CLASSIC: Creature Feature: The Dark Tetrad

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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It's the weekend! Time to get outdoors, enjoy nature... and, honestly, watch out for crazy animals. Join the guys in this Classic episode as they make an appearance on Creature Feature, the podcast that takes a critter’s eye view to explore how animal behavior parallels the behavior of humans. In this episode, Katie Goldin and the guys explore the dark tetrad in the animal world, ultimately answering the age old question: Who's the most prolific serial meow-derer?

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0:00.0	fellow ridiculous historians not too, too long ago, or I don't know, it's 2018, so lo these many years ago.
0:09.4	Noel, you and I asked our pal Katie Golden to tell us about something called the dark tetrad in the animal world.
0:20.0	Do you remember this one?
0:21.8	I do.
0:22.4	And if I'm not mistaken, this is an episode of that podcast where we were a guest that we also posted in our feed.
0:30.6	So something a little different for you today.
0:33.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:34.2	We asked our good friend, Katie, who's the most prolific serial meowderer?
0:42.4	Max, I don't know if you want to put a rim shot on that one.
0:48.2	But I thought it was good.
0:50.9	Let's jump right in.
0:53.1	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:57.7	Malcolm Gladwell here.
0:59.0	This season on Revisionous History, we're going back to the spring of 1988 to a town in northwest Alabama.
1:05.1	Where a man committed a crime that would spiral out of control.
1:08.7	And he said, I've been in prison 24, 25 years.
1:11.4	That's probably not long enough.
1:13.4	And I didn't kill them.
1:15.2	From Revisionous History, this is The Alabama Murders.
1:19.5	Listen to Revisionous History, The Alabama Murders on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:28.7	From NBA champion, Stefan Curry, comes shot ready, a powerful never-before-seen look at the
1:34.4	mindset that changed the game.
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