Encyclopedia Brunch

Encyclopedia Brunch

By Kathryn Cogert and Tim DobbsSociety & Culture
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Encyclopedia Brunch episodes

  • Shopping Carts

    This week we're talking about Shopping Carts! The retail innovation that moved the finish line on what it meant to shop till one dropped.

    • For more on the history or retail and how it sort of matters, check out our episode on Dollar Stores!
    • For more on Mr. Sparkle of the Simpsons, check out this clip!
    • For more more more, how do you like it, how do you like it? Get yourself a tassle vest and feather that hair.

      • Music by: | Least Carpet | BLAMMOS |

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    • Formaldehyde

      Look lively this week, because we're talking about preserving dead things! We're talkin' formaldehyde.

      • Fun fact: Formaldehyde comes from form- and -aldehyde
        • An aldehyde is what we call any carbon molecule with a double-bonded oxygen on its end
        • Form- is the prefix we often give to organic molecules with one carbon, because:
          • Formic acid has one carbon
            • We named formic acid that because ants make formic acid and
            • Formica is latin for "ant"
            • All of which serves as a neat reminder that chemistry naming is real dumb

              • Music by: | Factory Sounds | BLAMMOS |

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            • Cash Registers

              Cash Registers

              Cha-Ching! Hear that sweet sweet sound of this week’s topic: The Cash Register.

              • Wanna hear some iffy audio quality? Check out an old episode. It’s on Snakes!
              • This fun Old-Timey Birthday Boy’s Sketch!
              • Calculator Spelling! Get. Into it.
              • You dudes wanna play some Gaunlet with us?

              Music by: | Kid Daytona | BLAMMOS |

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            • Body Switching

              Body Switching

              You got chocolate empathy in my understanding peanut butter! Well you got understanding peanut butter in my chocolate empathy! It’s body switching this week.

              • Some classic switch-'em-ups include:
                • Freaky Friday
                • The Change-up
                • Vice Versa
                • The Freaky Friday Father/Daughter James Van Der Beek switch-'em-up parody from Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23.
              • This episode was really just to explain why we spent all week on TV Tropes.

              Music by: | Pariah Qarey | BLAMMOS |

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            • Lakes

              Dive into this week's episode on lakes! So refreshing!

              • Want to know all about lakes? Check out this limnology textbook. Wow! The same textbook the real Kathryn uses!

                • Music by: | LAKE | BLAMMOS |

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              • Baseball

                Load up those bases, we're talking about baseball! America's once past time, but you know how your hobbies change as you get older.

                • Do yourself a favor and watch that hunka hunka man, Kris Bryant in his Express Men ad.
                • See our episode on Soju for some hot hot Korean Baseball discussion.
                • An explanation of the difference between rounders and baseball. More interestingly, a website dedicated to explaining the difference between things! WHAT?
                • The movie KAthryn waas thinking of was Lagaan but, there are a lot of Bollywood Cricket movies. Don't take our word for it, open up your local streaming service and find out for yourself! Streaming Rainbow.

                  • Music by: | Silence Is Sexy | BLAMMOS |

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                • Brunch

                  On this very special podcast anniversary, Encyclopedia Brunch cordially invites you to a celebratory encyclopedia... brunch. Join us as we talk all about what is easily one of the top 3 portmanteau meals (facing stiff competition from linner and bridnight snack).

                  • Missives from the 2014 Brunch Thinkpiecepocolyspe:
                    • Brunch Is For Jerks
                    • Don't Diss The Beauty Of Brunch: Defending Our Favorite Meal
                    • The Problem With Brunch Isn't The Jerks. It's That It Ruins Lunch.
                  • Kathryn's Hollandaise Sauce Recipe:
                    • Ingredients:
                      • 5 Tbs butter
                      • 1 Lemon
                      • 4-6 oz lowfat sour cream
                      • 1 T water
                      • 4 egg yolks
                      • 1/2 tsp paprika
                    • To make sauce:
                      1. Whisk egg yolks and lemon juice together
                      2. Boil a pot of water and pour eggs/lemon mix in mixing bowl and set over boiling water
                      3. Keep whisking. Mix melted butter and sour cream together and add slowly
                      4. Keep whisking until sauce thickens. Add water water for consistency Add paprika

                  Music by: | Barrence Whitfield & The Savages | BLAMMOS |

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                • Short - Dorms

                  This week Tim and Kathryn can't wait to be podcast roommates with you! We're all gonna be best friends! Please don't leave your clothes there. Also, your candles are bothering us.

                  Music by: | BLAMMOS |

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                • Honey

                  This week we're talking about a fantastic natural sweetener! Delicious, sticky, hard to mix into things, and made with a weird regurgitation process involving bees - honey truly has it all. Try this longtime favorite of bears today!

                  • The honeyguide wants to help you find a beehive. Learn how to take advantage of this handy mutualism with this Science article
                  • Also, hey, that bit about the McElroy's at the beginning is in good fun. They're great, obvs.

                    • Music by: | Pau RIba | BLAMMOS |

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                  • Ducks

                    This week's much anticipated topic, Ducks! Tim: A vociferous fan of the quack. Kathryn: A stalwart anti-duck activist. Will these two reconcile their differences?

                    • In 2008, Radio Lab did a real cool story about Ducks.

                      • Music by: | Kevin MacLeod | BLAMMOS |

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