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Now Your Dumber
Fill your head with history nobody asked for. Weird, true stories that sound made up. The army that lost a war to emus. The flood of molasses that tore through Boston. The town that couldn't stop dancing. Every episode of Now Your Dumber takes one strange true story and tells it in about 15 minutes, with no filler. It's made for your drive, your workout, or your walk. New episodes every Wednesday on Spotify and YouTube (@nowyourdumber). Narrated with an AI voice (ElevenLabs); researched and…
Episodes
- Now Your Dumber
E05 - Mike the Headless Chicken: 18 Months Without a Head
On September 10, 1945, a Colorado farmer named Lloyd Olsen cut the head off a rooster for supper. The rooster didn't seem to notice. He kept walking, kept…
- Now Your Dumber
E04 - The Dancing Plague of 1518: Did People Really Dance to Death?
In July 1518, a woman in Strasbourg stepped into the street and started dancing, and she didn't stop. Within weeks, by one chronicle's count, hundreds of…
- Now Your Dumber
E03 - The Molasses Wave That Killed 21 People in Boston
In January 1919, a five-story steel tank on Boston's waterfront burst open and sent a wave of molasses through the North End, faster than a person could run…
- Now Your Dumber
E01 - The Great Emu War: How Australia Lost a War to Birds
November 1932, the Australian outback. Soldiers with machine guns and thousands of rounds of ammo dig in to face an invading army: about a thousand six-foot…
- Now Your Dumber
E02 - The Radium Girls: They ate radium for a paycheck
In 1917, young women in Orange, New Jersey landed one of the best-paying jobs in town: painting glowing numbers on watch faces. They walked home through dark…