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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The podcast currently has 276 episodes available.

Your Brain on Facts episodes:

November 20, 2019 Conspiracy Truthies (ep. 89)
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2:00 Car-makers and Big Oil killed electric street cars
05:00 The feds are watching me!
13:45 Mind control
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29min
November 12, 2019 Greatest Hits: The Dogs (and Inventions) of War
Flashing back to a two-parter on heroic animals, innovations from the field, and noteworthy bad-asses.
Topics include a pigeon who saved hundreds of lives, a crossbow for grenades and Jack Churchill, who went into WWI with a claymore and bagpipes, despite not being Scottish.
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45min
November 05, 2019 Moral Panic! at the Disco (ep. 88)
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What could be more wholesome than reading a book or riding your bike? It depends on who you ask. Many things that are commonplace today were the cause of moral panics, people believing they would bring about the downfall of society.
2:35 waltz, Charleston, turkey trot
9:17 bicycles
15:53 telephone
18:29 mail
21:50 novels
25:10 couches
26:45 forks

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35min
October 29, 2019 The Devil Made Me Do It (ep. 87) with Ignorance Was Bliss
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Special guest: Ignorance Was Bliss
When you run out of people to blame, blame the devil. Hear a few of the times people tried to use demonic possession as their 'get out of jail free' card.
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31min
October 22, 2019 Freaks! (ep. 86)
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"We told you we had living, breathing monstrosities. You laughed at them, yet but for the accident of birth, you might be even as they are! They did not ask to be brought into the world, but into the world they came." Thus begins a movie such as had never been seen before and hasn’t been seen since, Tod Browning’s “Freaks!”
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33min
October 15, 2019 Twinsies, part 2 (ep. 85)
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The conclusion of our twin episodes, wherein we look at conjoined and a parasitic twins.
1:15 science overview
3:45 separation surgery
06:03 Masha and Dasha
11:15 parasitic twins
14:15 fetus in fetu
18:25 Edward Mordrake
22:25 diprosopus
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29min
October 08, 2019 Twinsies , part 1 (ep. 84)
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The first of a pair of episodes about twins, synchronicity, science, and dark mysteries.
1:00 science overview
3:00 twin studies
08:30 twin language
19:35 June & Jennifer Gibbons
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33min
October 01, 2019 Against All Odds - Military edition (ep. 83)
Being hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned is no reason to give up the fight.
00:40 Jan Zizka
07:20 Gate Pa
15:50 Saraghari
21:20 Attack of the Dead Men
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30min
September 17, 2019 Greatest Hits - Sigmund Freud was Full of S---
The following podcast contains frank discussions of human sexuality and anatomy. Listener discretion is advised.
Sigmund Freud may be the father of psychoanalysis, but he got a LOT of stuff wrong.
Special guest extravaganza with Bunny Trails, Ignorance Was Bliss, Interesting Sex, and The Story Behind podcasts.
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58min
September 10, 2019 Sold My Soul to the Company Store (ep. 82) with Cutting Class
Think your boss is all up in your business? Imagine if he was also your landlord and social director.
What if you left work and went home, but you were still on company property?
With special guests, Cutting Class podcast! 3:00
08:05 Pullman, IL
14:20 Hershey, PA
17:25 shout-outs and thanks
19:05 Fordlandia, Brazil

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29min

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How many episodes does Your Brain on Facts have?

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