Pitching is hard. Pitching a complete game is harder. And pitching a no hitter is one of the hardest things to do in sports. In 1970, Dock Ellis did something even tougher than that.

Throwing Balls While Tripping Balls

An American teenager, an authoritarian city state, and a cane come together to create of one of the strangest disputes in political history.

It's Just a Little Kick in the Bum

The planet and many of its inhabitants are in bad shape. Les Knight believes the reason isn't a mystery, and neither is the solution.

You can learn more about the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement here: http://www.vhemt.org/

About Les Knight: http://www.vhemt.org/les.htm

Living Long and Dying Out

When it comes to intelligent life, our universe seems like a pretty lonely place. But a Russian radio engineer makes the argument that, even in a crowded party, it's hard to make friends silently.

We're All Ears

Politicians need to get elected, meaning they know it's in their best interest to shut up at least some of the time. But there's one place — a really important one — where that doesn't apply. Hilarity ensues.

Green Eggs and Filibuster

How an American Pepsi lobbyist established his own country on a Canadian island and ended up in a stand off with Soviet Russia.

A Very Fish-y Nation

Armor has a problem, and lobsters may have the solution.

Rock Lobster

Knowledge is power, but sometimes it's also pain. Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt does what no scientist before him thought to or dared to.

Justin O. Schmidt's book, "The Sting of the Wild", is available at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sting-Wild-Justin-Schmidt/dp/1421419289

The King of Sting

WARNING: Learning about the idea in this episode will either (a) ruin your life forever, or (b) induce serious eye-rolling.

A Roko Idea

The English language is a mess, but a very strange group of linguistic purists have a plan to fix it. You may not like the solution.

Speaking Anglish

Imagine being so rich and so bored that you start the world's craziest, and possibly most dangerous, treasure hunt.

A Treasure Worth Dying For

Micro is a podcast that tells stories and explains ideas in under five minutes. Host Rich Raycraft is obsessed with all the weird things that make our world stranger than fiction, and this "short form" podcast is his way of sharing them.

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