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Robots For Eyes Podcast

Feb 29, 2020

The great escape from Alcatraz. A brief outline of Alcatraz’ long history as a military stronghold, then moving on to become a high security federal prison to hold some of the US’s most notorious and difficult criminals. Some banter on some of the most infamous inmates to frequent the federal prison and the story of...


Feb 22, 2020

The Darwin Awards celebrate individuals who’ve protected the human gene pool by unintentionally sacrifice their own lives in the most spectacular and idiotic ways imaginable improving our species chances of long-term survival by selecting themselves out of existence. Think Florida man deaths !

 


Feb 15, 2020

Today we all enjoy the benefits of advanced medical care but how were the ill treated back in the day. Badly. Very Badly. Some of the techniques developed had varying levels of success even persisting to the modern day. The majority have fortunately been cast to the history books such as red hot haemorrhoid rods,...


Feb 9, 2020

The Spanish Flu Pandemic was an unusually lethal strain of avian influenza. Its arrival in 1917 coincided with the end of World War 1, the mass movement of troops aided its spread and within 2 years 500 million people were infected and an estimated 50-100 million people died globally. What caused it ? Where did it come...


Feb 1, 2020

This week we used a random number generator to select past episodes. We had a lot of fun and banter recounting many topics including Fred and Rose West, Jimmy Savile, The Mothman, Dennis Nilsen, Foo Fighters, Tommy Lynn Sells, Weather Manipulation, Transhumanism, Dubrovka Theatre Siege, Simulation Theory, Torture…This...