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History Buffoons Podcast

Bradley and Kate

Two buffoons who want to learn about history!Our names are Bradley and Kate. We both love to learn about history but also don"t want to take it too seriously. Join us as we dive in to random stories, people, events and so much more throughout history. Each episode we will talk about a new topic with a light hearted approach to learn and have some fun.Find us at: historybuffoonspodcast.comReach out to us at: historybuffoonspodcast@gmail.com

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32:37

The Origin Of Weird: The Tunguska Event of 1908

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2025/10/09

A blue-white fireball tore across a quiet Siberian morning and turned a vast forest into matchsticks—yet left no crater. We dive into the 1908 Tunguska event with clear storytelling and sharp science, tracing how eyewitness heatwaves, global pressure ripples, and a strange midnight glow in London evolved into one of history’s most fascinating forensic puzzles. From Kulik’s grueling expeditions and the eerie “telegraph pole” trunks to microscopic silicate spheres and nickel-rich clues, we unpa...

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80:37

For Profit For His Hairs: MLK Jr.

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2025/10/07

A single microphone, a sea of people, and a line that still echoes—and a copyright story few expect. We follow “I Have a Dream” from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial into the courts, where old statutes and modern rulings decided that a performance isn’t a publication and a civil rights landmark could remain private intellectual property. Along the way, we unpack how the King Estate licenses the speech, what fair use really covers, and why media outlets either pay for full footage or tiptoe w...

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61:16

Medieval NDA: John of Nepomuk

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2025/09/30

A king’s temper, a vicar’s signature, and a midnight plunge off the Charles Bridge—this is the real John of Nepomuk, stripped of centuries of rumor and retold from the sources that watched it happen. We kick off light—birthday confessions, beer swaps, and a reflexology detour—before following a clue from Dan Brown to Bohemia’s most statue‑worthy figure. What we find isn’t a jealous husband demanding secrets from a queen’s confessor. It’s sharper: a fight over church law, abbey wealth, and who...

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35:04

The Origin of Weird: Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson

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2025/09/25

The shocking intersection of California surf culture and one of America's most notorious killers comes to light in our exploration of Dennis Wilson's dangerous dance with Charles Manson. What began as a chance encounter with two young hitchhikers in 1968 evolved into a bizarre living arrangement that would haunt the Beach Boys drummer until his tragic death. When free-spirited Dennis welcomed Manson and his "family" into his Pacific Palisades mansion, he couldn't have imagined the consequenc...

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56:41

"Execute or Evacuate, You Decide": Hugh Thompson Jr.

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2025/09/23

When helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson Jr. flew over the Vietnamese village of My Lai on March 16, 1968, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. Below him, American soldiers—his brothers in arms—were systematically executing unarmed civilians. Women, children, even infants lay dead or dying along village paths and in ditches. What happened next would define not just Thompson's life, but reshape our understanding of moral courage in warfare. Thompson made a split-second decision that few would h...

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85:25

Spitcicles: The 1925 Serum Run

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2025/09/16

The frigid winter of 1925 brought more than just bitter cold to Nome, Alaska—it delivered a deadly diphtheria outbreak that threatened to devastate the isolated town of 1,400 people. With the harbor frozen solid and no roads connecting them to civilization, Nome faced a terrifying reality: their antitoxin supply had expired, and without fresh medicine, hundreds could die from what was grimly known as "the strangling angel of children." What followed was an extraordinary feat of human and can...

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17:00

The Origin Of Weird: Robert Liston and his 300%...

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2025/09/11

Would you believe a surgeon could accidentally kill three people in one operation? Welcome to the blood-soaked world of pre-anesthesia surgery through the story of Robert Liston, the fastest knife in the West End of London. Before the merciful darkness of anesthesia, surgery was a waking nightmare where patients remained fully conscious as surgeons cut through flesh and bone. In this harrowing landscape, Scottish surgeon Robert Liston emerged as a controversial medical hero. What made him sp...

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59:50

Icky Fishy: Karen Silkwood

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2025/09/09

What happens when a lone whistleblower challenges a powerful nuclear corporation? The story of Karen Silkwood unfolds like a thriller, but with deadly real-world consequences that forever changed workplace safety standards. At just 28 years old, Karen found herself working as a laboratory technician at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant in Oklahoma in the early 1970s. What she discovered there would shock her conscience—and eventually the nation. Routine radioactive spills, falsified safety reco...

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55:59

Twisted Mustache Villain: Lady Jane Grey

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2025/09/02

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to become a monarch overnight—against your will—only to lose everything just days later? This episode unravels the heartbreaking story of Lady Jane Grey, England's "Nine Days Queen," whose brief reign in 1553 ended in tragedy. We dive into the chaotic political landscape following King Edward VI's death from tuberculosis at just 15 years old. As Protestant advisors feared Catholic Mary Tudor taking the throne, they orchestrated a desperate schem...

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29:04

The Origin of Weird: The Reincarnation of Omm Sety,...

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2025/08/28

Have you ever wondered if our souls might carry memories from past lives? The story of Dorothy Eady challenges everything we think we know about consciousness and history. After falling down the stairs at age three and being pronounced dead in 1907 London, Dorothy awoke with strange memories of a distant place. Her parents were bewildered when their daughter began speaking with an unusual accent and crying to "go home" despite being in their family house. When they took her to the British Mu...

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55:16

I'm Just a Bride of Satan: Mary Osgood

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2025/08/26

What would you confess to if your life depended on it? In 1692, Mary Clements Osgood faced this impossible choice when she was blindfolded, led before a Salem courtroom, and accused of witchcraft after afflicted girls stopped convulsing at her touch. Mary's story reveals the twisted logic of the Salem Witch Trials, where respected community members could be transformed into "brides of Satan" overnight. As the wife of a prominent Andover citizen and mother to thirteen children, Mary seemed un...

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56:23

Fire to the Fuel: Henry Box Brown

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2025/08/19

The wooden box seemed impossibly small – just three feet long, two feet eight inches deep, and two feet wide. But for Henry Brown, it represented something far more significant than its dimensions: the path to freedom. In March 1849, Brown made the desperate decision to mail himself from slavery in Richmond, Virginia to liberty in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His extraordinary gamble came after suffering the greatest loss imaginable – watching helplessly as his wife Nancy and their three chil...

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14:03

The Origin of Weird: Mayor Lincoln the Goat

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2025/08/14

Ever wondered what would happen if your town elected a goat as mayor? In this delightfully quirky episode, Bradley teams up with a special guest co-host – his young son Xavier – to explore the fascinating story of Lincoln the Goat, who became the honorary mayor of Fairhaven, Vermont in 2019. The father-son duo dive into how this small town of just 2,500 people transformed a playground fundraiser into an unconventional election, charging $1 per vote for various animal candidates. Lincoln, a t...

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63:10

Now With Less Catholic: The Walker Sisters

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2025/08/12

Hidden in the mist-shrouded valleys of Tennessee's Little Greenbrier cove, six remarkable women defied the march of progress for nearly half a century. The Walker Sisters—Margaret, Martha, Mary Polly, Nancy, Louisa, and Hedy—lived entirely self-sufficiently on their family homestead while the world around them transformed through two World Wars and the dawn of modern America. When the U.S. government began purchasing land in the 1920s to create Great Smoky Mountains National Park, these six ...

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59:27

Threadbare Underwear: Hetty Green

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2025/08/05

The tale of America's wealthiest woman reads like fiction, yet Hetty Green's extraordinary life defied all expectations of Gilded Age wealth. Born in 1834 to a prosperous Quaker family, young Hetty wasn't groomed for society balls—she was trained in finance, reading financial newspapers to her grandfather by age six and managing the family ledgers by thirteen. While robber barons of her era flaunted their fortunes with mansions and diamonds, Hetty took a radically different approach. The "Wi...

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24:51

The Origin of Weird: Humphry Davy

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2025/07/31

Ever wonder how laughing gas went from Victorian party entertainment to dental offices? Our journey through the life of Humphrey Davy reveals the surprisingly wild origin story behind one of medicine's most unusual discoveries. Born in 1778 in Cornwall, England, Davy was an unremarkable student from a simple town where wrestling and cockfighting were preferred to intellectual pursuits. After being apprenticed to a local surgeon following his father's death, Davy began conducting chemistry ex...

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44:11

The Whole Thing’s a Latrine: Henry Gunther

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2025/07/29

What drives a soldier to charge toward enemy lines one minute before a ceasefire? Henry Gunther's tragic story serves as a haunting reminder of war's senseless waste. Born to German-American parents and growing up in a predominantly German neighborhood in Baltimore, Gunther was drafted into WWI in mid-1918 after initially avoiding enlistment due to his heritage. As a supply sergeant in France, his fate took a devastating turn after writing a letter home describing the brutal conditions and d...

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67:29

See Something? Don't Say Something: The Shelton...

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2025/07/22

The forgotten criminal dynasty that ruled Illinois before Capone even knew their names. Meet the Shelton brothers – Carl, Earl, and Bernie – three farm boys who transformed themselves into the most powerful bootleggers in southern Illinois during Prohibition and later controlled Peoria's entire vice scene. When Prohibition turned alcohol illegal, the Sheltons built an empire of roadhouses, stills, and speakeasies across "Little Egypt" in southern Illinois. Their rivalry with former gang memb...

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28:24

The Origin Of Weird: Lawn Chair Larry

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2025/07/17

Ever wondered what would happen if you tied 45 giant weather balloons to a lawn chair? In 1982, truck driver Larry Walters answered this question with an adventure that transformed him from an ordinary man with a dream into an aviation legend. After being denied his childhood ambition of becoming an Air Force pilot due to poor eyesight, Larry took matters into his own hands. Armed with a Sears aluminum lawn chair (which he named "Inspiration One"), weather balloons acquired through forged mi...

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117:40

Slabalanche: Dyatlov Pass Incident Part 3

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2025/07/15

The mystery of Dyatlov Pass has haunted us for over 60 years, presenting one of history's most perplexing unsolved cases. Nine experienced hikers from the Ural Polytechnic Institute ventured into Russia's Ural Mountains in 1959, only to be found dead under circumstances so bizarre they've spawned 72 different theories. We're diving deep into the most compelling explanations for this tragedy in our third episode of this series. What could have driven these skilled outdoors people to cut...

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