Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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235 - Ward MF'n Hall

Episode Date: March 15, 2021

Today we take a huge deviation for the type of topic we typically cover here on Timesuck. The Space Lizards on Patreon vote on two topics a month thro...

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232 - The Great Emu War

Episode Date: February 22, 2021

The Great Emu War! Such a weird and fun tale to tell. What an odd historical period. As World War I came to an end, Australia - whose economy was tank...

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231 - Dante's Inferno

Episode Date: February 15, 2021

Dante's Inferno! One of the most influential literary works ever written. Put to parchment in the early 14th century, Dante's opening third of the Div...

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230 - Armenian Genocide

Episode Date: February 8, 2021

This might be the first episode to get me death threats. The Turkish government does NOT like being accused of genocide, and neither do many of its ci...

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226 - Shaka Zulu

Episode Date: January 11, 2021

Shaka Zulu! I'm guessing you've heard the name. Also guessing you know very little about his story. Most don't seem too. Which is a shame because it's...

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225 - Navajo Code Talkers

Episode Date: January 4, 2021

Can you imagine fighting a war for a country that had removed you from the land your ancestors lived on for centuries - a country actively trying to e...

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223 - The Craigslist Killer

Episode Date: December 20, 2020

Phillip Markoff. AKA, the Craigslist Killer. On the surface, Markoff seemed like a normal guy. A guy on the path to a lot of success. He was a six-foo...

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222 - General Butt Naked

Episode Date: December 14, 2020

General Butt Naked aka Joshua Blahyi is a complicated figure. He is now a Liberian Christian missionary helping victims or Liberia's first civil war r...

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221 - The Dark Ages

Episode Date: December 7, 2020

The Dark Ages. We attempt to suck a MASSIVE topic today. A thousand year's worth of European history. And actually, since we compare life in the Dark...

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219 - Annie Oakley

Episode Date: November 23, 2020

At the height of her career, sharpshootin' Annie Oakley the talented sharpshooter was the most famous woman in America, if not the world - dazzling au...

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218 - The Bloody Benders

Episode Date: November 16, 2020

Life was NOT easy on the American frontier for European and American settlers in the 19th century. You lived off the land or you died trying. You were...