Hats All We Know

Ho Ho Ho! Join us for a Christmas special where we discuss that hat of Sinterklaas, why no one should be angry about Xmas, the most played Christmas album each year, and finally that Chris knows a little too much about Charlie Brown Christmas. Enjoy!

Our favorite Christmas songs: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4MU3nHll7SlIeryEkzxaNZ?si=leuk8E9jRrKamGrZ9oIilQ

For More Information:

Sinterklass:https://www.stnicholascenter.org/around-the-world/customs/netherlands
Mitre hats: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10404a.htm

Xmas: https://www.vox.com/2014/12/14/7374401/jesus-xmas-christmas

Top Christmas Songs: https://mobilesyrup.com/2020/11/20/spotify-christmas-music-2020-october/
Mere Exposure Effect: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03201171.pdf

Join us for a truly mind breaking episode as we talk about tin foil hats and if they help stop mind reading. Chris then just goes all in with conspiracies for most the episode. Next we discuss why the Wright brothers chose Kitty Hawk, NC for their flight, and a strange hill that they flew from. David hadn't geeked out enough recently as we talk about snowflakes, and finally a state in which you can hunt unicorns and the rules for hunting them. 

For more information: 

Tin Foil Hats: https://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

First Flight: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-airplane-flies

Snowflakes: https://geology.com/articles/snowflakes/
https://phys.org/news/2012-09-chemists-smallest-molecules-ice-crystal.html

Unicorns: https://www.lssu.edu/traditions/unicornhunters/

Join us as we ride our way through the history of Cowboy hats, an island that was a testing site during WWII and Chris doesn't want to visit a haunted island, the video game with the most copies sold in history that David doesn't enjoy, and Chris getting distracted by clouds and we mention the one and only thagomizer. Enjoy! 

For More Information:

Stetson: https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/explore/history-of-the-cowboy-hat/

Banned Island: https://www.scotsman.com/regions/inverness-highlands-and-islands/scottish-anthrax-island-poisoned-government-633739

Top Video Game: https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/bestselling-games-of-all-time/
History of Tetris: https://tetris.com/history-of-tetris

Clouds: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/49786/how-much-does-cloud-weigh

Join us for a real mystery of an episode. This week we discuss Sherlock Holmes's Hat and learn David knows as much about Sherlock Holmes as Chris does Bigfoot. Then we go through the science of airplane food, how cats learned to meow, and crazy people that catch pythons with hands. 

For More information:

Sherlock Holmes (Deerstalker) Hat: https://bakerstreet.fandom.com/wiki/Deerstalker

Airplane Food: https://thepointsguy.com/2017/06/the-science-of-airplane-food/

Cat purrs and meows to get attention: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(09)01168-3#secd3810089e89 
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2002/05/meow-isnt-language-enough-manage-humans
List of most owned Pets: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-most-popular-animals-owned-as-pets-in-the-us.html

Burmese Pythons in the Everglades: https://www.sfwmd.gov/our-work/python-program

Happy Thanksgiving! Join us for our Thanksgiving episode as we discuss Native American headdresses, why on Earth the US president pardons a turkey every year, deep frying turkey mishaps, and just how much Americans eat on this national holiday.

For More Information:

Native American Headdresses: http://www.native-languages.org/headdresses.htm

Presidential Turkey Pardons: https://www.history.com/news/a-brief-history-of-the-presidential-turkey-pardon

Deep Fryer Turkey Fires: https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Publications-and-media/Press-Room/News-releases/2018/Thanksgiving-is-by-far-the-leading-day-for-US-home-cooking-fires
Insurance Claims for Thanksgiving: https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/top-5-states-with-most-deep-fried-turkey-accidents

Thanksgiving Dinner Calorie Count: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/calories-americans-eat-thanksgiving/story?id=43690796

Join us for our sportsball episode.  Don't worry it's not just American football and baseball questions. Instead we discuss the origins of hat tricks, why curling is the best winter Olympic sport, just how cool sepak takraw is, and Lance Armstrong not being the first to cheat during the Tour de France. 


For more information:

Hat Tricks: NHL - https://www.nhl.com/news/hat-trick-traces-its-history-back-to-19th-century/c-291661800
H.H. Stephenson - https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/hat-trick-the-origins-of-the-term-197251

Curling: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/527261/10-cool-facts-about-curling

Sepak Tekraw video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MyTJopbo4Y&vl=en

Tour de France: https://mpora.com/road-cycling/history-of-cheating-tour-de-france/

Join us for a light hearted episode. We discuss jester hat's, why sending bombs in the mail is bad and Chris can't just go light hearted, how comics influence dinosaurs, and lastly constitutional amendments that fail to impress your professor.


For more information:

Jesters and Fools: https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/640914.html

Ted Kaczynski: https://www.history.com/topics/crime/unabomber-ted-kaczynski#section_6

Thagomizer: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/watch-out-for-that-thagomizer-98891562/

Amendment: https://www.history.com/news/the-strange-case-of-the-27th-amendment

Join us for a Halloween based episode. We discuss witches hat's, haunted dolls, a monk and the devil, and lastly demons, why 2020 has been 2020, and Ouija boards. You may not want to listen to this one alone at night.

Chapter Markings:
Witch's Hats [0:15]
Haunted Dolls [7:14]
Codex Gigas [14:16]
Ouija Board Demon [23:32]
Thank you for Listening [32:32]

Join us as we discuss the opera hat, the first presidential debate, African talking drums, and the third worst nuclear disaster.

For More Information:

Opera Hat: https://historyonyourhead.com/the-gibus/

Presidential Debates: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/app/uploads/2015/12/HANDOUT-4-HISTORY-OF-DEBATES.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiqn4-P0cvsAhVWoHIEHZaYDTMQFjAVegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw0XYsjKYu1NkvunKUIxl5XB

African Talking Drums: https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/01/04/inside-africa-yoruba-culture-spc-c.cnn
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-talking-drums-29197334/

The Kyshtym Disaster: https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2017-10-the-worst-nuclear-disaster-youve-never-heard-of-celebrates-its-60th-birthday