UNESCO World Heritage: Preserving the Best of Humanity
Humanity’s created a lot of neat things over the eons and starting in the 1940s, the UN created an agency focused on preserving those things for the whole world and future people. But that mission is ...
23 Apr 41min
Short Stuff: Brown-Headed Cowbird
There’s a kind of bird that lots of people think is a real jerk. And it kind of is. But in the brown-headed cowbird’s defense, it’s just evolved that way. Find out why it has such a bad reputation amo...
22 Apr 11min
Some Silly Inventions That Became Wildly Popular
Once in a while someone comes up with a solution for a problem we didn’t know we had, and maybe even a problem that didn’t even exist. Even more rarely, the stars align just right so that some crackpo...
21 Apr 42min
Selects: Sammy Davis Jr: National Treasure
In this classic episode Josh and Chuck sit down and detail the complicated life of the late, great Sammy Davis Jr.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
18 Apr 56min
The Sewol Ferry Disaster
In 2014 a ferry carrying hundreds of South Korean high school students on a field trip sunk, killing almost everyone on board. Hauntingly, their deaths were fully avoidable: everyone from the dock ins...
16 Apr 45min
Short Stuff: Cherry Blossoms
The Japanese Cherry Blossom is a sight to behold. But how did they get to Washington D.C.?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
15 Apr 12min
Are Generations Even a Thing?
We all love to tour our generation's superiority, but who decides where the split occurs and what to name it? And is this even a thing or just an arbitrary division?See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...
14 Apr 49min
Selects: What is a Numbers Station?
If you think secretly coded messages sent via short wave radio is Cold War relic, think again. In this classic episode, Chuck and Josh are here to dispel that myth, along with many others relating to ...
11 Apr 38min
