Episodes
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Episode 350: The Tan Suit Controversy (Entry 1277.EZ3403)
April 15th, 2021 | 1 hr 20 mins
In which the president wears beige to an August 2014 press conference, suddenly creating three or four new kinds of political discourse, each worse than the last. Certificate #35844.
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Episode 349: Magic Eye (Entry 747.PR0425)
April 13th, 2021 | 1 hr 19 mins
In which we trace two centuries of people being briefly interested in three-dimensional images, and John gets a bad case of "Intellivision thumb." Certificate #27012.
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Episode 348: Rasputin (Entry 1031.MT2411)
April 8th, 2021 | 1 hr 3 mins
In which a Siberian mystic gets so cozy with Russian royals that he ensures the success of the Bolshevik Revolution, and Ken wonders if he blinks the normal amount of times. Certificate #38899.
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Episode 347: The Crash at Crush (Entry 292.ZP0110)
April 6th, 2021 | 53 mins 25 secs
In which the American love affair with demolition-based entertainment is born near Waco, Texas in an explosion of iron and steam, and John believes some flight attendants are aliens. Certificate #34659.
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Episode 346: Figwit (Entry 467.JE2402)
April 1st, 2021 | 1 hr 11 mins
In which we follow the arc of nerd culture to the Council of Elrond where a certain kind of fan service is born, and Ken explains why people fight about Frodo and Jesus. Certificate #40170.
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Episode 345: The Cadaver Synod (Entry 172.HE0927)
March 30th, 2021 | 1 hr 9 mins
In which a zombie pope is forced to stand trial in 9th-century Rome, and Ken discovers a generation of people with strong opinions about the word "zoology." Certificate #28349.
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Episode 344: Roady Bill and Tony the Pony (Entry 1077.PR0719)
March 25th, 2021 | 1 hr 10 mins
In which an online covered wagon auction unearths an almost-forgotten genre of itinerant performer, and John refuses to identify the Tijuana of Europe. Certificate #46962.
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Episode 343: The Underarm Bowling Incident (Entry 1363.JB2602)
March 23rd, 2021 | 1 hr 1 min
In which an Australian cricket team creates an international controversy with an unorthodox but legal strategy, and Ken accidentally does a Boston accent. Certificate #30080.
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Episode 342: The Lost Spitfires of Burma (Entry 736.AC0219)
March 18th, 2021 | 1 hr 2 mins
In which a modern-day treasure hunter becomes convinced that a priceless trove of British fighter jets is buried at the end of an airport runway, and John becomes a realtor for Myanmar. Certificate #34112.
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Episode 341: The Memex (Entry 774.EX3607)
March 16th, 2021 | 1 hr 11 mins
In which the Internet is born in 1945 when a radar technician in a bamboo hut reads a Life magazine article about a futuristic desk, and Ken wonders if anyone smoked weed at Los Alamos. Certificate #18461.
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Episode 340: English as She Is Spoke (Entry 414.GE1107)
March 11th, 2021 | 1 hr 19 mins
In which an inept attempt at a Portuguese-English phrasebook becomes an enduring comedy classic, and John celebrates the invention of the stirrup. Certificate #29469.
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Episode 339: Rosa Luxemburg's Body (Entry 1082.NU1911)
March 9th, 2021 | 1 hr 8 mins
In which the most famous socialist rabble-rouser of her time returns from her 1919 execution (maybe) as a headless mummy, and Ken wonders if ancient Irish peasants had combination skin. Certificate #27337.