500 Open Tabs

This week we learn about horrific ant genuses and how the film industry was born out of everyone hating Thomas Edison. A listener email answers the age old question of "how long do pig orgasms last?" Episode Tabs: These ants decorate their homes with the heads of their enemies https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/ants-head-hunters-attack-trap-jaw-enemies-nests Thomas Edison: The Unintentional Founder of Hollywood https://www.saturdayeveningpost...

This week we learn about Louis Le Prince, the REAL inventor of the motion picture camera and the origins of the color Grue. A listener email inspires a high end horse jacket clothing line. Episode Tabs: Who Killed Louis Le Prince? On the forgotten father of film https://harpers.org/archive/2022/04/who-killed-louis-le-prince-on-the-forgotten-father-of-film/ No one could describe the color blue until modern times https://www.businessinsider...

This week we discuss Roar, one of the most unsafe movies ever made and the Nintendo Power Hotline. A listener email reveals all the animals in elected office. Episode Tabs: Hollywood's real Tiger King: Insane big cat movie Roar getting VOD rerelease https://ew.com/movies/roar-movie-vod/ Inside The Nintendo Power Hotline https://www.gameinformer.com/2022/02/22/inside-the-nintendo-power-hotline Listener Tabs: https://a-z-animals...

This week we discuss the origins of the Michelin Man and a first hand account of Vikings from 922. A listener email answers the question of why we don't see Pandas in toilet paper ads. Episode Tabs: Allied Forces on D-Day Used a Popular Tourist Guide to Help Liberate France https://www.military.com/history/allied-forces-d-day-used-popular-tourist-guide-help-liberate-france.html “The Rus” (An Arab among the Vikings) https://content.ucpress.edu/chapters/12938.ch01.pdf Listener Tabs: https://youtu...

This week we have our first ever special guest, 500 Tabs' very own editor and friend Alyssa Cooper! We discuss a mountain murder mystery, the importance of March 27th, and sharks on a golf course. A listener email taps into some of our most primal fears. Episode Tabs: Ghosts on the Glacier https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/09/world/americas/aconcagua-mountain-expedition-photos.html The Wikipedia entry for the day of March 27 https://en.wikipedia...

This week we discuss insane mental health practices of the 1940s and the NBA's golden horse, Nikola Jokić. A listener email disgusts Kaveh. Episode Tabs: Mother’s Little Helper: Vintage Drug Ads https://www.goretro.com/2014/08/mothers-little-helper-vintage-drug-ads.html How Nikola Jokić Became The World’s Best Basketball Player https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/how-nikola-jokic-became-the-worlds-best-basketball-player Listener Tabs: https://www.everywhereist...

This week we discuss the trial of alleged werewolf Peter Stump and folk etymology. A listener email reveals how McDonalds tried to buy their way into fandom. Episode Tabs: Confessions of a Werewolf: The Trial of Peter Stump https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/a-german-werewolfs-confessions-horrified-1500s-europe What the Folk? https://daily.jstor.org/what-the-folk-the-charming-yet-totally-malappropriate-story-of-words/ Listener Tabs: https://www.newyorker...

This week we discuss people who live at airports and panda diplomacy. A listener email reveals how rabbits frankly don't give a damn. Episode Tabs: Terminal Dwellers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_lived_in_airports A Chinese cigarette tin launched D.C.’s 50-year love affair with pandas https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/16/pandas-china-nixon-dc/ Listener Tabs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_(film) https://historianandrew.medium...

This week Kaveh concludes the Katamari style horrors of the Johnstown flood and Hannah shares how the Europeans had their own American Idol but for letters of the alphabet instead of singers. A listener email reveals if a childhood memory was in fact cake, and how it exploded. Correction: the Phoenician alphabet comes after the Proto-Sinaitic script and before the Greek alphabet  Episode Tabs: The Johnstown Flood pt. 2 https://www.geoinstitute...

This week we return to Niʻihau for an insane adventure that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor and learn about the Johnstown Flood and how dams are just like us and also like candy. A listener email finally puts the debate about white chocolate to rest. Episode Tabs: The Niihau Incident  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_incident This Dam Break Was One of the Worst Man Made Disasters in American History. It Could Have Been Prevented. https://www.popularmechanics...