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 decades-long Pinball Ban in New York City, thanks to Mayor La Guardia who just wanted to fight oragnized crime... and artichokes. Who would've thought a naily board with a coin slot…
Kat covers the Cobra Effect, a maddening effect of government policies that backfire and do the opposite of what they intended. The consequences don't always involve animals, but when they do, it's R…
Hayley tells the story of Ivanna the Terrible and how she truly lived up to her name. In Disney’s Frozen an ice castle was a fantasy, but in real life, ice sheets on an ice bed just means freezing yo…
Hayley covers the creepy phenomena of double-walkers or spirit twins, otherwise known as Doppelgängers! Did Émilie Sagée really have one? Then Kat follows it up by covering the true crime murder of I…
Kat’s ready to convert you to the ‘dog side’ with a lesson on Dog Man. Is Dog Man sexy or scary? Listen and find out! Then, Hayley takes us on a tour of the Kaimuki House where a demonic cat stalks t…
You will never look at Build-A-Bear the same after hearing Hayley’s harrowing tale of Anatoly Moskvin, self-proclaimed necropolyst, who “collected” vintage “dolls.” It’s worse than it sounds and we’r…
It’s officially the Halloween season and we are not going to let you forget it! Kat starts out with a paranormal classic: The Bell Witch. The Bell Witch is considered a compelling case for the existe…
The annual Oktoberfest episode is here! Kat’s lesson brings us to a storybook castle in a storybook setting: Neuschwanstein! Like any good fantasy, the castle housed a king who was, unfortunately, to…
Hayley recaps the mysterious death of Artemus Ogletree. We don’t know what bell boys do, but walking into a bloody crime scene is certainly not in the job description. Then, Kat teaches a lesson on s…
Hayley disturbs us all with the story of wild west outlaw, “Big Nose George,” the fashion icon. Big Nose George killed, but had they added the nipples he would have SLAYED. Then, sit on Ronald McDona…
Content warning: This episode contians. references to sexual assault, pedophilia, CP, and mental illness like depression and suicide.
This week, Hayley covers the case of David Reimer. Anonymously k…
Canada check! Kat tells the story of Marie-Josephe Angelique, an enslaved woman whose bravery and tenacity made her a symbol of black resistance. She probably didn’t start the fire, but we’d love tha…
This week, Kat covers a 1950s game show scandal, which feels much less like a game when the Supreme Court gets involved. Come for the drama, stay for the unique names and a surprise origin story at t…
Be scared, because Hayley’s here to tell you about Ilya Ivanov and his love of artificial insemination. Ivanov’s ultimate goal was to produce a chimp-human hybrid.. by any means necessary. You know i…
Kat covers the umbrella murder of Georgi Markov. Bad boy broke the #1 rule: Don’t make fun of the government! To be fair, it's a heroic act to speak out against Bulgarian communism… But no one expect…
Kat covers the Strelzyk and Wetzel families’ daring escape from East Germany in their homemade hot air balloon. You know living under the Soviets was bad when 8 people were willing to fly 8,200 feet …
Hayley teaches a lesson on Henrietta's Immortal Cells; the lady had cells on cells on cells! Henrietta unknowingly saved over 10 million lives with her HeLa cell line but the defecit of medical ethic…
Kat teaches a lesson on Deep Throat, the movie not the Watergate mole. Although they might have something in common- can we be 100% sure Nixon didn’t have a clitorous in the back of his throat? Then,…
Kat's lesson takes us to New France aka France 2 (the sequel) aka NAWLINS. Also, some strange pale girls carrying caskets for duffle bags are following us. NONE of this lesson is embellished so thro…
Nepotism pays, but it also KILLS. When daddy’s money couldn’t buy Michael Rockefeller what he wanted, he paid with his life. Or did he?? Then, get ready to ‘add to cart’ because we’re here to remind …