Anna and Jazzy

The People's Polygraph

Education EN ↓ 249 episodes

Join Anna and Jazzy, a cheery Brit and a larrikin Aussie as they try to take each other on in a game of lies and facts!

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Anna and Jazzy

Episodes

Season 7: We Digress 18.06.2019 36:59

In which you will learn: Not a lot, really...

S07E13 Read Between the Actors' Lines 11.06.2019 53:12

In which you will learn: About an unexpected and unscripted participant in The Godfather Where all the weird ideas for the Die Hard franchise came from The actual "opening lines" to some of the most famous movies of all time

S07E12 Animation is for Adults Too! 04.06.2019 49:54

In which you will learn: What the most impressive puppet in Stopmotion Animation is Why Disney disowned A Nightmare Before Christmas A bunch of fun working titles

S07E11 There's No History Without a Good Story 28.05.2019 52:00

In which you will learn: Which movie is considered the most accurate representation of Pearl Harbour (spoiler alert: it's not Pearl Harbour) What made All the President's Men a nightmare to film A bunch of tag lines that tried to make history sound COOL

S07E10 When You Wish Upon A Star... 21.05.2019 1:07:42

In which you will learn: Where you can find Disney's sneakiest Eater Eggs About the time Disney bet on the wrong horse Which Disney Prince is the best Prince

S07E09 Nothing is an Original 14.05.2019 46:35

In which you will learn: Which book and author hold the records for most adaptations in film Why it's so hard to adapt something that was never finished in the first place More than you ever needed to know about video game movies

S07E08 Cannes You Show Me the Way to Sundance? 07.05.2019 42:41

In which you will learn: Which is the oldest film festival in the world (Not that it's a competition...) Which film festivals Jazz has never heard of Where to go in the UK if you want to catch a festival

S07E07 And the Award Goes To... 30.04.2019 51:44

In which you will learn: What the Oscar statuettes are actually made from Who holds all of the records in all of the categories What the demographics of the selection committee now looks like

S07E06 We Need Some Direction 23.04.2019 50:06

In which you will learn: Which directors have some truly weird interests Who hoards the most memorabilia from their film sets Which actors have made it big on the directing front too

S07E05 Thus Spoke Stanley Kubrick 16.04.2019 51:08

In which you will learn: What a temp track is, and why some people hate them About the most musically talented family of all time Some gr9 puns

S07E04 Meet-Cutes for Everyone! 09.04.2019 56:53

In which you will learn: Why the Americans needed to change a British Classic The wacky titles of a bunch of romcoms How much Jazz absolutely does not care about any of them

S07E03 Dragons in Space! 02.04.2019 48:27

In which you will learn: What the Terminator was MEANT to say What was the first fully CGI creature to grace our screens What happened in the world's first science fiction movie

S07E02 The Extremely Wild West 26.03.2019 55:27

In which you will learn: Where and when you'd need to take your time machine if you wanted to visit the Wild West The origins of Hollywood A lot of things that have gone wrong in some of the greatest Westerns of all time

S07E01 A Hollywood Star Is Born 19.03.2019 53:40

In which you will learn: The super weird, super mysterious actual story of the invention of film Why Titanic didn't stop costing the studio money until months after it was released How to make a bunch of fun noises!

Season 6: We Digress 12.03.2019 27:36

In which you will learn: Not a lot really...

LIVE from PodCon2 (feat. Sarah Campbell) 05.03.2019 21:59

In which you will learn: How well our guest this season (Sarah Campbell) fares when facing our Little Ones rounds Recorded by LiveU and Ben Ratner at PodCon 2 - Seattle, 2019

S06E13 The Perpetual Scholars 26.02.2019 54:45

In which you will learn: What prompted the idea for the first webcam All about one of the most interesting women of Morocco The who's who of celebrity scholars

S06E12 Dear F. Turner, I want to dance. 19.02.2019 58:22

In which you will learn: A bit about Frank Turner's unexpected past A bit about Frank Turner's interesting body art A lot about Frank Turner

S06E11 Pliny Gets Everything Wrong About Love 12.02.2019 47:32

In which you will learn Some natural remedies to cure a broken heart When's the best time to turn yourself into a tree A pretty good case as to why Pliny the Elder remained a single man throughout his life

S06E10 Storytelling and Telling Stories (feat. Sarah Campbell) 05.02.2019 1:13:38

In which you will learn: The twist-ending etymology of the word 'story' All about the Big Bad list of folk tale classifications And maybe bunch of tropes too

S06E09 What the Dickens? 29.01.2019 56:30

In which you will learn: What Charles Dickens' descendants are up to All about Charles' scandalously public personal life About a tragedy that almost prematurely ended Dickens' life

S06E08 Geeks, Assemble! 22.01.2019 49:47

In which you will learn: All about the BIGGEST convention in the world All about the LONGEST RUNNING convention in the world All about the MOST ABOUT ABE LINCOLN convention in the world

S06E07 McPodcast - free with every happy meal! 15.01.2019 51:41

In which you will learn: Just how many McDonalds there are in the world What McDonalds might have been without the hamburger Why Catholics came to the golden arches

S06E06 It me. #Gritty 08.01.2019 55:11

In which you will learn Where the word 'mascot' came from If mascots are as competitive as the sports teams they represent Something you probably don't know about Gritty

S06E05 [Insert Clickbait Title Here] #5 01.01.2019 55:04

In which you will learn: Which country employed interactive marketing strategies to get their citizens to live healthier and stop smoking Which gym doesn't just want you to join a gym If marketing can actually be used for good