We dive into the history of Africa’s most brutal dictator, Macías Nguema. From banning glasses and murdering statisticians to a holiday-themed massacre, this guy does it all.

Everyone hates the modern media, but when did the modern American media actually form? The invention of cable news? The Yellow Journalism of the late 19th Century? The answer is much older, and it’s all Mexico’s fault. (Sort of. Not really at all, actually.)

This week we're talking Lufthansa heist and the dirtbags that inspired the movie "Goodfellas."

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Anti-German sentiment was at an all-time, absolutely bananas high during World War 1. Unfortunately for German immigrant Robert Prager, a local coal mining union used that as an excuse to lynch him just outside St. Louis, Missouri in 1918.

New year, new you. We talk about the history of the most common resolution that generations of people fail each year: physical fitness. From Vikings lifting ship masts to Ancient Greek wrestlers fireman carrying full grown bulls up hills, exercising has always been a never ending journey to personal disappointment.

We go over the best Christmas traditions that have been lost to history including pets gaining the ability to speak human languages at midnight on Christmas Eve, Icelandic trolls who have a thirst for bones, and a Christmas party king called “The Lord of Misrule” who can command all partygoers to get as drunk as he or she desires.

From Santa getting his start by paying off prostitutes to Krampus’ weird foot situation and a cat in Iceland that eats kids for being too poor, Christmas traditions have some troubling origins(Carolers most of all).To start comparing quotes and simplify insurance-buying, check out Policygenius: https://policygenius.com/SOFTCORE. Thanks to Policygenius for sponsoring this video!

The guys cover how audio recordings have changed throughout time, and how the man keeps trying to keep us from stealing tunes.

In honor of the Christmas season we break down the most famous virgin births in history from Jesus in the Quran to ancient Egyptian miracle births and multiple babies — including one in the Bible — who popped out of their moms as fully developed men.

Jared Borislow joins Dan Regester and Rob Fox to talk about the true and horrifying story of real Pocahontas compared to her animated Disney counterpart.

The most detestable baseball team in history isn’t the Chicago Black Sox or the Houston Astros. It’s the 1911 Wyoming Penitentiary All-Stars, a baseball team made up of rapists and murderers who were told every time they won a game they would get years off their sentences, or get their death penalties commuted, so long as they made the state officials gambling on them money.

Listen in as we breakdown the tale of drunken secret service agents, their night before the JFK assassination, and how no one thought it was that big of a deal except for one wet blanket.

Lord Byron was a rockstar poet considered to be the first modern celebrity. He gallivanted around the Mediterranean sleeping with any person that crossed his path, drank out of monk skulls, and owned his own zoo of animals.

The Salem Witch Trials were pretty much entirely fueled by bored tweens pretending to be possessed by innocent old ladies and poor people.

In another grisly tale from Germany, we dive into the Hinterkaifeck murders, the circumstances surrounding the nightmare, and the possible suspects.

Jessie Wiseman joins the boys to talk about serial killer Peter Kürten --better known as the Vampire of Dusseldorf -- who would drink and lubricated himself with the blood of his victims in 1920s Germany.

Ghosts who aren’t invited to parties. Ghosts who like to watch ladies sleep. Impromptu amputation shows in basements. Gettysburg ghosts have it all. We run through the best ghost stories from America’s most famous battlefield.

From flavoring food to enlarging your balls, the guys dive into the wonderful history of spices.

Alexander "Superkiller" Solonik was a cold-blooded hitman who took out some of the biggest mob bosses in the Soviet Union and 1990s Russia. He was a blackbelt super soldier that escaped prison on several occasions, racked up millions of dollars in contracts, and dated Russian super models and bottle service girls.

Philly fans and SEC football lunatics have nothing on Eastern Roman Empire chariot racing supporters. Constantinople chariot racing factions regularly rioted and murdered each other by the thousands. Rooting for a certain chariot racing team was so important that emperors had to choose which team they supported in order to gain favor with the masses. Chariot racing insanity came to a head with the Nika Riots, in which 30,000 chariot racing fans were murdered after they burned down most of the city.

We cover the bizarre origins of medieval football, an American college team fleeing Cuba, and live animal mascots in this week’s episode featuring special guest former Texas A&M defensive lineman Jay Arnold.

Special guest Jack Mandaville joins us to cover the occult inspiration for the Third Reich’s racial purity policies and obsession with mythical artifacts.

Journalist Nellie Bly checked herself into a 19th Century insane asylum to expose its horrors, discovered Helen Keller, was captured in World War 1, tried and succeeded at going around the world in less than 80 days, and became one of America’s GOAT investigative journalists ever along the way.

The Elevator Operator Strike of 1945 was spurred by a desire for higher wages and better treatment after the end of World War 2. So, naturally, the building owners just switched to automatic elevators. But that wasn’t easy either, it turned out, because everyday people were terrified of operating an elevator without any training.

The domestication of cats and dogs, wacky Russian Silver Foxes that wag their tails, and a bunch of weird pets owned by people throughout history - learn all about our furry best friends on this week’s episode.

Dan, Rob, and Cooper talk about the complicated Scot who is often regarded as the father of the US Navy -- John Paul Jones. From helping the U.S. win independence to fighting Turks in the Black Sea on behalf of Catherine the Great, JPJ lived an action-packed 45 years mostly on water or inside the warm embrace of a European woman.

The 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis were the worst Olympics ever held. The Marathon involved a purposeful dehydration experiment and a runner who cheated by riding 11 miles in a car, the swimming events were all done in a pond, and people from various third world countries were forced to compete in what the media dubbed the “Savage Olympics”.

Elmer McCurdy was perhaps the worst outlaw in the Wild West but his dead body became a show stopping attraction in everything from back road carnivals to Hollywood films over the course of a literal half century. Dan, Rob, and Jake talk about the extreme embodiment of success after death.

Trying to handle that dispute over the fence line with your neighbor? Learn how not to as Jake, Dan, and Rob dive into the wild and wonderful world of blood feuds in 1800s America. To work out how much life insurance coverage you need, and compare personalized quotes to find your best price, head to Policygenius.com and get your best quote in minutes.

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and Jake Goldman are joined by Rob’s pregnant wife Courtney to talk about the history of pregnancy, birth control, pain management, and childbirth in the Middle Ages and why if a woman was good at any of that she was a witch and deserved to be burned alive.

Dan, Jake, and Rob are joined by Iconoblast's Matt Cooper to talk about Leo Major -- a Canadian scout and sniper who stormed the beaches of Normandy, took hundreds of POWs, and liberated a Dutch town of 50,000 by himself.

Götz von Berlichingen was a mercenary knight during the end of one of the bloodiest eras in history. He had a metal hand, and also invented a common profanity all of us say every day.

Rob Fox, Jake Goldman, Dan Regester and special guest Veronica Ruckh go through the history of lesbians from ancient Egypt's reputation for being a girl on girl sin-fest to medieval Middle East believing that women were attracted to other women because they ate too much celery.

In 1932 a New York bar owner and his connected friends took out an insurance policy on an alcoholic homeless man and did everything in their power to kill him. This is the story of how they failed over and over again.

Jake, Dan, and Rob breakdown the life and trials of Topsy the elephant. Was she a serial killing beast? Or just a victim of circus circumstance? Find out the grizzly details of her death, and their consequences on this week’s episode.

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and special guest Jack Mandaville discuss the most overrated civilizations in world history.

Dan, Rob, and Jake break down the comedy of errors that somehow resulted into the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the butterfly effect that has shaped our modern world as a result.

Jake, Dan, and Rob discuss P.T. Barnum’s rise to fame including leasing old slaves, sewing monkeys to fish, and adopting tiny boys from their parents and putting them in the circus.

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and Jake Goldman explore the 1788 Doctors’ Riot in New York City, during which the people of New York formed a mob to attack doctors for allegedly grave robbing their deceased loved ones to use for anatomical dissection and other experiments. Once they got into the labs the mob saw… some messed up stuff.

Dan, Rob, and Jake discuss the insanely dumb rags to riches story about a man who couldn't stop failing his way to success in Colonial America -- "Lord" Timothy Dexter.

Jake, Dan, and Rob explore the different substances that may have altered the course of human history and the leaders who imbibed in them.

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and special guest Veronica Ruckh talk about what it was like to get and be pregnant in ancient times, including the birth control plant that was so popular that the Romans banged it into extinction, other birth control theories ancient doctors had like “Just the tip!”, birthing practices such as tying a woman to a ladder and shaking her so the baby would fall out, and ancient pregnancy tests that sound really not fun for the woman.

The East India Company helped shape the modern world in the worst possible ways. Dan, Rob, and Jake break down the true "enemy of the human race" that terrorized the globe for over 200 years on an empire's dime.

Rob, Dan, and Jake break down the horrifying story of Elizabeth Bathory, the Hungarian Countess who bathed in blood, beat virgins senseless, and could easily take Rob or Dan home after they had a few drinks.

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and Jake Goldman break down the worst year in human history, a year so bad it makes 2020 look like the Roaring Twenties. We’re talking 536 A.D., when the whole world literally lost most of its food and sunlight for 18 months and most of the world was at war. Then, a few years later, a 200 year Bubonic Plague pandemic hit (and the wars didn’t stop).

The boys go deep into the life of CIA mole Aldrich Ames. This giant piece is solely responsible for the most deaths of American field agents and is the ultimate simp who committed treason to pay off his alimony and mistress's shopping hobby.

Jake, Dan, and Rob discuss the women of the Soviet 588th night bombing regiment. These ladies dropped bombs from the equivalent of wooden RC planes and took out some along the way, all while suffering minimal casualties. Tune in for babes and bombs, stay for Rob defending Hitler.