Medieval barber shops bled and performed surgeries on patients between hair dressing and a shave while operating as a tavern. Join Grim for the lost wonderous and terrifying world of the barber-surgeon with dark history stories of George Washington and medical tobacco enemas to educate and entertain.

Penis’ were inspected and evidence given by family, neighbors, and friends in gawking sex-court proceedings around allegations of love-making deficiencies by medieval wives. Spectators attended and placed bets. Trial details were published. And it became an entertainment mainstay throughout the sixteenth-century. Grim investigates: medieval sex-court. As well as love, lust, and love-making in the middle ages. 

The most badass saint butchered, boiled, buried, and burned her enemies alive. This is her story.

Scientist Albert Hoffman’s synthesis of LSD-25 in 1938 was hailed as a miracle psychopharmaceutical throughout the 1950s and studied by Harvard University and others for use in psychiatric treatment.

Grim’s candid investigation of the controversial chemical includes CIA, counter-culture, and medical interest and contention through the present. Explores Native-American shamanism, psylocibin, and ayahuasca. And the intellectuals and institutions behind its renaissance.

Marker 1- 25:40. Ayahuasca. DMT. Religious Use.

Marker 2- 40.07. Cptn Tripps. CIA. Timothy Leary. Rose of Paracelsus

Grim explores scientific progress in artificial super-intelligence, futuristic cyborg technologies and robotics. And discusses the work of Stephen Hawking, Nick Bostrom, Sam Harris, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk including the potential positive and negative impacts of developing technologies of the future on humanity and the human race. Joe Wojie, Britnee Smith, and Ted Sisco are joined from the J Edgar Hoover Building in Washington DC by AI and Information Technologies Contractor and Cyber Securities Analyst for the FBI: Chief Michael Hammer. grimphilly.com/podcast

The Founding Fathers’ first scandals of blackmail, sex, and betrayal involving George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson were all published by a Philadelphia journalist whose body washed up in the James River amidst the scandals he created. Grim Investigates. This is the story of Hamilton’s marital infidelities with Maria Reynolds. Of Jefferson’s children with his slave Sally Hemmings. And, of the scandalmonger: James T. Callander, who uncovered and published it.

The Reynolds Affair.

The Hemmings Affair.

Part II of II. Victorian brothels in Philadelphia and London are discussed within a wider secret underground world of sensually themed bordellos, sporting guides, brothel-menus for prices and services, and clandestine fetish communities. Photography, homosexuality, the connection of sex-work and the theater industry (including The Chestnut Street Theater in Philadelphia); and moral and legal issues are discussed through a lense of modernity and historiography. Joe Wojie and Britnee Smith are joined by Historians Ted Sisco and Sara McDonall. Explicit language. Mature-audiences. grimphilly.com/podcast for more.