Some Topic - The Podcast

The 1904 Olympic marathon in St. Louis might be one of the strangest sporting events ever held. Runners faced extreme heat, clouds of dust, almost no water, traffic on the course, spoiled fruit, and competitors making some very questionable decisions. One runner rode part of the course in a car. The eventual winner, Thomas Hicks, was given small doses of strychnine along with egg whites and brandy...

Some Topic returns with another chaotic deep dive where history, comedy, and completely unqualified aviation analysis collide at cruising altitude. Nick and Brett open the episode in full signature form, immediately establishing that nothing here is reliable, everything is improvised, and confidence is doing most of the flying. From raccoon interns to philosophical detours disguised as jokes, the...

In 1932, Australia sent soldiers armed with Lewis machine guns into Western Australia to deal with thousands of emus destroying farmland. It did not go according to plan. The birds scattered, outran firing positions, survived chaotic encounters, and turned what was supposed to be a straightforward pest-control operation into one of history’s strangest military stories. In this Side Quest, we explo...

Bad customer service existed long before online reviews. Around 1750 BCE, a man named Nanni sent an angry complaint carved into clay to a copper merchant named Ea-nasir. Nanni accused him of supplying poor-quality copper, breaking promises, and treating his messenger badly. Thousands of years later, the tablet survives—and so does Ea-nasir’s reputation. In this Side Quest, we explore what may be h...

What if Atlantis wasn’t a lost civilization waiting to be discovered, but a story designed to make people think? In this episode of Some Topic, Nick and Brett dive back into Conspiracy Corner to investigate one of history’s most persistent mysteries: was Atlantis real, a philosophical invention by Plato, or a distorted memory of something that actually happened? What begins as a discussion about p...

What if the past influences who you are—but doesn’t have to decide who you become? In this episode of Some Topic, Nick and Brett take on The Courage to Be Disliked, the bestselling book that turns psychology, philosophy, and personal responsibility into a conversation about how to live. What begins with raccoon intern broadcasts, fake HR memos, and caffeine-fueled nonsense gradually becomes one of...

This week on Some Topic, Nick and Brett dive into one of history’s most enduring mysteries: Atlantis. What begins as a chaotic Conspiracy Corner segment quickly spirals from SpongeBob nostalgia into ancient philosophy, lost civilizations, rising sea levels, and the question of whether humanity keeps recycling the same story of a great city swallowed by catastrophe. Was Atlantis a real place, a sym...

Arrr, mateys! Nick and Brett celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day with an aggressively committed pirate voice, questionable vocal endurance, and a historical adventure that nearly sinks before it even leaves the harbor. After reflecting on a disastrous first recording attempt, the hosts investigate why fictional pirates sound the way they do—and why apparently every pirate must pronounce their R’s lik...

Grab your stein, put on your lederhosen, and prepare for a history lesson that's far more intoxicated than your high school textbook. This week on Some Topic – The Podcast, Nick and Brett dive headfirst into one of the world's most famous celebrations to answer a surprisingly simple question: if it's called Oktoberfest... why does it mostly happen in September? Along the way they uncover how a roy...

Two dangerously underqualified hosts return with one of their most chaotic deep dives yet—this time into the strange, hilarious, and surprisingly real story of American adventurism in Afghanistan. What starts as a casual conversation about trees, anime, and nostalgia quickly spirals into a historical fever dream involving fake surgeons, self-declared princes, and a man who quite literally tried to...

What happens when one of the oldest conspiracy theories collides with Nazi mythology, underground civilizations, cult leaders, and decades of misinformation? In this episode of Some Topic, Nick and Brett return for the final installment of their multi-part journey into the Hollow Earth theory. After tracing its origins through early scientific speculation, mystical teachings, and esoteric beliefs,...

What if the monster was never really the monster? In this episode of Some Topic, Nick and Brett crack open Frankenstein and get way too comfortable in the graveyard of literary misunderstandings. They start with the question everyone gets wrong at first: why do we call the creature Frankenstein when that is actually the name of the scientist? From there, the conversation spirals into high school m...

In this episode of Some Topic – The Podcast , the hosts venture into one of America's strangest unsolved mysteries: the infamous Mad Gasser of Mattoon . Set against the backdrop of World War II, the story begins in the quiet town of Mattoon, Illinois, where residents reported a bizarre series of nighttime attacks involving mysterious sweet-smelling gas, temporary paralysis, and shadowy figures lur...

In this episode of Some Topic – The Podcast , two dangerously underqualified hosts attempt to unpack one of history’s most complicated and misunderstood series of events: the Crusades. What begins as a sarcastic introduction quickly spirals into a chaotic mix of historical breakdowns, improvised analogies, and completely unfiltered commentary on religion, politics, and medieval warfare. Nothing is...

In this episode of Some Topic , Nick and Brett venture into one of the strangest discoveries from their Yellowstone rafting trip: a mysterious compound perched above the river that looked less like a ranch and more like a self-contained nation. What began as a guide's offhand comment about a nearby religious group quickly spiraled into a deep dive on the controversial history of the Church Univers...

What starts as chaotic nonsense quickly spirals into something unexpectedly real in this episode of Some Topic – The Podcast . Two confidently unqualified hosts dive headfirst into the absurd, weaving through jokes about raccoon interns, imaginary HR departments, and existential nonsense—only to stumble into a surprisingly legitimate conversation about salt, iodine, and how humanity may have accid...

What if the monster was never really the monster? In this episode of Some Topic , Nick and Brett crack open Frankenstein and immediately confront one of the greatest literary misunderstandings of all time: Frankenstein is the scientist, not the monster. From there, the conversation spirals through high school memories, bad movie adaptations, graveyards, and the strange cultural evolution of one of...

Have you ever heard a ghost story so strange that it accidentally changed government policy? In this episode of **Some Topic**, the crew journeys into one of the weirdest paranormal mysteries ever recorded: the legend of **Jeff the Talking Mongoose**. What begins as a spooky tale from a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Man quickly spirals into a bizarre blend of ghost story, cryptid encounter, medi...

Title Cannibalism Part 2: Religion, Mythology, Pokémon, and Complete Chaos | Some Topic Episode 43 Description Episode 43 picks up exactly where Episode 42 left off—and somehow immediately finds a way to become even more unhinged. After diving into the history, survival stories, and cultural controversies surrounding cannibalism in Part 1, Nick and Brett return for Part 2 with absolutely no intent...

In this episode of Some Topic – The Podcast , Nick and Brett reopen the “Conspiracy Corner,” a place where absurdity and paranoia blend into late-night comedy. The episode kicks off with their signature chaotic banter, immediately pulling listeners into a world where relationship drama, government distrust, and questionable dental hygiene all collide under the same fluorescent conspiracy light. Wh...

What happens when two dangerously underqualified hosts decide that cannibalism is a perfectly reasonable podcast topic? Somehow, it becomes a chaotic journey through history, survival, morality, religion, cultural practices, and some truly questionable hypotheticals. In this episode of Some Topic – The Podcast , Nick and the crew dive headfirst into one of humanity’s darkest and most taboo subject...

In this episode of Some Topic , the conspiracy corner gets dragged into the woods, where missing persons cases, national park mysteries, and the internet’s love of the supernatural collide in one absurd, hilarious debate. What starts as a joke about fluoride and secret control spirals into a surprisingly sharp conversation about how people disappear in the wilderness — and why some folks immediate...

What happens when two wildly underqualified hosts dive headfirst into one of the strangest stories in modern history? This episode of Some Topic – The Podcast spirals from chaotic humor into a surprisingly deep (and absurd) exploration of belief, identity, and how far people will go in search of meaning. Between raccoon theology, fake HR memos, and caffeine-fueled tangents, the conversation someho...

What if the universe is overflowing with intelligent life… and we just haven’t heard from it yet? In this episode of Some Topic – The Podcast, Nick and Bre step back into the infamous Conspiracy Corner to tackle one of the biggest questions humanity has ever asked: are we alone in the universe? What starts as jokes about government secrets, Scientology, and “truth” quickly spirals into a deep dive...

Welcome back to Some Topic , the podcast where confidence is high, research is optional, and absolutely nothing is off limits. In this episode, the hosts spiral through a chaotic mix of topics ranging from AI bubbles and tech industry skepticism to absurd debates about action heroes, mall cops, and whether logic even exists anymore. Fueled by caffeine and questionable reasoning, the conversation l...