The 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis were the worst Olympics ever held. The Marathon involved a purposeful dehydration experiment and a runner who cheated by riding 11 miles in a car, the swimming events were all done in a pond, and people from various third world countries were forced to compete in what the media dubbed the “Savage Olympics”.

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The Worst Olympics Ever

Elmer McCurdy was perhaps the worst outlaw in the Wild West but his dead body became a show stopping attraction in everything from back road carnivals to Hollywood films over the course of a literal half century. Dan, Rob, and Jake talk about the extreme embodiment of success after death.

The Inept Train Robber Who Became A Must See Corpse

Trying to handle that dispute over the fence line with your neighbor? Learn how not to as Jake, Dan, and Rob dive into the wild and wonderful world of blood feuds in 1800s America. To work out how much life insurance coverage you need, and compare personalized quotes to find your best price, head to Policygenius.com and get your best quote in minutes.

There Will Be Blood Feuds

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and Jake Goldman are joined by Rob’s pregnant wife Courtney to talk about the history of pregnancy, birth control, pain management, and childbirth in the Middle Ages and why if a woman was good at any of that she was a witch and deserved to be burned alive.

Pregnant? Stop Being Such A Witch About It

Dan, Jake, and Rob are joined by Iconoblast's Matt Cooper to talk about Leo Major -- a Canadian scout and sniper who stormed the beaches of Normandy, took hundreds of Nazi POWs, and liberated a Dutch town of 50,000 by himself.

The One-Eyed Canadian Berserker Who Liberated A Nazi Controlled City

Götz von Berlichingen was a mercenary knight during the end of one of the bloodiest eras in history. He had a metal hand, and also invented a common profanity all of us say every day.

The Original Jaime Lannister

Rob Fox, Jake Goldman, Dan Regester and special guest Veronica Ruckh go through the history of lesbians from ancient Egypt's reputation for being a girl on girl sin-fest to medieval Middle East believing that women were attracted to other women because they ate too much celery.

No One Cares About Lesbians

In 1932 a New York bar owner and his connected friends took out an insurance policy on an alcoholic homeless man and did everything in their power to kill him. This is the story of how they failed over and over again.

The Unkillable Irish Hobo

Jake, Dan, and Rob breakdown the life and trials of Topsy the elephant. Was she a serial killing beast? Or just a victim of circus circumstance? Find out the grizzly details of her death, and their consequences on this week’s episode.

The Murdering Elephant That Made Hollywood Happen

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and special guest Jack Mandaville discuss the most overrated civilizations in world history.

The Most Overrated Civilizations In History With Jack Mandaville

Dan, Rob, and Jake break down the comedy of errors that somehow resulted into the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the butterfly effect that has shaped our modern world as a result.

The Comically Bad Assassination Of Franz Ferdinand

Jake, Dan, and Rob discuss P.T. Barnum’s rise to fame including leasing old slaves, sewing monkeys to fish, and adopting tiny boys from their parents and putting them in the circus.

P.T. Barnum's Circus Of Dead Elephants, Boiling Whales, and Monkey Mermaids

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and Jake Goldman explore the 1788 Doctors’ Riot in New York City, during which the people of New York formed a mob to attack doctors for allegedly grave robbing their deceased loved ones to use for anatomical dissection and other experiments. Once they got into the labs the mob saw… some messed up stuff.

The Time New York City Tried To Kill All Doctors For Being Creeps

Dan, Rob, and Jake discuss the insanely dumb rags to riches story about a man who couldn't stop failing his way to success in Colonial America -- "Lord" Timothy Dexter.

The Luckiest Moron To Ever Live

Jake, Dan, and Rob explore the different substances that may have altered the course of human history and the leaders who imbibed in them.

Most Of History's Leaders Were Wasted

The college football podcast that's still on probation with Rob Fox, Jake Goldman, and Dan Regester.

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