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A biweekly weird-history podcast based in Dallas, TX WILD & TRUE stories 🤯 OCCASIONAL guests 🤝 Starring comedians Jimmy Nelson & Scott Crisp
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This week on a very special Oddball History Podcast, we shamelessly attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the World Cup with our very own soccer episode, featuring the wildest stories in the history of the beautiful
The popes have gone wild this week on a highly spiritual Oddball History Podcast, from Sergius III having his two immediate predecessors strangled, to Benedict IX more or less openly selling the papacy, to Leo X and his
Bird, bird, bird, bird is the word this week on a very special Oddball History Podcast, as Scott learns all about the most legendary birds in history, including the heroic war pigeons of World Wars 1 & 2, Thomas Jefferso
This week on a very special Oddball History Podcast it's the Cavalcade of Rich Weirdos--three exceedingly wealthy and almost unbelievably weird men straight from the pages of history, from the barely literate American Re
This week on a very special Oddball History, it's the Year of Five Emperors, a wild, bloody, chaotic time even by the standards of the Roman Empire--from Commodus being strangled by his personal trainer on New Year's Eve
This week on a very special Oddball History we're lowering ourselves down into the sewer to learn all about the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre, a grisly and all too true comedy of errors set in 1902 French Indochina, as well a
What's beef? Beef is when you hate someone so much for so long that your hate goes down as a matter of public record, as we learn this week on a very special Oddball History Podcast. From Hollywood icon Joan Crawford cla
This week on a very special Oddball History we're going back to the well of weird history that is the Turn of the 20th Century, to a time when Martians were real (or seemed to be anyway). PLUS: Top Comments is back, Secr
This week on a very special Oddball History, Jimmy has retired from history podcasting, leaving Scott to ramble about hippopotamuses--specifically the brief period in 1910 when Congress considered importing hippos to sol
Come on in, the water's warm. Part 2 of the Oddball History Holiday Classic Chapters: (00:00) Intro (00:57) The Last Castrato (09:20) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (15:31) Scott Goes Ghost Hunting (23:19) Margaret Howe
Check out our favorite segments from the past 2 years. Happy Holidays to you and yours. Chapters: (00:00) Intro (01:58) Jacques Ferron and the RIghteous Donkey (08:46) Ken Allen the escAPE artist...get it? escAPE? (17:13
The early 2000s were a different time. A better time? Depends who you ask. We'll be covering Boy Meets Boy, Kid Nation, and My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance. Chapters: (00:00) Intro (02:20) Top Comments (08:32) Boy Meets Boy
The HMS Wager did everything wrong. Here is the story of the shipwreck, mutiny, and return home to merry old England. Chapters (00:00) Intro (08:40) Top Comments (21:55) The HMS Wager (45:49) Podcastin'
We'll cover Gregor MacGregor, George C. Parker, and Natwarlal. Also butts and stuff. Chapters (00:00) Intro (02:58) Top Comments (20:37) Gregor MacGregor Makes Up a Country (28:15) George C. Parker has a bridge to sell y
The conman so nice, he sold the Eiffel Tower twice! And more such stories. Enjoy. Chapters (00:00) Intro (02:14) Top Comments (22:24) Victor Lustig: King of the Con (55:42) Show Dates and Chit Chat
Georgia Tech and Cumberland faced off in 1916. The Yellow Jackets won 222-0. This is that story. Chapters: (00:00) Intro (05:05) Top Comments + Some Meandering (26:06) 1916 Georgia Tech vs. Cumberland Beatdown (45:58) Id
Two comedians/poorly researched historians dive into American folk heroes and the very real people behind the tall tales. Chapters (00:00) Intro (03:05) Top Comments (18:55) Johnny Appleseed/John Chapman (27:31) Paul Bun
We check out some of history's strangest performers. Enjoy! Chapters: (00:00) Intro (03:25) Top Comments (21:54) Le Petomane - the French Farter (31:02) Alessandro Moreschi - The Last Castrato (38:44) Matthias Buchinger
This week, we take you down memory lane of some of the strangest riots on recent history Chapters: (00:00) Intro (02:58) Top Comments (18:08) The Straw Hat Riot of 1922 (24:30) Astor Place Shakespeare Riot of 1849 (32:43
The title really does a good job at saying what this one is about. Chapters (00:00) Intro (04:34) Top Comments (13:43) Bernarr MacFadden (47:25) Straight Up Podcast Chat - Also come see us live.
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