This episode, our friend Amancio Lopes joins us again to talk about Elizabeth Bathory! Elizabeth was a Hungarian noblewoman with a troubled past who, depending on who you believe, killed over 600 people or as few as 30. Which is still A LOT OF MURDER. Maybe she was troubled by the violence she saw in her youth as she was forced to watch the execution of a burglar. Perhaps what troubled her was the execution of one of her lovers, as he was torn apart by wild dogs. Whatever the reason, she bathed in people’s blood and ended her days walled into tiny room as punishment. Real awful stuff.

But cheer up, because after that we’re talking about project A119 also known as when the US was planning to NUKE THE MOON! For science! For morale! For explosions! And this wasn’t just some fringe group working on it either! NASA and DARPA were on board, and a team of crack scientists (including one of Max’s heroes) worked on modeling and planning the whole thing. So why didn’t we NUKE THE MOON? Tune in and find out!