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Canada, Our Friend
Season 2 Episode 2
Canada has been our friend since, well, since, before there was a Canada.
Until recently.
Since the U.S.'s November 2024 presidential election, the rel…
9 hours ago
How Did We End Up With Ziploc Bags?
Season 2 Episode 1
Hear how, in 1951, Borge Madsen, a Dane, invented a way to "connect" two pieces of fabric without using a traditional zipper, but didn't know what to…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Board Game Monopoly Gets Invented
Season 1 Episode 7
A very progressive woman named Lizzie Magie (MA-gee) worked for years to develop a board
game that would teach that we really don't want people to own…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Elon Musk's Youth; South Africa and Nazism; Trump Organization and Viet Nam
Season 1 Episode 6
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and 2 others grew up in very racist, Apartheid-ish South Africa. These 4 founded PayPal. They are sometimes referred to as …
9 months ago
Lockerbie, Brooks Museum, Free Concerts, "Bad River," and "Atomic Bamboozle"
Season 1 Episode 5
Two documentaries explain the Bombing of Pan Am 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in December 1988 (in retaliation for the U. S. accidenta…
1 year ago
ReproRightsinTN;DataCollectionbyon-linecompanies;AgingPipelineinGreatLakes
Season 1 Episode 4
1) Status of reproductive rights in Tennessee (pathetic); 2) Federal Trade Commission's report "Behind the Screens," about personal information col…
1 year, 3 months ago
Public Transit in Memphis and I Went To The Park
Public transit in Memphis is a mess. Grass roots groups and the city are trying to fix it. Other cities may be having these problems, re: not enou…
1 year, 5 months ago
Introductions, Ozempic, Handicapped Spots, and OJ and Nicole
Season 1 Episode 2
Why don't people introduce themselves?
2. Ozempic and Magic Pill
3. OJ and Nicole, issues toward the end of her life
4. Why do people in Memphis lov…
1 year, 7 months ago
Radioactive Waste and Antarctica
Season 1 Episode 1
Season 1, Episode 1 discusses:
1. Documentary: San Onofre Syndrome - radioactive nuclear waste (all nuclear waste is radioactive)
2. Viewing Intern…
1 year, 7 months ago