EPISODES
Episode 021—Qvit Playing Games Vis Meine Heart (feat. Garreth Spinn)
Time to get unintentionally uber German. Musician, Garreth Spinn, joins us as a special guest…
Episode 020—The Games Must Go On
We miss sports and we don’t care who knows. So we’re throwing it back to two inspiring history stories from WWII…
Episode 019—Too Pretty for Film (feat. Cassie Ballschmidt)
We're sharing history with a special guest. Chicago filmmaker, Cassie Ballschmidt takes the reigns…
Episode 018—Selective Memory History
From a Parisian atrocity to a Malagasy monarch, both of our stories today feature challenges in storytelling…
Episode 017—Open Skate on the Open Sea
Season 2, baby! Cass and Nat are back with a vengeance…
BONUS—Mummy May I? Live from Naperville with James Galanis
Our first ever BONUS episode is from our first ever LIVE show! Enjoy a first-hand account of the Naperville Central High School mummy…
Episode 016—We Wish You a Share-y Christmas
It's the season finale, y'all! We're bringing you the story of Christmas, as told by Cass, Nat AND Rip…
Episode 015—Mush Ado About Something
Bundle up because Nat is here to tell the story of the 1925 Serum Run to Nome…
Episode 014—The League of Extraordinary Confederates
On this Thanksgiving episode, Cass tells us about the Confederates. No. Not those Confederates…
Episode 013—War, But Make It Fashion
War, what is it good for? Overlooking the contributions of women, that's what…
Episode 012—Scared History
Tis the season for spoopin’. We’ve got ghost towns, hell-mouths, witches & mitches…
Episode 011—The Rock 2: Return to The Rock
Nat takes us back to The Rock for the full scoop on the Occupation of Alcatraz and Nicolas Cage is mentioned, yet again.
Episode 010—There Will Be Blood…and LSD
We discover that there's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do in Africa because the "Amazons" of Dahomey…
Episode 009—Genji’s Great Chase Through Time
Cass regales Nat and Rip with the Tale of Genji, but Nat is preoccupied with a hottie in a red cloak and hat.
Episode 008—Of Haymakers & Handwashers
This labor day episode takes us from the labor movement to the labor and delivery room. Nat [purposely] talks about Chicago…
Episode 007—What’s in a Name?
Cass takes us on a multi-continent adventure to teach us the origins of Latin America. Nat explains…
Episode 006—Phantom Army of the Opera-tion
Nat tries to tell Cass and Rip about WWII's Exercise Tiger but Andrew Lloyd Webber keeps getting in the way.
Episode 005—Tinker, Tailor, Sarcophagus, Spy
DJ Rip guest-shares on this very special episode where we rep our hometowns in IL, IA and FL, and we all hate on Ohio…