The Incredible True Facts of Space Podcast

Chad dives into the colorful world of classic comic strips, blending humor, history, and personal reflection. The show explores beloved strips like Beetle Bailey, Hagar the Horrible, Garfield, Pluggers, and Mother Goose and Grimm, offering vivid descriptions of their characters, settings, and gags. From the atemporal antics at Camp Swampy to Hagar’s bumbling Viking raids, the host unpacks the char...

Selecting posters and general adventures in picking up tacos, tackling work humility, trends in bathroom and home design, Cahaba Brewing Mu Cha Cho, Mad Mad Mad Mad world in cinescope, big picture comedy event, Chinatown film noir masterpiece, Blade Runner post 1982 future, Vertigo, Saul Bass, Whitney computer animation, Jimmy Stewart, Hitchcock, David Lynch, 2001 a space odyssey, Stanley Kubrick,...

Chad Bowers reads his father’s memories from the Cuban Missile Crisis and Operation Falling Leaves involves the SAGE System and full bird Colonels manning the light gun operated radar scopes which are tied by multiple data lines to the NORAD defense complex. #OperationFallingLeaves #CubanMissileCrisis #ColdWarHistory #NuclearStandoff #JFKandCastro #SovietMissiles #USCubaTensions #1962Crisis #Milit...

In this episode, we dive into the surprisingly gripping saga of cleaning up a cluttered Google Drive. What starts as a mundane task—freeing up storage space—turns into an addictive, game-like quest. We explore the thrill of clicking through hundreds, even thousands, of files, each deletion feeling like a small victory. From old movies and forgotten PDFs to random adverts, outdated flyers, stray co...

The Incredible True Facts of Space discusses Relativistic, Eccentric, and Synchronistic thoughts during the slow continued fall of the roman empire. Nothing but change in 4 billion years of climate records, drinking canned corn, way to improve who kernel corn experiences, draining canned corn liquids and searching for killers behind shower curtain 416 times since I was 16 years old. Roman numerals...

TITFOS blue doubled is part of an experimental series of audio art from The Incredible True Facts Of Space. It is an audio trip through foundational soundscapes of the 20th century, populuxe era through GenX childhood. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit williamchadbowers.substack.com

You join us this time at Slice Pizza in Vestavia Hills near Birmingham AL. It’s a lovely pizza parlor with a satisfying pie. Topics include lit theory, movie theatres, smell from beer, milk, and slime from Doubledare Nickleodeon season one. What do the rich want? Eyes Wide Shut, AI, the movie. exploring Lolita, universal distaste and two tribes of mammals, magic of mammals falling in love with any...

Join Chad on this ONSUG tour of the Barber Vintage Racing Museum in Birmingham Alabama. Hear audio descriptions of various motorcycles and racecars, and quick visit with legendary motorcycle designer Pierre Terblanche at their design center. Chad rambles about exhibits at the museum. We hope you enjoy this walk amongst the racing vehicles and ponder with Chad about the cows that made all of this p...

All the little revolutions of life This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit williamchadbowers.substack.com

a chilling audio show that probes the raw, jagged edges of human fear—both primal and absurd. From the relentless 9-minute snooze of an alarm clock that feels like a missed bus to eternity, to the gut-twisting dread of spoiled milk lurking in your fridge. Dive into the bizarre: wasps nesting inside horseflies, a metaphorical swarm of dread; the creeping terror of ALS stealing breath and autonomy;...

The Scientific, the Unscientific and the Pseudoscientific walking the dog, air conditioner collar, peltier cooling device, religion and science, birth of science, exploring the realities of psuedoscience, things that are true, untrue but true, extra true, truer than true and etc. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, vis...

The Incredible True Facts of Space presents a whimsical and surreal narrative that intertwines various themes, such as cats cooking spaghetti, elevator safety, aliens, and dimension travel instructions. It includes anecdotes about cats, Italian food references, and philosophical musings. The commercial breaks within the text, advertise Elevator World Magazine and introduce peculiar concepts like t...

Join Chad as he discusses the foods of his life and a few thoughts about sleepwear. We talk about breakfast cereals, microwave meals, cooking devices, restaurants, lunches in this monologue. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit williamchadbowers.substack.com

- True Stories david byrne - Queen - A kind of magic - Purina Memory Pills - Lyrics "House on Highland Avenue" The Gun Club - Finest pastry in the world - Krispy Kreme Donut - Midnight Run, pefect movie, Robert Dinero, Charles Grodin - Movies out while I worked at movie theatre (3-4 years) - Intering world of the movie as a movie theatre usher - Dan O'bannon, John Carpenter - DARKSTAR movie - The...

Thoughts on planes, trains, and other conveyances that I have encountered in life. I was lucky enough to work on the monorail system, which is something that I had asked for. Something I thought was really cool. You know,at the time at Disney,they had just a couple years prior had upgraded from the original Mark IV monorail to the Mark VI monorails, which unbelievably are still in use. Although I...

Once upon a time, in a universe where reality was more about crossing lines than drawing them, we had land borders, maritime borders, air borders, and the often overlooked international borders where you might need a passport just to say hello. Don't forget trade borders, where tariffs can turn a simple handshake into a complex negotiation. But there was a chilling tale whispered along these borde...

Top 10 list of unusual health symptoms dives into the strangest ways your body can signal something’s up. Imagine waking up to a metallic taste that won’t quit rusting, or feeling like your skin’s crawling with invisible army ants. How about remote controllable hiccups that last for days, or a sudden inability to smell things that aren’t there—like phantom smoke or flowers? Check yourself often fo...