Episodes

  • 114: The Yukon Beaver Eater - The More You Know
    May 2 2025

    Just imagine for a second that you are an innocent beaver... hiding away in your dark, wet habitat... when all of a sudden, you are exposed to a beast with a voracious appetite... one that loves to eat beaver. Now get your mind out of the gutter! We are referring to the giant sloth-like cryptid: The Yukon Beaver Eater! If we stop laughing long enough, we may even talk about its history, sightings, and some science. Come join us for some much needed mind bleach!

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    42 mins
  • 113: Rudolph Hoess, Part 5 - FAFO
    Apr 25 2025

    As a member of the WVHA, Rudy had unfettered access to everything involved in the concentration camp system, and it was his expertise that led him to spearhead Operation Hoess: The mass deportation and execution of Hungarian Jews. During this time, however, the Allies have successfully invaded Europe and the time of the Third Reich is nearing its inevitable end. We then touch upon the aftermath, the Nuremberg Trials, and the poetic justice which befalls Rudy as he is executed on the very grounds of Auschwitz he helped create.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • 112: Rudolph Hoess, Part 4 - Naughty Nazi
    Apr 11 2025

    With the Final Solution well underway, we first start by discussing the role of Sonderkommandos: Jewish prisoners who were responsible for the "dirty" work involved in the mass killings, and the horrors they had to perform and endure. During the miserable expansion of Auschwitz, we also take a detour into Rudy and his wife Hedwig's personal life, his scandalous "affair" with a prisoner servant, and Rudy's eventual promotion to the WVHA

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    56 mins
  • 111: Rudolph Hoess, Part 3 - The Final Solution
    Apr 4 2025

    The life of a concentration camp prisoner is something most people could never truly fathom. In part 3 of this series, we discuss a small part of what that was like; we touch upon the role of music, the conditions the prisoners and guards deal with, the advent of Zyklon B, and Hoess’ transition of Auschwitz into a death camp to answer the question to the Final Solution. We are truly fixing to enter the darkest period in the history of humanity, and Rudolph Hoess is engineering and observing, front and center, with gas mask donned.

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    53 mins
  • 110: Rudolph Hoess, Part 2 - Arbeit Macht Frei
    Mar 24 2025

    We pick up Rudolph Hoess' story from his beginnings at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, to his promotion to commandant, to the chaotic construction of the "zone of interest" which would grow into the most infamous concentration camp of all time under his leadership. At this time the evil machinations within Auschwitz are starting to become underway, and prisoners come to understand exactly what "Arbeit Macht Frei" means in the eyes of the Nazi regime.

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • 109: Rudolph Hoess, Part 1 - Professional Prisoner
    Mar 14 2025

    We are beginning perhaps the darkest series we have ever produced: the rise of Rudolph Hoess, the commandant of Auschwitz, and the countless atrocities performed under his ever watchful gaze. In the first part of this series, we explore Rudy's idyllic yet stern childhood, the birth of his ideologies, his time as a soldier and prisoner in World War 1 and beyond, and how a developing friendship with Heinrich Himmler in the Artmanen League would be the lynchpin that leads to him donning the SS uniform.


    Warning: Please be advised that these episodes will feature suicide, abortion, death, desecration of bodies, political extremism, violence, genocide, human experimentation, cannibalism, starvation, anti-semitism, homophobia, religious intolerance, and harm to children.

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    57 mins
  • 108: Mata Hari - The Naked Spy
    Feb 28 2025

    She was an enigmatic, alluring dancer and seductress who turned into one of the most unlikely and infamous spies of all time; of course, we are talking about the international woman of mystery herself... Mata Hari! Born in the Netherlands, Mata Hari carefully crafted her image and became one of the most captivating attractions in Paris. When World War 1 breaks out and she is recruited as a French spy, it unleashes a hilarious web of espionage straight out of a Mr. Bean movie; albeit, one that could very well determine the fate of Europe.

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • 107: Kyle Plush
    Feb 21 2025

    We are taking a more somber turn this week as we discuss the tragedy and legacy of Kyle Plush: a 16-year old boy who suffered an avoidable death when Cincinnati police and 911 call center workers failed to rescue him. In the wake of a wrongful death suit and subsequent settlement, the city began taking steps to improve personnel training and 911 systems to ensure history does not repeat itself. But is it enough?

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    57 mins