Hosted by Travis and Tom · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 19 episodes
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History for people who hated history class. Join Travis (the history buff) and Tom (the enthusiastic bystander) as they stumble through the weirdest corners of the past, armed with questionable logic and a mountain of curiosity.Stonedhenge delivers high thoughts, historical chaos, and absolutely zero credentials. From the Emu War to the Corpse Pope, we cover the stories your teacher skipped. If you’ve ever wondered how empires fell or what ancient leaders were like at a party, you’re in the right smoky corner of the internet.
Travis and Tom hosts Stonedhenge: History and High Thoughts, a history show with 19 episodes published.
When Hernán Cortés sailed for the New World, he wasn’t just exploring...he was actively ignoring his boss and bringing "emotionally unstable men with swords" to a continent that had never seen them. In this episode, we a
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Long before anyone was making movies about staring at goats, the US government panicked over a rumor and spent 20 years and millions of dollars trying to win a "psychic arms race" against the Soviet Union. In this episod
Show notesLong before the US was a global superpower, they were just a 30-year-old country that decided to pick a fight with the strongest navy in the world. Why? Because the British were essentially pulling a massive kidnapping s
Show notesLong before competitive eating was a televised sport, getting kicked out of your parents' house for eating a quarter of a cow in a single day was just the start of the wildest medical mystery in French history. In this e
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What if J. Robert Oppenheimer didn't actually invent the atomic bomb, but just rediscovered it? Today, we are flipping the script. Travis is taking a break from the research, and Tom is putting on his tinfoil hat to dive
Show notesLong before anyone knew what a germ was, or had any basic common sense, getting sick basically meant a demon was pissed at you, or the moon was just in a bad spot. In this episode, we are tracking the absolute chaos of h
Show notesIn the Bible, humanity tried to build a tower to heaven, and God responded by smashing it and scrambling everyone's languages. Fast forward to the Middle Ages, and European Crusaders found the ruins and thought, "We shou
Show notesWhat happens when thousands of heavily armed sailors suddenly get laid off? They steal an island and start their own businesses. In the early 1700s, unemployed privateers took over the Bahamian port of Nassau, declaring
Show notesBefore coffee, humanity ran on "low battery mode"—mostly beer, wine, and going to bed at sunset. Then, an Ethiopian goat herder noticed his goats were dancing after eating some weird red berries, and suddenly, the world
Show notesWhat happens when you put 2.5 million people in a city with no plumbing during a heatwave? You get the "Great Stink," a disaster so bad it literally stopped the gears of the British Empire. In this episode, we explore th
Show notesIn 1859, a failed businessman named Joshua Norton did the only logical thing left to do: he declared himself Emperor of the United States. Surprisingly, the city of San Francisco just... went along with it. In this episo
Show notesIn July 1518, a woman named Frau Troffea stepped into a street in Strasbourg and began to dance. She didn't stop for a week. Within a month, 400 people had joined her in a deadly, non-stop mania that baffled doctors and
Show notesIn January 897 AD, Pope Stephen VI ordered his predecessor, Pope Formosus, to stand trial for perjury and illegal ambition. The only problem? Formosus had been dead for seven months. In this episode, we unpack the "Synod
Show notesIn late 1932, the Australian government declared war on a new enemy: 20,000 emus destroying wheat crops in Western Australia. They sent the Royal Australian Artillery armed with Lewis machine guns and 10,000 rounds of am
Show notesAugustus II (1697–1733), also known as "Augustus the Strong," was the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland who cared more about his bench press than his politics. He was famous for literally breaking horseshoes with his
Show notesIn the 5th Century AD, the Roman Empire faced a threat it couldn't bribe or bully: Attila the Hun. Known as the "Scourge of God," he united the barbarian tribes, ravaged Europe, and forced the Romans to pay him massive a
Show notesIn 1429, a 17-year-old illiterate peasant girl named Joan of Arc showed up at the court of the French King and claimed God had sent her to save France. Even crazier? They gave her an army. In this episode, we cover the s
Show notesThe legend of Miyamoto Musashi concludes with the most famous duel in history: The Battle of Ganryu Island. In this episode, we cover the climax of Musashi's life. We discuss: The Oar Duel: How Musashi arrived late to fi
Show notesMiyamoto Musashi is arguably the greatest swordsman who ever lived. An undefeated ronin (masterless samurai), he won his first duel at age 13 and went on to win over 60 life-or-death battles. In this episode, we track th
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In 1453, Sultan Mehmed II showed up to the most fortified city on earth with a simple plan: "What if we just built a cannon the size of a barn?" In this episode, we break down the most metal siege in history—The Fall of
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