Episode 61 - Its Raining Nuns, Halleluja Its Raining Nuns (Pandemics week)
Sam's Episode notes: Mass Hysterias through time, from windscreen smashing to nuns turning into cats. Today I've got something that's a...
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That Was Genius Team
- Apr 1, 2020
- 10 min
Episode 60 - No One's Tougher Than the Biscuit Eaters (Sidekicks Week)
Sam's notes: The Emancipated (topless) duel between duel between Princess Pauline Matternich and Countess Anastasia Kielmannsegg I’m...
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That Was Genius Team
- Mar 25, 2020
- 10 min
Episode 59 - Welcome to the Mile High Club (Daredevil Week)
Sam's Episode Notes: Hot Air Balloon Pioneer and Italian Stallion Vincenzo Lunardi (and the invention of the Mile High club) Today, I'm...
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That Was Genius Team
- Mar 11, 2020
- 10 min
Episode 57 - Stealing Toilet Roll for the Revolution (Spies Week)
Sam's Episode Notes: Noor Inayat Khan. The Indian Princess turned French resistance spy who gave her all despite nerves, pacifist...
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That Was Genius Team
- Feb 26, 2020
- 9 min
Episode 55 - A Flirty French Roly-Poly (Fitness Week)
Today I'm going to talk about a man the sporting montage may as well have been invented for. A genuine Hollywood action hero whose skills...
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That Was Genius Team
- Jan 30, 2020
- 9 min
Episode 52 - Whizz, Pop, and Up We Go! (World First Week)
Sam's Episode notes: Maurice Wilson and his attempt to crash a plane on Everest to get there first (and do it for God) I’ve got a failed...
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That Was Genius Team
- Jan 23, 2020
- 11 min
Episode 51 - Pants Down on The Good Ship Naturist (French Week)
Sam's Episode Notes: The Baudin expedition AKA the Proposed French Invasion of Sydney Today I've not got just one badass Frenchman, I've...
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That Was Genius Team
- Jan 16, 2020
- 7 min
Episode 50 - 500 Tarts and One Sexy Roman Emperor (Laughter Week)
Sam's Episode Notes: The Berners Street Hoax (or ordering every tradesman in London to one house), and the invention of the whoopee...
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That Was Genius Team
- Dec 19, 2019
- 10 min
Episode 47 - Buster the Prize Fighting Shrew (Shows Week)
Sam's Episode notes: Lazarus and Joannes Baptista Colloredo, the touring conjoined twins who won the hearts of European Royalty I did...
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That Was Genius Team
- Nov 28, 2019
- 9 min
Episode 44 - A Triple Suplex in the Name of Love (Badass Women Week)
Sam's Episode Notes: Khutulun – Wrestler, kidnapper, and legend in East and West. So today, I'm going to talk about a woman who was a...
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That Was Genius Team
- Nov 21, 2019
- 10 min
Episode 43 - Brazilian Samba Dancing Nurses with Incredible Moustaches (Charlatans Week)
Sam's Episode Notes: The Fascinating tale of Dr Adolf Fritz, a man healing (or not) from beyond the grave. I have a habit of doing this,...
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That Was Genius Team
- Nov 14, 2019
- 10 min
Episode 42 - One Dead President and a Scottish Woman's Bottom (Spooky Week)
Sam's Episode Notes: The Hammersmith Ghost murder Today Tom, I'm going to talk to you about a grisly tale from the turn of the 19th...
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That Was Genius Team
- Nov 7, 2019
- 11 min
Episode 41 - Thomas the Self-Pleasuring Engine (40 Week)
Sam's Episode Notes: The Railway Mania of the 1840s (and a very big boat) First off, an honourable mention to the, drumroll as we all try...
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That Was Genius Team
- Oct 24, 2019
- 11 min
Episode 39 - Revenging the Nazi Tap-Dance Troupe (Badass Week)
Sam's Episode Notes: A pair of very different badasses: Franceska Mann the stripteasing concentration camp rebel, and Iron Mike Malloy -...
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