Episodes

Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Thursday Aug 28, 2025
We actually had genuine royalty in this country once, and no, I don't mean Beyoncé (or Queen Bey, as those of us who are true fans call her). And in New Jersey, of all places.

Thursday Aug 14, 2025
Thursday Aug 14, 2025
Remember that time that somebody almost assassinated JFK? Probably not.

Thursday Jul 31, 2025
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
A baker's dozen colonies? A regular dozen? Fourteen? Fifteen? Twenty-six? HOW MANY COLONIES WERE THERE?

Thursday Jul 03, 2025
Thursday Jul 03, 2025
Here's another round of lightning-fast-ish presidential trivia, from the devil to the Beast and everything in-between.

Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
The tip of Lake Michigan is just the tip of the iceberg that spins out into a war between the states. Two states, that is.

Friday Jun 06, 2025
Friday Jun 06, 2025
THIS ONE'S GOT IT ALL, FOLKS - hucksters, country music, goat testicles, pirate radio, patent medicines, wire fraud, William Jennings Bryan...you name it! This is the bizarre story of how rural America fell in love with country music.

Thursday May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
Meet Herman Hollerith - the founder of your digital world and archnemesis to The Count on Sesame Street.

Sunday May 11, 2025
Sunday May 11, 2025
We all know that THE story about George Washington isn't true, but what if what we've been wrong about all this time is that the story is KINDA true-ish?

Friday May 09, 2025
Friday May 09, 2025
Sometimes American cultural greatness runs in very concentrated pockets.

Thursday Apr 24, 2025
Thursday Apr 24, 2025
"Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again..." - George W. Bush.







