Strider looks back a century's time to see what was going down? What was 2021 the year of? What will 2021 be the year of? Strider is thinking it's gonna be aliens dude? We need something to unite us. Hopefully it's chill aliens that can teach us how to be legit. If 2020, and the first week of 2021 are any indicator... seems anything could go down.

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wikipedia.org, thepeoplehistory.com, history.com, onthisday.com

Strider had no idea what a credenza was before he met his dank GF. One could say he has been in a love triangle ever since. The credenza, thought by most to be a simple corridor adornment is the center piece of Strider and his dank GF's abode. Listen and learn all about the Dank Denza and similar pieces we so often identify incorrectly.

Sources:

Edx.org ‘Tangible Things: Discovering History Though Artwork, Artifacts, Scientific Specimens and The Stuff Around You’, Dictionary.com, Furniturewholesalers.com, Elledecor.com, 1stdibs.com, Webstaurantstore.com, Wikipedia.org

A lot of people just won their leagues this week. A lot more didn't. Strider is a constituent of the latter. Leaving all emotion and hard feelings out of it, Strider shares his research on the medium of camaraderie and competition that we all love and hate some much.

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Sproutsocial.com ‘Social Media and the Rise of Fantasy Sports’ by Kayla Lee, Onthisday.com, Wikipedia.org, Inquirer.com ‘Scoring points in the first fantasy football league Circuit began in Oakland in 1963’ by Ed Barkowitz, Footballdiehards.com ‘Letterhead From The Commissioner Bill Winkenbach A NOD(and a wink) To The Founders Of Fantasy Football’ by Bob Harris and Emil Kadlec

You know you've seen these graphic T's being sported by a dude in jean shorts on vacation standing next to his son who is sunburnt wearing the same T. Strider is for sure fired up that people are on vacation, but what is it about these shirts? Why were they such a hit? Where did they come from? Do people still wear them? What is going on!?

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Bigdogs.com, ‘No Fear of the Big Dogs: An Ode to the Forgotten Graphic T-shirts of the 90’s’ By Brendan Gallagher 

Theoutline.com ‘How A Big Dog Became a Symbol For White, Male America’ by Alex Ronan

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When you're posted up watching a dank movie like Braveheart or Kingdom Of Heaven the director's roadshow or any period piece really... the executioner is always a dude who looks like a former offensive lineman who maybe played D-2 college ball wearing a hood with a huge axe. In this episode Strider searches for a better understanding of the person not the position by removing the veil to find out a little more about the men behind the mask. If they even wore them at all...

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Livescience.com ‘What was It Like to Be an Executioner in the Middle Ages?’ by Emma Bryce, ‘A Hangman’s Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg. 1573-1617’ by Franz Schmidt, Wikipedia.org, Berlinbooks.org ‘God’s Executioner’ by Joel Harrington, History.co.uk Execution in the Middle Ages

Robert Smalls possessed the boldness and courage we all wish we had. His story is one for the ages, and it just begins with him hi-jacking a Confederate battle ship and navigating his way to freedom. He then went on to do even better things. This is a purely stoke inducing ep!

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Wikipedia.org, History.com, Pbs.org ‘Which Slave Sailed Himself to Freedom?” by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Smithsonianmag.com ‘The Thrilling tale of how Rober Small Seized a Confederate Ship and Sailed it to Freedom’ by Cate Lineberry 

Strider has paraphrased the wise and true words of Winston Churchill many times and he will do it again, "there is something about the outside of a horse that is dank for the inside of man." Well what about when those who use their backs to drive herds use poetry to dive deep and be heard? Cowboys writing and reciting poetry! Dank.

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Wikipedia.org, ‘Places With the Largest Horse Populations’ by Dorothy Stephenson , ‘The Lesser-known History of African-American Cowboys’ by Kate Nojimbadem smithsonianmag.org, Nationalcowboypoetrygathering.org, ‘On the Trail of Cowboy Poetry’ by David Stanley, Westminster College

Not only was Dan Sickles the shmole of the Battle of Gettysburg, he was the first person in U.S. history to get away with murder because of, "Temporary Insanity!" How did that come to be? How can a guy with the word, sick, in his name be a such a renob?

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History.com, TimeLife Magazine ‘The Civil War: Generals in the Field’, Battlefields.org, Essentialciviwarcurriculum.com ‘Biography of Dan Sickles” by James A. Hessler

Episode topic suggested via email by Matt Conte. Thank you!

What to do IPAs and IRAs have in common? The short answer: time is your most valuable asset. IPA's, like IRAs get danker over time. Both are meant to be enjoyed slowly over time. Strider explores this Christopher Nolan style time oriented connection and much more.

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Wkipedia.org, Theguardian.com “Empire of Booze” by Henry Jeffreys - raising British spirits, Allaboutbeer.com, Ratebeer.com, Ndtco.com, schwab.com, Allagash.com, drinkinginamerica.com

With a name like STOKEsosaurus how can it not be the dankest dinosaur to ever walk the Earth? One has to imagine this ancient lizard was posting up on the beach in the Yucatan soaking up rays, making noises and chilling with its squad. Just to be sure though, Strider performed a little research.

Sources: Dinosaurpictures.org, Wikipedia.org, Prehistoric-wildlife.com, Sciencekids.com, ageofdinosaurs.com