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Bring On The Questions
by BringOn TheQuestions
How do you learn about the world? You ask questions. That's exactly what Foennix and Will (her dad) are doing here. They're going to ask some not so serious questions. Why do we say cats have nine lives? They will also ask some slightly more serious questions. How much does the earth weigh and how do we know? They're gonna Bring On The Questions and hopefully bring on some good answers too.
Episodes
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71 - What Do You Know About Vampires?
We decided to do a little bit of a loose conversation on vampires and what we know about them with a little structure from the notes. This conversation has sparked another episode. Listen and you’ll find out what that is. The history of vampires and the idea of them with differing characteristics...
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70 - Who Was Typhoid Mary?
Mary Mallon, otherwise known as Typhoid Mary, just wanted to cook food and care for people, but her biology wouldn’t let that happen. She contracted typhoid in her life and it never actually left her system. She would sluff off typhoid pathogens and many people around her would contract typhoid...
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69 - What Is The Dead Internet Theory?
It almost seemed like we weren’t supposed to be talking about this. We skipped a week. It happens. Then we recorded one evening only to discover, after talking for an hour and a half, that the recording stopped 41 seconds into it. We tried again the next evening and again the recording stopped at...
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68 - What Is Bohemian Grove?
Bohemian Grove would be the perfect out of the way retreat for the wealthy elite if they didn’t do those odd rituals. Sure rituals can be fine, but do they really need to wear dark hoods and have the voice of Walter Cronkite come out of an owl totem? That’s weird, but you know what, they’re not...
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67 - Who Is Elon Musk? Part 2. The Road To Trillionaire
In Elon Musk Part 1 we talked about his personal life, some of his lineage, his upbringing, his many significant others, and his many offspring. In Part 2 we are talking about his road to becoming the United States’s first trillionaire. His method of founding or becoming a high ranking member of…
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66 - Who Is Elon Musk, The World's First Trillionaire?
We are talking about the origin story of the world’s first trillionaire in this week’s episode. That’s right, everyone's favorite rich person to hate Elon Musk! His younger years were pretty difficult and all signs point to those factors contributing to the person we see today. He practices...
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65 - Who Is Nessie Part 2?
No audio issues this time! This has to be our most giggly episode yet! Once those giggle fits start it takes some time for them to calm down. We finally get into deeper descriptions of what Nessie the Loch Ness Monster allegedly looks like and her fellow lake monsters around the world. The...
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64 - Who Is Nessie or What Is The Loch Ness Monster? Part 1
First, we need to apologize about the audio issues that happened towards the end of this episode as well as the abrupt end of the episode. We recorded for about 1 hour and 30 minutes and got 58 minutes of audio…sort of. Will’s mic died around 45 minutes and Foennix’s mic died at about 58 minutes…
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63 - Who Are The Corpse Walkers?
The Corpse Walkers are a fascinating piece of history. Respect for the dead and ritual practice turned into an entire industry of work. The idea that a person’s body needed to be returned to their homeland and buried in order for the soul to rest peacefully seems a little crazy to a culture, us,...
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62 - What Are Data Centers? Part 2
Even after two episodes about Data Centers we still don’t think they are necessary in such quantities. I guess we’re going to have to live with them somehow. If the people designing and engineering them could think more about resource efficiency then maybe coping with the festering warts that…
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61 - What Are Data Centers? Part 1
Data Centers have evolved in so many different ways since they first became a necessity and nuisance. They have always taken up massive amounts of space and resources and somehow the needs to run them have ever increased as well. The sheer amount of water and electricity it takes to run these...
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60 - What Is Spotify's Origin Story?
Here we go, another big corporation origin story! Born from the idea of legally listening to music on the internet, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon created Spotify. The word is actually a portmanteau of “Spot” and “Identify”. It was a struggle but those guys built something pretty important for…
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59 - Where Did 6-7 Come From?
Happy 6-7 Day!!! Well it was 6/7 this past week. We dig into the origin of this recent meme/idiom that has inundated society so much that schools have banned students from saying it and doing the motion associated with it. We also get into origin stories of some other idioms involving numbers. We...
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58 - What Are Mass Hysterias?
Can you believe at one point mass hysterias were blamed on roving uteruses?? Of course the males in power giving out diagnoses only blamed females for a long time. Eventually males were diagnosed as part of mass hysteria epidemics, but it was still a female dominated ailment according to the...
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57 - What Is The Chupacabra?
Welcome to our next cryptid origin story. The origin of the Chupacabra is really recent in the grand scheme of things. The first alleged sighting or encounter was in March of 1995 where 8 sheep were discovered dead. After that, other mysterious livestock deaths were attributed to the same…
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56 - Do You Think The Earth Is Flat?
Early observers of the world, scientists before there were really scientists, were adamant that the world was flat and then observed a little closer and decided there were too many circles or partial circles being observed on celestial bodies to continue to say it was flat. Well according to some...
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55 - Do You Think The Earth Is Hollow?
This week we’re exploring the hollow earth hypothesis. Many religions have believed or still believe some kind of afterlife exists under or in the earth. Is there a way to enter that space from the surface without dying first? Before there was deep polar, north or south, exploration there was…
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54 - What Is Walpurgis Night?
Walpurgis Night or Walpurgisnacht. Another fire, fellowship, and fun-filled mid season celebration brought to you by those kookie Germanic folk. Saint Walpurga is the reason for this particular seasonal celebration, but that’s only because they moved her remains about 100 years after she died and...
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53 - What's The Story On Unicorns?
Unicorns and tangents. I guess I could say more about this episode, but that’s about the gist of what happened. We talked about Unicorns, but boy did we go in wild directions while we were doing it. So apparently a story tells of Unicorns that were the size of mountains and that’s why they…
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52 - What Did We Learn?
We learned so much in a year! It’s actually pretty mind blowing! This episode was supposed to be the entire year in review, but we’re pretty good at tangents and getting distracted too. Soooo we only talked about the trailer and first 15 episodes. Anyway we hope you enjoy our very non-structured...
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51 - What Is The Origin Story Of Starbucks?
Three guys who went to college together were tired of the bland canned coffee they were being served and set out to do something about it. They brought together the best coffee beans they could find and called their company Starbucks. Then another guy came along and said they could do so much…
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50 - How Did Big Corporations Become A Thing?
Big Corporations have been an American staple since the beginning of America right up to this very day. Textiles, railroads, telecommunications, and petroleum were the dominating forces of the early days and in the modern day we are inundated with the overwhelming power of technology in its many...
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49 - Why Do We Consider Friday The 13th Bad?
Triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13) and its variant, paraskevidekatriaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th), are among the West's most enduring superstitions, costing the U.S. economy up to $900 million in lost productivity every Friday the 13th. The stigma begins with mathematics. Ancient...
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48 - What Is Coral Castle & Who Built It?
Coral Castle is a physical representation of intense dedication and incredible engineering. Edward Leedskalnin spent most of his life building Coral Castle with the hope of his former love joining him and starting a full life complete with children. However, that was not to be. He brought the…
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47 - Are You Superstitious?
Superstition is an enduring cognitive bridge between the rational pursuit of causality and the psychological need for agency in an uncertain world. Etymologically derived from the Latin superstitio ("standing over"), the term has evolved from Roman associations with excessive ritual to Medieval...
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46 - Why Do We Celebrate Valentines Day?
Happy Valentine’s Day! It’s that time of year where goats are sacrificed and naked priests run around spanking women with strips of goat hides to ensure fertility and ease of pain during childbirth….oh wait….no no….that’s how Lupercalia, the precursor to Valentine’s Day, is celebrated. Sometime...
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45 - What Is A Squonk?
Here we go, we’re breaking down another cryptid creature. This time we want to know about the sad sad loose skinned teary eyed Squonk that lurks around the hemlocks of north-central Pennsylvania. It was described early on in William T. Cox’s Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few…
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44 - What Is Synchronicity?
Do you ever recognize or tune in to those moments where if you were just a couple minutes or even seconds later it would have meant disaster? Do you ever think of someone and suddenly you’re getting a text message or a phone call from them? Any time you feel that sense of “Right Place, Right…
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43 - How Did The Months Get Their Names?
This is a bit of a sequel to our 6th episode! Then we asked “How did the days of the week get their names” Now we’re asking How Did The Months Get Their Names. For a long long time a long long time ago the Romans would march in March and finish the year in December totaling 304 days in the year.…
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42 - What Is Bibliomancy?
Bibliomancy. Divining prophecy via a sacred text or eventually any literature that holds meaning for you. It was practiced regularly for sometime in history in all religions. Eventually Christianity decided it was a little too witchcraft-like. We tried our hands at a little Bibliomancy ourselves....
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41 - Did Vince Li Go Wendigo?
The 2008 killing of Timothy McLean on a Greyhound bus remains one of Canada's most disturbing criminal cases. Vincent Li, suffering from untreated paranoid schizophrenia, beheaded and cannibalized McLean near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Li believed he was fulfilling a divine command to destroy…
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40 - What Is Yule And How Is It Celebrated?
Happy Yule! Merry Advent! Soon we'll be in the new year! First we need to celebrate the last few days of 2025 with the final days of the Yuletide season. Much like Advent Yule was formally celebrated or rather observed much longer during the colder months. Now it's nice and condensed down to just...
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39 - Who Or What Is Krampus?
The short answer is Krampus is the anti-Santi. He’s the yang to Santa’s ying. He was cool in the early days of Germany and then he was too cool for Germany in World War II. In more modern days Krampus is the mascot for a more goth type Christmas. #BringOnTheQuestions #History #Myth #Krampus...
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38 - What Is Advent?
Formally, Advent was a time of personal sacrifice or abstinence much like Lent and it lasted 40 days as well. Essentially it was a second Lent for the year. It very slowly evolved into the 24 day countdown we have today. From personal abstinence to a miniature daily treat in a handy tandy…
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37 - What Are Wendigo Or Wendigos?
A Wendigo is not some cryptid creature that can just be done away with like modern media likes to portray. Succumbing to the Wendigo spirit or going Wendigo is more of a breakdown of one's spirit due to harsh physical conditions, but again that’s an oversimplification of the idea of the Wendigo.…
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36 - Why Is It Called Black Friday?
Why is it called “Black Friday”? Well it’s not because the retailers go from not making profits to suddenly making profits on that day. The insane amount of consumerism certainly helps profits, but in reality the profits were already there. When someone started playing with gold standards in 1869...
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35 - What Is A Homunculus Or What Are Homunculi?
The early concepts of a Homunculus or Homunculi is absolutely unreal to us as modern people. They were attempting to create a human outside of the body via alchemical razzle dazzle. The whole idea really threw us for a loop for a chunk of the episode. It got weird for awhile. The modern…
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34 - Are Younger Siblings Always The Tallest?
Foennix's oldest sibling wanted to know Are Youngest Siblings Always The Tallest, because Foennix is rapidly catching up to her even though she is over 10 years older than her. Genetics, it turns out, is only a part of the factors that determine overall height in humans. One suprising factor that...
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33 - Who Celebrates And How Is Samhain Celebrated? Part 2 Malicious Donations
We're finishing up our impromptu two part episode on Samhain/Halloween. We finished Part 1 by starting to talk about Mischief Night and we started this episode with a positive spin on it. The toilet paper in a tree and throwing eggs was/is more like malicious donations. It's Malicious Donation...
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32 - Who Celebrates And How Is Samhain Celebrated?
Samhain that liminal time of year when the veil between the living and the dead spirits thins and we can commune with or attempt to protect ourselves from the otherside. It's a time for the community to thank mother earth for her bountiful harvest to sustain us through the cold that is to come.…
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31 - What Are Skinwalkers?
The deeper narrative of what a Skinwalker actually is goes much deeper than just some shape shifter that can transform into an animal. The Navajo or Diné people continue to believe that a medicine man or woman can become a skinwalker if they were to commit an atrocity on their own family or clan....
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30 - Are You Scared Yet?
Phun with Phobias! Of course we start with a history lesson on what phobia means and where it came from. The Greeks did it again! Then we get into a bunch of rational and irrational fears. As irrational as some sound people do get diagnosed with them, because they actually exhibit fight or flight...
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29 - What Are The Hopkinsville Goblins?
Something spooked the Suttons and their guests so much that they fled their home to alert the local authorities on the night of August 21, 1955 and into the morning of August 22. The simplest explanation is a Great Horned Owl doing owl things, but would an owl really cause so much chaos at one...
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28 - What Are Dark Theories Of The Teletubbies?
Ahhh Teletubbies those lovable technicolor creatures with screens in their bellies that would dance around on your television and entertain young children. They look and sound innocent enough, but what if we told you they allegedly have some seriously dark inspirations? This week we’re asking…
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27 - What Is The Beast Of Gevaudan?
A creature of cryptozoology? A hoax? Some kind of hybrid of real life animals that was trained to kill? Possibly an out of place animal just surviving? Or more simply than that a larger version of an animal that is native to the region? Regardless of any out of this world or fully within the…
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26 - Who Was Aleister Crowley?
“Mr. CrowleyWhat went on in your head? Oh, Mr. CrowleyDid you talk to the dead? Your lifestyle to me seemed so tragic With the thrill of it all You fooled all the people with magic Yeah, you waited on Satan's call” Mr Crowley by Ozzy Osbourne This week we’re asking Who Was Aleister Crowley? In…
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25 - Who Or What Are The Black Eyed Children
Happy September....that is if you heed the warning "Do not let them in" then your September will be happy. In this episode we're asking Who Or What Are The Black-Eyed Children? Maybe they just want a ride to their mom's house to get money to see a movie. Maybe they just need to call their parents...
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24 - Why Did The Salem Witch Trials Occur?
Why Did The Salem Witch Trials Occur? The Puritans couldn’t stand non-conformity! You needed to be a good little automaton for that society or you would likely be branded a witch….by some teenage girls who dreamed you were a witch?! What!? Yup the powers that be in Salem, MA in 1692 believed...
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23 - What Is Witchcraft? Part 2
We finished up our unintentional two part episode asking What Is Witchcraft. Foennix referenced Hocus Pocus plenty of times. Definitely some spoilers if you haven’t seen either movie. In our witchcraft spell crafting ignorance we attempted to explore what it would take to make a spell to have...
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22 - What Is Witchcraft? Part 1
What Is Witchcraft?Well it turns out Foennix is pretty passionate about witchcraft and magic type interests. She really gets into movies and shows about witchcraft and magic users. She's so passionate in fact we had to turn this episode into a two parter! You gotta listen to all the things she's...
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How do you learn about the world? You ask questions. That's exactly what Foennix and Will (her dad) are doing here. They're going to ask some not so serious questions. Why do we say cats have nine lives? They will also ask some slightly more serious questions. How much does the earth weigh and how do we know? They're gonna Bring On The Questions and hopefully bring on some good answers too.
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