The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

    A podcast about exactly what it says it is: examining the bad ideas, mistakes and accidents that misshaped our world.

  • It's Never Over

  • 1876 (Redux)

  • The Ghost of Cock Lane

  • The Ghost Ship

  • Introducing: History Daily

  • Venus in Transit, Part Three

  • Venus in Transit, Part Two

  • Venus in Transit, Part One

  • Crackpots

  • It's a Secret 3 Everyone

  • A Cut Above

  • Everyone Can Sing

  • Listen Now: Legacy “J. Edgar Hoover”

  • The Inconstant Moon

  • Of Heroes and Hoaxes

  • Ducks, Half Sold

  • Two Islands

  • Comfortably Numb, Part 3

  • Comfortably Numb, Part 2

  • Comfortably Numb, Part 1

  • Like a Son

  • Whoa Baby

  • Let's Talk About Sex, Babies (Remix!)

  • The Holy She, Part 2

  • The Holy She, Part 1

  • Presenting: Historical Blindness

  • A Very BMJ Christmas

  • 99% Conspicuous

  • Rock Bottomless, Part 2

  • Rock Bottomless, Part 1

  • The Werewolf

  • Psych Out, Pt 3: Repeat After Me

  • Introducing: Southern Gothic

  • Psych Out, Pt 2: Pick a Card

  • Psych Out, Pt 1: Lady Wonder

  • Everything Aristotle Has Said is Wrong & The Reflex

  • The One from Nowhere

  • Burning Men

  • The Captain and The Serpent, Part 2

  • The Captain and The Serpent, Part 1

  • Red Mercury, Part 2

  • Red Mercury, Part 1

  • A Pickle for The Knowing Ones

  • I Have Come from Hell

  • Happy Place

  • This Means War (Volume 2)

  • This Means War (Volume 1)

  • The Earliest Englishman (Part 2)

  • The Earliest Englishman (Part 1)

  • Link Missing (Part 2)

  • Link Missing (Part 1)

  • Are Whales Fish?

  • The War on Christmas

  • It's The Little Things (Volume 2)

  • It's a Secret to Everyone (Volume 3)

  • It's The Little Things

  • Sister Pact

  • The Constant Presents: History Daily

  • The Foolkiller Pt 7: Or Rewrite History

  • The Foolkiller Pt 6: Might Solve a Mystery

  • Heart of Darkness

  • The Greater Good

  • Cassandras

  • Do You Think He Saur Us?

  • Chicago

  • Goat Balls

  • The Hadacol Boogie

  • Shipwreckless

  • The Constant Medicine Show (Pt 2)

  • The Constant Miracle Tonic All Night Medicine Show!

  • The Cockatrice

  • The Forbidden Experiment

  • Babble On

  • What Goes Up (Pt 5)

  • What Goes Up (Pt 4)

  • What Goes Up (Pt 3)

  • What Goes Up (Pt 2)

  • What Goes Up (Pt 1)

  • Dance with The Devil in The Pale Moonlight

  • Men of Stone (Pt 2)

  • Men of Stone (Pt 1)

  • It's a Secret to Everyone, Too

  • Something from Nothing

  • Lucy Lightfoot

  • Long Story Short (Pt 3)

  • Long Story Short (Pt 2)

  • Long Story Short (Pt 1)

  • Trivial

  • Are Whales Fish?

  • Walking on Sunshine

  • Holy Toledo Jefferson Correction

  • Holy Toledo

  • Map & Territory

  • Start Here (100th Episode!)

  • The Lead Age

  • It's a Date

  • Death Rays (Part Two (Electric Boogaloo))

  • Death Rays

  • Don't Know Much About History

  • It's All a Lie

  • Zoo Story

  • Crackpots

  • On The Rocks

  • How to Solve a Murder (Pt 3)

  • How to Solve a Murder (Pt 2)

  • How to Solve a Murder (Pt 1)

  • Lick The Earth

  • It's a Secret to Everybody

  • Deserted

  • Presidents in Bathtubs

  • Gef

  • 1876

  • The Rest of The Story

  • In The Air Tonight (I Can Feel It)

  • Run for Your Life

  • Apocalypse Now and Then

  • Real Facts, and Beer

  • Reductio Ad Absurdum

  • Fish Story

  • The Cold, Hard Truth, Pt 2

  • The Cold, Hard Truth, Pt 1

  • The Airship

  • Use The Accident

  • True Crime

  • Light and Shadow of American Life

  • The Foolkiller Pt 5: The White Whale

  • The Foolkiller Pt 4: The Unusual Suspects

  • The Foolkiller Pt 3: The Man from The East

  • The Foolkiller Pt 2: Infinite Distress

  • The Foolkiller Pt 1: Tears Falling from The Sky

  • It's Wonderful Redux

  • The Christmas Bullet

  • Perpetuum Mobile

  • Suck and Blow

  • Necessity

  • The Curse

  • Chewing The Fat

  • A Pain in The Glass

  • A Dreamcast Deferred

  • The Forty Six Dollar Man

  • Madagascar

  • The Golden Episode

  • The Right Stuff, The Wrong Way

  • For That Healthy Glow

  • Seeing is Believing

  • Shocking

  • Endlings

  • The Gentle Hammer

  • Snap, Crackle, Boom!

  • Is There Life on Mars?

  • Broadcasting The Barricades

  • What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Ship and Understanding?

  • Let's Kill Mike

  • GulliBottle

  • The Idea that Broke America

  • Mesmerizing

  • A Sticky Situation

  • Join Us

  • It's Wonderful

  • Introducing 'Safe for Work'

  • No Ragrets

  • Way to Go Again, Einstein!

  • Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

  • What The Fork?

  • Typis and Errirs

  • Dis-Covered

  • It's a Gamble

  • Diabolical Devices of The Demon of Darkness

  • Make It Rain

  • The Ox and The Shark

  • Turks, Turks!

  • Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

  • Boom Town

  • Here Be Dragons

  • The Reflex

  • Catchup

  • Lord Morton's Mare

  • Let's Talk About Sex, Babies

  • People This Isle

  • Everyone Loves a Mystery

  • Do Good Carefully

  • Everything Aristotle Said is Wrong

  • Ice and Fire and Fury

  • Bitcoin, Bitcoin, BITCOIN!

  • Shipwreckless

  • Tidbits and Trimmings

  • Way to Go, Einstein!

  • Fire-Proof Lizards, Vegetable Sheep and Ball-Biting Beavers

  • Take None of These and Call Me In The Morning

  • We're Still Here

  • Art is Dead

  • Three Years of Sundays

  • 1% Inspiration

  • Why Do Birds Suddenly (Dis)Appear?

  • You Gotta Fry a Few Eggs

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