This week we discuss the trial of alleged werewolf Peter Stump and folk etymology. A listener email reveals how McDonalds tried to buy their way into fandom.

Episode Tabs:

Confessions of a Werewolf: The Trial of Peter Stump

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/a-german-werewolfs-confessions-horrified-1500s-europe

What the Folk?

https://daily.jstor.org/what-the-folk-the-charming-yet-totally-malappropriate-story-of-words/

Listener Tabs:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/17/has-an-old-soviet-mystery-at-last-been-solved

https://kotaku.com/mcdonalds-grimace-wiki-ad-happy-meal-fandom-history-1850552640

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This week we discuss people who live at airports and panda diplomacy. A listener email reveals how rabbits frankly don't give a damn.

Episode Tabs:

Terminal Dwellers

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_lived_in_airports

A Chinese cigarette tin launched D.C.’s 50-year love affair with pandas

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/16/pandas-china-nixon-dc/

Listener Tabs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_(film)

https://historianandrew.medium.com/how-bugs-bunny-and-clark-gable-created-false-belief-that-rabbits-like-eating-carrots-65d25059b7d0

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This week Kaveh concludes the Katamari style horrors of the Johnstown flood and Hannah shares how the Europeans had their own American Idol but for letters of the alphabet instead of singers. A listener email reveals if a childhood memory was in fact cake, and how it exploded.

Correction: the Phoenician alphabet comes after the Proto-Sinaitic script and before the Greek alphabet 

Episode Tabs:

The Johnstown Flood pt. 2

https://www.geoinstitute.org/news/johnstown-flood-1889-catastrophe-civil-engineering-part-1

The Forgotten Letters of the English Alphabet

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31904/12-letters-didnt-make-alphabet

Listener Tabs:

https://www.teachertube.com/videos/physical-science-for-children-all-about-forces-and-gravity-349164

https://annehelen.substack.com/p/larping-your-job

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This week we return to Niʻihau for an insane adventure that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor and learn about the Johnstown Flood and how dams are just like us and also like candy. A listener email finally puts the debate about white chocolate to rest.

Episode Tabs:

The Niihau Incident 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_incident

This Dam Break Was One of the Worst Man Made Disasters in American History. It Could Have Been Prevented.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a42384940/johnstown-flood/

Listener Tabs:

https://askinosie.com/blogs/the-nib/is-white-chocolate-really-chocolate

https://annehelen.substack.com/p/larping-your-job

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This week we discuss a forbidden Hawaiian island and Jesus's definitely legitimate final resting place in northern Japan. Also a listener clues us into the little discussed Eternal Riverdale phenomenon.

Episode Tabs:

Ni’ihau Island

https://allthatsinteresting.com/niihau

The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-little-known-legend-of-jesus-in-japan-165354242/

Listener Tabs:

Halibut Crochet Pattern (U.S. National Park Service)nps.gov

https://www.netflix.com/title/80133311

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On today's episode, third time’s the charm as we talk about liars and impostors from Victorian England to modern day crypto scammers. The centuries may change but the hustle never does.

Episode Tabs:

Crypto hedge fund CEO may not exist; probe finds no record of identity

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/crypto-hedge-fund-ceo-may-not-exist-probe-finds-no-record-of-identity/

Princess Caraboo

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Caraboo

Listener Tabs:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramada_Plaza_JFK_Hotel

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/podcasts/the-daily/the-year-of-taylor-swift.html

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On this stomach-churning episode, we blast into the rotting, juicy worlds of Phossy Jaw and Exploding Whales.

Episode Tabs:

Phossy Jaw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phossy_jaw

How do you get rid of a beached whale before it explodes?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/17/how-do-you-get-rid-of-a-beached-whale-before-it-explodes

Listener Tabs:

https://punchdrink.com/articles/tiki-bar-design/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster

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Our inaugural episode! Join us as we talk about the Mob’s influence on pizza and the addicting nature of Hobby Tunneling. Plus, some crabulous listener mail. 

Episode Tabs:

How the Italian Mob Changed Pizza Forever

https://thedigestonline.com/dining/how-the-italian-mob-changed-pizza-forever/

Hobby Tunneling

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling

Listener Tabs:

https://everything2.com/title/The+Cider+House+Rules

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution

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Each episode, hosts Kaveh Taherian and Hannah Hillam choose one of their countless open browser tabs and finally take the time to read and discuss its contents until they gain enough strength to close that tab once and for all.

Premiering January 2024!

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