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Coffee

Maybe coffee beans are the magical fruit?

4 years ago

"Good Coffee" and "Bad Coffee" one of them is probably going to die soon.That's why you should stop drinking coffee as fuel and appreciate it, preferably in the company of people you care for.


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Groundhog Day

Perhaps the oldest wrestling tradition in America

4 years ago

Ground hog day is weird and I used to think it was a white person holiday. But in one way it's similar to the tamal eating day of Dia de la candelaria and in another it's a good collective lie built on hope. I like it.


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Mountains With Names

A Mt Rushmore Sequel

4 years ago

Mountains with names and how those names link us to our past and ground us in our time and place. Plus a story of me staring at a rock.

Mt Rushmore episode

Book mentioned: "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy" by Jenny Odell


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Opossums

The garbage man can!

4 years ago

The only sin an opossum ever committed was being weird looking. They should be your spirit animal


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Mount Rushmore

Big ol' disembodied treaty breakin heads designed by a klan member

4 years ago

Mount Rushmore

We're back! A little history of mount Rushmore, it's links to the KKK and a confederate monument the potential illegality of it, my college theory (and an insight into how much fun I Was to have a conversation with) and the ridiculousness of it all!


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Art Basel Banana

2019's Most Famous Art piece

4 years ago

A Banana taped to a wall sold for 120k. Not even that, the idea of a banana taped to a wall sold for 120k. Twice. It's art though...it really is. Listen and find out why!

Artnet Piece on it

Cattelan Artist Profile


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Thomas Jefferson's Moose

Fighting the Snooty French with Massive deer

4 years ago

Moose are the largest deer and the second largest animal in North America. Learn a little about them and how Thomas Jefferson NEEDED one to shut up a moronic French theory.

Hey Bud, here's the moose video, you're just gonna send it?


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Dazzle Camouflage

The British Navy hit em with the Razzle Dazzle

5 years ago

Dazzle Camouflage is not conventional camouflage at all but is instead a theory to try and deceive uboat periscope operators. Did it work? What did it look like? How is it similar to the Sega 32x?!

Dazzle Camo Painting by Wilkinson

Dazzle Camo 2011 study


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Stove Top Stuffing

The best of engineered foods

5 years ago

Stove Top Stuffing exists because nobody REALLY likes your grandma's recipe.

Stuffing is best when it comes from a factory and nothing else is true.

A brief history of stuffing, and a briefer history of how this wonderful invention came to be and finally a call to embrace modernity and realize not EVERYTHING calls for hard work.


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Falling Back/Springing Forward

Time is weird thanks to trains

5 years ago

Standard Time and Daylight Savings time! Why do we even spring forward or fall back at all? Why do this when it sucks having the sun set so early in the winter, it's depressing....Listen and find out! Hopefully this episode encourages you to wake up earlier, play with bugs, or at least feel better about the sun setting at 5:30.


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Hibernating Bears 💤🐻

Much more than a massive power nap

5 years ago

Being totally honest I didn't think hibernation was anything more than just continuous sleeping but it is honestly much more than that! It might even be the key to us being explorers again...

National Parks Service article on Hibernation Behavior

The Guardian piece on Hibernating and long distance space travel

Great Article on Outside Magazine about Fat Bear Week


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Marathons

The most human of races

5 years ago
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MD-80 🛫

The end of an era for aviation, and one of the greatest planes of all time

5 years ago

Arguably one of the greatest passenger airplanes of all time, the MD-80 was retired by American Airlines on September of 2019 and is slowly being faded out of the skies. What does the plane mean for the industry and for the progress of technology as a whole?

American Airlines MD-80 page


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🌱 Based 🥩 Substitutes

Factory Vegan Goodness

5 years ago

The Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat burger are blowing up and fast food giants all across the world are adopting them as the solution to all their environmental problems. Are they? Why do they exist? What could be the secret real driving force behind their adoption, and are they really GOOD for us?


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The Great Stink

The time when England's most famous river was mostly poop

5 years ago

Pictures of Father Thames: In episode art, and here, and here

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The 🌏's Tallest Statue

At what point is this worth pursuing?

5 years ago

Photo Gallery of the World's Largest Statues here

Gallery of the Statue of Unity only here

Visit to the Gundam Unicorn here


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Bread Clips

Get that twist tie outta here

5 years ago

Here's all the kinds of bread clips


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Leap Years

Trying to track where this blue marble is in space is weird

5 years ago

Leap Years

Special episode! One year anniversary of the Irrelevant Podcast! What is a leap year? Why is it only every four years? Is it every four years??

Then a little exploration about time.

Listen to Talking To Houseplants here

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Exploding Birds

a sudden spectacular ending that can mark you for life

5 years ago

Exploding Birds

Watch the video if you haven't here

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Texas State Flag

The history we shouldn't ignore...

5 years ago

Texas State Flag

Another Flag one. This one's about my home state's flag. A part of its history that isn't widely spoken of and how it resonates with me always but especially in light of recent events in El Paso Texas.

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Instant Noodles

Ramen only not really, but yeah it is...

5 years ago

Instant Noodles

Aka "Ramen" except there's so much more to it than just what you buy for cheap and is presented in a foam cup. A little bit of history on both the instant and not instant kind of ramen and the great virtue of the cheap kind. Finally a hope that this kind of thing applies to another food that shares a name with something much more complex...

Examples of Different types of regional Ramen

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Vibrissae

The super hair that makes me jealous...except not.

5 years ago

Vibrissae

Cats and Rodents are some of the most famous whisker having animals but most mammals do except for us. What are the whiskers for? Why don't we have them and maybe why it's not so bad that we DON'T.

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7 Eleven of Japan

When the offshoot becomes better than the original

5 years ago

7 Eleven of Japan

Originally the most american of all Convenience Stores, 7 Eleven is now technically a Japanese company. Hear the story of how that happened and the differences between the 7 Eleven with sticky floors down the street and the one that supplanted it as THE 7 Eleven.

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Chupacabras

The little green creature that terrorized my childhood

6 years ago

Chupacabras

The most fearsome creature in the world in the mid 90s and what he meant at the time, and now.

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