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The Lesser Stories
Arkwright Podcasts
38 episodes
2 months ago
History's least-important bits....from the funny to the completely insane, and everything in between!

New episodes every Tuesday.

Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten

Producer: Adam Azra'el
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History's least-important bits....from the funny to the completely insane, and everything in between!

New episodes every Tuesday.

Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten

Producer: Adam Azra'el
Show more...
History
Episodes (20/38)
The Lesser Stories
Pour Me Another
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
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3 years ago
22 minutes

The Lesser Stories
The Dogs of War
It's WWII time! Adam digs into a unit devoted entirely to making fake armies; Anthony talks about Finland's deadliest sniper.
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3 years ago
21 minutes

The Lesser Stories
Doctor, You've Done It!
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
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3 years ago
22 minutes

The Lesser Stories
On The Border
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.
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3 years ago
27 minutes

The Lesser Stories
Under The Sea
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
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3 years ago
33 minutes

The Lesser Stories
Two Headlines, One Day
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.
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3 years ago
22 minutes

The Lesser Stories
Death Of A Monarch
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
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3 years ago
15 minutes

The Lesser Stories
The Pen Is Mightier
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.
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3 years ago
19 minutes

The Lesser Stories
The Final Frontier, pt III
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
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3 years ago
21 minutes

The Lesser Stories
The Body Politic
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.
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3 years ago
18 minutes

The Lesser Stories
Tiny Little Wars
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
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3 years ago
23 minutes

The Lesser Stories
Manmade Disasters
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
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3 years ago
31 minutes

The Lesser Stories
Popes, pt I
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
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3 years ago
26 minutes

The Lesser Stories
Off The Rails
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
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3 years ago
34 minutes

The Lesser Stories
Putting Up Walls
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... //

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Producer: Adam Azra'el
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3 years ago
19 minutes

The Lesser Stories
Dear Leader
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
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3 years ago
30 minutes

The Lesser Stories
The Silver Screen
Anthony's got some stories from Oz....or at least, from the set of a movie about Oz. Something about a Wizard. Not to be outdone, Adam throws it even farther back to one of the first blockbuster science fiction movies, its crazy director, and how we still don't know what it's about. //

Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten //

Producer: Adam Azra'el
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3 years ago
46 minutes

The Lesser Stories
Pirates!
Arrrrrrgh, matey. Anthony's got the dirt on the worst pirate in history. Adam's mad about one particular act of piracy that cost America dearly.

Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el

Producer: Adam Azra'el
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3 years ago
25 minutes

The Lesser Stories
The Mad Scientists
They're back, baby! Anthony talks Tycho Brahe; Adam digs into Nikola Tesla.

Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el

Producer: Adam Azra'el
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3 years ago
28 minutes

The Lesser Stories
The Great Escape(s)
Adam and Anthony trade stories of prison escapes. Lots of prison escapes, in fact....but surprisingly few escapees.
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4 years ago
22 minutes

The Lesser Stories
History's least-important bits....from the funny to the completely insane, and everything in between!

New episodes every Tuesday.

Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten

Producer: Adam Azra'el