The BrainFood Show
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In this show, the team behind the wildly popular TodayIFoundOut YouTube channel do deep dives into a variety of fascinating topics to help you feed your brain with interesting knowledge.
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Nikola Tesla's Rather Peculiar Childhood and Oddities (Daven & Gilles)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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The Incredible Tale of Inventing Walmart
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Why Did Japan Join the Nazis? (Given, You Know, the Nazis Explicitly Hated Non-Aryans)
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Why Wasn't There an Italian "Nuremberg / Tokyo War Crimes" Trial After WWII?
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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How Did the SR-71 Blackbird Get Made and How was It So Fast?
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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WTF is Up with Embalming and Displaying Communists?
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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What's the Deal With Presidential Libraries?
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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The Twisting, Turning Road That Gave Us the Microwave Oven
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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A Guide to Building the Pyramids- How Did They Do It?
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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How Did the Wright Brothers Win the Race Into the Air?
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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From 0 to 1000 to 0- What Happened to Howard Johnson's?
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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How Did Christianity Go From a Tiny Jewish Cult to Rule the Western World So Quickly?
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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The Marxist Mummies- The Weird Practice of Mummiffying Communists
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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What's the Difference Between Hardwood and Softwood? (I swear this is more interesting than it sounds :-))
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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WTF is Vegemite?
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Hancock's Revolution- Birthing the United States
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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How Do We Actually Know We Landed on the Moon?
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Heinz 57, The Lord of the Pumps, and a Tasty, Tasty Dunkin' Empire
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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The True Story of the Amistad
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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How Vladimir Putin Came to Power (And How He Has Held on to it for So Long)
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Does Any Government Have a Plan if Aliens Invade the Earth?
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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An Ultra Deep Dive Into How to Get the Best Possible Sleep According to Science and Why It's Literally Killing You When You Don't
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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What was it Really Like to Be a Lighthouse Keeper?
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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The Mysterious Death of Yuri Gagarin
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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How Government Works, When Does the U.S. Government Debt Become Unsustainable, And Much More
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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What's So Special About McDonald's Fries?
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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What's It Actually Like to Be an Amish Person?
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Who was the Most Prolific Serial Killer of All Time?
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May 17, 2025 |
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That Time the Postal Service Tried Sending Mail Via Missile
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May 16, 2025 |
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Lies! The Truth About the Tesla vs Edison Feud
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May 09, 2025 |
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Is There Any Hard Evidence That Jesus Actually Existed?
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May 07, 2025 |
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That Time the U.S. Tried to Build a Massive Military Base on the Moon
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May 05, 2025 |
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Common Things Different in Europe vs. the United States
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Things (Part 4)
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Medieval Times [Part 5]
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Medieval Times [Part 4]
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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Medieval Times [Part 3]
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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Medieval Times [Part 2]
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Medieval Times [Part 1]
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Making Diamonds
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Aug 01, 2020 |
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What We’ve Learned This Month
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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For the Love of the Word Nerds… (And Their Rather Unfortunate Nazi Brethren)
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May 20, 2020 |
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The Difference Between… [Part 2]
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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The Difference Between… [Part 1]
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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The Absolutely Badass First Female U.S. Presidential Candidate
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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It’s a Wonderful Life [Part 2]
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Dec 22, 2019 |
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It’s a Wonderful Life [Part 1]
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Foods (Part 1)
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Nov 30, 2019 |
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The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Things (Part 3)
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Nov 23, 2019 |
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The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Things (Part 2)
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Things (Part 1)
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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The Greatest Practical Joke and the Last Laugh
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Oct 05, 2019 |
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Lord Minimus- The Renaissance Dueling Dwarf
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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That Time a Major Studio Intentionally Made a Crappy “Fantastic Four” Movie and Why Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Why Do Some Countries Have People Drive on the Left and Others on the Right? (+Contest Winners)
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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Forgotten History Part 2: The First Film and the Murder That Nearly Killed It
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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The Forgotten Plague- DANCE MANIA!!!
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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How Porcupines Mate, the Bizarre Sex Habits of Giraffes (and Much, Much More)
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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Twice Executed
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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Taking the Mystery Out of Murder- A Couple of Dumbbells
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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How Everyone Plays Monopoly Wrong Which Makes It Worse, Where the Game Pieces Came From, Who Really Invented It and Much More
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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Animal Facts Part 3: A Doughnut Brain, Dung and the Milky Way, Ant Overlords and More
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Animal Facts Part 2: Melting Caterpillars, Heating Bees, Why Vultures Don’t Get Sick, and More
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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Animal Facts Part 1: The Blowhole, Cow Tipping and Much, Much More
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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A Disturbing Tale and the “Trial of the Century” That Led to Women Jumping Out of Cakes
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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The Woman Who was the Most Successful Pirate of All Time
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Dec 31, 2018 |
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A Christmas Gift and a Riot
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Dec 22, 2018 |
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Christmas Traditions- The Crapper, The Poop Log, the Parasitic Poop Twigs, and Much, Much More
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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12 Days
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Dec 17, 2018 |
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The Truce
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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The Sledgehammer for the Poor Man’s Child
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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The Remarkable Sarah Hale
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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Tech History Part 3: FIRST!!! + Many, Many Bonus Facts and Contest Winners
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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The Dude Who Burned Down the Greatest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Because of Reasons
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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Macabre Part 4: The Vampire of Cinkota and a Truly Horrific Love Story
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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Tech History Part 2: Who Invented the Internet, Email, and the Web?
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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Tech History Part 1: A QWERTY Story and Whether the Dvorak Layout is Actually Superior
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Sep 30, 2018 |
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Macabre Part 3: The Nightmare Nurse
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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Macabre Part 2: How Shrunken Heads Were Made
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Sep 19, 2018 |
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Macabre Part 1: The Gruesome Tale of Burke and Hare
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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The Final Final Frontier (Part 6): The Real Color of the Sun, How Many Nuclear Bomb Powered Rockets It Would Take to Stop the Earth Orbiting the Sun and Much, Much More
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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The Final Frontier Part 5: Are the Odds of Successfully Navigating an Asteroid Field Really Approximately 3,720 to 1?
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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The Final Frontier Part 4: The U.S. Plan to Nuke the Moon, Why People Thought the Moon was Made of Cheese and Much More
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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The Final Frontier Part 3: How to Scratch an Itch in Space, the Surprisingly Long Time You Can Survive in Space Without a Spacesuit, Why the Apollo 13 Astronauts Got Cold, and Much, Much More
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Aug 12, 2018 |
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The Final Frontier Part 2: How Astronauts Go to the Bathroom in Space and How Women Can Safely Pee Standing Up
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Aug 03, 2018 |
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The Final Frontier Part 1: Real Life Space DJs and the Pillownaughts
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Jul 30, 2018 |
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The War Bear
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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The Prisoner (+Contest Winners)
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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The First Road Trip Part 2: In Which We Discuss All Things Tangentially Related
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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The First Road Trip Part 1: The Gumption of Bertha Benz
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Jun 22, 2018 |
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Could the Tyrannosaurus Rex Really Not See You If You Didn’t Move?
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Jun 15, 2018 |
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Caesar Part 4: In Which We Discuss All Things Tangentially Related
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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Caesar Part 3: The Real Story of the Ides of March
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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Caesar Part 2: Julius Caesar’s Pirate Adventure and the Long Lost Location of the Rubicon
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May 30, 2018 |
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Caesar Part 1: Caesarean and the Fascinating Story of Dr. James Barry (a.k.a. Margaret Bulkley)
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May 23, 2018 |
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An Interview with Audio Production Guru Mike Russell
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May 18, 2018 |
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The Bull Moose Part 2
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May 15, 2018 |
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Growing a YouTube Channel
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May 09, 2018 |
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The Bull Moose Part 1
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May 02, 2018 |
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Stealing the Eiffel Tower
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Apr 24, 2018 |
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Writing and Researching Online- A Chat with Karl Smallwood
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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A Restaurant for a Beetle and $100 and a Bike- The Fascinating Stories Behind Four Famous Businesses
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Enlightened Rigging of the Lottery + Wheezy Waiter (The BrainFood Show Episode 5)
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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The Fascinating Origin of Pong and Atari + Interview with the Creators of Quest for Glory and the Upcoming Hero-U (The BrainFood Show Episode 4)
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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The Preposterous Pyramid (The BrainFood Show Episode 3)
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Mar 10, 2018 |
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The White Feather (The BrainFood Show Episode 2)
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Feb 28, 2018 |
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The BrainFood Show Episode 1: Throwing Tomatoes
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Feb 19, 2018 |