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
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 230
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2022
Dumping out my purse (update on the podcast)
YBOF's gonna take a break for a month or two.
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00:05:40 |
Tue 19 Jul 2022
Episode 200, part 2!
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00:54:02 |
Tue 05 Jul 2022
Episode 200!!!!
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00:50:56 |
Tue 28 Jun 2022
Big, Bold Burglaries (ep 199)
How hard was it to steal the Mona Lisa? What does the word "ponzi" actually mean?
Links to all the research resources are on the website.
Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs. Reach out and touch Mo…
00:32:52 |
Tue 21 Jun 2022
Hidden Histories - Rosewood, Tulsa, Chicago (encore)
(Chronic health problems sometime require an encore performance of a past episode.)
Hundreds dead, thousands homeless, entire communities wiped out, yet most of us have never heard of what happened…
00:29:21 |
Tue 14 Jun 2022
Strange Currency (ep. 198)
What do limestone, leather, plastic and mulberry tree bark have in common? They've all been used to make money, plus lots of other materials besides! Join me for a quick jaunt around the world and th…
00:34:35 |
Tue 07 Jun 2022
Suspect Sustenance Stories (ep. 197)
Who was General Tsao of chicken fame? Where do Danish pastries come from? Is pad Thai actually Thai food? All that and more in this patron-voted episode!
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00:35:20 |
Tue 31 May 2022
Awfully Fond of You (ep. 196)
How did rubber ducks go from lumps of rubber that didn't even float to a cheerful childhood staple? Let's look at where they came from, where they're going, and why they keep showing up at violent p…
00:33:40 |
Tue 24 May 2022
Dread Pirate Misinformation (ep 195)
Finally, I get to the subtopic that launched not one but two episodes, the Gentleman Pirate Stede Bonnet, as well as the most interesting boring thing I could find and why science didn't get a handle…
00:32:06 |
Tue 17 May 2022
Yaarrrr Brain On Facts (ep. 194)
What started as a need to tell the real story of "Gentleman Pirate" Stede Bonnet has turned into a myth vs history two-parter! I love when that happens. Hear about pirate pensions, the makeup of the …
00:31:36 |
Tue 10 May 2022
D'oh! (no episode this week)
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00:00:59 |
Tue 03 May 2022
We Can't Have Nice Things - Radio Contests (ep. 193)
It's the return of our occasional series, We Can't Have Nice Things. This week, we look at radio contest and promotions that went badly wrong, often at the draft stage. Free nude wedding anyone?
1-st…
00:36:32 |
Tue 26 Apr 2022
Courthouse Rock (ep.192)
Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear leather jackets with chains, long hair, and lots of eyeliner! Today we look at three times heavy metal musicians said "We're not gonna take it" and defended the f…
00:37:14 |
Tue 19 Apr 2022
Gregor MacGregor (ep. 190)
People used to say "If you believe that, I have some swampland in Florida to sell you," but they really should have said, "I have some lovely acres in the Republic of Poyais you can buy, but you have…
00:18:30 |
Tue 05 Apr 2022
Fell on Black Days: Sunday (ep. 189)
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00:35:31 |
Tue 29 Mar 2022
Tax and Taxonomy (ep. 188)
Who you gonna believe -- me or your lying eyes? Today we look at court cases where people try to avoid taxes by arguing that things aren't the things that they clearly are.
00:50 Tomato
08:18 Jaffa C…
00:35:55 |
Tue 22 Mar 2022
It Stinks! (your sense of smell, ep. 187)
Our Patrons have a nose for good topics, so today we
07:04 Smells and space
14:40 Ham-sniffer
21:17 It's the pits
30:48 Aromatherapy
Links to all the research resources are on the website.
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00:34:34 |
Tue 15 Mar 2022
Witty, Wild Women (ep 186)
Why did no one tell me about Moms Mabley?!! Hear about her and other 'living loud and proud' ladies (Dorothy Parker, Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead) on this International Women's Day.
01:00 Tallulah Ban…
00:41:05 |
Tue 08 Mar 2022
Dying for Your Art (ep. 185)
Voted on by our Patreon, we dive into the deadly side of sculpture, painting, ballet and more!
01:36 Blucifer
04:00 Get the lead out
10:00 Ballet blazes
20:45 Death by a thousand face
26:43 The Conqu…
00:30:46 |
Tue 01 Mar 2022
Earth's Unsungest Heroes: Black Inventors, pt 4 (ep 184)
Necessity is the mother of invention and these inventions had real mothers! Hear about Black female inventors, the tribulations of research, and a story I didn't expect to find and couldn't pass up.
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00:36:30 |
Tue 22 Feb 2022
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