Podcast Episodes

Short Stuff: History of Spring Break

If you think Spring Break started with northern college kids heading to Florida to party, you'd be correct. But there's slightly more to it than that…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made?

Jump in today to hear all about the disaster that was the movie ROAR.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Selects: The Skinny on Lyme Disease

If you live in the Northeastern U.S. then you may know someone who has had Lyme disease. But it's spreading all over the country and parts of the wor…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Colorado River Compact

Deciding how to share water is pretty important stuff when there isn't much of it around. Today we dive into the Colorado River Compact.

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Short Stuff: Simple Spelling Movement

Pretty much everyone agrees that English is a chaotic language. There are nutso rules of grammar and spelling other languages don’t have. More than o…

1 month, 4 weeks ago

The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine

Lots of nations gauge the health of their country by how the middle class is doing. There’s just one issue with that – no one can say exactly what de…

1 month, 4 weeks ago

Selects: The Disappearance of Lars Mittank

In 2014, a young German man walked into an airport in Bulgaria with a flight booked, then suddenly ran out leaving all his posessions behind, never t…

2 months ago

Malcom X

Malcolm X was one of the most revered, feared leaders of the civil rights movement. In contrast to Martin Luther King, Jr., X advocated black self-re…

2 months ago

Short Stuff: Kentucky Meat Shower

In 1876 it rained meat out of the clear blue sky on a homestead in Bath County, Kentucky. While the mystery of what happened will never be solved, th…

2 months ago

The History of Fire

The first fires came from lightning strikes. After that, no one is super sure when we started controlling it and then later, starting our own. But it…

2 months ago