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Your Brain on Facts

Host Moxie LaBouche brings you a weekly half-hour of things you didn’t know, things you thought you knew, and things you never knew you never knew. Topics range from the history of nursing to the Balinese funeral rite David Bowie requested, from the origin of the Vulcan salute to the theft of Canada’s strategic maple syrup reserve. This is your brain on facts. yourbrainonfacts.com

Copyright: © Copyright 2021. If you ask to use my content, I'll probably say yes.

Latest Episodes:

Marvelous Miss Miser, with I Have So Many Questions podcast (ep. 107) Apr 21, 2020

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Frugal is all well and good, but sometimes the people with the most money go to the most drastic extremes to keep every last bit of it.

01:30 John Elwes

04:25 Daniel Dancer

09:28 Hetty Green

16:23 Gratitude and Socializing

18:35 J. Paul Getty by I Have So Many Questions podcast

25:30 Edward Wedbush

Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Bored? Games! (ep. 106) Apr 14, 2020

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Don't Risk getting the facts in your Cranium all Scrabbled up. (Are these puns getting played out? It seems a bit dicey.)

Promo - Deconstruction Workers

02:22 Ancient games - Irving Finkel and Tom Scott

11:30 Figuring out the rules

14:55 Gratitude and socializing

16:47 Go directly to jail

19:30 Monopoly

23:52 Cluedo

28:30 POW escape kits

Music by Kevin MacLeod

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It's The End Of The World! (Again) (ep. 105) Apr 07, 2020

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01:40 Puritans and Mother Shipton

04:31 Popes

07:31 Planet Clarion

09:50 Community

12:00 Harriet Livermore

13:19 Prophet Hen of Leeds

16:34 Millerites

21:44 Listen, Rinse, Repeat; Reviews4Good, promo: Ghost Town

24:43 Heaven's Gate

29:11 Harold Camping

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Making Do (ep. 104) Mar 31, 2020

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While we're sheltering in place from the pandemic, we look at how people dealt with the intense shortages of the Great Depression and WWII.

02:05 Aunt Sammy

04:00 Eleanor Roosevelt

07:00 Sample menu

Emmymadeinjapan's Hard Times series

09:08 Foods still with us

12:26 Flour sack dresses

14:17 Gratitude and TRIVIA CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT

16:00 Promo - Jason & Mindy

16:48 US rationing

18:55 UK rationing

24:00 "Dig for Victory" and the British Restaurant

26:55 "Beauty is Your Duty"

29:00 Clothing rations

Music by Kevin MacLeod and the US Marine Band

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Food, Dubious Food (ep. 103) Mar 24, 2020

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Be a smart cookie and don't fall for these food-based urban legends and conspiracy theories. (Sorry for all the thumps. My new mic stand is not compatible with my wild gesticulations.)

00:05 Vocal Fries promo

01:54 McDonald's

07:41 New Coke, Monster, tap water

13:04 Kosher tax

14: 56 Gratitude

16:13 Now You've Seen It promo

17:00 KFC - four-legged chicken

21:08 Fondue

23:10 Sugar

27:33 Chipotle

Spider silk goats

31:50 Old wives tales

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Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Greatest Hits: Well-traveled Bodies Mar 17, 2020

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Follow the stories of five people (an outlaw, a murderess, a nightclub dancer, a natural wonder, and a first lady) who covered a lot of ground... after they died.

01:58 Elmer McGurdy

07:24 Hazel Farris

11:48 Marie O'Day

16:55 Julia Pastrana

25:37 Eva Peron

Mentioned: Marie O'Day's Palace Car

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Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Around the World in 80 Birthdays (ep. 102) Mar 10, 2020

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It's birthday time for both the show and the host here at Your Brain On Facts, so let's go around the world to see how different people celebrate theirs.

01:55 Backstory

04:53 New World

09:46 Europe

16:35 India/Nepal

19:09 Africa

22:00 Gratitude

25:01 Asia

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Music by Kevin MacLeod

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To Your Health (Spa) (ep. 101) Mar 03, 2020

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We're having a spa day on Your Brain On Facts. For us, that means myth-disabusement and obscure facts, rather than facials and a mani-pedi.

1:30 History of the spa

07:50 The San

13:29 a recent review

18:00 Snake oil

20:50 Zzyzx

The MedLife Crisis video about how modern medicine has allowed, and even helped, alternative medicine, to thrive.

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Music by Kevin MacLeod

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100 Facts (and 24 special guests)! Feb 25, 2020

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Your Brain On Facts celebrates 100 episodes with 100+ facts.

Enthusiastic virtual high-fives of thanks to our guest presenters:

01:15 Bunny Trails

02:40 Footnoting History

03:56 Andy's Podcaster Podcasting Podcast

05:15 Strange Animals

07:02 Bring On The Weird

09:09 Ignorance Was Bliss

10:45 Self Shoots the S***

12:39 Where Does It Go?

14:12 Human Circus

19:04 Patreon special offer

20:52 Exploress

22:10 Lexitecture

23:44 Irrationally Exuberant

26:01 Interrupted Tales

27:13 Presidencies Of The Unites States

28:23 Short Stories of Augie Peterson

29:58 Stories of Yore and Yours

32:03 A Podcast About Something

34:48 Anytown USA

35:43 Talk The Talk

37:11 Fresh Hell

38:47 Conspiracy Theoryology

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Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Earths Unsung-est Heroes - Black Inventors, pt 2 (ep. 99) Feb 18, 2020

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if you thought the men got swept under the rug, history has been even less kind to these innovative women.

1:15 Alice Parker

4:30 Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner

9:55 Gratitude

11:40 Dr. Shirley Jackson

16:10 Patreon special offer

17:50 Marie Van Brittan Brown

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