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Every four years, we add an extra day to the end of February and nobody knows why. This week, we investigate Leap Years and finally get to the bottom of what's going on.

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Pancakes are better! No, waffles are the best! Please, everyone, stop fighting! This week we’re here to decide once and for all which is better, while also discussing the differences along the way. W…

There's a new ridiculous thing in Las Vegas, and it's a big ball that plays videos. This week we're talking about Sphere (not the Sphere, thank you very much), the immersive event venue that makes go…

This week Tim’s got the novel coronavirus, so we had to skip recording. Instead, please enjoy a recent episode of Books: The Podcast where we read the classic short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Char…

No Doubt is back, baby! This week we’re talking about one of the most popular ska bands of all time, No Doubt. Also, we discuss a new and very clever way to stop bank robbers.

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Have you heard about the water cup that everyone is losing their minds over? It's called the Stanley Cup, but it has nothing to do with hockey, and if you drink water out of anything else you're a du…

The 2024 Consumer Electronics Show was this week and we’re discussing all the latest gadgets and gizmos that have been introduced, including a surprising number of urine-related gadgets.

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One of the world's wealthiest and most beloved rodents is in the news this week, as Mickey Mouse's first short Steamboat Willie entered the public domain. What does that mean, and more importantly, w…

Well, it's time to wave goodbye to 2023 and then turn around and wave hello to 2024. This week we take a look back at 2023, but instead of talking about any of the bad stuff that's happened we mostly…

It's another holiday week, so we're doing another very special (and very low-lift) Gauntlet episode. What's that, you ask? We asked our Patreon supporters for topic ideas, and in this episode we're o…

’Tis the season, so this week we’re talking about the top Christmas songs of all time. We also find out that Thanksgiving songs exist and that Christmas song trivia is kinda boring. But before anythi…

If you need to buy a gift for a child this holiday season, allow us to give you the lowdown on this year's hottest toys and point you in the right direction. If you buy them every toy we talk about, …

This week we’re talking about everyone’s favorite toaster pastry from Kellanova Industries: Pop-Tarts. Which flavors are the best? Are they really inferior to Pillsbury Toaster Strudels? (Yes.) Also,…

We recorded this episode during a holiday week and didn't feel like doing our usual rigorous research, so instead we've brought back an old segment -- The Gauntlet! We asked our Patreon supporters fo…

Can you believe in all this time we’ve never actually done a Black Friday episode? Neither could we, so we decided to correct. A full hour of us complaining about consumerism AND talking about findin…

This week is the 54th anniversary of the premiere of Sesame Street, a fact we didn't know when we recorded this episode. We basically just wanted to talk about puppets we saw on TV, and that's what w…

It's the fall flavor that's taking the country by storm! Everybody is nuts about this pumpkin spice and -- what's that? -- there's NO actual pumpkin in it?? This week we talk about spices, and also d…

Ever felt someone watching from the corner of your eye, only to find nothing? Congratulations, you've encountered a shadow person, and things are about to get terrifying. Also, Tim discusses the grow…

In another spooooooky Halloween Month episode, we talk about some of the most notoriously cursed movie productions, where real-life bad things happened to people making movies about fake bad things h…

This week we try to answer the question of which witch is which and dive deep into how to get a witch to enter a plea in court. (Hint: it involves putting more and more rocks on them.) Also, Tim disc…