Your Brain on Facts

Why is Pride Month in June? Did the Stonewall Riots start the gay rights movement? Did Marsha P Johnson really throw the first brick at Stonewall Inn? We answer all those questions and more as we revisit this pivotal moment in gay rights. Read the full script and find sources. Support the show. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram, email,. Music by Kevin MacLeod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another topic voted on by our Patreon supporters, and added to by our listener FB group, this one turned into a two-parter on 'the last of their kind' -- people first, animals next week. Read the full script. Music by Lyrical Piano, Kevin McLeod. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Guest quote readers: Bill from With Confetti in our Hair, Dustin from Sandman Stories Presents, Z Hagen from Wasteland Active Radio, Jeff from Mt Rushmore podcast, Vlado from It's Not Rocket Surgery Today's sponsors: Podcorn; The Art of Bombing; WorkPatterns; Love Letter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While the world goes mad for dogecoin and NFTs, we look at four times when a suddenly popular commodity drove an economic boom and bust, from tulips to trains, in the XL episode. Read the full script. Music by Kevin MacLeod. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Today's sponsors: Highbrow Drivel; Podcorn; Why Do We Say That?; WorkPatterns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As voted on by our Patreon, today we look at hostile architecture and guerilla gardening. Guest quote readers: Jason from Memester of the Week, Dustin from Sandman Stories Presents, Najee from Weekly Cooldown, and Chris from This Week Today. Today's sponsors: Highbrow Drivel; Follow Friday. Music by Kevin MacLeod and Chris Haugen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Updates on the Guinness world record and current troubles for some podcast listeners. As voted on by our Patreon patrons, today we're talking about mud. This ubiquitous combination of water and dirt is useful to science, employed in health and beauty, a little-known component of professional sports, and even eaten. Read the full script. Music by Kevin MacLeod. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do PT Barnum's performer General Tom Thumb, Elvis's manager Colonel Tom Park, and wrestler turned cartoon character Sargent Slaughter have in common? 00:53 General Tom Thumb 08:58 Colonel Tom Parker 25:34 Sargent Slaughter Read the full script. Music by Kevin MacLeod. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If a little is good, a lot must be better, right? You'd be surprised how many common, innocuous things in our world can actually kill you. Just when you thought it was safe to drink water. Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Guest quote reader: Shawn from Ink & Ash, formerly Stories of Yore and Yours. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

True stories of people who educated themselves, to turn the law from a sword into a shield. Guest quote readers: CJ from Been Through Some S***, Chris from This Week Today. Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With guest presenters, in approximate order of appearance: Bunny Trails A Star Wars podcast Footnoting History Grammar Girl Reel Feels Die-alougue Gurus of Comedy Lexitecture Ignorance Was Bliss Happily Ever Aftermath Doomsday Strange Animals In the Doll World MyhandleisJonathanBlade Self Shoots from the Hip Jackie Watches Stuff Nerd Lab Nutrition Diva Ready, Set, Roll Shame Pinata Sleep Whispers NocaNews Quiz and Hers This is Her Place Savvy Psychologist Useless Information Ballsy History Varmints Worst Foot Forward The Jury Room Because Language I Know Dino The Curious Professor Ink and Ash Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The meme that inspired the episode. Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alternative title - The P-pop Spectacular. Whether you call it anana, pineapple, or King Pine, it's been a long, strange trip for this fascinating multi-fruit. Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Voted on by the supporters at patreon.com/yourbrainonfacts. Whether its snails in your garden, homicidal hogs, or cats hunting on the Sabbath, sometimes, if you can't kick them out of your town, kick them out of your religion. Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Staying home this past year has been rough, but it's got nothing on the lives of people who woke up to a wall running through the middle of their city. Hear some of their amazing escapes! Guest quote readers: CJ from Been Through Some S***, Maddox from Break a Wish, Torey from Hutchinstruttin, and Aric from Play It By Ear. The real hot air balloon Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 or mythology. Special guests: Worst Foot Forward Pink river dolphins Linfamy Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Come up to the lab and see what's on the slab...cuz it's not what I was trying to make! But, you know what, we can make this work. Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do you get when you mix baseball mud, a dead outlaw, drinking snacks, and a harrowing survival story? Today's episode! Enjoy this clip show to pad out the schedule while I wait to hear back from the Guinness World Record people. More details inside! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! You can know a song by heart, by do you REALLY know where it comes from? Check out these strange and surprising origins of popular songs. Mentioned in the show: Dan Rather with REM, literal video for Total Eclipse of the Heart Guest quote readers: Bill from The Big Impact, Bill from The Slipshod Pod, Alex from USUK. Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod, Dan Liebovitz, Steve Adams, Bobby Richards, Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Voted on by our Patreon, we present an episode on weird things your body could be doing ... right now... and you don't even know about it! Close-up of kidney stone Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod, Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We knew things weren't going to be quiet before the inauguration, but damn, man. Hence, I declare a revisit of Distraction Day. Here's an episode of some of the best bits that were originally on the Patreon (the greatest hits that weren't too weird, gross, or swear-y, anyway). Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Music by Kevin MacLeod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Need some light reading in a heavy world? Good thing there's the YBOF book! A wise man once asked "Where is the blue food?" but that's burying the lead when it comes to food and color. Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod, Freedom Trail Studio Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Didn't get what you wanted this holiday season? Good thing there's the YBOF book! Baller balls, extravagant evenings, riotous receptions, and sinful shindigs, join us for a trip through some of history's greatest parties. Guest voices: Shawn from Stories of Yore and Yours and Drew from Reel Feels. Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod, Dyalla, Emily Sprague, Jesse Gallagher, SYBS, Joel Cummins. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ORDER THE YBOF BOOK! One man's holiday feast is another man's traumatic experience. With special guests Where Does It Go? Hear about kiviaq, hakarl, cheating for meat, molded salads, catepillar mushrooms, cazu marzu, and balut. Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's a Christmas cracker? Why are there so many Hallmark movies? Join myself and Mike from Genuine ChitChat as we compare and contrast (and hold each other accountable for what our countries do for Christmas). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You know Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, but did you know this song, and the poem it was based on, were both written by Jews? You won't believe how many classic Christmas songs were! Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You've probably heard about the Austrian Christmas demon Krampus, but what about Befana, the Italian Christmas witch? In what country do you need reservations for Xmas dinner at KFC? Where do people wish you happy holidays with a specific request for presents? Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Having a Covid Christmas sucks, but we'll make it through. And hey, at least we're not making our turkey out of spam, and hanging decorations won't get you a $20,000 fine or sent away for "re-education." Guest readers: Zack from Wasteland Active Radio; David from Don’t Assume; Paul from Varmints; Adam from Odd Dad Out; Bill from Big Impact Radio; Mike from Genuine Chitchat. Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod, E's Jammy Jams, Aaron Kenny, MK2. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Got a clever kid in the family this holiday season? Get them a copy of the YBOF book! Growing up in the 1980's made it seem like you would eventually burst into flame, be given free drugs, or be snatched by a stranger. The reality? Not so much. Guest voices (in no particular order): Connor and Luke - No Highway Option ; Jake – Hearts Against Balance ; Chris – Play Comics Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod, Audionautix, Chris Haugen, Unicorn Heads, Dan Lebowitz, Tabletop Audio. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Got a clever kid in the family this holiday season? Get them a copy of the YBOF book! We all have music styles and instruments we don't like, but rarely are we in an actionable position to do anything about them, unlike the stories in today's episode. 01:00 Bagpipes 06:45 Glass armonica 15:15 Harmonium 22:11 Sax 31:21 Drums 34:20 Rehearsal room Guest voices: (in no set order) Zach - Wasteland Active Radio; Matt - The Campaign; Andrew - 1999; Thomas - Physical Attraction; Drew - Misery Machine. Mentioned: Nicholas Brother, This Exists Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod (and several others) Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Got your copy of the YBOF book? The greatest hits of broadcast signal hijacking. Topics include: Cold War era, Southern Television (video), Zombies (video), Naughty fun, and Max Headroom (video). Support the show Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Indians taught the pilgrims to farm and the pilgrims invited them to Thanksgiving, with cranberry and pumpkin pie." -every elementary school text book. Boy were we sold a bill of goods! Ferret fact from fiction in this episode voted on by our patrons. Presidential voices by Old Nerds Drinking podcast. Have you had a chance to review the YBOF book? I'm hoping we can average one a week. Talk to your fellow Brainiacs on FB or Reddit. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Music by Kevin MacLeod and Chris Haugen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

...with ants! By popular demand, we scratch the very surface of the surprising and diverse world of the ant. Talk to your fellow Brainiacs on FB or Reddit. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Music by Kevin MacLeod Have you had a chance to review the YBOF book? I'm hoping we can average one a week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Vietnamese snake wine to vodka made from milk, corn beer with spit in it and whisky made from pee, mankind will make liquor with or out of just about anything! Talk to your fellow Brainiacs on FB or Reddit. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Music by Kevin MacLeod Have you had a chance to review the YBOF book? I'm hoping we can average one a week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today is the most stressful election day in the lives of many, so I declare it instead to be...Distraction Day. To that end, here's an extra-long episode of some of the best bits that were originally on the Patreon (the greatest hits that weren't too weird, gross, or swear-y, anyway). Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Music by Kevin MacLeod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you had a chance to review the YBOF book? I'm hoping we can average one a week. ♪♫This is Halloween! This is Halloween!♫♪ Supporters on our Patreon and fans in our FB group chose the topics for today's episode: 01:35 sorting Dracula fact from fiction 07:49 how horror stars got their stars 20:01 when did clowns become scary 23:29 the history behind zombies 28:38 movie monster fast facts! Mentioned in the show: Overly Sarcastic's Frankenstein run-down Cutting Class podcast on Christopher Lee Oh No! Lit Class on The Phantom Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Music by Kevin MacLeod Sponsor: Podcorn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do we give them, who gets one, and, more importantly, who doesn't? Sponsors: Podcorn, Libysn (code: moxie), Pigeon (code: moxie) Have you had a chance to review the YBOF book? Someone posted a bad review :( and I'd love to get the average back up. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Music by Kevin MacLeod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Why didn't the slaves revolt?" They did. A lot. We just weren't taught about it. Here's a humble start at fixing that. 04:56 Stono Rebellion 11:35 New York plot 15:56 Black Seminole 22:45 Nat Turner - Garbled Twistory 27:40 German Coast Uprising 32:50 Occupation of Alcatraz promo: Everything Everywhere Did you get a chance to leave a review for the YBOF book? Someone just posted a bad review :( and I'd love to get the average back up. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We just can't have nice things....like forests. Hear the stupid causes of some of modern history's most destructive wildfires and find out why putting out fires is actually making things worse. Did you get a chance to leave a review for the YBOF book? Someone just posted a bad review :( and I'd love to get the average back up. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the profound to the prophetic, from the ironic to the ignominious, from founding fathers to TV stars, we look into the final utterances of the famous and infamous alike. Did you get a chance to leave a review for the YBOF book? We're trying to get 100 reviews in the first year! Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you get a chance to leave a review for the YBOF book? We're trying to get 100 in the first year! For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost. Guest voice: Brandon Schexnayder of Southern Gothic Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Trouble With Tribals by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/6621-trouble-with-tribals License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you get a chance to leave a review for the YBOF book? 00:45 Mona Lisa 06:50 Bob Ross 11:50 Rosalind Franklin 18:00 Charles Ponzi 24:50 R. Lee Ermy Music by Kevin MacLeod and TrackTribe. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you get your get a change to leave a review for the YBOF book? Heart Queen Pink Floyd Mike Oldfield Contractually obligated albums Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you get your copy of the YBOF book? Do you have a minute to leave a review? Did Mel Brooks lie to us--is it really good to be the king? Stagnant gene pools Ignoble Deaths British royal family ties The Death of the Queen Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you get your copy of the YBOF book? Do you have a minute to leave a review? Victoria Woodhull Margaret Ives Abbott Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell Dr. Rebecca Crumpler Bessie Coleman Annie Edson Taylor Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you get your copy of the YBOF book? Do you have a minute to leave a review? 00:30 moveable-type press 05:35 circumnavigation solo Atlantic flight telephone lightbulb Enigma out and proud Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you get your copy of the YBOF book? Do you have a minute to leave a review? Anyone can name an animal after what it looks like, but why waste the chance to immortalize your favorite singer or make your personal vendetta part of science history? Music by Kevin MacLeod and Table Top Audio. Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you get your copy of the YBOF book? Do you have a minute to leave a review? From rainbow parties to Spiritualism to two bands touring as a single band that doesn't exist, we take a look at some noteworthy hoaxes and false panics. Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you get your copy of the YBOF book? Do you have a minute to leave a review? Why do we dye raspberry-flavored things blue? Why does mint feel cold? How are Kit Kats like Soylent Green? Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you get your copy of the YBOF book? Do you have a minute to leave a review. From birds flying the coop, to snakes slipping away, to apes getting up to monkey business, hear about crafty critters making a break for it. Special guest: Life, Death, and Taxonomy Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you get your copy of the YBOF book? Refreshing treat or miracle cure to ensure a long, healthy, sexy life? You decide! (Psst, it's the first one.) 00:50 Carbonated water 03:45 Patent medicines 12:30 Moxie cola from Fantastic History of Food 18:23 Pepsi 21:06 Coke 27:05 7-Up and bipolar disorder Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Show us your copy of the YBOF book and tag the podcast! From protecting themselves to protecting endangered animals, women amassed are a formidable thing indeed. 00:44 Gulabi gang 07:10 Sun Ladies 11:20 Jergertroppen 16:00 Black Mambas by Herstory On The Rocks 20:30 Akashinga Music by Kevin MacLeod Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices