Do Go On Topic Poll (2023 BLOCK Edition)
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It's coming up to that most wonderful time of the year, BLOCKtober where we cover the biggest/most suggested/most voted for topics!
Pick your favourite topics from this long list to help us pick which topics we're going to do for BLOCK! You can pick as many as you like!
These topics have made the short list by being our most suggested topics or voted in by our patreon supporters...
Cheers!
Jess, Dave and Matt
John Moses Browning & The Winchester Curse! (gun manufacturer's haunted house)
ABBA (Swedish pop phenomenon)
Alexander the Great (The Macedonian King)
Dr Who (long running British sci-fi TV show)
Stephen Hawking (famous scientist)
St.Kilda Football Club and the 1966 Flag (Australian Football team who won a premiership in 1966)
Judy Garland (famous actor/singer)
Iraq at the 2007 Asia Football Cup (underdog sporting story)
Al Capone (American Gangster)
Charles Bronson (violent English prisoner)
Jacques Cousteau (Undersea explorer, inventor, filmmaker)
Jesse Owens (Olympic legend)
The Chinese Cultural Revolution
Gunfight at the OK Corral
Rosa Parks (human rights activist)
Blockbuster Video (defunct video/dvd rental business)
John Delorean and his dream car (the Delorean)
Josephine Baker (entertainer, spy, civil rights activist)
Kobe Bryant (NBA legend)
Leonardo da Vinci (scientist, artist, engineer, architect)
Mata Hari (WWI spy)
Pablo Escobar (Colombian Drug Lord)
Pancho Villa (real life Mexican robin hood)
Skinwalker Ranch (paranormal site)
Spring Heeled Jack (1800s British urban legend/mystery)
Terry Fox (A Canadian hero)
The Lewis and Clark Expedition (US explorers)
The Tunguska Event (a Russian mystery)
The USS William D Porter (US Navy ship)
Harvey's Wagon Wheel and Resort Heist (wild bomb heist)
Frank Sinatra (famous singer)
Dr Frederick Cook vs Robert Peary in the race to the North Pole
Britney Spears and the Free Britney movement
Beatrix Potter (famous author and early conservationist)
Agent ZigZag (WWII spy)
The sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship
Charles Darwin (famous scientist)
Weird Al Yankovic (comedian/musician)
The Murder of Helle Crafts
The Great James Randi (magician/skeptic)
The Isdal Woman (Norwegian mystery)
Jackie Chan (famous actor)
Norwegian Black Metal (controversial music genre)
Pink Floyd (famous band)
The Invention of Television
The Voynich Manuscript (Mysterious coded manuscript from 15th century)
The Salisbury Poisonings (Russian double agent poisoned?)
Wars of the Roses (series of civil wars in Britain)
The Clydach Murders (3 generations murdered, police cover ups and false accusations)
British Royal Conspiracies
Bill Murray (Comedy Actor)
The Crusades (Series of Religious Wars)
X-Men Movie Series (Recap in style of Fast and Furious or Mission: Impossible)
United Airlines 232, the impossible landing
Catherine the Great (Empress of Russia)
Henrietta Lacks (her cells led to advancement in medicine)
The Death and Dissapearance of Elisa Lam
Tonya Harding and Nancy Carrigan (infamous sporting event)
Dambusters (WW2 air raid)
The Real Von Trapp family (Who the Sound of Music was based on)
John C. Woods (Man who executed nazis)
Come From Away (The true story behind the musical)
When Charles Dickens was visited by Hans Christian Anderson
The Matildas (Australian Women's Football Team)
Empires Of The Deep (The Most Expensive Movie Never Made)
Andrew Loyd Webber (weird musical maker)
The Max Headroom Incident (and other strange TV phenomena)
Jaws (Original Summer Blockbuster)
Tupac and Notorious BIG (aka the east coast vs west coast music battle)
Steve Ditko (eccentric comic book artist who co-created Spider-Man)
Wild stories from Norse mythology
Rajneeshees (religious cult in Oregon in the 80s)
Chris Benoit , From acclaimed WWE wrestler to Double murder suicide
The Murder of Bruiser Brody
a Triptych of One Hit Wonder Mini Reports
Sailor Moon (popular manga series)
Nick Leeson (Rogue trader who collapsed a bank)
Stanislav Petrov (The man who said NO to WWIII)
Matthew Hopkins (The Witchhunter General)
Beanie Babies (marketing fluff or genuine collectables)
Bluey (Australian Dog Cartoon)
The Glen Coe Massacre & The Black Dinner (Inspiration for the Red Wedding)
Spongebob Squarepants (popular cartoon)
The Great Wall of China
Yuba County five (It's America's Dyatlov Pass Incident)
The Twilight Saga
History of Ska music
Billy the Kid (Wild West cowboy)
Jurassic Park Film Franchise
Pokémon (video game/pop culture phenomenon)
Dick Van Dyke (famous actor)
Nazinsky serbian Island (Stalin Prison Camp)
Desmond Doss (WWII badass)
World War II
Fatty Arbuckle and the Hollywood blacklist (murder trial and aftermath)
Cicada 3301 (internet mystery)
Malala Yousafzai (Pakistani female education activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate)
Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project
Kurt Cobain and Nirvana (Legendary Frontman/Band)
Simo Häyhä “The white death” (WW2 badass)
The murder of nun Cathy Cesnik and her link to abuse in catholic church
The Hillsborough disaster (British Sporting Tragedy)
Juan Pujol Garcia (WWII double agent)
Adolf Hitler (WW2 fuckhead)
Olga of Kiev (Saint and Grand Princess of Kiev)
Tom Cruise (hollywood actor)
The Bhopal Disaster (industrial disaster)
The Brisbane Soviet: The 1919 Worker's Revolution and Shootout in Brisbane
Stephen King (Horror Writer)
The attempted theft of Abraham Lincoln's body
The Chicxulub asteroid (cause of dinosaur extinction?)
The Miracle on Ice (famous ice hockey match)
Jan Lewan (The Polka King and fraudster)
Aleister Crowley AKA The Beast 666 (cult leader)
Shinkansen bullet train (Revolutionary technology)
Operation Paperclip (secret USA intelligence program)
The Aberfan Disaster (coal mine disaster)
Julian Assange & Wikileaks
Admiral ‘Sea Wolf’ Cochrane (a Scottish Lord)
History of Banana Republics
Andy Kaufman (iconic comic)
the Sinking of the Kursk (submarine disaster)
David Suchet and Poirot
The London Bridge in America (Tycoon bought the bridge and moved it brick-by-brick to the American desert)
The Gilgo Beach Killer
Prince (the Artist Formerly Known As)
Godzilla (iconic movie monster/Kaiju)
Accidental Inventions
Hasekura Tsunenaga and the Spanish Samurai (17th century Japanese delegates met the pope)
Oktoberfest (the origin and history of famous German festival)
Teddy Roosevelt (American president)
Queen Victoria (English queen)
The Batavia Mutiny (Australia's Deadliest Shipwreck)
Stonehenge (prehistoric rock monument)
Robert Smalls (freed slave/politician)
Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. (con artist/surgeon/prison runner/teacher)
Gene Roddenberry and the history of Star Trek
The Year 1966
Alexander Hamilton (a founding father of USA)
History of Halloween
the real Slim Shady (aka Eminem aka Marshal Mathers)
The Gallipoli Campaign (WW1 event)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film and TV show)
Wall Street Crash of 1929
Walt Disney (the man who Disney is named after)
The Rolling Stones (famous band)
The Great Library of Alexandria
The American Revolution
Gorillaz (cartoon band)
Bill Bryson (non fiction writer)
French Revolution/Marie Antoinette
History of Nintendo/Super Mario Bros (video game empire)
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Genghis Khan (great conqueror)
Ragnar Lothbrok (Viking king)
The Satanic Panic in North America (80s/90s)
Oceangate gate (submersible disaster)
Wu-Tang Clan (influential hip hop group)
Keanu Reeves (famous actor)
Qin Shi Huang & his massive terracotta army
DC Cinematic Universe Summary
The History of Cussing/Swearing
John Wren (the Beer Barron of Victorian illegal gambling)
The Amityville Haunting (paranormal house)
Mary Shelley (Frankenstein Author)
WWII Bad Ass Douglas Bader (Legless Fighter Pilot)
Led Zeppelin (famous band)
Kony 2012 (documentary/movement)
Anastasia Romanov and her Many Imposters (daughter of Tsar Nicholas II)
The National Park Service (American department)
1916 Easter rising (the foundation of modern Ireland)
The Marx Brothers (famous comedians)
Black Holes
Weed Hornet (Little Known Band)
The Real Men in Black (government agency)
The KLF (British band that vanished)
The Great Earthquake of 1923 in Japan
The making of the Oxford Dictionary (a tale of murder and insanity)
Cyclone Tracy (a Christmas hurricane/cyclone that wiped out 80% of in Darwin)
Flavor of Love and the Golden Age of VH1 reality television
The Yorkshire Ripper (English Serial Killer)
Order of the Solar Temple (fascinating cult)
ACDC (Iconic Aussie Rock Band)
The Alamo (American Battle)
Melbourne's The Rialto (the Jewel in Melbourne's Skyline)
Ernest Hemingway (famous author)
Prohibition Era in the USA
John Landis and the Twilight Zone disaster
Noor Inayat Khan (WWII badass)
Pixar (famous animation studio)
The Battle of Alesia (ancient battle)
Pedro Rodrigues Filho (Brazillian serial killer of serial killers)
Seinfeld (iconic sitcom)
Margery Kempe (Wrote the first ever autobiography, a medieval travel epic)
The Monday Night Wars (Wrestling's WCW Nitro vs WWF)
Aimo Koivunen (WW2 meth soldier)
The Gary Demon House (haunted house)
The Thailand Cave Rescue
The 1994 San Marino Grand Prix (death of drivers Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna)
Jeanne Pouchain (a woman took three years to prove she isn't dead)
Albert Einstein (famous scientist)
The Cuban Missile Crisis (Tense Military standoff)
Julie D'Aubigny (17th-century swordswoman and opera singer)
Mel Brooks (Comedy legend)
The Ghost Army (WWII operation)
David Hahn - Radioactive Boy Scout
Army Surgeon General James Barry (took secret identity to the grave)
Yagan the Nyoongar warrior (Indigenous Australian warrior)
The origin of chiropractic care (it involves a ghost?)
Indian independence from the British
Selena Quintanilla (celebrated Mexican-American Entertainer)
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