Martha died alone, becoming the first named member of an exclusive and terrible club: The Endlings. This episode we're tracking the history of the passenger pigeon, a bird that once darkened American skies by the billions. The story of the passenger pigeon is the story of our understanding of extinction, and the lessons we once learned but appear to be struggling to remember.
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Music by:
Blue Dot Sessions
Lee Rosevere
Kevin MacLeod

Believing he was Jesus Christ, Laszlo Toth entered St. Peter's Basilica on May 21st, 1972 and took a hammer to Michelangelo's Pieta. What happened next would make the world wonder what separates a work of art from a forgery. 
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Music by:
Blue Dot Sessions
Lee Rosevere
Kevin MacLeod
Animeistrash

The Apocalypse fails to appear. A doctor goes to disturbing lengths to end masturbation. A millionaire spends his fortune dynamiting the sky. Breakfast is changed forever. The Constant is back.

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Music by:
Blue Dot Sessions
Lee Rosevere

Lots o' big news at The Constant. New episodes begin Tuesday, 4/23, and will follow every two weeks thereafter. No more seasons, no more gluts of material to overwhelm you followed by months of radio silence. Just a slow, steady stream of new stories.
And to support this new model, we're introducing a Patreon. I hope you'll support us by chipping in $2 an episode--four bucks a month, max--to help bring the show to everyone. If you do, you'll get an array of cool benefits, like access to the new Secret Feed, where we'll be dropping regular bonus episodes and content just for our Patreon Supporters. Take a look, check it out, climb on board. Thanks to all of you for helping to build and support this weird little show.
Cheers,
Mark

Take a look at those star men, gazing at the night sky. Oh man, wonder if they'll ever know? on October 30th, 1938, Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre on The Air unleashed the most infamous media prank of all time. But The War of The Worlds wasn't the first time humanity got itself turned sideways thinking about Martians, and it sure wasn't the last. This week, for our season finale, we're doing a little primer on our weird and sordid history with our closest planetary neighbor. From Aristotle to the Martians we've maybe already discovered, we've got The Red Planet covered.

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Music by:
Lee Rosevere
and
Blue Dot Sessions

This is the story of the first radio hoax. No, not that one. On January 16th, 1926, a Catholic priest took the mic at BBC Radio and through all of England into panic with... a joke. Unfortunately, the original recording was lost long ago. Fortunately, this week, we're recreating it.

Featuring Nick Sandys as Father Ronald Knox

Music by:
Blue Dot Sessions
and
​The Savoy Havana Band

War! Good God, y'all. What is it good for? According to Henry Ford: Absolutely nothing. So in 1915 he launched a ship, bound for Europe, with a simple if outlandish mission: to end World War I. On this episode we look at the ill-fated voyage of The Oscar II, better known as The Peace Ship.

Music by:
Blue Dot Sessions
Lee Rosevere
animeistrash

How do you survive in 1932, when The Great Depression is at its peak and prohibition is in full force? How about a little insurance fraud? It's easy: all you need is an undertaker willing to fake a cause of death, a couple of life insurance policies and a target to murder. Simple as sin. The only thing you really need to do to survive 1932 is to make sure your victim isn't better at surviving than you are.

In January of 1749, a London advertisement promised an impossible show at The Haymarket Theatre: a full-grown man would jump into a wine bottle and, from within it, sing. You won't be surprised to find out that the show didn't happen. But you will be surprised by what happened instead.

Music by:
Blue Dot Sessions

Mesmerism didn't stop with Mesmer. This week, we pick up where we left off, tracing the idea of animal magnetism to America, where it went through some... changes. Get ready for a whirlwind tour of American enterprise, religion and entertainment that leads us right through the door of this dark timeline we're living in. This one's a doozy.

Music by:
Lee Rosevere
Blue Dot Sessions
animeistrash