Your Brain on Facts

Moxie LaBouche

Your weekly half-hour of things you never knew you never knew.

  • 5 minutes 40 seconds
    Dumping out my purse (update on the podcast)

    YBOF's gonna take a break for a month or two.

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    19 July 2022, 7:18 am
  • 54 minutes 2 seconds
    Episode 200, part 2!

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    5 July 2022, 8:00 am
  • 50 minutes 56 seconds
    Episode 200!!!!

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    28 June 2022, 10:00 am
  • 32 minutes 52 seconds
    Big, Bold Burglaries (ep 199)

    How hard was it to steal the Mona Lisa? What does the word "ponzi" actually mean?


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    Music: Kevin MacLeod

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    21 June 2022, 4:00 pm
  • 29 minutes 21 seconds
    Hidden Histories - Rosewood, Tulsa, Chicago (encore)

    (Chronic health problems sometime require an encore performance of a past episode.)

    Hundreds dead, thousands homeless, entire communities wiped out, yet most of us have never heard of what happened in Rosewood 1923, Tulsa 1921, or Chicago 1919.

    Music by Kevin MacLeod  

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    14 June 2022, 10:29 am
  • 34 minutes 35 seconds
    Strange Currency (ep. 198)

    What do limestone, leather, plastic and mulberry tree bark have in common? They've all been used to make money, plus lots of other materials besides! Join me for a quick jaunt around the world and through history and we look at a fraction of the history of currency.

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    Music: Kevin MacLeodSteve Oxen

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    7 June 2022, 7:15 am
  • 35 minutes 20 seconds
    Suspect Sustenance Stories (ep. 197)

    Who was General Tsao of chicken fame? Where do Danish pastries come from? Is pad Thai actually Thai food? All that and more in this patron-voted episode!

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    Music: Kevin MacLeod

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    31 May 2022, 7:18 am
  • 33 minutes 40 seconds
    Awfully Fond of You (ep. 196)

    How did rubber ducks go from lumps of rubber that didn't even float to a cheerful childhood staple? Let's look at where they came from, where they're going, and why they keep showing up at violent political protests.

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    00:38 Bit of backstory

    07:13 Bert's best buddy

    10:25 Review, patrons, thanks!

    12:00 Ducks for charity or science

    17:58 Giant ducks, wild and domestic

    20:16 Can You Hear The Duckies Sing?

    22:45 THE Rubber Duck

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    Music: Kevin MacLeod

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    24 May 2022, 7:15 am
  • 32 minutes 6 seconds
    Dread Pirate Misinformation (ep 195)

    Finally, I get to the subtopic that launched not one but two episodes, the Gentleman Pirate Stede Bonnet, as well as the most interesting boring thing I could find and why science didn't get a handle on scurvy until nearly WWII.

    (Apologies in advance because I was red-lining my mic throughout and I have no idea why -- I'd been doing VO jobs all day with no such issue.)

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    01:03 Ye scurvy dog

    08:27 Gratitude et al

    11:30 The doldrums

    15:49 Livestream for the Cure

    17:46 The Gentleman Pirate, Stede Bonnet 

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    Music: Kevin MacLeod

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    17 May 2022, 7:15 am
  • 31 minutes 36 seconds
    Yaarrrr Brain On Facts (ep. 194)

    What started as a need to tell the real story of "Gentleman Pirate" Stede Bonnet has turned into a myth vs history two-parter! I love when that happens. Hear about pirate pensions, the makeup of the mariners, and civil unions on the seven seas. Special thanks to Charlie and Jesse over the in Brainiac Breakroom for help with the title.

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    Music: Kevin MacLeod, and Tabletop Audio

    Calm History Podcast

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    10 May 2022, 7:00 am
  • 59 seconds
    D'oh! (no episode this week)

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    3 May 2022, 10:52 am
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