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The Wonderkamer
Jen, Dave, and Tracy are three dilettantes who are interested in everything! Join us bi-weekly for a new story.
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The Wonderkamer23 - The Murderkamer Halloween Special, Part 2 - Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol
Your brave KILL-ettantes continue their foray into the dark bowels of Parisian spectacle with an exploration of Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol. Chill to more…
The Wonderkamer22 - The Miurderkamer Halloween Special, part 1 - Morbid Parisian Entertainments
Spooky season is here, which means Jen finally gets to reveal her ghoulish side to her fellow KILL-ettantes! Enter The Murderkamer and thrill to chilling tales…
The Wonderkamer21 - Wrestling is Work, part 4 - Vince McMahon union buster
The labour history of wrestling concludes with the rise and fall of Vince McMahon, and the reason wrestlers never unionized... in the USA at least. For sources…
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20 - Wrestling is Women's Work, part 3 - with Sarah Elizabeth Cox
Sarah Elizabeth Cox joins the Wonderkamer as our first guest as we explore the history of women’s wrestling and the labour conditions of female wrestlers up…
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19 - Wrestling is Work, part 2 - The National Wrestling Alliance vs Labour Rights
The golden years of the National Wrestling Alliance are considered some of the best-ever for professional wrestling fans, featuring legendary wrestlers…
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18 - Wrestling is Work, part 1 - The early history of pro wrestling
Dave begins his epic journey into the history of professional wrestling to learn where professional wrestling comes from, and why they never came even close to…
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17 - This Is the Story of Three Girls - the Brontes, part 3
Part three of our series brings us to the end of the story of the Brontë family. Branwell spirals out of control, while Charlotte, Emily, and Anne secretly…
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16 - This Is the Story of Three Girls - the Brontes, part 2
Part two of our three-part series on the Brontës picks up with the 4 remaining Brontë children growing up and trying to decide just what to do with their…
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Episode 15 - This is the Story of Three Girls - the Brontës, part 1
Jen takes the dilettantes back to the early 19th century to explore the peculiar and tragic lives of the Brontë family. For sources and further reading, please…
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Episode 14 - Spygate
Tracy takes Jen and Dave into her own sports fandom and the byzantine world of Formula 1. In 2007, a disgruntled Ferrari employee is alleged to have circulated…
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Episode 13 - That Time Everything on the Earth Died
Dave takes The Wonderkamer in a new direction and tackles stories of paleontology. Two hundred fifty-one million years ago, the world was an extremely…
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12 - Thomas Browne - Renaissance Mythbuster
Seventeenth-century author Sir Thomas Browne was a true Renaissance man: a doctor, a scholar, a scientist, and… a mythbuster! In this episode, Jen will delve…
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11 - The Citroën Expeditions, part 2
The complete success of La Croisière Noire leads André Citroën to attempt the genuinely insane, a full expedition from Beirut to Peking. For the list of…
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10 - The Citroën Expeditions, part 1
Tracy reveals her passion for automotive history as we learn about the Citroën expeditions. In this first part, French automaker André Citroën commissions two…
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09 - Vtubers, part 3 - Culture Wars
In the final part of the VTubers series, Dave steps away from the exploitation of talent by their employers, and instead examines pressures from the fans and…
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08 - Vtubers, part 2 - The Fall of Vshojo
Part 2 of our series of VTubers explores the rise and fall of the American "talent first" agency Vshojo. And how one of the most promising businesses in the…
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07 - Vtubers, part 1 - the Black Corpos, with errata
Dave begins his descent into madness as he explores the sprawling world of vtubers, a multi-billion dollar industry featuring streamers who perform behind…
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06 - The Kurt Cobain Tragical History Tour - part 2
Join us for the final episode of Jen's look into the life of Kurt Cobain.
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05 - The Kurt Cobain Tragical History Tour - part 1
Jen explores the life of rock star Kurt Cobain by taking a psychogeographical journey into the heart of Washington State. Part 1 begins in Seattle and takes us…
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04 - The Other Little House on the Prairie
Tracy dives into the history of sex work in the settlement of the Canadian prairies. Here she talks about how sex workers were foundational to the economic and…
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03 - The Many Failures of Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Although Walter Raleigh is famous for founding the first permanent settlement in North America, history has largely forgotten his half-brother who was a…
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02 - The Punished Dilettante
Jen tries her best to gross out Dave and Tracy with bizarre tales of the preservation of human body parts for “educational” (?) purposes. Please note that you…
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01 - The Mad Trapper of Rat River
In 1931, several RCMP officers responded to a complaint in the Northwest Territories. A man probably called Albert Johnson had been hanging another man’s…
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The Wonderkamer is a new Canadian podcast about curiosity. Our three hosts are dilettantes, those who have interest without expertise. In each episode, a host…