Something True 2.8: Odyssée
Guillaume le Gentil didn’t find purpose in the church, seeking it instead in the stars. In 1761, he participated in a global astronomical mi...
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Something True brings you incredible and bizarre true stories from the footnotes of history. A dog in the United States Cabinet? A leading rocket scientist who quit his job to make a moonchi...
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Listen to Something True, a Society & Culture podcast by Idle Thumbs. Stream 18 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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18 episodesSomething True 2.7: Christian & Christopher
Richard Welsh thought he could squeeze in a quick drink with his mates after work, but one thing led to another, and he was conscripted into...
Something True 2.6: L'Arme X
Nobody in France had seen anything like it. The boy, Tarrare, could eat whatever he wanted, in enormous quantities, and never felt full or p...
Something True 2.5: The Trip to Telegraph Creek
Together they set out to chart wildest Canada: a management consultant, a dental student, a Hollywood cinematographer, an ex-sniper, a myste...
Something True 2.4: Okaasan
In the 16th century, the Oda and Tokugawa clans sought to unite feudal Japan under their rule. These were big and dangerous boys, but the bi...
Something True 2.3: Citizen Tim
The stars themselves proclaimed Timothy Dexter to be a great man, so why wouldn't the Newburyport, Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce? Dexter...
Something True 2.2: Baatar
What if Genghis Khan died, just before he really got going? Thanks to a blacksmith's son called Jelme, we don't have to wonder. We might, ho...
Something True 2.1: Cœurs Brûlant
Something True is back, with the story of a celebrated opera singer who set fire to a convent and whipped the buttocks of Parisian lotharios...
Something True Season 2 Preview
The opera singer who burned down a convent. A naked man who saved the life of Genghis Khan. An astronomer who ate bad beef. These are true s...
Something True Holiday Special: The Resurrection of the Flesh
Whatever you eat this holiday season, it won’t be anything like this. Something True returns for the holidays with the story of a monstrous...
Something True 8: Babylon
In the season finale of Something True, we crack the seal on Jack Parsons—a legendary rocket scientist, drummed out of the profession for hi...
Something True 7: Charlie Joyride
Elias Mortimer, a construction lobbyist, needed to land his firm a fat government contract to build veterans' hospitals. Luckily for him, th...
Something True 6: Häxprocesser
Who was this mysterious boy from the city of Gävle? Johan came to Stockholm in 1676, an orphan. His mother had been executed. Executed becau...
Something True 5: Entourage
John Swartwout was minding his own business—scheming against the United States government with his friend, vice president Aaron Burr—when a...
Something True 4: Ruska Pravda
The prince was murdered, and the princess given two demands: surrender the kingdom, and marry the enemy prince. She said yes—but what she di...
Something True 3: Malpaso
In 1852, one of the wealthiest landowners in California drowned crossing a river. The ensuing scramble for his fortune spilled blood and bro...
Something True 2: Class Clowns
What is history's greatest prank? There's the intimate—perching a bucket of water over the door. And the grandly ambitious—say, humiliating...
Something True 1: The President's Dog
Our debut episode brings you the story of a good boy. A very good boy. Laddie Boy, the First Dog of the United States. A wonderful, charming...
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