We talk with special guest Jeremy Moore about three national parks of the American Southwest, and what binds them all together.

We talk about a robbery at one of Las Vegas's casinos, and the surprise, former-NFL-playing culprit, who had already evaded justice for a crime he committed years before.

We talk about one of the oldest settlements in Indigenous America, which eventually became San Diego.

We discuss Robert Broussard’s paradoxical idea to introduce hippopotamuses to the American south as a way to manage invasive plant growth and feed a meat-deprived nation.

We talk with special guest Jeremy Moore about Ernest Shackleton, the man who explored Antarctica, and the disasters that awaited him on the southern continent.

We discuss the untimely deaths of creators and musicians at age twenty-seven. Is death at that age an inherent occupational hazard for artists?

We discuss the Supreme Court case all about a man and his wheat (we promise it is interesting!). The Court’s ruling in this case upsets loads of law students every year, and can be hard to reconcile with the simple facts. So, should we leave Mr. Filburn and his farm alone, or is he endangering America?

We talk about two cousins of Jackie Kennedy, and how their magnificent lives as American royalty crumbled along with the very walls of the house they lived in.

We discuss the Mechanical Turk, a chess-playing automaton from the 1700s whose skill at the game became famous across Europe. The mysterious clockwork machine played and defeated many notable figures, including Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin.

We wrap up our series on the French Revolution, taking a bird's-eye view at the events we have (and haven't) covered, as well as the lasting effects of the revolution, and its differences from the American and English revolutions.