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Pregnant? Stop Being Such A Witch About It Jul 05, 2021

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Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and Jake Goldman are joined by Rob’s pregnant wife Courtney to talk about the history of pregnancy, birth control, pain management, and childbirth in the Middle Ages and why if a woman was good at any of that she was a witch and deserved to be burned alive.

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The One-Eyed Canadian Berserker Who Liberated A Controlled City Jun 29, 2021

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Dan, Jake, and Rob are joined by Iconoblast's Matt Cooper to talk about Leo Major -- a Canadian scout and sniper who stormed the beaches of Normandy, took hundreds of POWs, and liberated a Dutch town of 50,000 by himself.

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The Original Jaime Lannister Jun 22, 2021

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Götz von Berlichingen was a mercenary knight during the end of one of the bloodiest eras in history. He had a metal hand, and also invented a common profanity all of us say every day.

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No One Cares About Lesbians Jun 15, 2021

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Rob Fox, Jake Goldman, Dan Regester and special guest Veronica Ruckh go through the history of lesbians from ancient Egypt's reputation for being a girl on girl sin-fest to medieval Middle East believing that women were attracted to other women because they ate too much celery.

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The Unkillable Irish Hobo Jun 08, 2021

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In 1932 a New York bar owner and his connected friends took out an insurance policy on an alcoholic homeless man and did everything in their power to kill him. This is the story of how they failed over and over again.

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The Murdering Elephant That Made Hollywood Happen Jun 01, 2021

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Jake, Dan, and Rob breakdown the life and trials of Topsy the elephant. Was she a serial killing beast? Or just a victim of circus circumstance? Find out the grizzly details of her death, and their consequences on this week’s episode.

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The Most Overrated Civilizations In History With Jack Mandaville May 24, 2021

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Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and special guest Jack Mandaville discuss the most overrated civilizations in world history.

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The Comically Bad Assassination Of Franz Ferdinand May 18, 2021

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Dan, Rob, and Jake break down the comedy of errors that somehow resulted into the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the butterfly effect that has shaped our modern world as a result.

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P.T. Barnum’s Circus Of Dead Elephants, Boiling Whales, and Monkey Mermaids May 11, 2021

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Jake, Dan, and Rob discuss P.T. Barnum’s rise to fame including leasing old slaves, sewing monkeys to fish, and adopting tiny boys from their parents and putting them in the circus.

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The Time New York City Tried To Kill All Doctors For Being Creeps May 04, 2021

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Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and Jake Goldman explore the 1788 Doctors’ Riot in New York City, during which the people of New York formed a mob to attack doctors for allegedly grave robbing their deceased loved ones to use for anatomical dissection and other experiments. Once they got into the labs the mob saw… some messed up stuff.

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