The Weird History Podcast

Recent Episodes

135 Pad Thai, Nationalism, and Mandatory Hats

Posted July 18, 2017 • 00:20:18

Pad Thai is now heavily associated with Thai cuisine, but it’s a relatively modern invention. Noodles were probably imported to Thailand via either...

134 The Imaginary Islands of Benjamin Morrell

Posted July 10, 2017 • 00:17:38

There’s no shortage of things on old maps that turned out to be fictional. Regions such as the Mountains of Kong or the continent of Lemuria dot antiquated...

133 Hachiko

Posted July 5, 2017 • 00:17:00

A statue of a dog sits outside Shibuya station in downtown Tokyo. The statue commemorates Hachiko, an Akita who walked to and from the train station...

132 Crystal King on Feast of Sorrow

Posted June 19, 2017 • 00:29:56

Crystal King is the author of Feast of Sorrow, a novel about ancient Roman cooking that takes the first known cookbook as its inspiration. We talked...

131 Polyamory, Polygraphs, and Wonder Woman

Posted June 12, 2017 • 00:22:25

Wonder Woman’s origin story is a fascinating one. Diana of Themyscira was created in 1940 by William Moulton Marston, a psychologist who helped invent...