Oddball History

  (00:00) Intro (02:14) Our Guest Pete Jung (03:58) Jack Parsons (17:04) Alistair Crowley Enters (21:48) L. Ron Hubbard Enters (27:31) Engineering with Pete (30:24) Jack Parsons Career (34:19) Jack's late life (45:23) Comedy Shows and Chit Chat

This week on Oddball History the boys talk offensive nicknames of yesteryear, the poetry of Walt Whitman and the weirdest and most unintentionally hilarious NBA player of all time, Gary Suiter. Chapters: (00:00) Intro (01:57) Salami and Nicknames (07:30) Gary Suiter's College Career (12:41) The 1970-71 Cleveland Cavaliers (14:50) Gary makes the NBA (20:36) Gary's Bad (23:50) Gary Wants Playing Tim...

Scott   Chapters (00:00) Intro (03:26) Graceland and Vice TV (11:17) OK, We'll talk about JFK (19:55) Jack Ruby Stuff (25:07) The Parade Route (29:56) LBJ (32:42) The Motorcade and Secret Service (34:26) Parkland Hospital and Autopsies (45:57) We solve it.

This week on a moderately special Oddball History Podcast, Jimmy and Scott talk local zoo crimes, our new monkey butlers (unrelated), and the time the sitting Governor of Louisiana, Earl Long, was hauled off to a state mental institution he himself had dedicated years earlier. Chapters (00:00) Intro (01:00) Earl's Brother Huey Long (07:08) Long Family Drama (09:39) Earl Loves Corruption (14:23) Ea...

This week on Oddball History, Jimmy and Scott talk dominant child-athletes, Deadliest Catch and the short, very eventful life of the unluckiest ship in U.S. Navy history, The USS William D. Porter.  

This week on Oddball History, Scott and Jimmy talk Bruce Springsteen, crawfish boil season and Ten Cent Beer Night—which started off as a promotion for a 1974 game between the Rangers and Indians in Cleveland, and ended with both teams fighting their way out of a massive, drunken riot.  Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:20 Korean Sports Gambling 04:20 Background and Lead Up 10:44 The Game Begins 15:30 The W...

This week on Oddball History, Barbara Streisand, a journey to the Twilight Zone, and comedian Vinnie Corrales joins the show to talk Baron Von Steuben, a gay Prussian military officer who helped lead the Americans to victory in the Revolutionary War.   Chapters (00:00) Intro (05:35) Von Steuben On the Outs (09:27) Queer Eye for the Continental Army (17:03) Steuben in the American Revolution (23:34...

This week on Oddball History, Jimmy has big news, Scott has thoughts about the show Love Island, and the story of the 1898 US capture of Guam, a bloodless engagement that only took a few hours as the Spanish soldiers stationed there didn't know they were at war.   Chapters (00:00) Intro (01:38) Spanish American War Recap (04:05) We Love Rory Scovel (05:46) They Sail to Guam (11:20) Guam Arrival (1...

This week on Oddball History, Jimmy and Scott talk Jason Statham, outrageous bodybuilding contest entrance fees and filibuster William Walker, the diminutive, nasally-voiced Southerner who managed to take over Nicaragua for a short time in the 1850s.   Chapters (00:00) Intro (02:40) William Walker Background (07:05) Willy Takes on Mexico (15:23) A Random Dallas Fact (16:00) Willy Takes on Nicaragu...

This week on Oddball History, Jimmy and Scott talk NFL playoffs, gigantic sandwiches and the time Priscilla Presley left Elvis for her karate instructor.   Chapters (00:00) Intro (01:52) Elvis and Priscilla (09:28) Elvis Does Karate (13:05) Karate Does Priscilla (20:40) Elvis Loves Sandwiches (24:02) Elvis Spirals (28:27) Fun Fact and Graceland (32:10) Comedy and Football Talk

This week on Oddball History, the boys talk ideal ham temperature, an exciting & inexpensive new treatment for insomnia and how the first chiropractor, DD Palmer, got his start on the advice of a dead doctor during a seance.   Chapters (00:00) Intro (01:12) New Years Eve (06:34) D.D. Palmer Father of Chiropractic (09:50) Andrew Taylor Still Shakes Babies (14:39) Chiropractic is a little silly (17:...

This week on an unusually merry and bright Oddball History, the fellas talk Christmas memories, that Panera lemonade that keeps killing people and the 1927 Santa Claus Bank Robbery in Cisco, Texas—thought by many to be "the most donkey-brained robbery in state history."

Dueling Fever is going around this week on the Oddball History Podcast as the boys run down the best and funniest duels in history, from Hamilton-Burr to two French guys shooting at each other from rising hot air balloons to a dog who accused a man of murder and then dueled him over it.   Chapters (00:00) Intro (06:00) Hot Air Balloon Duel (09:28) Italian Poetry Duel (11:31) Hamilton-Burr Duel (14...

  It's a Thanksgiving Spectacular on Oddball History. The boys discuss Ragamuffin Day, raccoons in the White House and the time FDR enraged half the country by moving Thanksgiving to a week earlier.   Chapters (00:00) Intro/Filet-o-Fish (04:35) Thanksgiving Extravaganza (05:30) Franksgiving (11:28) Whitehouse Racoons (23:53) Ragamuffin Day (31:18) Thanksgiving Plans (33:51) Thanksgiving Food

This week on Oddball History, the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex has baseball fever, Lawrence films his special and the boys discuss the Black Sox Scandal of 1919, when a group of disgruntled Chicago White Sox players conspired to throw the World Series.   Chapters (00:00) Intro (00:16) The Blacksox Scandal (30:11) Steroid Era and TV Naps (32:19) Lawrence's Special Taping (36:37) Back to the comedy G...

In a very special MLB Playoffs edition of Oddball History, Scott struggles to participate while watching the end of the Rangers-Astros game while Lawrence and Jimmy discuss the Great Emu War of 1932, HGTV, and the time an ostrich attacked and almost killed Johnny Cash.   Chapters: (00:00) Intro (00:30) The Great Emu War (21:39) Rangers Lose Game 5 ALCS (22:05) Australian Accents (24:19) Scott Reac...

This week on Oddball History the boys talk about the Charmin Bears' complete lack of class, Lawrence is taping a special, and we meet Ernest Hemingway's little brother, the founder of the short lived island micro-nation of New Atlantis, Leicester Hemingway.   (00:00) Intro (00:10) Oddball Hemingway: Leicester Hemingway (00:30) JK Billy Carter and Pippa Middleton (01:55) Jimmy does a segue (26:14)...

This week on Oddball History, we talk Below Deck, Air Bud Villains of history and celebrate the new football season with a look at record-setting NFL kicker of yesteryear Tom Dempsey—a man born with only half a right foot but a whole buttload of determination.   Chapters: (00:00) Intro (03:39) Oddball History: Tom Dempsey (19:20) Fantasy Football Talk (22:56) Lawrence Gets Complaints (26:13) Jimmy...

This week on the Oddball History Podcast the boys advocate for federally funded mutant academies and discuss Lawnchair Larry, a Vietnam vet who rose to fame in 1982 when he tied to a bunch of balloons to a lawn chair and took it 16,000 feet in the air over Los Angeles. Chapters: (00:00) Intro (00:28) Lawn Chair Larry Walters (31:16) Lawrence's Special (32:24) Waylon Jennings: X-Man? (37:03) Fantas...

This week on Oddball History, the dark side of the unlikely animal friends industry, Lawrence returns from sea rich with silk and exotic spices and the boys discuss Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear who rose to the rank of corporal in the Polish army during World War 2.   Chapters: (00:00) Intro (03:37) Oddball History: Wojtek the Bear (30:37) Johnny Manziel Doc (37:37) Jimmy Speaks Spanish (38:38) Stan...