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Your Brain on Factsinactive

Publisher |: Moxie LaBouche

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Comedy,; Society & Culture

Categories Via RSS |: Documentary,; History,; Society & Culture

Host Moxie LaBouche brings you a weekly half-hour of things you didn't know, things you thought you knew, and things you never knew you never knew.

Topics range from the history of nursing to the Balinese funeral rite David Bowie requested, from the origin of the Vulcan salute to the theft of Canada's strategic maple syrup reserve.

This is your brain on facts. yourbrainonfacts.com

People |: Moxie LaBouche
Premiere Date |: 2018-02-01
Related Hashtags |: #flashbackfriday,; #FlashbackFriday,; #MysteryMonday,; #ThankfulThursday,; #Vimeo
Frequency |: Weekly
Explicit |: No

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242 Available Episodes (242 Total) / Average duration: 00:32:32

Date Duration Most Reviewed Highest Rated

242 Available Episodes (242 Total)Average duration: 00:32:32

Jul 19, 2022

00:05:40

YBOF's gonna take a break for a month or two.

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Jul 05, 2022

00:54:02

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Jun 28, 2022

00:50:56

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Jun 21, 2022

00:32:52

How hard was it to steal the Mona Lisa? What does the word "ponzi" actually mean?

Links to all the research resources are on the website.

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Music: Kevin MacLeod,

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Jun 14, 2022

00:29:21

(Chronic health problems sometime require an encore performance of a past episode.)

Hundreds dead, thousands homeless, entire communities wiped out, yet most of us have never heard of what happened in Rosewood 1923, Tulsa 1921, or Chicago 1919.

Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Jun 07, 2022

00:34:35

What do limestone, leather, plastic and mulberry tree bark have in common? They've all been used to make money, plus lots of other materials besides! Join me for a quick jaunt around the world and through history and we look at a fraction of the history of currency.

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Music: Kevin MacLeod, Steve Oxen

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May 31, 2022

00:35:20

Who was General Tsao of chicken fame? Where do Danish pastries come from? Is pad Thai actually Thai food? All that and more in this patron-voted episode!

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May 24, 2022

00:33:40

How did rubber ducks go from lumps of rubber that didn't even float to a cheerful childhood staple? Let's look at where they came from, where they're going, and why they keep showing up at violent political protests.

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00:38 Bit of backstory

07:13 Bert's best buddy

10:25 Review, patrons, thanks!

12:00 Ducks for charity or science

17:58 Giant ducks, wild and domestic

20:16 Can You Hear The Duckies Sing?

22:45 THE Rubber Duck

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May 17, 2022

00:32:06

Finally, I get to the subtopic that launched not one but two episodes, the Gentleman Pirate Stede Bonnet, as well as the most interesting boring thing I could find and why science didn't get a handle on scurvy until nearly WWII.

(Apologies in advance because I was red-lining my mic throughout and I have no idea why -- I'd been doing VO jobs all day with no such issue.)

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01:03 Ye scurvy dog

08:27 Gratitude et al

11:30 The doldrums

15:49 Livestream for the Cure

17:46 The Gentleman Pirate, Stede Bonnet

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Music: Kevin MacLeod,

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May 10, 2022

00:31:36

What started as a need to tell the real story of "Gentleman Pirate" Stede Bonnet has turned into a myth vs history two-parter! I love when that happens. Hear about pirate pensions, the makeup of the mariners, and civil unions on the seven seas. Special thanks to Charlie and Jesse over the in Brainiac Breakroom for help with the title.

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Music: Kevin MacLeod, and Tabletop Audio

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Jul 19 | 00:05:40

Dumping out my purse (update on the podcast)

Jul 05 | 00:54:02

Episode 200, part 2!

Jun 28 | 00:50:56

Episode 200!!!!

Jun 21 | 00:32:52

Big, Bold Burglaries (ep 199)

Jun 14 | 00:29:21

Hidden Histories - Rosewood, Tulsa, Chicago (encore)

Jun 07 | 00:34:35

Strange Currency (ep. 198)

May 31 | 00:35:20

Suspect Sustenance Stories (ep. 197)

May 24 | 00:33:40

Awfully Fond of You (ep. 196)

May 17 | 00:32:06

Dread Pirate Misinformation (ep 195)

May 10 | 00:31:36

Yaarrrr Brain On Facts (ep. 194)

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