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 stories, but they aren't about people who changed the world. You won't read about them on the Wikipedia page for "history", or hear them on a podcast about trains. These stories are of weird creeps and unlucky management consultants, whose lives and legacies crumbled underneath the indifferent march of time. On July 16th, Something True returns, with these stories, and more, from the footnotes of history. Subscribe at somethingtrue.net.
There are some stories everybody knows.
The dog who served in President Hardings cabinet.
Olga of Kiev who dropped a boat full of men into a hole.
The witches of Yavla, who danced as the devil played music from his bare bottom.
But what about the stories we dont know.
Wouldnt you like to hear something new?
How about something true?
Lifehacker called the first season of something true hilarious, disturbing, unnerving, but always delivered with humor, said the Guardian.
New York magazine claimed it could be the perfect podcast well, now that podcast is back with what could be eight perfect new episodes, each one a strange but true story from the footnotes of history.
Stories of the naked man who saved the life of Chinggis Khandhe, of an astronomer eating bad beef, of the opera singer who burned down a convent, of a swashbuckling female soldier with a pet pig and an artificial penis.
These arent stories about people who changed the world.
These stories are of the weird and unlucky, the desperate creeps and explosive failures, the amateur duelists and management consultants, the people who did not really matter, and whose lives and legacies crumbled instantly beneath the absolute, absolute indifference of history.
Only now to return, Duncan Fife and Alex Corbett Ashby invite you back to something true, an eight episode season premiering next week on the Idle Thumbs network.