Oddball History

About Oddball History

A biweekly weird-history podcast based in Dallas, TX WILD & TRUE stories 🤯 OCCASIONAL guests 🤝 Starring comedians Jimmy Nelson & Scott Crisp

Publisher

Scott Crisp

Category

comedy · history

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

26 Dec 2022

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

109 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   106: So You've Been Cursed

   This week on a very special but possibly cursed Oddball History Podcast, it's curses, curses and more curses, including the TRUTH behind the Curse of Tutankhamen… The GOAT whose removal from a 1945 World Series game led to the Chicago Cubs being cursed for 71 years… SEVERAL CENTURIES of Macbeth-related mishaps and tragedies… PLUS: Donkey Kong Country Returns, funny bumper stickers, and pretzel dogs!

2. 

   21 Sept 2026

   105: 1,000 Ways To Die in Antiquity

   Ancients die in the darnedest ways this week on a very special Oddball History Podcast--including a philosopher who laughed himself to death after seeing a donkey eat some figs; a wrestler who was eaten by wolves (or lions!) after getting his fingers caught in a tree stump; a legendary playwright who was struck down by a falling turtle, and so much more! PLUS: Unsolved Mysteries, fun with trebuchets and the Little Rascals.

3. 

   7 Sept 2026

   104: Fart History

   So it's come to this: An episode about farts. This week on a very special Oddball History, a 3,925-year-old fart joke from Ancient Sumer; Martin Luther farts at the Devil; Roman emperor Elagabalus breaks out the whoopee cushion; Benjamin Franklin writes an essay called "Fart Proudly," in which he sarcastically proposes scientists focus their efforts on making farts smell good; and so, so much more!

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

723,516

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

30 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

65

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

77

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

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