Cool Stuff Ride Home

Mon. 10/25 - Music That Gives You Chills, and Why It Does


Listen Later

The countercultural witchcraft music of the 1960s, and a study exploring what it is about certain songs that give us a spine-tingling chill. Plus, elephants in Mozambique have evolved to be born without tusks. And the guy who discovered a budget hack for spending just $150 on meals all year: eat every meal at Six Flags.

Sponsor:

  • NetSuite, netsuite.com/kottke

Links:

13 Vintage Halloween Songs from the 1910's, 20's, & 30's (History Tea Time with Lindsay Holiday, YouTube)
  • A Look Back at America's Psychedelic Countercultural Witch Music (Atlas Obscura)
  • The Munsters - At Home With The Munsters - Vinyl LP (Rough Trade)
  • Researchers analyzed 700-plus songs known to give people chills. Here’s the playlist (Quartz)
  • Songs To Give You Chills playlist (Quartz, Spotify)
  • Tuskless Elephants Escape Poachers, but May Evolve New Problems (NY Times)
  • Poaching drove the evolution of tusk-free elephants (Ars Technica)
  • Meet the Guy Who Spends Just $150 a Year to Eat All His Meals at Six Flags (Mel Magazine)
  • Iron-stomached man discovers savings benefits of eating meals at a Six Flags par (A/V Club)
  • Kottke.Org
  • Jackson Bird on Twitter
  • See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store

    Cool Stuff Ride HomeBy Cool Stuff Ride Home

    • 4.6
    • 4.6
    • 4.6
    • 4.6
    • 4.6

    4.6

    729 ratings


    More shows like Cool Stuff Ride Home

    View all
    Stuff You Should Know by iHeartPodcasts

    Stuff You Should Know

    78,278 Listeners

    Freakonomics Radio by Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

    Freakonomics Radio

    32,081 Listeners

    Hidden Brain by Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

    Hidden Brain

    43,557 Listeners

    Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! by NPR

    Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

    38,789 Listeners

    NPR News Now by NPR

    NPR News Now

    14,349 Listeners

    PBS News Hour - Full Show by PBS NewsHour

    PBS News Hour - Full Show

    2,384 Listeners

    WSJ What’s News by The Wall Street Journal

    WSJ What’s News

    4,359 Listeners

    BrainStuff by iHeartPodcasts

    BrainStuff

    1,637 Listeners

    Science Friday by Science Friday and WNYC Studios

    Science Friday

    6,355 Listeners

    Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio by Milk Street Radio

    Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

    2,984 Listeners

    Up First from NPR by NPR

    Up First from NPR

    56,382 Listeners

    Tech Brew Ride Home by Morning Brew

    Tech Brew Ride Home

    968 Listeners

    Fiction - Comedy Fiction by The Sunset Explorers

    Fiction - Comedy Fiction

    6,448 Listeners

    People I (Mostly) Admire by Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

    People I (Mostly) Admire

    2,109 Listeners

    The Atlas Obscura Podcast by SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura

    The Atlas Obscura Podcast

    1,712 Listeners