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 Dave takes us on a whistle stop tour through some of history's wildest, weirdest and wackiest Popes, all on the way to talking about a man w...
In the early 90's, having just graduated from College, Chris McCandless packed a bag and took off on a roadtrip. He spent the next couple of years tra...
On the 26th of May, 1971 Qantas received a phone call, there was a bomb on flight 755 from Sydney to London, if the plane dropped below 20,000 feet it...
In 1925, the town of Nome in rural Alaska found itself facing a potentially catastrophic outbreak of diphtheria. Almost completely cut off from the re...
It's a heist episode, and it's the best kind of heist - a bunch of old men, out for one last job. This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins...
We're joined by KFC enthusiast Bec Petraitis to tell us about the wild early life of Colonel Sanders - there's gun fights and so many career changes,...
On the evening of January 17, 1950, employees of the Brink's Company in Boston, Massachusetts, were surprised by 5-7 masked men. Within minutes, they’...
The Jules Rimet Trophy, awarded to the winner of the football World Cup, was stolen prior to the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England... what led to this wa...
This week we look at the man, the myth, the legend... Nicolas Cage. We talk about his family, his many movie roles and the time he blew a 150 million...
You may know of the Chippendales Dancers, you may have even been to a Vegas show of theirs. What you might not know is how this male strip show came t...
The Macquarie Harbour Penal Station was known as an inescapable hell on earth, but on the eve of its closure a group of 10 men had an audacious plan t...
This week we are joined by our pal Marcel Blanche-de Wilt to tell us all about the world's most famous archeologist, Indiana Jones! How did the films...
When the three men arrested for the Munich Massacre are released just weeks after Olympics, the Israeli government authorises Operation Wrath of God,...
The 1972 Munich Olympics were described as "The Cheerful Games." But the sporting triumphs were overshadowed when halfway through the event, 8 terrori...
In Texas in the early 90's, a man in a ten gallon hat robbed a series of banks, walking away with thousands of dollars in cold hard cash. The FBI were...
The Silk Road, a dark web marketplace for buying drugs anonymously is the basis for one of the wildest true crime stories we've ever told, enjoy!This...
Clever Hans was a German horse that could apparently solve math problems, tell the time and even spell - but was the horse telling THE TRUTH?This is...
Two Hollywood icons and a lifelong feud. This is the story of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and their petty feud that lasted a lifetime. This is a co...
Think nothing ever happens in your town? Australia's suburbs are home to some of the most mysterious and disturbing true crime cases in the world. Mes...
This week we are joined by Tommy Dassalo and Karl Chandler from the Little Dum Dum Club, to hear about the surprising history of one of the world's be...
