The Lesser Stories

The best efforts are wasted on bad ideas, and we've got some doozies straight from WWII. Anthony talks about the Krummlauf, which almost (if not quite) entirely failed to fire bullets on a curve. Adam talks about Anti-Tank no. 74 sticky grenades, which almost (if not quite) entirely failed to stick to tanks (or anything else). Hosts:  Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten Producer:  Adam Azra'el

Wind up and get ready to shoot a touchdown straight into the hoop, it's a SPORTS TEAM episode! Adam explores the only mildly horrifying tradition of One-Arm vs One-Leg Cricket, and Anthony uncovers a baseball plot so heinous that it cost a baseball player more than six whole games....gasp! Hosts:  Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten Producer:  Adam Azra'el

This episode is extremely classified, so you have to promise not to tell anyone. Anthony cracks the file on Robert Hanssen, who sold info to the Russians in the 90s. Adam goes back a little further to Elizabethan England, and the sordid life of Christopher Marlowe....poet, playwright, and 100% probably also a long-term spy.  Hosts:  Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten Producer:  Adam Azra'el

What has four wheels and has a history of being used for wild adventures? If you answered "automobile", you are correct because this was not a joke, it was an easy quiz and you passed....good for you. Anthony recounts a car race from New York to Paris (yes, he'll answer that question) and Adam shovels up the goods on the Snow Cruiser. Hosts:  Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten Producer:  Adam Azra'el

The big G might just sit this one out as Anthony explores the immensely gross but memorable funeral of Pope Alexander VI, and Adam digs deep on a 350-year anti-dick crusade through the Vatican's art collection.  We don't know if there's a particular number of euphamisms after which we have to give some sort of content warning, but if there is then we hit it....there's your warning. See you all in...

Ahoy, matey!   Adam and Anthony both take you out to sea by total coincidence; Adam talks about the miraculous(ly awful) rebuilding of the Osbourne Reef, and Anthony talks about what you do with dead whales when they wash up....and what you don't do. Ever. Even if it sounds cool. Hosts:  Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten Producer:  Adam Azra'el

Gamers of the world, take heed! Anthony talks about the Nintendo-Sony-Phillips love triangle that led to the PlayStation being created out of spite. Adam recounts the tale of Atari's spectacular corporate suicide surrounding the creation of E.T. - The Video Game. Hosts:  Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten Producer: Adam Azra'el Episodes, articles, stories, and more at www. TheLesserStories.com

Fraud, I say! Fraud! Adam explores the forgeries of Mark Hoffman, and Anthony lays out Carlos Kaiser's exciting and storied football career (kind of). Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten Producer: Adam Azra'el

Question: What hibernates for three years without dying? Answer: The Lesser Stories and the two schmucks who host it! The Lesser Stories returns for a third season full of all the things you'd've learned in high school if your History teachers were allowed to drink and swear.  Celebrating their first episode in over three years, the boys dig into some poorly-realized dreams! Anthony scans the skie...

Cheers to the end of another season! It's all about the booze this episode; Anthony talks about definitely-not-alcohol sold during Prohibition, and Adam talks about definitely-alcohol being accidentally set on fire and sent rampaging through Dublin. Clink 'em and drink 'em, and we'll see you in Season 3! Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el Producer: Adam Azra'el

It's WWII time! Adam digs into a unit devoted entirely to making fake armies; Anthony talks about Finland's deadliest sniper. Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten.   Producer: Adam Azra'el

Next stop: medicine! Anthony talks about a doctor who changed the world forever. Adam talks about one who didn't change the world at all. Warning: parts of this episode are *spectacularly* gross. Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el Producer: Adam Azra'el

Anthony unpacks how Michigan and Ohio both wanted Toledo (for some reason). Adam talks about Nicaragua and Honduras, and how the wrong color green in a stamp re-ignited a century-old border dispute.    Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten Producer: Adam Azra'el

Adam, Anthony, and special guest Davey Jones (no, not really, don't be an idiot) discuss some stuff that happens where the sun don't shine. Mostly we mean at the bottom of the ocean, but in this case we also partly mean at the bottom of a person. Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten Producer: Adam Azra'el

If a tree falls in a forest but a BIGGER tree falls in a DIFFERENT forest, did the first tree even fall? Adam digs into the most important (and least-known) pharaoh ever discovered, and Anthony explores three deaths....two of which went totally unnoticed. Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten Producer: Adam Azra'el

It's not our last episode, but it was certainly theirs....Anthony closes the book on Charles The Bad, and Adam makes multiple attempts to kick Zog Of Albania's bucket. It's death, murder, mayhem, destruction....you know. Wholesome stuff. Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el Producer: Adam Azra'el

Can a book save a cathedral from being demolished? Turns out....yeah. Do we have any idea what the Voynich Manuscript is? Turns out....no. Adam and Anthony sit down to very academically unpack two famous historical literary works. Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten Producer: Adam Azra'el

Is it technically littering when a space station falls out of the sky and onto your town? Anthony thinks so. Meanwhile, Adam is busy unpacking the drama of The Corned Beef Sandwich Incident. Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el Producer: Adam Azra'el

Anthony talks about that one time that Ireland accidentally made drugs legal and same-sex marriage legally required. Adam digs into Honest Abe's dirty trick to win an election and end slavery in the United States.

Anthony blows the dust off the Football War (4 days). Adam gets competitive and rolls out the Anglo-Zanzibar War (38 minutes). May history judge us all harshly. Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el Producer: Adam Azra'el

People are the WORST, and the lads can prove it. Adam talks about a suspicious flood in Missouri in 1993; Anthony got the extra-hot gossip (on account of it's been on fire for 50 years) from the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania. Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten Producer: Adam Azra'el

Say three Hail Marys and get ready for some stories straight from the dude upstairs. Anthony talks about the death and subsequent troubles of Pope Formosus. Adam spills the beans on Pope John XII....and they're some spicy beans. If we're going to hell then we'll see at least one of these guys there. Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten Producer: Adam Azra'el

All aboard! It's an episode about trains, with Anthony talking about the Crazy Eights incident and Adam exploring the Crash At Crush. Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el Producer: Adam Azra'el

Adam talks about Notre Damme and the monarchs who were beheaded in front of it. Anthony's got a monty-python-esque story about a light house that had to get built....and rebuilt....and rebuilt... // Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten // Producer: Adam Azra'el

Who's got a more Presidential title? You decide as Adam makes the case for team Saparmurat Niyazov and Anthony shills for Idi Amin....oh, and both of them were crazy. Like, CRAZY crazy. Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten // Producer: Adam Azra'el