Three dilettantes open a cabinet of curiosities to learn about the fascinating, beautiful, and disturbing.
E17: This Is The Story of Three Girls - The Brontës Part 3
Part three of our series brings us to the end of the story of the Brontë family. Branwell spirals out of control, while Charlotte, Emily, and Anne secretly work on their poems and novels. Will our three heroines finally publish their works, become famous and rich, and live happily ever after?
E16: This Is The Story of Three Girls - The Brontës Part 2
Part two of our three-part series on the Brontës picks up with the 4 remaining Brontë children growing up and trying to decide just what to do with their lives.
E15: This Is The Story of Three Girls - The Brontës Part 1
This episode traces the lives of Patrick and Maria Brontë, mother and father to authors Charlotte, Emily, and Anne (and to Maria Jr., Elizabeth, and Branwell). How did this young family of 8 end up in Haworth Parsonge, on the wild Yorkshire Moors?
E14: Spygate
Tracy takes Jen and Dave into her own sports fandom and the byzantine world of Formula 1. In 2007, a disgruntled Ferrari employee is alleged to have circulated a dossier of top secret technical information to rival McLaren. It then gets strange.
E13: The Time Everything on the Earth Died
Dave takes The Wonderkamer in a new direction and tackles stories of paleontology. Two hundred fifty-one million years ago, the world was an extremely different place as strange creatures walked out of the swamps onto dry land for the first time. These critters were our ancestors and they ruled the Earth far before the dinosaurs. This is the story of their time on Earth - and their great doom.
E12: Thomas Browne: Renaissance Mythbuster
Seventeenth-century author Sir Thomas Browne was a true Renaissance man: a doctor, a scholar, a scientist, and… a mythbuster! In this episode, Jen will delve into Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Browne’s 1646 compendium debunking hundreds of ancient legends, myths, and old wives’ tales.
E11: The Citroën Expeditions - Part 2
The complete success of La Croisière Noire leads André Citroën to attempt the genuinely insane, a full expedition from Beirut to Peking.
E10: Citroën Expeditions - Part 1
Tracy reveals her passion for automotive history as we learn about the Citroën expeditions. In this first part, French automaker André Citroën commissions La Croisière Noire, the first expedition cross the entirety of Africa by car.
E9: VTubers Part 3: The Culture Wars
In the final part of the VTubers series, Dave steps away from the exploitation of talent by their employers, and instead examines pressures from the fans and media. When VTuber companies or talents try to stay apolitical, they may find themselves stepping into politics anyways. Here we explore the lewdtuber agency VAllure, the controversies of Pipkin Pippa, and the highway robbery of ninety-dollar coffee.
E8: VTubers Part 2: The Fall of Vshojo
Part 2 of our series of VTubers explores the rise and fall of the American "talent first" agency Vshojo. And how one of the most promising businesses in the scene resorted to robbing a charity to stay afloat.
E7: Vtubers Part 1: The Black Corpos
Dave begins his descent into madness as he explores the enormous world of vtubers, the multi-billion dollar industry of video game streamers who use animated avatars. In part one, he explores the black corpos, the unethical corporations employing vtubers and their many scandals.
E6: The Kurt Cobain Tragical History Tour, Pt. 2
Jen explores the life of rock start Kurt Cobain by taking a psychogeographical journey into the heart of Washington State. Part 2 continues on to Olympia, WA and (after a detour to Los Angeles) ends where we began, in Seattle.
E5: The Kurt Cobain Tragical History Tour, Pt. 1
Jen explores the life of rock start Kurt Cobain by taking a psychogeographical journey into the heart of Washington State. Part 1 begins in Seattle and takes us to Aberdeen, WA.
E4: The Other Little House on the Prairie
The settlement of the Canadian prairies led to an explosion of new small towns and cities. First before almost any other industry were the sex workers.
E3: The Many Failures of Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Although Walter Raleigh is famous for founding the first permanent settlement in North America, history has largely forgotten his half-brother who was a genius, a fool, a bloodthirsty psychopath, and perhaps the worst explorer in Canadian history.
E2: The Punished Dilettante
Jen tries her best to gross out Dave and Tracy with bizarre tales of the preservation of human body parts for “educational” (?) purposes. Please note that you might not want to be eating while you listen to this one.
E1: The Mad Trapper of Rat River
In 1931 several RCMP officer responded to a complaint in the Northwest Territories. A man probably called Albert Johnson had been hanging another man’s traps. What followed is the greatest manhunt in Canadian history.