Episodes

  • The Worst Person To Ever Live Bracket

    The Worst Person To Ever Live Bracket
    Mar 30 2026
    We put together a 68 person March Madness bracket of some of the most evil and despicable humans to ever grace this planet and decide who is the worst of all time.

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    Rob Fox
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    Dan Regester
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    2 hrs and 1 min
  • New Orleans' Murderous Hooker

    New Orleans' Murderous Hooker
    Mar 26 2026
    When you think about prostitutes and serial killers, you generally assume the former is being killed by the latter. But in the case of Bridget Fury, the former IS the latter. Fury was infamous in antebellum New Orleans for killing Johns who didn't pay, mutilating rival ladies of the night, and all other manner of horrific crimes.

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    Rob Fox
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    Dan Regester
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • The Starting 9 For Hell’s Baseball Team

    The Starting 9 For Hell’s Baseball Team
    Mar 23 2026
    With the MLB season about to start we pick our starting nine for Hell’s baseball team — the most talented and least moral person at every position in MLB history, dead players only. We also pick the All-Heaven starting nine and decide who would win between the two.

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    Rob Fox
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    Dan Regester
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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • This Is Sparta!

    This Is Sparta!
    Mar 16 2026
    King Xerxes launched a second invasion of Greece in 480 BC to avenge his father's failures a decade before. The massive Persian army of over 100,000 men was met by Leonidas and his force of 300 Spartans (and roughly 7,000 other soldiers) at a pass in Thermopylae. This three day stand turned the Spartans into martyrs and a rallying cry for the Greek city states.

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    Rob Fox
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    Dan Regester
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • The Pacific Theater Was A Nightmare

    The Pacific Theater Was A Nightmare
    Mar 9 2026
    Maybe we don't talk about the Pacific Theater in World War 2 as much as we should because we don't want to acknowledge how gross it actually was. The Battle of Peleliu is arguably the best example of how foul it was. Unspeakable war crimes, temperatures exceeding 110 degrees, crabs eating dead bodies that had exploded from the heat, human mutilation by normal men who'd been broken by the savagery of the battle. Peleliu might have been literal hell.

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    Rob Fox
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    Dan Regester
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • The King Of Louisiana

    The King Of Louisiana
    Mar 2 2026
    Huey Long was one of the most radical and powerful politicians in American history. Between his time as both the governor of Louisiana and senator he completely steamrolled his enemies and changed the state entirely during the Great Depression.

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    Rob Fox
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • The Japanese Ate A Lot of People In WW2

    The Japanese Ate A Lot of People In WW2
    Feb 23 2026
    The Japanese committed a lot of war crimes in World War II but cannibalism wasn’t one of them, though only because cannibalism wasn’t technically a war crime because no one thought to make a rule against it. Still, Imperial Japanese soldiers practiced cannibalism more than you would think, and NOT because of a lack of food. We talk about the instances Japanese soldiers ate Allied troops both as an act of psychological warfare and because they believed it would bring them strength.

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    Rob Fox
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    Dan Regester
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • The Devil Worshipping American Intelligence Officer

    The Devil Worshipping American Intelligence Officer
    Feb 16 2026
    Michael A. Aquino Jr. was an American military officer, specialist in psychological warfare, Nazi admirer and Satanist priest who started his own religion. This is the story of the Temple of Set.

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    Rob Fox
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    Dan Regester
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    55 mins