InfoCast 5000

InfoCast 5000

By Beren MallyHistory
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InfoCast 5000 episodes

  • Dirty Bits: Rockets

    Can't get enough rocket stories? We have explosion content for you this week, guest starring: Pigeons! Not sure what that means? We can't spoil the secrets for you all in the description! More tid bits behind rocket history coming at you! Russian revolutionaries! Failed Russian moon landing attempts! V-2 escapades! Dirty Bits!

    1 hr 7 min
  • Ep. 56 Rockets: The Final Frontier

    Special guest: BJ from Medicine for the Dead podcast!

    Lighting things on fire has always been fun, but its also how we got broke free of gravity's shackles and got ourselves to the moon. From the humble beginnings of bamboo and gunpowder to Nazi war secrets to cold wars, come with us as we travel across history to see how rockets got made! 

    1 hr 2 min
  • Dirty Bits: Wigs

    Looking for more wig on head action? You've come to the right place! This episode is chocked full of the wiggiest tales you could ever shake a a ball of fake hair at! From asian culture to the weaves of today, explore the bits and pieces we weren't able to fit into our normal script! Dirty Bits!

    59 min
  • Ep. 55 Wigs: Get Wiggy With It
    Fake hair don't care. You're getting a jam-packed historical trip on the life and times of our favorite fashion accessory: ze wig. Wacky social rules and over-powdered gentries clogging up battlefields and so much more!
    53 min
  • Ep. 54 Laxatives: Poison is our Friend

    There was a time in human history when constipation was the number 1 scourge of society. This week we are taking a look at all the weird substances we used to ingest to get the old pipes churnin' and burnin'!

    1 hr 2 min
  • Taxidermy: Dirty Bits
    Scintillating stories of stuffed animals that will keep you sizzling about still-life for another week! Horses! Both alive and dead! Ghost dogs! Cat mummy powder! Welcome once again to the madness that is all the stories we couldn't find into our normal script! Welcome to dirty bits!
    1 hr
  • Ep. 53 Taxidermy pt. 3: Akeley's Heel
    We are crossing the final sawdust-filled on our journey through taxidermy. We are discussing one of the most famous taxidermists ever to wrap skin and going into the artistic and realism movements of these modern times.
    42 min

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Why does everything exist? Interesting facts about familiar pieces of everyday life! Beren & Sam take you on a journey through the history of items you use every day, but may not know the story…