We talk the Glass Delusion and about an expedition that the US almost backed to the CENTER OF THE EARTH today.

The Glass Delusion was a mental illness from the 1400s-1800s where the sufferer believed themselves to be made out of glass, liable to shatter at the slightest touch. King Charles III was the firstt recorded sufferer, but it struck down many scholars and nobles. Some dudes thought it just affected their butt and walked around with pillows tied to their pants. This is real history. We talk about how some doctors tried to cure them (traumatically) and about various notables who suffered from this. We also get off on a huge tangent about wizards shitting their pants. But it ties in, we swear.

Then, we talk about the expedition that President John Quincy Adams supported that was supposed to explore the hollow earth. That’s right, Jules Verne wrote NONFICTION. But for real, this dude John Cleves Symmes Jr believed the earth to be hollow and full of other, smaller earths, and he proposed an expedition to the north pole to find the opening hole so that he could explore it. Somehow, he got the attention of President JQA and the US came this close to sending men up to die in the cold on this.  Again, this is real history. Come joke about it with us!

Talking points include: wizard poop, santa’s awful secret, George Foremans III-IX