The Internet Says it’s True

It’s our 300th episode, so we’re doing things a little differently. Michael is joined in the studio by five returning guests and very funny people — Jimmy Mak, Glen Tickle, Dan Wilbur, Matt Donnelly, C.J. Johnson and Jay Black — to hear one of the strangest stories we’ve ever covered.

In 1932, Australian farmers were facing a serious problem: roughly 20,000 emus were tearing through wheat fields in Western Australia. The government’s solution was to send in soldiers from the Royal Australian Artillery armed with Lewis machine guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition. What followed became known as The Great Emu War, an actual military operation in which the birds proved so difficult to kill that newspapers began openly making fun of the soldiers.

For Episode 300, Michael tells the story while Jimmy, Glen, Dan, Matt, C.J. and Jay are along for the entire ride — reacting, asking questions and inevitably making the whole thing much more ridiculous.

Three soldiers. Two machine guns. 10,000 rounds of ammunition. 20,000 emus. What could possibly go wrong?

This week on The Internet Says It’s True.

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In this week's Mid-Week Mini Episode, we talk about how honey lasts forever.

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This week, as we near our 300th episode, we're rewinding back to our 100th episode. Originally released August 1st, 2022.

For our 100th episode, we're talking about the awful fire that happened in Dublin, Ireland in 1875. It resulted in 13 people dying, but none of them from the fire! Every person reportedly died from alcohol poisoning! In this episode, we talk about the fire and then play a special version of the quick quiz with Comedian Dan Wilbur!

 

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In this week's Mid-Week Mini Episode, we talk about how it's illegal to only own one guinea pig in Switzerland. 

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In the summer of 1518, one woman walked into a street in Strasbourg and started dancing. Days later, dozens of people were doing the same thing. Within weeks, chronicles claimed the number had reached into the hundreds, and city officials responded with doctors, professional musicians, a ban on dancing and eventually a pilgrimage to a mountain shrine. This week, we look at what we actually know about the Dancing Plague of 1518, why the famous death toll may not be as solid as you've heard, and the leading theory for what caused hundreds of people to apparently lose control of their own bodies. Then we play the Yap Yap with Comedian Jonathan Burns!

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Bonus episodes and content available at http://Patreon.com/MichaelKent

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