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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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75:24

A Tale of 9 Yuri's: Dyatlov Pass Incident Part 2

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2025/07/08

The mystery of Dyatlov Pass has haunted us for over six decades. What could drive nine experienced hikers to slice through their tent from the inside and walk barefoot into certain death on a freezing mountain slope? When the search for the missing hikers finally began in February 1959, no one could have anticipated the bizarre scene awaiting them. A tent abandoned with all survival gear inside. Single-file footprints leading calmly downhill. And eventually, nine bodies with injuries that de...

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22:56

The Origin of Weird: Prince of Poyais - Gregor MacGregor

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2025/07/03

Have you ever wondered what happens when charisma, opportunity, and audacity collide? The result might look something like Gregor MacGregor's breathtaking 19th-century fraud that cost hundreds of lives yet went largely unpunished. Step into the 1820s where a young Scottish adventurer transforms himself from military man to royalty through sheer imagination and chutzpah. After participating in Latin American revolutionary conflicts, MacGregor returned to London bearing an impressive title: "H...

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113:39

Textbook Labaz: Dyatlov Pass Incident Part 1

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2025/07/01

The Ural Mountains of Siberia, 1959. Nine experienced Russian hikers vanish, leaving behind a mystery that still haunts us today. Their tent, slashed from the inside. Their bodies, scattered across the snow. Their final moments, frozen in time with no witnesses to tell their tale. In this first part of our deep dive into the Dyatlov Pass incident, we're joined by special guest Audra as we unravel the background of this chilling unsolved case. These weren't amateur adventurers—they were elite...

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51:39

Slipped on a Pair of Trousers: Sarah Rosetta Wakeman

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2025/06/24

History's attics hide remarkable stories, and few are as compelling as Sarah Rosetta Wakeman's. At just 19, this strong-minded woman from rural New York made a decision that defied every convention of her time—she cut her hair, put on men's clothing, and became Lyons Wakeman. The eldest of nine children born to struggling tenant farmers in 1843, Rosetta faced limited options. Marriage wasn't in the cards, and her family's crushing debt demanded all hands working. When she discovered that coa...

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24:38

The Origin of Weird: Mary Toft and Her Rabbit Babies

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2025/06/19

How far would someone go to escape poverty? In 1726, Mary Toft, a destitute servant and mother of three who had recently suffered a miscarriage, concocted an outrageous scheme that would captivate England and eventually reach King George I himself. Her claim? She was giving birth to rabbits. Drawing on the period's belief in "maternal impression" – the notion that a pregnant woman's experiences could physically shape her unborn child – Mary convinced local surgeon John Howard that after chas...

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40:59

The Father, the Son and the Distilled Spirits: Uncle...

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2025/06/17

"Who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey?" seems like a simple question with an obvious answer – until you discover the truth that was hidden for more than 150 years. When young orphan Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel arrived at Reverend Dan Call's farm in 1850s Tennessee, he became fascinated with the whiskey still on the property. But it wasn't the preacher who would teach Jack his craft. Instead, the reverend introduced Jack to Nathan "Nearest" Green, an enslaved man renowned throughout Lin...

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58:06

Bubbles After All: The Wizard of Oz

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2025/06/10

Ever wonder what really happened behind the scenes of The Wizard of Oz? The yellow brick road was paved with dangerous stunts, toxic makeup, and shocking studio practices that would never be allowed today. From the moment we pull back the curtain on this 1939 classic, the horrors emerge. Buddy Ebsen, the original Tin Man, was hospitalized after aluminum dust makeup coated his lungs. His replacement wasn't even told why the actor he replaced had left! Margaret Hamilton, our beloved Wicked Wit...

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25:51

The Origin of Weird: Louie Louie and the FBI...

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2025/06/05

A simple rock recording session in 1963 snowballed into one of the FBI's most bizarre investigations when The Kingsmen recorded "Louie Louie" in a single take with just $50 and one hour of studio time. The perfect storm of factors – a single ceiling microphone forcing singer Jack Ely to shout upward, his newly-installed braces slurring his pronunciation, and the chaotic one-take recording – made the lyrics virtually indecipherable. When teenagers across America began filling in these unintel...

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58:04

Soap Opera Plot: Zlata Filipović

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2025/06/03

When 11-year-old Zlata Filipović received a blank diary in September 1991, she couldn't have known it would become a powerful testament to one of Europe's most devastating modern conflicts. As Yugoslavia fractured along ethnic lines, this ordinary middle-class girl found herself chronicling extraordinary circumstances from her home in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The diary begins innocently with entries about birthday parties, Michael Jackson songs, and piano lessons. But within months, Zlata's world t...

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59:22

Buffoonery Chit-Chat

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2025/05/27

Ever wondered what happens when the history books close and the microphones stay on? In this special episode, Kate and Bradley pull back the curtain on the History Buffoons podcast, sharing the triumphs, challenges, and occasional beer-fueled mishaps that have shaped their journey over the past eight months. The conversation meanders through their recent expansion into YouTube videos, with Bradley candidly discussing his evolution from audio to video editing. "We're trying so hard to be cont...

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27:50

The Origin of Weird: Anti Comet Pill

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2025/05/22

Fear and opportunism collide in this fascinating dive into one of history's strangest mass panics. When scientists discovered cyanogen gas in Halley's Comet's tail before its 1910 arrival, what should have been a minor scientific footnote exploded into worldwide hysteria. We explore how a single French astronomer's speculative comment about the gas potentially "snuffing out all life on Earth" sparked terror across continents. The resulting panic is both hilarious and sobering. People frantic...

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98:41

Two Polite Porcupines: Marie Antoinette

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2025/05/20

History often reduces Marie Antoinette to a single misattributed quote about cake and a guillotine blade, but the real woman behind the myth was far more complex and tragic. Born an Austrian archduchess and sent to France at just 14 years old to marry the future Louis XVI, she entered a world of suffocating court protocol, political intrigue, and a marriage that remained unconsummated for seven years (prompting her brother to jokingly call the royal couple "two polite porcupines"). While Fra...

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73:06

Tropical Text Message: PT-109 and JFK

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2025/05/13

The story of how a future president became an unlikely war hero starts with a wooden boat cut in half by a Japanese destroyer in the pitch-black waters of the South Pacific. Despite having a bad back that should have kept him out of service altogether, Lieutenant John F. Kennedy found himself commanding PT-109 in the dangerous waters of the Solomon Islands during World War II. When disaster struck in the early morning hours of August 2, 1943, Kennedy's leadership abilities truly emerged. Aft...

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38:54

The Origin of Weird: Weird Origins of Idioms

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2025/05/08

Words can be strange little time capsules. Take idioms - those peculiar phrases we use without questioning how bizarre they actually sound. "Jump the shark"? "Close to the chest"? "More than one way to skin a cat"? Who came up with these, and why do we still use them? In this linguistic adventure, we unpack the historical origins behind common expressions that have survived centuries despite their increasingly disconnected contexts. Did you know "jump the shark" comes from a specific 1977 Ha...

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85:26

Smack Dabble: Charles Lightoller

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2025/05/06

Charles Lightoller wasn't merely present for some of the 20th century's most significant maritime events – he survived them all with an almost supernatural resilience. Born into humble beginnings in Lancashire, England in 1874, Lightoller's life story reads like an adventure novel too extraordinary to be fiction. At just 13 years old, Lightoller signed on as an apprentice seaman, beginning a maritime career that would challenge death at nearly every turn. His early years included a shipwreck...

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68:45

Run for the Roses: History of the Kentucky Derby

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2025/04/29

Fascinators, mint juleps, and a centuries-old tradition that nearly collapsed—the Kentucky Derby's rich history goes far beyond the track. How did a 24-year-old architect's twin spires design become an American icon? What catastrophic argument nearly destroyed America's premier horse race? And why must every competing thoroughbred be exactly three years old? Our Derby Day episode traces horse racing from ancient Greek chariot competitions to today's multimillion-dollar spectacle. When Meriw...

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37:13

The Origin of Weird: Theft of Einstein's Brain/Chess...

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2025/04/24

What happens when a pathologist steals the brain of one of history's greatest geniuses? In one of the most bizarre tales from scientific history, we dive into the unauthorized removal of Albert Einstein's brain during his 1955 autopsy and the strange 40-year journey that followed. Despite Einstein's explicit wishes to be cremated without fanfare, pathologist Thomas Stoltz Harvey took the physicist's brain, cut it into hundreds of pieces, and kept it stored in basements and next to beer cases ...

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83:14

Unreasonably Warm: The Children's Blizzard of 1888

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2025/04/22

A warm January day suddenly plunged into lethal chaos across the American prairie. One moment, children were enjoying their first day back at school after weeks of bitter cold; the next, they were fighting for their lives in a swirling vortex of wind-driven snow and temperatures that dropped dozens of degrees in mere minutes. The Children's Blizzard of 1888 stands as one of America's most devastating yet least remembered natural disasters. What made this storm particularly heartbreaking was ...

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48:11

You're Lucky You're A Person: Lizzie Cyr/Famous 5 Part 2

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2025/04/15

"You're not a qualified person." With these dismissive words, the Canadian government repeatedly denied women access to the Senate based on a narrow interpretation of constitutional language. But in 1927, five determined women gathered over tea in Edmonton to launch a legal challenge that would reverberate throughout the British Empire. The story begins with Lizzie Cyr, a sex worker arrested for vagrancy in Calgary, whose case inadvertently exposed the precarious legal standing of women in p...

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39:18

The Origin of Weird: "Poison" By Agatha Christie

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2025/04/10

Did you know a murder mystery novel once helped solve a real-life poisoning case? Agatha Christie's meticulous research and personal experience created stories so scientifically accurate they've saved actual lives. Join us as we dive into "The Pale Horse," Christie's 1961 novel that introduced many readers to the deadly poison thallium. We explore how Christie's wartime experience as a nurse and pharmacy worker gave her intimate knowledge of toxicology that she wove into her mysteries with c...

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