Latest Ahappening Podcast Episodes
Actually Happening 55: Grover Cleveland? I hardly knew her!
Actually Happening - October 07, 2013 00:53 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week’s episode contains a lot of information about bananas. None of the questions were about bananas.
Actually Happening 54: Bunga Bunga
Actually Happening - September 19, 2013 02:45 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week: short wars, crowdfunding radioactive substances, and the strange origins of the phrase “Bunga Bunga.”
Actually Happening 53: Boris Yeltsin’s Pizza Delivery
Actually Happening - September 11, 2013 03:18 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsA different sort of international incident.
Actually Happening 52: Twinkies from Space!
Actually Happening - August 28, 2013 03:11 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week: mock battles turn all too real, lying about being the king of Albania, and COOL ROCKS FROM SPACE.
Actually Happening 51: Sharegrindr
Actually Happening - August 13, 2013 22:18 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week: the first thing that happened, according to the internet (there are pics) — the pitch finally drops — rogue dendrochronologist chops down the oldest tree — “archbishop and social media guru”.
Actually Happening 50: Spontaneous Turkbustion
Actually Happening - August 08, 2013 03:31 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week we steal someone else’s jokes, but they’re 2,000 years old, so it’s okay. Except the ones about Napoleon. There’s no excuse for those. They’re just terrible.
Actually Happening 49: Liechtenstein Makes a Friend
Actually Happening - July 30, 2013 19:24 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsGuaranteed* to contain more facts about Liechtenstein than you’ve ever heard before! We also discuss the century when everyone invented typewriters and the time we agreed to not blow up Antarctica. * Unless, like, you live in Liechtenstein? In which...
Actually Happening Episode 48: Rapidly Running Out of Intro Jokes
Actually Happening - July 25, 2013 04:08 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings“Why is no one as frightened of the ocean as I am?” “Because that war will be delicious.”
Actually Happening 47: The Best Things Before Sliced Bread
Actually Happening - July 17, 2013 02:25 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThe Inquisition forgives somebody, food gets easier, dressing a girl up as Athena gets you un-banished, and a guy who thinks he’s Jesus’ younger brother orders a couple giant demon-slaying swords… and then gets shot out of a cannon. History...
Actually Happening 46: Allspice on an Everything Bagel
Actually Happening - July 08, 2013 20:39 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIt’s our usual bunch of historical nonsense: prophecies, mysterious ancient devices, and completely ignoring the topic when we don’t know anything about what we’re talking about.
Actually Happening 45: Route 66 Delenda Est
Actually Happening - June 30, 2013 21:42 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsBonjour from France! 3/5 of your AH crew are in Marseilles this week. But this episode has nothing to do with that. Image credits: 1, 2.
Actually Happening 44: Anthony Weiner’s Miniature Toaster
Actually Happening - June 22, 2013 06:01 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis Week: – Anna has some big news – Anthony Weiner’s cat looks bored – Attila the Hun – Crowdfunding Lady Liberty – The sea that disappeared and the island that was never there to begin with – James Joyce...
Not Actually Happening 27: Posthumous Executions
Actually Happening - June 13, 2013 15:14 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsYou can’t kill a guy when he’s already dead, but that’s not going to stop us trying! Quotable: “For a question about posthumous execution, this took a dark turn.”
Actually Happening 43: This Podcast Has Footnotes
Actually Happening - June 08, 2013 15:50 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week! — A scandalous round of Good Advice — Viking while intoxicated — Wedding bands of Bitcoin — A Zerg rush on Jeopardy! — Preliminary results from the world’s longest-running experiment — Emus cause problems on two continents —...
Not Actually Happening 26: The Supreme Tribe of Ben Hur
Actually Happening - May 28, 2013 16:39 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThe original fanboys, or how secret societies turned into insurance companies (really!). Also, “secret society promoter” was a job back then. For a Not Actually Happening, this one has a lot of weird actual facts.
Actually Happening 42: A Podcast
Actually Happening - May 20, 2013 01:32 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsActually Happening: a series of 1s and 0s that add up to a lot of nonsense about history. This week: Historic events unlikely to recur Jimmy Carter attacked by swimming rabbit Elian Gonzales falls through a sinkhole into the Land...
Not Actually Happening 25: The Loch Ness Monster
Actually Happening - April 30, 2013 17:07 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThe Loch Ness Monster is not real. Sorry. But big game hunter Marmaduke Wetherell IS.
Actually Happening #41: Jesus Christ Superhero
Actually Happening - April 22, 2013 03:23 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSo yeah, this episode is late. Really late. Uh… that was quite a week last week. We should be back on schedule now. Anyway, enjoy the usual quality discussion of the rise of the sentient internet, the first speaker of...
Not Actually Happening 24: April Fools? April Fools!
Actually Happening - April 05, 2013 02:23 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsBecause in this celebration of springtime stir-craziness, the biggest April Fools joke is April Fools Day itself. Also: how many terrible salad dressing puns can we come up with? How many different religious hats can we stack on top of...
Not Actually Happening 23: Fake Fossils
Actually Happening - March 22, 2013 18:29 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week we talk about fake fossils, fairweather friends, and far-too-credulous academics.
Actually Happening 40: Good Times Never Seemed So Good
Actually Happening - March 14, 2013 04:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week we celebrate the Ides of March with the suggestion to replace the national anthem with “Sweet Caroline.” Also: what to do if you’re an interim senator, what really happens in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, why the...
Not Actually Happening Episode 22: The Walum Olam
Actually Happening - March 03, 2013 00:30 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week it’s all about fake epics, fake things about epics, and solid snake. For some reason.
Actually Happening Episode 39 — Aaron Burr’s Contiguous Adventures
Actually Happening - February 26, 2013 18:08 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week Aaron Burr gets mispronounced, Russian peasants stop sleeping in their own ovens, and Steven has all the anxiety dreams at once.
Actually Happening Episode 38 — Papal Resignation Special
Actually Happening - February 19, 2013 04:21 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week we take on the first papal resignation in almost 600 years, by using a Google+ Hangout to do out breaking news coverage. The audio is kinda ropey, but we got an actual expert! Renaissance historian Ada Palmer joined...
Actually Happening Episode 37 — Miss Islippi
Actually Happening - February 09, 2013 20:26 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week we put pasties on the Woman of Willendorf, send Robocop to Florence, and take Oliver Wendell Holmes’ lunch money.
Not Actually Happening Episode 21: Wugs!
Actually Happening - February 01, 2013 18:05 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsBecause sometimes the best way to learn about language is to make up new words. (Also, thanks for bearing with us through the bandwidth overage! Hoping it won’t happen again. Rather nice that it seems like we can blame it...
Actually Happening Episode 36 — The Modern, Up-to-date World of Today!
Actually Happening - January 26, 2013 18:36 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week we examine possible ends of the world, what Ben Franklin really wanted from the French, sentimental novels, and the striking contrasts between the modern era and the times we’re living through today.
Not Actually Happening Episode 20: Pseudo-Zoroaster
Actually Happening - January 15, 2013 20:27 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe’re back from our holiday break with some spurious attempts at etymology by the ancient Greeks! Also Steven is leaking bits.
Actually Happening Episode 35 — Holiday Special, Happy New Year!
Actually Happening - December 19, 2012 03:22 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIt’s our last holiday special, and our last episode of the year. So enjoy a handful of facts about the first (or last?) holiday of the year, and we’ll see you in January!
Actually Happening Episode 34 — Holiday Special, The War on Christmas
Actually Happening - December 12, 2012 23:59 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsNo, pointless trivia is the reason for the season! Another fine holiday special in which we discuss the great myth of the holiday season: the War on Christmas. Image source: Kevin Dooley on Flickr
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