A fact based comedy podcast. Each week Melbourne comedians Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins and Dave Warneke take it in turns to research a topic and report back to the class. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
489 episodes transcribedIt turns out baseball is a very cursed sport. One of Major League Baseball's longest running curses affected The Chicago Cubs for decades. A disgruntl...
This week we are joined by our good friend Ben Russell to tell us about one of his favourite cults, Raëlianism (AKA Raëlism). Described as religion fo...
In 1921, a small crew set off from Nome in Alaska to Wrangel Island, 85 miles off the northeast coast of Siberia. Due to her work on this expedition,...
Fyre Festival - an immersive music festival, unlike anything anyone had ever seen before. Fly to the beautiful Bahamas and enjoy pure luxury at this i...
In 2005, World Of Warcraft was rocked by an unforeseen virtual pandemic. An infectious illness meant players started dropping like flies, and chaos re...
Oprah Winfrey is a media icon, this is her story!Come to our live screening of The Mummy + Live Fraising The Bar on September 10 :lidocinemas.com.au/m...
In the 1970's, an artist set out to create a children's book like no other - one that lead readers on an actual treasure hunt! And it was .... a bit o...
A painter whose surreal artwork was only matched by his wild lifestyle, Salvador Dali remains one of the most recognisable artists of the 20th Century...
Forbes named Elizabeth Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America in 2015, but all was not as it seemed. Join us as sp...
On 3 March 1876, large chunks of meat rained down from the sky over Olympia Springs in Bath County, Kentucky, but what was this mystery meat? Tune in...
Who doesn't love a heist story? This one has undercover operations, tapped phones... and Ronald McDonald.Matt’s New Interview Show: ‘Matt Your Heroes’...
In the 1980s, The Maze Prison in Northern Ireland was considered to be the more secure prison in Europe. A prison, within a prison inside an army base...
Surely a man depicted by Hugh Jackman was a great guy .... right? Well, that's a little questionable. But you still have to admit that P.T. Barnum fit...
We all know that Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first to summit Mount Everest... Or were they? In 1924, thirty years earlier George Mallor...
We continue on from last week's episode about World War One (part one), with World War One (part two)!Get tickets to our live shows this March/April:P...
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (episode 276) kicked off one of the deadliest wars of all time, this episode is about World War One (aka...
There aren't many people who pack more into their life than Fritz Duquesne did - soldier, British spy, German spy, fake war hero.... spy again. It's a...
The most successful pilot of World War I, Manfred von Richthofen AKA 'The Red Baron', had a bit of a shaky start behind the controls of his plane. He...
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked the First World War, but who was he and what lead to his murder? Find out on this week's episode...
During the Great Depression, people were pretty deprived of entertainment and heroes. So when someone had the audacity to rob a bunch of banks, they b...
