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It's a week in history.  This week, in fact.

With guest host Jenni Donley!  This week, we discuss history for this week, in history.  You know how it is.

This week.  History.  Put them together and what do you got?  The finest history podcast this side of the Mississip.  Or that side.  Or directly in the middle of the Mississip.   10-17 to 10-23.

My God.  It's this week in history.  It's got everything.  Everything I tell you.

You know the deal.  Don't act like you don't.   Or do act like you don't.  But just, don't act like you don't in front of us.  We put a lot of work into these and it causes hurt feelings.   It's this week in history.

It's everything.  Just every damn thing you need to know about history this week.  Minus the important stuff.

Mitch Emerson returns to guest host this week in history!  Absolutely nothing you need to know about history this week. 

Absolutely everything you want to know about this week in history.

It's this week in history.

Everything that ever happened this week in history.

Award-winning young adult author Chad Alan Gibbs joins the show to discuss this week in history! Check out Chad’s work at www.chadalangibbs.com 8/23-8/29 Topics covered: The Human Fish / Stockholm Syndrome and Patty Hearst / William Wallace and Braveheart / RCA Indian Head Test Pattern / Old Wives Tales / Louis XVI / Pete Rose / Mount Vesuvius Pompeii Eruption and the Masturbating Man / Ray Caldwell / Alfred Eisenstaedt / Steve Guttenberg / Moonlight Graham and Field of Dreams / The Wizard of Oz and the Munchkins / The Berlin Wall / Friedrich Nietzsche / Women’s Suffrage and the 19th Amendment / Invention of the Hot Air Balloon / Ted Knight / President Lyndon Baines Johnson / Anglo Zanzibar War / Brannock Device / Worcestershire Sauce / Charlie McCarthy / Charles Spooner and Spoonerisms / US Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Writer and longtime friend Jordan Green joins the show to discuss this week in history! Check out Jordan’s work at www.starkandmain.org Topics covered: National Roller Coaster Day / Elvis Presley / Charles Bukowski / Babe Ruth / Foul balls / Monica Lewinski and Bill Clinton / Mae West / David Koresh / Genghis Khan / Inventor of the parachute / Rogaine / Hurricane Bob / Eddie Gaedel and Bill Veeck / Abraham Lincoln duel / Groucho Marx / Alberta Williams King / Unicycling / Johan de Witt / Wilt Chamberlain / Steven Hillenburg and Spongebob Squarepants / Kenny Rogers / The Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory / Mona Lisa / Melville Elijah Stone / Pope Gregory IX / The Baltic States

It's this week in history baby, you know the drill.

The history lesson continues.  Columbus sails, a Russian king obsesses over hairstyles, Nixon resigns, voters are suppressed, and the sad fate of Alfalfa,

Special guest Tim Sheets joins the guys this week as they discuss all things in history from 7-26 to 8-1.

This week the guys discuss hollow earth, Circus Maximus, alien octopi, and a king who may or may not have been bald.

Breaking Guinness records, breaking into the Queen's bedroom, a famous band breaking up on stage, and breaking a cat's heart.  All this and more in This Week In History July edition part III.

All things in history this week.  Includes pugilistic bare-knuckle fighting, Elvis's first song, vice-presidential dueling, and setting off atomic bombs in space!

A brand new segment!  This week the guys tell you absolutely everything you need to know about what happened this week in history.   Also, Matt tells the 'phantom pooper' story of his time cleaning up aisles in a grocery store.