Each episode, hosts Kaveh Taherian and Hannah Hillam choose one of their countless open browser tabs and finally take the time to read and discuss its contents until they gain enough strength to close that tab once and for all.
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On this stomach-churning episode, we blast into the rotting, juicy worlds of Phossy Jaw and Exploding Whales.
Episode Tabs:
Phossy Jaw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phossy_jaw
How do you get rid of a beached whale before it explodes?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/17/how-do-you-get-rid-of-a-beached-whale-before-it-explodes
Listener Tabs:
https://punchdrink.com/articles/tiki-bar-design/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster
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On today's episode, third time’s the charm as we talk about liars and impostors from Victorian England to modern day crypto scammers. The centuries may change but the hustle never does.
Crypto hedge fund CEO may not exist; probe finds no record of identity
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/crypto-hedge-fund-ceo-may-not-exist-probe-finds-no-record-of-identity/
Princess Caraboo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Caraboo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramada_Plaza_JFK_Hotel
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/podcasts/the-daily/the-year-of-taylor-swift.html
Our inaugural episode! Join us as we talk about the Mob’s influence on pizza and the addicting nature of Hobby Tunneling. Plus, some crabulous listener mail.
How the Italian Mob Changed Pizza Forever
https://thedigestonline.com/dining/how-the-italian-mob-changed-pizza-forever/
Hobby Tunneling
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling
https://everything2.com/title/The+Cider+House+Rules
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution
This week we discuss a forbidden Hawaiian island and Jesus's definitely legitimate final resting place in northern Japan. Also a listener clues us into the little discussed Eternal Riverdale phenomenon.
Ni’ihau Island
https://allthatsinteresting.com/niihau
The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-little-known-legend-of-jesus-in-japan-165354242/
Halibut Crochet Pattern (U.S. National Park Service)nps.gov
https://www.netflix.com/title/80133311
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This week we return to Niʻihau for an insane adventure that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor and learn about the Johnstown Flood and how dams are just like us and also like candy. A listener email finally puts the debate about white chocolate to rest.
The Niihau Incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_incident
This Dam Break Was One of the Worst Man Made Disasters in American History. It Could Have Been Prevented.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a42384940/johnstown-flood/
https://askinosie.com/blogs/the-nib/is-white-chocolate-really-chocolate
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/larping-your-job
This week Kaveh concludes the Katamari style horrors of the Johnstown flood and Hannah shares how the Europeans had their own American Idol but for letters of the alphabet instead of singers. A listener email reveals if a childhood memory was in fact cake, and how it exploded.
Correction: the Phoenician alphabet comes after the Proto-Sinaitic script and before the Greek alphabet
The Johnstown Flood pt. 2
https://www.geoinstitute.org/news/johnstown-flood-1889-catastrophe-civil-engineering-part-1
The Forgotten Letters of the English Alphabet
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31904/12-letters-didnt-make-alphabet
https://www.teachertube.com/videos/physical-science-for-children-all-about-forces-and-gravity-349164
This week we discuss people who live at airports and panda diplomacy. A listener email reveals how rabbits frankly don't give a damn.
Terminal Dwellers
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_lived_in_airports
A Chinese cigarette tin launched D.C.’s 50-year love affair with pandas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/16/pandas-china-nixon-dc/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_(film)
https://historianandrew.medium.com/how-bugs-bunny-and-clark-gable-created-false-belief-that-rabbits-like-eating-carrots-65d25059b7d0
This week we discuss the trial of alleged werewolf Peter Stump and folk etymology. A listener email reveals how McDonalds tried to buy their way into fandom.
Confessions of a Werewolf: The Trial of Peter Stump
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/a-german-werewolfs-confessions-horrified-1500s-europe
What the Folk?
https://daily.jstor.org/what-the-folk-the-charming-yet-totally-malappropriate-story-of-words/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/17/has-an-old-soviet-mystery-at-last-been-solved
https://kotaku.com/mcdonalds-grimace-wiki-ad-happy-meal-fandom-history-1850552640
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This week we discuss insane mental health practices of the 1940s and the NBA's golden horse, Nikola Jokić. A listener email disgusts Kaveh.
Mother’s Little Helper: Vintage Drug Ads
https://www.goretro.com/2014/08/mothers-little-helper-vintage-drug-ads.html
How Nikola Jokić Became The World’s Best Basketball Player
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/how-nikola-jokic-became-the-worlds-best-basketball-player
https://www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shave_%27Em_Dry
