It's a duo of evil duos! We compare Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - who (among other things) murdered children in 1960's Manchester - to John and Sarah Makin, who murdered up to 13 babies in late 1800's Sydney. Includes a Lesser of Two Evils!

Trigger warning: There's quite a bit about rape and several dead babies, sorry.

Music: "Tea for Two" by Comedian Harmonists

Charity: Missing People

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Healapalooza

Kevin, Toren and Joe take a look at what happens when you get too much of a good thing like water - Floods! They'll paddle down the two Grote Mandrenkes to Johnstown, Pennsylvania to China's many great floods. We'll look at explanations for the story of Noah's flood, and finally dip into floods in popular culture. Plus an all-wet Lesser of Two Evils!

Music: "When The Levee Breaks" by Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezyyBZ1bfbE

This week Joe, Kevin, and Toren are joined by Dr. Rob Tarzwell for a look at nuclear weapons. From "The Gadget" to Fat Man & Little Boy to the incredible destructive power of the fusion-powered "H-Bomb", plus the world's smallest nuclear weapon - the Davy Crockett recoilless nuclear gun! We'll look at the timeline and effects of nuclear explosions, "Peaceful Nuclear Explosions", and a special (and completely arbitrary) selection of nuke-related movies and video games.

Music: "Tic, Tic, Tic" by Doris Day

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Subjecting "Fridge Nuking" to Scientific Peer Review

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAiYwADzr2Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlE1BdOAfVc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOUtZOqgSG8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=q6Q3YrMFe9k#t=634

(the mention of this game was cut since all we did was describe what happens in the video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc6iUCX2u3Q

Various kinds of mummies are discussed, including ancient Egyptian methods, bog mummies, saponification, and electroplating. Plus the mummies of Guanajuato, Chiesa dei Morti, Luang Pho Dang, and plenty of pop culture.

Music: "Ra Ra Ra" by Here Come the Mummies

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Abbott & Costello Meet The Mummy

Here Come the Mummies

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXD-SHbwyU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbL_LaDtWBA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x48Hq9F4Q70

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3vhpk7DhZM

Kevin, Toren, and Joe continue their look at Joseph Stalin with WWII-era horribleness, news about the return of a Georgian monument to Stalin and pop culture with Children of the Revolution, Animal Farm, and more!

Music: "Stalin Kicked the Bucket" by Ray Anderson

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Trotsky: A Graphic Biography

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClaNnaMgbF0

This week in Evil Dudes in History it's Joseph Stalin: the "Man of Steel" responsible for even more deaths than in Zack Snyder's movie! We'll talk about his rise to power, daring thefts, murders, the "Road of Bones" and so much more horribleness that we had to save some for next week!

Music: "Mr. Stalin You're Eating Too High On The Hog" by Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith and his Crackerjacks

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Babies in cellophane, lead for kids, bad advertiser turned propagandist Edward Bernays, Tom Vu, the Marlboro Man, Joe Camel, Pizza Hut's moon advertising plan, and more!

Sorry for the slight lateness of this one -- we had a pretty severe tech problem to recover from and so editing took quite a bit longer.

Music: "Try Wheaties" (the world's first jingle!) by The Wheaties Quartet

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzsSpDyBc_4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEep5BrexT0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQc-zD7WrzA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk0jjG9CbqA

Steven Schwartz returns to discuss all of the horrible things that happen on cruise ships, including fires, collisions, murders, sexual assaults (trigger warning!), suicides, medical malpractice, disease, and Mal de Debarquement Syndrome. All this plus pop culture too!

Music: "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by Helen Ward

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3279Ry6bN4k

Can you clone a mammoth and have it build a pyramid? Baz Edmeades of megafauna.com joins us to talk about prehistoric elephants, hell pigs, terror birds, giant ground sloths, marsupial lions, hippopotamus wombats, moas, sabretooth cats, stellar sea cows and more!

Music: "Downtown (in the Cenozoic)" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

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Megafauna.com

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XfFtKGECjI

Rolling into flaming pits, roasting in bronze statues, or just leaving them exposed to the elements, there's a plethora of ways to kill infants. Joe, Toren, and Kevin look at infanticide across history and in the animal kingdom, as well as featuring in horrible recent news and mercifully less-horrible pop culture.

Music: "Baby Face" by Buddy Clark & the Andrews Sisters

Charity o' the Week: AMT Children of Hope Foundation

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