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
Earth's Unsung-est Heroes: Black Inventors, pt. 3 (ep. 183)
Congrats to Hearts & Wheels, who won week 2 of #moxiemillion, by sharing the show to help it reach 1 million downloads this month!
Necessity is the mother of invention and who was in a more necessito…
00:28:06 |
Tue 15 Feb 2022
The African Queens (ep 182)
Congrats to Richard Enriquez, who won week 1 of #moxiemillion, by sharing the show to help it reach 1 million downloads this month!
Cleopatra-schmeopatra! Hear the stories of three queens of Africa w…
00:35:29 |
Tue 08 Feb 2022
Gods and Monkeys (ep. 181)
With half the world's continents being home to a panoply of monkey species, it's no wonder the people of Center & South America, Asia, and Africa hold monkeys in high esteems as mythological and reli…
00:34:24 |
Tue 01 Feb 2022
Cons, Scams, and Flim-Flams with Pretend (ep. 180)
Javier Leiva from Pretend did a podcast with me!!!!
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We teach each other about:
03:10 a …
00:32:35 |
Tue 25 Jan 2022
Voice Over The Moon, pt 2 (ep 179)
How'd it go for the first BBC announcer with an accent? How much work can you get if you "make it" in voiceover? How much did the woman behind Siri make? And what's a pencil got to do with any of thi…
00:34:18 |
Tue 18 Jan 2022
Voice Over the Moon, vol. 1 (ep. 178)
From a rogue radio operator, to Bugs Bunny, to the lady who recorded all the time and temperature message for the phone company, we look at some history and notable names in voicework (which is what …
00:29:15 |
Tue 11 Jan 2022
Very New Year (ep. 177)
Happy new year! Or is it? It depends on which calendar you're using.
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00:18:11 |
Tue 04 Jan 2022
The Christmas Truce
Happy holidays to all my beautiful Brainiacs! Enjoy this bonus mini episode on a bit of history that, while not obscure, should be better-known (and taken to heart) by more people -- the WWI Christm…
00:13:33 |
Fri 24 Dec 2021
Worst. Christmas Song. Ever. (ep. 176)
Voted on by our Patreon, we look at the what, how, and for-gods-sake-why of some of those most hated holiday songs!
02:40 Banned songs
08:09 Wonderful Christmastime
10:45 Chipmunks Song
16:36 Little …
00:27:52 |
Tue 21 Dec 2021
Take That to the Bank (ep. 175)
Strategic reserves -- everything from Canadian maple syrup to seeds -- are intended to stabilize prices or to help us survive, in both the short and long term. So what are we keeping and why? (and wh…
00:36:34 |
Tue 14 Dec 2021
From Panto to Python (do-over, ep. 174)
From music hall to Red Dwarf, pantomime to Absolutely Fabulous, we look at the history of British comedy, the names, shows, and historical events that made it what it is today.
Like what you hear? Be…
00:40:00 |
Tue 07 Dec 2021
This Land is Our Land (ep 173)
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and it's been downhill for New World peoples ever since. Today we look at residential schools, the occupation of Alcatraz by Indians of All Tribes, the Oka cr…
00:41:35 |
Wed 01 Dec 2021
Best Served Loud (do-over, ep. 172))
A microphone is a good enough platform for getting back at people, but an entire recording studio is even better. Popular music is littered with songs getting back at an ex lover, from Waylon Jenning…
00:38:32 |
Wed 24 Nov 2021
Amazing Races (do-over, ep. 171)
Quick, switch over to Vodacast to see the pictures I talk about in the episode!
From using a train in a car race to marathon doping with deadly poison, there's far more excitement in racing than simp…
00:36:36 |
Wed 17 Nov 2021
Secret Cities (do-over, ep 170)
Quick, switch over to Vodacast to see the pictures I talk about in the episode!
We all lose things -- keys, wallets, patience -- but how do you lose an entire city? Hear the stories of three American…
00:35:30 |
Wed 10 Nov 2021
This Is (still) Halloween
♪♫This is Halloween! This is Halloween!♫♪ Supporters on our Patreon and fans in our FB group chose the topics for today's episode (plus now there's a sub-reddit):
01:35 sorting Dracula fact from fic…
00:38:15 |
Tue 26 Oct 2021
Twins Remix (ep. 169)
Twins, synchronicity, science, anomalies, and dark mysteries.
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00:45:48 |
Wed 13 Oct 2021
Shapeshifters (encore and personal update)
From Irish selkies to Japanese kitsune, from Navajo skin-walkers to Ethiopian werehyenas, there doesn't seem to be a culture in the world that doesn't have at least one shape-shifter in its folklore …
00:42:37 |
Wed 06 Oct 2021
Banned Book Bundle, with Oh No! Lit Class
Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores …
00:56:45 |
Tue 28 Sep 2021
Summer Not-busters (ep 168)
For every Star Wars, there's a hundred middling films and outright flops. Plus, hear about movie so unlucky, they may actually have been cursed, in a sample of the Your Brain On Facts audiobook.
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00:31:30 |
Wed 22 Sep 2021
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