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103 How Gothic Got Goth

“Gothic” has described a lot of things: Mustachioed barbarians just outside the Roman empire,...

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103 Five Scary Clowns

Anymore it seems like scary clowns outnumber standard, whimsical clowns. Clowns are monsters,...

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101 Kara Helgren on Witches, Puritans, and the Salem Tourist Experience

Kara Helgren has previously worked for the city of Salem, Massachusetts as a tour guide, leading...

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100 Q & A

We made it to 100 episodes! For the occasion we’ve a new name, a new logo, and your questions and...

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99 Live Your Life Like You’re Examining a Platypus

The platypus appears to be some kind of melding or mashup between a duck and a beaver. It is not,...

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98 Blood and Types

Belief that one’s blood type affects personality is common in Japan. Dating sites, celebrity...

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97 American Exiles

Immigration from Mexico to the US is not new. Workers have been deciding to immigrate to the US,...

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I’m Not Dead

It was bound to happen eventually. There’s no new episode this week.

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96 Funeral on the Moon, the Story of Fallen Astronaut

There is a statue on the moon. In 1971 the crew of Apollo 15 placed a small figurine and a plaque...

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95 Live at the Jack London Bar: Teddy Roosevelt and the Mystery of the Missing Time Capsule

Teddy Roosevelt buried a time capsule in Portland in 1903. One hundred years later, Roosevelt’s...

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94 The Know-Nothings, Part Two

In 1854 the anti-immigrant Know-Nothings made their debut into American politics. They ran...

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93 The Know-Nothings, Part One

Decades before the modern versions of the Democratic and Republican parties formed, the US also...

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92 We Don’t Know Things About the Mesoamerican Ball Game

The ancient Mesoamerican ball game is very probably the oldest ball game in the world. We know...

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91 Kory Bing on Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Megafauna

This week’s episode is an interview with artist and cartoonist Kory Bing about dinosaurs and...

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90 The Fiji Mermaid

Today PT Barnum is remembered as one of the founders of modern advertising and one of America’s...

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89 Live at the Jack London, Robertson V Baldwin

In 1897 the US Supreme Court carved out an exception the 13th Amendment, which bans slavery and...

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88 The Unknown Origins of Pasta, A Wonder of the World

As far as your humble podcaster is concerned, pasta is a wonder of the world right up there with...

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87 Stalin’s Nonexistent Human/Chimp Hybrid Supersoldiers

One of the most bizarre myths about the Soviet Union is that Joseph Stalin attempted to create...

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86 Mandeville, Part Three

No one knows who wrote The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. There is no record of an English...

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85 Mandeville Part Two

As the Travels of Sire John Mandeville move away from the familiar and the Holy Land, they get...

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