This week on Oddball History, Jimmy and Scott discuss Great Moments in Pettiness, including the King of Persia physically attacking an ocean, the King of Korea falling off his horse and then desperately trying to cover it up, and the Pope putting the corpse of the former pope on trial.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(01:31) Petty Moments in History

(04:22) Petty Ancient Koreans

(09:34) Petty Persians vs. Ocean

(22:25) Petty Popes

(30:15) Comedy Shows & Dallas News

(34:41) New Bit Goofin'

(00:00) Intro

(02:14) Our Guest Pete Jung

(03:58) Jack Parsons

(17:04) Alistair Crowley Enters

(21:48) L. Ron Hubbard Enters

(27:31) Engineering with Pete

(30:24) Jack Parsons Career

(34:19) Jack's late life

(45:23) Comedy Shows and Chit Chat

This week on Oddball History the boys talk offensive nicknames of yesteryear, the poetry of Walt Whitman and the weirdest and most unintentionally hilarious NBA player of all time, Gary Suiter.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(01:57) Salami and Nicknames

(07:30) Gary Suiter's College Career

(12:41) The 1970-71 Cleveland Cavaliers

(14:50) Gary makes the NBA

(20:36) Gary's Bad

(23:50) Gary Wants Playing Time

(26:20) First Start...Gets cut

(28:42) Post Firing Craziness

(34:30) Gary Post-NBA

(39:48) Movies and Stand up

Scott

Chapters

(00:00) Intro

(03:26) Graceland and Vice TV

(11:17) OK, We'll talk about JFK

(19:55) Jack Ruby Stuff

(25:07) The Parade Route

(29:56) LBJ

(32:42) The Motorcade and Secret Service

(34:26) Parkland Hospital and Autopsies

(45:57) We solve it.

This week on a moderately special Oddball History Podcast, Jimmy and Scott talk local zoo crimes, our new monkey butlers (unrelated), and the time the sitting Governor of Louisiana, Earl Long, was hauled off to a state mental institution he himself had dedicated years earlier.

Chapters

(00:00) Intro

(01:00) Earl's Brother Huey Long

(07:08) Long Family Drama

(09:39) Earl Loves Corruption

(14:23) Earl the Governor

(21:32) Earl Goes Crazy

(30:20) Earl Goes to the Loony Bin

(38:45) Fun Facts and Quotes

(44:22) Idle Chit Chat and Show Dates

This week on Oddball History, Jimmy and Scott talk dominant child-athletes, Deadliest Catch and the short, very eventful life of the unluckiest ship in U.S. Navy history, The USS William D. Porter.

This week on Oddball History, Scott and Jimmy talk Bruce Springsteen, crawfish boil season and Ten Cent Beer Night—which started off as a promotion for a 1974 game between the Rangers and Indians in Cleveland, and ended with both teams fighting their way out of a massive, drunken riot.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:20 Korean Sports Gambling

04:20 Background and Lead Up

10:44 The Game Begins

15:30 The Wheels Fall Off

22:19 Chaos Reigns

32:08 Just Some Chit Chat

This week on Oddball History, Barbara Streisand, a journey to the Twilight Zone, and comedian Vinnie Corrales joins the show to talk Baron Von Steuben, a gay Prussian military officer who helped lead the Americans to victory in the Revolutionary War.

Chapters

(00:00) Intro

(05:35) Von Steuben On the Outs

(09:27) Queer Eye for the Continental Army

(17:03) Steuben in the American Revolution

(23:34) Steuben' Sexuality/

(30:57) Cowabunga Comedy

(35:12) Twilight Zone

(38:00) Comedy Shows and Funerals

This week on Oddball History, Jimmy has big news, Scott has thoughts about the show Love Island, and the story of the 1898 US capture of Guam, a bloodless engagement that only took a few hours as the Spanish soldiers stationed there didn't know they were at war.

Chapters

(00:00) Intro

(01:38) Spanish American War Recap

(04:05) We Love Rory Scovel

(05:46) They Sail to Guam

(11:20) Guam Arrival

(14:45) Guam Surrenders

(18:58) Guam Closing

(22:30) Drake's Weiner

(26:10) Jimmy's Having a Baby

(31:30) The Hamburglar and James Bond

(35:14) Comedy Talk

This week on Oddball History, Jimmy and Scott talk Jason Statham, outrageous bodybuilding contest entrance fees and filibuster William Walker, the diminutive, nasally-voiced Southerner who managed to take over Nicaragua for a short time in the 1850s.

Chapters

(00:00) Intro

(02:40) William Walker Background

(07:05) Willy Takes on Mexico

(15:23) A Random Dallas Fact

(16:00) Willy Takes on Nicaragua

(23:02) Willy Takes on Everyone Else

(27:03) Willy Walker Burns Dow Granada

(28:16) Back to America

(30:14) Willy's Last Honduran Hurrah

(37:00) Comedy Talk and Fantasy Football