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History Buffoons Podcast
Two buffoons who want to learn about history!
Our names are Bradley and Kate. We both love to learn about history but also don't want to take it too seriously. Join us as we dive in to random stories, people, events and so much more throughout history. Each episode we will talk about a new topic with a light hearted approach to learn and have some fun.
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Reach out to us at: historybuffoonspodcast@gmail.com
History Buffoons Podcast
Latest Episodes
The Origin of Weird: Tarrare and His Insatiable Hunger
A man in late 1700s France can eat nonstop and still feel starving. Not “big appetite” starving, but a relentless, aggressive hunger that drives him from normal meals to rotten meat, garbage, and eventually things nobody wants to imagine swallo...
Unstable, Unbalanced and Difficult: Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln’s name still gets tossed around as shorthand for “unstable,” but that label collapses the real story into a punchline. We dig into what her life actually looks like when you line up the facts: a politically engaged woman raise...
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Blame it on the Rain: The Rise and Fall of Milli Vanilli
One tiny technical glitch turned pop perfection into one of the biggest music scandals ever. We’re Bradley and Kate, and we’re digging into Millie Vanilli, the late-1980s hit machine that gave the world “Girl You Know It’s True” and “Blame It O...
The Origin of Weird: Rube Waddell
A pitcher so dominant he rewrote the strikeout leaderboard, and so unpredictable he could be lured off the mound by a puppy in the stands. We’re Bradley and Kate, and we’re telling the story of George “Rube” Waddell, a Deadball Era icon whose M...
Seven Siblings and an Orphanage: The Orphan Train
A kid climbs onto a train believing he’s headed toward something better, clutching a single pink envelope addressed to the father who just gave him away. By morning, it’s gone. That small theft becomes a gut-punch symbol for the entire Orphan T...
