Happy 100th birthday to one of the strangest disasters in American history: Boston's Great Molasses Flood. For our season 5 premiere, we're looking at the weird and deadly 35 foot tall wall of syrup that destroyed Boston's North End a century ago, and what caused such an enormous--and enormously curious--thing to happen in the first place.

Music by:
​Lee Rosevere
Blue Dot Sessions
and
animeistrash

On today's holiday special we're looking at a Christmas classic: It's a Wonderful Life. A movie that was almost never made, that was almost forever forgotten, and that almost missed its chance to change a woman's life.

Music by:
​Blue Dot Sessions
​Lee Rosevere
​and
​Dimitri Tiomkin

Alright, there are two ways this can go down. Scenario 1: Mark finds the story of the worst tattoo ever and feels heartened by it, going through with finally getting his own. Scenario 2: Mark finds the story of the worst tattoo ever given and feels terrified by it, running away once more from his promises to you, loyal listeners. 

Spoiler Alert: he got it.
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Because you wonderful, amazing jerks helped reach our stretch goal, Mark's got a promise to fulfill. To explain that promise--and the title of this very show--we're rebroadcasting our season 1 finale. Einstein was a genius, but that didn't save him from messing stuff up. So let's revisit his greatest blunder, and catch-up on the year-long saga of the tattoo that wasn't but will soon be.

It's Halloween and that means it's time for a spooky one. This week, for the last episode of our Kickstarter season, we've got a real-life story of ghosts, possession and a weird nexus where superstition meets science. Plus, there's chance for you to force Mark into getting that tattoo from way back in season 1. All it takes is to donate to our Kickstarter fundraiser right here.

Music by:
animeistrash
Blue Dot Sessions
​Lee Rosevere

Forks! A handier, less-controversial item would be difficult to imagine. Yet, for hundreds of years Europeans recoiled from the fork with a hilarious zeal: condemning anyone who used one to jokes, shame and even death. For the third episode of ourKickstarter season, we're looking at the anti-fork panic that seized a continent for centuries. We're less than two weeks from the end of our fundraiser, so when you're done listening, go take a look here.

Music by:
​Blue Dot Sessions
​Animeistrash

To honor all the flubs of our first year, we're going down the rabbit hole of the worst typos and mistakes in history. From sacrilegious Bibles to doomed space missions to a certain cartoon Sailor Man and his super-powered vegetable. This is the second episode of our Kickstarter season so be sure to take a look while the lookin's good!

Music by:
Lee Rosevere
Blue Dot Sessions
animeistrash

n 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. And then... well, that's the question. What exactly did this dude do? And where did the myth of Columbus come from? For the first episode of our new Kickstarter season, we're finding out. Oh, you wanted to hear more about that 'kickstarter'? You can do so here: 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/468920813/the-constant-a-history-of-getting-things-wrong?ref=project_build#

Music by:
Lee Rosevere
Blue Dot Sessions
​Animeistrash

It was a dark and stormy night. A dark and stormy year, really. And it gave birth to a monster, a New Prometheus which descended upon the panicked world, leaving death and destruction in its wake. For this, our season finale, we give you the most frightening and dangerous invention of the 19th century. The bicycle.

Music by:
Blue Dot Sessions
Lee Rosevere
Lakey Inspired
animeistrash

Voice work by:
Spenser Davis
Phil Ridarelli
Heather Chrisler
Sarah Rachel Schol
Kelsey Colleen Melvin
Tim Racine
Mary Racine
Vance Smith

In the late 19th century, Americans moved into the western states because of one simple phrase. But despite what you learned in junior high, it wasn't "manifest destiny." Today we're talking about the real maxim responsible for westward expansion, a maxim that centered a bizarre bit of pseudo-science that shaped America and then nearly destroyed it.

Music by:
Lee Rosevere
​Blue Dot Sessions
Kevin MacLeod
and
The President's Own Marine Band