Unbuttoned History

Captain Intern Mike takes historians on a journey to the dark side, exploring bizarre and horrific myths from his curio of the macabre.

Direct download: HLHistoryAfterDark.mp3
Category:Society & Culture -- posted at: 9:47pm EDT

Still down at the Bishop Wharf for vacation: Emma, Mike and Caleb chat with infamous Rhode Islander and Horror Writer HP Lovecraft. We discussthe number of mental health facilities in RI, swarthy immigrants, hisfeelings on women and much much more!

Direct download: HLLovecraft.mp3
Category:Society & Culture -- posted at: 10:51am EDT

While vacationing at the Bishop Wharf Caleb, Mike, Emma and Cpt. Mike the Intern talk about the three dictators that ran Paraguay in the 1800s. The good ideas, the bad ideas, and the catastrophic ideas of three very different dictators. Listen to Paraguayan rock band Flou's "A Tu Lado" at the end of the 'cast.

Direct download: HLParaguay_mixdown.mp3
Category:Society & Culture -- posted at: 3:56pm EDT

We have a full house tonight at the Roxbury laboratory. This episode is a banger: weird characters, Senators revealing their sexual and intellectual ineptitude, a ratio of 50% topic and 50% tangents and sad Gaelic Violin music. Enjoy our discussion of how the American Government persecuted homosexuals for most of the Cold War.

Direct download: HLLavendarScare.mp3
Category:Society & Culture -- posted at: 11:45am EDT

Today Caleb talks about a hidden Pyramid in the Mexican jungle. Then he chats with the foreman of the project and the crazy way this Pyramid was found.

Direct download: HLHiddenPyramid_.mp3
Category:Society & Culture -- posted at: 8:55am EDT

What if I told you that the Navy decided to find out if gay men were in the navy by trying to get gay decoys? And What If i told you, that job was suddenly really popular? And then what if I told you that the Clergy got caught up in it?

Direct download: HLBestLaidPlans.mp3
Category:Society & Culture -- posted at: 6:53pm EDT

Captain Intern Mike and Emma battle for your affection while Christendom battles for the Holy Land. Join us for a guided tour of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Direct download: HLKingdomJerusalem.mp3
Category:Society & Culture -- posted at: 11:29am EDT

Captain Intern Mike joins Mike and Caleb to discuss the Spread of Buddhism starting from it's Homeland in Northern India and why modern India has so few Buddhist.

Direct download: HLBuddhismIndia.mp3
Category:Society & Culture -- posted at: 8:30pm EDT

Caleb sits down with friend-of-the-show Jeff Marcus to discuss Jeff's bid to run for King of America on the Fascist Party ticket in the 2020s. Also, Caleb finds out a person in the News went to his High School.

Direct download: HLKing.mp3
Category:Society & Culture -- posted at: 8:00pm EDT

Mike the Intern helps Mike and Caleb learn life lessons from the medieval Khazars, including how to not care about religion, surviving on the steppe, and being Jewish way before it was cool (an era dating from 3500 BCE to the present).

Direct download: HLKhazaria.mp3
Category:Society & Culture -- posted at: 8:01pm EDT