Early English attempts at colonizing the Americas went real well. Take a journey back to the lost colony of Roanoke, […]
Tragedy Tuesday – Cerebus the Aardvark
In 1977, Dave Sim created a new kind of comic book anti-hero: a three-foot-tall, bipedal, anthropomorphic aardvark. Over the course […]
The Black Death – Part 2
Templar curses, corpse-eating pigs, and waking up to a house full of death. We rejoin our Genoese heroes as they […]
Tragedy Tuesday – Apollo One
The path to any great success is paved in failure… it’s about what you do in the face of that […]
The Black Death – Part 1
Every story starts somewhere. In the case of the Black Death, it starts with Mongol hordes, smug Italians, diseased rodents, […]
Tragedy Tuesday – Satanic Panic and the PMRC
In the 80s and 90s, our youth were being corrupted by Satan and his apostles: heavy metal, Prince, and Madonna. […]
Egyptian Famine
When your empire dates back six thousand years, odds are it’s been through a lot. Still, history didn’t prepare the […]
Tragedy Tuesday – The Oxford Comma
The Oxford Comma: either you love it, or you’re wrong. In this week’s mini episode, Peter tells the story of […]
Cosmic Terror (at the End of the Universe)
We bring in a very special guest to tell us about all the ways the universe is predicted to end. […]
Tragedy Tuesday – Wish You Weren’t Here
In this mini-episode, recorded live at the Ottawa Podcast Festival, Leigh tells the story of a tragic reunion between Syd […]