Once upon a time, there was a scandal. Your hosts, Abigail and Madeline, gossip about historical figures and all their secrets. Affairs, animal obsessions, inflammable hearts, and secret lives abound in this comedic gossip column focusing on characters throughout history that never got a chance to s…
Madeline Wolberg & Abigail Wolberg
Queen Matilda ruled aside her lover at the request of the King (not her lover). David Hahn built a nuclear reactor in his mom's potting shed and almost got away with it. Scandalous!
New Year, New Numbering Scheme. We tell the scandalous history of Germany's morally questionable World War I scientist, Fritz Haber, and the crazy Rock n' Roll lives of the 70's rock band, The Ramones.
Princess Diana's life was anything but a fairy tale, plus Seattle's Seafood Sultan Ivar Haglund and his connection to starvationist Linda Hazzard. Scandalous!
Walter Freeman: The Father of the Lobotomy and Ethel Waters
Jerry Lee Lewis and Olga of Kiev. song by Herra Hnetusmjor, aka Mr. Peanutbutter - Upp Til Hopa
Guests Adam and Cody tell Madeline all about Traitor Benedict Arnold and the potential for conspiracy at the Denver International Airport. Scandalous!
We delve into the story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who waged an unhelpful one-man gorilla war in the Philippines, and the murder mystery of 1950s Superman. Scandalous!
Nikola Tesla and Jane Austen made incredible contributions to very different areas of academia, but each found passion and purpose in their work as opposed to their personal lives.
Margaret Trudeau may be the mother of the world's hottest prime minister, but she also was a wild and fabulous first lady who had an eye for equally unavailable (and famous) men. Catherine the Great had to have a child, but to say her husband was her first choice for baby making would be inaccurate to say the least... Russian officers that aren't your husband come in handy sometimes. Scandalous!
What do Abraham Lincoln and Marilyn Monroe Have in Common? Could it be their rumored affairs with strapping young gents? Scandalous!
Who knew that the real-life experiments aimed at creating human-chimp hybrids could be so scandalous... and cursed? And what wonderfully disgusting tool did the famous explorer, Peter Freuchen, use to save his own life? Get learned up on how to wield your excrement in life or death situations on this episode of Antique Scandal
Napoleon was known for his incredible military prowess, but did you know that he was also a hopeless romantic at heart? Spoiler alert! That didn't stop his wife from being the freaking worst. And did the author of Frankenstein really run off with a married baby daddy? Scandalous!
Charles Dickens was a famous author and a not-so-famous terrible husband. Dwight Eisenhower went to the dentist and came back with a little grey man.