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The Shire? Hogwarts? Atlantis?
Which would be in your top 5? Tell us in Discord
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Ghostly lights on the horizon. Thousands of fireflies pulsing in tandem. A lakeshore strewn with petrified figures. A storm that never seems to end.
This week, Shane and Duncan take a closer look at some of natureâs strangest spectacles and the weird science hiding behind the myths.
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Alfred is back!Longtime friend of the show Alfred Banks returned to the livestream to help the guys tackle one important question: What were the biggest lies we were told as kids?
From âIf you make a funny face, itâll stay that wayâ to âHard work always pays off,â Alfred and the Insomniacs sorted through decades of parental propaganda to assemble a definitive list of childhood nonsense.
Which would be in your top 5? Tell us in Discord
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History remembers the great inventors, leaders, and visionaries.
This episode is about the other guys.
Join Shane and Duncan for a celebration of daredevils, showmen, thrill-seekers, and the professional idiots who turned bad ideas into a spectator sport.
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Some celebrity deaths become legends. Others become conspiracy theories. A few become both.
From an OG Superman found dead under mysterious circumstances to a legendary actress who vanished into the dark waters off Catalina Island, Shane and Duncan explore the evidence, the rumors, and the tabloid chaos that turns real events into cultural mythology.
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Power, ego, and one of the most legendary media grudges in Hollywood history. This week, Shane and Duncan dive into the explosive feud between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst, from the making of Citizen Kane to the full-court press to destroy it. Newspapers, blacklists, threats, and enough spite to power a small city. Hollywood has always loved a drama queen.
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Long-term grudges and carefully planned revenge. This week, Shane and Duncan unpack the iconic true story of the Forty-seven rĆnin, a tale of honor, loyalty, and one of historyâs most meticulously executed acts of vengeance. Swords are drawn, patience is tested, and justice takes its time.
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A knife. A trial. A story that made the entire country cross its legs.
In the early morning hours of June 23, 1993, Lorena Bobbitt swung an 8-inch kitchen knife and launched a thousand news stories, millions of terrible punchlines, and at least two of the weirdest porn films ever made.
Join Shane and Duncan for a sordid tale of abuse, retaliation, courtroom chaos, and a sentence you never thought youâd hear on the evening news. Volume one of a revenge series that proves sometimes truth isnât just stranger than fiction, itâs also way more painful.
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Cave art, ancient smut, scandalous engravings, and the long, slow march toward moving pictures. In this host swap episode, Duncan takes the reins and walks Shane through the early history of pornography, stopping right as things are about to start⊠moving. Along the way, they hit ancient civilizations, moral crackdowns, and the surprisingly classy origins of something that absolutely refused to stay classy. Itâs a story about art, censorship, and humanityâs earliest attempts to say, âwhat if we drew that⊠but naked.â~Become an Insomniac! Join the Midnight Masses by supporting the show on PATREON and unlock exclusive bonus content.~Join the community, chat with fellow insomniacs, and vote on episode topics via DISCORD~Send Shane and Duncan a message at [email protected]~Rep the show! Grab a tee or mug at the MIDNIGHT MERCH store and spread the word.~Follow us on INSTAGRAM
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The internet will tell you Easter was stolen from a pagan goddess. The internet is wrong.
Join Shane and Duncan as they crack open the strange, surprisingly contentious history of Easter. What starts with a 2nd-century church dispute over calendar math spirals into centuries of tradition, myth, and misinformation, touching on ancient lunar formulas, Roman torture devices, Lenten food rules that accidentally created a worldwide egg hunt, and global celebrations that make an American Easter look downright boring.
From sacred arguments over celebration dates to global celebrations involving whips, water, and criminal effigies, this one gets weird fast.
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Pirates. Snakes. Shamrocks. And the stomach-turning truth behind those green rivers...
Saint Patrickâs Day is one of the worldâs most recognizable holidays, but the real story is even stranger than the legends.
Join Shane and Duncan as they dig into the bizarre history behind Saint Patrickâs Day, separating fact from fiction and uncovering how one manâs dubious autobiography somehow turned into a global celebration of Irish culture.
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Hollywood promised spectacle. Audiences stayed home.
In this fiscally irresponsible episode, Shane and Duncan return to the financial wreckage of modern blockbuster filmmaking, breaking down the numbers, the behind-the-scenes chaos, and the very modern phenomenon of studios insisting everything is fine while hundreds of millions of dollars evaporate.
Prepare for a snarky, data-driven look at how blockbuster ambition sometimes turns into a masterclass in financial faceplants.
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They say lightning never strikes twice, but Hollywood keeps proving otherwise. In this budget-busting pair of episodes, Shane and Duncan return to the cinematic graveyard for a fresh look at some of Hollywoodâs most spectacular recent failures: the tangled mess of Megalopolis, the glossy fizzle of Tron: Ares, and a few other high-budget disasters that left studios scrambling. Itâs a behind-the-scenes look at big swings, bigger misses, and the brutal math of modern moviemaking.
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In part two of their irreverent jaunt through the solar system, Shane and Duncan venture beyond the inner planets into the vast outer reaches, where storms rage for centuries and icy moons hide oceans beneath their crusts. From Saturnâs sweeping rings to Neptuneâs frigid winds, itâs a dramatic tour through the awe-inspiring outer reaches of our celestial neighborhood.
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The Sun is an unrelenting nuclear inferno. Mercury is a dense little rock with zero atmosphere and the worst sunburn in the system. Venus is a cautionary tale wrapped in sulfuric acid clouds, spinning in the wrong direction just to be difficult. And Mars is a frozen desert haunted by the ghost of ancient oceans.
In this episode, Shane and Duncan dig into the bizarre and extreme nature of the inner planets, unpacking strange rotations, impossible temperatures, missing magnetic fields, and Martian cliffs that make the Grand Canyon look like a pothole. Nothing in the inner solar system is normal, and it only gets weirder from here.
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This week, plunge with Shane and Duncan into the most maddening mental puzzles ever devised, from ancient identity crises and time travel nightmares to philosophical traps that refuse to be solved.
If you replace every part of a ship, is it still technically the same boat? Should you always switch doors and trust the guy in the blazer with the game show smile, or trust your own instincts? And what happens when a donkey canât make up its damn mind?
Welcome to a crash course in logic traps, ethical nightmares, and timeless brain knots. BYO aspirin.
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-Merry Christmas, insomniacs! Here's a blast from the past. We hope you're having an amazing holiday season-
How is Santa Claus connected to cannibalism? Which Christmastide holiday commemorates the slaughter of children? How should you decode the cryptic numerology message 20+C+M+B+22? And what's with all of those airborne reindeer? Welcome to Ghosts of Christmases Past, in which Shane and Duncan explore how tree-worship and animal sacrifice evolved into the bizarre, festive, highly commercialized holiday we know today. So whether you're feeling the Christmas spirit or just feeling jaded and grinchy, grab a cup of heavily-spiked eggnog, get cozy by the yule-log, and join the boys as they unpack the fascinating pagan history of Christmas.
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In this special live-streamed double-retrospective, Shane and Duncan trace the evolution of podcasting from its humble beginnings in the shadow of radio and RSS feeds to its rise as a billion-dollar media juggernaut. Along the way, they peel back the curtain on the origin of Midnight Facts for Insomniacs, from the first chaotic and unpolished episodes recorded in a parked car to the latest chaotic and unpolished episodes consumed by a devoted community of night owls, knowledge junkies, and insomniac misfits.
Whether youâre a longtime fan or just tuning in, this is the origin story you didnât know you needed.
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Alfred Nobel made a fortune inventing things that go boom, earning the nickname âmerchant of death.â
But with his own death approaching, he set out to salvage his legacy by creating a prize meant to celebrate peace, science, and human progress. The history of that prize, however, is anything but peaceful.
This week, Shane and Duncan explore the strange evolution of the Nobel Prize, from its explosive beginnings to secret refusals, scandalous recipients, and one prize Nobel never actually intended.
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In the first full-episode MFFI livestream, Duncan opens the spellbook on the roots of witchcraft and the modern movements keeping the magic alive.
So grab your crystals (or your skepticism) and settle in for a tale of treacherous ale-wives, black cats, pointed hats, and centuries of persecution. From sacred symbols to sanitized stereotypes, this episode unpacks how witchcraft was vilified, commodified, and eventually rebranded.
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