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.
495 episodes transcribedThis week, the patreon has voted for Jess' topic for the first time, and they chose very wisely! We look at a serial killer who evaded police for more...
In the 50s, 60s and 70s ethologist John B. Calhoun studied the behaviour of rodents in his custom built rat and mice utopias... the results were...
David Livngstone you presume? Correct! One of the most famous people of the Victorian era, David Livingstone was a terrible missionary... But lucky fo...
This week we discuss the life of the most decorated Marine in US History, Lewis "Chesty" Puller! Yep, it's another badass! We get distracted a fair bi...
It's a mystery episode! This year's Christmas Special was recorded live in Brisbane. Matt takes us through five mysteries that occured around Christma...
It's Dave's turn to try his hand at a serial killer report. Burke and Hare are Scotland's most famous duo of murderers. They killed people staying at...
This week we dip into the Golden Hat and discuss the rags to riches story of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling! We talk about her life pre-Potter...
Harold Holt was Australia's 17th Prime Minister. Matt takes us through his early life and his climb up the political ladder, before talking about his...
Vlad The Impaler, AKA Vlad Dracula III, is surely one of the most twisted people of all time. The sometimes ruler of Wallachia in modern day Romania,...
Star Wars is a topic that has often been requested, but none of us felt worthy to tackle it, so we brought in the big guns! Mr Sunday Movies is the ho...
On Christmas Eve, 1945, a fire consumed the Sodder family home, including five of the nine Sodder children (do they know what was causing it? ..... So...
Roald Dahl is one of the most beloved children's writer's of the 20th century, but his life involved much more than writing for children - including f...
In the late 16th Century, England wanted to set up a permanent settlement in North America and in 1587 Sir Walter Raleigh sent 115 people to colonise...
A week after his death, we discuss the life of the original playboy, Hugh Hefner! There are a lot of sex jokes and Jess gets grossed out by her own re...
The Jonestown Massacre was a tragedy involving a socialist organisation called The People's Temple lead by Jim Jones - in this episode we hear about t...
We made it to episode 100 and to celebrate Dave reports on Russia's 'Mad Monk' Grigori Rasputin. A simple peasant that would use his sex appeal, chari...
We dip into the Golden Hat this week and talk about a New Zealander who was awarded the Victoria Cross not once, but TWICE! This guy might just be the...
In West Virginia in the 1960s a small town was terrorised by a mysterious large winged creature that came to be known as the Mothman, this is its stor...
Over the weekend both Jess and Dave turned 27, so what better way to celebrate than to talk about 'The Forever 27 Club.' On this episode Dave, Matt an...
This week's episode focusses on (maybe) the most Canadian crime ever, the great maple syrup heist! Thousands of barrels of the sweet stuff went missin...
