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Fill In The Blank
by Robbie Robertson
Specific Topics about anything and everything with a guest we read the history and basically talk about our understanding of it.
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#53 - Sliced Bread (Evan Ewing)
Sliced bread is a loaf of bread that has been sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped". This led to the popular idiom "greatest thing since sliced bread".
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#52 - The United Of Church Of Bacon (Gabe Jarmen)
The United Church of Bacon is an atheist /skeptic philosophical parody church whose main goals are social progress and raising money for other charities, founded in 2010, by atheist John Whiteside and a group of friends.[1][2] The church offers all kinds of traditional religious services…
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#51 - B Theory Of Time (Cory Armbrecht)
The B-theory of time is the name given to one of two positions regarding philosophy of time. B-theorists argue that the flow of time is an illusion, that the past, present and future are equally real, and that time is tenseless. This would mean that temporal becoming is not an objective feature…
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#50 - Operation Charly (Evan Ewing)
Operation Charly (Spanish: Operación Charly), was allegedly the code-name given to a program undertaken by the military establishment in Argentina with the objective of providing military and counterinsurgency assistance to right-wing dictatorships in Central America to murder left-wing…
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#49 - Trans-Universal Zombie Church Of The Blissful Ringing (Cory Armbrecht)
The Trans-Universal Zombie Church of the Blissful Ringing (Slovene: Čezvesoljska Zombi Cerkev blaženega zvonjenja) is a contemporary religion in Slovenia, founded in March 2013 and registered in the national registry of religious communities in 2014.[1] As of late 2014, the church had over 10,000...
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#48 - Hylozoism (Cory, Gabe and Evan)
Hylozoism is the philosophical point of view that matter is in some sense alive. The concept dates back at least as far as the Milesian school of pre-Socratic philosophers. The term was coined by the English philosopher Ralph Cudworth in 1678.
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#47 - Plant Perception (Brookes Holloway)
Plant perception or plant gnosophysiology[1] is the ability of plants to sense and respond to the environment by adjusting their morphology, physiology, and phenotype accordingly.[2] Botanical research has revealed that plants are capable of reacting to a broad variety of stimuli, including...
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#46 - Operation Paperclip (Kris Rorke)
Operation Paperclip was a secret program of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) largely carried out by Special Agents of Army CIC, in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians, such as Wernher von Braun and his V-2 rocket team, were taken from Germany to...
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#45 - Ice Famine (Evan and Gabe)
An ice famine was a scarcity of commercial ice, usually during the hot summer months, common before the widespread use of the refrigerator. It often resulted in the widespread spoilage of food and medicines, and in some instances in death from heat stroke.[1]
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#44 - Sonderaktion 1005 (Kris Rorke)
The Sonderaktion 1005 (English: Special Action 1005), also called Aktion 1005, or Enterdungsaktion (English: Exhumation Action) began in May 1942 during World War II to hide any evidence that people had been murdered by Germany in Aktion Reinhard in German-occupied Poland. The operation, which…
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#43 - Microwave Auditory Effect (Cory Armbrecht)
The microwave auditory effect, also known as the microwave hearing effect or the Frey effect, consists of the human perception of audible clicks, or even speech, induced by pulsed or modulated radio frequencies. The communications are generated directly inside the human head without the need of…
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#42 - Yeti (Cory, Gabe and Evan)
The Yeti (/ˈjɛti/)[1] or Abominable Snowman is a folkloric ape-like creature taller than an average human, that is said to inhabit the Himalayan mountains. The names Yeti and Meh-Teh are commonly used by the people indigenous to the region, and are part of their history and mythology. Stories of...
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#41 - Operation Cherry Night-blossom (Evan Ewing)
Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night (Japanese: 夜櫻作戰 Hepburn: Yozakura Sakusen) was a 1945 plan developed by Shirō Ishii to wage biological warfare upon civilian population centers in Southern California in the United States during the final months of World War II, using pathogens created by…
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#40 - Biomedical Tissue Services (Evan Ewing)
Biomedical Tissue Services (BTS) was a Fort Lee, New Jersey, human tissue recovery firm that was shut down by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)[1] on October 8, 2005,[2] after its president, Dr. Michael Mastromarino, and two other employees were convicted of illegally harvesting human...
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#39 - Growing Block Universe (Cory Armbrecht)
According to the growing block universe theory of time (or the growing block view), the past and present exist while the future does not. The present is an objective property, to be compared with a moving spotlight. By the passage of time more of the world comes into being; therefore, the block...
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#38 - Wizards Project (Evan Ewing)
The Wizards Project was a research project at the University of California, San Francisco led by Paul Ekman and Maureen O'Sullivan that studied the ability of people to detect lies. The experts identified in their study were called "Truth Wizards". O'Sullivan spent more than 20 years studying the...
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#37 - Chupacabra (Jose Robles)
The chupacabra or chupacabras (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃupaˈkaβɾas], literally "goat-sucker"; from chupar, "to suck", and cabra, "goat") is a legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas, with its first purported sightings reported in Puerto Rico.[1] The name comes from the…
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#36 - Carrol A. Deering (Chris Burht)
Carroll A. Deering was a five-masted commercial schooner that was found run aground off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1921 with the crew nowhere to be found.[1] The Deering is one of the most written-about maritime mysteries in history, with claims that it was a victim of the Bermuda Triangle,...
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#35 - Project Stormfury (Evan Ewing)
Project Stormfury was an attempt to weaken tropical cyclones by flying aircraft into them and seeding with silver iodide. The project was run by the United States Government from 1962 to 1983. The hypothesis was that the silver iodide would cause supercooled water in the storm to freeze…
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#34 - Joseph Lister (Evan Ewing)
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM, PC, PRS (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912),[1] known between 1883 and 1897 as Sir Joseph Lister, Bt., was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery. Lister promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Lister...
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#33 - Slurpee (Evan Ewing)
A Slurpee is a frozen carbonated drink sold exclusively at 7-Eleven stores.
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#32 - The Aversion Project (Dakota Linton)
The Aversion Project was a medical torture program in South Africa led by Dr. Aubrey Levin[1] during apartheid. The project identified gay soldiers as conscripts who used drugs in the South African Defence Forces (SADF). Victims were forced to submit to "curing" their homosexuality[1] because the...
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#31 - Majestic 12 (Evan Ewing)
Majestic 12 (or MJ-12) is a purported organization that appears in UFO conspiracy theories. The organization is claimed to be the code name of an alleged secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials, formed in 1947 by an executive order by U.S. President Harry S....
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#30 - Robert Liston (Evan Ewing)
Born in 1794 the son of a Scottish minister, he entered Edinburgh University in 1808 and two years later began to attend lectures in surgery and anatomy. He then became an assistant and demonstrator in anatomy, and remained in that position until 1815, when he was appointed house surgeon at the...
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#29 - Willowbrook State School (Chris Burht)
Willowbrook State School was a state-supported institution for children with intellectual disability located in the Willowbrook neighborhood on Staten Island in New York City from 1947 until 1987. The school was designed for 4,000, but by 1965 it had a population of 6,000. At the time, it was the...
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#28 - Corn Flakes (Evan Ewing)
The cereal was created by John Harvey Kellogg in 1894 as a food that he thought would be healthy for the patients of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan where he was superintendent. The actual creation method of Kellogg was the cereal might stop people from masturbating? Corn flakes, or...
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#27 - Project A119 (Evan Ewing)
Project A119, also known as A Study of Lunar Research Flights, was a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force. The aim of the project was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon, which would help in answering some of the mysteries in planetary astronomy and astrogeology. If...
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#26 - Loch Ness Monster (Harry Wroblewski)
In Scottish folklore, the Loch Ness Monster or Nessie is said to be a creature that inhabits Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large in size with a long neck and one or more humps protruding from the water. Popular interest and belief in the creature have varied since…
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#25 - The Phoenix Program (Kris Rorke)
The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng) was a program designed and coordinated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, involving cooperation between American, South Vietnamese and Australian militaries. The program was designed to identify…
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#24 - Operation Frankton (Evan Ewing)
Operation Frankton was a commando raid on ships in the Nazi German occupied French port of Bordeaux in southwest France during the Second World War. The raid was carried out by a small unit of Royal Marines known as the Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment (RMBPD), part of Combined Operations...
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#23 - BigFoot (Ta'Shawn Collins)
In North American folklore, Bigfoot or Sasquatch are said to be hairy, upright-walking, ape-like creatures that dwell in the wilderness and leave footprints. Depictions often portray them as a missing link between humans and human ancestors or other great apes. They are strongly associated with…
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#22 - Project Sunshine and Cecil Kelley Incident (Kris Rorke)
Project SUNSHINE was a series of research studies that began in 1953 to ascertain the impact of radioactive fallout on the world's population.[1] The project was initially kept secret, and only became known publicly in 1956.[1] Commissioned jointly by the United States Atomic Energy Commission…
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#21 - Heaven's Gate (Ta'shawn Collins)
Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian cult based near San Diego, California. It was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985).[1] On March 26, 1997, members of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department discovered the bodies of 39...
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#20 - Bermuda Triangle (Harry Wroblewski)
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle or Hurricane Alley, is a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Most reputable sources dismiss the idea that...
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#19 - Montreal Experiments (Evan Ewing)
The Montreal Experiments were a series of experiments, initially aimed to treat schizophrenia[1] by changing memories and erasing the patients' thoughts using Donald Ewen Cameron's method of “psychic driving” [2] as well as drug-induced sleep, intensive electroconvulsive therapy, sensory...
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#18 - Puppetry (Harry Wroblewski)
Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer. Such a performance is also known as a puppet production. The script for…
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#17 - Animals of War (Kris Rorke)
Military animals are trained animals that are used in warfare and other combat related activities. As working animals, different military animals serve different functions. Horses, elephants, camels, and other animals have been used for both transportation and mounted attack. Pigeons were used…
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#16 - Luddite Movement (Tyler Lewis)
The Luddites were a secret oath-based organization[1] of English textile workers in the 19th century, a radical faction which destroyed textile machinery as a form of protest. The group was protesting against the use of machinery in a "fraudulent and deceitful manner" to get around standard…
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#15 - Stargate Project (Kris Rorke)
Stargate Project was the 1991 code name for a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and SRI International (a California contractor) to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic intelligence...
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#14 - General Butt Naked (Tyler Lewis)
Joshua Milton Blahyi (born September 30, 1971), often known by his nom de guerre General Butt Naked, is a former commander of forces under the wider control of Liberian warlord Roosevelt Johnson.[1] Blahyi was known for his violence and atrocities during the First Liberian Civil War in the early...
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#13 - Project Stargate (Kris Rorke)
Stargate Project was the 1991 code name for a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and SRI International (a California contractor) to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic intelligence...
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#12 - Problem Gambling (Dakota Linton)
Problem gambling is an urge to gamble continuously despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop. Problem gambling is often defined by whether harm is experienced by the gambler or others, rather than by the gambler's behaviour. Severe problem gambling may be diagnosed as clinical...
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#11 - Driving Under the Influence (DUI) (Timmy Gingrich)
Driving under the influence (DUI) is the crime or offense of driving or operating a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol or other drugs (including recreational drugs and those prescribed by physicians), to a level that renders the driver incapable of operating a motor vehicle safely.
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#10 - Gender Dysphoria (Dakota Linton)
Gender dysphoria is a condition where a person experiences discomfort or distress because there's a mismatch between their biological sex and gender identity. It's sometimes known as gender incongruence.
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#9 - 2018 Douma Chemical Attack (John Bunke)
On 7 April 2018, a chemical warfare attack was carried out in the Syrian city of Douma.[1]:9.12 It is reported to have resulted in the deaths of between 40 and 50 people,[1]:9.5[3][4]:971[5][6] and injuries to possibly many more than a hundred.[6][3] The attack was attributed to the Syrian Army…
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#8 - Roswell Incident (Chris Burht)
In mid-1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.[1] Following wide initial interest in the crashed "flying disc", the US military stated that it was merely a conventional weather balloon.[2] Interest subsequently waned until the late 1970s, when...
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#7 - Slender Man (Clinton Peacock)
The Slender Man (also known as Slenderman) is a fictional supernatural character that originated as a creepypasta Internet meme created by Something Awful forums user Eric Knudsen (also known as "Victor Surge") in 2009.[1] He is depicted as a thin, unnaturally tall humanoid with a featureless…
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#6 - The Simpson's (Richard Dyez)
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.[1][2][3] The series is a satirical depiction of working-class life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional…
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#5 Unit 731 (Tyler Patterson)
Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊 Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), also referred to as Detachment 731, the 731 Regiment, Manshu Detachment 731, The Kamo Detachment,[3]:198 Ishii Unit,[5] Ishii Detachment[5] or the Ishii Company, was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of...
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#4 - Pastafarianism (Kris Rorke)
The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is the deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism. Pastafarianism (a portmanteau of pasta and Rastafarianism) is a social movement that promotes a light-hearted view of religion and opposes the teaching of intelligent design and...
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