Latest Ahappening Podcast Episodes
Actually Happening 84: Pants of the Ancients
Actually Happening - July 01, 2017 18:44 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis is the last episode taped way back in the halcyon days of 2015. Yes, we’re slow to get these things out. What. Nobody’s paying for this. This ‘week’ we bring you Julia Child, voting machines, the earliest evidence of...
Actually Happening 83: It’s OK, I’m just tidying your papers
Actually Happening - November 20, 2016 20:34 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsI don’t even know what schedule we’re using for these things anymore, but if you need stories of civil war badasses as much as we do, you might like this episode. We’ve also got the biggest single rock ever made...
Actually Happening 82: All Podcasts are Gray in the Dark
Actually Happening - November 05, 2016 23:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThe passage of the Habeas Corpus Act via a fat joke, A Benjamin Franklin story complete with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles restructuring, the oldest ever message in a bottle, and a German town that may, or may not, actually...
Actually Happening 81: Too Many Camels
Actually Happening - October 08, 2016 23:35 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsA new soon-to-be-broken record for the best-aged episode of Actually Happening ever! In this deeply non-topical installment we discuss the invention of the toilet showroom, biblical anachronisms, gerrymandering, and criticism of Henry VIII.
Actually Happening 80: The Right of Conquest
Actually Happening - September 25, 2015 21:35 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThe shortest presidency of anything, DNA in the War of the Roses, a helicopter theft, and fictional bridges. Also the most well aged episode of Actually Happening ever released.
Actually Happening 79: A Conspiracy Theory Conspiracy, Theoretically
Actually Happening - August 17, 2015 02:20 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn which we reveal the secret Masonic origins of Actually Happening.
Actually Happening 78: 95 Theses But a B—– Ain’t One
Actually Happening - March 09, 2015 17:12 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe never ask questions about Rome because we always end up talking about it anyway. This week: the invention of Y-fronts, things Martin Luther never said, and bans on porn and puns.
Actually Happening 77: That Was When Dinosaur Jesus Carried You In His Jaws
Actually Happening - January 07, 2015 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThere was only one set of footprints then, but boy were they big ones. This week: sending out a CQD, a terrible energy conservation slogan, and two cats with very important jobs.
Actually Happening 76: The Great Pyramids of the Hudson Valley
Actually Happening - December 01, 2014 05:12 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIt’s… been a while. Our lives have gotten in the way of goofy history for far too long. But worry not! We’re all back in town and will be back on a more regular schedule soon, so stay tuned. In the...
Actually Happening 75: Confused Elderly Grandchildren
Actually Happening - September 29, 2014 04:04 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsNow with actual microphones! This week, we go Minnesota Secretary of Agriculture hunting, discover the pitfalls of bad database queries, and don’t look in the back of the fridge. And we find out two guys on an island were doing, well, exactly what you’d expect…
Actually Happening 74: Uphill Downhill
Actually Happening - August 18, 2014 18:38 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week’s episode involves a lot of fighting (and avoiding fighting at all costs) over really weird stuff, some Norman Rockwell appreciation… and another molasses flood.
Actually Happening 73: Half Safe
Actually Happening - July 23, 2014 19:23 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn which the British actually stay out of a war for once, and Ben Carlin drives an amphibious vehicle around the world. Oh yeah, and more Liechtenstein!
Actually Happening 72: Mildly Interesting
Actually Happening - June 21, 2014 18:15 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn which we discuss some of life’s smaller mysteries, do some literal navel gazing, and find more excuses to answer questions with the word “Space!”.
Actually Happening 71: Why Are We So Itchy?
Actually Happening - May 23, 2014 03:21 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week it’s trolleys (not from Mr. Rogers), space patrol (the tv show), archaeologists vs. physicists, and the darkest secrets of itching. Boy are they dark.
Not Actually Happening 29: Numerology Doesn’t Work
Actually Happening - April 28, 2014 02:45 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsDancemaster Skybetter returns this week to help us uncover the bizarre origin of ballet.
Actually Happening 69: The Most Ancient Rite of the Chicken Dance
Actually Happening - April 20, 2014 01:57 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week we welcome another guest, choreographer Sydney Skybetter, who explains to us what a choreographer actually does (and what that has to do with failed utopian communities). And, as a bonus, he’ll be back next week with even more...
Not Actually Happening 28: The Praedestinatio of St. Mark
Actually Happening - April 04, 2014 17:54 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsHow to steal a saint in five unsurprisingly convoluted steps, as recorded in golden mosaics in Venice, and explained by art historian Letha Ch’ien.
Actually Happening 68: Fresh Ground Pepper?
Actually Happening - March 28, 2014 00:12 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe’re finally back from a too-long break, and joined by a special guest, art historian Letha Ch’ien! This time we’re talking Venetian art history, really old companies, and why you should be careful selling metheglin.
Actually Happening 67: All Out of Leftovers
Actually Happening - February 28, 2014 05:11 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe’ll be back next week with regular episodes, but until then enjoy the story behind the story of War of the Worlds, and an extremely baffling discovery beneath London.
Actually Happening 66: Ye Olde Faxe Machinee
Actually Happening - February 12, 2014 04:44 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThe fax machine is older than you think! Unless you already know how old it is.
Actually Happening 65: Tall Tales
Actually Happening - January 26, 2014 19:37 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn which the AH crew combines three successive Prussian rulers named Frederick, by stacking them into one extremely tall dude. Who was then kidnapped and forced to join the Potsdam Giants.
Actually Happening 64: A Public Service Announcement About Alcohol Use
Actually Happening - January 16, 2014 05:03 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsStay away from the schnapps, Austrian army.
Actually Happening 63: Anything for an Interview
Actually Happening - January 07, 2014 23:03 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsTime for another round of holiday leftovers. It’s a short episode, but a fun one: we get to talk about one of the feistiest ladies of early America — and the time she stole the president’s clothes while he was...
Actually Happening 62: Stone Age Gender Politics
Actually Happening - December 17, 2013 19:31 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn which we stare at our hands, learn what a “Vibraslap” is, and try to explain why cats can now has cheezburgers.
Actually Happening 61: She Said Yes
Actually Happening - December 11, 2013 02:55 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAnd they went with “Alice”, not “Diamond Voldemort”. Congratulations to Dennis, Jess, Anna, and David, and a hearty welcome to Alice. We wish you the best in your future career as queen president doctor.
Actually Happening 60: Egyptian Leftovers
Actually Happening - December 03, 2013 17:09 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe’re going to be trying something different around here for the next few weeks. So while you’re still figuring out what to do with all that turkey in your fridge, enjoy Actually Happening’s “Holiday Leftovers” — favorite questions from our...
Actually Happening 59: Election Special
Actually Happening - November 26, 2013 16:40 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsRecapping all the important stuff that happened in this November’s election. And by “important” we mean Biden’s wrong number calls and Big Papi winning the write-in vote for mayor of Boston. Oh yeah, and Philadelphia electing a Whig. We also...
Actually Happening 58: Alice Roosevelt Drops the Mic
Actually Happening - November 19, 2013 03:25 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week, we cover everything from the beginning of time to “How to Win” to the extremely unoriginal plots of early operas (did they only own one book or something?). And stay ’til the end for what’s likely our longest...
Actually Happening 57: Nikita Khrushchev’s Non-Newtonian Fluids
Actually Happening - November 02, 2013 20:20 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn which we finally get to talk about the Great Molasses Flood!
Actually Happening 56: Bob’s Obelisks.
Actually Happening - October 17, 2013 21:48 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn which we take a shopping trip to the strip mall of history. This week: — Bat people on the moon! — Poorly-considered religious symbols — Looting Egyptian artifacts, as usual — America’s first newspaper And it’s time to renew...
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