PODCAST · society

Well, What Do You Know?

by Lombardy Productions

Well, What Do You Know? is the podcast that is legally obligated to inform you that it may cause uncontrollable urges to interrupt people mid-conversation with fascinating facts they absolutely did not ask for. Side effects may include spontaneous gasping, muttering "I never knew that" to no one in particular, and a compulsive need to corner your coworkers by the coffee machine on Monday morning.Join Pete each week as he takes the ordinary, the familiar, the blindingly obvious — the things you've walked past a thousand times, used your whole life, or never once thought to question — and proves that all may not be as it seems. Because hidden beneath the surface of the everyday world is a layer of stories, secrets, and surprises that most people never think to look for.Whether it's the object sitting on your kitchen counter, the phrase you've said a hundred times without knowing why, or the historical event you think you already understand, Pete pulls on the thre