History Defeats Itself

Fasten your seatbelts and put on your cheekiest grin as we dive into the scandalously amusing life of Albert Spaggiari, the cunning French #bankrobber who slipped through the fingers of the law like a well-oiled baguette. Grab some cheese and a croissant and holy shit, I must be hungry. 

In the third and final installment of our series on cheating, Greg tackles infidelity. Why do people feel the need to step out of their marriage? We're here to unpack. Or, pack...if we get caught cheating on each other.

For part two on our series about cheating, John discusses the idea of cheating death. Many want to, some have tried, all have failed. Could that change? Kevin discusses how he feels it would suck to live forever, and Greg is tired.

How far would you go in order to win. Would you cheat? Would you cheat using sex toys? For the next three episodes we're doing a theme: cheating. For the first episode Kevin enlightens his co-hosts on the story of Hans Niemann, the 19 year old American chess player who some believe is not on the up and up, but IS playing with something up something. Join us to learn more about chess than you did binging The Queens Gambit

Did you know that 1 out of every 3 people will spontaneously combust? Wait...maybe it was 1 out of every 300? Or 1 every 300 years? I can't remember. No one listens to Greg. Join us as we welcome a very special guest and chat about spontaneous human combustion. Or. SHC, as the hip, young people call it.

It's our 100th episode! Join along as we pull back the curtain and reminisce about how we started, the speedbumps along the way, and how much we've enjoyed ourselves. It's our most self indulgent episode yet. Come celebrate with us!

Liam Neeson and Tom Cruise have no problem surviving plane crashes. Others who can do it with ease are Schwarzenegger, Stallone and on a good day, Nicolas Cage. But topping them all, is Vesna Vulovic. She actually survived a 33,000 foot fall, without a #parachute, after the plane she was on was bombed. And she survived. And lived an actual life. How, you ask? Fuck if we know. But it's a crazy story and worth a listen.

It's almost one of those "stranger than fiction" kind of things but in 1919, 2.3 million gallons of molasses flowed throw the streets of north Boston after a tank burst. Why was there a tank holding 12,000 tons of molasses? Christmas cookies, obv. Molasses cookies are delicious.

In 1976 Gerald Ford and his administration fast tracked a swine flu #vaccine hoping to avoid another #globalpandemic like the one in 1918. It went pretty poorly. We're here to chat about it.

On the latest episode of History Defeats Itself John continues his theme of shitting on NASA as he leads the crew in a discussion about the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster. Man, he really is upset about not being able to go to Space Camp when he was a kid.