Your Brain On Facts

The devil is in the details. This week, we look at how missing or inserted commas, forsaken hyphens, and flat-out typos have led to expensive chaos. Read the full script.   Support the show. It's been quite a while since we got a review for the YBOF book. Can you take a sec and let us know what you thought? Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.  Music by David Fesliyan and Kevin McLeod   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.   The Olympic games have come and gone, but what kind of games have gone before? Today we look at events removed from the Olympics, like pistol dueling and poodle grooming, plus the legit legend that was Jim Thorpe. Read the full script.   Support the show. It's been quite a while since we got a review for the YBOF book. Can you take a sec and let us know what you thought? Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.  Editing by Adam of Odd Dad Out.  Music by David Fesliyan and Kevin McLeod   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been quite a while since we got a review for the YBOF book. Can you take a sec and let us know what you thought? Voted on by our Patreon supporters, today we're looking at people you've probably heard of but might not know that much about, the bakingest people in America, the Pennsylvania Dutch. Who are they? What's chow chow? How do you powwow, and why did it get a man murdered?  Read the full script.   Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.  Editing by Adam of Odd Dad Out.  Music by David Fesliyan and Kevin McLeod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been quite a while since we got a review for the YBOF book. Can you take a sec and let us know what you thought? "Everybody complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it." - Charles Dudley Warren Except, sometimes, people do. Or at least they try. This week, we look at weather manipulation, cloud seeding, hail cannons, and whatever the hell "orgone" is. Read the full script.   Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.  Editing by Adam of Odd Dad Out.  Music by David Fesliyan and Kevin McLeod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been quite a while since we got a review for the YBOF book. Can you take a sec and let us know what you thought? People have been using animals, making war, and using animals to make war for a long time now. Think Hannibal’s elephants, Roman war horses, k9 units in Vietnam. But for every example of animals being used successfully, there are any number plans, proposals, and projects that didn’t make it into the field. Read the full script.   Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.  Music by David Fesliyan and Kevin McLeod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's another one of those episodes where I take a seemingly mundane topic and splash around in its unappreciated awesomeness. This time -- trees! Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.  Music by David Fesliyan and Kevin McLeod.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, YBOF is going true crime as we look at a pitiless poisoning, a terroristic tampering, and some killer coffee. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.  Music by David Fesliyan and Kevin McLeod.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Smoke the tires with me today as we take on a trio of patronymic car creators and their pride & joy projects that failed spectacularly. *Yes, I know "VIN number" is redundant. Naming episodes can be trickier than you'd think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Voted on by our Patreon supporters, we look at a game where losers would be put to death (or was it the winners?) and some baseball players playing for their lives. Read the full script. Today's sponsors: Love Letter. Moxie LaBouche Voiceovers, Military True Crime Addict and our MERCH! Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.  Music by Kevin McLeod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another topic voted on by our Patreon supporters, and added to by our listener FB group, this one turned into a two-parter on 'the last of their kind.' If you haven't check out the People episode, please do! Read the full script. Guest quote readers: Mike from Genuine Chit Chat and Steve from Mancave. Today's sponsors: Podcorn; Love Letter. Moxie LaBouche Voiceovers, and our MERCH! Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.  Music by Lyrical Piano, Kevin McLeod.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why is Pride Month in June? Did the Stonewall Riots start the gay rights movement?  Did Marsha P Johnson really throw the first brick at Stonewall Inn? We answer all those questions and more as we revisit this pivotal moment in gay rights. Read the full script and find sources. Support the show. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram, email,. Music by Kevin MacLeod  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another topic voted on by our Patreon supporters, and added to by our listener FB group, this one turned into a two-parter on 'the last of their kind' -- people first, animals next week.   Read the full script. Music by Lyrical Piano, Kevin McLeod. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.  Guest quote readers: Bill from With Confetti in our Hair, Dustin from Sandman Stories Presents, Z Hagen from Wasteland Active Radio, Jeff from Mt Rushmore podcast, Vlado from It's Not Rocket Surgery   Today's sponsors: Podcorn; The Art of Bombing; WorkPatterns; Love Letter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While the world goes mad for dogecoin and NFTs, we look at four times when a suddenly popular commodity drove an economic boom and bust, from tulips to trains, in the XL episode. Read the full script. Music by Kevin MacLeod. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.  Today's sponsors: Highbrow Drivel; Podcorn; Why Do We Say That?; WorkPatterns.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As voted on by our Patreon, today we look at hostile architecture and guerilla gardening. Guest quote readers: Jason from Memester of the Week, Dustin from Sandman Stories Presents, Najee from Weekly Cooldown, and Chris from This Week Today.   Today's sponsors: Highbrow Drivel; Follow Friday. Music by Kevin MacLeod and Chris Haugen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Updates on the Guinness world record and current troubles for some podcast listeners. As voted on by our Patreon patrons, today we're talking about mud.  This ubiquitous combination of water and dirt is useful to science, employed in health and beauty, a little-known component of professional sports, and even eaten.  Read the full script. Music by Kevin MacLeod. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.   Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do PT Barnum's performer General Tom Thumb, Elvis's manager Colonel Tom Park, and wrestler turned cartoon character Sargent Slaughter have in common? 00:53 General Tom Thumb 08:58 Colonel Tom Parker 25:34 Sargent Slaughter Read the full script. Music by Kevin MacLeod. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.     Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If a little is good, a lot must be better, right? You'd be surprised how many common, innocuous things in our world can actually kill you. Just when you thought it was safe to drink water. Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Guest quote reader: Shawn from Ink & Ash, formerly Stories of Yore and Yours. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

True stories of people who educated themselves, to turn the law from a sword into a shield. Guest quote readers: CJ from Been Through Some S***, Chris from This Week Today. Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With guest presenters, in approximate order of appearance: Bunny Trails  A Star Wars podcast                                   Footnoting History Grammar Girl Reel Feels  Die-alougue Gurus of Comedy  Lexitecture  Ignorance Was Bliss Happily Ever Aftermath Doomsday Strange Animals In the Doll World MyhandleisJonathanBlade  Self Shoots from the Hip Jackie Watches Stuff  Nerd Lab Nutrition Diva Ready, Set, Roll Shame Pinata Sleep Whispers NocaNews Quiz and Hers This is Her Place Savvy Psychologist Useless Information Ballsy History  Varmints Worst Foot Forward The Jury Room Because Language I Know Dino The Curious Professor Ink and Ash Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The meme that inspired the episode. Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices