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

This week on Oddball History, Jimmy and Scott talk NFL playoffs, gigantic sandwiches and the time Priscilla Presley left Elvis for her karate instructor.

Chapters

(00:00) Intro

(01:52) Elvis and Priscilla

(09:28) Elvis Does Karate

(13:05) Karate Does Priscilla

(20:40) Elvis Loves Sandwiches

(24:02) Elvis Spirals

(28:27) Fun Fact and Graceland

(32:10) Comedy and Football Talk

This week on Oddball History, the boys talk ideal ham temperature, an exciting & inexpensive new treatment for insomnia and how the first chiropractor, DD Palmer, got his start on the advice of a dead doctor during a seance.

Chapters

(00:00) Intro

(01:12) New Years Eve

(06:34) D.D. Palmer Father of Chiropractic

(09:50) Andrew Taylor Still Shakes Babies

(14:39) Chiropractic is a little silly

(17:18) D.D. Palmer - Magnetic Healer

(19:19) Founding of Chiropractic

(26:20) Gypsies, Tacos, and Brad Pitt

(31:58) Palmer Institute and Vehicular Assault

(38:00) EMS with Jimmy

(43:16) Holiday Review

This week on an unusually merry and bright Oddball History, the fellas talk Christmas memories, that Panera lemonade that keeps killing people and the 1927 Santa Claus Bank Robbery in Cisco, Texas—thought by many to be “the most donkey-brained robbery in state history.”

Dueling Fever is going around this week on the Oddball History Podcast as the boys run down the best and funniest duels in history, from Hamilton-Burr to two French guys shooting at each other from rising hot air balloons to a dog who accused a man of murder and then dueled him over it.

Chapters

(00:00) Intro

(06:00) Hot Air Balloon Duel

(09:28) Italian Poetry Duel

(11:31) Hamilton-Burr Duel

(14:00) Sausage Duel

(17:26) Billiard Ball Duel

(18:38) Naked Gun Fight

(20:09) Drowning Duel

(21:47) A Dog Duels

(24:42) Prison Fight Duel

(29:49) Myamoto Musashi

(32:51) A Topless Duel

It’s a Thanksgiving Spectacular on Oddball History. The boys discuss Ragamuffin Day, raccoons in the White House and the time FDR enraged half the country by moving Thanksgiving to a week earlier.

Chapters

(00:00) Intro/Filet-o-Fish

(04:35) Thanksgiving Extravaganza

(05:30) Franksgiving

(11:28) Whitehouse Racoons

(23:53) Ragamuffin Day

(31:18) Thanksgiving Plans

(33:51) Thanksgiving Food