The golden years of the National Wrestling Alliance are considered some of the best-ever for professional wrestling fans, featuring legendary wrestlers competing in historic matches over a title that truly mattered. At the same time, the NWA functioned as an illegal monopoly, stifling the labour rights of wrestlers and potential competitors. Union executive and wrestling fan Dave explores the many attempts of one wrestler to unionize within the NWA, and why he was doomed from the start.

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Dave begins his epic journey into the history of professional wrestling to learn where professional wrestling comes from, and why they never came even close to forming a union. Part one covers the first hundred years of wrestling in America.

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Part three of our series brings us to the end of the story of the Brontë family. Branwell spirals out of control, while Charlotte, Emily, and Anne secretly work on their poems and novels. Will our three heroines finally publish their works, become famous and rich, and live happily ever after?

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Part two of our three-part series on the Brontës picks up with the 4 remaining Brontë children growing up and trying to decide just what to do with their lives. Brother Branwell tries his hand at various professions -- with disastrous results -- while Charlotte, Anne, and Emily struggle with their more career limited options.

Jen takes the dilettantes back to the early 19th century to explore the peculiar and tragic lives of the Brontë family.

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Tracy takes Jen and Dave into her own sports fandom and the byzantine world of Formula 1. In 2007, a disgruntled Ferrari employee is alleged to have circulated a dossier of top secret technical information to rival McLaren. It then gets strange.

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Dave takes The Wonderkamer in a new direction and tackles stories of paleontology. Two hundred fifty-one million years ago, the world was an extremely different place as strange creatures walked out of the swamps onto dry land for the first time. These critters were our ancestors and they ruled the Earth far before the dinosaurs. This is the story of their time on Earth - and their great doom.

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Seventeenth-century author Sir Thomas Browne was a true Renaissance man: a doctor, a scholar, a scientist, and… a mythbuster! In this episode, Jen will delve into Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Browne’s 1646 compendium debunking hundreds of ancient legends, myths, and old wives’ tales.