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The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope
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We are the Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope, a secret society devoted to unearthing and sharing forgotten knowledge. In podcast form. They/them.
The cute little pest in question, BTW.
August 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Really love this SPAM message that packs itself full of specific details in an attempt to convince me it's not a scam, and then gets every one of those details wrong. Even the name.
April 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich died from an accidental self-inflicted knife wound in 1591... but that didn't stop him from popping up to try and reclaim his throne in 1604. And 1607. And 1611. And 1612. And...

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April 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Meanwhile, this is what she got me: a custom-quilled rendition of the podcast logo.
February 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This is a tale of two Valentines.

First, here is what I got my lovely wife #7 @dorothycyborg.bsky.social ... Because I put one in last year's Advent calendar, and she offhandedly mentioned that she "wanted a whole bunch."

(She loved it.)
February 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
War! The balance of power in the Cola Wars has been shifting for years. In a stunning move, Coke has swept into NASA and is about to send its signature beverage into orbit... but not if the underdogs at Pepsi have anything to say about it...

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February 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
UFO cultist George Hunt WIlliamson's "Other Tongues, Other Flesh" has a picto-dictionary of Solex-Mal, the universal language. The glyphs are fascinating and baffling.

Here is the symbol of creation, an eye in a twelve-petaled flower in a four-pointed star. Just don't count the number of petals.
January 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Everybody always asks, "If this is the future, where's my jet pack?" but only Richard Timewell was bold enough to do something about it. And by "do something" I mean "sell jet packs through the mail."

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December 23, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Well, at least they got something right. Always end on a high note, boys!
December 4, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Other shows my listeners like. Some of you have excellent taste. Others do not. @constantpodcast.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Surely this demographic shift won't be a problem in the long run.
December 4, 2024 at 4:56 PM
This episode apparently got 369% more engagement than ususal. Which again sounds great until I pop over to the episode stats and see that barely anyone streamed it.
December 4, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Well, I suppose any sort of growth seems impressive when you start from a low enough number.
December 4, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Helen Duncan was the last person persecuted in Britain for being a witch. Except she wasn't the last, she wasn't a witch, and she wasn't exactly persecuted either...

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December 2, 2024 at 12:05 PM
#OnThisDay (November 25) in 1899 the Franklin Syndicate collapses.

For eighteen months the Syndicate, run by William F. Miller ("the Boy Napoleon of Finance"), has been promising a 10% weekly return on investments. The offer seems too good to be true and thousands of people have taken him up on it.
November 25, 2024 at 12:01 PM
George Gray Barnard's sculptures have been installed in front of the Pennsylvania State Capitol since 1911... but the story of their creation is a long and tortured one, featuring the strangest act of self-censorship you'll ever see.

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November 11, 2024 at 12:16 PM
#OnThisDay (November 4) in 1924, Nellie Tayloe Ross and Miriam Amanda "Ma" Ferguson are elected to be the first women governors in the United States of America.
November 4, 2024 at 11:34 AM
The only thing standing between John Yates Beall and the Confederate prisoners-of-war on Johnson's Island was the USS Michigan... Well, that and a terrible con man and the cowardice of his own men.

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September 23, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Does this look like the most dangerous anti-war politician in the United States? No, no it does not. Does this look like a moron who shot himself in the stomach? Yes, yes it does.

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September 16, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Rowena Morrill was born #onthisday (September 14) in 1944.

Rowena attended the University of Delaware and graduated with a fine arts degree. She eventually became a renowned genre painter whose work graced the cover of hundreds of romance, horror, fantasy, and science fiction novels.
September 14, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Thomas Henry Hines had a cunning plan to free Confederate prisoners-of-war and establish a "Northwest Confederacy". All he needed were sixty good men, five hundred soldiers and friends on the inside. Too bad those groups didn't exist.

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September 9, 2024 at 6:20 AM
#OnThisDay (September 4) in 1849, Maria Monk dies in a women's prison on Blackwell's Island in New York.
September 4, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Homely woman, man in a dress, or hero of the Glorious Revolution and Governor-General of New York? You make the call!

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September 2, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Dude looks like a lady!

...is what I would say if this were a jokey podcast and not a serious podcast. (But seriously, was New York Governor Edward Hyde actually a transvestite? Find out here!

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August 26, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Well well well... Look what the UPS man dragged in. (Thanks, Gerard!)
August 21, 2024 at 7:26 PM