Why does the year start in January? Why did we skip 11 days once? Why is everything so weird and wrong? From Julius Caesar’s ego to Pope Gregory’s bedtime math, this is the chaotic history of the calendar. Happy New Year, I guess.

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Santa Claus: part saint, part myth, part corporate mascot. From a 4th-century bishop who punched heretics to a jolly man who breaks into homes with reindeer—this is the weird, wild evolution of Christmas’s favourite home invader.
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Tulip Mania: when 17th-century Dutch people lost their minds and started selling flowers like they were Bitcoin made of petals. One bulb could buy a house—until it couldn’t.
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Today, we bring you two tales of warfare gone stupid:
First, Napoleon tries to hunt rabbits and gets ambushed by thousands of them.
Then, two countries go to war over a football match. Actual war. With guns.
History is not okay.
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Cassius Marcellus Clay: fiery abolitionist, duelist, publisher, and one-man chaos engine. He handed out beatings and emancipation like candy and once fought off attackers with a Bowie knife.

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Montezuma II: last emperor of the Aztecs, skilled diplomat,and the guy who had the worst houseguest in history—Hernán Cortés. Spoiler: it does not end well.

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Today we are joined by a friend of the show, Howie, todiscuss Plutarch: philosopher, priest, and ancient gossip columnist. His Parallel Lives shaped Western history—and he was not above throwing shade at deadRomans.

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In 1997, 60,000 pigeons were released for a race—and almost none of them came back. Nobody knows where they went. Maybe they're still flying.
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