by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Episodes
Think you’ve got a cool skill that could break a Guinness World Record? It cost $5 to apply, but if you want an official adjudicator with a stopwatch and a clipboard to come watch you do it, that’ll cost $10,000. An adult queen bee’s body can be 25% ovaries by...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Episodes
You’ve got your popcorn, the theater darkens, orchestral music blares, and text crawls up the screen. And crawls, and crawls. Then we meet some characters who don’t matter, get jokes where there shouldn’t be jokes, there’s tons of unnecessary backstory, and it all...
by admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Episodes
Picture it, Chatham, ON, in the 1960’s. Greek immigrant Sam Panopoulos has two concerns which are soon to find a common solution. His first problem is that he’s still settling in and trying acclimate himself to life in Canada and trying to become more Canadian. His...
by admin | Mar 15, 2021 | Episodes
In 1451, a Swiss farmer was concerned about unwanted trespassers in the ponds of his property, fearing that they would harm the much-needed population of salmon. He took his complaint to the Bishop of Lausanne, who listened intently to the man’s concerns and ordered...
by admin | Mar 8, 2021 | Episodes
Dirk Deckert and Karsten Kluender dreamt of traveling, surfing, sailing and freedom. Those were pie-in-the-sky dreams for two men living in tightly-controlled East Germany. They hatched a plan to use their passions in a bid for freedom. There were some patrols...
by admin | Mar 1, 2021 | Episodes
For everything that makes people different across the world, there is something that makes us the same, a cultural universal. Cultural universals include things like gender roles, jokes, death rituals, and mythology. It’s in that last cultural universal where we...
