This week Mattie and Austin spent most of the time watching Old Enough and wishing we lived in Japan so we could walk to do simple errands in our town without getting run over by a Land Rover. but we also managed to research and record a pretty good episode

Austin starts us off with a segment about Alchemy. it was absolute nonsense, but was it actually important? Did we discover the key to eternal life AND making things into gold? no. but we did find some other things that are pretty important.

The Mattie learned about a figure from history that kicked so much ass and did it in such a badass way that it was for sure the inspiration for one of the biggest characters in Fantasy literature and TV. She tells us about St Olga of Kiev and how amazing she was.

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This week Mattie gets the entire episode to talk about the Astor place riots.

she hinted at this in a previous episode about Broadway, and neither of us were prepared for what she found.

Rivalry, nationalism, gang violence, riots, and an acting rivalry that makes Will Smith and Chris Rock look tame.

is that reference still timely? let's say yes. unless you are listening to this years in the future. then you might need to google some stuff about the 2022 Oscars.

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We start things off talking about our new reality show favorite: Is it Cake? you should watch it

Then Austin talks about probably the most Kansas history you are ever going to learn and teaches you about J R Brinkley, a doctor, and early radio pioneer that made his money the old fashioned way, by implanting goat glands into people.

Then Mattie answers the question we've all been asking. Can you make a ghost? I mean we all know how to make ghosts, but can you simply believe a fake person into existence? Mattie covers the time in the 70s when some researchers did exactly that and had some fascinating results.

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I may have exaggerated in the title, but Mattie does talk about grammar and punctuation and how court cases have been decided on typos and misplaced commas. it might not exactly save your life, but it has cost companies and governments millions of dollars.

Next Austin turns the clock way back. back before even Pliny the Elder. (that's right, Austin can research something without leaning on the genius that is Pliny) and talks about one of the earliest civilizations, The Indus Valley people in North Western India and Pakistan from back in 3000 BCE, and how surprisingly modern they were.

We also talk reality TV. so don't worry, it isn't all archeology and Grammar this episode. we have standards to uphold.

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This week, Mattie and Austin are back to their old reality TV habits AND Mattie talks about her amazing birthday.

Then, Austin talks about the Berlin Wall. more specifically the things we think lead to it being torn down and the reality. ( I'll give you a hint, Austin relished his chance to tell us all yet again that Reagan was trash and you shouldn't like him.)

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This week, Austin talks about medical animal testing. and does talk about bad things happening to animals. if you want to skip this segment and pet a cat he totally understands. Skip ahead to 34 minutes

Then to lighten the mood Mattie tells us all about Emperor Norton I. The totally legitimate recognized Emperor of the United States. during this episode listen for Mattie declaring herself a micro nation and Austin naming himself emperor of the Midwest and levying a hefty tax to be paid in cheese, or else he will organize the cats to make war.

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This epsisode Austin talks way too much about Electric cars, and also what a tool Elon Musk is.

Then Mattie tells us about the Murphy Ranch, the headquarters of American Nazis in the 30s and early 40s, located right outside Los Angeles.

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This week Mattie is back! and she dives headfirst into evolutionary biology and one of the biggest hoaxes to ever involve parts of an orangutan. She tells us about the missing link hoax, why people fell for it, and the ongoing who done it about who is responsible for fooling the scientific community for so long.

Austin then talks about math. well, he tries to anyway. but his presentation on Pythagoras turned into him talking about yet another sex cult half way through his research. and yes, the two are related.

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You ever get tired of your family around Christmas and go to see a movie or play to get away from them for a bit while also technically still spending time with them?

well, this is a story about a time when hundreds of people died doing exactly that in Chicago in 1903.

hear about the tragic Iroquois Theater fire, how it happened, and the wide sweeping negligence that caused this "absolutely fireproof" theater to burn down. 

you also get to hear Mattie suddenly realize that she had in fact taught this very subject in her class and exclaim "The doors!"

it will make sense in context.

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