• Short Stuff: The Guinness Widget
    Jan 29 2025

    Guiness beer is famous for its smooth and creamy texture, thanks in part to nitrogen, and also a simplistically brilliant little device called the Guinness widget.

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    16 mins
  • The Gullibility Episode
    Jan 28 2025

    Being gullible is a weird thing. But are you born with it? Is it learned? Can you be trusting and not gullible? Listen in to find out.

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    49 mins
  • Selects: When Mount St. Helens Blew Its Top
    Jan 25 2025

    Mount St. Helen's is a lovely sight to behold, but was a pretty scary thing to be around in the Spring of 1980. Listen in to the harrowing story in this classic episode!

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    49 mins
  • How Automats Worked
    Jan 23 2025

    Once upon a time no visit to New York was complete without eating at an automat. Putting a nickel in a slot and pulling your own ham sandwich from a lit glass case thrilled people to no end. Eventually the novelty wore off and automats faded into history.

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    48 mins
  • Short Stuff: The Best Episode Since Sliced Bread
    Jan 22 2025

    Bread is about 30,000 years old. Sliced bread is less than 100. What gives? Listen in to find out.

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    15 mins
  • The Ballad of High Times Magazine
    Jan 21 2025

    Whether you’re 20.5 or 50, if you love pot then High Times was the magazine for you. With ton of photos of marijuana, tips for how to grow it yourself, and other illegal stuff, High Times hung in there long enough to go from outlaw to mainstream.

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    51 mins
  • Selects: How Foreign Accent Syndrome Works
    Jan 18 2025

    Foreign accent syndrome isn't when your mom talks funny when she goes abroad. It's an actual condition where people wake up one day with an entirely different accent, usually from some kind of head trauma. Learn all about this decidedly rare affliction in this classic episode.

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    47 mins
  • The Barkley Marathons
    Jan 16 2025

    Every Spring in northeastern Tennessee, roughly 40 people compete in a marathon they are very unlikely to finish. This is the Barkley Marathons.

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    51 mins