The Weird History Podcast

Recent Episodes

50 The Rise and Fall of Nauru

Posted October 1, 2015 • 00:13:28

The tiny island nation of Nauru once had one of the highest GDPs per capita on Earth. Today, the country has been stripped of resources and impoverished....

49 Destroy All Emus!

Posted September 24, 2015 • 00:13:03

1932 was a bad year for farmers in Australia. Hot weather withered grain, because of the Great Depression, promised agricultural subsidies were not...

48 The Swedish Titanic

Posted September 16, 2015 • 00:13:27

The story of the the Titanic is usually one of human hubris, and then nature putting humanity back in their place. Implicit in any Titanic narrative...

47 Live at the Jack London Bar, The Postmodern Icon

Posted September 10, 2015 • 00:27:27

This episode was part of Stumptown Stories, a Portland history lecture collective. Stumptown Stories meets on the second Tuesday of every month at downtown...

46 Paper Theater, Golden Bat

Posted September 3, 2015 • 00:17:50

Before Batman, before Superman, before even the Phantom, there was the Golden Bat. "Ogon Batto" (as he's known in Japanese) is, arguably, the world's...