Best The Drunk Scientist Podcasts (2025)

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The Philistine Connection: Do the Roots of October 7 Go Back 3,000 Years? 36:24

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The October 7th attacks of Hamas on Israel were an unprecedented, surprise incursion by land, sea, and air that stunned the world and prompted Israel to declare war. The attacks, which included massacres in Israeli communities and a music festival, resulted in the deaths of over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals and the capture of some 251 hosta…

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Why Can't Scientists Explain YAWNING? + Criticism Of Streaming Services 1:04:03

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The Unbreakable Spirit of Hall of Fame Boxer Christy Salters Martin: The Real Story Behind the Upcoming Movie “Christy” 37:13

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In this powerful episode I sit down with one of the most iconic figures in boxing history, Christy Salters Martin, the first woman ever inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame. Her story is one of triumph, trauma, and unbreakable resilience. Christy shares her journey from a small-town girl in West Virginia who learned early on to hide who she was, t…

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The Thucydides Trap: How A Rising Athens Made The Peloponnesian War Inevitable 46:29

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The Peloponnesian War is considered one of the most famous wars of the ancient world not only because it was a massive and devastating conflict that reshaped the Greek world, but also because its thorough documentation by the historian Thucydides transformed how we understand history and war. On the face of it, the Peloponnesian War, fought over 20…

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The Free French Army in North Africa, 1940-1945 49:37

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One of the principal architects of Allied Victory in North Africa during World War Two was French General Louis Dio. His importance in North Africa lies in his role as a key leader of the Free French forces and a trusted subordinate to General Philippe Leclerc. He participated in every battle from Douala to the Fezzan Campaigns in the early 1940s. …

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Stuff Aint Good Anymore, Ya Know? 1:02:00

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Stuff aint good. We talk about how it aint. TraeCrowder.com CoreyWritesForYou.com for Coreys writings DrewMorganComedy.com HelloFresh.com/WellRED10fmBy Trae Crowder, Corey Ryan Forrester, Drew Morgan

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An Inventor’s Quest to Build a Pneumatic Subway System in 1870s New York 45:11

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Alfred Beach built America’s first operational subway in secret beneath 1860s Manhattan, decades before the city’s official electric subway line in 1904. He designed and commissioned a 300-foot-long, eight-foot-diameter tunnel 20 feet underground, built with a tunneling machine he invented for this purpose. The car moved quietly and silently, pushe…

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A Mother’s Love Through Loss: Finding Light After Suicide with Author Betsy Thibaut Stephenson (Revisited) 1:09:49

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Trigger warning: This episode discusses suicide, depression, and grief—please listen with care. This deeply emotional episode is a revisited talk I had with a remarkable guest: Betsy Thibaut Stephens. Betsy is a mother, writer, and survivor of unthinkable loss. Her son, Charlie, was a bright, compassionate, easygoing 21-year-old who quietly battled…

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Spirited Rivalry: Did Ireland or Scotland Invent Whisky? 48:53

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There’s a divide between Scotland and Ireland as fierce as the Protestant/Catholic split during the Thirty Years’ War or the battles between Sunnis and Shias in the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s. It’s the debate over who invented whisky. Both Ireland and Scotland claim to have originated the spirit. Ireland cites its early monastic traditions and the …

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Ads On Your Fridge & The Fall of America! 1:02:07

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Corey and Drew discuss companies trying to montitize every aspect of your life.... brought to you but our friends at Zippix! Go to ZippixToothPicks.com and use the code WellRED to get 10% off your first order of nicotine toothpicks...vape less with Zippix! WeLoveCorey.com DrewMorganComedy.com TraeCrowder.com…

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The Horse That Ate the Legion: Rome’s Cavalry's Triumph Over the Infantry 41:21

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The cavalry 'wings' that probed ahead of the Roman Army played a key role in its campaigns of conquest, masking its marching flanks and seeking to encircle enemies in battle. However, at the very beginning of Rome’s history, it didn’t even have a cavalry, and relied on Greek-style phalanx formations instead. It began as a small cavalry arm provided…

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The Impact of AI, Loneliness, and Finding Meaning Through Human Connection with Psychotherapist and Author John Tsilimparis 46:50

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In this episode I sit down with my friend, psychotherapist, and author John Tsilimparis to explore two of the biggest challenges shaping our world today: the rise of artificial intelligence and the quiet epidemic of loneliness. We’re living in a time when we’re more connected than ever and yet more isolated than we’ve ever been. John and I talk abo…

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Beyond Joan of Arc and Agincourt: How the 100 Years War Crushed Medieval Europe and Launched its Global Order 58:41

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Modern France and Britain were forged in the fires of the Hundred Years War, a century-long conflict that produced deadly English longbowmen, Joan of Arc’s heavenly visions, and a massive death toll from Scotland to the Low Countries. The traditional beginning and end of the Hundred Years' War are conventionally marked by the start of open conflict…

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Are "Patriots" Trying To "Cancel" Zach Bryan For Being "Woke?" (also Saudi Arabia Sucks and More!) 1:03:08

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Reverse Ellis Island: American Migrants Who Fought for Mussolini and Built Stalin’s USSR 38:33

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Faith Over Fear: Navigating Uncertain Times with Author, Activist, and Spiritual Philosopher Marianne Williamson (Revisited) 1:03:39

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Don’t Use Rome as a Model of Why Societies Collapse; Use Crime Syndicates and Somalia Instead 49:42

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12,000 years ago, human history changed forever when the egalitarian groups of hunter-gathering humans began to settle down and organize themselves into hierarchies. The few dominated the many, seizing control through violence. What emerged were “Goliaths”: large societies built on a collection of hierarchies that are also terrifyingly fragile, col…

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Best Of WellRED #327 - Aliens Are Back Baby!!! W/ DJ DJ Lewis!! 1:11:33

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An oldie but a goodie! original description: what more do we need to say? aliens are a hot topic right now so we had to bring in our chief alien expert, the one and only DJ DJ LEWIS YALL!!! Go to TraeCrowder.com for tickets! Check out all the shows in the Skewniverse: Puttin’ On Airs, Gravy Baby, Weekly Skeews Go to DrewMorganComedy.com for all thi…

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A Union General Found a Loophole in the Fugitive Slave Act, Causing 1 Million Slaves to Flee North 45:21

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After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, enslaved people feared running away to the North, as their return was mandated, and they faced brutal punishment or even death upon return to deter others from escaping. But that changed during the Civil War. Black slaves in Confederate Virginia began hearing rumors that they could receive their …

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Live Like Braun: A Mother’s Fight Against Drunk Driving 45:07

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In this deeply moving episode of Judging Meghan, I sit down with Jennifer Levi, a mother who is living every parent’s worst nightmare. Just months ago, Jennifer lost her son Braun, an 18-year-old student-athlete full of life, kindness, and joy, after he was struck and killed by an alleged drunk driver while walking home with friends. Jennifer share…

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The Civil War’s Brutal Finale: A War of Attrition as Terrible as WW2-Pacific and the Napoleonic Wars 47:55

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In 1864, the American Civil War reached a critical juncture with Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign, including the brutal battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, which claimed over 60,000 casualties, surpassing Gettysburg as the Americas’ deadliest clash. Abraham Lincoln faced a contentious re-election against George B. McClellan, while Confe…

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Buying For Life and Blackface Cartoons 1:04:19

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Camp David Looks Like a 1970s Lakeside Retreat. Why is it the Site of the World’s Biggest Political Summits? 41:42

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Camp David, nestled in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains, spans about 125 acres, making it significantly smaller than other presidential getaways like Lyndon B. Johnson’s sprawling 2,700-acre Texas ranch or the vast 1,000-acre Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Compared to grand diplomatic venues like the White House or international summit …

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Ruby’s Road to Resilience: How Drag, Humor, and Real Estate Led to Healing 51:30

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In this episode I am joined by Ruby Dickulous, a realtor, developer, stand up performer, drag artist, and regular guest on Jeff Lewis Live who was featured on HGTV as America’s first drag queen realtor in the special The Queen of House Hunting in Austin, Texas. Ruby and I discuss what it was like to grow up gay in Texas, the painful messages she ab…

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How British Scientists' Self-Experiments on Underwater Rebreathing Created D-Day Submarine Tech (And Nearly Killed Them in the Process) 53:29

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In August 1942, over 7,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, in a largely forgotten landing, with only a small fraction surviving unscathed. The raid failed due to poor planning and lack of underwater reconnaissance, which left the Allies unaware of strong German coastal defenses and underwater obstacles. Inadequate submersible…

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Dear Lord What Do We Make of All This 56:30

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This week the Cho very shrewdly bows out (nah he had other obligations but still, lucky him) as the conversation between Trae and Drew centers around, what else, all of the fallout from the murder of Charlie Kirk. The suspect, his motivations, the theories, the implications...all of that. And where better to get that information than from the brill…

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Over 200,000 Allied Troops Tried and Failed to Crush the Soviet Revolution After World War One 41:20

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The Allied Intervention into the Russian Civil War remains one of the most ambitious yet least talked about military ventures of the 20th century. Coinciding with the end of the first World War, some 180,000 troops from several countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Italy, Greece, Poland, and Romania, among others…

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Grief, Love, and the People Who Shape Us: A Heartfelt Conversation with Bruce and Donna Ellis 57:08

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In this very special episode I celebrate five years of sharing my story and the stories of so many others by sitting down with Bruce and Donna Ellis, who have been like second parents to me. This episode is a heartfelt conversation about family, love, resilience, and most of all about Julie Ellis, their daughter and my soulmate, my best friend sinc…

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How the U.S. Occupation of Japan After WW2 Forged the Most Durable Peace of the 20th Century 1:00:19

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During World War II, the U.S. and Japan were locked in bitter hatred, fueled by propaganda portraying each other as ruthless enemies, exemplified by dehumanizing "Tokyo Woe" posters in the U.S. and Japanese depictions of Americans as barbaric invaders. After the war, the feelings seemed to turn 180 degrees overnight. By the early 1950s, American se…

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The Ballad Of The Drunk Tow-Truck Driver! 1:05:39

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Trigger Warning: the boys talk about pet death so if that bothers you (which we fully understand) maybe skip this one! Love yall. Trae goes on an absolute tear this week talking about his families struggle to have a pet dog TraeCrowder.com DrewMorganComedy.com CoreyRyanForrester.com sponsors: RocketMoney.com/WellRED IndaCloud.co Promo Code WellRED…

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Homer Couldn't Have Written the Iliad, But He Probably Dictated it Word for Word 52:53

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The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem—heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure? To explore these questions is today’s guest, Robin Lane Fox, a scholar and teacher of Homer for over 40…

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Turning Pain Into Purpose: Christine Magiera’s Story of Survival and Drunk Driving Awareness 56:32

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In this emotional episode I am joined by Christine Magiera, a mother of three, advocate, and survivor, who shares the devastating story of a drunk driving crash that changed her family’s life in an instant. What started as a simple ice cream outing ended in tragedy when their minivan was struck just minutes from home, leaving her youngest son criti…

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Depression-Era Planners Thought They’d End Poverty with Public Housing. Instead, They Created the Projects 41:02

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In the 1930s, New Deal-era technocrats devised a solution to homelessness and poverty itself. They believed that providing free or low-cost urban housing projects could completely eliminate housing scarcity. Planners envisioned urban communities that would propel their residents into the middle class, creating a flywheel of abundance where poverty …

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Is He Dead? 1:04:09

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This week Drew is still dead so Trae and Corey talk Trump’s absence, The Kennedy Family, terrible politicians, striving for success in this dumb industry, Panama City Beach, and more! Drew is at The Comedy Catch in Chattanooga, Tn this weekend! Go to TheComedyCatch.com for tickets! TraeCrowder.com coreyRyanForrester.com…

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The Alabaman Jacksonians Who Rejected the Confederacy and Marched with Sherman to the Sea 49:01

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As the popular narrative goes, the Civil War was won when courageous Yankees triumphed over the South. But an aspect of the war that has remained little-known for 160 years is the Alabamian Union soldiers who played a decisive role in the Civil War, only to be scrubbed from the history books. One such group was the First Alabama Calvary, formed in …

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Stronger Immunity, Better Sleep, Longer Life: The MyVitalC Breakthrough with Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Chris Burres 49:03

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In this episode I welcome back Chris Burres, chief scientist, co-founder of MyVitalC, and host of the podcast Live Beyond the Norms. Since Chris first joined me last December, I have been taking MyVitalC every single day, and nine months later I have not gotten sick once. For someone who usually catches everything from colds to bronchitis, especial…

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Frederick Douglass’s Private Writings on Abraham Lincoln, His Strong Critiques and Stronger Praise 49:05

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Frederick Douglass made the strongest arguments for abolition in antebellum America because he made the case that abolition was not a mutation of the Founding Father’s vision of America, but a fulfillment of their promises of liberty for all. He had a lot riding on this personally – Douglas was born into slavery in Maryland around 1818, escaped to …

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The Boys Talk Cracker Barrel (And Stand Up Comedy Greats!) 1:01:10

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Drew has died, so this week Trae and Corey discuss the Cracker Barrel controversy and discuss some slightly unsung comedy greats! TraeCrowder.com for tickets to see Trae CoreyRyanForrester.com for all of Corey's stuff DrewMorganComedy.com for Drew TODAYS SPONSORS! Go to HelloFresh.com/WellRED10FM to get 10 free meals from americas best subscription…

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The Industrial Revolution Was Supposed to Lead to Unlimited Free Time But Only Gave Us Smartphones and Endless Dopamine 31:11

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Free time, one of life’s most important commodities, often feels unfulfilling. But why? And how did leisure activities transition from strolling in the park for hours to “doomscrolling” on social media for thirty minutes? Despite the promise of modern industrialization, many people experience both a scarcity of free time and a disappointment in it.…

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Circles of Collaboration: Building Authentic Connections for Growth with Executive Coach and Author Leslie Grossman 47:26

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In this episode I sit down with executive coach, professor, and four-time author Leslie Grossman to talk about the themes of her newest book, Circles of Collaboration. Drawing from her decades of experience in leadership and her upbringing in a family that modeled the power of community, Leslie shares why genuine connection is more essential than e…