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

This week on Oddball History, Jimmy and Scott talk dying at the circus, the living hell that was the Spanish-American War and the beef scandal to end all beef scandals: The U.S. Army Beef Scandal.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(01:05) Oddball History: The Army Beef Scandal

(33:17) Woodstock 99

(38:34) Fire Station Fun

On this week’s Oddball History Lawrence is missing at sea, leaving Jimmy and Scott to discuss the life of Lee Christmas, the famed American mercenary who once helped a banana magnate overthrow the Honduran government.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(00:49) Oddball History: Lee Christmas

(26:47) Scott hunts ghosts

(33:35) Quarterback on Netflix

This week on a very sexy Oddball History, the boys have a frank and mature discussion about the history of pornography, their shared admiration for Reese Witherspoon, and what is widely regarded as the worst adult film of all time.

(00:00) Intro

(01:22) Pornography of our Youth

(08:19) Lawrence Has Atomic Habits

(11:14) Today's Topic: Bat P*ssy

(13:32) A History of Pornography

(33:22) Bat P*ssy Watch Party

This week on Oddball History we learn all about John D. Rockefeller’s deadbeat dad “Devil” Bill Rockefeller, the summer heat in Dallas begins to drive us insane and the ocean continues its revenge tour.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(01:36) Scott is Martin Starr

(02:32) Titanic Hot Takes

(06:50) Comedy Mothership/Austin Comedy Scene

(14:35) Comedy Condos in Kansas

(16:45) Texas is Too Hot

(19:21) Oddball History: William "Big Bill" Rockefeller