Your Brain on Facts

By Moxie LaBouche

Host Moxie LaBouche brings you a weekly half-hour of things you didn't know, things you thought you knew, and things you never knew you never knew. Topics range from the history of nursing to the Bali... more

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Your Brain on Facts episodes:

April 14, 2020 Bored? Games! (ep. 106)
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Don't Risk getting the facts in your Cranium all Scrabbled up. (Are these puns getting played out? It seems a bit dicey.)
Promo - Deconstruction Workers
02:22 Ancient games - Irving Finkel and Tom Scott
11:30 Figuring out the rules
14:55 Gratitude and socializing
16:47 Go directly to jail
19:30 Monopoly
23:52 Cluedo
28:30 POW escape kits
Music by Kevin MacLeod
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37min
April 07, 2020 It's The End Of The World! (Again) (ep. 105)
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01:40 Puritans and Mother Shipton
04:31 Popes
07:31 Planet Clarion
09:50 Community
12:00 Harriet Livermore
13:19 Prophet Hen of Leeds
16:34 Millerites
21:44 Listen, Rinse, Repeat; Reviews4Good, promo: Ghost Town
24:43 Heaven's Gate
29:11 Harold Camping
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38min
March 31, 2020 Making Do (ep. 104)
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While we're sheltering in place from the pandemic, we look at how people dealt with the intense shortages of the Great Depression and WWII.
02:05 Aunt Sammy
04:00 Eleanor Roosevelt
07:00 Sample menu
Emmymadeinjapan's Hard Times series
09:08 Foods still with us
12:26 Flour sack dresses
14:17 Gratitude and TRIVIA CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT
16:00 Promo - Jason & Mindy
16:48 US rationing
18:55 UK rationing
24:00 "Dig for Victory" and the British Restaurant
26:55 "Beauty is Your Duty"
29:00 Clothing rations
Music by Kevin MacLeod and the US Marine Band
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35min
March 24, 2020 Food, Dubious Food (ep. 103)
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Be a smart cookie and don't fall for these food-based urban legends and conspiracy theories. (Sorry for all the thumps. My new mic stand is not compatible with my wild gesticulations.)
00:05 Vocal Fries promo
01:54 McDonald's
07:41 New Coke, Monster, tap water
13:04 Kosher tax
14: 56 Gratitude
16:13 Now You've Seen It promo
17:00 KFC - four-legged chicken
21:08 Fondue
23:10 Sugar
27:33 Chipotle
Spider silk goats
31:50 Old wives tales
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Music by Kevin MacLeod
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38min
March 17, 2020 Greatest Hits: Well-traveled Bodies
Follow the stories of five people (an outlaw, a murderess, a nightclub dancer, a natural wonder, and a first lady) who covered a lot of ground... after they died.
01:58 Elmer McGurdy
07:24 Hazel Farris
11:48 Marie O'Day
16:55 Julia Pastrana
25:37 Eva Peron
Mentioned: Marie O'Day's Palace Car
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Music by Kevin MacLeod
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36min
March 10, 2020 Around the World in 80 Birthdays (ep. 102)
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It's birthday time for both the show and the host here at Your Brain On Facts, so let's go around the world to see how different people celebrate theirs.
01:55 Backstory
04:53 New World
09:46 Europe
16:35 India/Nepal
19:09 Africa
22:00 Gratitude
25:01 Asia
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Music by Kevin MacLeod
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40min
March 03, 2020 To Your Health (Spa) (ep. 101)
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We're having a spa day on Your Brain On Facts. For us, that means myth-disabusement and obscure facts, rather than facials and a mani-pedi.
1:30 History of the spa
07:50 The San
13:29 a recent review
18:00 Snake oil
20:50 Zzyzx
The MedLife Crisis video about how modern medicine has allowed, and even helped, alternative medicine, to thrive.
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Music by Kevin MacLeod
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32min
February 25, 2020 100 Facts (and 24 special guests)!
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Your Brain On Facts celebrates 100 episodes with 100+ facts.
Enthusiastic virtual high-fives of thanks to our guest presenters:
01:15 Bunny Trails
02:40 Footnoting History
03:56 Andy's Podcaster Podcasting Podcast
05:15 Strange Animals
07:02 Bring On The Weird
08:00 Pretend
09:09 Ignorance Was Bliss
10:45 Self Shoots the S***
12:39 Where Does It Go?
14:12 Human Circus
15:57 Varmints
17:32 Obscura
19:04 Patreon special offer
20:52 Exploress
22:10 Lexitecture
23:44 Irrationally Exuberant
26:01 Interrupted Tales
27:13 Presidencies Of The Unites States
28:23 Short Stories of Augie Peterson
29:58 Stories of Yore and Yours
32:03 A Podcast About Something
34:48 Anytown USA
35:43 Talk The Talk
37:11 Fresh Hell
38:47 Conspiracy Theoryology

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Music by Kevin MacLeod
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45min
February 18, 2020 Earths Unsung-est Heroes - Black Inventors, pt 2 (ep. 99)
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if you thought the men got swept under the rug, history has been even less kind to these innovative women.
1:15 Alice Parker
4:30 Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner
9:55 Gratitude
11:40 Dr. Shirley Jackson
16:10 Patreon special offer
17:50 Marie Van Brittan Brown
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28min
February 11, 2020 Earth's Unsung-est Heroes: Black Inventors, pt. 1 (ep. 98)
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Sure you know Edison, but do you know Latimer, Drew, West, or the other men of color who made the tech you use every day?
Lewis Latimer
James West
Gratitude
Garrett Morgan
Charles Drew
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