52: LA Fire Update and Patreon AMA
Unfortunately the LA fires have forced us to delay recording, so here's a quick update about ways you can help followed by our last Patreon AMA that should be unhinged enough to hold you all over till...
15 Jan 20251h 35min
51: Salamander Wool and Dellschau Notebooks pt. 1
We're back from the winter break and midder than ever! This week we learn how salamanders tricked medieval Europeans into thinking they were fireproof and how Prussian immigrant Charles Dellschau's fo...
8 Jan 20251h 26min
50: 2024 Audience Favorites: Oops All Kavehs!
Yes it's technically 2025 now but here are Kaveh's two most popular tabs of 2024 as voted by you the audience! Join us as we revisit the story of our Horse Daddy King Nikola Jokić and the wonderful Me...
1 Jan 20251h 22min
49: 2024 Audience Favorites: Oops All Hannahs!
This year for Christmas you're getting Hannah's two most popular tabs of 2024 as voted by you the audience! Join us as we revisit the story of how Iceland got the wrong translation of Dracula and Pomp...
25 Des 20241h 6min
48: K2MITAB!! (500 Open Stabs Round 2)
On our season 1 finale, the ancient tournament of Kumitab continues as we pit some of our craziest subjects against one another including Ronald Reagan's sweatpants, a meth-addled WW2 solider, and the...
18 Des 20241h 28min
47: The 47 Society and Ol' Rip the Horned Toad
This week we learn about how an offline meme of the number 47 made its way into Star Trek and how a hibernating lizard named Ol' Rip caught the attention of President Calvin Coolidge himself. A listen...
11 Des 20241h 15min
46: Vavilov & Lysenko pt2 and Zeno Brothers
This week we learn how the battle between Nikolai Vavilov and Trofim Lysenko reached its crescendo when the Nazis came for the Russian seed vault and how the Zeno Brothers claimed to have "discovered"...
4 Des 20241h 39min
45: Phantom Islands and Vavilov & Lysenko pt1
This week we learn about how cartographers used to just make up stuff for fun and how Nikolai Vavilov's dream of ending famine with the world's largest seed vault put him at direct odds with soviet da...
27 Nov 20241h 36min
