This episode explores the continued travails and final rescue of the entire crew of the Endurance expedition led by Ernest Shackleton. Beginning with the decision to leave Elephant Island and venture to South Georgia Island in hopes of finding any possible means to save the crew ..read more

Jared and Jacob discuss the incredible survival account of 28 men trapped on the ice off the coast of Antartica just after the start of World War I. With unparalleled determination, leadership and a bit of luck, the men are all rescued, but only after braving the frozen sea for days in glorified lifeboats.   ..read more

In this episode Professor Andrus and Jacob discuss the shooting and aftermath of the 1966 Tower shootings and family murders committed by Charles Whitman. The idea of "leakage" and warning signs of suicidal/homicidal behavior are discussed with the ultimate conclusion that Charles Whitman was, above all else, a liar.  ..read more

In the first episode of Season 3, Jake moves from guest to co-host, Jared moves from teaching middle school to teaching college, and we discuss the archetype mass shooter: Charles Whitman and his senseless attack from the University of Texas clock tower.  We talk about the mythology that has surrounded the event and how ultimately, Whitman only ever cared about himself. Is there anything to learn from these type of atrocities? We think there is, and over 50 years later, many refuse to see what was has always been true in this world: Some people do horrible things just because they want to ..read more

How did someone like Mengele escape Germany after the war and end up in S. America?  What did he do there? The series finale of Nazi Medicine explores the too crazy to be fiction end of the Mengele story that is quite unsatisfying to those who lost loved ones under his "care ..read more

Jared and Jake continue to look at Dr, Mengele and the uniquely horrific world he created within Auschwitz ..read more

No doctor has ever been more associated with death and bad medicine than Joseph Mengele.  In part 1, Jacob and I talk about how Dr. Mengele existed in the pre-Nazi world and some of the choices or historical accidents that led him into the perfect spot to experiment and murder with impunity ..read more

Cadee and Jared talk about the experiments leading to and within the walls of Auschwitz ..read more

Once killing became the new normal, Nazi doctors were free to do any experiment, regardless of merit or cruelty, as they sought to save soldiers lives, make murder more efficient, and further the eugenic research that claimed aryan superiority.   ..read more

Pt. 2 of our discussion of about the Aktion t4 and other Nazi "mercy" killings that proceeded the greater geneocide ..read more