We discuss the gold discs on board the twin Voyager spacecrafts, and what those discs tell us about ourselves.

We talk about a surprising result of the Chicxulub Crater asteroid collision: the creation of the Amazon Rainforest.

We talk about the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, and the most famous victims of the Chicxulub Crater: the dinosaurs.

We talk about the formation of the Chicxulub Crater off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, and how the earth was impacted by it.

Two incidents in Pepsi’s history will both fill you with 90s nostalgia and leave you scratching your head. Hear about how Pepsi botched two prize games, one ending with deadly consequences.

We take a look at some of the zaniest solutions proposed in order to warn future civilizations about nuclear waste.

We begin a two-part episode about the craziest Wikipedia article that we have ever come across for this podcast. In this first part, we begin by discussing Yucca Mountain, a desert peak of Nevada which is a proposed location for the burial of large amounts of nuclear waste.

Salmagundi the sequel! Ryder, Race’s fourth least-favorite nephew, joins us for seven unrelated mini episodes! Go back and listen to our first grab bag episode to get in the spirit of assorted trivia!

We discuss Francis Scott Key’s poem, written on the back of some scrap paper, that became the US National Anthem, but not until over 100 years after it was written.

We end the series by synthesizing the context of the previous four episodes, and by listening to La Valse by Maurice Ravel in its entirety.