This week we celebrate the unsung hero of the bathroom. Shower curtains: keeping your toilet paper dry when you shower so you don't have to keep it in a cabinet or something.

Music by: | Josh Spacek | BLAMMOS |

This week GASP we talk about soap operas!

Music by: | MIT Symphony Orchestra | BLAMMOS |

This week’s episode is a sort-of little brother to last week’s episode - we talk about the little brother to the Restaurant, the Café!

• We had a big argument about the origin of nicknames for Chicago! All said and done, it turns out the origin of the nickname Windy City is highly disputed. It has nothing to do with the fire, as Kathryn falsely remembered. However, what she was remembering is the idea that the nickname referred to the full-of-hot-air politicians of historic Chicago. End of the day though, there are a bunch of possible origins.
• The Second City nickname is a slam from New Yorker columnist A. J. Liebling who found himself in Chicago for a couple years and decided he hated the place and missed New York. It’s also worth noting he was having some personal life troubles, so maybe he was in a bad mood…

Music by: | BLAMMOS |

Hey, it's been a hard week - leave the podcast cooking to us! This week our specials are a podcast about Restaurants, and we also have an audio book on charismatic leaders of the 19th century.

Music by: | David Szesztay | BLAMMOS |

Imagine yourself covered in a fine soot. Now imagine that soot was formed into symbols that relayed important information. Now imagine that you're a piece of paper. Congratulations, you're now a part of the printer toner ecosystem.

This week we talk about printer toner!

Music by: | Steve Combs | Raymond Scott | BLAMMOS |

Hope y'all like house music. We're talking glow sticks this week!

Music by: | Tim Evans | BLAMMOS |

This week we pay our respects to the Summer Gods and do an episode about the boys of summer - specifically the certain ways they throw certain things! This week we talk about baseball pitches.

Music by: | Centz | BLAMMOS |

PROGRAM: ENCYCLOPEDIA_BRUNCH

This week we talk about all the time we wasted programming graphing calculators using TI-BASIC, both in middle school, and just now, writing these show notes.

Music by: | Tim's Cool Organ Tunes | BLAMMOS |

Show now brown cow. This week we're talking about cows!

Music by: | The Cow Goes Moo | BLAMMOS |

Feeling a bit run down? Fuel up with our episode about gas pumps!

Music by: | Laszlo Harsanyi | BLAMMOS |