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What happens when childhood trauma collides with delusion… and a voice convinces you you’ve been chosen by God?

Joseph Kallinger’s descent into violence wasn’t sudden. It unfolded over decades of abuse, humiliation, religious delusion, and the terrifying floating skull he called Charlie. His search for purpose transformed a frightened little boy into one of America’s most bizarre serial killers.

Join hosts Rab, Victoria, and Charlie, the voice Joseph believed was guiding his divine mission as The Annals explores one of the most disturbing true crime cases in American history.

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People think chivalry is about opening doors and pulling out chairs. The truth is much darker and far more fascinating. From violent medieval horsemen to modern gentlemen, this is the story of how civilization tried to turn monsters into protectors. Let’s goooooooo!

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What if washing your hands after the bathroom isn’t the important part? Host Rab dives into germs, “family jewels,” public contamination, and the horrifying realization that your junk may actually be the victim. Welcome to the Double Wash Exorcism.

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Before makeup was about beauty… it was about fear. In this episode of One Up the Annals, Victoria dives into the wild, hilarious, and surprisingly powerful history of makeup. From ancient warriors painting their faces to intimidate enemies… to modern day transformation, confidence, and femininity.

With stories involving crocodile dung, toxic beauty trends, and the “lipstick effect,” this episode reveals how makeup evolved from survival… into identity.

And why, even today…it still feels like war paint.

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We all think we’re smart… until someone mentions IQ.
But what if the number we use to measure intelligence… was never meant to define it?From its origin as a tool to help struggling children, to its evolution into a global scoreboard for genius, this episode breaks down how IQ shaped education, ego, and even immigration policy.

This isn’t just about intelligence, It’s about how we decided to measure it and why we still believe the number.

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They weren’t outlaws in love.

They were two broken people who found in each other exactly what they were missing — and exactly what would destroy them.

Before the headlines… before the manhunt…before the bullets…
There was a boy who needed to be seen and a girl who needed to matter. What they built together wasn’t romance. It was momentum.
In this episode, Hosts Rab and Victoria follow Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow from their early lives through the crimes that made them infamous — not as a love story, but as a slow collapse fueled by obsession, identity, and the need to be remembered.
Because this wasn’t passion. It was a collision.

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Last time it was truffles.

This time… it’s fish eggs.

Caviar, one of the most expensive foods in the world, didn’t start as luxury.

It started as leftovers.

In this episode of Out of My Budget Origins, Rab Greeson dives into the strange history of caviar, from struggling fishermen in ancient Persia… to Russian tsars… to French aristocrats… to billionaires today.

Why does it cost so much?

Why do people eat it with special spoons?

And how did fish eggs become a global status symbol?

From leftovers… to luxury…

This is the story of caviar.

Where shame becomes legend…

and luxury starts as yesterday’s leftovers.

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The taco wasn’t invented for flavor, it was invented for survival and it did end up surviving 9,000 years as a comfort food

In this episode of One Up the Annals, join Rab and Victoria as we trace how a simple folded tortilla became one of the most brilliant pieces of edible engineering in human history, from ancient civilizations to street vendors, Taco Bell, and even space.

Most times the shortest distance between hunger and happiness… is a folded carb.

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