Oddball History

This week on Oddball History, Jimmy has a baby, Scott watches some TV and the both of them get to know the scrappy weirdo that is the real Rudy Ruettiger, the inspiration for the 1993 film "Rudy." ALSO: HBO's Chimp Crazy, Wallace Shawn and OJ Simpson's best friend.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(02:20) Top Comments

(04:37) Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!

(33:53) Goofin' and Gabbin'

This week on Oddball History, Jimmy and Scott discuss the life and times of famed imposter Fred (Ferdinand) Demara. Who famously saved 13 lives during the Korean War while posing as a doctor on a Canadian warship. ALSO: Past lives, Taco Bell, and that French Olympic pole vaulter everyone keeps talking about.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(01:30) Top Comments

(05:24) "The Great Imposter" Fred Demara

(33:39) Goofin' and Gabbin'

This week on Oddball History, Jimmy and Scott explore the weirdly dark history of the most important meal of the day, from the 1920s ad campaign that made bacon a breakfast food to the cultish origins of the cereal industry. Also: Calvin Coolidge, Below Deck, and the Planet of the Apes.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(02:46) Darkside of Breakfast

(25:43) Goofin' and Gabbin'

This week on Oddball History, Jimmy and Scott discuss Hawk Tua Lady Fever, Robert Durst and the wildest things to ever happen at the Olympics—from the most ill-conceived bike race of all time to the first and only time live birds were used as shooting targets and all the grisly weirdness in between.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(03:53) Olympic Shenanigans

(35:44) Hawk Tua & Goofin'

This week on Oddball History, Jimmy and Scott discuss robots, invisible men and the history of animals being put on trial—from the seafaring monkey-spy to the medieval rats who beat the barley-eating allegations to the killer pigs who terrorized the babies of France throughout the late Middle Ages.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(00:43) Animals on Trial

(35:37) Goofin' & Gabbin' - Vapes and Movies

This week on Oddball History, Jimmy and Scott pontificate on the scarf's place in men's fashion, Mary Poppins and the Lake Worth Monster, a "fishy man-goat" or possible "drunken teenager in a gorilla suit" who terrorized the Lake Worth area just outside Fort Worth, Texas in the summer of 1969.

Chapters

(00:00) Intro/Recap

(06:38) The Lake Worth Monster

(31:02) New Bit Goofin'

(41:50) Comedy Talk

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.