Listener Mail: Sonic Booms, Metaverse Time Travel, and Critical Race Theory
Big Boy shares a strange tale of sonic booms over New Mexico. Chip explores the idea of time travel via the metaverse. Lionel Putz wonders why honest examinations of US history have become so controve...
24 Feb 20221h 4min
What are Sanctions?
You've heard of sanctions before -- the term pops up pretty often in international news. Country A does something Country B finds objectionable, but neither country wants to be embroiled in a full-sca...
23 Feb 20221h 2min
CLASSIC: Porter Ranch: Fossil Fuel Cover-ups
There's no two ways about it: oil spills and gas leaks are disastrous, causing massive amounts of ecological damage in a matter of days or hours. So how many occur each year? How many are actually rep...
22 Feb 20221h 8min
Strange News: Wordle Saves Lives, Cybercrime, and Qanon Hates Butterflies
An elderly woman may well owe her survival to Wordle. Another recent Bitcoin scam is called the 'heist of the century.' Over in Texas, Qanon has found a new target... a non-profit butterfly center. Fi...
21 Feb 20221h 1min
Does junk food target children?
While it may not be especially great for you, there's no denying that junk food is delicious. Nowadays, all the salty, fatty, sweet and savory stuff humans evolved to covet is both cheap and easy to a...
18 Feb 20221h 13min
Listener Mail: Mysterious Fishing Club, Terrorism in the Metaverse, Trouble in Ottawa
Smitty relates a strange childhood story from his time growing up near the Pisgah National Forest. Kyle notes the metaverse offers tremendous potential for terrorists. Canadian trooper calls in to ask...
17 Feb 202258min
What is ecoterrorism?
Most people can agree the proverbial writing is on the wall: Earth's climate is in trouble, and its degradation will have profound consequences of later generations. However, no one seems to have figu...
16 Feb 20221h 9min
CLASSIC: Ghosts and Infrasound
While humanity has yet to generate any universally-accepted proof of ghosts or hauntings, millions of people around the world report seeing apparitions or experiencing ghostly encounters every year (a...
15 Feb 202258min
