

June 04, 2025 41m Episode 425
Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PsyOp), has been known by many other names or terms, including Military Information Support Operations...
Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong

May 28, 2025 34m
Donkey Kong[a] is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. It follows the adventures of Donkey Kong, a large, powerful gorilla, and...
Fax Machines - RERELEASE

Fax Machines - RERELEASE

May 26, 2025 35m Episode 423
We had errors with our podcast service provider and they released another show on our feed. We are still fielding questions regarding people not having access to last weeks show so we are rereleasing...
Fax Machines

Fax Machines

May 21, 2025 34m Episode 423
Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone...
Ruby Ridge

Ruby Ridge

May 14, 2025 40m Episode 422
The Ruby Ridge standoff was the siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in Boundary County, Idaho, in August 1992. On August 21, deputies of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) came to...
The Moon

The Moon

May 07, 2025 38m Episode 421
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It orbits Earth at an average distance of 384399 km (238,854 mi; about 30 times Earth's diameter). The Moon's orbital period (lunar month) and rotation...
Security incidents involving Barack Obama

Security incidents involving Barack Obama

April 30, 2025 30m Episode 420
Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, was involved in multiple security incidents, including several assassination threats and plots, starting from when he became a presidential...
The Chameleon - Frédéric Pierre Bourdin

The Chameleon - Frédéric Pierre Bourdin

April 23, 2025 40m
Frédéric Pierre Bourdin[1] (born 13 June 1974)[2] is a French serial impostor the press has nicknamed "The Chameleon".[3] He began his impersonations as a child and claims to have assumed at least 500...
Elmer McCurdy - The Worlds Worst Outlaw

Elmer McCurdy - The Worlds Worst Outlaw

April 16, 2025 34m Episode 418
Elmer J. McCurdy (January 1, 1880 – October 7, 1911) was an American outlaw who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a train in Oklahoma in October 1911. Dubbed "The Bandit Who Wouldn't...
Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde

April 09, 2025 37m Episode 417
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut "Champion" Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were American outlaws who traveled the Central United States with their...
Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis

April 02, 2025 37m Episode 416
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day...
The OSS (Office of Strategic Services)

The OSS (Office of Strategic Services)

March 26, 2025 38m Episode 415
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)[3] to coordinate...
Audie Murphy - The Most Decorated Combat Soldier of WW2

Audie Murphy - The Most Decorated Combat Soldier of WW2

March 12, 2025 37m Episode 413
Audie Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971)[1] was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II,[4] and has...
The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid

March 05, 2025 46m Episode 412
"The Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue), sometimes translated in English as "The Little Sea Maid",[1] is a fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Originally published in...
The Battle of Cartagena de Indias

The Battle of Cartagena de Indias

February 26, 2025 30m Episode 411
The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (Spanish: Sitio de Cartagena de Indias, lit. 'Siege of Cartagena de Indias') took place during the 1739 to 1748 War of Jenkins' Ear between Spain and Great Britain....
Pornhub 2024 Year in Review

Pornhub 2024 Year in Review

February 19, 2025 47m
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2024-year-in-review   Use code CITATION at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/citation    
Ghost Ships

Ghost Ships

February 05, 2025 32m Episode 408
A ghost ship, also known as a phantom ship, is a vessel with no living crew aboard; it may be a fictional ghostly vessel, such as the Flying Dutchman, or a physical derelict found adrift with its...
Bonus Army

Bonus Army

January 29, 2025 31m Episode 407
The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand...
Pizzagate

Pizzagate

January 15, 2025 35m
So we actually recorded this last week on Monday so one of the last paragraphs of the episode has outdated info in it. The Pizzagate guy was killed by police during a traffic stop after allegedly...
Pythagoras

Pythagoras

January 08, 2025 38m
Pythagoras of Samos[a] (Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας; c. 570 – c. 495 BC)[b], often known mononymously as Pythagoras, was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of...
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The Host's Fictional Bios

January 01, 2025 59m
This episode was inspired by our tall tales episode. We each take a crack a writing another host's fictional bio. This was supposed to be a Christmas Episode but was delayed.
The Holy Prepuce (Foreskin) and Other Relics

The Holy Prepuce (Foreskin) and Other Relics

December 25, 2024 32m
The Holy Prepuce, or Holy Foreskin (Latin præputium or prepucium), is one of several relics attributed to Jesus, consisting of the foreskin removed during the circumcision of Jesus. At various points...
Snarky Restaurant Reviews

Snarky Restaurant Reviews

December 18, 2024 37m
Two mean reviews. One from the Sydney Morning Herald on Coco Roco...and the other from the New York Times on Guy's American Kitchen & Bar.
Pong

Pong

December 11, 2024 35m
Pong is a table tennis–themed twitch arcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari and originally released on 29 November 1972. It is one of the...
Competitive Eating, Takeru Kobayashi, and Joey Chestnut

Competitive Eating, Takeru Kobayashi, and Joey Chestnut

December 04, 2024 1h 0m
Competitive eating, or speed eating, is a sport in which participants compete against each other to eat large quantities of food, usually in a short time period. Contests are typically eight to ten...
Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty

November 27, 2024 38m
The earliest known version of the tale is found in the French narrative Perceforest, written between 1330 and 1344.[7] Another was the Catalan poem Frayre de Joy e Sor de Paser.[8] Giambattista...
The Sinking of the Whaleship Essex

The Sinking of the Whaleship Essex

November 20, 2024 36m
Essex was an American whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, which was launched in 1799. On November 20, 1820, while at sea in the southern Pacific Ocean under the command of Captain George...
Carlos Kaiser

Carlos Kaiser

November 13, 2024 35m
Carlos Henrique Raposo (born 2 April 1963), commonly known as Carlos Kaiser, is a Brazilian con artist and former footballer who played as a striker.[citation needed] Although his abilities were far...
Crazy Patents

Crazy Patents

November 06, 2024 41m
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing...
Mickey Barreto - An NYC Real Estate Loophole Story

Mickey Barreto - An NYC Real Estate Loophole Story

October 30, 2024 34m
For five years, a New York City man managed to live rent-free in a landmark Manhattan hotel by exploiting an obscure local housing law.
Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

October 23, 2024 41m
Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941)[3] is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author.[4] He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor...
Siege Weapons and Fortifications

Siege Weapons and Fortifications

October 16, 2024 34m
A siege engine is a weapon used to destroy fortifications such as defensive walls, castles, bunkers and fortified gateways.   A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is...
Pied Piper and the Children's Crusade

Pied Piper and the Children's Crusade

October 09, 2024 35m
The legend dates back to the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicoloured ("pied") clothing, who was a rat catcher hired by the town to lure rats away[1] with his...
Project 57

Project 57

October 02, 2024 32m
Project 57 was an open-air nuclear test conducted by the United States at the Nellis Air Force Range in 1957,[1][2] following Operation Redwing, and preceding Operation Plumbbob. The test area, also...

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