Summary: Amsterdam, The Dutch Republic, 1630. Here Tulips are all the craze! You want them, your mom wants them, even that ship merchant across the road wants them! But, we're not planting them in our gardens. We're INVESTING! Triggering the first-ever "financial bubble" from these Nice Flippen Tulips.

Summary: Amsterdam 1625, The competition for new plant specimens is fierce! Especially since Europe has a new love affair with TULIPS! Not just any tulips though! Specimens with broken colors fetched a higher price but how DID these non-native species make their way to Europe? Find out now, as we geek out and show you how the seeds were sown for Tulip Mania!

Summary: Haarlem 1636! It's time to go to the Tulip College and INVEST! We'll be buying up tulip contracts to sell to the next highest bidder! And then they sell the contract... and it gets sold again, and everyone gets rich in the process? I'm sure nothing could go wrong with this.

Summary: Haarlem, February 10th 1637. The college opens up to another exciting day of trading tulips but as the auctioneer starts the bidding, the floor becomes quiet. Panicked stares cross the room as no one begins to bid and those holding Tulip Contracts realize that this is the beginning of the Tulip Market Crash.

Summary: Tulip trading has come to an end! Although, that is not the end of our story. Pamphlets make the rounds, criticizing the moral and social norms that trading tulips brought upon the community. Going as far as to call it idol worship with rumors of a dark cabal promoting the mania for their own gains.

Summary: Welcome Extra Historians to Lies, where we talk about the mistakes we made and the details we couldn't quite squeeze into our Tulip Mania Series. With questions like, How many flowers does the Netherlands actually produce? Just how expensive was that mirror trick with the tulips? And are broken tulips still a thing? We sure haven't seen one!

Summary: Music video