Scattered Curiosities Podcast
1) 60 Pirate King
Ahoy, Matey, and welcome aboard the Curiosity Sloop. Prepare to have your timbers shivered as Commodore Einstone pulls back the thin veil separating kings from pirates, debunks the myth of buried trea...Show More
2) 59 Foolin' With You
Court jesters have been associated with positions of authority throughout time in memorial from the Pharoah Neferkere to the conquests of Atilla the Hun to the Battle of Hastings and through the Age o...Show More
3) 58 1986: Balki In Space
1986 (a 365-day time frame fraught with discharge of toxic material, skyjackings, and espionage) was dubbed the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. And why not? The U.K. and Netherlands...Show More
4) 57 Simpsucation
Since The Simpsons debuted over three decades ago, Albort’s Jeopardy game has been embiggened exponentially. But for the Simpsons, he would never have known about Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Howar...Show More
5) 56 Cliché Cache
How many movies have you seen that feature a wardrobe montage, a protagonist tearing out an IV to hastily leave the hospital, post-coital bed-sheets that magically only cover the woman’s chest, or cha...Show More
6) 55 Magnetic Tape, Joysticks, and Pizza Theaters
It's been fifty years since Atari’s revolutionary game, Pong, ushered in a Renaissance for video arcades in America and gave rise to the animatronic house bands of Chuck E. Cheese and Showbiz Pizza. A...Show More
7) Better Half E4 - Pearls, Pants Suits, And The Golden Age Of Capitalism 1944 - 2022
This is the final episode of our four-part Better Half mini-series containing six lectures apropos to the First Ladies from the Cold War up to the present time. What is known of the First Ladies of th...Show More
Better Half E4 - Pearls, Pants Suits, And The Golden Age Of Capitalism 1944 - 2022
1:57:11 | Feb 5th, 2022
8) Better Half E3 - Amelia And Eleanor's Excellent Adventure 1933 - 1944
This third installment of our four-part Better Half mini-series departs from the regular format as it is not focused solely on the First Lady of the United States of America and only features one of t...Show More
9) Better Half E2 - Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, And The Gospel Of Wealth 1865 - 1933
This is the second apportionment of our four-part Better Half mini-series containing four lectures regarding the First Ladies of the United States within the Reconstruction Era, the Gilded Age, throug...Show More
Better Half E2 - Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, And The Gospel Of Wealth 1865 - 1933
1:14:29 | Feb 5th, 2022
10) Better Half E1 - Remember The Ladies 1789 - 1865
This is the inaugural episode of an introductory four-part mini-series regarding the First Ladies of the United States of America. The New Nation's inception thought nothing of what to call the Presid...Show More