Interesting Nuggets

Kendall continues to be a total linguistic nerd and wants to share some peculiar lexical oddities in this episode. Join us to learn words for - having a shapely bottom, stretching and yawning simultaneously, a person who loves their own opinion (loads of those in our 2026 world!) and plenty more. Join us and expand that lexicon!

Roxanne shares a delicious nugget of female friendship and support. Icons Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald forged a bond built on mutual encouragement, helping each other reach new heights in their careers. This episode reminds us to lift each other up, like a good bra. Support your ladies! whether they are new friends, old friends or family.

Kendall presents her nuggets today! Victor Lustig....Who is Count Victor Lustig? A man with over 45 known aliases who was an incredibly successful conman. He even managed to sell the Eiffel Tower for scrap metal, a con so successful he went back to try it again. Join us on this episode of "Interesting Nuggets" for a wild caper of an adventure that takes us all the way to swindling Al Capone and a...

Kendall shares the fascinating history of the Ouija board with Roxanne—from its 1890s patent and rise alongside Spiritualism to its purchase by Parker Brothers in 1966, when it even outsold Monopoly. Then came its dramatic fall from favour, thanks in part to popular culture—and one little film you may have heard of: The Exorcist. Join us as we explore the rise, reign, and fall of the Ouija board.

Today is a Roxanne Nugget. She tells us about the strange, surprising, and sometimes baffling things countries around the world have outlawed — from chewing gum to Kinder Surprise eggs. Join us for this tasty nugget on some illicit, banned items and what they reveal about each country and their culture.

Kendall explores the history of raising a glass! Clinking glasses! Toasting! and Cheersing! Why did we start doing this? and Why does every culture do it? Come join us for a celebration of the CHEERS!

Kendall chews Rox's ear off about where some of history's most popular toys actually got their start. The answers are wildly far from that toy box shoved in the corner of the lounge. From nuclear engineering to industrial cleaning to clairvoyance , the Rubik's Cube, the Slinky, and more all began life doing something nobody would call "play." Tune in for this six pack of Interesting Nuggets, hot a...

What to do when you have a “Beaver Problem”? Have you ever considered an air drop of parachuting beavers? Roxanne tells us all about a wild solution dreamed up by Elmo Heter of Idaho Fish and Game Department. What happens when Beavers, surplus WW2 materials and a creative mind converge.

Kendall covers the story of two young Irish boys who, in the 1980s embarked on one massive epic adventure. This story is Home Alone in reverse; completely alone. No parents. No plan. Just two kids and an ocean between them and home. What started as a before dinner play-time turned into international headlines.

Kendall dives into her bag of linguistic curiosities to discuss the colour orange. What were the roots of the word...the colour or the fruit? Then she tells us that many languages have different core colour words from 2-11. These change how each culture shares and communicates the world around them.

Roxanne shares the divisive topic of pineapple on pizza — invented not in Hawaii, but Canada by a chef with no connection to Hawaii at all. Join us to chat about how a 1962 diner experiment turned into one of the worlds most heated food fights.

Kendall tells Roxanne about the surprising origins of modern dog breeds . As a devoted dog lover, Roxanne is delighted to dive into the history behind her favorite four-legged friends. From herding, hunting, retrieval, and pest control to spiritual protection and portable hot water bottles, dogs have been bred to be our best mates and our best helpers.

Kendall tells Roxanne about "The Sleeping Sickness" — encephalitis lethargica, a mysterious illness that swept the globe from 1917 to 1928. Over a million people fell ill. More than 500,000 died. Roxanne is horrified — and unsettled to learn how little we still understand about it, even now, a century later.

Roxanne tells us all about the most successful pirate of all time... Ching Shih. Who was (cue the gasp) a woman! She rose from poverty to command 1,800 ships and 80,000 pirates. Rox gets into the strict rules that kept her crew loyal (cheat on your spouse...walk the plank) and how she retired undefeated to live out her days in opulence...running gambling houses and brothels.

Kendall gets all jazzed up about crows. Part of the corvid family and notoriously devious, clever, and cunning... or perhaps just greatly misunderstood. Crows have been vilified for millennia, but research now shows they're simply incredibly smart—and fiercely loyal, too.

Join us on today's episode where Kendall tells us about inventions created by kids. Kids with their never ending creativity and imagination have bought us things we use on the daily... calculators, popsicles, flippers and well...guns. Lets pump up the next generation of young inventors because you can't beat a fresh, novel and youthful idea.

On this episode of Interesting Nuggets, Roxanne is feeling the love. She sits down with Kendall to share some of the most influential inventions ever made — all with one thing in common: they were inspired by someone's loved one.

On this episode, Kendall crashes into the ridiculous delay of the Female Crash Test Dummy Delay. The first male dummy was introduced in 1949. The first female one? 2023. Just a small 74-year wait. And even now, its use is rarely mandatory. Despite years of evidence showing women are significantly more likely to be seriously injured in crashes because cars are designed and tested around the "averag...

You've probably forgotten a face before. But what if you couldn't remember any face — ever? Roxanne shares the debilitating and mind-boggling neurological condition of Face Blindness (prosopagnosia) with Kendall. A condition where the brain can't hold onto faces, not even your closest friends, not even yourself in a mirror. Join us while we learn about the wild neuroscience behind why some brains...

This week, Kendall grosses out Roxanne with the squirm-worthy backstory of the powdered wig — fashion's most glamorous lie. At the height of 17th and 18th century European society, the bigger and whiter your wig, the more powerful you appeared; but underneath all that flour and horsehair, the reality was anything but refined. Think rancid animal fat, lice-ridden shaved heads, and yes — rodents act...

The wolf whistle — two notes that have echoed through pop culture, construction sites, and Hollywood films. On this episode Roxanne digs into the history of how a cheeky chirp became an unsettling intrusion. This is one whistle that's hit some very sour notes.

On this episode of "Interesting Nuggets" we have one for the left-handed folks out there. To the 10-12% of the population who struggle with scissors, smear their pen, and wage daily war against ring binders — this one's for you. Lefties have been cast as outsiders for most of recorded history. In fact, the Latin word for left — *sinister* — tells you everything you need to know about how they were...

This week, Roxanne uncovers the rich history of April Fools' Day — from fish pinned to unsuspecting backs to elaborate hoaxes that had entire nations fooled. At the start of Spring humanity has been gleefully pranking each other for centuries, and we're not even a little sorry about it.

Todays episode is dedicated to Roxanne's best mate Tank. A friend that is missed dearly everyday. Join us as Kendall shares with us stories of histories most heroic and loyal pups. They are such good girls and boys and we wish we could give each and every one of them a cuddle. Grab your pooch, a blanket, a cuppa and enjoy this doggie episode of Interesting Nuggets.

Foreign Accent Syndrome: a bizarre brain blip that leaves you with an accent you never traveled for? —or a serious condition that reshapes someone’s entire life, across all aspects of their days? Join us as Roxanne unpacks this rare and life-changing phenomenon.