158 quintillion possible settings. Changed daily. The Germans were convinced it was unbreakable — and for a long time, they were right. In this episode, Matt breaks down how the Enigma machine actually worked, Corey covers the carnage it enabled on land, sea, and in the air, and Devon traces how a team of Polish mathematicians, a British manor house full of chess players and crossword fanatics, and one gay genius named Alan Turing changed the course of World War II. The machine was unbeatable. The humans operating it were not.

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Where did jujitsu actually come from? The answer is more complicated — and more contested — than most people think. In this episode, Devon breaks down the three competing origin theories, Corey traces how jujitsu traveled from feudal Japan through Europe and into Brazil, and Matt covers the Gracie family, the shady fights that built their legend, and how UFC 1 in Denver, Colorado changed everything. Also: the Gracies get called out and the dick twist debate is finally settled.

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Before your lights turned on, two men went to war over how to power them. In this episode, Matt breaks down Edison's DC empire and the propaganda war he waged to keep it alive, Corey traces the rise of alternating current and the engineers who made it inevitable, and Devon covers what happened after AC won — including where both currents stand in today's world. Plus, Tesla dying in a DC-powered hotel, the birth of General Electric, and an elevator video that somehow becomes a highlight.

Before Zeus, before Olympus, there was chaos — and out of it came Gaia, Uranus, and a family drama that would make modern TV jealous. In this episode, the Evidence Vault crew breaks down the origins of Greek mythology: from the birth of the primordial gods, to the rise and fall of the Titans, to Zeus and the Olympians taking over the cosmos. Along the way, we cover a sickle, a very important castration, the birth of Aphrodite, and how Hercules saved the day — again. If you thought your family was complicated, wait until you meet these guys.

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The crew is back in the vault for a high-stakes roundtable on the apex predators of the deep. In this episode, Corey, Devin, and Matthew each pitch their "top" submarine, moving from the terrifying efficiency of the German U-boat wolfpacks to the sheer endurance of the American Balao-class. We wrap up with a look at the Russian Oscar II-class, specifically the K-141 Kursk, analyzing the engineering and geopolitical weight behind these massive submersibles.

It’s an unscripted, blunt analysis of naval sieges, "Happy Times" for the Kriegsmarine, and the mechanical evolution that turned the ocean into a global tripwire.

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This episode of The Evidence Vault covers the Part 2 of the Trojan War, from its mythic and historical origins to the destruction of Troy itself.

The discussion moves between Homeric tradition, later mythographers, and limited historical context, including the Hittite perspective on Wilusa. The hosts examine how the war begins, how it drags on for years with little resolution, how Achilles dominates the battlefield, and how divine interference repeatedly alters the course of events.

The episode culminates in the Trojan Horse, the ignored warnings of Laocoön and Cassandra, the withdrawal of the gods, and the sack of Troy — followed not by triumph, but by massacre, enslavement, and moral collapse.

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The Trojan War didn’t begin with Achilles and Hector — it began years earlier, through miscalculations, broken alliances, divine interference, and slow-burning consequences.

In Part I of this two-part series, the Evidence Vault crew lays the groundwork for the Trojan War. Corey covers the origins of the conflict and how the war was set in motion, Devon explores the role of the gods and their escalating interference, and Matthew walks through the first nine years of fighting — introducing the major Greek and Trojan players, early campaigns, failed expeditions, and the long road that leads directly into the events of the Iliad.

This episode is about buildup, not payoff.
The siege, the mistakes, the foreshadowing — and why the most famous part of the war happens only at the very end.

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How do you measure the advancement of a civilization?

In this episode, the hosts of The Evidence Vault break down multiple theoretical frameworks used to classify civilizations — from the energy-based Kardashev Scale, to Carl Sagan’s information scale, to John Barrow’s hierarchy of matter control.

Rather than focusing on a single megastructure like the Dyson Sphere, this episode explores what progress actually means: energy consumption, information density, genetic manipulation, atomic control, and even theoretical mastery over space and time.

Along the way, the discussion devolves into chaos — debates over civilization collapse, AI-generated knowledge, whether humanity is advancing too fast (or not fast enough), and the unsettling possibility that progress doesn’t guarantee survival.

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