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The BrainFood Show — 314 episodes
The Real Life Sea Monster That Has a Doughnut for a Brain
WTF is Up with Dr. Pepper?
A Tale of Two Brothers- The Devil and the Absolute Legend
The Extremely Weird, Drug-Filled, Forgotten History of 7UP
The Ad Campaign That Gave Us Breakfast as We Know It, How Baby Carrots are Made and Much More
The Real Story of Jack the Ripper
Who ACTUALLY Invented the Telephone?
Did John F Kennedy Really Say He was a Jelly Filled Doughnut in His Most Famous Speech?
The Incredible Story Behind Iron Man
Why Don't Vultures Get Sick?
WTF is Up with the Tea Bag?
Why the Heck Did Goose Die Ejecting in Top Gun, but Maverick Didn't at Mach 10 in Top Gun: Maverick?
How Did Edgar Allan Poe Die?
NASA’s Most Hilarious Failure
Can You Actually Tip a Cow?
The U.S.'s Biological Warfare Against Its Own Citizens, the Nazi Breeding Program and Much More
The Forgotten American Civil War Death Camp
How Close are We to Creating a Handheld Laser Gun?
The Real Story of Amelia Earhart
The Incredible Engineering Behind Driving on the Moon
The “Trial of the Century” That Led to Women Jumping Out of Cakes
WTF is Up with Worcestershire Sauce? Is Honey Vegan? And Much More
Anne Frank's Much More Scandalous Original Diary
How Long Can You Live After Dying?
How was William Wallace Actually Captured?
What's the Difference Between Dynamite and TNT?
The Forgotten Greatest Pirate of All Time
Can Professional Wine Connoisseurs Tell the Difference Between Cheap and Expensive Wines & Much More
Who Invented Night Vision, and How Does it Work?
Can Neutron Bombs Really Wipe Out All Humans But Leave the Cities Intact?
Why Does the United States Use the Electoral College and Not a Popular Vote to Decide the President
The Man Who Burned Down One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World So History Would Remember Him
Does Hand or Foot Size Really Correlate with... Length? Do You Retain Your Partners' DNA and More!
That Time the British Rioted for Three Months Over a 15% Increase in the Cost of Theater Tickets
WTF is Up with the U.S. Military Having a Plan for Countering a Zombie Apocalypse?
The Vipeholm Experiments and the Dark Origins of Saturday Candy
Who Invented the Computer and Why is C the Default Drive Letter?
What Being Shot Feels Like, The Gun Knife, Silencers, Square Bullets and Much, Much More!
The Real Life "English Patient"
The Insanely Disturbing CIA Funded Canadian Mind Control Experiments
Neil Armstrong's Tale
Who Invented the Internet and Email?
What Happens If Parents Don’t Give Their Baby a Name? If You Donate Your Body to Science? & More
The Real Story of Jack the Ripper
What Actually Were "Foo Fighters"?
The Mysterious Disappearance of One of the Most Successful Recording Artists of All Time
Why is the Keyboard Layout What It Is and Is There a Better Version?
Why Doesn't the U.S. Use the Metric System, Why Fingernails on Chalkboards Make Us Cringe & More
The Forbidden Ancient Roman Scrolls That Shaped History
Why the Heck Couldn't Doc Brown Have Just Made Gasoline in Back to the Future III?
Introducing: Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat | The Mary Celeste: The Ghost Ship of the Atlantic
How Did J.R.R. Tolkien Die?
A Vampire and a Real Life Truly Horrific Love Story
Why Americans Refrigerate Eggs and Most Countries Don't, How Much Caffeine Can a Human Take and More
Incredible Engineering- Inventing the Transistor
The Greatest Act of Political and Economic Spite in History
Look, Ma- No Wings! The Strange World and Incredible Engineering of Lifting Body Aircraft
The Nightmare Nurse
What Actually Defines an ‘Assault Rifle’, The Truth About Getting Shot, and Much, Much More
The Greatest Archaeological Rescue Mission in History
The Sun is Finally Setting on the British Empire This Year
The Brink of Starvation- The Inspiring Tale of Inventing Instant Ramen
How Shrunken Heads Were Made
What Happens When You Find Buried Treasure, Stick Your Head in a Particle Accelerator & Much More
The Surprisingly Heartwarming Ending to That Time Japan Invaded the United States' Mainland
The Incredible Worst Gun of WWII
The Lamentable Laugh Track and Who Invented It
The Gruesome Tale of Burke and Hare
How the Swiss Stayed Neutral, the Near Disaster Surrender Flight, and More (Stories of WWII Part 4)
Who Invented the Ouija Board, and How Does it Work?
Introducing: No Such Thing
What is the Real Best Way to Survive a Nuclear Blast?
What's REALLY Going on With Toast Always Landing Buttered Side Down?
The Weapons of World War 2 (Part 2)
Tesla vs Edison- Debunking the Myth of the War of the Currents
What was Being a Ninja Really Like
The Stories of WWII (Part 2)
The Truth About Land Mines
The Real Life Expendables
The Truth About Thomas Edison's Adulthood and Inventions
Is Nuclear Winter Actually a Possibility or Just Pseudoscience?
The Stories of WWII
The Quest for the Recoilless Gun
Creating the Terminator
The Truth About the Incredible Childhood of Thomas Edison
The Actual Most Painful Sting and How Did They Figure That Out?
What was It Actually Like to be a Gladiator, History's Literal Deadliest Fart Killing 1000s, & More
The Rock WWII Turned On
Billionaire Build a Car- The Insane Car Brand Where Every One is Literally One of a Kind
The Truth About Tesla's "Inventions" (Daven and Gilles)
The Incredible Soviet Probe Space Heist
Does Absinthe Really Make You Hallucinate, The Wine Lover's Meltdown, Inventing Bloody Mary & More
The Dark Origins of the Treadmill and Why Oscar Wild was the Worst
What Really Causes Spontaneous Human Combustion?
How Ancient Romans Made Perfectly Straight & Durable Roads, Concrete Better Than Ours, & Much More
Was Keelhauling Actually a Thing?
Conspiracy: The Stories Behind Flat Earth, All Seeing Eye, Little Green Men Fake Moon Landing & More
Is It Really Possible for a Nuke to Ignite the Atmosphere?
The Weapons of WWII
The Most Bizarre Substance Known to Science and What It Can Do
How the Hell Did Winston Churchill Lose the Election Right After Defeating Germany?
The Real Color of the Sun, How Many Nuclear Bomb Powered Rockets It Would Take to Stop the Earth Orbiting the Sun and Much, Much More
The Most Badass U.S. President and His Many Insane Exploits
WTF is Up with the McDonald's McRib?
Are the Odds of Successfully Navigating an Asteroid Field Really Approximately 3,720 to 1?
Why Don't Plane Windows and Seats Line Up?
What was It Really Like to Be a Gladiator?
WTF is Up with Breathable Liquids?
The U.S. Plan to Nuke the Moon, Why People Thought the Moon was Made of Cheese and Much More
The Classiest Plane Hijacking of All Time
Murphy’s Law in Action
How to Scratch an Itch in Space, the Surprisingly Long Time You Can Survive in Space Without a Spacesuit, Why the Apollo 13 Astronauts Got Cold, and Much, Much More
The Incredible Black Arrow Rocket
The Junior High Dropout That Created Dunkin' Donuts
Inventing Color in a World That was Black and White
How Astronauts Go to the Bathroom in Space and How Women Can Safely Pee Standing Up
How They Ruined Superhero Movies
Britain's Most Disastrous "White Elephant" Airliner
Real Life Space DJs and the Pillownaughts
Making Children Cry for Fun and Profit
WTF is Up with the Bermuda Triangle?
The Forgotten Gun That Changed Everything
Who Invented the Egg McMuffin?
The Very Real Bear Soldier Who Fought in WWII
The Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz
The Incredible Biology of Sickle Cell
The First Road Trip Part 2: In Which We Discuss All Things Tangentially Related
The First Road Trip Part 1: The Gumption of Bertha Benz
The Greatest Feat of Piloting in Space
Swept Under the Rug: The Truth About the Japanese Holocaust
That Time Ben Franklin and John Adams Slept Together and the Hilarity That Ensued
Could the Tyrannosaurus Rex Really Not See You If You Didn’t Move?
Caesar Part 4: In Which We Discuss All Things Tangentially Related
The Incredible Story of U-47 and “The Bull of Scapa Flow”
The Nazi Kamikaze Squadron
The 1990s were Weird
Caesar Part 3: The Real Story of the Ides of March
Caesar Part 2: Julius Caesar’s Pirate Adventure and the Long Lost Location of the Rubicon
Who Started the Lizard People Conspiracy Theory?
Who Started the Flat Earth Conspiracy Theory, How Many Believe This, and What Do They Believe?
How Did the Trump Family First Make Their Fortune?
Caesar Part 1: Caesarean and the Fascinating Story of Dr. James Barry (a.k.a. Margaret Bulkley)
The Bull Moose (Part 2)
Legendary Legends: The Greatest Adventurer and the Voyage of the Nautilus
The Bonkers Atomic Car with 5,000 Miles Range
The Nukes of the North- Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Bull Moose (Part 1)
The Many Ways Studios Try to Get You to Watch More Ads
Britain's Disastrous WWII Fighter Plane
Accidentally Nuking a Country
Why Do You Forget Everything When You Enter a New Room?
Incredible Engineering- The Man Who Froze Time
The Hilarious Christmas Riot
A Perilous Journey- John Adams Goes to France
The Crapper, The Poop Log, the Parasitic Poop Twigs, and Much, Much More
What Really Happened After the Mutiny on the Bounty?
The Truth About the 12 Days of Christmas
The Lord of Misrule and the First Book Banned in America
Are Poinsettias Poisonous and the Truce
The Amazing Story Behind The Christmas Carol
The Incredible Flame Thrower Packing Insect
Fires of Industry, Witchcraft, and the First Spark of the Revolution
Denazification and the Unsolved High Tech Murder That Reshaped Post-Cold War Europe
How Do Spy Agencies Actually Recruit Spies in Real Life?
The Kids Who Led the Resistance Movements Against the Nazis
How Did People in Medieval Times Actually Siege a Castle in Reality
How Much Did Top Gun: Maverick Cost the U.S. Taxpayer?
What Did the German Public Know About the Holocaust During WWII?
Who Invented Nachos and the Potato Chip? Is the Green Part of the Potato Bad for You? And Much, Much More
WTF are Smelling Salts?
The Time a King Let the Leader of a Cult Become King to See if the World Would End
Crazy Cool Science- What Causes This Sand to Sing?
Who Started the SS and How Did They Rise from a Handful of Men to Such Extreme Power?
Who Invented the Band-Aid?
The Crazy Carnival Ride Soviet Turntable Procedure That Gave Us the First Corrective Eye Surgery
Forgotten Hero- The Other Oskar Schindler
Who Were the Real Life "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” and What Did they Actually Do?
Rebuilding Civilization, America's Most Mysterious Monument, and Blowing It Up
The Horrifying World of Mind-Control Creatures
Hollywood vs Reality: What Actually Happened During Apollo 13?
Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: The Extraordinary Saga of the Unsinkable Nevada
The Great Vibrator Myth
WTF is Up with the Swastika?
The Insane Engineering of Atmospheric Diving Suits
What Did the British Royals Get Up to During WWII?
What Did the British Royals Get Up to During WWI?
Hitler’s “Ideal Aryans” Who Were Actually Jewish Ad Campaign
How NASA Learned to Land on the Moon
What's Up with Space Food?
What is Up with the Van Allen Belts and How Did Astronauts Survive Flying Through Them?
What was Hitler Like as a Child? And was His Grandfather Really Jewish?
The Twisting, Turning Tale of the Invention of Dr Pepper
So What Happens Exactly When Someone Wins the Lottery?
The Weird, Wacky, and Hilarious World of Animal Mating
The Forgotten First Major Public Nuclear Disaster
How Does Darth Vader Poop?
One of the Most Disastrous Naval Experiements of All Time
How Did the Crusades Actually Work?
The Secretary: Great Expectations
When is the Optimal School Start Time?
Hitler's Many Women and Their Often Unfortunate Ends
The Secretary- Training for Greatness
That Time the USA Tried to Make Hippo Farming a Thing
The Fascinating Saga of History’s Largest Diamond
ENOUGH! The First Astronaut Strike In Space... Allegedly
The Incredible Real Life Cold War Bond Villain Ice Lair
32 Seconds from Detonation- That Time the U.S. Almost Accidentally Nuked North Carolina... 3 Times
Nikola Tesla's Rather Peculiar Childhood and Oddities (Daven & Gilles)
The Incredible Tale of Inventing Walmart
Why Did Japan Join the Nazis? (Given, You Know, the Nazis Explicitly Hated Non-Aryans)
Why Wasn't There an Italian "Nuremberg / Tokyo War Crimes" Trial After WWII?
How Did the SR-71 Blackbird Get Made and How was It So Fast?
WTF is Up with Embalming and Displaying Communists?
What's the Deal With Presidential Libraries?
The Twisting, Turning Road That Gave Us the Microwave Oven
A Guide to Building the Pyramids- How Did They Do It?
How Did the Wright Brothers Win the Race Into the Air?
From 0 to 1000 to 0- What Happened to Howard Johnson's?
How Did Christianity Go From a Tiny Jewish Cult to Rule the Western World So Quickly?
The Marxist Mummies- The Weird Practice of Mummiffying Communists
What's the Difference Between Hardwood and Softwood? (I swear this is more interesting than it sounds :-))
WTF is Vegemite?
Hancock's Revolution- Birthing the United States
How Do We Actually Know We Landed on the Moon?
Heinz 57, The Lord of the Pumps, and a Tasty, Tasty Dunkin' Empire
The True Story of the Amistad
How Vladimir Putin Came to Power (And How He Has Held on to it for So Long)
Does Any Government Have a Plan if Aliens Invade the Earth?
An Ultra Deep Dive Into How to Get the Best Possible Sleep According to Science and Why It's Literally Killing You When You Don't
What was it Really Like to Be a Lighthouse Keeper?
The Mysterious Death of Yuri Gagarin
How Government Works, When Does the U.S. Government Debt Become Unsustainable, And Much More
What's So Special About McDonald's Fries?
What's It Actually Like to Be an Amish Person?
Who was the Most Prolific Serial Killer of All Time?
That Time the Postal Service Tried Sending Mail Via Missile
Lies! The Truth About the Tesla vs Edison Feud
Is There Any Hard Evidence That Jesus Actually Existed?
That Time the U.S. Tried to Build a Massive Military Base on the Moon
Common Things Different in Europe vs. the United States
The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Things (Part 4)
Medieval Times [Part 5]
Medieval Times [Part 4]
Medieval Times [Part 3]
Medieval Times [Part 2]
Medieval Times [Part 1]
Making Diamonds
What We’ve Learned This Month
For the Love of the Word Nerds… (And Their Rather Unfortunate Nazi Brethren)
The Difference Between… [Part 2]
The Difference Between… [Part 1]
The Absolutely Badass First Female U.S. Presidential Candidate
It’s a Wonderful Life [Part 2]
It’s a Wonderful Life [Part 1]
The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Foods (Part 1)
The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Things (Part 3)
The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Things (Part 2)
The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Things (Part 1)
The Greatest Practical Joke and the Last Laugh
Lord Minimus- The Renaissance Dueling Dwarf
That Time a Major Studio Intentionally Made a Crappy “Fantastic Four” Movie and Why Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside
Why Do Some Countries Have People Drive on the Left and Others on the Right? (+Contest Winners)
Forgotten History Part 2: The First Film and the Murder That Nearly Killed It
The Forgotten Plague- DANCE MANIA!!!
How Porcupines Mate, the Bizarre Sex Habits of Giraffes (and Much, Much More)
Twice Executed
Taking the Mystery Out of Murder- A Couple of Dumbbells
How Everyone Plays Monopoly Wrong Which Makes It Worse, Where the Game Pieces Came From, Who Really Invented It and Much More
Animal Facts Part 3: A Doughnut Brain, Dung and the Milky Way, Ant Overlords and More
Animal Facts Part 2: Melting Caterpillars, Heating Bees, Why Vultures Don’t Get Sick, and More
Animal Facts Part 1: The Blowhole, Cow Tipping and Much, Much More
A Disturbing Tale and the “Trial of the Century” That Led to Women Jumping Out of Cakes
The Woman Who was the Most Successful Pirate of All Time
A Christmas Gift and a Riot
Christmas Traditions- The Crapper, The Poop Log, the Parasitic Poop Twigs, and Much, Much More
12 Days
The Truce
The Sledgehammer for the Poor Man’s Child
The Remarkable Sarah Hale
Tech History Part 3: FIRST!!! + Many, Many Bonus Facts and Contest Winners
The Dude Who Burned Down the Greatest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Because of Reasons
Macabre Part 4: The Vampire of Cinkota and a Truly Horrific Love Story
Tech History Part 2: Who Invented the Internet, Email, and the Web?
Tech History Part 1: A QWERTY Story and Whether the Dvorak Layout is Actually Superior
Macabre Part 3: The Nightmare Nurse
Macabre Part 2: How Shrunken Heads Were Made
Macabre Part 1: The Gruesome Tale of Burke and Hare
The Final Final Frontier (Part 6): The Real Color of the Sun, How Many Nuclear Bomb Powered Rockets It Would Take to Stop the Earth Orbiting the Sun and Much, Much More
The Final Frontier Part 5: Are the Odds of Successfully Navigating an Asteroid Field Really Approximately 3,720 to 1?
The Final Frontier Part 4: The U.S. Plan to Nuke the Moon, Why People Thought the Moon was Made of Cheese and Much More
The Final Frontier Part 3: How to Scratch an Itch in Space, the Surprisingly Long Time You Can Survive in Space Without a Spacesuit, Why the Apollo 13 Astronauts Got Cold, and Much, Much More
The Final Frontier Part 2: How Astronauts Go to the Bathroom in Space and How Women Can Safely Pee Standing Up
The Final Frontier Part 1: Real Life Space DJs and the Pillownaughts
The War Bear
The Prisoner (+Contest Winners)
The First Road Trip Part 2: In Which We Discuss All Things Tangentially Related
The First Road Trip Part 1: The Gumption of Bertha Benz
Could the Tyrannosaurus Rex Really Not See You If You Didn’t Move?
Caesar Part 4: In Which We Discuss All Things Tangentially Related
Caesar Part 3: The Real Story of the Ides of March
Caesar Part 2: Julius Caesar’s Pirate Adventure and the Long Lost Location of the Rubicon
Caesar Part 1: Caesarean and the Fascinating Story of Dr. James Barry (a.k.a. Margaret Bulkley)
An Interview with Audio Production Guru Mike Russell
The Bull Moose Part 2
Growing a YouTube Channel
The Bull Moose Part 1
Stealing the Eiffel Tower
Writing and Researching Online- A Chat with Karl Smallwood
A Restaurant for a Beetle and $100 and a Bike- The Fascinating Stories Behind Four Famous Businesses
Enlightened Rigging of the Lottery + Wheezy Waiter (The BrainFood Show Episode 5)
The Fascinating Origin of Pong and Atari + Interview with the Creators of Quest for Glory and the Upcoming Hero-U (The BrainFood Show Episode 4)
The Preposterous Pyramid (The BrainFood Show Episode 3)
The White Feather (The BrainFood Show Episode 2)
The BrainFood Show Episode 1: Throwing Tomatoes