If you have a pulse, chances are you have eaten a snack food that was covered in a nuclear orange, cheese flavored powder.  You have probably also eaten the BBQ drenched, pork ribs-shaped meat patty known as the McRib.  These two items are actually the culmination of who bits of advanced technology:  Dehydrated cheese and […]

How The Military Designed Our Food If you are an average American, you are extremely familiar with energy bars, frozen food, and soup in a can, but do you know where each of these technologies originated?  If you said “The military because they helped design our food”, you would be correct!  You are also great […]

If you are an average American, you are extremely familiar with energy bars, frozen food, and soup in a can, but do you know where each of these technologies originated?  If you said “The military because they helped design our food”, you would be correct!  You are also great at reading because that is the […]

What happened to Gary after the bike ride?  Was it all champagne and congratulatory handshakes?  For a while yeah, but his body had been doing one thing all day for 40 days and it took a toll.  Listen as he recounts what happened in the weeks that followed his ride.

At 58, Gary Wietgrefe heard a story in a bar about a 70 year old who biked all the way from South Dakota to Alaska.  Always seeking a challenge, he kept this in his mind and finally accomplished this feat when he was 65!  We discuss his 2997 mile journey, including why he choose North […]

At 58, Gary Wietgrefe heard a story in a bar about a 70 year old who biked all the way from South Dakota to Alaska.  Always seeking a challenge, he kept this in his mind and finally accomplished this feat when he was 65!  We discuss his 2997 mile journey, including why he choose North […]

Given that Stephen King’s career spans 6 decades and hundreds of stories, chances are you have read one in your lifetime.  You might even have a favorite.  His horror stories usually have a supernatural element to them, but that does not make them exempt from scientific scrutiny.  Author Meg Hafdahl is known as a fiction […]

Given that Stephen King’s career spans 6 decades and hundreds of stories, chances are you have read one in your lifetime.  You might even have a favorite.  His horror stories usually have a supernatural element to them, but that does not make them exempt from scientific scrutiny.  Author Meg Hafdahl is known as a fiction […]

We have discussed real life superheroes a lot lately, but in this bonus episode we discuss the original:  The Fox.  Dave Hoekstra was recruited by The Fox while he was in high school, and for a summer he fought the good fight against greedy corporations that were polluting the famous Fox River.  Listen as Dave […]

This episode is very timely, as I just visited Slab City for my birthday.  Why is this important?  Because Slab City is the last true free place in America!  You can pull up an RV, and live life off grid along side several other like-minded individuals.  In this episode, Dave Hoekstra discusses his book “The […]