A fact based comedy podcast. Each week Melbourne comedians Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins and Dave Warneke take it in turns to research a topic and report back to the class. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
586 episodes transcribedFollowing on from last week's episode, we hear of more adventures undertaken by scientists in the 1760's in the effort to track the transit of Venus!...
How far away is the sun? English astronomer Edmond Halley suggested that tracking the transit of Venus across the sun would be the key to finding the...
In the 1980s, Disney Animation was at a critical and cultural low point. This week our editor (and friend) AJ is here to tell us how they turned it al...
This week, we hear the story of a wealthy, eccentric woman who raced speedboats, had affairs with Hollywood's hottest actresses, bought a private isla...
You have probably heard of China's famous Terracotta Army, but do you know the story of the man behind them? This week's episode delves into the epic...
This week we look at the weird history of competitive cave sitting (people seeing how long they can stay in a cave without contact with the outside wo...
Back in the 1790's, Samuel Ireland's son, William Henry, came to him with an exciting discovery - he had found a document belonging to the one and onl...
Conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker were world famous in the 19th Century, so much so that for a long period other conjoined siblings were commonly r...
In the late 90's, an aspiring Japanese comedian auditioned for a new reality TV show. What he didn't know, was that the TV show would change his life...
The 1979 Sydney New Year's Eve concert at the Sydney Opera House forecourt featured the legendary Aussie rock band The Angels, with an estimated...
The 1970s was rocked by two oil crises, and countries were desperate to find alternative sources of fuel. So when two eccentric inventors stepped forw...
Anne Bonny was one of the few women recorded as active participants of the golden age of piracy, her story is one wild ride, strap in!This is a comedy...
She was the most famous child star ever, but what do you know about Shirley Temple's life AFTER acting? This is a comedy/history podcast, the report b...
Those suffering under Apartheid in South Africa found a group of unlikely allies in 1984, when a group of young retail workers in Ireland went on stri...
The Japanese-Russo War began on the 8th of February 1904, needing something big to tip things in their favour, Russia sent their Baltic Fleet on an ep...
If you haven't heard, we're touring Canada in September!Four shows in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto (details below).To celebrate the launch...
Aimo Koivunen was a Finnish soldier in the Continuation War, and the first documented case of a soldier accidentally overdosing on methamphetamine and...
Stephen King is one of the best selling authors in history and over 100 of his stories have been adapted for the screen. It, Carrie, Cujo, The Green M...
On the 6th of September, 2006, 51-year-old Susan Kuhnhausen returned to her Portland home to find an intruder wielding a hammer, this is her remarkabl...
This week we hear the incredible story of some of the earliest paramedics, and the battle they faced in order to just do their jobs. This is a comedy/...
