citationpod posts
Posts: 490
Files: 1412
Ruby Ridge
The Ruby Ridge standoff was the siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in Boundary County, Idaho, in August 1992. On August 21, deputies of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) came to arrest Randy Weaver under a bench warrant for his failure to appear on federal firearms charges after he was given the wrong court date.[1] The charges stemmed from Weaver's sale of a sawed-off shot...
The Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It orbits Earth at an average distance of 384399km (238,854mi; about 30 times Earth's diameter). The Moon's orbital period (lunar month) and rotation period (lunar day) are synchronized by Earth's gravitational pull at 29.5 Earth days, making the same side of the Moon always face Earth. The Moon's pull on Earth is the main driver of E...
Security incidents involving Barack Obama
Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, was involved in multiple security incidents, including several assassination threats and plots, starting from when he became a presidential candidate in 2007. Secret Service protection for Obama began after he received a death threat in 2007, while serving as the junior United States senator from Illinois and running for president. This marked...
The Chameleon - Frédéric Pierre Bourdin
Frédéric Pierre Bourdin[1] (born 13 June 1974)[2] is a French serial impostor the press has nicknamed "The Chameleon".[3] He began his impersonations as a child and claims to have assumed at least 500 false identities; [4] three being teenage missing people.[3][5]
Elmer McCurdy - The Worlds Worst Outlaw
Elmer J. McCurdy (January 1, 1880 – October 7, 1911) was an American outlaw who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a train in Oklahoma in October 1911. Dubbed "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up", his mummified body was first put on display at an Oklahoma funeral home and then became a fixture on the traveling carnival and sideshow circuit during the 1920s through the 1...
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker(October 1, 1910– May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut"Champion" Barrow(March 24, 1909– May 23, 1934) were American outlawswho traveled the Central United Stateswith their gangduring the Great Depression, committing a series of criminal acts such as bank robberies, kidnappings, and murders between 1932 and 1934. The couple were known for their bank robberies and mult...
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis(Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis(Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized:Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United Statesand the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missilesin Italyand Turkeywere matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missile...
The OSS (Office of Strategic Services)
The Office of Strategic Services(OSS) was an intelligence agencyof the United Statesduring World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff(JCS)[3]to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branches of the United States Armed Forces. Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda, subversion, and post-war planning.
Ross Douthat Opinion Pieces
2 op-eds by Ross Douthathttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/opinion/abortion-dobbs-supreme-court.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/religion-god.html
Audie Murphy - The Most Decorated Combat Soldier of WW2
Audie Leon Murphy(20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971)[1]was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II,[4]and has been described as the most highly decorated enlisted soldier in U.S. history.[5][6]He received every military combat award for valor available from the United States Army, as well as French and Belgian aw...
Patron Bonus: Excuse Us While We Kiss The Sky- Part 2
https://www.gq.com/story/urban-explorers-gq-march-2013
The Little Mermaid
"The Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue), sometimes translated in English as "The Little Sea Maid",[1]is a fairy talewritten by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Originally published in 1837 as part of a collection of fairy tales for children, the story follows the journey of a young mermaidprincess who is willing to give up her life in the sea as a mermaid to gain a h...
Patron Bonus: Excuse Us While We Kiss The Sky- Part 1
https://www.gq.com/story/urban-explorers-gq-march-2013
The Battle of Cartagena de Indias
The Battle of Cartagena de Indias(Spanish: Sitio de Cartagena de Indias, lit.'Siege of Cartagena de Indias') took place during the 1739 to 1748 War of Jenkins' Earbetween Spainand Great Britain. The result of long-standing commercial tensions, the war was primarily fought in the Caribbean; the British tried to capture key Spanish ports in the region, including Porto Belloand Chagresin ...
Pornhub 2024 Year in Review
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2024-year-in-review
Op-Eds by Billionaires
Three op-eds by billionaires.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/https://about.fb.com/news/2020/02/big-tech-needs-more-regulation/https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105
Ghost Ships
A ghost ship, also known as a phantom ship, is a vesselwith no living crew aboard; it may be a fictional ghostlyvessel, such as the Flying Dutchman, or a physical derelictfound adrift with its crew missing or dead, like the Mary Celeste.[1][2]The term is sometimes used for ships that have been decommissionedbut not yet scrapped, as well as drifting boats that have been found after breaking loose o...
My Immortal Chapters 29-34
It's my immortal, continued.It's my immortal, continued.
Bonus Army
The Bonus Armywas a group of 43,000 demonstrators– 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvementin World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates. Organizers called the demonstrators the Bonus Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.), to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Fo...
Chrome Tab Clean Out
Tom cleans out his unrelated chrome tabs on interesting wikipedia articles.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironinghttps://woodcarvingillustrated.com/deep-sea-jack-o-lanterns/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunnelinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_drophttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Thomas_Knight
Pizzagate
So we actually recorded this last week on Monday so one of the last paragraphs of the episode has outdated info in it. The Pizzagate guy was killed by police during a traffic stop after allegedly pulling out a gun and pointing it at police. This incident happened 4 days after we recorded this episode.https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/g-s1-42040/pizzagate-gunman-killed-police-north-carolina"Pizzag...
Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos[a](Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας; c.570– c. 495BC)[b], often known mononymouslyas Pythagoras, was an ancient IonianGreek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graeciaand influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, the Westin general. Knowledge of his life...
The Host's Fictional Bios
This episode was inspired by our tall tales episode. We each take a crack a writing another host's fictional bio. This was supposed to be a Christmas Episode but was delayed.
The Holy Prepruce (Foreskin) and Other Relics
The Holy Prepuce, or Holy Foreskin(Latinpræputiumor prepucium), is one of several relics attributed to Jesus, consisting of the foreskinremoved during the circumcision of Jesus. At various points in history, a number of churches in Europe have claimed to possess the Prepuce, sometimes at the same time. Various miraculouspowers have been ascribed to it.
Snarky Restaurant Reviews
Two mean reviews. One from the Sydney Morning Herald on Coco Roco...and the other from the New York Times on Guy's American Kitchen & Bar.
Pong
Pongis a table tennis–themed twitcharcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atariand originally released on 29 November 1972. It is one of the earliest arcade video games; it was created by Allan Alcornas a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, but Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabneywere surprised by the quality of ...
Competitive Eating, Takeru Kobayashi, and Joey Chestnut
Competitive eating, or speed eating, is a sport in which participants compete against each other to eat large quantities of food, usually in a short time period. Contests are typically eight to ten minutes long, although some competitions can last up to thirty minutes, with the person consuming the most food being declared the winner. Competitive eating is most popular in the United States, Canada...
Sleeping Beauty
The earliest known version of the tale is found in the Frenchnarrative Perceforest, written between 1330 and 1344.[7]Another was the Catalanpoem Frayre de Joy e Sor de Paser.[8]Giambattista Basilewrote another, "Sun, Moon, and Talia" for his collection Pentamerone, published posthumously in 1634–36[9]and adapted by Charles Perraultin Histoires ou contes du temps passéin 1697. The versio...
The Sinking of the Whaleship Essex
Essexwas an American whaling shipfrom Nantucket, Massachusetts, which was launched in 1799. On November 20, 1820, while at sea in the southern Pacific Oceanunder the command of Captain George Pollard Jr., the ship was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale. About 2,000 nautical miles (3,700km) from the coast of South America, the 20-man crew was forced to make for land in three whaleboatswith what foo...
Carlos Kaiser
Carlos Henrique Raposo(born 2 April 1963), commonly known as Carlos Kaiser, is a Brazilian con artistand former footballerwho played as a striker.[citation needed] Although his abilities were far short of professional standard, he managed to sign for numerous teams during his decade-long career. He never actually played a regular game, the closest occurrence ending in a red cardwhilst warming up, ...
