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Liam returns to Big Time Whoopsies to hear Eric tell about the time an auto maker offered a car to whoever won the AL Batting Title and everyone lost their minds. Special thanks to Joe Posnanski and his Baseball 100 project, the primary source for this story.

Special guest Katie Wright of the Major Casts Network’s own Bret Easton Hell Yes joins Eric McAdams to hear the first BTW told in many a moon: the story of the most expensive war simulation the United States military ever did. Click here to see the Twitter thread Eric mentions, and click here for an […]

Chris Compendio of AP Marvel returns to Big Time Whoopsies to hear Eric tell the tale of Woodstock. “But Woodstock was a success, wasn’t it?” You ask in a trembling, infantile voice. Well, my dear, stupid child, the first one may have been, but do you know about the second or third? How about the […]

Anna Mei returns to Big Time Whoopsies to face her fears of dying alone in a blizzard, by hearing about a whole mess of people who died alone in blizzards. Mount Everest has so many corpses to talk about, and Eric only has so much time in the podcast!

We have a very special episode of Big Time Whoopsies today: a reverse! Ben returns to BTW to tell Eric a story about Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to the United States, and its surprisingly devastating consequences. Here’s a link to the picture Ben talks about. It’s adorable.

Here’s something you may not know about Eric, Tom, and Liam, the co-founders of the Major Casts Network: they’re all from Washington, DC, and therefore they all have stories of times when the DC Metro didn’t work. Come listen to Eric tell the story of the DC Metro, and also mispronounce “WMATA” a lot. Here’s […]

Lily returns to learn all about the Year of the Four Emperors, a very important year in Roman history! And it turns out there’s a twist, as Eric tells her more about Roman emperors than she ever bargained for! Content warning: as with most stories from ancient Roman history, there’s a lot of mention of […]

Andrew returns, this time with his friend Jack! They go with Eric on a trip to WWII-era Holland, where the Dutch government has just found out one of their national treasures was sold to a Nazi by a man named Han van Meegeren. But not all is as it seems–it’s twist after turn in this […]

We continue our journey through 19th century China with a look at the God Worshipping Society, a group of Christians with some wild beliefs who had a way bigger impact on the country than you might expect. Liliane returns to hear Eric tell the tale of Hong Xiuquan and his many, many followers. I would […]

Ah, the joys of test-taking. Who doesn’t like writing an essay under immense pressure? This week on Big Time Whoopsies, Major Casts co-founder Liam Senior joins Eric to discover the highs and the lows of the Chinese civil service exams. Edit: I kind of garbled the list of works students were expected to know by […]

Carson returns to Big Time Whoopsies for a fun-filled episode about how basically the entire nation of France freaked out for several years over the fact that poison exists. An apology: the audio in this episode was super glitchy! I tried to save as much as I could, but some good bits were basically unintelligible, […]

Hey, wanna hear Tom Loughney get real friggin’ mad? Well, you’re in luck. On this episode of Big Time Whoopsies, host Eric McAdams takes his friend Tom to see the sights and smell the smells of Versailles, the picturesque palace and gardens that housed a whole bunch of rich weirdos. (Special thanks to past BTW […]

Hey, so it turns out that while the United States military has a whole bunch of nuclear weapons, it isn’t very good at keeping them safe! Who would have guessed? Well, to get to the heart of this head-scratcher, Eric takes his pal Josh on a ride through the military’s many, many nuclear mistakes. For […]

Maggie returns! For her third guest appearance, Eric tells her all about the extremely specific way French people escape from prison. This is a light, breezy episode, absolutely defying the BTW brand. Scandalous, really. Here’s a link to what Maggie was looking at during the Pickle.

Two episodes with new guests in a row? It must be either the apocalypse or episode 28 of Big Time Whoopsies! Eric brings his friend Chris Compendio into the fold to tell him all about the Korean Air nut rage incident, a story about a lady getting mad on an airplane that somehow had far-reaching […]

Special guests Courtney and Alison of The XX Files join Eric this week for a romp through 1990s London, as he tells them the story of Alan Conway, the man who impersonated Stanley Kubrick. The misadventures involve sexual favors, lounge singers, New York Times reporters, and a major motion picture, so listen up and don’t […]

Hey, remember how back in 2000 computers rose up against us and caused the end of the world as we know it? No? Huh. This week on Big Time Whoopsies, Eric brings back his gremlin of a sister Lily to talk about Y2K! And this time, she has her friend Kyra to weigh in on […]

Do you know what the biggest health craze in America was back in the middle of the 19th century? Well, Eric does, and he’s here with guests Anna Mei and Lisa to go on a quest to find the most flavorless food imaginable, thanks to men like Sylvester Graham and John Harvey Kellogg. It’s the […]

Look, I’m sorry. Sometimes, instead of talking about some wacky hijinx from history where some person or other did an uh-oh, we have to talk about real systemic horror on Big Time Whoopsies. This week, Eric takes Major Casts co-founder Liam Senior to South America during the time of the conquistadors and encomenderos. It was […]

Andrew returns to Big Time Whoopsies for the the third time, and Eric shows him the wacky world of Fenners – people who desperately try to uncover Forrest Fenn’s hidden treasure. Along the way, they discuss Harry Potter, Ready Player One, and $1-3 million in gold and jewels. Follow the clues, and you too could […]