The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

After more than four years of research and nine hours of episodes, we're finally at the TRUE conclusion to The Foolkiller Saga. Or are we...? Want 15% off an annual subscription to MasterClass? Go here: http://masterclass.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant​ Visit our Patreon here. You too can get ad-free, early episodes,...

Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in. How about a free fourteen day trial of Shopify? Grab it here! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant​ Visit our Patreon here. You too can get ad-free, early episodes, starting now!​​ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Const...

This is the story of two diseases, and two theories about where one of them came from. Want 15% off an annual subscription to MasterClass? Go here: http://masterclass.com/theconstant Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant​ Visit our Patreon here. You too can get ad-free, earl...

This is a story about the search for goodness in the world. Naturally, it ends tragically. Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant​ Visit GiveWell.org to find a charity today. Be sure to choose "podcast" and enter "The Constant" at checkout. Visit our Patreon here. You too can...

Three high ranking American financial officials tried to warn the world about the 2008 financial collapse. But they were ignored, in large part because of who they were: women. On this episode we're looking at the stories of a few of the many women like them whose contributions, insights and discoveries have been overlooked, undercut or highjacked. Want 15% off an annual subscription to MasterClas...

Beneath lackluster Disney movies and schlocky cable reality television lies an untold true story: the secret brontosauruses of Africa, and the men trying to find them. Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here.​​ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Cons...

After every American mass shooting, the gun debate is drowned in one question: What about Chicago? Today, we're answering it. "How the A.T.F., Key to Biden’s Gun Plan, Became an N.R.A. ‘Whipping Boy’" -NYT "The ATF’s Nonsensical Non-Searchable Gun Databases, Explained" -The Trace University of Chicago Firearms Reports Illinois 2020 Firearms Trace Data Giffords 2019 Memo on ATF "How the NRA Hobbled...

This story is about music, radio, medicine, politics, power, money, people and... goat testicles. Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here.​ ​BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. ​Interested in adve...

There are lots of stories about drugs that changed the medical industry. But here's one about a drug that changed the entertainment industry, too. How about a free fourteen day trial of Shopify? Grab it here! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here.​ ​BU...

In 1867, The Eliza set out to sea with a fresh crew, a full hold and fair weather. Yet no one expected her to ever make land again.  Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here.​ ​BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media p...

Step right up, step right up! We've got the cure for what ails you: more podcasts! How about a free fourteen day trial of Shopify? Grab it here! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here.​ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airw...

Feeling run down, run out or run around? Well friend, I've got the cure for you! Step right up for The Constant Miracle Tonic All Night Medicine Show! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here.​ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of th...

In 1474, the people of Basel tried, convicted and sentenced to death a rooster, in one of the strangest court cases in history. How about a free fourteen day trial of Shopify? Grab it here! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Get a free business account and a copy of Novo'...

If you really want to know what language people originally spoke, all you have to do is the unspeakable. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233597995_Royal_Investigations_of_the_Origin_of_Language Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Get a free business account and a...

The search for the original language, the true language, the language of God and Adam and Enoch, begins today. Continue your education via University of California Irvine now! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Get a free business account and a copy of Novo's Small Busine...

Will humanity ever successfully fly? No. Find out why, on this, the conclusion of our five part series on people who tried. Continue your education via University of California Irvine now! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here. BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTH...

The doe-eyed optimism of Rousseau! The biting cynicism of Baron von Grimm! And a whole bunch more people attempting to fly, and falling disastrously, all together in one podcast episode! Continue your education via University of California Irvine now! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.c...

On the third part of our survey of failed fliers, we've drawing from all walks of life: a peasant and a physicist, a cobbler and a surgeon, a locksmith and an archbishop, not to mention a pair of brothers who aren't the ones you know. Continue your education via University of California Irvine now! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of on...

What do a professor, a heretic, a clockmaker, a barber, a cantor, a laborer, an architect, an alchemist and a couple of bonafide renaissance men all have in common? All of them tried to fly, and none of them succeeded. Continue your education via University of California Irvine now! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling...

You've heard of The Wright Brothers, the first people to fly. Maybe you've heard of Alberto Santo Dumont, too. Arguably he managed to fly two years earlier. Perhaps you know The Montgolfier Brothers, who first got a manned balloon in the air. But what about all the people who tried and failed? Forget the history of flying; to start off 2022 we're giving you the history of falling. Continue your ed...

New Year, New You, New Constant. Season 11 begins Tuesday, January 11th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Throughout the 19th Century, The United States was absolutely barraged by tales of petrified stone men: ancient giants, missing links, careless miners, unfortunate souls and one Civil War hero, General Thomas Francis Meagher. Continue your education via University of California Irvine now! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Give the gift of Masterclass! Get 10% off...

In 1897, a Montana prospector discovered something valuable in The Missouri River. Not gold, not silver, not even copper. It was the petrified body of a missing Civil War hero, General Thomas Francis Meagher. Continue your education via University of California Irvine now! (https://ce.uci.edu/?utm_source=TNM&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=2022theconstant)Get up to 14 free meals AND three free gif...

Our second annual dive into the hidden world of The Constant Secret Feed. Continue your education via University of California Irvine now! (https://ce.uci.edu/?utm_source=TNM&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=2022theconstant)How about 25% off a better news subscription? Go to inkl.com/constant to sign up. (https://www.inkl.com/?through=podcast&plan=yearly-25-discount&utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=or...

Be the most popular kid on the block with these fantastic new tricks! Produce bees from lions! Frogs from mud! Scorpions from bricks! This week we're taking on the oldest and most widely believed bullshit of all: spontaneous generation.Continue your education via University of California Irvine now! (https://ce.uci.edu/?utm_source=TNM&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=2022theconstant)Check out this...