People think chivalry is about opening doors and pulling out chairs. The truth is much darker and far more fascinating. From violent medieval horsemen to modern gentlemen, this is the story of how civilization tried to turn monsters into protectors. Let’s goooooooo!

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Before makeup was about beauty… it was about fear. In this episode of One Up the Annals, Victoria dives into the wild, hilarious, and surprisingly powerful history of makeup. From ancient warriors painting their faces to intimidate enemies… to modern day transformation, confidence, and femininity.

With stories involving crocodile dung, toxic beauty trends, and the “lipstick effect,” this episode reveals how makeup evolved from survival… into identity.

And why, even today…it still feels like war paint.

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We all think we’re smart… until someone mentions IQ.
But what if the number we use to measure intelligence… was never meant to define it?From its origin as a tool to help struggling children, to its evolution into a global scoreboard for genius, this episode breaks down how IQ shaped education, ego, and even immigration policy.

This isn’t just about intelligence, It’s about how we decided to measure it and why we still believe the number.

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They weren’t outlaws in love.

They were two broken people who found in each other exactly what they were missing — and exactly what would destroy them.

Before the headlines… before the manhunt…before the bullets…
There was a boy who needed to be seen and a girl who needed to matter. What they built together wasn’t romance. It was momentum.
In this episode, Hosts Rab and Victoria follow Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow from their early lives through the crimes that made them infamous — not as a love story, but as a slow collapse fueled by obsession, identity, and the need to be remembered.
Because this wasn’t passion. It was a collision.

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Last time it was truffles.

This time… it’s fish eggs.

Caviar, one of the most expensive foods in the world, didn’t start as luxury.

It started as leftovers.

In this episode of Out of My Budget Origins, Rab Greeson dives into the strange history of caviar, from struggling fishermen in ancient Persia… to Russian tsars… to French aristocrats… to billionaires today.

Why does it cost so much?

Why do people eat it with special spoons?

And how did fish eggs become a global status symbol?

From leftovers… to luxury…

This is the story of caviar.

Where shame becomes legend…

and luxury starts as yesterday’s leftovers.

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In this episode of One Up the Annals, join Rab and Victoria as we trace how a simple folded tortilla became one of the most brilliant pieces of edible engineering in human history, from ancient civilizations to street vendors, Taco Bell, and even space.

Most times the shortest distance between hunger and happiness… is a folded carb.

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Truffles started as dirt-covered fungi hunted by pigs… and somehow became one of the most expensive foods on Earth. In this short Annals episode, we dig into how a lumpy underground mushroom turned into a luxury flex, why the rich made it fancy, and the strange science behind why it smells like attraction. From mud to Michelin,  this is the story of the world’s most expensive fungus.

I’m your host Rab Greeson and now it’s in the Annals!

Goodnight

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Twice a year we move the clocks and pretend we’ve solved a problem with the sun.

Let’s goooooo

In Episode 27, Rab Greeson dives into the bizarre history of Daylight Saving Time — from a bug collector who wanted more daylight to chase insects, to wartime energy experiments, confused farmers, angry commuters, and the strange modern tradition of resetting your microwave while questioning your life choices.

Humanity has mapped the genome, split the atom, and sent spacecraft beyond the solar system.

And yet…

we still argue with the sun.

Goodnight 

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In this episode, host Rab Greeson narrates his creative nonfiction and explores the evolution of fitness influence, from survival necessity to modern spectacle.

Long before gyms, supplements, and social media, the human body existed to endure, adapt, and survive. But over time, fitness transformed into something else: performance, identity, and eventually, monetized influence.

From ancient Olympians and gladiators… to Jane Fonda and Arnold Schwarzenegger… to the algorithm-driven world of modern influencers, Rab traces how the body became both symbol and product.

This episode examines the psychological, cultural, and technological forces that reshaped fitness from health practice to attention economy and asks a deeper question: 

Are we training for capability… or performing for approval?

This is narrative historical journalism about physical culture, influence, and what it means to reclaim ownership of your body in a world designed to watch it.

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Lights. Soundstages. Carefully controlled darkness. 

But what happens when the darkness doesn’t follow directions? 

 In this episode of One Up the Annals, host Rab Greeson sits down at the séance table to explore the most infamous cursed and haunted movie sets in film history. From early silent cinema to modern horror, where coincidence piled up, accidents felt intentional, and rumors refused to die. 

Guided by special guest Victoria co-hosting  as the medium “the spirits agreed to speak through,” this episode unfolds like a séance disguised as a podcast. Together, we trace the strange pattern that emerges when cameras roll on stories about ghosts, demons, and the Devil himself and something off-script shows up to watch. 

 You’ll hear about:  

• Films that survived fires meant to erase them
• Sets where actors didn’t just play ghosts, they became legends
• Locations that seemed to remember what was done there
• Why certain roles feel like they keep the people who play them
• And how rumor itself can become a haunting that never leaves the screen

This isn’t a list of jump scares. It’s a slow burn through Hollywood’s shadow history—where belief, coincidence, and fear blur just enough to make you check the hallway afterward.
 

 You came for the facts.
 You’re not leaving alone.

Goodnight
 

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This December, we’re not talking about the holidays you planned. We’re talking about the ones that happened anyway. When something slips. A turkey gets dropped. A gift detonates a relationship. Kids are kids. Someone discovers the punch wasn’t “lightly spiked,” it was weaponized.

And just like that, the holiday now has a name.

In this episode, we collect the true stories of December disasters that didn’t ruin Christmas… They became Christmas memories.

Because tradition tells you how the season is supposed to go. Reality tells you what actually happened.

And that’s the seasoning of the season.

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December is supposed to be warm, joyful, and magical.

So why does it also feel loud, expensive, exhausting, and emotionally charged?

I’m Rab Greeson and in this episode of One Up the Annals, we take a Dickens-style journey through the traditions of December guided by three ghosts who know exactly why this season hits the way it does.

We explore:

• Why Christmas trees were once fire hazards and survival symbols
• How lights went from “don’t die in the dark” to neighborhood competitions
• The strange, sacred, and occasionally unhinged origins of mistletoe, caroling, stockings, eggnog, fruitcake, and flying reindeer
• How December traditions transformed into performances, surveillance, and consumer rituals
• Why modern Christmas feels louder than ever and what we might want to carry forward instead

This isn’t about canceling Christmas.

It’s about understanding it.

From pagan fire rituals to mall Santas, from survival to spectacle, from quiet generosity to public performance, December has always been watching.

And maybe, just maybe, it’s trying to remind us of something.

Where December becomes legend…

It’s in the Annals.

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Across this series, we followed some of the brightest minds in modern history. Howard Hughes, Heath Ledger, Robin Williams and then descended into the Madness itself. We traced the same atomic question through every story:

Where does genius end… and collapse begin?

In this season finale, we step back from the individual lives and examine the core that connected them all. Control. Creation. Motion. Brilliance. Awareness. And the moment that barrier fails.

Howard Hughes tried to master the world through control, until it sealed him inside it.
 Heath Ledger dove into creation, until the line between role and self. Disappeared.
 Robin Williams ran on motion and empathy until biology betrayed awareness itself.
 And the Madness episode showed us what happens when awareness collapses completely.

This final episode weaves those stories together into one closing truth: genius and madness orbit the same core and awareness is the only thing that keeps the atom intact.

This is not a tribute to tragedy.
 It is an anatomy of obsession.
 A map of brilliance.
 And a warning written in light.

Season Finale – One Up The Annals: The Season of Obsession
Hosted by Rab Greeson — The Original Un-fluencer

Where shame becomes legend… and obsession becomes history.

Goodnight.

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What do a conman, a cannibal, a campus stalker, a towering intellect, and a boy-next-door have in common?

They weren’t just killers. They were obsessed with control, legacy, and the illusion of genius.

In this dark descent of the Madness Arc, we ride the elevator to the lowest levels of the human psyche… and meet five men whose atoms split without warning:

•  H.H. Holmes – The blueprint of murder
•  Ted Bundy – The killer who rehearsed his charm
•  Ed Kemper – The intellect who dissected his own family
• Jeffrey Dahmer – The man who tried to build love from corpses
• Dennis Rader – The file clerk who thought he was a god

They weren’t monsters. They were men.

And that’s what makes them terrifying.

If genius is powered by awareness… what happens when awareness turns off the lights?

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This isn’t the simplified story the world told after he died.

This is the truth through the lens of genius, madness, and the fragile barrier that separates the two: awareness.

We explore:

• His childhood isolation and the birth of his “Love Me Syndrome”

• The San Francisco stand-up scene that couldn’t contain him

• Cocaine, Belushi’s death, and the moment he changed course

• Why Mork & Mindy exploded into a phenomenon

• The roles that defined him  Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting, The Fisher King, and more

• His radical compassion, private vulnerability, and relentless need to connect

• The silent, biological betrayal of Lewy Body Dementia

• The truth behind his final months and why depression was not the story

Robin wasn’t a tragedy.

He was a North Star, a force of motion and love whose spark still echoes long after the silence.

I’m Rab Greeson, the Original Un-fluencer  and tonight, in the Annals, we see Robin clearly. He’s not alone. And the mission he carried his whole life, to make us feel seen, is complete.

Nanoo-nanoo.

Let’s goooooo.

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Heath Ledger

He wasn’t chasing fame, he was chasing perfection and damned near found it. But the cost of brilliant obsession can blend genius and madness to something else.

From restless Perth kid to Hollywood icon, Heath Ledger lived like a spark looking for fuel.

This episode dives deep into the mind and motion of a man who built brilliance from obsession, who prepared for The Joker role with obsessive detail, who filmed, sketched, and sound-tracked his own descent into legend.

We trace his journey from Peter Pan to Patrick Verona, from Brokeback Mountain’s quiet ache to The Dark Knight’s immortal grin.

 This isn’t just the story of Heath Ledger. It’s a study of how far an artist will go before brilliance starts to burn like chaos.

One Up the Annals — where shame becomes legend, and genius flirts with madness.

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He was a visionary who conquered Hollywood, rewrote the rules of flight, and then vanished into a fortress of milk bottles and Kleenex.

From the Spruce Goose that flew only once to the Vegas empire he bought just to be left alone, this is the true story of the man who turned genius into isolation and obsession into legend.

Where shame becomes legend.

 Listen now on One Up the Annals Episode 18: Howard Hughes The Man Who Tried to Sterilize the Sky.

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From Howard Hughes to Heath Ledger, Robin Williams to the monsters Bundy, Holmes, Dahmer, who perfected the art of madness, this season traces the same current running through them all.

Five minutes of foreplay before the full descent. Let’s gooooo

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Before the neon, before the mob, before the Elvis impersonators and bad decisions Vegas was nothing but dust, dynamite, and desperation.

When the Hoover Dam brought twenty-thousand men to the desert in the 1930s, Boulder City stayed “dry”… so they crossed the sand to Vegas, where nothing was illegal if you didn’t get caught.

Brothels, bootleggers, and backroom bribes built the foundation of America’s most shameless city  and the mob simply added management.

From “Block 16” to Bugsy Siegel, this is the real story of how a handful of dam workers, hustlers, and working girls turned a mirage into an empire.

I’m Rab Greeson, your dam host and moral compass gone rogue.

Where the dam shame becomes the dam legend.

Short, true, filthy, it’s “Annals Origins: Vegas Baby.”

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Noblewoman. Educated. Unchecked.In this dark chapter of early modern Europe we uncover the truth behind Elizabeth Báthory the so-called ‘Blood Countess’ of Hungary. With hundreds of testimonies, grisly torture devices, and a royal debt that rewrote justice, this is the story of how power protects monsters.We’ll dive into:
 • Her aristocratic rise and empire of silence
 • The chilling apparatus of cruelty she allegedly built
 • The 1610 inquiry, confessions, and what the records really show
 • The political cover-up that traded justice for assets
 • How legend overtook fact and why it still matters If you like history with blood, bureaucracy and unanswered questions you’re in the right place.

 Full show available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Podcasts, YouTube and wherever you get your darker history fix.

  Support the show (and keep the scrolls heated):  Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of torture and violence. Listener discretion is advised.

#ElizabethBathory #BloodCountess #TrueCrimeHistory #AnnalsPodcast #EarlyModernEurope #DarkHistory”

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In this mini Halloween edition of One Up the Annals, we drag the truth through the greasepaint to uncover where clown fear was really born. From Rome’s enslaved mimus who danced for their lives, to England’s broken legend Joseph Grimaldi, to America’s nightmare smile that never fades, the clown has always carried the souls of the performers who died behind the mask.

And tonight, they want to make you laugh… or get their revenge.

Written and narrated by Rab Greeson — The Original Un-fluencer.

Theme: Historical Horror / The Origin of Clown Fear
Length: 11 min
Best for: fans of true-crime lore, dark history, and beautifully cursed bedtime stories.

“Consider this your warning. The tent is open. The music plays. The paint is on.” Let's Gooooooooooooo

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I’m your host Rab Greeson and tonight we continue the October month long Annals Of Darkness. He murdered, ate, and photographed a woman in 1981  then became a celebrity. In this episode of One Up the Annals: Annals of Darkness, host Rab Greeson unravels the chilling true story of Issei Sagawa the Japanese literature student who turned cannibalism into content and fame into absolution.

Inside this episode:

 Sagawa’s lifelong fantasies of flesh

The calculated murder of Renée Hartevelt in Paris

The two day cannibalistic ritual that followed

His shocking release and rise to celebrity status

The disturbing psychology behind his obsession and the media that enabled it

This isn’t a horror movie, it’s documented history.

A man consumed beauty, walked free, and the world applauded.

Where shame becomes legend… and horror learns how to sell itself.

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In Part II of our Edgar Allan Poe series, the chandeliers blaze, the clock tolls midnight — and the man behind The Raven unravels for good.

This chapter dives into the masquerade of Poe’s final years:
 the scandals, the drinking, the feuds that earned him the name “The Tomahawk Man,”
and the mysterious death that turned his legend into a ghost story.

🎭 Inside this episode:

• The real plague behind The Masque of the Red Death
• Poe’s self-destruction, obsession, and “Imp of the Perverse”
• His chilling final days and the mystery of the cooping gangs
• The funeral eulogy he never received — until now

He called it fiction.
 But it was his diary.
 And when the clock struck twelve, death didn’t knock… it danced.

🕯️ Listen now — before the music stops.

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💀 Exclusive After Dark episodes and early access on Patreon.com/OneUpTheAnnals

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Fantasy Fest Mini Scroll #1: a Key West true crime of love, death, and obsession. 

In tonight’s midnight scroll, we drift into the humid, haunted romance of Key West, 1931. Radiologist Carl Tanzler fell for Elena de Hoyos, even after death. He snatched her from her tomb, reassembled her body in his home, and lived out a twisted fairy-tale with a corpse bride in the Keys.

This is true crime, dark romance, and Florida’s weirdest love story all rolled into one.

Expect: macabre details, a twist you won’t see coming, and a reminder: love sometimes crosses lines your skin doesn’t approve of.

Tune in if you love:
• True crime with theatrical flair
• Obsessive love / dark romance stories
• Haunted Florida lore & local legends

Sources: Key West Citizen archives, trial records, history of the Tanzler case

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This Halloween, Rab Greeson exhumes the man who made death desirable. Edgar Allan Poe- the poet who turned grief into beauty, lust into legend, and madness into melody.

From the mother who coughed herself to death before his eyes, to the cousin-bride who wasted away over time on a deathbed, Poe’s life wasn’t gothic fiction… it was prophecy.

Tonight, the Annals open the coffin on the man behind The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Fall of the House of Usher. The lust, the loss, the shame and the final mystery that left him face-down in a Baltimore gutter wearing another man’s clothes.

This is One Up the Annals, where shame becomes legend

Because when October calls… the Raven always answers.

— Rab Greeson

The Original Un-fluencer, keeper of Nevermore

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Episode 9  Vlad the Impaler: The Real Dracula (Part II)

Vlad’s head was cut off, but his legend refused to die.
 In this After Dark descent, the Annals exhume the man who became the monster: how a blood-soaked warlord from 15th-century Wallachia rose from the grave to become Dracula, the immortal symbol of fear, lust, and power.

From betrayal and beheading to Bram Stoker and beyond, this episode traces Vlad’s transformation into the world’s most seductive nightmare. You’ll hear how folklore birthed the vampire, how Stoker turned repression into erotic horror, and how Hollywood gave the Impaler an Oscar-worthy afterlife.

Featuring:

• The real death and legend of Vlad the Impaler
• Strigoi, superstition, and the birth of the vampire myth
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its lust-soaked symbolism
• Hollywood’s obsession- from Bela Lugosi to Dracula Untold
• The eternal appetite: why vampires never die

It’s history dripping in horror, told with wit, darkness, and more bite than garlic night at the tavern.

One Up the Annals, the comedy history podcast where shame becomes legend… and lust never dies. Please visit us on Youtube for bonus content on the video for Part 2. Click, like and subscribe everywhere, One Up The Annals. Find us on Patreon for more of the story and bonus content. Hurry I'm almost out of garlic and could use the money!

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Episode 8— From Vlad the Impaler to Immortal: The Legend of Dracula (Part 1)

This October, the scrolls drip with shadows… and tonight we exhume one of history’s darkest names.

Before Dracula wore velvet and whispered seduction, there was Vlad the Impaler prince of Wallachia, child hostage turned tyrant, a man who turned execution into performance art and forests into graveyards. Part One of this two-part legend takes you inside his rise to power, his obsession with revenge, and the blood-soaked theater that made his name echo in terror for centuries.

From banquets among the dying to valleys of impaled corpses, Vlad’s cruelty blurred the line between ruler and monster. But this is only half the story. Next time, the myth rises from the grave, transformed into the immortal Count Dracula.

Where shame becomes legend… and lust never dies.

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Alfred Hitchcock wasn’t just the “Master of Suspense”  he was the original Hollywood voyeur, a director obsessed with control, fear, and yes… sex. Behind the camera, Hitchcock turned cinema into a peepshow of obsession and scandal. From Rear Window to Psycho, his films reflected not only terror, but his own twisted fascinations.

In this episode of One Up the Annals, host Rab Greeson (aka The Original Un-fluencer) pulls back the shower curtain on Hitchcock’s hidden obsessions, his scandalous on-set behavior, and the darker truths that shaped his genius.

Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your fix of scandalous history.

Because in history… even Hollywood legends can’t escape. Where shame becomes legend and now, it's in the Annals

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Before Tinder, before Cosmo quizzes, before “sex ed” was even a phrase, there was Alfred Kinsey. A mild-mannered professor who decided to catalogue America’s lust like it was a zoology project. With a clipboard in hand and eyebrow permanently raised, Kinsey asked the questions no one else dared, and the answers blew the lid off 1950s America.

From secret interviews to scandalous tables, from conservative outrage to underground applause, this is the story of the man who tried to turn desire into data. Was he a pioneer of sexual science, a pervert with a clipboard, or both?

Step into the Annals as we dig into the whispers, the numbers, and the shameful confessions that rewrote the back end of history.

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The Borgias didn’t just write history, they roasted it, poisoned it, and rolled it across a marble floor. In this episode, we dive into the scandal that turned chestnuts into sin, power into foreplay, and papal dinners into crime scenes.

From Alexander VI’s infamous banquets to whispered orgies and deadly plots, we unscroll one of history’s most decadent disasters. Was it lust? Was it politics? Or was it just too many chestnuts at once?

 Where shame becomes legend… and the poison never stops pouring.

Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, and don’t forget to follow, review, and share. Every clap, scroll, and star keeps the Annals alive.

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The Norse didn’t need mushrooms to get freaky, though some of them definitely helped. The sagas tell of warriors who shed their humanity like a shirt, frothing at the mouth, gnawing on shields, and charging naked into battle as if orgasm and annihilation were the same thing. These were the berserkers: battle-drunk, lust-mad, and terrifying enough to make kings outlaw them when the party went too far.

In this episode, I dive into the frenzy,  the drugs, the rituals, the ecstasy of the berserkergang. From Odin himself cross-dressing for sorcery to the warriors who fucked their way into beasthood, this is the Annals at their wildest. Strap in (or don’t), because I’m about to show how rage, sex, and shame carved legends that still echo like a war cry.

Where shame becomes legend… and sometimes, legend is just an orgasm in armor.

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 Andy Warhol  From Soup to Nuts

Behind the sunglasses and soup cans was an artist who turned fame, lust, and obsession into his real medium. Andy Warhol’s life was a gallery of contradictions, glamorous and grimy, iconic and indecent, sacred and smutty.

This episode peels back the pop-art sheen to explore the strange appetites, scandalous experiments, and hidden archives that made Warhol more than just a man of Marilyns and Campbell’s.

Because in the Annals, art isn’t just what hangs on the wall, it’s what stains the legend.

Where shame becomes legend…

🎨 Andy Warhol: 

From Soup to Nuts

 Chapter Markers

0:00 – Cold Open / Disclaimer

“Where shame becomes legend… and piss becomes art.”

1:30 – Act 1: Soup Before the Nuts

From sickly Pittsburgh kid to horny shoe-doodler, hiding dicks in Gold Books.

4:30 – Act 2: Factory of Filth

Kiss, Blow Job, Sleep, voyeurism weaponized. Watching became the kink.

7:30 – Act 3: The Shot That Changed Him

Valerie Solanas, bullets, and why Andy chose cameras over cocks.

10:30 – Act 4: From Torsos to Piss Paintings

Hustler Polaroids, piss on copper, and cum on canvas. Pollock with body fluids.

13:30 – Act 5: Boys to Adore Galore

Sticky-floored theater, porn as revolution, cops raiding Pride into existence.

15:30 – Act 6: Lovers & the Virgin Myth

The STI records, drag queens for fifty bucks, and Warhol’s secret “Paramount.”

18:00 – Act 7: Time Capsules & Legacy

610 cardboard confessions spilling hustlers, piss stains, and receipts for dildos.

20:00 – Closer: From Soup to Nuts

Before the bullets vs after the bullets, who really won the Annals?

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Episode 2 dives deep into Mesopotamia’s wildest scroll: the story of Inanna, Queen of Heaven, Goddess of Lust and War, and possibly history’s first domme. From ritual sex and public humiliation to cosmic power plays, Inanna’s worship was less “Sunday sermon” and more “temple kink-fest.”

We’ll peel back the layers of myth and ritual to reveal why her cult was part religion, part orgy, and all Annals. Strap in (literally) as we explore the sacred, the filthy, and the flat-out hilarious side of ancient devotion.

(Entertainment only, do not attempt temple spanking at home unless properly hydrated and supervised by a consenting goddess.)

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 Episode 1 — Nero vs. Elagabalus: Torch & Petals in the Annals

What happens when Rome hands the empire to two horny chaos machines? In this debut episode of One Up the Annals — the comedy history podcast where shame becomes legend — host Rab Greeson dives headfirst into the scandal-soaked reigns of Nero (The Torch) and Elagabalus (The Petals).

You’ll hear about wedding vows consummated at the dinner table, a chest of golden sex toys, rotating dining rooms, ceilings that rained rose petals until guests suffocated, and a fourteen-year-old emperor who turned the palace into the world’s most dangerous sleepover.

This isn’t your teacher’s history class. It’s emperors, lust, obsession, filth, and forgotten gossip — dragged out of the archives and roasted over the flames of comedy.

 Listen, laugh, and follow the Annals wherever you get your podcasts.

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