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  • The 25 Coolest Things We Discovered in 2016
    It's not just us right? There are too many damn movies and TV shows to keep up with. When we're not in the middle of a season of Game of Thrones, Westworld, Silicon Valley, Stranger Things, or House of Cards, there are always 40 other shows just waiting to get started. If only you were ready to make the commitment. Your girlfriend wants you to propose but you can't even commit to Six Feet Under, let alone the next 60 years of your life.This glut of TV shows we're experiencing completely fails to lack the steady stream of quality movies coming out not only in the US but all around the world. And the surplus of movies doesn't even address how behind you are on music. Open up Spotify or look at the next festival lineup and you can barely recognize a third of the bands there. And we're not being old fogies complaining about music these days-- most of these bands are good-- we just can't keep up with them. 21 Pilots, 21 Savage, 21 Scarecrows. Only one of those band names is completely made up.So to give a little order to this exponentially insane world, Jack O'Brien is joined by Cracked editors Soren Bowie and Jason Pargin (aka David Wong) to talk about some of their favorite they discovered in 2016. They commiserate about the superabundance of content and Soren gives some completely unsolicited home improvement advice.Our next live podcast is on Saturday, January 14th at 7pm at the UCB Sunset Theatre in Los Angeles. Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark from 'My Favorite Murder' are back for another hour of creepy unsolved murders and even creepier solved ones. Tickets are $5 and on sale soon at sunset.ucbtheatre.com ( https://goo.gl/UNy5YF )Footnotes:Website: Pandora -- Search Standup:  https://goo.gl/tXZB Video: Youtube FanFest:  https://goo.gl/RhW2jK Netflix: John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid:  https://goo.gl/EPZMWF HBO: Pete Holmes: Faces and Sounds:  https://goo.gl/zIxXV4 Album: Kyle Kinane: Loose in Chicago:  https://goo.gl/UYTPsS Netflix: Michael Che Matters:  https://goo.gl/TiM4Jm Video: Dave Chappele SNL Monologue:  https://goo.gl/5D6dB0 Website: Nextdoor:  https://goo.gl/R1XSI Video: Red Letter Media: Wheel of the Worst #11:  https://goo.gl/zYUXeo YouTube: Jim Sterling:  https://goo.gl/r4SguC Wikipedia: Square Screws:  https://goo.gl/uGtgQY Amazon: Wet Vacuums: https://goo.gl/auLfij The Elf on the Shelf:  https://goo.gl/I9CJ0P Screenplay: Monsters, Inc:  https://goo.gl/71xVcx Video: Train to Busan (Trailer):  https://goo.gl/4Zbxfo Video: I Saw The Devil (Trailer):  https://goo.gl/6ojCqo Netflix: Amanda Knox:  https://goo.gl/y4LTOa Netflix: David Blaine: Real or Magic?:  https://goo.gl/olbb48 Netflix: Planet Earth:  https://goo.gl/vrZwiE Video: Bill Burr Makes a Pie Crust:  https://goo.gl/rJ5CV8 Netflix: F is for Family:  https://goo.gl/Cnokr6 Website: Stitcher:  https://goo.gl/R5h4rX Podcast: Science Vs:  https://goo.gl/Fa4g7D Podcast: Doughboys:  https://goo.gl/idq8zm Podcast: The Bill Simmons Podcast with Andy Cohen:  https://goo.gl/ok3LTs Video Game: The Last Guardian:  https://goo.gl/PTRsMj Video: Robyn "Call Your Girlfriend" on SNL:  https://goo.gl/CC2ozz Video: Chance the Rapper "Same Drugs" on SNL:  https://goo.gl/1TOJ3R This episode is brought to you by Squarespace (www.squarespace.com code: CRACKED) and I.T. is Greater Than Sci-Fi podcast (www.vmware.com/radius/scifi)
    2 hr 1 min
  • 2016 Year In Review in Review
    2016 is almost over. Yes the endless, rotten sh*t hurricane of a year that took awayBowie, Prince and Florence Henderson and gave us Trump, Harambe and the Zika virus is finally drawing to a close. So, to give this b*tch a proper viking funeral, Jack O'Brien is joined by Cracked's Cody Johnston, Daniel O'Brien and Alex Schmidt and comedian Caitlin Gill to review our culture's year-in-review process. They'll also shine a much needed light on some of the more overlooked stories from the year. For example, two-headed sharks keep appearing in our oceans and no one knows why. Even all the world's Bond villains are like, "don't look at us, we thought that was you." And Kim Kardashian! It feels like she's been on every magazine cover for the last 35 years and this year she got kidnapped at gunpoint and it barely raised an eyebrow. What is going on!?To wrap up the conversation, Jack and company share some of their favorite cultural things from the year and report from the future with a preview of our 2017 year in review.Footnotes:Article: Yahoo's Top Search Terms in 2016:  https://goo.gl/iD9lvm Video: Kanye Cancels Show And Slowly Floats Away:  https://goo.gl/P0rOQq Article: The Guardian: Google, Democracy and the Truth About Internet Search:  https://goo.gl/GtOx4J Video: Senator James Inhofe Brings a Snowball to Senate:  https://goo.gl/f3gSeP Article: The Telegraph: Russian Scientists Besieged By Pack of Polar Bears:  https://goo.gl/SWGXaY Article: National Geographic: Two-Headed Sharks Keep Popping Up and No One Knows Why:  https://goo.gl/DF725J Article: Slate: Texas GOP Rep Louie Gohmert Will Save Us From Gay Space Colonies:  https://goo.gl/vax51L Instagram: @major_hoolihan:  https://goo.gl/OMdJQh Video: Samantha Bee: Eddie Eagle:  https://goo.gl/LfLgtI Video: Samantha Bee: Trump Can't Read:  https://goo.gl/pl1Hi9 This episode is brought to you by LifeAfter podcast, Harry’s ( www.harrys.com code: CRACKED), I.T. is Greater Than Sci-Fi podcast, and Loot Crate ( www.lootcrate.com code: GIFTING15).
    1 hr 28 min
  • 2016 Year In Review in Review
    2016 is almost over. Yes the endless, rotten sh*t hurricane of a year that took awayBowie, Prince and Florence Henderson and gave us Trump, Harambe and the Zika virus is finally drawing to a close. So, to give this b*tch a proper viking funeral, Jack O'Brien is joined by Cracked's Cody Johnston, Daniel O'Brien and Alex Schmidt and comedian Caitlin Gill to review our culture's year-in-review process. They'll also shine a much needed light on some of the more overlooked stories from the year. For example, two-headed sharks keep appearing in our oceans and no one knows why. Even all the world's Bond villains are like, "don't look at us, we thought that was you." And Kim Kardashian! It feels like she's been on every magazine cover for the last 35 years and this year she got kidnapped at gunpoint and it barely raised an eyebrow. What is going on!?To wrap up the conversation, Jack and company share some of their favorite cultural things from the year and report from the future with a preview of our 2017 year in review.Footnotes:Article: Yahoo's Top Search Terms in 2016:  https://goo.gl/iD9lvm Video: Kanye Cancels Show And Slowly Floats Away:  https://goo.gl/P0rOQq Article: The Guardian: Google, Democracy and the Truth About Internet Search:  https://goo.gl/GtOx4J Video: Senator James Inhofe Brings a Snowball to Senate:  https://goo.gl/f3gSeP Article: The Telegraph: Russian Scientists Besieged By Pack of Polar Bears:  https://goo.gl/SWGXaY Article: National Geographic: Two-Headed Sharks Keep Popping Up and No One Knows Why:  https://goo.gl/DF725J Article: Slate: Texas GOP Rep Louie Gohmert Will Save Us From Gay Space Colonies:  https://goo.gl/vax51L Instagram: @major_hoolihan:  https://goo.gl/OMdJQh Video: Samantha Bee: Eddie Eagle:  https://goo.gl/LfLgtI Video: Samantha Bee: Trump Can't Read:  https://goo.gl/pl1Hi9 This episode is brought to you by LifeAfter podcast, Harry’s ( www.harrys.com code: CRACKED), I.T. is Greater Than Sci-Fi podcast, and Loot Crate ( www.lootcrate.com code: GIFTING15).
    1 hr 28 min
  • Movies That Teach Men Horrible Lessons About Sex
    You know how when you watch and old movie and there's a Y2K joke or a WAZZZZUUUP and you think, "man, this hasn't aged well." There's now a whole category of those movies that are just classically heroic dudes being absolute dicks to women. There's even a whole supercut ( https://goo.gl/ejmmDH)   of all the times James Bond hits women. Just Sean Connery slapping women left and right like he's Moe and every Bond girl is Larry and Curly.Now, hear us out on this, but there's a chance that images like this might have been hurting women instead of helping them. Crazy. Maybe normalizing violence against women or showing Harrison Ford literally whipping ( https://goo.gl/QRB2Gw)   Kate Capshaw into kissing him have given men unrealistic ideas about how things like consent work.This week Jack O'Brien brings on Carmen Angelica, Jason Pargin (aka David Wong) and Katy Stoll to talk about the modern-day minefield of consent, what movies have been getting wrong about it, why it's so easy for guys to get defensive about it and a female perspective on why it's so damn important.Footnotes:Carmen Angelica Twitter: https://goo.gl/ATcFbz Katy Stoll Twitter: https://goo.gl/FzYPCG Jason Pargin Twitter: https://goo.gl/pNcIwx Article: Cracked: 7 Reasons So Many Guys Don't Understand Sexual Consent: https://goo.gl/cNurtf Video: Cracked: How To Know If A Girl is DTF: https://goo.gl/bkx5dS Video: Han and Leia's First Kiss: https://goo.gl/HbzMm0 Article: Cracked: 5 Things Women Want Most: https://goo.gl/WsEPiR Article: Cracked: Everything A Woman Should Know Before She's Groped: https://goo.gl/pcyEbj Article: Cracked: 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained To Hate Women: https://goo.gl/UJtzh Article: New York Times: Nurse in V-J Day Photo Dies: https://goo.gl/KFxJci Article: Vice: I Want a Feminism Class for Boys: https://goo.gl/7YUFf1 This episode is brought to you by I.T. is Greater Than Sci-Fir ( www.VMware.com/radius/scifi ), Foot Cardigan ( www.footcardigan.com code: HOLIDAY16), The Bouqs ( www.bouqs.com code: CRACKED), and Indochino ( www.indochino.com code: CRACKED).
    1 hr 41 min
  • Movies That Teach Men Horrible Lessons About Sex
    You know how when you watch and old movie and there's a Y2K joke or a WAZZZZUUUP and you think, "man, this hasn't aged well." There's now a whole category of those movies that are just classically heroic dudes being absolute dicks to women. There's even a whole supercut ( https://goo.gl/ejmmDH)   of all the times James Bond hits women. Just Sean Connery slapping women left and right like he's Moe and every Bond girl is Larry and Curly.Now, hear us out on this, but there's a chance that images like this might have been hurting women instead of helping them. Crazy. Maybe normalizing violence against women or showing Harrison Ford literally whipping ( https://goo.gl/QRB2Gw)   Kate Capshaw into kissing him have given men unrealistic ideas about how things like consent work.This week Jack O'Brien brings on Carmen Angelica, Jason Pargin (aka David Wong) and Katy Stoll to talk about the modern-day minefield of consent, what movies have been getting wrong about it, why it's so easy for guys to get defensive about it and a female perspective on why it's so damn important.Footnotes:Carmen Angelica Twitter: https://goo.gl/ATcFbz Katy Stoll Twitter: https://goo.gl/FzYPCG Jason Pargin Twitter: https://goo.gl/pNcIwx Article: Cracked: 7 Reasons So Many Guys Don't Understand Sexual Consent: https://goo.gl/cNurtf Video: Cracked: How To Know If A Girl is DTF: https://goo.gl/bkx5dS Video: Han and Leia's First Kiss: https://goo.gl/HbzMm0 Article: Cracked: 5 Things Women Want Most: https://goo.gl/WsEPiR Article: Cracked: Everything A Woman Should Know Before She's Groped: https://goo.gl/pcyEbj Article: Cracked: 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained To Hate Women: https://goo.gl/UJtzh Article: New York Times: Nurse in V-J Day Photo Dies: https://goo.gl/KFxJci Article: Vice: I Want a Feminism Class for Boys: https://goo.gl/7YUFf1 This episode is brought to you by I.T. is Greater Than Sci-Fir ( www.VMware.com/radius/scifi ), Foot Cardigan ( www.footcardigan.com code: HOLIDAY16), The Bouqs ( www.bouqs.com code: CRACKED), and Indochino ( www.indochino.com code: CRACKED).
    1 hr 41 min
  • Lives Trump Has Promised To Ruin In His First 100 Days
    In the past few weeks, we've written about not panicking, why you should absolutely panic, and just about everything in between when it comes to the Trump presidency. One thing we haven't quite touched on yet is how real life actual people will be affected by the changes he promised to make during his campaign. One thing Trump already promised to do is repeal an Obama executive order called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.  DACA allows children who were brought here illegally (keyword: children) to gain somewhat-legal status; protection from deportation, a social security card, in exchange for staying out of trouble and being an active part of the workforce. These are law-abiding, tax-paying young adults whose home country for all intents and purposes is America. A lot of them don't even know the know the language spoken in their country of origin. The shittiest thing is these people might be the first to be deported because they had the unmitigated gall to actively try to live in the United States legally.Robert Evans and Tom Reimann grab the reigns of the podcast this week and have conversations with a potential victim of the removal of DACA, a transgender woman whose medications may no longer be covered, and an army vet whose parents are immigrants to talk about the scary world they've been suddenly thrust into. Later a British journalist joins to talk about the parallels to Brexit and why we might soon see fascist vs. anti-fascist fighting in the streets, and how it could look.If your life has been concretely or irrevocably changed by the new administration, we want to hear your story. Email us at  [email protected] .Footnotes:NYT: Former Head of Homeland Security on DACA:  https://goo.gl/kUt7GP Complex: Trans People Rushing to get Gender-Affirming Surgery Before Trump:  https://goo.gl/4Ie3M6 The Guardian: Fascist/Anti-Fascist Fight in Dover:  https://goo.gl/HWOd8b VICE: More Fascist/Anti-Fascist Fighting:  https://goo.gl/uNWTZO Southern Poverty Law Center: Hate & Extremism Statistics:  https://goo.gl/5OPBdj Also make sure to buy tickets to our next LIVE podcast taping on Saturday, December 10th at the UCB Sunset Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Jack and the crew will be giving a much needed, "good riddance" to the year 2016 with our annual Year In Review In Review. The Cracked staff and some special guests will fill in the gaps where most of of the other 'Years In Review' leave out half of the story. Tickets are only $5 and available here:  https://goo.gl/zMwKua This episode is brought to you by Squarespace ( www.squarespace.com code: CRACKED), Foot Cardigan ( www.footcardigan.com code: HOLIDAY16), Casper Mattresses ( www.casper.com/cracked code: cracked), and Loot Crate ( www.lootcrate.com/cracked code: CRACKED).
    1 hr 26 min
  • Lives Trump Has Promised To Ruin In His First 100 Days
    In the past few weeks, we've written about not panicking, why you should absolutely panic, and just about everything in between when it comes to the Trump presidency. One thing we haven't quite touched on yet is how real life actual people will be affected by the changes he promised to make during his campaign. One thing Trump already promised to do is repeal an Obama executive order called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.  DACA allows children who were brought here illegally (keyword: children) to gain somewhat-legal status; protection from deportation, a social security card, in exchange for staying out of trouble and being an active part of the workforce. These are law-abiding, tax-paying young adults whose home country for all intents and purposes is America. A lot of them don't even know the know the language spoken in their country of origin. The shittiest thing is these people might be the first to be deported because they had the unmitigated gall to actively try to live in the United States legally.Robert Evans and Tom Reimann grab the reigns of the podcast this week and have conversations with a potential victim of the removal of DACA, a transgender woman whose medications may no longer be covered, and an army vet whose parents are immigrants to talk about the scary world they've been suddenly thrust into. Later a British journalist joins to talk about the parallels to Brexit and why we might soon see fascist vs. anti-fascist fighting in the streets, and how it could look.If your life has been concretely or irrevocably changed by the new administration, we want to hear your story. Email us at  [email protected] .Footnotes:NYT: Former Head of Homeland Security on DACA:  https://goo.gl/kUt7GP Complex: Trans People Rushing to get Gender-Affirming Surgery Before Trump:  https://goo.gl/4Ie3M6 The Guardian: Fascist/Anti-Fascist Fight in Dover:  https://goo.gl/HWOd8b VICE: More Fascist/Anti-Fascist Fighting:  https://goo.gl/uNWTZO Southern Poverty Law Center: Hate & Extremism Statistics:  https://goo.gl/5OPBdj Also make sure to buy tickets to our next LIVE podcast taping on Saturday, December 10th at the UCB Sunset Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Jack and the crew will be giving a much needed, "good riddance" to the year 2016 with our annual Year In Review In Review. The Cracked staff and some special guests will fill in the gaps where most of of the other 'Years In Review' leave out half of the story. Tickets are only $5 and available here:  https://goo.gl/zMwKua This episode is brought to you by Squarespace ( www.squarespace.com code: CRACKED), Foot Cardigan ( www.footcardigan.com code: HOLIDAY16), Casper Mattresses ( www.casper.com/cracked code: cracked), and Loot Crate ( www.lootcrate.com/cracked code: CRACKED).
    1 hr 26 min
  • 14 Psych Myths We Learned From Movies That Are Totally False
    It's pretty safe to say that after years of Sherlock Holmes adaptations and countless CBS crime procedurals (he was the supreme leader of a cult, but now he's leading the Supreme Court!) most people with a pretty steady diet of TV and movies think they're pretty good armchair psychologists.If you learn of a prison riot on the news, you'll cite the Stanford prison experiment and claim that we're all just a baton and a uniform away from turning into monsters. If the news later reports of a man who stabbed his mother, you'll find a Freudian explanation for the crime that speaks of Oedipal repressed sexuality and the phallic nature of stabbings. Bad news: turns out everything you learned about psychology from the shiny little box in the center of your living room isn't totally accurate. Not only do movies and TV shows take giant liberties with how psychology works, the psych field itself has a hard time getting out of its own way: studies can be biased for multiple reasons, the replication crisis impedes the verification of discoveries and news outlets only report on the grabbiest psych headlines and and skew the truth.So on this week's podcast, we're putting a bunch of psych myths in a straight jacket, tossing them in a padded room and throwing away the key. Cracked's Jack O'Brien, Daniel O'Brien and Michael Swaim are joined by Peter McGraw, an expert in behavioral science and a marketing and psychology professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. They dispel pop-psych stories like the Milgram experiment, power posing and the Mozart effect.Also make sure to buy tickets to our next LIVE podcast taping on Saturday, December 10th at the UCB Sunset Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Jack and the crew will be giving a much needed, "good riddance" to the year 2016 with our annual Year In Review In Review. The Cracked staff and some special guests will fill in the gaps where most of of the other 'Years In Review' leave out half of the story. Tickets are only $5 and available here:  https://goo.gl/zMwKua Footnotes:Peter McGraw: https://goo.gl/IFYreS Video: Peter McGraw TED Talk: https://goo.gl/JzSR6T Article: Scientific American: Five Fallacies of Grief: https://goo.gl/dMLN8F Video: Elizabeth Loftus: How Reliable Is Your Memory: https://goo.gl/3PGGyq Video: Derren Brown Conversational  Hypnosis: https:// goo.gl/AwvHw5 Article: The Atlantic: Questioning The Milgram Experiment: https://goo.gl/X1nZVc Article: New York Magazine: Is There an Antidote for Emotional Contagion: https://goo.gl/5rjrTK Article: New York Magazine: How the False Story of Kitty Genovese's Murder Went Viral: https://goo.gl/26EdLM Article: Cracked: 5 Ridiculous Lies You Probably Believe About Psychology (#3 Stanford Prison Experiment): https://goo.gl/HtM7wr Video: Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are (Power Posing TED Talk): https://goo.gl/7Y5nKC Article: Slate: The Power of the Power Pose: https://goo.gl/pd09xM Article: The Verge: The Mozart Effect Myth: https://goo.gl/CXBhrN Article: Wired: Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Highlights Risk of Red Herrings: https://goo.gl/zcZxUq Article: Cracked: 6 Mental Illness Myths Hollywood Wants You To Believe (#4 ECT Therapy is Torture): https://goo.gl/q3z4y This episode is brought to you by VMware, HUAWEI, The Bouqs, and MVMT Watches.
    1 hr 27 min
  • 14 Psych Myths We Learned From Movies That Are Totally False
    It's pretty safe to say that after years of Sherlock Holmes adaptations and countless CBS crime procedurals (he was the supreme leader of a cult, but now he's leading the Supreme Court!) most people with a pretty steady diet of TV and movies think they're pretty good armchair psychologists.If you learn of a prison riot on the news, you'll cite the Stanford prison experiment and claim that we're all just a baton and a uniform away from turning into monsters. If the news later reports of a man who stabbed his mother, you'll find a Freudian explanation for the crime that speaks of Oedipal repressed sexuality and the phallic nature of stabbings. Bad news: turns out everything you learned about psychology from the shiny little box in the center of your living room isn't totally accurate. Not only do movies and TV shows take giant liberties with how psychology works, the psych field itself has a hard time getting out of its own way: studies can be biased for multiple reasons, the replication crisis impedes the verification of discoveries and news outlets only report on the grabbiest psych headlines and and skew the truth.So on this week's podcast, we're putting a bunch of psych myths in a straight jacket, tossing them in a padded room and throwing away the key. Cracked's Jack O'Brien, Daniel O'Brien and Michael Swaim are joined by Peter McGraw, an expert in behavioral science and a marketing and psychology professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. They dispel pop-psych stories like the Milgram experiment, power posing and the Mozart effect.Also make sure to buy tickets to our next LIVE podcast taping on Saturday, December 10th at the UCB Sunset Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Jack and the crew will be giving a much needed, "good riddance" to the year 2016 with our annual Year In Review In Review. The Cracked staff and some special guests will fill in the gaps where most of of the other 'Years In Review' leave out half of the story. Tickets are only $5 and available here:  https://goo.gl/zMwKua Footnotes:Peter McGraw: https://goo.gl/IFYreS Video: Peter McGraw TED Talk: https://goo.gl/JzSR6T Article: Scientific American: Five Fallacies of Grief: https://goo.gl/dMLN8F Video: Elizabeth Loftus: How Reliable Is Your Memory: https://goo.gl/3PGGyq Video: Derren Brown Conversational  Hypnosis: https:// goo.gl/AwvHw5 Article: The Atlantic: Questioning The Milgram Experiment: https://goo.gl/X1nZVc Article: New York Magazine: Is There an Antidote for Emotional Contagion: https://goo.gl/5rjrTK Article: New York Magazine: How the False Story of Kitty Genovese's Murder Went Viral: https://goo.gl/26EdLM Article: Cracked: 5 Ridiculous Lies You Probably Believe About Psychology (#3 Stanford Prison Experiment): https://goo.gl/HtM7wr Video: Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are (Power Posing TED Talk): https://goo.gl/7Y5nKC Article: Slate: The Power of the Power Pose: https://goo.gl/pd09xM Article: The Verge: The Mozart Effect Myth: https://goo.gl/CXBhrN Article: Wired: Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Highlights Risk of Red Herrings: https://goo.gl/zcZxUq Article: Cracked: 6 Mental Illness Myths Hollywood Wants You To Believe (#4 ECT Therapy is Torture): https://goo.gl/q3z4y This episode is brought to you by VMware, HUAWEI, The Bouqs, and MVMT Watches.
    1 hr 27 min
  • Dispelling Every Space Myth You Learned In 7th Grade Science
    Believe it or not, Matthew McConaughey's thesis (from behind a bookshelf inside a black hole) that love is the most powerful force in the universe isn't the most scientifically accurate thing Hollywood has offered us lately. It should come as no surprise that movies take a lot of liberties with astrophysics and what is possible or impossible in the realm of outer space. Like, sending up a crew of men less qualified than Donald Trump (too soon?) to blow up an asteroid? That's probably not in NASA's Plans A through "we ran out of letters" of how to stop a meteor on a collision course with Earth. Even in more fantastical movies like the Star Wars or Star Trek films, you just get very inadequate image in your head of how space works. Take asteroid belts, for example. It's a belt! Made of asteroids! Asteroids as far as the eye can see! You can't safely pilot your ship through them because there are just so many damn asteroids! I've had it with these motherf**king asteroids on this motherf**king belt! We're sorry to say that's now how the asteroid belt works at all. The average distance between bodies in the asteroid belt is 600,000 miles, which is more than double the distance between the Earth and the Moon. So traveling through the asteroid belt is less dodging asteroids like Han Solo and more, "we passed through the asteroid belt?" To dispel some more myths about how space works, Jack O'Brien and Alex Schmidt are joined by Dr. Farah Alibay, a real life scientist at JPL who gets to play with styrofoam models of planets all day and is currently working on a mission that's trying to scoop a 2o-ton boulder off an asteroid, which is as cool as it sounds. Footnotes: Farah Alibay Bio : https://goo.gl/iM4NI7 Podcast: How NASA Was Born Out of Magic Loving, Orgy Having Nerds : https://goo.gl/sbSjcR  Video: To Scale - The Solar System : https://goo.gl/yxUggj GIF: Jupiter's Surface in Motion : https://goo.gl/BEUaJz Video: Pigeons in Space : https://goo.gl/H3Anrr Video: Spiders in Space : https://goo.gl/VrQQkJ  Video: Russian Meteor Reaction : https://goo.gl/R6WKTA Image Gallery: Cupola Module on the ISS : https://goo.gl/IJUO5U Article: The Drake Equation : https://goo.gl/rYZVzF Article: Myths Everyone Believes About Space (Thanks To Movies) : https://goo.gl/H0WiLF Article: Things About Space You're Picturing Almost Exactly Wrong : https://goo.gl/qDDpgn Article: Reasons Space Travel Will Always Suck : https://goo.gl/VfNZ Article: Reasons Life in Space Sucks (That Sci-Fi Doesn't Show You) : https://goo.gl/jNuONd Article: The Most Mind-Blowing Things Ever Discovered in Space : https://goo.gl/XztW9 Article: Real Planets Way Weirder Than Anything in Science Fiction : https://goo.gl/Rb6Yy6 Article: Mind-Blowing Things Found in Our Own Solar System : https://goo.gl/Azquk This episode is brought to you by Squarespace and MVMT Watches.
    1 hr 18 min

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