The murderous triangular cult may have indeed existed - join us for the Greek mathematician and cult leader, Pythagoras!

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Sources:

Laertius Diogenes, and Pamela Mensch. Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. New York, Oxford University Press, 2018.

Pythagoras, et al. The Golden Verses of Pythagoras and Other Pythagorean Fragments. Santa Fe, Nm, Sun Pub. Co, 1996.

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Nancy parachutes into France and becomes an integral part of the French resistance. To make a vast understatement, her adventures in effort to put an end to the Nazi occupation of France were numerous and harrowing - using all of her faculties, and highly trained skills (and her ample amount of luck) from making and using bombs, right down to her bare hands. Join us for the thrilling conclusion of Nancy Wake AKA Hélène AKA Madame Andrea AKA The White Mouse!

Sources:

Fitzsimons, Peter. Nancy Wake : A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011. Sydney, Harpercollins Publishers, 2011.

Wake, Nancy. The White Mouse. Sydney, Pan Macmillan Australia, 1985.

Nancy becomes notorious for her courier work and staging prison breaks that she earns herself the code name, The White Mouse, from the Gestapo who were on to her. Join us for Nancy’s harrowing escape over the Pyrenees - not that she was done with the fight - in part 2!

Sources:

Fitzsimons, Peter. Nancy Wake : A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011. Sydney, Harpercollins Publishers, 2011.

Wake, Nancy. The White Mouse. Sydney, Pan Macmillan Australia, 1985.

Nancy Wake was a kiwi who grew up in Australia and became one of the great heroes of the French Resistance during WWII. She became so notorious in fact, that the gestapo code named her “The White Mouse”. Join us for part 1!

Sources:

Fitzsimons, Peter. Nancy Wake : A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011. Sydney, Harpercollins Publishers, 2011.

Wake, Nancy. The White Mouse. Sydney, Pan Macmillan Australia, 1985.

In 1835, the New York Sun ran a series of articles about amazing discoveries of sentient creatures living happy and productive lives in harmony on…the moon. And people believed it!

Sources:

Goodman, Matthew. The Sun and the Moon : The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York. New York, Basic Books,.

Matthias, Meg. “The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 Was Sci-Fi Passed off as News | Britannica.” Www.britannica.com, 2024, www.britannica.com/story/the-great-moon-hoax-of-1835-was-sci-fi-passed-off-as-news. Accessed 2025.

Richard Adams Locke, and Ormond Seavey. The Moon Hoax. 1836. Boston Gregg Pr, 1975.

W.R. built a castle, called FDR a communist, tried to ignore the “greatest film of all time”, and carried on a lifelong affair with one of the biggest Golden Age of Hollywood stars, Marion Davies - Hollywood’s worst kept secret. Join us for part 3 of William Randolph Hearst!

Sources:

Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein. “The Battle over Citizen Kane.” PBS, 1996.

Nasaw, David. The Chief. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 12 Aug. 2013.

Randolph, William, and Jack Casserly. The Hearsts : Father and Son. Niwot, Colo., Roberts Rinehart, 1991.

W.R. goes to war! Hearst didn’t cause the Spanish American War, although he’d love you to believe it. He just made people WANT to go to war. Join us for part 2!

Sources:

Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein. “The Battle over Citizen Kane.” PBS, 1996.

Nasaw, David. The Chief. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 12 Aug. 2013.

Randolph, William, and Jack Casserly. The Hearsts : Father and Son. Niwot, Colo., Roberts Rinehart, 1991.

How did William Randolph Hearst become a media giant who shaped public opinion through yellow journalism? The short answer? A silver spoon; AKA silver and gold mines owned by his parents. Join us as we follow “Willy the Worst” on his way to untold riches and influence!

Sources:

Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein. “The Battle over Citizen Kane.” PBS, 1996.

Nasaw, David. The Chief. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 12 Aug. 2013.

Randolph, William, and Jack Casserly. The Hearsts : Father and Son. Niwot, Colo., Roberts Rinehart, 1991.