91: Astor Place Riot pt 2 and Khutulun
This week the story of the Astor Place riot continues with the Bowery Boys gang further fueling the divide between English and American theatre styles and the fearsome Mongolian Warrior Khutulun, who ...
15 Loka 20251h 31min
90: Origin of Gotham City and Astor Place Riot pt 1
This week we're in NYC as we deep dive into how a satirical 1800s magazine helped coin the city's nickname and the origins of a bitter rivalry between the American stage actor Edwin Forrest and Englis...
8 Loka 20251h 38min
89: Manzanar Baseball Project and The Midnight Cave Experiment
This week we deep dive into activist Dan Kwong's efforts to restore a baseball field at a former California internment camp and about researchers who lived in subterranean caves for months at a time w...
1 Loka 20251h 33min
88: Self-Experimenting Medical Researchers and Sybil Ludington
This week we deep dive into the absolutely disgusting history of medical researchers who experimented on themselves and the story of teenager Sybil Ludington, the unfortunately nicknamed "female Paul ...
24 Syys 20251h 16min
87: Sushi Row pt 2 and Historical Laxatives
This week we conclude the story of Sushi Row with how Koda Farms' development of their proprietary Kokuho Rose rice allowed Kawafuku to become the first Sushi bar in Los Angeles and how historical cur...
17 Syys 20251h 25min
85: History of Lawns and The 1903 Oregon Train Robbery
This week we deep dive into how a newly founded America's insecurity about their status in the world led to their obsession with front lawns (and 9/11?) and the story of Portland's most polite train r...
3 Syys 20251h 28min
84: Three-Point Hitch and Global Thai Program
This week we deep dive into how an obsessive Irish mechanic changed the world of tractors after a handshake deal with Henry Ford and how in the early 2000s, the Thai government embarked on a mission o...
27 Elo 20251h 31min
