The Weird History Podcast

Recent Episodes

77 Molly Newman on Crafting Good Trivia Questions

Posted April 21, 2016 • 00:36:09

This week’s episode is an interview with Quizmistress and Jeopardy! contestant Molly Newman. Molly runs multiple successful trivia nights in Portland,...

76 The Yellow Kid

Posted April 14, 2016 • 00:18:49

Nowadays, comic books are mainstream. Movies about superheroes dominate the box office, and you can’t go ten feet in a major retail outlet without...

75 About Mussolini and Those Trains…

Posted April 7, 2016 • 00:14:02

“Sure, Mussolini was bad, but at least he made the trains run on time.” You’ve probably said it. Or, you’ve been in a conversation and you heard...

74 The Wizard of Oz, Populism, and Dubious Fan Theories

Posted March 31, 2016 • 00:18:34

You can be forgiven for thinking that L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz is all about monetary policy and populism. More than a few scholars, critics,...

73 Jamie Jeffers on the Dating of Easter

Posted March 24, 2016 • 00:23:57

Easter jumps around. Sure, it’s always on a Sunday, but unlike, say, the U.S.’s Labor Day (which always falls on the first Monday in September)...