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History Buffoons Podcast
Bradley and Kate
104 episodes
19 hours ago
What happens when a world-stage marathon is staged like a dare? We head back to the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis and trace a course lined with heat, dust, and a shocking lack of common sense. With temperatures near 90 degrees, one lonely water stop, and cars belching dust into runners’ faces, the race becomes a case study in how bad science and thin rules can turn sport into survival. We break down the pivotal moments that made this marathon infamous: Fred Lorz riding in a car for miles, then ...
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What happens when a world-stage marathon is staged like a dare? We head back to the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis and trace a course lined with heat, dust, and a shocking lack of common sense. With temperatures near 90 degrees, one lonely water stop, and cars belching dust into runners’ faces, the race becomes a case study in how bad science and thin rules can turn sport into survival. We break down the pivotal moments that made this marathon infamous: Fred Lorz riding in a car for miles, then ...
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Comedy,
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History Buffoons Podcast
The Origin of Weird: 1904 Olympic Marathon
What happens when a world-stage marathon is staged like a dare? We head back to the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis and trace a course lined with heat, dust, and a shocking lack of common sense. With temperatures near 90 degrees, one lonely water stop, and cars belching dust into runners’ faces, the race becomes a case study in how bad science and thin rules can turn sport into survival. We break down the pivotal moments that made this marathon infamous: Fred Lorz riding in a car for miles, then ...
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4 days ago
17 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
Buffoons Reminisce
What do a goat mayor, a corpse on trial, and a coconut SOS have in common? They all made our year of storytelling outrageous, insightful, and way more fun than history class ever was. We mark the end of the year by quizzing each other on the wildest tales we told, reliving the moments that made us gasp, laugh, and occasionally yell “nope rope” at a snake on a beer can. We jump from the Mona Lisa heist and how absence made it iconic to the roots of May Day in the Haymarket era. We revisit the...
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6 days ago
1 hour 3 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
In This Our Life: Hattie McDaniel
A nightclub mic no one expected to be open. A maid’s uniform worn to an audition. An ovation that shook the room while the system kept her at the far wall. Hattie McDaniel’s life reads like a ledger of impossible choices—yet it’s also a map of how to push a closed world a few inches wider. We walk through Hattie’s early years in a musical family, the vaudeville grind, and the Great Depression moment in Milwaukee that landed her a two-year gig and a path to Hollywood. Once the “talkies” took ...
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1 week ago
1 hour 21 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
The Origin of Weird: Timothy Dexter
A fortune built on bed warmers, coal, stray cats, and whale bones shouldn’t exist, yet Timothy Dexter kept cashing in. We jump into the outrageous life of a leather apprentice turned millionaire who wagered on “worthless” Continental currency, shipped the wrong goods to the right places, and somehow surfaced on the winning side of almost every trade. The more he won, the bigger his persona grew—statues of himself, a gilded mansion, and a jaw-dropping stunt funeral that pushed his quest for st...
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2 weeks ago
29 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
Quaker Beard Man: James VI and I
A baby crowned in a cradle. A teenage king kidnapped by his own nobles. A husband sailing into lethal storms to bring home his bride—and returning convinced that enemies could conjure weather. Our latest deep dive follows James VI of Scotland, later James I of England, as fear, faith, and politics collide to shape a reign that still echoes today. We start with the messy family tree that made James heir to both Scotland and the Tudor bloodline, then drop into the chaos of regents, assassinati...
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2 weeks ago
1 hour 1 minute

History Buffoons Podcast
1-800-TYPHOID: The Oregon Trail Part Two
Hope can fit inside a covered wagon, but so can heartbreak. We trace the Sager family’s 1844 push toward Oregon—from a baby born on the prairie and a nine-year-old’s leg crushed under a wagon wheel to typhoid, orphanhood, and a desperate bid for safety at the Whitman Mission in Walla Walla. What looks like a quiet waystation becomes the center of an epidemic, a cultural collision, and the event that reshaped the Pacific Northwest: the Whitman Massacre. We walk through the mission’s daily lif...
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3 weeks ago
1 hour 13 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
The Origin of Weird: The Anti Pope Schism
Power doesn’t just shape history—it picks the chair. We dive into the Western Schism, when Europe faced not one but multiple popes, and legitimacy became a battlefield of theology, politics, and personality. From Rome to Avignon to a seaside fortress in Spain, this is the story of how faith and ambition tangled for decades, and how a divided church fought its way back to one voice. We start with why rival popes appeared at all: the papacy sitting atop medieval geopolitics, the Avignon move t...
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1 month ago
39 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
Chimney Cricket: Oregon Trail Part One
A 2,000-mile promise of “free land” sounds irresistible—until you’re walking beside a creaking wagon at two miles per hour, guarding flour from river water and praying cholera spares your camp. We’re pulling the curtain back on the real Oregon Trail: why ordinary families sold everything for 640 acres, how they trained stubborn oxen, and what a good day looked like when success meant dry firewood, a safe ford, and hardtack that didn’t break a tooth. We map the true route from Independence an...
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1 month ago
1 hour 35 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
Hold My Fosters: Dave Kunst Walk Around The World
A wild idea in a Minnesota movie theater turns into a four-year odyssey across continents, palaces, deserts, and a war-torn frontier—only to be shattered and reshaped by a midnight ambush in the Afghan mountains. We follow Dave and his brothers from a rainy hometown send-off to a photo-op in Manhattan, a meeting with Princess Grace in Monaco, and the hard reality of Cold War borders that forced detours and difficult choices. Along the way: a mule named “Willy Make It,” letters from Hubert Hum...
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1 month ago
1 hour 22 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
The Origin of Weird: Uther Pendragon and Lady Igraine
A dragon-tailed comet blazes across the sky, a king takes it as a sign, and a wizard decides the future is worth a dangerous bargain. We dive into the charged origin of King Arthur—not at the anvil, but at Tintagel—where Uther Pendragon’s obsession, Merlin’s strategy, and a night of disguise set the legend in motion. This is a story about how power, desire, and prophecy can collide, and how the choices of one generation echo into the next. We unpack Uther’s volatile strengths and flaws, Egra...
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1 month ago
27 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
The Tudor Wizard: Cardinal Wolsey
Power doesn’t just sit on a throne—it lives in the hands that organize, negotiate, and quietly make things happen. We dive into the life of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the butcher’s son who became England’s most formidable power broker under Henry VIII. From racing through Oxford to mastering finance at Magdalen, Wolsey shaped policy, logistics, and diplomacy with a speed and precision that dazzled a young king who preferred jousts to ledgers. We walk through Wolsey’s peak: provisioning Henry’s ...
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1 month ago
1 hour 1 minute

History Buffoons Podcast
Holy Hitman Roofie: Thuggee Cult of India
A friendly smile by the fire, a shared meal on a dusty road, and a scarf that turns into a weapon in a heartbeat. We dive into the shadowed world of the Thuggee—bands of highway killers who claimed divine orders from the goddess Kali—and the colonial machine that made their legend larger than life. From slow-burn cons inside caravans to the lethal elegance of the rumal, we unpack how method, belief, and fear intersected to create one of history’s most unsettling criminal systems. We trace th...
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1 month ago
46 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
The Origin of Weird: L. Ron Hubbard and His Lackluster Naval Career
A man drops depth charges on a rock formation, shells the wrong country for target practice, and later rebrands himself as a decorated hero and spiritual “Commodore.” We follow L. Ron Hubbard from pulp fiction pages to a chaotic Navy stint and into the creation of Scientology, tracing how a talent for storytelling became a tool for power. The archives tell one version—lack of judgment, short command, diplomatic headaches—while the legend inflates into secret missions, hidden medals, and a pri...
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2 months ago
29 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
PerSwede Them: Black Sox Scandal
A powerhouse roster, a miserly owner, and a storm of quiet resentment set the stage for baseball’s most infamous fall. We trace how the 1919 Chicago White Sox—frustrated by low pay and trapped by the reserve clause—slipped from favorites to fixers, and how a swarm of gamblers, middlemen, and one calculating kingpin turned the World Series into a high-stakes con. From the hit-by-pitch signal that opened Game 1 to the chilling threats before Game 8, every twist exposes what happens when money o...
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2 months ago
1 hour 13 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
Feared and Revered: The Wendigo and Other Cryptids
A classic cocktail opens a door to stranger places. We start with the crisp snap of a gin and tonic and its unexpected past as a colonial malaria remedy, then step into the woods, deserts, and fog banks where four legends still breathe: the Wendigo, Chupacabra, Mothman, and Bigfoot. It’s a spirited tour that blends folklore, history, science, and a few dice-rolling survival games to test what you’d do when the dark starts whispering. First, the Wendigo: rooted in Algonquian traditions as a s...
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2 months ago
1 hour 8 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
The Origin of Weird: Will West and William West
Two men. Same name. Same face. Same measurements. Different fingerprints. The Leavenworth intake room went silent in 1903 when Will West’s file appeared to match a prisoner already serving time: William West. That uncanny collision didn’t just spark gossip—it cracked open the limits of “scientific policing” and ushered fingerprints into the center of criminal identification. We walk through Leavenworth’s early days as a showcase for order and data, from stone corridors to the Bertillon syste...
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2 months ago
19 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
I Don't Do Nautical Things: Submarine R-14
Stuck 100-plus miles off Hawaii with dead engines and a silent radio, a 1919 submarine shouldn’t have had a chance. Ours did. We walk through the improbable rescue of USS R-14—how a small crew turned hammocks into sails, bunk bed frames into a mast, and a steel cigar into a wind-powered lifeboat. From the first gust that nudged them to one knot, to the clever moment they used spinning propellers to charge their batteries, this is grit and creativity at sea, told with a cold beer in hand. We ...
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2 months ago
1 hour 14 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
The Audacity of that Kid: William Patrick Hitler
Ever wondered what it takes to outrun a last name that shaped world history? We dive into the strange, complicated life of William Patrick Hitler—born in Liverpool, raised by an Irish mother, and briefly swept into the social whirl of 1930s Berlin before slamming into the hard edge of his uncle’s demands. He chased opportunity in the Third Reich, wrote about the Nazi rise for attention, then faced an ultimatum from Adolf: renounce British citizenship or be cut off. William chose the exit, fle...
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2 months ago
1 hour 13 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
The Origin Of Weird: The Tunguska Event of 1908
A blue-white fireball tore across a quiet Siberian morning and turned a vast forest into matchsticks—yet left no crater. We dive into the 1908 Tunguska event with clear storytelling and sharp science, tracing how eyewitness heatwaves, global pressure ripples, and a strange midnight glow in London evolved into one of history’s most fascinating forensic puzzles. From Kulik’s grueling expeditions and the eerie “telegraph pole” trunks to microscopic silicate spheres and nickel-rich clues, we unpa...
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2 months ago
32 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
For Profit For His Hairs: MLK Jr.
A single microphone, a sea of people, and a line that still echoes—and a copyright story few expect. We follow “I Have a Dream” from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial into the courts, where old statutes and modern rulings decided that a performance isn’t a publication and a civil rights landmark could remain private intellectual property. Along the way, we unpack how the King Estate licenses the speech, what fair use really covers, and why media outlets either pay for full footage or tiptoe w...
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3 months ago
1 hour 20 minutes

History Buffoons Podcast
What happens when a world-stage marathon is staged like a dare? We head back to the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis and trace a course lined with heat, dust, and a shocking lack of common sense. With temperatures near 90 degrees, one lonely water stop, and cars belching dust into runners’ faces, the race becomes a case study in how bad science and thin rules can turn sport into survival. We break down the pivotal moments that made this marathon infamous: Fred Lorz riding in a car for miles, then ...