The Alexander Society Podcast

Up next in our exploration of federal screw-ups, we go to Waco to discuss the 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian compound, as well as the many mishaps that made it the disaster it became. What happens when the leader of a Cult who claims to be the lamb of God meets Federal Agents who are convinced the Cult is illegally selling guns and abusing children. Join Tim and Derek as they cover the sin of both the government and Branch Dav...

The galaxy is vast and full of wonders. It is the ancient yearning of the human race to set out and explore the stars and to go where no one has gone before. It was that drive that led a young boy from France to greatness at the head of the Enterprise, the flagship of the United Federation of Planets, and cementing his place as one of the greatest human explorers to ever live. Join Tim and Derek for a very special episode of The Ka...

The 90's were a bizarre time for federal law enforcement, to say the least. With the rise of right-wing militancy and the blossoming militia movement, anti-government sentiment was at a level not seen before in decades amongst the radical fringes of rural society, helped in no small part by the breathtaking incompetence of armed federal agents. Join Tim and Derek as we discuss the first boiling-over of this terrible combination as ...

From the shadows of antiquity, the last vestiges of ancient pagan tribalism lashes out from Scandinavia to reshape the world. In the desperate power struggles of Medieval England, the Anglo-Saxons find themselves utterly unprepared for the arrival of an army of viking invaders. Their struggle for overlordship will reshape the face of the British Isles and set the stage for the birth of modern England. Join Tim and Derek as we explo...

Friends become bitter rivals, and hip hop becomes a battlefield. Join Tim and Derek as we explore the complex social and economic dimensions of the artist rivalry that shook a scene and left blood in the streets, and the business interests and ego at the center of it all.

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Today Tim and Derek celebrate three years of podcasting and travel back to the romantic days of cigar-chomping and tommy gun-rattling, of saints and killers. In the depths of the depression, the criminal ecosystem of Prohibition-era Chicago came under the rule of a man named Alphonse Capone, and seven years of blood flowed in his wake. Join us as we explore the rise and fall of one of America's most infamous gangsters, the man who ...

Probably the closest the human race has gotten to actual magic is the technologies of nuclear science. From leveling cities to powering your toaster, the destruction of atoms has found unique purchase both in the world of invention and in the collective psyche of the human race. Join Tim and Derek in this anthology of stories about radiation and the people around it.

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Few names carry as much weight in the grand story of human history as that of Charles the Great of the Carolingian Dynasty. From the tribelands of the Pagan Rhine to the halls of St. Peter’s Basilica, the deeds of Charlemagne have echoed through the ages to produce the world that we know today, for better and for worse. Join Tim and Derek for this severely delyed  holiday episode to discuss the life and deeds of this unique man and...

Join the boys and get another tangent-filled Adventure As they wind down the year with this penultimate episode for 2024. Tim Narrates to Derek Stephen King's Pet Semetery and its two movie adaptations and the differences between each and discusses the problem with certain themes in the story. Then Derek breaks down the lore and history of the 41st Millennium by explaining to Tim the Chaos Gods and origins in Warhammer 40k going in...

If there are two things the collective internet cannot abide it is 1. An unsolved mystery, and 2. A cat abuser. Join Tim and Derek this week at the spot where wannabe internet influencer meets internet brain rot meets genuine mental disorder as we explore the case of Luka Magnotta, the edgelord that went too far and took a human life in the name of internet clout. So join the boys what happened to troll who broke rule zero of the i...

What happens if you mix sporting and fitness culture with 20th century race science and a dash of rat poison? You get the 1904 Olympic Marathon. Join Tim and Derek as we discuss perhaps the worst sporting event in the history of the Olympic Games. From the mountain paths of Cuba to the Gateway to the West, witness these athletes fall victim to the shameful conduct of careless organizers and the subtle power of Mother Nature.

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The mind of a child is a unique and powerful tool for creativity, but under the wrong influences it can become dangerous for them and those around them. That is what happened in a town in Wisconsin when two young girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, became consumed by lurid fantasies of human sacrifice to their favorite creepypasta Slenderman and tried to make it reality, with their best friend, Payton Leutner, playing the role o...

It’s hard to imagine a time when America’s sport was anything but what it is today, but there was indeed a time when gridiron football was in its infancy, developing into the sport we know and love. That development needed visionaries and obsessives to imagine new ways to play the sport, luminaries like John Heisman. Join Tim and Derek for a lighthearted jaunt through the life and career of one of the architects of American footbal...

What happens when you combine the raw connective power of the internet with a libertarian drive to secede from the general economy? As it turns out: petty slapfights, murder for hire, and billions of dollars worth of illicit substances. Join Tim and Derek as we discuss the rise and fall of Silkroad, the greatest and dumbest online black market of its kind, as well as the man who made it happen: Ross Ulbricht, better known as Dread ...

Joining the boys this especious tangent-filled bonus episode join Tim and Derek as they finally peel back the veil on what kind of changes they get up to that normally end up on The Cutting Room floor during recording.  during this tangent filled extravaganza Tim and Derek talk about Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive and the novel that inspired it  then somehow make their way over to Supernatural and all the shenanigans that happene...

So much western media tells tales of the Vietnam War from the eyes of American troops. Few consider the decades and centuries of colonialism, radicalism, scheming, and revolt that led to such a cataclysm. Much of this history revolves around the personality of one dynamic man who forged a nation anew from the ashes of empires: Ho Chi Minh, the father of modern Vietnam. From the meeting halls of Paris, to the war torn cities of Chin...

Everyone has that little voice in their head that tells them to do whacky and reckless things. For most of us, it's a silly little quirk that we ignore or chuckle at. But what happens when you listen to that voice? Come join us as Tim imparts to Derek the bizarre and harrowing tale of Richard Russell and his aeronautical joy ride around in an Bombardier Q400, his logic-defying stunt that ended in his own needless death and countles...

When one thinks of pirates, the mind’s eye conjures pictures of swashbuckling buccaneers in a rum-soaked Caribbean paradise. But the story of perhaps the greatest pirate in world history comes to us from a less appreciated place and time, at least to us here in the West. This is the story of Zheng Yi Sao, the queen and commander of a pirate confederation who held the waves with an iron grip, a woman who’s force of will bloodied the...

Join the boys for yet another heist on this week's Mystery Docket covering the Baker Street Heist of 1971. From a Heist leader who is so obsessed with Sherlock Holms he recreates one of his cases while robbing Lloyds Bank on Baker street to an accomplice who signs a lease with their real name this heist has it all. So join us as Tim paints Derek the picture that is this case including the many ways in which this heist was both geni...