Uncover the fall of Haile Selassie - the “Conquering Lion” - through one driving theme: betrayal, from broken promises in Addis Ababa to shattered agreements on the Red Sea coast. Step into a mystery of power, famine, and captivity as Ethiopia’s ancient throne collapses and the Lion is caged.

In this episode, the story follows three interlocking breaches of trust: a military committee that claims it will preserve the monarchy, then dismantles it; an emperor who overturns a federal pact meant to protect Eritrean autonomy; and a state that fails its people during the Wollo famine as officials suppress or delay catastrophic news.

Along the way, the episode untangles what’s known, what’s disputed, and why Haile Selassie’s legacy remains both revered and contested - ending with the haunting questions surrounding his final year under house arrest and what happened after he disappeared from public view.

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Uncover the betrayal at the heart of Socrates’ death: in 399 BC, Athens puts its most famous questioner on trial for impiety and for “corrupting the youth.” Join us as we track the case from the public square to the courtroom to a quiet prison cell, asking one unsettling question all the way through: who broke faith first—Socrates, the city, or the people who claimed to defend it?​

In this episode, we follow the evidence that survives from antiquity—especially Plato’s Apology and Crito, alongside other ancient testimony—to reconstruct what Athens said it was punishing, and what it may have been trying to protect. We explore how Socrates’ method of relentless questioning could look like civic medicine to admirers and civic sabotage to anxious leaders, particularly in a democracy still raw from recent political violence and instability.​

Then the investigation tightens around the most uncomfortable part of the story: the people closest to Socrates. We examine why the shadows of notorious former associates—especially figures tied to anti-democratic upheaval—could make a philosopher feel like a threat even if no conspiracy can be proved. We also look at the religious charge, including Socrates’ claim of a “divine sign” (daimonion), and why that detail could be framed as spiritual innovation—or as convenient legal cover for a more political fear.​

Finally, we return to the moment that turns a trial into a legend: Crito’s escape plan, Socrates’ refusal, and the argument that a life built inside the laws can’t be saved by breaking them—no matter how unjust the verdict feels. With hemlock waiting, the episode asks whether this was the ultimate act of loyalty… or the most devastating betrayal of his own survival.​

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Uncover the untold story of Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake) - the Lakota leader who faced a lifetime of promises made, promises broken, and a final dawn where the trigger was pulled by men of his own nation. What if the most infamous charge against him - the idea that he led a dangerous Ghost Dance uprising - was not fact, but a convenient pretext?

In this episode, we investigate betrayal as the throughline of Sitting Bull’s life. We begin at the treaty tables, where the Fort Laramie agreement promised the Great Sioux Reservation and the sanctity of the Black Hills - terms later unraveled when gold fever and federal pressure replaced signatures with starvation rations. We cross the medicine line into Canada, where asylum came without food or a future, and where an ally was quietly removed so that hunger could finish what armies could not. We step into the glare of the arena lights, where a defeated nation was sold back to the public as entertainment - and a world-famous chief became a living exhibit of his people’s conquest.

Then we follow the panic surrounding the Ghost Dance - what the movement was, what it wasn’t, and how fear turned religious revival into “proof” of sedition. The trail ends at a frozen cabin on the Grand River, where Indian agency police arrived before sunrise to arrest a man for the danger of his voice, his credibility, and his refusal to yield. Shots were fired. Sixteen men died. A nation’s largest symbol of resistance fell - killed not by soldiers in blue, but by a system that made neighbors into instruments.

This is an investigation into power and memory: treaties turned into traps, refuge turned into pressure, celebrity turned into a cage, and a spiritual revival turned into the final excuse. It’s a story about who betrayed whom - and why - and what it costs a people when survival is mistaken for surrender. If you think you know Sitting Bull’s last days, listen closely. The records, the reports, and the voices that remain tell a different story - one that still reverberates wherever fear is used to silence the inconvenient and the unconquered.

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