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Ruby Ridge

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 2025-05-13 01:24:56 +0000 UTC View Post

The Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It orbits Earth at 2025-05-05 16:41:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Security incidents involving Barack Obama

Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, was involved in multiple security incidents, including several assassination threats and plots, starting fro...

The Chameleon - Frédéric Pierre Bourdin

Frédéric Pierre Bourdin[1] (born 13 June 1974)[2] is a French serial 2025-04-21 19:49:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Elmer McCurdy - The Worlds Worst Outlaw

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. Dub...

Bonnie and Clyde

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 2025-04-07 13:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (2025-03-31 13:21:03 +0000 UTC View Post

The OSS (Office of Strategic Services)

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was an intelligence agency of the United States during 2025-03-25 03:00:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Ross Douthat Opinion Pieces

2 op-eds by Ross Douthat

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/opinion/abortion-dobbs-supreme-court.html

https://www.nytimes...

Audie Murphy - The Most Decorated Combat Soldier of WW2

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 2025-03-10 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Patron Bonus: Excuse Us While We Kiss The Sky- Part 2

https://www.gq.com/story/urban-explorers-gq-march-2013

The Little Mermaid

"The Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue), sometimes translated in English as "The Little Sea Maid",[1] i...

Patron Bonus: Excuse Us While We Kiss The Sky- Part 1

https://www.gq.com/story/urban-explorers-gq-march-2013

The Battle of Cartagena de Indias

The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (Spanish: Sitio de Cartagena de Indias, lit. 'Siege of Cartagena de Indias') took place during the 1...

Pornhub 2024 Year in Review

https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2024-year-in-review

Op-Eds by Billionaires

Three op-eds by billionaires.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/

2025-02-10 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Ghost Ships

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 2025-02-03 21:34:25 +0000 UTC View Post

My Immortal Chapters 29-34

It's my immortal, continued.

It's my immortal, continued.

Bonus Army

The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in 2025-01-27 20:29:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Chrome Tab Clean Out

Tom cleans out his unrelated chrome tabs on interesting wikipedia articles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing

https://woodcarvingillustrated...

Pizzagate

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 pulling out a gun and pointing it at police. This incident happened 4 days after we recorded this episode.

2025-01-13 16:16:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Pythagoras

Pythagoras of Samos[a] (Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας; 2025-01-06 15:51:43 +0000 UTC View Post

The Host's Fictional Bios

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 Prepruce (Foreskin) and Other Relics

The Holy Prepuce, or Holy Foreskin (Latin præputium or prepucium), is one of several relics attributed to Jesu...

Snarky Restaurant Reviews

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 is a table tennis–themed twitch arcade sports video...

Competitive Eating, Takeru Kobayashi, and Joey Chestnut

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 minutes long, although some competitions can last up to thirty minutes, with the person consuming the most food bei...

Sleeping Beauty

The earliest known version of the tale is found in the French narrative Perceforest, written between 1330 and 1344.2024-11-25 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

The Sinking of the Whaleship Essex

Essex was an American whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, whic...

Carlos Kaiser

Carlos Henrique Raposo (born 2 April 1963), commonly known as Carlos Kaiser, is a Brazilian con artist and former footballer w...