Somehow Related with Glenn Robbins and Dave O'Neil

The huge sneaker company and a Belgian breakfast culinary invention. Two of Dave's favourite things? Not this time. Tell a friend about the show or share it on your socials!   Links to the answer Populist Mechanics Business Insider   Somehow Related is produced by Nearly, a podcast network. The robot's voice comes from Google Home. They're pretty good. Original theme music by Kit Warhurst. Artwork...

Thanks to Kristie for suggesting these topics! The notorious Chicago prohibition profiteer who was downed for tax evation and the printed dates on food or drink that help it into the bin. And someone's stolen Dave's chip flavour ideas!   Links to the answer Atlas Obscura   Somehow Related is produced by Nearly, a podcast network. The robot's voice comes from Google Home. They're pretty good. Origi...

Sneeze and a war, anyone? The iconic and tissues probably aren't as well known as The Great War, but they were a part of each other in at least one way.   Links (mainly spoilers) Military History Now article Curionic article   Somehow Related is produced by Nearly, a podcast network. The robot's voice comes from Google Home. They're pretty good. Original theme music by Kit Warhurst. Artwork create...

Yes, there's one for Somehow Related! Find links, suggestions and let us know of any factual inaccuracies Sam has deployed in her answers. Facebook Group: Somehow Related   Somehow Related is produced by Nearly, a podcast network. The robot's voice comes from Google Home. They're pretty good. Original theme music by Kit Warhurst. Artwork created by Stacy Gougoulis.   Find a new podcast! Halliday W...

Sam's already down the coast and it's a lonely festive morning at the hot studio. Have a Merry Chirstmas! Or whichever summer holiday you're fond of. See if you're family has any topics for Somehow Related, or dazzle them with your knowledge.     There's a Facebook group! Search for Somehow Related on Facebook.   If you have a suggestions for Somehow Related send us an email! hi@nearly.com.au (or...

Peanuts the cartoon! Not the legume.  And Martin Luther King Jr the civil rights activist! Not a small king version of the medieval German theologian. They're Somehow Related. Hence this episode. This is also from a suggestion of Caroline, who emailed us. You can do this too. It's not just for Carolines.  Why not suggest one in the Somehow Related Facebook group. Easy.   Links from the episode Qua...

High vis colour, clothing, plastic and more is everywhere. But not often at a wedding. But combine one with the other and you have a world first, the likes of which definitely was seen.   Links for more information The Guardian article describing the story Wikipedia: Bob Switzer   There's a Facebook group! Search for Somehow Related on Facebook.   If you have a suggestions for Somehow Related send...

Worth it for Dave's Floki impression. But what could the terrifying Norsemen have to do with a changing climate?   Further reading Ars Technica's insights to the Vikings and climate change Earth Institue - Columbia University The Star - surviving like a Viking The thinking music (YouTube)     There's a Facebook group! Search for Somehow Related on Facebook.   If you have a suggestions for Somehow...

Rolling Stones frontman and the rock in the middle of Australia. Very big. Uluru's big too.   Links from the episode Mick Jagger and the Queen Mick Jagger and the Hells Angels Ayers Rock history Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton Indigenous Australian thinking music   There's a Facebook group! Search for Somehow Related on Facebook.   If you have a suggestions for Somehow Related send us an email! hi@nea...

The steam train east of Melbourne Victoria and something that sucks... hmmm. One's definitely more scenic that the other.    If you have a suggestions for Somehow Related send us an email! hi@nearly.com.au (or get Dave on Twitter - @itsdaveoneil)   Somehow Related is produced by Nearly, a podcast network. The robot's voice comes from Google Home. They're pretty good. Original theme music by Kit Wa...

The iconic Australian biscuit that people drink tea through and a big horse race in a far off land. Nothing comes to mind... SPOILERS! This Wikipedia article This NYT article And this article too. Thinking music from Steven Seagulls on YouTube, fantastic stuff.   VIDEO: Uncle Arthur at the Melbourne Cup.   If you have a suggestions for Somehow Related send us an email! hi@nearly.com.au (or get Dav...

The frozen food company and a people who live incredibly far north. There's obviously cold involved but how would Birdseye be related to Eskimos, ahem, Inuit people?   Reading from the show... Inuit v Eskimo More about that NPR weighed in on that too And Reddit on the Greenlanders The aeroplane crash Dave mentions - Wikipedia   If you have a suggestions for Somehow Related send us an email! hi@nea...

Jim and Jeannie came together before the show even started. Glenn and Dave figure it out in the Grandview Hotel front room with "Sam" in patient attendence as always. Sources for the episode are here and here. If you have a suggestions for Somehow Related send us an email! hi@nearly.com.au (or get Dave on Twitter - @itsdaveoneil)   Somehow Related is produced by Nearly, a podcast network. The robo...

Are they part of a mob initiation ritual? A favourite food of the Capos? There's a way the citrus and the 'Cosa Nostra' came together.  Don't google it! See if you can figure it out.   Somehow Related is produced by Nearly, a podcast network. The robot's voice comes from Google Home. They're pretty good. Original theme music by Kit Warhurst. Artwork created by Stacy Gougoulis.   Find a new podcast...

FYI - this episode has been reposted. I, Courtney the producer, scheduled the wrong ep. But this one is what is says it is. You don't need a couple of days to figure out this one! Just a little background in the coffee shop and some reading of Ancient Greek history. Easier way to go, listen to the episode. Bee-you-ti-fullllll.   SPOILER: The Oracle's got the aswer, she's quoted in AdWeek. An unlik...

There's something between the New York summer holiday location and the moving footpath. At time of writing this author is yet to know (for the first time!). I'm off to listen! Ok I'm back. Had a listen - great episode. And, ah yeah, here's the answer if you're wondering - untappedcities.com   Somehow Related is produced by Nearly, a podcast network. The robot's voice comes from Google Home. They'r...

When you start doing standup, you do three gigs are not you can’t remember what you have done? The set up for a callback brain goes into overload because any interviews you're doing you did on radio as Russell Coyte about forty or fifty years ago, Wow. Because the thing is if you, if you offer like Bathurst Air FM, even Adelaide Perth, they're all going to take you up. There's not one stage is goi...

The hot sauce that shares Her Majesty's condiment rack with other royal favourites and a bloody war fought between neighbours. Sauce and soldiers... Soldiers and sauce... Related somehow... Somehow related...   Glenn has been surfing before. That's on YouTube. Matthew McConoughay is an actor mentioned by Glenn, yes. He was also in The Free State of Jones.  Not the last state or town to be named af...

The legendary naturalist who studied finches, travelled the world over, probably ate some giant tortises and the humbe office chair. Often broken in some way but pushed on as a borderline cripple rather than fixed or replaced. Jeez they have a hard time. Don't know what Darwin's cabin was like on that ship he sailed, that could've been a hard time to. I bet he didn't have someone sitting on him th...

Conversations with comedians driving home after a gig. It's insightful, appropriately intimate and sometimes there's a voice from the back seat. So many great guests! Lehmo, Lawrence Mooney, Cal Wilson, Dilruk, Nick Capper, Nath Valvo, Peter Hellier, Fiona O'Laughlin, Karl Chandler, Nick Capper... I said him, but he's been on three times! And more if you count the back seat. BTW - He's got a podca...

Blondie, the famous band from a couple of decades back, and a charismatic criminal who's record is abhorrent. But, as always, that's right - they're Somehow Related!   ANSWER: For more information if you like. And more.   LINKS   Bands of Glenn's family members'   Forever Son - https://foreversonmusic.bandcamp.com/   Crepes - https://www.triplejunearthed.com/artist/crepes     Somehow Related is pr...

The story of a French rebellion and another workplace fad... Did Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway insist on donating stand up desks to poor French families? REMEMBER: Watch DAVE on Channel Ten Friday 24 August! Catch up on Ten Play if you miss it.   Links! SPOILER: Standing desks and Les Miserables Les Miserables - movie trailer NEW YORKER: I Switched to a Standing Desk, So Now You Sh...

Dave and Glenn rarely take time out from the podcast to dabble in other media, but lately they've found time for the tele. New show and new laughs. Dave and Glenn's TV shows not related. "Dave" on for Pilot Week, Channel 10 Starts 19 August 2018 E!News: Ten Announces Pilot Week Shows: Drunk History, Trial By Kyle, Taboo, More in Viewers' Hands   Ten Play: Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures Pre...

Loaves and fishes is an easy place to start out, but what's that got to do with McDonald's? Was there a Pope Filet somewhere in history and Ray Kroc has a soft spot for the Vatican?   BTW - Check out All Aussie Adventures starring Russell Coight! Sundays 7:30 on Ten. Or catch up on Ten Play.   5 facts about the loved and hated McDonald's Filet-O-Fish NPR: Lust, Lies And Empire WIKI: Henry VIII Her...

Let's be clear, Neo never uses a frisbee in The Matrix movies when he's fighting Agent Smith. That's an observable fact. But the film and the object do have a connection.   BTW - Check out Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures, Sunday 7:30 PM on Ten.   The Conversation: What's misophonia? VIDEO: Red pill? Blue pill? ThoughtCo.com: History of the Frisbee SPOILER: The connection between Frisbee and...