Podcast Episodes

Ask Sam: Hair of the Dog, Walking Fish and the Truth About Palm Trees

Curiosity abounds in the listener ranks and the Ask Sam Hotline (1-844-GO-OTTER) has been ringing off the hook! Sam and the gang tackle your question…

8 years, 5 months ago

Stay In Your Lane

  If you ask John Forester, there’s a war being fought, between the forces that want to eject cyclists from the roads, and those that want to preserv…

8 years, 6 months ago

Shine Service

Robert Person Sr. — Percy, as he’s known — has been shining shoes for 70 years. He started around age 10 and now, at 80, continues to work at Percy’s…

8 years, 6 months ago

One Bin to Rule Them All

The reality is, recycling doesn’t work because we believe in it. It works because it’s an industry.  You might be keeping that plastic bottle out of …

8 years, 6 months ago

Life on the Edge of the Olympics

When you watch the Olympics, you think you’re watching the best in the world competing at the pinnacle of their fitness.

And while that is often true…

8 years, 7 months ago

Magical Drinking

For thousands of years, natural spring waters have been associated with health. But recently something called the “raw water movement” has scientists…

8 years, 7 months ago

Updates For Your Brain

There have been a couple of important developments on the subject of Canadian hydropower since we released our 4-part series, Powerline. Today, we br…

8 years, 8 months ago

An American Lobster in Stockholm

In 2010 a researcher found a clutch of hybrid American-European lobster eggs in a Norwegian fjord. This kicked off a decade of research attempting to…

8 years, 8 months ago

Ask Sam: Caterpillar Legs, Living Fossils, & Sam Ruins Edison Bulbs

You've left us lots of great questions on the Ask Sam hotline (1-844-GO-OTTER) so Sam and the team crammed into a studio to try and answer a few.  In…

8 years, 9 months ago

Stoner Panels

There’s a legend among energy nerds. According to this legend, California pot-growers — with their illicit capital and counter-cultural ideas — were …

8 years, 9 months ago