Episode – 0501 : The Culper Ring Podcast Transcript In 1778, in the middle of the Revolutionary War, while camped outside New York City, General George Washington and Major Benjamin […]
Episode – 0500 : Episode 500!
Episode – 0500 : Episode 500! Podcast Transcript Back in July of 2020, a man in the middle of a pandemic decided to launch a new podcast. It would be […]
Episode – 0499 : Inflation
Episode – 0499 : Inflation Podcast Transcript If you’ve been around long enough, you might have noticed that things are more expensive than they used to be. If you’ve really […]
Episode – 0498 : Operation Paperclip
Episode – 0498 : Operation Paperclip Podcast Transcript After World War II, the American forces in Germany implemented a program of de-Nazification in the parts of the country which they […]
Episode – 0497 : Gold! Gold! Gold!
Episode – 0497 : Gold! Gold! Gold! Podcast Transcript Believe it or not, one of the most valuable elements on the Periodic Table was also the first one that was […]
Episode – 0495 : Superconductivity
Episode – 0495 : Superconductivity Podcast Transcript In 1911, a Dutch physicist named Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was experimenting with ultra low-temperature metals. He was measuring the electrical resistance of mercury […]
Episode – 0494 : The Fall of Constantinople
Episode – 0494 : The Fall of Constantinople Podcast Transcript History is full of battles and conflicts. Most of them are forgotten over time as they don’t really impact history. […]
Episode – 0493 : The Treaty of Versailles
Episode – 0493 : The Treaty of Versailles Podcast Transcript On November 11th, 1918, the first world war came to an end. Or to be more precise, the fighting stopped. […]
Episode – 0492 : Shibboleths
Episode – 0492 : Shibboleths Podcast Transcript Have you ever met someone who couldn’t pronounce the name nearby town, or they just spoke different enough that you could tell that […]
Episode – 0491 : Suez Canal
Episode – 0491 : Suez Canal Podcast Transcript Africa is big. Really big. And for thousands of years, people have dreamed of a way to cut through the narrowest part […]
Episode – 0490 : Tokyo Rose & Axis Sally
Episode – 0490 : Tokyo Rose & Axis Sally Podcast Transcript During World War II, allied soldiers would often spend their time listening to the radio. They could, at least […]
Episode – 0489 : Paradoxes
Episode – 0489 : Paradoxes Podcast Transcript 2,500 years ago, the Greek philosopher Zeno posited a quandary. If you want wanted to travel from one place to another, you first […]
Episode – 0488 : Skunkworks
Episode – 0488 : Skunkworks Podcast Transcript 62 miles north of Los Angeles in the city of Palmdale, California, lies one of the most secretive aircraft design and production centers […]
Episode – 0487 : Remember, Remember the 5th of November
Episode – 0487 : Remember, Remember the 5th of November Podcast Transcript In 1605, members of the Catholic resistance in England hatched a plot that would have completely changed the […]
Episode – 0486 : The Election of 1860
Episode – 0486 : The Election of 1860 Podcast Transcript In 1860, the United States was as divided as it ever had been. The issue of slavery had been growing […]
Episode – 0485 : Giving the Finger to the Denisovans
Episode – 0485 : Giving the Finger to the Denisovans Podcast Transcript In 2008, researchers searching for fossils in the Denisova cave in Siberia came across something interesting. It appeared […]
Episode – 0484 : Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Episode – 0484 : Lyudmila Pavlichenko Podcast Transcript In 1941, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a 24-year-old woman in Ukraine volunteered to join the Red Army. She […]
Episode – 0483 : Benedict Arnold
Episode – 0483 : Benedict Arnold Podcast Transcript At the start of the American Revolution, a young American major general was one of the brightest stars of the war. He […]
Episode – 0482 : The Real Dracula
Episode – 0482 : The Real Dracula Podcast Transcript Vampires have been been a part of folklore for centuries. Perhaps no mythical vampire is more famous than Count Dracula. While […]
Episode – 0480 : How Casinos Work
Episode – 0480 : How Casinos Work Podcast Transcript Casinos are fascinating places. They can make tons of money, but they don’t really have a product. While it is often […]