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Cigar Nerds Podcast: Welcome to the Vault
Cigar Nerds Podcast - April 23, 2024 13:17 - 1 second ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe Cigar Nerds Podcast: Welcome to the Vault. Good morning vault dwellers and wasteland survivors. This week the guys venture into the post apocalypses to talk about the Fallout series. In science we talk about real bunkers, microwave weapons, UK smoking ban, and living in a simulation. In Nerd ...
Strange Stories UK: Constance Marten & Mark Gordon 5, Confrontations and closing speeches.
Strange Stories UK - April 19, 2024 16:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsConfrontations and Closing Speeches. This is the fifth podcast on the Constance Marten and Mark Gordon trial. This one concentrates on the last month of the trial which only sat for a few days. The trial has again been delayed halfway through the Judge's summing up speech. I don't think that the...
Ep 183 - Unexpected Eclipse Results Revealed
Haunted Talks - April 19, 2024 10:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 81 ratingsIn our last episode, we invited you to join us in a chilling experiment during the recent total eclipse—and you didn’t disappoint. After compiling all the data our team members provided, we are poised to unveil results that are not only unexpected but also mystifying, sparking more questions tha...
Mapping Climate History
With Good Reason - April 18, 2024 14:23 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsLast year, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires wafted down and blanketed a broad swath of the East Coast - from New York to North Carolina. The wildfire smoke had us East Coasters feeling like the apocalypse had arrived. But fires aren’t always doom and gloom. Stockton Maxwell says they can actua...
Philias: Furry Isn't a Fetish (Most of the Time)
Taboo Science - April 18, 2024 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsThe furry fandom gets a bad rap. But on this episode, we're digging beneath the stereotypes to uncover the truth about this misunderstood community. We'll chat with furry researcher Dr. Courtney Plante along with Riley Black, a science writer and a furry herself, to explore what the furry cultur...
A Brief History of Belgium
Everything Everywhere Daily - April 18, 2024 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 762 ratingsLocated in Northern Europe, along the Atlantic coast, is the relatively small nation of Belgium. Belgium is like other countries in most ways, but its history and founding are very different from those of its neighbors. How it was founded had important implications for all over Europe and may s...
The History of Money (Encore)
Everything Everywhere Daily - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 762 ratingsMoney is a very strange thing. All of us use it. We spend it, earn it, and save it. We know it when we see it. Yet, even some of the world’s best economists have a very hard time defining it. It has been around for thousands of years, yet there is still innovation being made with it today. Learn...
The Great Wall of China (Encore)
Everything Everywhere Daily - April 16, 2024 08:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 762 ratingsIt is one of the longest and largest structures ever built. It was designed to defend one of the oldest and greatest civilizations on the planet. For centuries it did just that…..and for some centuries it didn’t do that at all. Some people have claimed that you could see it from space, and it ...
Strange Stories: A Southampton murder 2023.
Strange Stories UK - April 15, 2024 16:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPlease be aware, this podcast is recorded in one take without editing. This is a case that was heard at Winchester Crown Court between January 2024 and March 2024.
Sandwiches
Everything Everywhere Daily - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 762 ratingsSandwiches are one of the most popular types of food in the world. They are incredibly easy to make, can be incredibly cheap, and they come in numerous varieties. Yet, the humble sandwich is also the subject of a great deal of controversy. What type of sandwich is best? Where did sandwiches come...
Ep 295: Angus Dunican - World's Worst Ventriloquist
Worst Foot Forward - April 15, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsDONATE TO THE HARDEST GEEZER! Try and see our lips move on this week's episode as Angus Dunican returns to talk to us about the World's Worst Ventriloquist. From puppets on the beat to those who faced down the Nazis and lived to tell the tale, there's something for everyone in here. Assuming ...
Aircraft Carriers
Everything Everywhere Daily - April 14, 2024 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 762 ratingsAircraft carriers are some of the most fearsome weapons in the world. They are enormous platforms that can travel around the globe, projecting power over an enormous part of it. However, aircraft carriers have a rather humble origin that actually predates the invention of the airplane. Throughou...
King George III
Everything Everywhere Daily - April 13, 2024 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 762 ratingsIn 1760, George III succeeded to the throne of the United Kingdom at the age of 22, becoming the third king in the House of Hannover. His reign would become one of the longest in British history, and he was monarch during some of the most important events in history including the American Revolu...
Sergeant Alvin York
Everything Everywhere Daily - April 12, 2024 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 762 ratingsIn October 1918, just weeks before the end of the First World War, one of the most incredible feats of military valor took place in the Meuse–Argonne offensive, one of the last great battles of the war. This incredible feat of bravery and soldiering was done by a very unlikely soldier. One that ...
New Brownies
With Good Reason - April 11, 2024 20:12 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsIn the midst of the Harlem Renaissance, W.E.B. DuBois wanted children to have something to read. Something that was speaking to them. So he started The Brownies’ Book, a monthly periodical for “children of the sun.” One hundred years later, sociologist Dr. Karida Brown and visual artist Charly Pa...
Ernest Shackleton and the Rescue of the Endurance (Encore)
Everything Everywhere Daily - April 11, 2024 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 762 ratingsIn 1914, the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition set out to become the first to cross the continent of Antarctica by land. They did not achieve their goal. However, their failure ended up becoming one of the greatest stories of perseverance and of the tenacity of the human spirit. Learn...
Through the Lens: ‘Hotshot’
RadioWest - April 10, 2024 10:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 711 ratingsHotshots are the hardened individuals who fight wildfires. Gabriel Mann’s new film gets viewers as close to the fire line as you can be without becoming a hotshot yourself.
The History of Coffee (Encore)
Everything Everywhere Daily - April 10, 2024 08:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 762 ratingsSometime in the 15th century, a drink became popularized in the Arabian peninsula. It was dark, bitter, and people couldn’t get enough of it. From its simple origins, over the centuries, it has spread around the world to become one of the most popular beverages in history. Today you can find it ...
Cigar Nerds Podcast: Ghosts on Ice
Cigar Nerds Podcast - April 09, 2024 13:22 - 1 second ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsCigar Nerds Podcast: Ghosts on Ice. This week we head back to the Empire state as the Ghostbusters return to the firehouse for Ghostbusters Frozen Empire. Warm up your proton packs. In science we discuss stinky galaxies, new livers, invisibility shields, and litter from space. In Nerd News we tal...
Songkran (Encore)
Everything Everywhere Daily - April 09, 2024 08:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 762 ratingsSongkran is a traditional festival celebrated in Thailand that marks the start of the Thai New Year. It is also known as the Water Festival, as it involves splashing water on one another as a symbolic gesture of cleansing and washing away the sins and bad luck of the previous year. However, it ha...
Solar Eclipse Group Experiment Reminder ☀️🌕
Haunted Talks - April 08, 2024 16:06 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratingsToday is the big day and we would love for you to join our eclipse group experiment! To get information on the experiments, and to submit your results, go to: https://hauntedwalk.com/eclipse/
The Telemark Raids (Encore)
Everything Everywhere Daily - April 08, 2024 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 762 ratingsDuring World War II, one of the biggest concerns of the Allies was the development of a German atomic bomb. As such, the allies and various partisan groups in occupied countries made the destruction of anything related to the Nazi atomic program a high priority. One place, in particular, was sub...
#059 - The Chipmunk Of Taxidermy
Troof Seeking - April 08, 2024 06:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingUncle Steve'll see you right Join the Patreon to hear more episodes www.patreon.com/troofseeking Find all the links here www.linktr.ee/troofseeking
The Kidnapping of Charley Ross (Encore)
Everything Everywhere Daily - April 07, 2024 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 762 ratingsMost children growing up are admonished not to take candy from strangers. It is good advice, but it isn’t advice that comes from nowhere. It comes from a particular incident 150 years ago that shocked the world and changed how we view children’s safety. It was an event, the echos of which can be...
Solar Eclipses
Everything Everywhere Daily - April 06, 2024 08:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 762 ratingsEvery few years, somewhere on Earth, is witness to one of the planet's greatest sights: a total eclipse. A total solar eclipse is rare, but it can be calculated centuries in advance. However, that wasn’t always the case. For thousands of years, solar eclipses were rare events that were considere...
Ep 182 - Eclipse - Portal to the Unknown
Haunted Talks - April 05, 2024 09:01 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratingsStep into the eerie shadows of a total solar eclipse with us and explore the mysterious connection between this celestial event and the supernatural. As the moon covers the sun, casting a rare darkness across North America, we dive into ancient myths, cultural beliefs, and the intriguing possibi...
Questions and Answers: Volume 17
Everything Everywhere Daily - April 05, 2024 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 762 ratingsYou have questions and I have answers Sponsors Available nationally, look for a bottle of Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond at your local store. Find out more at heavenhilldistillery.com/hh-bottled-in-bond.php Sign up today at butcherbox.com/daily and use code daily to choose your free offer and get...
Kat Moss from Scowl is here
Turned Out A Punk - April 05, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 958 ratingsPunk Rock Bowling presents: Get your psychic dancing shoes on because Kat Moss is on TOAP! Listen in as Damian sits down with the Scowl vocalist to talk punk and the growing pains that come with it. From the fanaticism of discovering punk, to two sides of the Limp Bizkit generational divide, to...
United We Stand: The People's Tongue
With Good Reason - April 04, 2024 19:17 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsWho decides what makes a language? In countries all over the world, there are official organizations with that job–in France, Croatia, India, Denmark, Nigeria, Mexico. But Ilan Stavans reminds us that in the United States, the people decide our language. And: Katrina Powell shares the expected im...
Strange Stories: Fiona Beal, Nicholas Billingham, the background to the 2024 trial.
Strange Stories UK - April 04, 2024 16:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsI am posting this before the retrial of the Nicholas Billingham / Fiona Beal case which is due to be heard at the Old Bailey in the late Spring of 2024. This is a retrial of a case abandoned during June 2023 for no apparent reason. I am giving the background to the original trial. It is told ...
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