Bribes, Billionaires, and Bari Weiss
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered why Victorians mailed dead birds as love letters? |
| 0:04.0 | Why the 1800s had so many miracle tonics that were just cocaine? |
| 0:09.3 | Or why an entire town once blamed a goat for political corruption? |
| 0:13.8 | Then, dear listener, you have found your people. |
| 0:17.2 | Welcome to the Strange History Podcast, where every episode explores the bizarre, hilarious, unsettling, |
| 0:25.4 | and occasionally, someone please check on humanity corners of our past. |
| 0:30.5 | We dig up the stories your textbook skipped. |
| 0:33.6 | From haunted mansions and medical oddities to forgotten jobs, |
| 0:43.6 | cursed holidays, and historical scandals so ridiculous they sound fake, but aren't. |
| 0:51.6 | And yes, there will be sarcastic commentary, historical chaos, and questionable fake sponsors like Dr. Pumpernichael's patented goat-based relationship therapy, side effects |
| 0:56.8 | may include regret. So come join the adventure. You can find the Strange History podcast |
| 1:04.0 | on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, IHeartRadio, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:13.3 | Because history wasn't just weird. |
| 1:15.4 | It was beautifully, catastrophically weird. |
| 1:18.4 | Okay, here we got. |
| 1:19.3 | Stand by. |
| 1:20.0 | Three, two, one. |
| 1:22.6 | The thinking atheist. |
| 1:24.4 | It's not a person. |
| 1:26.0 | It's a symbol. |
| 1:27.4 | An idea. The population of atheists in this country is going through the room. Thinking atheist, it's not a person. It's a symbol. |
| 1:28.0 | An idea. |
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