All Seasons

Season 2017

• S2017E01 Why do British lawyers wear wigs?

  • October 24, 2017

• S2017E02 The Wild Hippos of Pablo Escobar

  • October 24, 2017

• S2017E03 Wharram Percy Versus The Undead

  • October 31, 2017

• S2017E04 Butter: Protestantism's Secret Ingredient?

  • November 2, 2017

• S2017E05 How White America Tried to Destroy Chinese Restaurants

  • November 7, 2017

• S2017E06 Who solves murders in Antarctica?

  • November 9, 2017

• S2017E07 X-Rays, Songs and Soviets: The Stilyagi Story

  • November 14, 2017

• S2017E08 Did a real-life rainmaker almost drown San Diego?

  • November 16, 2017

• S2017E09 Does the US Confederacy still exist in Americana, Brazil?

  • November 21, 2017

• S2017E10 When (and why) did the US start calling its citizens consumers?

  • November 23, 2017

• S2017E11 Nazis, Churchill and Chocolate

  • November 28, 2016

• S2017E12 When People Thought They Were Made of Glass

  • November 30, 2016

• S2017E13 When Scientists Hid Under Beds To Spy On Kids

  • December 5, 2016

• S2017E14 Conquest via Bird Poop: One Island at a Time

  • December 7, 2016

• S2017E15 What's the deal with smashing cake at weddings?

  • December 12, 2016

• S2017E16 Baguettes and Vacation: France versus Bakers

  • December 14, 2016

• S2017E17 When the Puritans Canceled Christmas

  • December 19, 2016

• S2017E18 The Strange History of Antarctic Fruitcake

  • December 21, 2016

• S2017E19 Ben Franklin Tried To Reinvent the Alphabet

  • December 26, 2016

• S2017E20 Waging War With Hallucinogenic Honey

  • December 28, 2016

Season 2018

• S2018E01 The Atomic Whoops: When the US Air Force Bombed South Carolina

  • January 2, 2018

• S2018E02 Presidents Love Their Ridiculous Pets

  • January 4, 2018

• S2018E03 Digging Up James K Polk (For the Third Time)

  • January 9, 2018

• S2018E04 Why does the Guinness Beer Company Track World Records?

  • January 11, 2018

• S2018E05 When did ALL-CAPS type become YELLING?

  • January 16, 2018

• S2018E06 Roald Dahl: Children's Author and Secret Agent

  • January 19, 2018

• S2018E07 London Made a Train for the Dead

  • January 23, 2018

• S2018E08 The Weird World of Meat Jell-O (Gelatin Origin Story)

  • January 25, 2018

• S2018E09 The Rotten, Sausagey Secret Origin of Botox

  • January 30, 2018

• S2018E10 Vitamin Donuts Were A Real Thing

  • February 1, 2018

• S2018E11 How A Grudge Match Launched the Ford GT40

  • February 6, 2018

• S2018E12 The Wild West Was Actually Pretty Chill

  • February 8, 2018

• S2018E13 When People Waged War Over Eggs

  • February 13, 2018

• S2018E14 The Strange Story of Canadian Margarine Bootleggers

  • February 15, 2018

• S2018E15 How Farmers Built A Barbed Wire Phone Network

  • February 21, 2018

• S2018E16 What was the 'Great Stink' of London?

  • February 22, 2018

• S2018E17 How MLK influenced Star Trek

  • February 27, 2018

• S2018E18 Step Aside, James Bond: The Strange Stories of Espionage Animals

  • March 1, 2018

• S2018E19 The Rise of Harvey Wiley's Poison Squad

  • March 6, 2018

• S2018E20 When Ancient India Beat Machiavelli to the Punch

  • March 8, 2018

• S2018E21 The Killer Marketing Campaign Behind Guy Fawkes

  • March 13, 2018

• S2018E22 Arsenic: The Assassin's Dream Weapon

  • March 15, 2018

• S2018E23 When Germany Sacrificed Sausage For War

  • March 20, 2018

• S2018E24 Lyndon Johnson Chatted on the Phone More than a Teenager

  • March 22, 2018

• S2018E25 What was the West Point Eggnog Riot?

  • March 27, 2018

• S2018E26 Weird People Who Built Weird Things

  • March 29, 2018

• S2018E27 Yes, Those Are Corpses in the Diorama

  • April 3, 2018

• S2018E28 That Time the US Built a Flying Aircraft Carrier

  • April 5, 2018

• S2018E29 Japan, Baseball and the Curse of the Colonel

  • April 10, 2018

• S2018E30 The Poetic Justice of Death by Molten Gold

  • April 12, 2018

• S2018E31 That Time We Erased a (HUGE) Waterfall

  • April 17, 2018

• S2018E32 3 Times Society Refused to Accept New Books on Science

  • April 19, 2018

• S2018E33 Did Richard Nixon Unwittingly Smuggle Drugs for Louis Armstrong?

  • April 24, 2018

• S2018E34 How James Bond Created a Mexican Dia de los Muertos Tradition

  • April 26, 2018

• S2018E35 What's the deal with two-dollar bills?

  • May 1, 2018

• S2018E36 Are all US Presidents actually related?

  • May 3, 2018

• S2018E37 The Capture of Guam Was Bloodless and Quick, All Due to a Misunderstanding

  • May 8, 2018

• S2018E38 Vermont Was an Independent Republic

  • May 10, 2018

• S2018E39 Ancient Mayan Ritual Alcohol Enemas

  • May 15, 2018

• S2018E40 California Was Named for a Fictional Island Ruled by a Black Amazon Queen

  • May 17, 2018

• S2018E41 Napoleon Bonaparte Was Attacked by Bunnies -- And Lost

  • May 23, 2018

• S2018E42 That Time Chewbacca Needed Bodyguards

  • May 24, 2018

• S2018E43 How Santa Anna Lost His Leg Twice, and Held a Funeral for It

  • May 30, 2018

• S2018E44 The Story of Max, South Africa's Famous, Crime-fighting Gorilla

  • May 31, 2018

• S2018E45 Maryland’s State Song was a Diss Track

  • June 5, 2018

• S2018E46 Dock Ellis and the Legend of the LSD No-hitter

  • June 7, 2018

• S2018E47 The Presidential Reason Fido Became the Default Name for a Generic Dog

  • June 12, 2018

• S2018E48 The Earliest Recorded Mooning Killed Thousands

  • June 14, 2018

• S2018E49 Why don't Americans use bidets?

  • June 19, 2018

• S2018E50 Kidnapping, Binge Drinking and Costumes: Voter Fraud in the 1800s

  • June 22, 2018

• S2018E51 The Time a Soviet Premier Was Banned From Disneyland

  • June 26, 2018

• S2018E52 The FBI's Quest to Understand 'Louie, Louie'

  • June 28, 2018

• S2018E53 Weird Wars Fought For Dumb Reasons

  • July 3, 2018

• S2018E54 Enough About Us: What About You?

  • July 5, 2018

• S2018E55 Philadelphia's Transylvanian Doomsday Cult: The Cave of Kelpius

  • July 10, 2018

• S2018E56 The United States That Never Were

  • July 12, 2018

• S2018E57 Why British Soccer Players Saluted the Nazis

  • July 17, 2018

• S2018E58 When Heineken Made Bottles That Could Be Used as Bricks

  • July 19, 2018

• S2018E59 The 1904 Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis Hosted a Racist 'Special Olympics'

  • July 24, 2018

• S2018E60 Why did people hate the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?

  • July 27, 2018

• S2018E61 Oregon Was a White Supremacist Paradise

  • July 31, 2018

• S2018E62 The Korean Soldier Who Fought for 3 Armies During WWII

  • August 2, 2018

• S2018E63 The WWII Naval Battle Won Using Potatoes

  • August 7, 2018

• S2018E64 Kansas Imprisoned Women For Having STDs

  • August 9, 2018

• S2018E65 Fanny and Stella: The Cross-Dressing Scandal of Victorian England

  • August 14, 2018

• S2018E66 Adidas Versus Puma: A Tale of Two Brothers

  • August 16, 2018

• S2018E67 Project A119: The Cold War Plan to Nuke the Moon!

  • August 21, 2018

• S2018E68 Angry Feds and Deadly Booze: The Story of the Chemists' War

  • August 24, 2018

• S2018E69 Gregor MacGregor Invented a Country and Convinced People to Invest in It

  • August 28, 2018

• S2018E70 Roland the Farter and the Weird World of Professional Flatulence

  • August 30, 2018

• S2018E71 The Cock Lane Ghost: Haunting, Hoax, Hysteria… or Hilarious?

  • September 5, 2018

• S2018E72 The Man Who Assassinated Abe Lincoln's Assassin

  • September 6, 2018

• S2018E73 War and Candy: The Infamous Tootsie Roll Air Drop

  • September 11, 2018

• S2018E74 Lawsonomy: How the Father of the Modern Airline Started His Own Religion

  • September 13, 2018

• S2018E75 William Walker: Filibuster and (Fantastically Bad) President

  • September 18, 2018

• S2018E76 Who are the Hartlepudlian Monkey Hangers?

  • September 21, 2018

• S2018E77 A Dead Pope Goes To Court

  • September 25, 2018

• S2018E78 Attack of the Aswang: How the CIA Used Vampires as Weapons of War

  • September 28, 2018

• S2018E79 History's Coolest (Non-Human) Political Candidates, Part I

  • October 2, 2018

• S2018E80 The Smooth-talking Takeover of Tabor Bridge

  • October 4, 2018

• S2018E81 The Curious Rise of SPAM

  • October 9, 2018

• S2018E82 The Mummies of Guanajuato

  • October 11, 2018

• S2018E83 Back When the Rich Ate Corpses

  • October 16, 2018

• S2018E84 The Ridiculous Story of the World’s First (Documented) Serial Killer

  • October 18, 2018

• S2018E85 The Life and Times of Ol' Knife Hand

  • October 23, 2018

• S2018E86 The People vs. Lenny Bruce: Ridiculous Stand-up Stories with Wayne Federman

  • October 31, 2018

• S2018E87 George Carlin Gets Quoted in the Supreme Court: Ridiculous Stand-up Stories with Wayne Federman

  • November 2, 2018

• S2018E88 How Conman Victor Lustig Sold The Eiffel Tower (Twice)

  • November 6, 2018

• S2018E89 The Bizarre Origin of the Oxford English Dictionary

  • November 8, 2018

• S2018E90 The Strange and Spectacularly Disgusting Story of the Great Kentucky Meat Shower

  • November 14, 2018

• S2018E91 The Laxative-laden Journey of Lewis and Clark

  • November 16, 2018

• S2018E92 When Dentist Sold Dentures Made with Corpse Teeth

  • November 21, 2018

• S2018E93 Feral Children and the True Story Behind The Jungle Book

  • November 22, 2018

• S2018E94 Dr. Seuss Wrote His Most Famous Book On A Bet

  • November 27, 2018

• S2018E95 0 The Great London Beer Flood of 1814

  • November 29, 2018

• S2018E96 The Malleus Maleficarum: A Real-life Witch Hunter's Bible

  • December 4, 2018

• S2018E97 The Forty Elephants: London’s All-Female Jewel Thieves

  • December 7, 2018

• S2018E98 (Some of) History's Dumbest Military Prototypes

  • December 11, 2018

• S2018E99 Were Tulips Really The Bitcoin of the 1600s?

  • December 13, 2018

• S2018E100 When Vikings Loot The Wrong Town

  • December 18, 2018

• S2018E101 The Weird, Surprisingly Recent Origin of the Tooth Fairy

  • December 20, 2018

• S2018E102 Gustaf Broman Tried to Cross the Atlantic in a Canoe . . . Or Did He?

  • December 25, 2018

• S2018E103 Creature Feature: The Dark Tetrad

  • December 27, 2018

Season 2019

• S2019E01 How a Broken Toilet Foiled a German Sub

  • January 1, 2019

• S2019E02 The American Soldiers Who Defected to North Korea and Became Movie Stars

  • January 4, 2019

• S2019E03 Uncle Sam Tried to End World War II With Bat Bombs

  • January 8, 2019

• S2019E04 What does 'Idaho' actually mean?

  • January 10, 2019

• S2019E05 Benjamin Franklin's Advice on 'Finding a Mistress'

  • January 15, 2019

• S2019E06 Was there a real-life Rapunzel?

  • January 17, 2019

• S2019E07 Idiomatic For The People, Part 1

  • January 23, 2019

• S2019E08 How the Monopoly Board Game Became a World War II Escape Kit

  • January 25, 2019

• S2019E09 Clara, The World's Most Famous Rhinoceros

  • January 30, 2019

• S2019E10 Who was the highest paid athlete in history?

  • February 1, 2019

• S2019E11 The Weird Life of George Washington, Part 1

  • February 5, 2019

• S2019E12 The Weird Life of George Washington, Part 2

  • February 8, 2019

• S2019E13 How Louisiana Almost Became a Hippo Ranching Hub

  • February 12, 2019

• S2019E14 English Men Used to Sell Their Wives

  • February 14, 2019

• S2019E15 How Admiral Horatio Nelson Ended Up Dead in a Barrel of Brandy

  • February 19, 2019

• S2019E16 How far did Isaac Newton go to hunt down forgers?

  • February 21, 2019

• S2019E17 Operation Gunnerside: How a Crew of Military Skiers Ruined the Nazi Bomb

  • February 26, 2019

• S2019E18 The Tragic Origin Story of Morse Code

  • February 28, 2019

• S2019E19 The War of the Stray Dog: How Far Would You Go For Your Pet?

  • March 5, 2019

• S2019E20 Agent Garbo: The Strange Tale of the Man Who Saved D-Day

  • March 7, 2019

• S2019E21 The Statue of Liberty Almost Lived in Egypt

  • March 12, 2019

• S2019E22 Idiomatic for the People II, Part 1

  • March 14, 2019

• S2019E23 Idiomatic for the People II, Part 2

  • March 19, 2019

• S2019E24 When West Virginia Begged the USSR for Foreign Aid

  • March 21, 2019

• S2019E25 California Schoolchildren and the Great Squirrel War

  • March 26, 2019

• S2019E26 Did Robert E. Lee hate Confederate Memorials?

  • March 28, 2019

• S2019E27 Prohibition, Prescriptions and the Rise of 'Medicinal' Booze

  • April 2, 2019

• S2019E28 Teddy Roosevelt May Just Have Saved Modern (American) Football

  • April 4, 2019

• S2019E29 How Big Bill Speakman Fought Off North Korea With Beer Bottles

  • April 9, 2019

• S2019E30 Hong Xiuquan: The Younger Brother of Jesus Christ Who Led a Bloody Rebellion in China

  • April 11, 2019

• S2019E31 How Oliver Cromwell Got Executed Several Years After His Death

  • April 16, 2019

• S2019E32 How Robert 'The Fastest Knife in the West End' Liston Conducted a Surgery With a 300% Mortality Rate

  • April 18, 2019

• S2019E33 History's Weirdest Flexes, Part 1

  • April 24, 2019

• S2019E34 History's Weirdest Flexes, Part 2

  • April 25, 2019

• S2019E35 Susanna Caroline Matilda: The Colonial Grifter Princess

  • May 1, 2019

• S2019E36 How the Black Death Came To Norway On A Ghost Ship

  • May 2, 2019

• S2019E37 Nosy Boraha: The Pirate's Paradise (And Cemetery)

  • May 8, 2019

• S2019E38 Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Hoax

  • May 9, 2019

• S2019E39 The Attack of the Japanese Balloon Bombs

  • May 15, 2019

• S2019E40 The Rise and Fall of Local Scrip: Alternative Currencies of the Great Depression

  • May 16, 2019

• S2019E41 That Time Ohio and Michigan Almost Went To War

  • May 21, 2019

• S2019E42 The Return of Listener Mail

  • May 23, 2019

• S2019E43 The Nature of Ephemera, with Alex Williams

  • May 28, 2019

• S2019E44 The Honorary Citizens of the United States

  • May 30, 2019

• S2019E45 The Duke of Edinburgh is Literally a God in Vanuatu

  • June 4, 2019

• S2019E46 Fort Blunder: The US Fort Mistakenly Built in Canada

  • June 6, 2019

• S2019E47 Patriots, Prisoners and Plants: The World of Political Body Doubles

  • June 11, 2019

• S2019E48 I Modi: The Scandalous Erotic Blockbuster Banned By The Vatican

  • June 13, 2019

• S2019E49 Playboy, Progressive Politics and Stand-up: The Dick Gregory Story with Wayne Federman

  • June 18, 2019

• S2019E50 The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I Tried To Make An Army of Super Tall Soldiers

  • June 20, 2019

• S2019E51 Yasuke, the African Samurai

  • June 25, 2019

• S2019E52 Bug Wars: When We Tried to Turn Insects into Soldiers

  • June 27, 2019

• S2019E53 The Night Witches: How an All-female Soviet Bomb Squad Terrorized Nazi Germany

  • July 2, 2019

• S2019E54 That Time Irish Separatists Invaded Canada

  • July 4, 2019

• S2019E55 Operation Northwoods: How the US Planned to Attack Itself and Start a War with Cuba

  • July 9, 2019

• S2019E56 Meet Albert Cashier, the Trans Man Who Fought for the Union in the Civil War

  • July 11, 2019

• S2019E57 Did the US Mafia actually start in New Orleans?

  • July 16, 2019

• S2019E58 A Grave Mistake: The Story of Patton's "Abandoned Rear"

  • July 18, 2019

• S2019E59 Castle Itter: When Germans and Americans Joined Forces in World War II

  • July 23, 2019

• S2019E60 Cow Shoe Camouflage: How Prohibition-era Moonshiners Outsmarted the Feds

  • July 26, 2019

• S2019E61 The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis: How One Lucky Forger Almost Destroyed A Nation's Economy

  • July 30, 2019

• S2019E62 Ye Xian: The Story of China's Cinderella

  • August 1, 2019

• S2019E63 That Time Ancient Monks Waged War Over A Copyright

  • August 6, 2019

• S2019E64 The Listener Mail Extravaganza

  • August 9, 2019

• S2019E65 Hunting Fireflies for Fun (and Profit)

  • August 14, 2019

• S2019E66 Creature Feature: Go Home Nature, You're Drunk

  • August 15, 2019

• S2019E67 Shame and Fish: The Embarrassing and Tragic Story of François Vatel

  • August 20, 2019

• S2019E68 The Super Fight: When Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano Had A Fight That Never Happened

  • August 23, 2019

• S2019E69 The Bloody Revenge of Saint Olga of Kiev

  • August 28, 2019

• S2019E70 John Willis Menard: The First African American Elected To US Congress

  • August 30, 2019

• S2019E71 Why George Washington is Huge in Barbados

  • September 4, 2019

• S2019E72 Around the World in a Model T: The Story of Aloha Wanderwell

  • September 5, 2019

• S2019E73 Sir Francis Drake and the Great Iowa Swindle

  • September 10, 2019

• S2019E74 4 Times Women in the US Were Actually Arrested for Wearing Pants

  • September 13, 2019

• S2019E75 Otto Rahn, The Nazi Occultist Who Hated Nazis and Inspired Indiana Jones

  • September 18, 2019

• S2019E76 The Gaspee Affair: Rhode Island’s Revolutionary “Tea Party”

  • September 19, 2019

• S2019E77 Teddy Bears, Rhinos, Safari and Everywhere Else: A Conversation with Daniel Scheffler

  • September 24, 2019

• S2019E78 Tom Watson Gordy: How One Uncle’s Adventures Inspired Jimmy Carter to Join the Navy

  • September 27, 2019

• S2019E79 How Uncle Tom's Cabin Became One of the Most Popular Books in China

  • October 1, 2019

• S2019E80 The Kaiser’s Plan to Invade the United States

  • October 3, 2019

• S2019E81 Christopher Columbus Was Such A Jerk That Even Spain Turned Against Him

  • October 8, 2019

• S2019E82 John Clem: The 12-year Old Civil War Hero

  • October 10, 2019

• S2019E83 John Wilkes Booth's Brother Saved Abraham Lincoln's Son

  • October 16, 2019

• S2019E84 The Bizarre Capitulation of Stettin

  • October 18, 2019

• S2019E85 The Death of Luxury Air Travel

  • October 23, 2019

• S2019E86 John Edmonstone: The Man Who Trained Darwin

  • October 25, 2019

• S2019E87 Kakigōri: The Story of Japan's Famous Shaved Ice

  • October 30, 2019

• S2019E88 John of Bohemia, the Blind King Who Charged Into Battle

  • November 1, 2019

• S2019E89 Science and Spiritualism: Why were ghost stories so popular in the 1800s?

  • November 5, 2019

• S2019E90 Rose Mackenberg: Houdini's Ghostbuster

  • November 7, 2019

• S2019E91 That Time Germany Got Obsessed With Polar Bear Photos

  • November 12, 2019

• S2019E92 How Bertha Heyman Conned Her Way Into Show Business

  • November 14, 2019

• S2019E93 Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 1

  • November 20, 2019

• S2019E94 Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 1

  • November 20, 2019

• S2019E95 Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 2

  • November 21, 2019

• S2019E96 The Weird, Weird History of Shipping: Part 1

  • November 27, 2019

• S2019E97 The Weird, Weird History of Shipping: Part 2

  • November 28, 2019

• S2019E98 The Honey Trap: Sex in Espionage Throughout History

  • December 3, 2019

• S2019E99 French Waiters Once Had to Strike for Their Right to Wear Mustaches

  • December 5, 2019

• S2019E100 The Strange Tradition that Forced Everyone in New York to Move House on the Same Day

  • December 10, 2019

• S2019E101 The Starving Time: When Jamestown Colonists Turned Cannibal, Part 1

  • December 12, 2019

• S2019E102 The Starving Time: When Jamestown Colonists Turned Cannibal, Part 2

  • December 17, 2019

• S2019E103 Colonel Blood and the Theft of the Crown Jewels

  • December 19, 2019

• S2019E104 The Time Salvador Dali Partnered with Walt Disney - Part 1

  • December 24, 2019

• S2019E105 The Time Salvador Dali Partnered with Walt Disney - Part 2

  • December 26, 2019

• S2019E106 The Weird Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Carols

  • December 31, 2019

Season 2020

• S2020E01 That Time America Fell In Love With Competitive Walking

  • January 2, 2020

• S2020E02 Abandoned Ship: What Really Happened Aboard the "Mary Celeste"?

  • January 7, 2020

• S2020E03 Violet Jessop, the Unsinkable Stewardess Who Survived Three Famous Shipwrecks

  • January 9, 2020

• S2020E04 Pneumatic Tubes: The 'Futuristic' Transport System That's Over 150-Years-Old

  • January 15, 2020

• S2020E05 The Great Goldfish Gulping Craze That (For Some Reason) Swept America

  • January 16, 2020

• S2020E06 The Ersatz Wild West Shootouts of Palisade, Nevada

  • January 22, 2020

• S2020E07 That Time Ernest Hemingway's Younger Brother Started His Own Country

  • January 24, 2020

• S2020E08 Why Genghis Khan's Great-Great Granddaughter Was Just as Badass

  • January 29, 2020

• S2020E09 The Legend of Tarrare, the Insatiable Glutton Who Ate a Quarter of a Cow Daily

  • January 31, 2020

• S2020E10 The Straw Hat Riots of 1922

  • February 5, 2020

• S2020E11 Erasto Mpemba: The High School Student Who Disproved Thermodynamics

  • February 6, 2020

• S2020E12 'Mad' Jack Churchill: The Bagpipe Playing Soldier Who Hunted Nazis with a Longbow - Part 1

  • February 11, 2020

• S2020E13 'Mad' Jack Churchill: The Bagpipe Playing Soldier Who Hunted Nazis with a Longbow - Part 2

  • February 14, 2020

• S2020E14 The Great Diamond Hoax - Part 1

  • February 19, 2020

• S2020E15 The Great Diamond Hoax - Part 2

  • February 20, 2020

• S2020E16 The Tiny Spanish Town That Went To War With France For 100 Years

  • February 26, 2020

• S2020E17 Night Soil Men Were the Unsung Heroes of Urban Sanitation

  • February 27, 2020

• S2020E18 Was the Lone Ranger Inspired by a Black U.S. Marshall?

  • March 4, 2020

• S2020E19 The Presidential Dinner That Scandalized America

  • March 5, 2020

• S2020E20 Calvin Coolidge Skipped Town and Went Fishing for Three Months (While He was President)

  • March 11, 2020