Goff's 3 Minute Histories

Summa Summa Summa Time!  

Sources:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/debunking-myth-summer-vacation

http://mentalfloss.com/article/56901/why-do-students-get-summers

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Fun to play with, not to eat.  

Sources:

https://www.museumofplay.org/blog/play-stuff/2016/11/the-history-of-play-doh-good-clean-fun

https://playdoh.hasbro.com/en-us/faq

http://mentalfloss.com/article/52727/10-fun-facts-about-play-doh

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  Radar, Rumors, and Root Vegetables

Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-wwii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-that-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark-28812484/

https://www.allaboutvision.com/nutrition/vitamin_a.htm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/carrots-are-orange-for-an-entirely-political-reason/2011/09/09/gIQAfayiFK_blog.html?utm_term=.dbc78e548b31

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Orange Oranges and which was first.

Sources:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/everything-you-know-is-wrong-oranges-aren-t-orange-1097312640

http://mentalfloss.com/article/29942/which-came-first-orange-color-or-orange-fruit

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/qi/8345477/QI-Quite-interesting-facts-about-orange.html

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

What's in a name?

  Sources: 

http://mentalfloss.com/article/58440/why-do-we-have-middle-names

https://www.rd.com/culture/why-do-we-have-middle-names/

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Podcast #4 on #2.

Pt. 4 of the Turd Trilogy.  

SPECIAL GUEST DWIGHT GOFF!!!!!

Sources:

https://www.lancasterfarming.com/pondering-the-privy-a-history-of-outhouses/article_3f416eae-d0df-5d7f-9e70-3fcfb72a110a.html

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It's a crappy job but somebody's gotta do it.  

Pt. 3 of the Turd Trilogy

Sources:

https://www.lancasterfarming.com/pondering-the-privy-a-history-of-outhouses/article_3f416eae-d0df-5d7f-9e70-3fcfb72a110a.html

https://www.nonfictionminute.org/the-nonfiction-minute/gong-farmers-their-crop-was-crap

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 Corncobs, seashells, moss, hands, we've come a long way in our search for a better way to wipe.   Pt. 2 of the Turd Trilogy

Sources:

https://www.lancasterfarming.com/pondering-the-privy-a-history-of-outhouses/article_3f416eae-d0df-5d7f-9e70-3fcfb72a110a.html

https://www.charmin.com/en-us/about-us/history-of-toilet-paper

http://mentalfloss.com/article/23210/toilet-paper-history-how-america-convinced-world-wipe

http://www.toiletpaperhistory.net/toilet-paper-history/history-of-toilet-paper/

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/07/toilet-paper-wasnt-commonly-used-in-the-united-states-until-the-early-20th-century/

http://www.searsarchives.com/catalogs/history.htm

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Dropping some knowledge on the Porcelain Pony.   

Pt. 1 of the Turd Trilogy.  

Special Thanks to Tyler Booth for help in recording audio effects for this episode. 

Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/turrets-toilets-partial-history-throne-room-180951788/

http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1940525,00.html

https://www.lancasterfarming.com/pondering-the-privy-a-history-of-outhouses/article_3f416eae-d0df-5d7f-9e70-3fcfb72a110a.html

https://phys.org/news/2015-11-toilets-sewers-ancient-roman-sanitation.html

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