Part 2! After meeting on the 500 Open Tabs Discord, a few fans of the show got together and recorded a tribute episode "The Tab Conspiracy," so we decided to share it with our tens of listeners!! This week they discuss first and second sleep (which may or may not have been invented by Hobbits) and the results of when a fruit company unloaded 12000 metric tons of orange peels onto a national park in Costa Rica to study the effects of composting. Happy New Year!

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After meeting on the 500 Open Tabs Discord, a few fans of the show got together and recorded a tribute episode "The Tab Conspiracy," so we decided to share it with our tens of listeners!! This week they discuss how Ivo Zdarsky flew to Vienna in a homemade airplane to claim political asylum from Czechoslovakia and the life of Bud Hurlbut, the engineer/creator most famously known for designing Knott's Berry Farm. Happy Holidays!

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Our Season 2 finale brings back the ancient tournament of Kumitab, where we pit some of our most unhinged subjects against one another including Bat Boy, Khutulun, and the 1800s self-replicating robot Jesus in a battle to the death.

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This week we are joined by award winning author Amal El-Mohtar as we learn about herbiary plagiarism from the 16th century, how Kix cereal once offered toys with radioactive material, and the tale of a 14th century French dog pulling a reverse John Wick. A listener mail tells us about the most lopsided football game of all time.

Holiday Market at Tito Rick's Garage

Saturday December 13th, 11am-4pm

2918 Imperial Ave San Diego, CA 92102

Kaveh's Online Store:

https://www.blacksmithfilms.com/store

Cat People

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hannah-hillam/cat-people/9780762486083/?lens=running-press

Episode Tabs:

Asking questions through fiction: research into Henry Lyte’s ‘A Niewe Herball’ (1578)

https://www.herbalhistory.org/home/henry_lyte/

Kix cereal once offered 'Atomic Bomb Ring' with radioactive material as a promotion?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kix-lone-ranger-atomic-bomb-ring/

A Murder and a Dog Seeking Justice

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/canine-corner/201008/a-murder-and-a-dog-seeking-justice

Listener Tabs:

1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916_Cumberland_vs._Georgia_Tech_football_game

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This week we learn about the fascinating life of Russian inventor Leon Theremin, whose eponymous instrument led to the birth of electronic music and how San Francisco happily obliged a formerly successful South African businessman after he delcared himself Emperor of the United States. A listener mail tells us about the real birthplace of Captain Kirk.

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Cat People

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hannah-hillam/cat-people/9780762486083/?lens=running-press

Episode Tabs:

Theremin, an Electric Odyssey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqAhSEbBHJA

Emperor Norton

https://www.foundsf.org/Emperor_Norton

Listener Tabs:

Riverside, Iowa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside,_Iowa

Flight of the Blackbird

https://www.la-barraca.be/azyriab.pdf

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It's Thanksgiving week so we're showing our thanks to our tens of listeners by dedicating an entire episode to their tabs! Join us as we learn about Existentialism, criminals who are bad at stealing ruby slippers, and a prophet's foreskin.

Listener Tabs:

Philosophize This

https://www.philosophizethis.org/

Austin Dam 1911

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DmZCpgl1FDY

Catherine of Siena

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Siena

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This week we're joined by very special guest, comic artist Harris Fishman AKA BeetleMoses as we discuss Roald Dahl's relationship to Tim Burton's 2005 adaptation of his book, how Wooly Mammoths helped propagate pumpkins in the Americas, and how the world's tallest man helped save some dolphins. A listener mail tells us about the GOAT of goats, the Christmas Gävle in Sweden.

Episode Tabs:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory_(film)

Study reveals ancient link between mammoth dung and pumpkin pie

https://insider.si.edu/2015/11/dull-mastadon-taste-buds-once-helped-pumpkins-wild-ancestor-thrive/

World's tallest man saves dolphins

https://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2006/dec/14/anotherdolphin

Listener Tabs:

Gävle goat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gävle_goat#

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This week we deep dive into how a political cartoon of William Howard Taft inspired Billy Possum who once tried to take control of the plush market from the Teddy Bear and how a listening device within a seemingly innocent gift from the Soviets during the Yalta Conference inspired the modern day RFID. A listener email shows us a TV portal to the past.

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Episode Tabs:

Politics and Possum Feasts: Presidents Who Ate Opossums

https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2019/09/politics-and-possum-feasts-presidents-who-ate-opossums/

Leon Theremin Changed Spying FOREVER with this 1940s invention!

https://youtu.be/GyryQltyDwA?si=5xtxJGadvhtLxyH3

Listener Tabs:

My Retro TVs

https://80s.myretrotvs.com

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