Episodes
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Episode 230: The Tootsie Pop Indian (Entry 1317.LA0312)
February 6th, 2020 | 1 hr 9 mins
In which an American candy company refuses to honor a longstanding bit of playground lollipop lore, and Ken tries to calculate the homeopathic healing power of Tootsie Rolls. Certificate #33486.
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Episode 229: Chastity Belts (Entry 209.LV2113)
February 4th, 2020 | 55 mins 19 secs
In which Renaissance satirists and modern amateur historians accidentally create a physiologically impossible medieval device, and John has a theory about locksmiths and cocaine. Certificate #49406.
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Episode 228: Coppicing (Entry 276.PS8015)
January 30th, 2020 | 49 mins 29 secs
In which a forgotten medieval art of tree-harvesting is revived by the sustainability movement, and Ken blames the coming environmental catastrophe on "sugar energy." Certificate #22560.
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Episode 227: Harry Dexter White (Entry 1428.LK0817)
January 28th, 2020 | 1 hr 12 mins
In which the American architect of post-World War II global capitalism turns out to have a dark and traitorous secret, and John imagines he would be a huge hassle for his spy handlers. Certificate #25923.
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Episode 226: The Death of Trolleys (Entry 320.GN4519)
January 23rd, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min
In which we find General Motors and its corporate co-conspirators not guilty on the charge of killing American streetcar lines, and Ken gets very excited about funicular railways. Certificate #14871.
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Episode 225: George Bush's Crack Dealer (Entry 524.JB1808)
January 21st, 2020 | 56 mins 9 secs
In which the president of the United States lies to the nation about how he got three ounces of crack cocaine into the Oval Office, and John is asked to leave a crime scene. Certificate #34620.
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Episode 224: Backgammon (Entry 090.EX2816)
January 16th, 2020 | 1 hr 7 mins
In which an ancient Mesopotamian board game briefly becomes a 1970s signifier for glamour and sophistication, and Ken's life is changed by an intense childhood game of Clue. Certificate #31179.
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Episode 223: Masquerade (Entry 763.PS10424)
January 14th, 2020 | 1 hr 8 mins
In which an outsider artist hides a rabbit by a statue and thereby gets a million people to start digging up the English countryside, and John "man-solves" a Satanic temple. Certificate #14162.
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Episode 222: The Tech Model Railroad Club (Entry 1282.1C1220)
January 9th, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min
In which a room full of MIT train nerds becomes ground zero for modern American hacker culture and computer architecture, and Ken blames Star Wars for ruining children's toys. Certificate #33564.
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Episode 221: Byzantine Rhinokopia (Entry 170.JB4102)
January 7th, 2020 | 49 mins
In which the Byzantine throne is contested by various Machiavellian schemes willing to mutilate the noses of their political rivals, and John reveals which Marx brother he is most sexually attracted to. Certificate #34954.
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Episode 220: Fort Knox (Entry 493.2CH0913)
January 2nd, 2020 | 1 hr 6 mins
In which a World War I army camp in northern Kentucky is chosen to house over $200 billion in gold bullion, and Ken proposes nationalizing America's safety deposit boxes. Certificate #2504.
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Episode 219: Induced Demand (Entry 637.EZ1704)
December 31st, 2019 | 1 hr 6 mins
In which we learn why new highway lanes, no matter how spacious, tend to fill to capacity within weeks of opening, and John takes on a hypothetical megacorporation called Goober. Certificate #38938.