Early English attempts at colonizing the Americas went real well.  Take a journey back to the lost colony of Roanoke, as would-be settlers are greeted with shipwrecks, disease, starvation, and arrows.  So many arrows.  Forts make friends as the seeds of .

In 1977, Dave Sim created a new kind of comic book anti-hero: a three-foot-tall, bipedal, anthropomorphic aardvark.  Over the course of 300 issues and thirty years, this hero would travel to the moon, become the pope, and spend about a decade in a bar....

Templar curses, corpse-eating pigs, and waking up to a house full of death.  We rejoin our Genoese heroes as they flee Caffa for the safety of home... coughing blood all the way.  Their twelve galleys lit the fires that would consume 14th century Europe,.

The path to any great success is paved in failure... it's about what you do in the face of that failure.  In the 1960s, NASA was pushing to win the race to the moon.  Their efforts were nearly derailed when tragedy struck Apollo One and her crew.  Going .

Every story starts somewhere.  In the case of the Black Death it starts with Mongol hordes, smug Italians, diseased rodents, and the misery of 14th century Europe.  All of that before we even get to the star of these episodes, the one and only, the Great.

In the 80s and 90s, our youth were being corrupted by Satan and his apostles: heavy metal, Prince, and Madonna.  In this week's (not-so)mini episode, Leigh tells us all about the Satanic Panic that gripped suburban America, and the totally proportional r.

When your empire dates back six thousand years, odds are it's been through a lot.  Still, history didn't prepare the population of Egypt in the beginning of the 13th century when the Nile, their lifesource, failed them.  Twice.  What happens when you run.

The Oxford Comma: either you love it, or you're wrong.  In this week's mini episode, Peter tells the story of the comma's colorful legal history.  Don't worry... if you're just here for the disasters, there's at least one death.   Peter's song pick:: Don.

We bring in a very special guest to tell us about all the ways the universe is predicted to end.  The Big Crunch, The Big Freeze, The Big Rip... all of them sound like tasty deserts, but the only thing they'll serve up is a spoonfull of existential dread.

In this mini-episode, recorded live at the Ottawa Podcast Festival, Leigh tells the story of a tragic reunion between Syd Barrett and his former Pink Floyd bandmates.  Shine on you crazy diamond... wish you weren't here.   Leigh's song pick:: Opel by Syd.