It's freaky friday this week. Charles returns from a business after battling a paranoid AirBnB host. Zach goes to a concert alone and finds a hole in his tooth. Was it the chocolate-covered nuts, or the pit? Email your diagnosis to overshadowedpod@gmail.com Have a suggestion for someone we should cover or have a follow-up question/correction from one of the episodes? Write in! Check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/overshadowedpodcast Recorded June 2023 And follow us on social media! htt...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 39
Let's cut straight to chase/moral of the story: BEWARE THE ABYSS. This week, Zach & Charles discuss the troubled life of Theodore Roosevelt's younger brother Elliott Roosevelt, who shared a fate similar to that of Rosemary Kennedy after an illegitimate child with a chambermaid 'threatens' TR's run at the Presidency... Or does it? Please write in to overshadowedpod@gmail.com with your thoughts on Venus as our new producer. Also included in this episode: woodchucks, seizures, Lincoln's funeral...
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 38
WOO-EEEE this ep is a hot one! Setback Zach returns with a weekend of misery, Charles gets clamboozled at Chowderfest, and discuss how to get away with peeing a little on your pants. Have a suggestion for someone we should cover or have a follow-up question/correction from one of the episodes? Write in! overshadowedpod@gmail.com Check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/overshadowedpodcast Recorded June 2023 And follow us on social media! https://linktr.ee/overshadowed_podcast Instagram: @O...
Jun 13, 2023•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 37
This is a small segment from this week's Patreon, where we talk about Silence Dogood letters. Full bonus episode available on Patreon.com/overshadowedpodcast
Jun 09, 2023•6 min•Ep. 36
This week! We cover James Franklin, Ben's older brother and print master who beats him until he truly understands what it means to be antivax. Have a suggestion for someone we should cover or have a follow-up question/correction from one of the episodes? Write in! overshadowedpod@gmail.com Check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/overshadowedpodcast Recorded May 2023 And follow us on social media! https://linktr.ee/overshadowed_podcast Instagram: @Overshadowed_Podcast @zachrussellcomedy @c...
May 30, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 35
Hot ep this week! Silverback Zach faces off against the Poolking, Charles prevents man-r*pe, and several minor characters vomit. Charles pees no fewer than 6 times. Have a suggestion for someone we should cover or have a follow-up question/correction from one of the episodes? Write in! overshadowedpod@gmail.com Check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/overshadowedpodcast Recorded April 2023. And follow us on social media! https://linktr.ee/overshadowed_podcast Instagram: @Overshadowed_Podc...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 34
This week, Zach gets crunched by a Porsche, and the boys explain the unexpected rise and fatal fall of Marie Antoinette, featuring: luxury binges, a horny bishops, scheming half-bloods, prostitute doppelgängers, HSBIC's, and a very expensive diamond necklace. Long live Freedom Pod. Have a suggestion for someone we should cover or have a follow-up question/correction from one of the episodes? Write in! overshadowedpod@gmail.com Check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/overshadowedpodcast Re...
Apr 07, 2023•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 33
Back on our sibling grind! We're covering Louis Stanislas XVIII, who unlike his brother, King Louis XVI, avoided decapitation during the French Revolution and returned to France after decades living in exile to restore the monarchy. We really studied for this one folks... If you're in school and have an exam about the French Rev., after listening to this episode, you'll at least get a 65%. Pretty good! Topics of discussion include: Louis XVI's malformed pee-pee, the wild (and disgusting) traditi...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 32
Zach and Charles do a private gig for Gen-Z millionaires. Zach praises his girlfriend's vomiting skills, and Charles stages a coup d'bouncey house. Have a suggestion for someone we should cover or have a follow-up question/correction from one of the episodes? Write in! overshadowedpod@gmail.com Check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/overshadowedpodcast Recorded February 2023. And follow us on social media! https://linktr.ee/overshadowed_podcast Instagram: @Overshadowed_Podcast @zachrusse...
Feb 22, 2023•52 min•Ep. 31
We're back. Charles gets hazelcucked, Zach gets a cat, and we both try to be happy. Have a suggestion for someone we should cover or have a follow-up question/correction from one of the episodes? Write in! overshadowedpod@gmail.com Check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/overshadowedpodcast Recorded January 2023. And follow us on social media! https://linktr.ee/overshadowed_podcast Instagram: @Overshadowed_Podcast @zachrussellcomedy @charles_engle YouTube: Overshadowed Podcast Zach Russel...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 29
This week! Amelia Earhart's man & manager, George P. Putnam, an extremely competent promoter who made it possible for Amelia to turn her love of aviation into a full-blown airborne career. That is, until she completes her mission from the U.S. government by taking a dive in the Marshall Islands. It's all in there. We also read Amelia's pre-marriage letter to George, which reveals their partnership may have been open. Lots of fun stuff in this one. Have a suggestion for someone we should cove...
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 28
A Christmas miracle! We're at The Stand for a Christmas catchup, and Charles does most of the heavy lifting. Zach experiences a personal Y2k, Charles bombs in Long Island, and we eat the most disgusting chip known to man. Check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/overshadowedpodcast Recorded December 2022. Have any ideas for an episode? Feedback? Notes? Hate? Unabashed hate? Send us an email: overshadowedpod@gmail.com And follow us on social media! https://linktr.ee/overshadowed_podcast Ins...
Dec 25, 2022•59 min•Ep. 27
Zach and Charles are back with another guest - comedian Maggie Lalley! - to cover our most bizarre and mysterious subject yet, Sarah Lockwood Winchester, wife of William Writ Winchester and heiress to the fortune made by the sale of the Winchester Repeating Rifle. A self-taught architect, Sarah bought an 8-room farmhouse once basically her entire family had died, and she transformed it into the bewildering, beautiful ~700 room mansion that stands today as the Winchester Mystery House. There's a ...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 26
Overshadowed welcomes its first guests: Nathan and Nicholas Hopping. This episode features heavily cruel & unusual sibling-torture tactics, like Nick's headbutting phase, throwing up on younger brothers, and "ball-hands". As you listen to this week's ep, something to think about is whether all Nathan's problems come from the fact he's actually a girl. Check out Nick and Nathan's podcast, Hoppothetically , the closest a pod can come to a true Socratic dialogue. Assuming Socrates was obsessed ...
Nov 17, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 25
Comedians Zach and Charles get into the wild life of Alec Baldwin's younger brother, Stephen Baldwin, who threw away a career of small parts in good movies, and big parts in bad ones, to make exclusively Christian cinema that plunged him into debt. We talk movies (list below), skateboarding with Jesus, and an ALLEGED affair with his massage therapist during which he'd he disguise himself as a homeless man. (fixed audio.) (Movies we cover: The Usual Suspects, Biodome, Half-Baked, Posse, 8 Seconds...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 24
Clockin' in! The boys are back at The Stand, and this week, we sideline the siblings to catch up on each others' lives, including Zach's dancing and the loved ones it's driven away, a dying seagull, and the psychic who told Charles he should quit comedy. Check out the Patreon episode for gross stuff we didn't include in the normal episode lest it scare away new fans from TikTok https://www.patreon.com/overshadowedpodcast Recorded September 2022. Have any ideas for an episode? Feedback? Notes? Ha...
Oct 07, 2022•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 23
This week the boys get into one the craziest lives we've ever covered, the rootin-tootin tale of cowboy-lawman, Richard "Two Gun" Hart, aka James Vincenzo Capone, eldest brother of millionaire gangster, Al Capone. Making a name for himself on the opposite side of bootlegging as his scarfaced sibling, James ran away from Brooklyn as a teenager to join the circus, earned himself a wife and job as town marshal after saving a family from a flood, and became the slap-happiest prohibition officer Nebr...
Sep 19, 2022•2 hr 13 min•Ep. 22
It’s a fun-fact packed ep this week as Charles and Zach cover the history of drinking in the United States, Prohibition and some of the nutsos associated with it, and, of course, the first of Al Capone’s brothers, who served as the strong-man of Cicero: Salvatore "Frank" Capone. We cover giving booze to babies, a teetotaling ax-wielding woman on a holy mission to destroy saloons, a bourbon manufacturer who killed his wife, and the most crooked election in American history (thanks to Frankie Capo...
Sep 01, 2022•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 21
This week we dive into the much-maligned life of Mileva Marić, Albert Einstein's first wife, and only wife who wasn't related to him. Mileva was ALSO a talented physicist, and during her time with Albert, she helped act as a sounding board for equations and concepts, and there's substantial evidence via letters they exchanged that credits her involvement in creating the formula that ultimately became special relativity: E = m*c^2. In other news, we call out our influx of prudish fans from TikTok...
Aug 01, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 20
(Nannerl history starts at 16 minutes) Zach and Charles cover the life of Wolfgang Mozart's prodigious older sister, Maria Anna "Nannerl", who was sidelined for being a lady despite being as good if not better than him. Check out the Patreon this week for a bonus hour on Wolfgang's insane love of poop jokes: https://www.patreon.com/overshadowedpodcast Recorded in July 2022. Have any ideas for an episode? Feedback? Notes? Hate? Unabashed hate? Send us an email: overshadowedpod@gmail.com And follo...
Jul 10, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 19
A gay late and a dollar short. It's a wild one. Zach and Chuck cover the history of pride, the Stonewall "riot", share honor the not often thought about glory holy inspector. Check out an entire of bonus content on our Patreon, about being gay during the civil war, being gay in ancient Greece, and a whole bunch of other cool stuff you know nothing about, dummy. https://www.patreon.com/overshadowedpodcast Have any ideas for an episode? Feedback? Notes? Hate? Unabashed hate? Send us an email: over...
Jul 01, 2022•52 min•Ep. 18
Zach and Charles cover our first double-overshadowed sibling, Mack Robinson, bother of Jackie Robinson and competitor of Jesse Owens in the 1936 Hitler Olympics. Featuring: white panic, black excellence, the harsh reality of being a great athlete before Instagram, and several shout-outs to Blacked dot com. https://www.patreon.com/overshadowedpodcast ^ Check out thirty minutes of bonus content PLUS the full video of this episode on Patreon. Featuring the time Zach saw the Running of the Bulls in ...
Jun 13, 2022•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 17
Hot ep this week! Zach and Chuck temporarily ditch the siblings to discuss the many times they've gone soft with women. They cover the lengths pharaohs went to guarantee their subjects' fertility and the minimum legal penis size required to marry in Iceland. Zach threatens drastic measures if more women don't pad his flaccid male ego. Subscribe to our Patreon for bonus episodes (including one with Zach's REAL brother), standup clips, rap battles, and more! >> LINK HERE! Recorded January 16...
Apr 10, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 16
Zach and Charles get into the life of Christopher Columbus' colonizing little sidekick: Bartholomew! Featuring: a world where pepper was money, pirate-ship talent shows, and capybara cat cafes. We shout out our biggest fan (IS IT YOU?!), and we announce a new Patreon initiative to find El Dorado. Check out ALMOST AN HOUR of bonus content before the episode begins on Patreon. Zach does mushrooms and gets concussed at a metal show, and Charles bombs for 24 hours straight, on and off stage. Check o...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 15
Zach and Charles swap stories of romantic humiliation, explore the bloody shewolfy history of Valentine's day, recap their two-man standup show, and insist fans of the podcast be called Indians. Check out our full set from "It Takes Two" on Patreon. We also have about 20-30 minutes of bonus content from this episode up on Patreon! Check it out! We also have bonus episodes (including one with Zach's REAL brother), standup clips, rap battles, and more! >> LINK HERE! Recorded February 13th, 2...
Feb 24, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 14
Zach and Charles dive into the doomed life of Rosemary Kennedy, the true martyr of the Kennedy family (sorry, John.) We cover the Kennedy's rise to fame, the absurd history of lobotomies, and how many pounds of potatoes the Irish actually ate, according to Charles. It's a hot one. Subscribe to our Patreon for bonus episodes (including one with Zach's REAL brother), standup clips, rap battles, and more! >> LINK HERE! Recorded January 2022. Have any ideas for an episode? Feedback? Notes? Hat...
Feb 04, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 13
Zach catches up with his actual brother, Cory, who lives on a narrowboat in the canals of London working for one of the biggest drug dealers in the world. We riff on the likelihood Cory's drum teacher was a pedophile, #boatlife, and funny times we hurt each other as children. Subscribe to our Patreon for the FULL episode (which is one additional hour), other bonus episodes, standup clips, rap battles, and more! >> LINK HERE! Check out the video version of the episode on YouTube: Overshadow...
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 12
NYC comics Zach and Charles dive into the life of Cleopatra's traitorous brother-husband, Ptolemy the 13th, reveal that ancient Egyptian proctologists were called "Shepherds of the Anus", and strongly insist that President Joe Biden wear a cape. Actual history starts at minute 9, FYI. Subscribe to our Patreon for bonus episodes (including one with Zach's REAL brother), standup clips, rap battles, and more! >> LINK HERE! Recorded October 7th 2021. Have any ideas for an episode? Feedback? No...
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 11
We're switching it up this week, folks! After Zach's life-altering trip to Scotland, the boys dive deep into the sordid history of bagpipes: once legally a weapon, now an instrument. Charles shares some of his most profound theories on where lambskin condoms came from, and Zach admits to finishing too quickly. One of us is lying in bed for this entire episode, can you guess who? Have any ideas for an episode? Feedback? Notes? Hate? Unabashed hate? Send us an email: overshadowedpod@gmail.com Subs...
Dec 09, 2021•59 min•Ep. 10
NYC comics Zach Russell and Charles Engle talk about Napoleon's youngest and horniest brother, Jerome, Zach's middle school womanizing, and reveal why ball gowns are so big. Featuring a few dumb jokes from their past and Charles' real name! Have any ideas for an episode? Feedback? Notes? Hate? Unabashed hate? Send us an email: overshadowedpod@gmail.com Subscribe to our Patreon for bonus episodes, standup clips, rap battles, and more! >> LINK HERE! Instagram: @Overshadowed_Podcast @zachruss...
Dec 02, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 9
