This Week In Worthless Knowledge

Johnny and the Truth are back with a semi-deep dive into Gregori Rasputin, the Russian religious zealot who managed to get extremely close to the gears of power using nothing but prayer, charisma, and possibly a foot long penis.  

The guys also examine Johnny's past as a juvenile petty criminal, the type of energy in the air before a Quizzo competition devolves into a huge orgy, and why Nat won't accept invitations to hang out with people at midnight.

All this and more on the Worthless Knowledge podcast--recently rebranded in the hopes that we would lose 90% of our audience!

Johnny and the Truth take a walk with you through history to the 1932 Olympics where they explain how simple it was to compete in international bobsled if you were a toothpaste heir.  

They also speculate how a vacation would go if it were free but you had to fight the amateur boxing champion of each country you went to.

In this episode the guys welcome comic Blake Wexler to help them break down exciting medical treatments from the past that we don't use anymore because of the liberals.  

On this episode JGT and Nat explore the unlikely rise to power and reign of Emperor Claudius.  They discuss the time he fought a killer whale in the harbor and some other questionable tactics he employed during his time at the top of the pile.  There is also lively banter concerning 1st century prosthetics and medical care in general, as well as how much more frequent poisonings were back then.  

All this and much. much more in this episode--subscribe and give us a rating (a good one preferably).

The guys are joined by co-host of the Philly Blunt podcast, Reef the Lost Cauze to discuss the fantastic 1930's anti-marijuana propaganda film "Reefer Madness".  In the course of the discussion, they touch on points ranging from the obvious (and less than obvious) perils of deadly marijuana, how much more likely they'd be to go to a movie if there was a mummified corpse in the lobby, poking sticks, and some of Nat's experiences when he was in the inaugural class of the DARE program.

You really don't want to miss this one.  (Imagine I just broke the 4th wall and pointed directly at you when I said that)

JGT and The Truth dive into the history of the Playboy Mansions.  The guys speak on the subject of used Playboy magazines and what you could expect to pay for them in the mid 1980's.  They discuss revolving (and vibrating) beds, having a smaller replica of your house next door, and what you should (and shouldn't) steal when you're looting a house.  They also talk about memories they have that may or may not be fictitious.

Remember 1980's pizza advertising icon The Noid?  Sure.  We all do.  Did you know that a man took a couple of hostages in a Domino's restaurant once because he felt the Noid ad campaign was targeted specifically at him?

Join Johnny and Nat as they welcome Chip Chantry.  Chip is the author of several best selling books on the Noid, ranging from the worldwide best seller "The Pizza Anarchist" to the lesser known cult favorite "Noided Up: How the Dominos Fell", and is arguably the world's foremost expert on the Noid.  

We'll dive into the Noid, Spuds McKenzie, Max Headroom, and Philadelphia legend The Swiss Cheese Pervert on this episode and much, much more.

Johnny and Nat get together to discuss a favorite past time of theirs: board games.  

They ask hard hitting questions like what board game would you want buried with you when you die?

They revisit some of Johnny's famous temper tantrums, and they review a couple really strange board games from the past.

All this and more on the Worthless Knowledge podcast this week

Johnny and Nat discuss the famous mansion burning that occurred in 1994 during the volatile relationship between Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and Andre Rison.  

Then they talk about how if they were different people living in a different place with different skills and dreams and living in a different time there's no telling what they could have accomplished.

And of course they dive into how likely they would be to remain married if they came home and their wives had burned their houses down because they were pissed.

In this episode, spun off from JGT's latest Quizzo, the guys start unpacking the Heaven's Gate Cult but the conversation quickly devolves into more general cult related talk.  

Johnny tells Nat about the closest he ever came to being in a cult, Nat asks what 5 items you'd bring as a "Cult Starter Kit" if you were going to join one, and both guys have to ponder how much money they'd have to be paid to join a cult for a year and share a room with a roommate that wore the same clothes and had the same haircut as you.

All this and more in this week's episode.