This one is eventually about Hamilcar Barca, the Carthaginian John Wick. He comes in at around the 2-hour mark. I've taken your feedback that the Tik Tok generation wants shorter episodes and I have determined that it is the children who are wrong.

You asked, I delivered. We're going to be heading back into the dreaded continuity with a multi-part series detailing the Punic Wars. This first episode has very little Punic Wars, but it's necessary homework, so I tried to add more spice. This is the Way.

Thomas Midgley Jr came close to destroying the world with his invention of CFCs, but we managed to survive. This time he's back to finish the job. Because why have one planet-ending invention when you can have two? Here's the story about how the same guy also invented leaded gasoline and somehow managed to be even deadlier the second time around.

In which we finally learn why 'fridge' has a 'D' in it but 'refrigerator' doesn't. Oh, and quite a bit about the end of the world too, with history's biggest killer - Thomas Midgley Jr.

This was a Patreon exclusive for a while, but it's Christmas! (Or whatever holiday you choose to celebrate. Me, I'm more of a Saturnalia guy, but you do you.)

Paranormal curses from the void between stars are surprisingly common in the sport of baseball. This show will explore the spectrum from the relatively benign "Curse of the Bambino" to the downright freaky "Curse of the Colonel". Yes, that Colonel. The chicken guy.

The 1904 St Louis Olympic Marathon: 32 people started the race, only 14 finished. And the guy in the thumbnail is running in a chopped-down business suit and a beret. You'd like to know more, wouldn't you?

Has the hysteria calmed down yet? I hope so. Here's 90 minutes of why Queen Elizabeth II was not a good person. Not in the slightest. I can't wait for the comment section on this one.

It's well past time we took a torch to this throne of lies. Why (almost) everything you ever knew about diamonds is a lie told as a part of the greatest con ever perpetrated.

In which I make a very extended case for why imperial measurements are stupid, why metric is objectively better, we go into the surprisingly fascinating history of paper sizes, and I explain why every eagle you've ever listened to has lied to you.

Featuring 6-10, in no particular order, on the arbitrary top-ten list of women who don't get as much attention as they deserve. We've got the greatest pirate you've never heard of, Civil War James Bond, a horny monarch, an overrated general, and one person who - if not for gender stereotypes - would have made Mars colonies possible by now.