That's So Macaroni
What happens when a history teacher with a World War II obsession teams up with a genetics nerd who works in a hospital lab? You get a show that treats untaught events, odd inventions, and overlooked people like a treasure hunt—with jokes, receipts, and plenty of curiosity. Chock full of twists and turns, Kelsey and Sarah bring history to life, with a little 'Mean Girl' energy. So put a feather in your cap doodle dandies - We're going to make "That's So Macaroni" happen!
Episodes
14 episodes
Episode 13: Gays In The Military - Part 1
They paid sailors to entrap gay men, called it “investigation”, and spent a million dollars doing it. That is not a metaphor, it is US Navy history, and it sits right in the middle of a much longer story about how queer people have always serve...
Episode 12: How A Teenage King Reshaped The Baltic World - Sweden: Part 2
A teenage king. A pile-on alliance. A war that drags on for 21 years and quietly rewrites Europe. We’re breaking down the Great Northern War in a way that actually sticks, from the Anti-Swedish Coalition’s opening gambit to the final treaty tha...
Episode 11: The King, The Cows, and the Scandinavian Joke - Sweden: Part 1
We’re eating donuts, laughing at a viral clip about Charles XII, and then we fall into the rabbit hole: how a northern kingdom turns itself into a Baltic Sea superpower by stacking ports, treaties, and absolutely furious neighbors.We tr...
Episode 10: Snakes On a Boat and Two Fugitive Generals - Punic Wars: Part 3
Hannibal Barca’s life reads like a chain of impossible decisions: swear a childhood oath to hate Rome, ignite the Second Punic War, haul elephants across the Alps, and then gamble everything on a battlefield trap so effective it wipes out tens ...
Episode 9: Touring of Italy with Elephants - The Punic Wars: Part 2
Elephants don’t belong in winter mountains, which is exactly why Hannibal puts them there. We’re Sarah and Kelsey, and we’re telling the Punic Wars through the lens of the boldest move of the Second Punic War: Hannibal dragging an army from Car...
Episode 8: Sacred Chickens Tried To Stop This War - The Punic Wars: Part 1
Rome doesn’t want a war with a sea empire, Carthage doesn’t want a land power breathing down its trade routes, and a crew of unemployed mercenaries decides to light the match anyway. From Massena and Syracuse to brutal attrition on Sicily, we f...
Episode 7: Pineapples, Dirty Politics, And One Very Bad “Lauren” - Queen of Hawaii: Part 2
A queen stood between her people and a firing line—and chose to save lives. We follow Queen Liliuokalani’s courageous fight to restore Hawaiian sovereignty, from her bold constitutional push to the moment U.S.-backed business interests seized t...
Episode 6: Hawaii’s Last Queen
A queen holds the line while the ground shifts under her feet. We dive into the life of Queen Liliuokalani—Hawaii’s last sovereign—through the forces that shaped and ultimately shattered her reign: missionary families who became magnates, laws ...
Episode 5: The Flags of Texas History - Six Flags: Part 2
Texas history can feel like a roller coaster, but every drop and turn was engineered by choices. We track how a restless republic became a U.S. state that cut its own map to protect slavery, chased Santa Fe across decades, and doubled down on c...
Episode 4: La Salle Got Lost, Texas Got A Theme Park - Six Flags: Part 1
A roller coaster is fun. A border that won’t hold still is not. We open the gates at Six Flags Over Texas and walk past the turnstiles into three centuries of ambition, error, and reinvention. Arlington’s bid to rival Disneyland set the stage, ...
Episode 3: Battle for Top Beer - The 1893 World's Fair: Part 2
A city blazing with electric light, a kitchen freed from endless scrubbing, and a beer crowned by a legend—this tour through the 1893 World’s Fair shows how everyday life got rewired. We kick off with the current war made simple: why Tesla’s al...
Episode 2: President Garfield's Electric Finger - The 1893 World's Fair: Part 1
A city made of light, a wheel that defied gravity, and a nation determined to outshine Paris—Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition had it all. We trace the World’s Fair lineage from the Crystal Palace through Paris’s Eiffel Tower to a win...
Episode 1: Ferdy, The Bullet, And A World On Fire
A wrong turn, a stalled engine, and a teenager with TB standing six feet from a royal carriage. That’s all it took to turn a tense summer into a century-defining war. We pull the camera back from the famous gunshots to reveal the human story an...
Trailer: Why “That’s So Macaroni” Means History With Flavor
What happens when a history teacher with a World War II obsession teams up with a genetics nerd who works in a hospital lab? You get a show that treats untaught events, odd inventions, and overlooked people like a treasure hunt—with jokes, rece...