History for people who hated history class. Join Travis (the history buff) and Tom (the enthusiastic bystander) as they stumble through the weirdest corners of the past, armed with questionable logic and a mountain of curiosity.
Stonedhenge delivers high thoughts, historical chaos, and absolutely zero credentials. From the Emu War to the Corpse Pope, we cover the stories your teacher skipped. If you’ve ever wondered how empires fell or what ancient leaders were like at a party, you’re in the right smoky corner of the internet.
Grigori Rasputin - Why You Shouldn't Let Your Wife's Yoga Instructor Run the Government
Grigori Rasputin is historically known as "The Mad Monk," but he was really just a wandering holy man, a snake oil salesman, and a walking scandal generator in boots.
In this episode, we break down how a Siberian peasant somehow managed to become the most influential (and hated) man in the Russian Empire. We cover:
The Romanov Crisis: How Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra's desperation to cure their son's hemophilia created the perfect opening for Rasputin to enter the palace.
Accidentally Useful: How Rasputin's advice to keep doctors away actually helped the royal heir, mostly because it stopped doctors from giving the bleeding boy aspirin.
The PR Disaster: How Rasputin's chaotic behavior (and rumors of him joining mythical Christian sex cults) turned him into a walking conspiracy theory and a symbol of Imperial decay.
The Haunted Group Chat: How Tsar Nicholas leaving for World War I basically left the collapsing Russian government in the hands of his stressed wife and her mystical chaos uncle.
In the studio: Travis quizzes Tom on the Boney M. disco track, and Tom equates letting Rasputin influence the government to letting your wife's yoga instructor run your business.
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31 Oct 2026
Vlad the Impaler - The True Story Behind the Vampire Legend
Happy Halloween from Stonedhenge! Today, we are tracing the real, horrifying history behind the world's most famous monster: Dracula. We are taking a trip to 15th-century Eastern Europe to learn about Vlad III of Wallachia, better known as Vlad the Impaler.
In this special Halloween episode, we explore how a medieval ruler became so terrifying that we are still making horror movies about him 550 years later. We cover:
Wallachian Politics: Why ruling between the Kingdom of Hungary and the expanding Ottoman Empire meant living between two violent landlords who kept burning down your house.
The Royal Hostage: How Vlad's childhood as an Ottoman hostage shaped his worldview, while his younger brother, "Radu the Handsome," definitely had the better PR team.
The Order of the Dragon: The real reason Vlad was called "Dracula," and why his father's Christian chivalric order basically sounds like a Dungeons & Dragons supplement.
The Dinner Parties from Hell: Why you should absolutely never accept a dinner invitation from Vlad, especially if he starts asking how many princes you've survived.
Medieval Propaganda: How much of his legend was real, and how much was just 15th-century enemies running a massive smear campaign.
In the studio: Travis mispronounces more Eastern European cities, and Tom realizes that impalement doesn't just mean putting heads on spikes.
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21 Oct 2026
The Panda Conspiracy - Genetically Engineered Lawnmowers
Pandas break every rule in evolutionary biology, leading fringe science theorists to believe they are actually artificial cryptids genetically engineered by a lost precursor civilization.
In this episode, Tom introduces Travis to the wildest conspiracy theory about everyone's favorite clumsy bear. We cover:
The Bamboo Apocalypse: Why an ancient empire would need to engineer a heavily armored, all-terrain biological lawnmower to eradicate an aggressively spreading super-weed.
Diesel in a Ferrari: How the creators rushed the panda's development, leaving it with a carnivore's acidic digestive tract that only runs at 17% efficiency when eating plants.
The Duct-Tape Thumb: The evolutionary anomaly of the panda's pseudo-thumb, which is actually just an aggressively elongated wrist bone acting as a meat anvil to crush bamboo.
The Maternity Scam: How pandas suffer from phantom pregnancies and actively fake hormonal symptoms just to scam zookeepers out of air conditioning and free fruit.
In the studio: Tom tries to figure out his ultimate corporate scam for free snacks, and Travis shares his love for cuttlefish and terrifying flightless birds.
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