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.
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.
Episode Tabs:
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/
Listener Tabs:
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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