America The Bizarre

Join us during our 1 year birthday to discuss how the pledge of allegiance was written by a socialist nationalist in order to sell flags to children.

In April of 1815, the volcano Mount Tambora erupted and caused a massive ash cloud that cooled the entire Earth. Americans dealt with snowstorms that occured all throughout 1816 and struggled to grow…

During prohibition, people still drank a lot. In order to combat this, the government began to poison industrial alcohol that ended up killing around 50,000 Americans.

Guam was never aware that the Spanish-American War was happening until America showed up to take over.

At the turn of the 20th century, America was facing a massive meat shortage. The solution? Hippo farms in Louisiana

General Patton once threatened to level Phenix City, Alabama which was once dubbed "The Wickedest City in America"

Premature babies had extremely high mortality rates until a showman doctor opened up his incubator baby exhibit on Coney Island, attracting visitors and desperate parents from all over the world to m…

President John Tyler threw a huge party on the USS Princeton to celebrate the future annexation of Texas. Then tragedy struck.

Carl Akeley revolutionized taxidermy while also becoming a prolific inventor, hunter, and conservationist. There was also that time he killed a leopard with his bare hands. 

In 1914, Rockefeller ordered to have strikers in his mining company shot and their homes burned to the ground.

When the Sultana steamboat exploded on the Mississippi River, it killed around 1,800 people. In comparison, 1,500 people died when the Titanic sank 47 years later.

We discuss the congressman that spied for the USSR, who they nicknamed "Crook"

Lou Pearlman created both Backstreet Boy and NSYNC, while also swindling hundreds out of their life savings.

Patty Cannon made a living kidnapping freed black Americans and selling them into slavery in the South, a system that is now known as the reverse underground railroad. 

Joe Medicine Crow completed all four tasks to become a Crow War Chief during World War II, including stealing some Nazi's horses. 

In 1949, MIT fed students in a school for mentally-disabled children oatmeal covered in radioactive tracers.