Braden takes us back to the 1200's when a direct descendant of Genghis Khan invaded the Indonesian island of Java. The results were surprising.

Our friend Owen G. is in the house (zoom call) with us to tell us about his experiences attending and working at the 2025 presidential inauguration!

If you're dying for more, join us over on the Patreon for this week's topic, the Y2K Scare!

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We're back for the meat and potatoes of the life and times of the alcoholic Keanu Reeves-AKA Grigori Rasputin.

Hope you the wrap up on this topic, thank you for joining us!

Join us over on the Patreon this week for the story of Yoshie Shiratori, the man who escaped from four Japanese prisons!

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Hello everyone! We had to split this one into two parts so make sure to tune in next week for the rest of the story,

Rasputin. He has quite the reputation, but should he? Was he truly the mystical, self-healing, stinky, sex pervert that all of the legends surrounding his history tell us he is?

Maybe not. We'll decide. Let's get into it.

Subscribe to the Patreon today to hear an extra history topic every week! This Week's Topic: The Emu War!

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As the name implies, this is a shitty episode. Quite possibly our best work yet

This was supposed to be a Patreon ep but decided to pull the switcharoonie so ignore references to it being the Patreon throughout the episode.

Shout out Cole for being with us again this week.

Also, join us over on the Patreon so you can still listen to the episode that was made for the regular this week, the insane story of the Battle of Tsushima and the Russian Baltic Fleet!

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Personally, I think this may be an all time classic.

Imagine Hippo Burger Helper, ground hippo, hippo fajitas, hippo chili, hippo stroganoff, just hippo in place the place of beef, everywhere the beef should be. That's an America that you almost live in. Lets get into it.

Join us on the Patreon for our story of Tarrare, the hungriest man in history!

Friend of the pod and our senior political analyst, Cole is here with us today.

The guy who shot Garfield (the president, not the cat) had a crazy life. Cults, scams, and a whole lot of assumptions on this episode today, we get into it.

Join us over on the Patreon this week as we talk about the 1500's astronomer and party legend, Tycho Brahe!

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War Elephants, hell yeah.

Elephants are basically ancient tanks, they're sick. What's possibly more sick is how to fight them. That's where the fire pigs come into pay.

We get into it. Thank you for listening.

Join us in the Patreon for our other episode over Madams of the American Wild West!

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The 1904 Olympics were kind of the parody of what the Olympics are supposed to be, just kind of like this podcast is kind of a parody of a real history podcast. It's the perfect topic for us.

Thank you for listening and Happy New Year! Join us over on the Patreon this week to go over The Challenger Disaster with us!

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Hello and Merry Christmas from the DLTU crew.

Couple Xmas themed episodes for you today.

Don't let anyone diss the Christmas truce as an uneventful or uninteresting historical event. Those people don't know anything. Get them a link to this episode as this Christmas present, that's what you should do.

Join us over on the Paych this week for your second Christmas-inspired history episode!

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Long before Texas gave us Stone Cold Steve Austin, Stone Cold STEVEN Austin gave us Texas. Ever think about that? For some reason, we did.

This is our first step in our journey to figure out wat Texas pride is all about. What the hell even is it that you guys are so proud of?

Stay chubbed, Texas.

We talk the Nika Riots over on the Patreon this week! If you've never heard of them, don't look them up don't do any of that reading shit. Just click the link below and we'll tell you all about them.

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