How Did Christianity Go From a Tiny Jewish Cult to Rule the Western World So Quickly?
In this episode of The BrainFood Show, Simon Whistler dives into the fascinating reasons Christianity was able to so rapidly go from a tiny Jewish Cult to rule the Western World despite a whole lot of...
14 Jul 20251h 39min
The Marxist Mummies- The Weird Practice of Mummiffying Communists
In today's episode of The BrainFood Show, Daven Hiskey dives into the bizarre tradition of pickling and displaying communists. In the shadow of Moscow’s Kremlin Walls stands one of the most famous ...
11 Jul 20251h
What's the Difference Between Hardwood and Softwood? (I swear this is more interesting than it sounds :-))
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, Simon Whistler and Daven Hiskey are looking at the difference between a number of things, kicking it off with the difference between hardwood and softwood.... w...
9 Jul 20251h 8min
WTF is Vegemite?
In this episode of The BrainFood Show, Simon Whistler dives into what the Aussie staple of Vegemite actually is, and how it came to be, and become a national treasure in the nation. Author: Gilles ...
7 Jul 202532min
Hancock's Revolution- Birthing the United States
In today's episode of the BrainFood Show, Daven Hiskey does a deep dive into the oft' forgotten founding father, without whom there may have been no revolution and whose life was who Paul Revere was ...
4 Jul 20252h 35min
How Do We Actually Know We Landed on the Moon?
On July 20, 1969, the world looked on in awe as 39-year-old astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped off a ladder of the Lunar Module Eagle and onto the surface of the moon, becoming the first human to set fo...
30 Jun 202537min
Heinz 57, The Lord of the Pumps, and a Tasty, Tasty Dunkin' Empire
In today's BrainFood Show episode, we are discussing three rather inspirational business tails, starting with the extremely humble origins of the now many billion dollar behemoth in Heinz, then on to ...
26 Jun 20251h 39min
The True Story of the Amistad
On June 28, 1839, a ship departed Havana, Cuba en route to Puerto Principe. Along with a crew of 7, including two slaves serving as a cabin boy and ship’s cook, the vessel was also packed with cargo w...
25 Jun 202550min
