Encyclopedia Brunch

Encyclopedia Brunch

By Kathryn Cogert and Tim DobbsSociety & Culture
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Encyclopedia Brunch episodes

  • Shower Curtains

    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 |

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  • Cafés - Short

    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 |

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  • Restaurants

    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.

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    I'm sorry I'm being told we're out of the audio book. The podcast on restaurants is quite good though! And it pairs well with all wines.

    Music by: | David Szesztay | BLAMMOS |

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  • Printer Toner

    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 |

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  • Glowsticks

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

    • Fushigi juggling is also known as contact juggling.

      • Music by: | Tim Evans | BLAMMOS |

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    • Baseball Pitches

      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.

      • The eephus pitch is a high arcing trick pitch meant to confuse the batter with its ridiculousness

        • Music by: | Centz | BLAMMOS |

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      • TI-BASIC - Short

        PROGRAM: ENCYCLOPEDIA_BRUNCH

        : If EP_NUM = 229 Then
        : "TI-BASIC" -> SHOW_TOPIC
        : Else
        : Goto ONE_OF_OUR_MANY_OTHER_GREAT_EPISODES

        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 |

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      • Cows

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

        • You can tell a lot about a cow's emotional state from their ears, based on this cow-petting study

          • Music by: | The Cow Goes Moo | BLAMMOS |

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        • Gas Pumps

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

          Music by: | Laszlo Harsanyi | BLAMMOS |

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