The Lesser Stories
History's least-important bits....from the funny to the completely insane, and everything in between! New episodes every Tuesday. Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten Producer: Adam Azra'el
Episodes
May 17, 2022 • 22 mins
Cheers to the end of another season! It's all about the booze this episode; Anthony talks about definitely-not-alcohol sold during Prohibition, and Adam talks about definitely-alcohol being accidentally set on fire and sent rampaging through Dublin. Clink 'em and drink 'em, and we'll see you in Season 3!
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
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May 10, 2022 • 21 mins
It's WWII time! Adam digs into a unit devoted entirely to making fake armies; Anthony talks about Finland's deadliest sniper.
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May 3, 2022 • 22 mins
Next stop: medicine! Anthony talks about a doctor who changed the world forever. Adam talks about one who didn't change the world at all. Warning: parts of this episode are *spectacularly* gross.
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
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April 26, 2022 • 27 mins
Anthony unpacks how Michigan and Ohio both wanted Toledo (for some reason). Adam talks about Nicaragua and Honduras, and how the wrong color green in a stamp re-ignited a century-old border dispute.
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April 19, 2022 • 33 mins
Adam, Anthony, and special guest Davey Jones (no, not really, don't be an idiot) discuss some stuff that happens where the sun don't shine. Mostly we mean at the bottom of the ocean, but in this case we also partly mean at the bottom of a person.
Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten
Producer: Adam Azra'el
Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten
Producer: Adam Azra'el
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April 12, 2022 • 22 mins
If a tree falls in a forest but a BIGGER tree falls in a DIFFERENT forest, did the first tree even fall? Adam digs into the most important (and least-known) pharaoh ever discovered, and Anthony explores three deaths....two of which went totally unnoticed.
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April 5, 2022 • 15 mins
It's not our last episode, but it was certainly theirs....Anthony closes the book on Charles The Bad, and Adam makes multiple attempts to kick Zog Of Albania's bucket. It's death, murder, mayhem, destruction....you know. Wholesome stuff.
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
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March 29, 2022 • 19 mins
Can a book save a cathedral from being demolished? Turns out....yeah. Do we have any idea what the Voynich Manuscript is? Turns out....no. Adam and Anthony sit down to very academically unpack two famous historical literary works.
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March 15, 2022 • 21 mins
Is it technically littering when a space station falls out of the sky and onto your town? Anthony thinks so. Meanwhile, Adam is busy unpacking the drama of The Corned Beef Sandwich Incident.
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
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March 8, 2022 • 18 mins
Anthony talks about that one time that Ireland accidentally made drugs legal and same-sex marriage legally required. Adam digs into Honest Abe's dirty trick to win an election and end slavery in the United States.
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March 1, 2022 • 23 mins
Anthony blows the dust off the Football War (4 days). Adam gets competitive and rolls out the Anglo-Zanzibar War (38 minutes). May history judge us all harshly.
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
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February 22, 2022 • 31 mins
People are the WORST, and the lads can prove it. Adam talks about a suspicious flood in Missouri in 1993; Anthony got the extra-hot gossip (on account of it's been on fire for 50 years) from the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania.
Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten
Producer: Adam Azra'el
Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten
Producer: Adam Azra'el
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February 15, 2022 • 26 mins
Say three Hail Marys and get ready for some stories straight from the dude upstairs. Anthony talks about the death and subsequent troubles of Pope Formosus. Adam spills the beans on Pope John XII....and they're some spicy beans. If we're going to hell then we'll see at least one of these guys there.
Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten
Producer: Adam Azra'el
Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten
Producer: Adam Azra'el
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February 8, 2022 • 34 mins
All aboard! It's an episode about trains, with Anthony talking about the Crazy Eights incident and Adam exploring the Crash At Crush.
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
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February 1, 2022 • 19 mins
Adam talks about Notre Damme and the monarchs who were beheaded in front of it. Anthony's got a monty-python-esque story about a light house that had to get built....and rebuilt....and rebuilt... //
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Producer: Adam Azra'el
Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten //
Producer: Adam Azra'el
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January 25, 2022 • 30 mins
Who's got a more Presidential title? You decide as Adam makes the case for team Saparmurat Niyazov and Anthony shills for Idi Amin....oh, and both of them were crazy. Like, CRAZY crazy.
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Producer: Adam Azra'el
Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten //
Producer: Adam Azra'el
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January 18, 2022 • 46 mins
Anthony's got some stories from Oz....or at least, from the set of a movie about Oz. Something about a Wizard. Not to be outdone, Adam throws it even farther back to one of the first blockbuster science fiction movies, its crazy director, and how we still don't know what it's about. //
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Producer: Adam Azra'el
Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten //
Producer: Adam Azra'el
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January 11, 2022 • 25 mins
Arrrrrrgh, matey. Anthony's got the dirt on the worst pirate in history. Adam's mad about one particular act of piracy that cost America dearly.
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
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January 4, 2022 • 28 mins
They're back, baby! Anthony talks Tycho Brahe; Adam digs into Nikola Tesla.
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
Hosts: Anthony Staten, Adam Azra'el
Producer: Adam Azra'el
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September 20, 2021 • 22 mins
Adam and Anthony trade stories of prison escapes. Lots of prison escapes, in fact....but surprisingly few escapees.
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