Actually Happening

Actually Happening

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Actually Happening episodes

  • Actually Happening Episode 15 — Mitt Romney’s Rump Party
    This week we suggest a surefire strategy for the GOP, and cover the funniest civil suits in US History.
    This Week:
    — The GOP wins back women with flowers
    — The Nether Regions Strategy
    — I like big rump parties and I cannot lie.
    — Insurance companies cutting off your sex life to spite their profits
    — The GOP plans to woo wombs
    — Yo dawg, I heard you like plates
    — Anne Frank’s Mormon baptism record
    — Foreskin related traditions
    — Rome could have learned a lot from Secretary Seward
    — Shiny statues at schools
    — The golden penis of the Time Warner Center
    — Typhoid Mary, Batman Villain
    — Reburying Greece
    — Fake Floridian Ruins
    — Suing objects – just go listen to the names. They’re incredible.
    — How to sue the Norse Gods
    — The world’s longest banana split
    — Boasting about Descartes
    34 min
  • Actually Happening Episode 14 — Pope Assassin’s Creed 2 VII
    This week we talk a surprising amount about sports, and discuss a rash of Irish relic theft in honor of St. Patrick’s Day.
    This Week:
    — Wolf-punching our way through primary season
    — Taser-Soccer, or is it Soccer-Taser?
    — Saluting General Relativity
    — Math major, math major, make me some math…
    — A Newtonian History of the English Monarchy
    — Queen Victoria, secret Welsh dude
    — Stanley justifying his expense account
    — New NFL Team: The New Jersey Union
    — Cricket is just like baseball except it’s not at all like baseball
    — The snitch is good for a boundary. Or a safety.
    — Pretending to be a whale
    — Spoiler Alert: Uncle Tom’s Cabin is terrible
    — Plantations as Zelda dungeons
    — Uncle Tom, Reality Star
    — Mexico still has snakes
    — Can I get a “Fuck James K. Polk”?
    — Saint Frankenstein
    — Desecrating Descartes
    — Oh catholics, you’re so pagan.
    38 min
  • Not Actually Happening Ep. 4 — Phrenology
    Yes, it’s another Not Actually Happening, a mini-episode where we get to talk about the things history got wrong and science screwed up. This week it’s fifteen minutes of head-squeezing silliness as we discuss phrenology.
    15 min
  • Not Actually Happening Ep. 3 — Piltdown Man
    Yes, it’s another Not Actually Happening, a mini-episode where we get to talk about the things history got wrong and science screwed up. This week, one of the biggest hoaxes in the history of archaeology is back in the news. Will they ever find out whodunnit?
    18 min
  • Actually Happening Episode 13 — Chief Justice Taft’s Lady Episodes
    It’s our lucky 13th episode and our one-year anniversary!
    This Week:
    — “Don’t operate heavy machinery. It’s heavy. Let someone else do it.”
    — How to make money on the Internet
    — The Revolution Might be Pinned
    — Kickbarter? Cakestarter?
    — Psychic Social Media Consultancy
    — “Oh, Death inverted. This means you should get on Tumblr now.”
    — Terrible Czech Pun-O-Rama
    — Kids are bad at research
    — Translating Catullus
    — Fields of birth control pills
    — Anna doesn’t want to talk about yogurt
    — Romulan Ale
    — The Salem Witch Trials
    — Taking dick jokes seriously
    — Getting rid of suffrage doesn’t sound like a bad thing?
    — Napoleon just… left
    — None of our ancestors got hung in Oregon
    — Pirates vs. serfs
    — Jass means “forget”
    — Recording CDs in alphabetical order
    — What the Senate does when it gets bored
    And if you hear any weird background noises, we’re eating a pomelo. It was delicious. So sweet and so cold.
    32 min
  • Actually Happening Episode 12 — The Beheader of Champagne Bottles
    And now back to your regularly scheduled podcast. We hope you enjoyed that two week interlude of nonsense.
    This Week:
    — Snooki is our new neighbor
    — Investing in Arrow-proof Bibles
    — Celebrating the 21st Amendment (No thanks to the Carolinas)
    — The man who singlehandedly destroyed an entire town
    — Fun-loving Friedrich Engels
    — The Iron Age was no party
    — Terrible Republican slogans
    34 min
  • Not Actually Happening Ep. 2 — Female Hysteria
    We’re back with a new Not Actually Happening, another mini-episode where we get to talk about the things history got wrong and science screwed up. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we discuss the causes (and cures!) of one of the 19th century’s most common diagnoses: hysteria. Come back next week for the usual show about things that were Actually Happening back in the day.
    9 min

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Yes, it's "Actually Happening," a panel game podcast with a healthy dose of obscure trivia, historical nonsense and terrible puns. Led by the obviously related Kevin Clark and Dennis Clark, and aided…