Minicast D7: The Giant Ruby Affair
Will the US mint a trillion-dollar coin? Probably not, but in 2001 the tiny island nation (I know, I know) of Vanuatu created $300 million overnight b...
Mass for Shut-ins: The Gin and Tacos Podcast
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An unholy amalgam of politics, historical anecdotes, cocktail recipes, performances by talented people, and interviews with people who are doing interesting things with their lives.
Minicast D6: New Vietnam Theme Park
In 1975 a right-wing loon purchased 300 acres of swampland outside Cape Canaveral with the dream of building a theme park recreating the experience of...
Minicast D5: The Grandfathered Spitballers
After a player died from being hit by a pitch in 1920, Major League Baseball banned the "spitball." But it allowed 17 players whose careers were deter...
Minicast D4: John Brisker, NBA Star Turned Ugandan Mercenary
In the late Sixties through the Seventies, John Brisker was widely known as the meanest, toughest man in professional basketball. After winning ABA ti...
032 - Jen Howard (Clutter)
Guest: Jen Howard (@JenHoward) author of Clutter: an Untidy History on Belt Publishing. Her book looks at the social, economic, and political causes o...
Minicast D3: Free Cars
What if I told you that right now you can get a new car very nearly for free? Sounds like a scam, right? Well thanks to Hydrogen Fuel Cells, the Techn...
Minicast D2: Agatha Christie Disappears! Sort of!
Agatha Christie's two most popular characters - Poirot and Marple - can only exist and make sense in a universe in which the police simply cannot solv...
031 - The 1976 Swine Flu Vaccine Fiasco (David Parsons of Nostalgia Trap)
Guest: David Parsons (@davidlparsons) from the excellent history podcast Nostalgia Trap joins me to discuss Gerald Ford's disastrous rollout of a nati...
Minicast D1: The Poet Laureate of Kiribati
In 1996 a loutish young Briton got drunk and, on a lark, asked a tiny island nation if he could be their poet laureate. Mind you, the nation has no po...
030 - Mike Konczal, Freedom from the Market (2021)
Guest: Mike Konczal (@rortybomb) returns with his new book, Freedom from the Market. We take a look at all the great things government used to (or cou...