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

This week on Oddball History, the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex has baseball fever, Lawrence films his special and the boys discuss the Black Sox Scandal of 1919, when a group of disgruntled Chicago White Sox players conspired to throw the World Series.

Chapters

(00:00) Intro

(00:16) The Blacksox Scandal

(30:11) Steroid Era and TV Naps

(32:19) Lawrence's Special Taping

(36:37) Back to the comedy Grind

(38:36) Murder Docs

(41:10) Tyler, TX Gets Dark

In a very special MLB Playoffs edition of Oddball History, Scott struggles to participate while watching the end of the Rangers-Astros game while Lawrence and Jimmy discuss the Great Emu War of 1932, HGTV, and the time an ostrich attacked and almost killed Johnny Cash.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(00:30) The Great Emu War

(21:39) Rangers Lose Game 5 ALCS

(22:05) Australian Accents

(24:19) Scott Reacts to Rangers Loss

(26:19) HGTV Hometown

(30:25) Scott Lashes Out

(31:44) Lawrence's Special Taping

This week on Oddball History the boys talk about the Charmin Bears’ complete lack of class, Lawrence is taping a special, and we meet Ernest Hemingway’s little brother, the founder of the short lived island micro-nation of New Atlantis, Leicester Hemingway.

(00:00) Intro

(00:10) Oddball Hemingway: Leicester Hemingway

(00:30) JK Billy Carter and Pippa Middleton

(01:55) Jimmy does a segue

(26:14) Scott Loves TV

(29:44) Stand Up Talk

(33:54) Scott's Favorite Heckler

(36:44) Texas State Fair

This week on Oddball History, we talk Below Deck, Air Bud Villains of history and celebrate the new football season with a look at record-setting NFL kicker of yesteryear Tom Dempsey—a man born with only half a right foot but a whole buttload of determination.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(03:39) Oddball History: Tom Dempsey

(19:20) Fantasy Football Talk

(22:56) Lawrence Gets Complaints

(26:13) Jimmy Goes to Tyler

(29:38) Scott Watches Below Deck

(34:02) It gets weird

This week on the Oddball History Podcast the boys advocate for federally funded mutant academies and discuss Lawnchair Larry, a Vietnam vet who rose to fame in 1982 when he tied to a bunch of balloons to a lawn chair and took it 16,000 feet in the air over Los Angeles.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(00:28) Lawn Chair Larry Walters

(31:16) Lawrence's Special

(32:24) Waylon Jennings: X-Man?

(37:03) Fantasy Football and Police

This week on Oddball History, the dark side of the unlikely animal friends industry, Lawrence returns from sea rich with silk and exotic spices and the boys discuss Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear who rose to the rank of corporal in the Polish army during World War 2.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(03:37) Oddball History: Wojtek the Bear

(30:37) Johnny Manziel Doc

(37:37) Jimmy Speaks Spanish

(38:38) Stand up Shows