The Lesser Stories

It's WWII time! Adam digs into a unit devoted entirely to making fake armies; Anthony talks about Finland's deadliest sniper.

Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten.  

Producer: Adam Azra'el

Next stop: medicine! Anthony talks about a doctor who changed the world forever. Adam talks about one who didn't change the world at all. Warning: parts of this episode are *spectacularly* gross.

Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el

Producer: Adam Azra'el

Anthony unpacks how Michigan and Ohio both wanted Toledo (for some reason). Adam talks about Nicaragua and Honduras, and how the wrong color green in a stamp re-ignited a century-old border dispute.   

Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten
Producer: Adam Azra'el

Adam, Anthony, and special guest Davey Jones (no, not really, don't be an idiot) discuss some stuff that happens where the sun don't shine. Mostly we mean at the bottom of the ocean, but in this case we also partly mean at the bottom of a person.

Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten

Producer: Adam Azra'el

If a tree falls in a forest but a BIGGER tree falls in a DIFFERENT forest, did the first tree even fall? Adam digs into the most important (and least-known) pharaoh ever discovered, and Anthony explores three deaths....two of which went totally unnoticed.

Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten
Producer: Adam Azra'el

It's not our last episode, but it was certainly theirs....Anthony closes the book on Charles The Bad, and Adam makes multiple attempts to kick Zog Of Albania's bucket. It's death, murder, mayhem, destruction....you know. Wholesome stuff.

Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el

Producer: Adam Azra'el

Can a book save a cathedral from being demolished? Turns out....yeah. Do we have any idea what the Voynich Manuscript is? Turns out....no. Adam and Anthony sit down to very academically unpack two famous historical literary works.

Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten


Producer: Adam Azra'el

Is it technically littering when a space station falls out of the sky and onto your town? Anthony thinks so. Meanwhile, Adam is busy unpacking the drama of The Corned Beef Sandwich Incident.

Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el

Producer: Adam Azra'el

Anthony talks about that one time that Ireland accidentally made drugs legal and same-sex marriage legally required. Adam digs into Honest Abe's dirty trick to win an election and end slavery in the United States.

Anthony blows the dust off the Football War (4 days). Adam gets competitive and rolls out the Anglo-Zanzibar War (38 minutes). May history judge us all harshly.

Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el

Producer: Adam Azra'el