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Minicast G2: Dundee United
In 1972 a middling team from the Scottish Premier League played four exhibition matches in Nigeria and distinguished itself so profoundly with its pitiful play (and boorish attitude) that its name became a synonym for stupidity. Grousing about how...
Minicast G1: The Flying Boy trick
Question Kyle and Question Jennie join me as we discuss the 18th century fad of using the emerging understanding of the phenomenon of electricity to entertain. Men who considered themselves worldly natural philosophers and amateur scientists found it...
Minicast F3: Operation Washtub
Perhaps you've heard of Operation Gladio, the infamous post-World War II NATO program to train "stay-behind" agents to fight guerilla-style against a future hypothetical Soviet invasion of Western Europe. Believe it or not, the United States Air...
episode 48: 048 - The A048 - The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal (with Laine Nooney)pple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal (with Laine Nooney)
Dr. Laine Nooney (NYU) joins me to discuss the early days of personal computing - particularly how people figured out what to do with home computers after they became convinced that they needed one - in their 2023 book If you were alive in the...
episode 47: 047 - The Great American Transit Disaster
Professor and author Nicholas Dagen Bloom joins me to discuss his new book (University of Chicago Press). You know transit is a mess in the United States but take my word for it: after reading this book you will understand how and why in a brand new...
episode 46: 046 - Assemble for Assemblies
Continuing a topic we broached on a recent bonus episode on Patreon, Questions Kyle and Jennie join me as we sort through the wonderful if baffling world of school assemblies submitted by listeners and readers. You have to hear some of this stuff to...
episode 45: 045 - All-Mailbag Episode 2023
Question Cathy returns for a long overdue dip into the mailbag. We hit a range of topics including: how the recent Supreme Court ruling will affect college admissions, 90s cultural fads, the mind-bending heat affecting much of the planet this summer,...
episode 44: 044 - The He-Man Effect with Brian 'Box' Brown
joins me to discuss his new book . We talk about our memories of toy advertising and cartoons from the Eighties and the political and regulatory changes that opened the floodgates to marketing at children. Inhumanoids, M.A.S.K., SilverHawks, and...
episode 43: 043 - KLF Burns One Million Quid (Literally)
Question Kyle and Question Jennie join me to discuss one of the most poorly thought-out, pretentious stunts in the history of pop culture, wherein an early UK techno-electronica duo churn out a novelty song, one hit single, and a book about how to...
episode 42: 042 - Dan vs. Dave (with David Roth)
David Roth () of () joins me to talk about one of the most memorable ad campaigns in the history of sports and pop culture, Reebok's $30,000,000 1992 "Dan vs. Dave" commercials that briefly turned two decathletes into household names and was...