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Clinton Road in New Jersey has all the fun, spooky, and downright scary things that could happen on an unlit, no cell service, sometimes foggy, with old stone structures backroad. Toss a coin to the ghost boy. Avoid the albino mutants. Turn back if you hear what seems to be the sound of a demonic ritual. Or possibly traverse the 10 miles of Clinton Road in whatever means you like just to see what...

Vlad III aka Vlad Dracula (Son of Dragon) aka Vlad The Impaler may not have actually been a vampire nor did he drink human blood he did lead an interesting life. Him and his brother were taken in by their father’s enemy to be raised by the enemy. While Vlad’s brother, Radu, took to the education and propaganda of the enemy Vlad never succumbed to it. He became even more resentful and filled with r...

We decided to do a little bit of a loose conversation on vampires and what we know about them with a little structure from the notes. This conversation has sparked another episode. Listen and you’ll find out what that is.  The history of vampires and the idea of them with differing characteristics around the world is endlessly fascinating! For instance Slovakian vampires require hawthorn wood stak...

Mary Mallon, otherwise known as Typhoid Mary, just wanted to cook food and care for people, but her biology wouldn’t let that happen. She contracted typhoid in her life and it never actually left her system. She would sluff off typhoid pathogens and many people around her would contract typhoid very likely because she wouldn’t wash her hands after going to the bathroom. Poo particles on peach ice...

It almost seemed like we weren’t supposed to be talking about this. We skipped a week. It happens. Then we recorded one evening only to discover, after talking for an hour and a half, that the recording stopped 41 seconds into it. We tried again the next evening and again the recording stopped at about 57 seconds. We checked that time. The app was put into a deep sleep mode automatically somehow a...

Bohemian Grove would be the perfect out of the way retreat for the wealthy elite if they didn’t do those odd rituals. Sure rituals can be fine, but do they really need to wear dark hoods and have the voice of Walter Cronkite come out of an owl totem? That’s weird, but you know what, they’re not hurting anyone with all that strangeness. The worst thing is the fact they don’t want to pay the employe...

In Elon Musk Part 1 we talked about his personal life, some of his lineage, his upbringing, his many significant others, and his many offspring. In Part 2 we are talking about his road to becoming the United States’s first trillionaire. His method of founding or becoming a high ranking member of a company and then squeezing the talent that helped make the company what it is until that talent can’t...

We are talking about the origin story of the world’s first trillionaire in this week’s episode. That’s right, everyone's favorite rich person to hate Elon Musk! His younger years were pretty difficult and all signs point to those factors contributing to the person we see today. He practices pronatalism too much! He has multiple children to multiple women and hopefully he has decided to stop procre...

No audio issues this time! This has to be our most giggly episode yet! Once those giggle fits start it takes some time for them to calm down. We finally get into deeper descriptions of what Nessie the Loch Ness Monster allegedly looks like and her fellow lake monsters around the world. The mispronunciations are out of control in this episode too! #BringOnTheQuestions #Podcast #Nessie #LochNessMons...

First, we need to apologize about the audio issues that happened towards the end of this episode as well as the abrupt end of the episode. We recorded for about 1 hour and 30 minutes and got 58 minutes of audio…sort of. Will’s mic died around 45 minutes and Foennix’s mic died at about 58 minutes so this episode will now be a 2-part episode and part 2 will feature more lake monsters!  We got the st...

The Corpse Walkers are a fascinating piece of history. Respect for the dead and ritual practice turned into an entire industry of work. The idea that a person’s body needed to be returned to their homeland and buried in order for the soul to rest peacefully seems a little crazy to a culture, us, that doesn’t practice it. The body was prepared in multiple ways in order to be ready to travel. We cer...

Even after two episodes about Data Centers we still don’t think they are necessary in such quantities. I guess we’re going to have to live with them somehow. If the people designing and engineering them could think more about resource efficiency then maybe coping with the festering warts that data centers are wouldn’t be so bad. We get into some ways of how the byproducts of running a data center...

Data Centers have evolved in so many different ways since they first became a necessity and nuisance. They have always taken up massive amounts of space and resources and somehow the needs to run them have ever increased as well. The sheer amount of water and electricity it takes to run these places is unimaginable. They use the amount of resources that can sustain a large town or small city. Are...

Here we go, another big corporation origin story! Born from the idea of legally listening to music on the internet, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon created Spotify. The word is actually a portmanteau of “Spot” and “Identify”. It was a struggle but those guys built something pretty important for the world, but with every Big Corporation problems would soon come. The BIG part tends to come from the c...

Happy 6-7 Day!!! Well it was 6/7 this past week. We dig into the origin of this recent meme/idiom that has inundated society so much that schools have banned students from saying it and doing the motion associated with it. We also get into origin stories of some other idioms involving numbers. We may not be going The Whole Nine Yards with idioms but we certainly had moments where we were on Cloud...

Can you believe at one point mass hysterias were blamed on roving uteruses?? Of course the males in power giving out diagnoses only blamed females for a long time. Eventually males were diagnosed as part of mass hysteria epidemics, but it was still a female dominated ailment according to the patriarchy of the time. A woman started the dancing plague, Nuns acting out in wildly radical ways for arou...

Welcome to our next cryptid origin story. The origin of the Chupacabra is really recent in the grand scheme of things. The first alleged sighting or encounter was in March of 1995 where 8 sheep were discovered dead. After that, other mysterious livestock deaths were attributed to the same creature. The coining of the term "chupacabra" is credited to the Puerto Rican comedian and radio personality...

Early observers of the world, scientists before there were really scientists, were adamant that the world was flat and then observed a little closer and decided there were too many circles or partial circles being observed on celestial bodies to continue to say it was flat. Well according to some people those scientists were feeding people lies. Those people believe only what’s right in front of t...

This week we’re exploring the hollow earth hypothesis. Many religions have believed or still believe some kind of afterlife exists under or in the earth. Is there a way to enter that space from the surface without dying first? Before there was deep polar, north or south, exploration there was some thought the speed of the spin of the earth caused the poles to flatten out and become openings into t...

Walpurgis Night or Walpurgisnacht. Another fire, fellowship, and fun-filled mid season celebration brought to you by those kookie Germanic folk. Saint Walpurga is the reason for this particular seasonal celebration, but that’s only because they moved her remains about 100 years after she died and made that the reason for an annual feast in her name. Saint Walpurga is characterized by her perceived...

Unicorns and tangents. I guess I could say more about this episode, but that’s about the gist of what happened. We talked about Unicorns, but boy did we go in wild directions while we were doing it. So apparently a story tells of Unicorns that were the size of mountains and that’s why they couldn’t fit on Noah’s Ark and that’s why we don’t see Unicorns today? Another story says they were too silly...

We learned so much in a year! It’s actually pretty mind blowing! This episode was supposed to be the entire year in review, but we’re pretty good at tangents and getting distracted too. Soooo we only talked about the trailer and first 15 episodes. Anyway we hope you enjoy our very non-structured and mostly conversational episode. #BringOnTheQuestions #Learning #History #67 #Conversation

Three guys who went to college together were tired of the bland canned coffee they were being served and set out to do something about it. They brought together the best coffee beans they could find and called their company Starbucks. Then another guy came along and said they could do so much more than just sell beans. They turned him down until his “third place” between work and home became the b...

Big Corporations have been an American staple since the beginning of America right up to this very day. Textiles, railroads, telecommunications, and petroleum were the dominating forces of the early days and in the modern day we are inundated with the overwhelming power of technology in its many forms. Big Corporations are forces of unnatural power and they are fully aware of that face. They know...

Triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13) and its variant, paraskevidekatriaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th), are among the West's most enduring superstitions, costing the U.S. economy up to $900 million in lost productivity every Friday the 13th. The stigma begins with mathematics. Ancient civilizations venerated the number 12 as a symbol of "divine completeness" (12 months, 12 zodiac signs, 12 g...