A Weekly History Podcast
One of us picks the era.
The other picks what nobody expects.
Roxanne tells David a story from history. He’s never heard it before — he only knows the category — so every reaction is real, right as it happens.
David spins. He has no idea where it lands until the mic is on.
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The Format
How a Roulette Episode Gets Made
The Spin
David names an era
No shortlist, no prep. Just a century, a place, or a broad slice of the past — decided on the spot, live, with no idea what’s inside it.
The Pick
Roxanne finds the story
A week of research narrows the era down to one subtopic — a person, a document, a rumor — kept completely secret until recording.
The Reveal
David hears it cold
The episode is the actual first time he’s hearing the story. The reactions are real, because there was never a rehearsal.
New Episode Every Week
Latest Episodes
Episode 1 · 16th Century France
The Prophet, the Plague Doctor, and My Husband’s Very First Pick
David picked 16th century France. Roxanne picked Nostradamus. He had no idea where this was going.
Episode 2 · 18th Century Prussia
David Thought Prussia Was Part of Russia. So We Talked About Frederick the Great.
This episode happened because David had genuinely never heard of Prussia before and assumed it was just Russia with a typo. So we cleared that up — and then got into Frederick the Great. Was he actually great? We find out.
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Who’s Telling
Roxanne & David
Roxanne
The Storyteller
An attorney by trade, a history lover at heart. She takes David’s one-word category and disappears into research for a week, chasing whichever story inside it is strangest, most human, or most overlooked — then tells it to him from scratch.
David
The Physician, The Listener
Names the era and then hears the actual story for the first time, live, same as you. His unfiltered reactions and questions in the moment are the other half of the episode.
“We’ve been married more than 10 years, and he still has no idea what I’m about to tell him.”
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