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Ignoring the conventional wisdom to never meet your heroes and exposing the lesser known legacies and real life bad behavior of history’s most notable and beloved people.... more
FAQs about Meet Your Heroes:How many episodes does Meet Your Heroes have?The podcast currently has 113 episodes available.
June 19, 2021Episode 71: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Part 1)Some have called him the greatest ever American President. Some have called him a trust fund baby douche bag who used the wealth his family built exploiting slavery to marry his cousin in the pursuit of power. That’s us. We called him that....more48minPlay
June 11, 2021Episode 70: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartThis week we’re digging into the life of a child star who rubbed elbows with a young Marie Antoinette, toured Europe for nearly three decades, and wrote dozens of excrement-themed love letters to his cousin....more47minPlay
June 04, 2021Episode 69: Harvey MilkThis week we hear the story of a republican navy vet who takes a job on Wall Street, campaigns against government regulation, and tries to convince Jimmy Carter that a dangerous cult leader is nothing to worry about....more1h 12minPlay
May 28, 2021Episode 68: Shel SilversteinChildren’s cartoonist? Check! Children’s poet? Check! Playboy’s first Foreign Correspondent Cartoonist and erotic illustrator? Also...check!?Shel Silverstein’s facade as a well known, albeit quirky children’s author was, well, just that. A facade. This week’s hero was more complex, dark, and eccentric than many of his most famous poems and books....more56minPlay
May 21, 2021Episode 67: John KelloggThe year was 1877 and Americans were eating breakfasts so delicious they couldn’t stop masturbating. From a humble broom factory in Michigan, a hero will rise, delivering unsexy foods and nightmarish surgeries....more1hPlay
May 06, 2021Episode 66: Carl JungThe lesser-known legacy of this week’s hero includes a doctoral dissertation on seances conducted by a 15-year-old girl, and the real-life bad behavior includes a whole lot of white supremacy. Buckle up, because the life of Carl Jung is NOTHING like you’ve read about in textbooks....more54minPlay
April 21, 2021Episode 65: Frank Lloyd WrightWithout a doubt, the most well-known American architect, and by his own standards, the greatest of all time, Frank Lloyd Wright may have indeed had a prolific career. He also had a career and life filled with lies, drama, abuse, and even murder....more55minPlay
April 14, 2021Episode 64: Bugs Bunny (Mel Blanc)What do you get when you cross an inept hunter, a canary that talks like a baby, a prehistoric quarry worker, a cat with a lisp and almost 1,000 other cartoon characters? A man who used his incredible vocal range to create some of the most racist cartoons in history....more42minPlay
April 07, 2021Episode 63: Madame TussaudWhen you think of Madame Tussaud, you probably think of kitschy wax statues of modern-day celebrities, but the origin story of Madame Tussaud’s infamous museum is much, much (much) darker....more31minPlay
March 31, 2021Episode 62: The Easter BunnyThis week’s episode is another curveball. A wild, hilarious, wtf-filled curveball about The Easter Bunny....more39minPlay
FAQs about Meet Your Heroes:How many episodes does Meet Your Heroes have?The podcast currently has 113 episodes available.