A tipsy night class teaching the oddities and curiosities you never learned in school. Powered by a thirst for knowledge and boxed wine, best friends Kat and Hayley cover the most fascinating lessons in History, Science, True Crime, Pop Culture, and the Paranormal. Let’s go on a learny journey!
Hayley covers the bandit who could never be captured alive and Kat presents a treasure hunting mystery from the deserts of New Mexico.
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Kat covers an animal that was instrumental in two world wars: the carrier pigeon. Hayley follows it up with a lesson on some spooky stains that happened in the spooky little town of Bélmez, Spain.
Hayley is back in her natural habitat as a list bitch. Delivering a list of syndromes named after cities. And Kat gives a highly topical and highly pink lesson on Barbie and her many controversies.
Kat covers a creepy letter-writing campaign that rocked small town Ohio. Hayley covers the first documented female gang in London.
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Would a teletubby lie? Obviously not. So, neither would the astronauts of Apollo 11. Hayley outlines the moon landing hoax conspiracy theory and exactly why anyone who believes it is stupid. Then, Ka…
Summer break is here so we are releasing a double feature from Patreon! This episode features a Show & Tell and a Smart Alec. Enjoy stories of penis cannibalism, bad-at-job beheadings, and jaws meets…
Kat covers a mysterious and DEADLY disease nicknamed the laughing death. (No, it is not about being tickled.) Then Hayley has a PRIDE lesson for us! She'll be teaching us about a wrongfully demonized…
Would you pay $10 for a skull reading? Hayley introduces us to the Buzzfeed personality test of the Victorian Era: phrenology! Hopefully your organ of murder isn’t too bulgy. Then, Kat tells the incr…
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Hayley covers the queen of abstract art, and communicating with the spirit realm, Hilma af Klint. Hilma kept her art secret for decades believing the world wasn’t ready. We are glad she is finally ge…
Kat takes us into the dazzling world of vaudeville as we uncover the story of the Cherry Sisters. Their eccentric performances exist at the intersection of people who throw things at performers and t…
Hayley recaps a trial that attempted to convict a science teacher for teaching science- no, really. John Thomas Scopes was prosecuted by the state of Tennessee for teaching that humans evolved from “…
Kat covers the eerie legend of Corpsewood Manor, a secluded residence in the woods of Georgia, built by hand by a Satanist and his Catholic boyfriend. Dr. Charles Shudder and Joseph Odom were truly l…
Hayley teaches the history of a system near and dear to her heart: the lottery. You may only have a one in 14 million chance of picking the winning numbers, but you have a one in one chance of enjoyi…
Kat covers the second half of the Donner party. It’s mostly eating rugs and taking weeks-long depression naps. Before long, rescuers reach the stranded parties but we’re still not sure if they came f…
Hayley introduces us to a man who created a reality show for his own ghost. Charles Vance Millar’s will left a wake of chaos, paramount of which was prize money for a baby-making competition. If you’…
Kat covers the world’s most famous shark and inspiration for Jaws, or as we like to call it “Shark.” The Jersey Man Eater took more than a nibble from more than four people… Or was it the sea turtles…
Hayley tells the story of Elizabeth Holmes, the youngest self-made billionaire and inventor of 3 Edison machines in a trenchcoat. Elizabeth’s blood analyzing technology was supposed to make the impos…
Kat dives into the controversial history of double Ds, Dungeons and Dragons that is. The Christian anti-D&D organization “Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons” formed in response to a mother’s concern…
Kat teaches a lesson on a dietician who dipped her toe into evangelical cult-leading. Gwen Shamblin’s diet program of praying the fat away somehow appealed to enough people that she could afford a pr…