PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! Sure you know Edison, but do you know Latimer, Drew, West, or the other men of color who made the tech you use every day? Lewis Latimer James West Gratitude Garrett Morgan Charles Drew Get bonus content Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! If you think animal mating habits get weird, wait until you hear about these gestations/incubations and births. 01:18 Gestation periods 03:45 Pregnant pauses 07:28 Got milk? 12:04 Male birth 15:11 Gratitude 18:41 Big mouths 23:08 Parthenogenesis Get bonus content Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! The greatest hits of broadcast signal hijacking. Cold War era Southern Television (video) Zombies (video) Naughty fun Gratitude Max Headroom (video) Recently Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! While history is full of stolen ideas and missed opportunities, hear why some inventors *chose* not to profit from their ideas. 02:17 friction matches 04:56 polio vaccines 08:42 McNuggets 13:32 gratitude 15:35 LEDs 19:16 ballpoints 23:15 WWW Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod , Audionautix, Jeremy Blake, and TrackTribe. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail a...
PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! As voted on by our Patreon patrons, today we're talking about mud. This ubiquitous combination of water and dirt is useful to science, employed in health and beauty, a little-known component of professional sports, and even eaten. 02:22 Haitian mud cookies 06:31 Southern white dirt 10:22 Mud worth more than gold 13:23 Gratitude 15:14 Baseball-rubbing 20:29 Tough Mudder Support the show Music usually by Kevin MacLeod , but I can't for the life of me remember where I downl...
PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod and Audionautix. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! You know Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, but did you know this song, and the poem it was based on, were both written by Jews? You won't believe how many classic Christmas songs were! 00:50 Why this topic? 02:31 A sample of examples 06:00 Irving Berlin and White Christmas 10:21 Heatwave songs 11:57 Xmas protest tune 13:41 Robert May and Rudolph 23:27 Gratitude 25:08 But why? Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on F...
You've probably heard about the Austrian Christmas demon Krampus, but what about Befana, the Italian Christmas witch? In what country do you need reservations for Xmas dinner at KFC? Where do people wish you happy holidays with a specific request for presents? 01:22 Christmas as a holiday 03:00 Holiday Punishers 05:32 Gryla and Sons 10:25 TV yule log 16:19 First we feast! and African traditions 21:18 Christmas in China 24:40 The other yule log 25:42 Yule Goat Support the show Music by Kevin MacL...
PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! Just because it's in all the history books, doesn't mean it's true. 00:50 Julius Caesar was namesake of the Caesarian section 08:00 Chastity belts 13:25 Iron Maidens 23: 00 Slaves built the pyramids Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! From the Yellow Pages and Golden Book, to Mao's little red book, three different green books and more! Music by Kevin MacLeod, Audionautix, and Rooster Teeth (I love you, please don't sue). Support the show Read the script. Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! One man's holiday feast is another man's traumatic experience. With special guests Where Does It Go? Kiviaq Hakarl Cheating for meat Molded salads Catepillar mushroom Cazu marzu Balut Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! 2:00 Car-makers and Big Oil killed electric street cars 05:00 The feds are watching me! 13:45 Mind control Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Flashing back to a two-parter on heroic animals, innovations from the field, and noteworthy bad-asses. Topics include a pigeon who saved hundreds of lives, a crossbow for grenades and Jack Churchill, who went into WWI with a claymore and bagpipes, despite not being Scottish. Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669. Learn more about you...
PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! What could be more wholesome than reading a book or riding your bike? It depends on who you ask. Many things that are commonplace today were the cause of moral panics, people believing they would bring about the downfall of society. 2:35 waltz, Charleston, turkey trot 9:17 bicycles 15:53 telephone 18:29 mail 21:50 novels 25:10 couches 26:45 forks Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You c...
PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! Special guest: Ignorance Was Bliss When you run out of people to blame, blame the devil. Hear a few of the times people tried to use demonic possession as their 'get out of jail free' card. Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! "We told you we had living, breathing monstrosities. You laughed at them, yet but for the accident of birth, you might be even as they are! They did not ask to be brought into the world, but into the world they came." Thus begins a movie such as had never been seen before and hasn’t been seen since, Tod Browning’s “Freaks!” Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a questio...
PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! The conclusion of our twin episodes, wherein we look at conjoined and a parasitic twins. 1:15 science overview 3:45 separation surgery 06:03 Masha and Dasha 11:15 parasitic twins 14:15 fetus in fetu 18:25 Edward Mordrake 22:25 diprosopus Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669. Learn more about your ad choices....
PRE-ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! The first of a pair of episodes about twins, synchronicity, science, and dark mysteries. 1:00 science overview 3:00 twin studies 08:30 twin language 19:35 June & Jennifer Gibbons Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Being hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned is no reason to give up the fight. 00:40 Jan Zizka 07:20 Gate Pa 15:50 Saraghari 21:20 Attack of the Dead Men Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full odds1. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The following podcast contains frank discussions of human sexuality and anatomy. Listener discretion is advised. Sigmund Freud may be the father of psychoanalysis, but he got a LOT of stuff wrong. Special guest extravaganza with Bunny Trails, Ignorance Was Bliss, Interesting Sex, and The Story Behind podcasts. Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail a...
Think your boss is all up in your business? Imagine if he was also your landlord and social director. What if you left work and went home, but you were still on company property? With special guests, Cutting Class podcast! 3:00 08:05 Pullman, IL 14:20 Hershey, PA 17:25 shout-outs and thanks 19:05 Fordlandia, Brazil Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicem...
From Zuckerman's Famous Pig to a sow in the British Royal Navy, from a porker winning acting awards to pigs for president! Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As voted on by our patrons, we look at three non-Europeans who saved the lives of Jews during the Holocaust of WWI--a Japanese Christian, an Indian Hindu, and a Moroccan Muslim--and were honored as Righteous Among The Nations. Documentary Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod and Audionautix Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...
Mankind has waged war for many reasons: land, oil, a pretty face, a wooden bucket, you name it. How did a pig put the US and UK on the brink of war in Canada? Who declares hostility over watermelon? And what about the Golden Stool? Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Remember that time you were stuck in traffic for more than an hour? Imagine if that lasted a whole day. Or two. Or twelve! Today we look at a biblical traffic jam, ships stranded for years, and flight delays like you wouldn't believe. 00:56 Beijing 12-day jam 10:32 8 years in the Suez canal 17:29 Our no-fly list Read the full script and find sources. Support the show. Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Join the discussion. Music by Kevin MacLeod Learn more about your a...
In our instantly-connected world, there are entire groups of people you may never have heard of, whether they have never had contact with others or they live alongside the better known population. Learn about the Sami of Norway, Yali of New Guinea, Ladakhi of India, and more. Read the script. Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod and Audionautix. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From toothpaste & OJ to a cat mayor, from B batteries to solar sneezes, how many different topics can fit in one episode? Find out now! Support the show. Join the discussion. Music by Chris Haugen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lat week, the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, we celebrated how we went to space, but how do we go in space? Read the full script and find sources. Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Support the show. Join the discussion. Music by Audionautix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The triumphs and tragedies of the tiny tots of Tinseltown. 02:55 Judy Garland 06:35 Shirley Temple 14:17 Coogan's Law 21:12 Twilight Zone 25:25 Babies Read the full script and find sources. Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Support the show. Join the discussion. Music by Kevin MacLeod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We've been filming animals as long as we've been filming ourselves, but what goes into making an animal a star and, more importantly, keeping them safe on the job? 00:45 first animal protagonist 01:57 Rin Tin Tin 06:10 Lassie 08:53 harrowing horses and protecting animals on set 24:11 Roar Read the full script and find sources. Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Support the show. Join the discussion. Music by Kevin MacLeod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...
