Depths of Wikipedia

Depths of Wikipedia

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  • Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

    A "linguistic buffet" served up hot with Annie and Hajin tossin' the word salad:

    • How many Buffalo buffalo can a Buffalo buffalo buffalo?
    • The crazy life of the guy who invented the buffalo sentence
    • Normalize context
    • Noam Chomsky, not to be confused with Noam Chimpsky
    • How to intimidate your Instagram followers and pretend you live in a John Green novel at the same time
    • It used to be spelled ghospel because of greedy Dutch typesetters!

    • Remember to like, follow, and subscribe wherever you listen and @depthsofwikipedia on Instagram and TikTok. Visit DepthsOfWikipedia.com for merch, or get in touch by email [email protected]

      Hosted by Annie Rauwerda & Hajin Yoo

      Special Guest: @dj_baby_bokchoy

      Produced by Seth Gliksman

      Music by Kyle Imperatore

      39 min
    • Cursed Fast Food Mascots

      The world of fast food has a few skeletons in its closet, and hands in riverbeds. Annie and Hajin explore:

      • Fatso The Fat-Arsed Wombat
      • Avoid the noid
      • Michael Jackson’s Musical Film “Moonwalker”
      • Give @TheNoid To Hajin
      • Iridocyclitis
      • McWord Trivia! 
      • Unveiling KFC’s secret 11 Spices and Herbs recipe!
      • Seven the movie directed by David Fincher 1994
      • Remember to like, follow, and subscribe wherever you listen and @depthsofwikipedia on Instagram and TikTok. Visit DepthsOfWikipedia.com for merch, or get in touch by email [email protected]

        Hosted by Annie Rauwerda & Hajin Yoo

        Produced by Seth Gliksman

        Music by Kyle Imperatore

        36 min
      • Perpetual Stew and Perpetual Students

        In theory, you never have to clean the pot if you never stop cooking, and you never have to pay your debt if you never stop racking it up. Annie and Hajin explore Perpetual Stew and Perpetual Students, as well as other things...

        • Hamburger University where you get a degree in Hamburgerology
        • The elderly Italian man with 15 degrees
        • Announcing our new cult
        • Are You Smarter Than a 7th Grader (Hajin isn’t!)
        • Michigan savants
        • Life lessons from special guest Johnny “Big Man On Campus” Lechner
        • A follower tells us about prosody, the study of voice intonation, stress, and rhythm

        • Remember to like, follow, and subscribe wherever you listen and @depthsofwikipedia on Instagram and TikTok. Visit DepthsOfWikipedia.com for merch, or get in touch by email [email protected]

          Hosted by Annie Rauwerda & Hajin Yoo

          Produced by Seth Gliksman

          Music by Kyle Imperatore

          Segment Guest: @fuckakta


          52 min
        • Facebook Groups

          Annie and Hajin help you find your niche as they dive into Facebook groups. What lies in store?

          • Making enemies on Facebook
          • The Cars movie franchise
          • An important message from your government
          • Transit trivia!
          • Digital larping? Or just darping?
          • All Janes are good
          • Make American cities walkable again
          • How Boomers communicate on Facebook
          • People playing people pretending to be other people
          • Minion memes
          • NUMTOT gains a new member!

          • Remember to like, follow, and subscribe wherever you listen and @depthsofwikipedia on Instagram and TikTok. Visit DepthsOfWikipedia.com for merch, or get in touch by email [email protected]

            Hosted by Annie Rauwerda & Hajin Yoo

            Produced by Seth Gliksman

            Music by Kyle Imperatore

            Special Guest: @mahbodpedia

            Additional attributions: 

            "Highway Hearing"

            47 min
          • Inventors Killed by Their Own Inventions

            What happens when form and function clash? That is, when the thing you formed gains a kill function. Annie and Hajin discuss:

            • CFCs lead to RIPs
            • Beware elaborate pulley rigs
            • More segments! Same great taste
            • Revisiting Selfie by the Chainsmokers
            • Selfies Gone Wild (but mainly fatal)
            • Seth touts a degree in Zoology he does not have
            • Teens love trains
            • Talking your bro off the Eiffel Tower
            • Dress for the job you want (gliding)
            • Hajin speaks brilliant French
            • WTF is a boat glider?
            • Inventing new ways to fly
            • How does a printing press lead to a death?
            • iCarly trivia

            • Remember to like, follow, and subscribe wherever you listen and @depthsofwikipedia on Instagram and TikTok. Visit DepthsOfWikipedia.com for merch, or get in touch by email [email protected]

              Hosted by Annie Rauwerda & Hajin Yoo

              Produced by Seth Gliksman

              Music by Kyle Imperatore

              48 min
            • Cow Tools

              It's Cow Tools Time with Annie and Hajin "The Tool People" Taylor.

              • Reagan’s America
              • What separates humans from animals
              • Rorschach tests
              • Cow Tools as a world-building trope
              • Gary Larson origin story
              • Comic writers who began in advertising
              • Dr. Seuss leaving his wife who had cancer
              • Gary Larson killing a dog on his way to an interview to be an animal cruelty investigator
              • Greatest disappointments in life
              • Gary Larson Jane Goodall controversy
              • Larson’s return to making comics when he got a tablet and digital pen, and he 'felt like [he] was at the controls of a 747’
              • Remember to like, follow, and subscribe wherever you listen and @depthsofwikipedia on Instagram and TikTok. Visit DepthsOfWikipedia.com for merch, or get in touch by email [email protected]

                Hosted by Annie Rauwerda & Hajin Yoo

                Produced by Seth Gliksman

                Music by Kyle Imperatore

                Commercial Voices: Seth Gliksman & Jessica Mae Murphy

                50 min
              • Dave Matthews Band Chicago River Incident

                There was a bridge, there was a boat, there was a band, there was a bulging septic tank. Can we make it any more obvious? We discuss the iconic river incident, among other things.

                • Naming a band after yourself
                • Poop jokes: the bottom rung of humor?
                • Quakers in South Africa
                • It would have had the same effect if DMB just threw their CDs out the window
                • How long it would take to make 800 pounds of poop
                • Both sides-ism
                • Jam bands :)
                • Waffle stomping
                • Our sponsor: funeral strippers!
                • A reading from the blog ‘And in High Heels’
                • Call for interview: international DMB fans?
                • If Snoop Dogg were mayor, would we call him Mayor Dogg?
                • Pollution in midwest rivers
                • In the middle ages, they clapped when you left dinner parties to poop
                • Remember to like, follow, and subscribe wherever you listen and @depthsofwikipedia on Instagram and TikTok. Visit DepthsOfWikipedia.com for merch, or get in touch by email [email protected]

                  Hosted by Annie Rauwerda & Hajin Yoo

                  Produced by Seth Gliksman

                  Music by Kyle Imperatore

                  Commercial Voices: Seth Gliksman & Jessica Mae Murphy

                  54 min
                • The World’s Worst Poet

                  We wax poetic on the least poetic.

                  • EXCLUSIVE cover letter advice to get a job at the New Yorker 
                  • Being famously bad is still famous
                  • Getting pelted with garbage
                  • Strangulation?
                  • Paying a theatre to let him star in a Shakespeare play
                  • Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer 
                  • Annie’s squeaky chair :) 
                  • Our sponsor eigengrau
                  • Struggling to find the word ‘deduce’
                  • Hating DB Cooper
                  • Alvin and the chipmunks and other great trilogies 
                  • JK Rowling’s obsession with the world’s worst poet 
                  • The word buffoon 
                  • Girl, wash your face!
                  • The Poor Law of 1845
                  • Seneca falls playing ‘I’m a Barbie Girl’ by Aqua
                  • Annie’s singing debut with ‘Hey Soul Sister’

                  • Remember to like, follow, and subscribe wherever you listen and @depthsofwikipedia on Instagram and TikTok. Visit DepthsOfWikipedia.com for merch, or get in touch by email [email protected]


                    Hosted by Annie Rauwerda & Hajin Yoo

                    Produced by Seth Gliksman

                    Music by Kyle Imperatore

                    Commercial Voices: Seth Gliksman & Jessica Mae Murphy


                    Additional music: 

                    Piotr Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. No longer under copyright. 

                    Wolfgang Mozart's Concerto No. 9, "II. Andantino", CC BY 4.0 

                    Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 4, "IV. Allegro-Prestissimo", CC BY-SA 3.0

                    1 hr
                  • 1. List of Sexually Active Popes

                    We mull over degenerate popes, among other things.

                    • Getting ATM cards (abstinence til marriage) in middle school sex ed
                    • The mother-daughter pair that seduced three popes
                    • What Pope Francis would wear to the club
                    • Literacy in the 1500s
                    • Tinder bio advice
                    • NFTs vs. catholic indulgences
                    • The pope who had 9 children
                    • The 60 year period where the papacy was so corrupted its called the ‘pornocracy’
                    • If the pope had an intern
                    • A band called ‘Gay Pope’
                    • Crafting (with hot glue guns, specifically)
                    • Is Innocenzo Ciocchi del Monte really all that "innocenzo"?
                    • The pope who died by either being sodomized or by eating rotten melon (no one knows)
                    • An American Tail fanfics
                    • The gentle allure of Pope Francis
                    • Sex in space
                    • Remember to like, follow, and subscribe wherever you listen and @depthsofwikipedia on Instagram and TikTok. Visit DepthsOfWikipedia.com for merch, or get in touch by email [email protected]

                      Hosted by Annie Rauwerda & Hajin Yoo

                      Produced by Seth Gliksman

                      Music by Kyle Imperatore

                      Commercial Voices: Seth Gliksman & Jessica Mae Murphy

                      Additional music:

                      Piotr Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36. 4th movement "Finale: Allegro con fuoco (F major)” performed by the U.S. Navy Band. Available in the public domain.

                      56 min

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