In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. But, where did he really go? Where did he think he went? Does he deserve all the credit he has accumulated? We're talking about the fundamentals of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.

We're back! ... mostly! Talking about the expansion of the McCarthy clan ... a precursor to our examination of Mormonism ... rumination on past topics, Infinite Jest, hyenas, Road Rules, COPS, evolution, future episodes, and more ...

Here we all are, back again. The table is set and the Bloosh™ is loose. We're talkin' horse races, TGIF™, Talkboy™, politics, ThighMaster™, oysters, Transformers™, Unsolved Mysteries™, DACA, Power Rangers™, and more ... 

Alex Jones and the pig people, Neanderthal blood, and a discussion about diet and health from our perspectives as 'meat-eater' and 'vegan'. Opinions! Documentaries! Facts? 

Darren's interest in the emerging issue of Chronic Wasting Disease in deer populations prompted a look at a similar and rare form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (sponge brain) in humans known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Its origins are mysterious, it is typically fatal within a year, and there is no cure ... *gulp*

A bonus conversation including the sudden death of Darren's coworker, getting his own life insurance, bullshit supplements, overcompensating with caffeine and sugar, the deaths of Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell, and a primer on the topic of the next episode ...

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Originally published August 2017. Remastered May 2025.

Heroin. Morphine. Codeine. Oxycodone. Fentanyl. On and on, the list of powerful and dangerous forms of natural opiates and synthetic opioids is long, and they have become a major liability for human beings. We talk about how it all started, what these drugs do, and how we found ourselves in an epidemic of misuse and death. And stats! Oh, do we have stats!

The Fundamentals of Opioids.

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Originally published July 2017. Remastered April 2025.

Everyone has their quirks. We, your humble hosts, certainly have our own neuroses. But, what categorizes behaviors under Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? We talk about various examples of how it manifests, treatments, and our own examples of questionable behaviors. Darren also shares a harrowing story of the last time he really cried ... because it's been a while and he may have one of those psychopath brains ...

The Fundamentals of OCD.

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Originally published June 2017. Remastered February 2025.

In this bonus conversion we talk about corruption in the Catholic Church, Bill Cosby, ISIS, the end times, the omnipotence of God ... it's actually a good time!

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Originally published July 2017. Remastered February 2025.

As the 5th leading cause of death in the U.S., a stroke kills someone every 4 minutes. And yet, 80% of occurrences are preventable. Special guest Neil Hunt joins us as we discuss the anatomy of a stroke, common causes, prevention, aftermath, as well as his own experience as a healthy 28-year-old suffering a stroke of relatively uncommon circumstance.

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Originally published May 2017. Remastered February 2025.