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- Underunderwear
A tweetstorm about men’s role in pregnancy leads Regina to find a man who spent over a decade suppressing his sperm count with a piece of yarn.
Show notes:
- 00:33 - Wikipedia page for heat-based contraception
- 00:57 - The movie 'Heat' is the first time Robert De Niro and Al Pacino starred in a movie together
- 01:31 - Regina would like to state for the record that said baby is now 1 year old, absolutely adorable, and spends significantly less time crying than she did at the time of the initial pitch.
- 01:40 - The tweet storm that started it all
- 03:23 - Chris Jenks' website
- 04:00 - The underwear
- 04:43 - Billy spent approximately 10 minutes explaining what a cordstop is here. It has been cut down for your entertainment and also because who cares about cordstops this much.
- 05:41 - Kaleb Dornheim wrote this article about how to tuck safely
- 08:38 - Chris' LinkedIn page
- 12:31 - Marthe Voegeli
- 16:54 - According to Weather Underground, the average temperature of the day was 54 degrees Fahrenheit
- 20:06 - John K Amory
- 22:12 - "Breakthrough for male contraceptives?" in Daily Mail UK
- 27:42 - Elon Musk's net worth is reportedly in the range of 20 billion US dollars
- 27:50 - Paul Allen - Wikipedia
35 min - Gas and Gains
After watching an episode of “Catfish: The TV Show,” Billy goes on a deep dive to find the meaning of a curious ankle tattoo, the eccentricities of the Philadelphia accent, and one man’s fixation with the word “gas.”
Show notes:
- 00:40 - Catfish: The TV Show - Wikipedia
- 00:57 - Catfish - Season 7, Episode 18 - Nick and Jasmine (video)
- 01:35 - To Catch a Predator - Wikipedia
- 01:46 - Definition of Catfish by Merriam-Webster
- The scene (video) from Catfish (the 2010 documentary) where the term was coined
- 03:36 - "Gayus" video clip from Catfish (video)
- 05:27 - Wawa
- 06:46 - MFSB - South Philly
- 08:04 - Nick: @NickFresh215 / @NickFresh215
- 08:14 - Jimmy: @jimmyharrity / @jimmy_harrity
- 09:22 - Jordan Oplinger on Twitter
- 13:03 - Mean Girls - Stop trying to make fetch happen (video)
- 16:39 - Betsy Sneller's personal website
- 17:11 - William Labov - Wikipedia
- 17:23 - Sociolinguistics - Wikipedia
- 19:06 - Mechanisms of Phonological Change by Betsy Sneller
- 20:08 - /æ/ raising - Wikipedia
- 26:31 - Excerpt from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
- 28:01 - History of the Irish Americans in Philadelphia - Wikipedia
- 28:23 - Irish slang videos on YouTube
- Irish Time with Jack! (video)
- Irish Slang / Teaching Irish Slang (video)
- Irish Slang & Swear Words! (video)
- 32:50 - The Vocal Fries Episode 35: How Millennials are Destroying the Philly Accent (audio)
- Philadelphia magazine - Here’s How Millennials Are Changing the Philly Accent
- CBS Philly - Experts Seeing Shift In Philadelphia Accent Thanks To Millennials (video)
- 33:06 - Preston & Steve (12.11.18) (audio)
- 36:17 - L-vocalization - Wikipedia
- 38:48 - Send us your question!
41 min - Welcome to Underunderstood
There are questions the internet just hasn't answered yet. We investigate those questions and get the answers.
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About Underunderstood
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There are questions the internet just can't answer. But that doesn't mean we can't find them.
On each episode of Underunderstood, we find a question the internet can’t answer — maybe it’s a dead-end Wikipedia page, an abandoned Reddit thread, or an unanswered question on Twitter — and we fill in the gaps. It’s part chat show, part documentary, and almost always surprising.
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