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Citation Needed

The podcast where we choose a subject, read a single Wikipedia article about it, and pretend we’re experts. Because this is the internet, and that’s how it works now.

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Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
39 minutes
Episodes
442
Years Active
2017 - 2025
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El Chapo [True Crime Special]

El Chapo [True Crime Special]

Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (/ˈɡʊzmæn/;[6] Spanish: [xoaˈkin aɾtʃiˈβaldo ɣusˈman loˈeɾa]; born 4 April 1957),[7] known as "El Chapo" ("Shorty", pronounced [el ˈtʃapo]) because of his 168 cm (5 ft…

00:40:46  |   Wed 07 Aug 2019
The Oneida Community

The Oneida Community

The Oneida Community was a perfectionist religious communal society founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in Oneida, New York. The community believed that Jesus had already returned in AD 70, making…

00:40:01  |   Wed 31 Jul 2019
The Trolley Problem

The Trolley Problem

The trolley problem is a thought experiment in ethics. The general form of the problem is this:

You see a runaway trolley moving toward five tied-up (or otherwise incapacitated) people lying on the …

00:51:24  |   Wed 24 Jul 2019
Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley (/ˈæleɪstər ˈkroʊli/; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultistceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He fo…

00:46:34  |   Wed 17 Jul 2019
Andree's Arctic Balloon Expedition

Andree's Arctic Balloon Expedition

Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was an effort to reach the North Pole in which all three expedition members perished. S. A. Andrée, the first Swedish balloonist, proposed a voyage by hydro…

00:43:50  |   Wed 10 Jul 2019
Mary Toft, the Lady that Gave Birth to Rabbits

Mary Toft, the Lady that Gave Birth to Rabbits

Mary Toft (née Denyer; c. 1701–1763), also spelled Tofts, was an English woman from Godalming, Surrey, who in 1726 became the subject of considerable controversy when she tricked doctors into believi…

00:40:01  |   Wed 03 Jul 2019
The Mountain Meadows Massacre

The Mountain Meadows Massacre

The Mountain Meadows massacre was a series of attacks on the Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon train at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah. The attacks began on September 7 and culminated on September 11, …

00:43:42  |   Wed 26 Jun 2019
MK Ultra

MK Ultra

Project MKUltra, also called the CIA mind control program, is the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects that were designed and undertaken by the United States Central Intellig…

00:49:13  |   Wed 19 Jun 2019
The Finland Conspiracy

The Finland Conspiracy

The Finland conspiracy states that Finland is not a real country. Not only is it not a real country but there is actually no landmass there at all, and the space between Sweden and Russia is actually…

00:31:10  |   Wed 12 Jun 2019
Demon Core

Demon Core

The demon core was a 6.2-kilogram (14 lb) subcritical mass of plutonium measuring 89 millimetres (3.5 in) in diameter, which was involved in two criticality accidents, on August 21, 1945 and May 21, …

00:39:37  |   Wed 05 Jun 2019
L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (/ˈhʌbərd/ HUB-ərd; [1] March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy stories, and the founder of the Church of Scientology. In 195…

00:58:39  |   Wed 29 May 2019
The Scopes Monkey Trial

The Scopes Monkey Trial

The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute hig…

00:38:59  |   Wed 22 May 2019
Topsy the Elephant

Topsy the Elephant

Topsy (circa 1875 – January 4, 1903) was a female Asian elephant put to death at a Coney IslandNew Yorkamusement park by electrocution in January 1903.

 

Our theme song was written and performed …

00:45:14  |   Wed 15 May 2019
Ching Shih

Ching Shih

Ching Shih[1]:65 (Chinese; literally: 'widow of Zheng') (born Shih Yang (Chinese; 1775–1844), a.k.a. Cheng I Sao (Chinese), was a Chinese pirate leader who terrorized the China Seas duri…

00:28:25  |   Wed 08 May 2019
Phineas Gage

Phineas Gage

Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable[B1]:19 survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head…

00:37:51  |   Wed 01 May 2019
The Boy Convicted of Conspiring to Murder Himself [True Crime Special]

The Boy Convicted of Conspiring to Murder Himself [True Crime Special]

When a 14-year-old British boy was savagely stabbed, no one could have imagined the bizarre chat-room fantasy world that lay behind the attack. A story of a near-fatal Internet attraction.

https://ww…

00:49:03  |   Wed 24 Apr 2019
The Ludlow Massacre

The Ludlow Massacre

The Ludlow Massacre emanated from a labor conflict: the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards attacked a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Lu…

00:35:03  |   Wed 17 Apr 2019
William Chaloner and Victor Lustig

William Chaloner and Victor Lustig

William Chaloner (1650 – 22 March 1699)[1][2] was a serial counterfeit coiner and confidence trickster, who was imprisoned in Newgate Prison several times and eventually proven guilty of high treason

00:44:33  |   Wed 10 Apr 2019
Chuck Tingle

Chuck Tingle

Dr. Chuck Tingle is a pseudonymous author of gay niche erotica.[1][2][3] He self-publishes his works through Amazon.com, primarily as ebooks, but also as paperbacksand audiobooks (narrated by Sam Ran…

00:50:25  |   Wed 03 Apr 2019
Salish Sea Human Foot Discoveries

Salish Sea Human Foot Discoveries

Since August 20, 2007, at least 20 detachedhuman feet have been found on the coasts of the Salish Sea in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington, US. The first discovery, on August 20, 2007, was on 

00:42:46  |   Wed 27 Mar 2019
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