Episodes

  • Jackson's Testament: Dragons Part 3
    Oct 10 2026

    In this episode, Jackson wraps up his three-part podcast series exploring dragons and why they appear in the Bible. Could their presence be the result of mistranslation, or is there something deeper hiding in the text?

    Jackson takes us through the Old Testament, the New Testament, and perhaps even his own testament, unpacking several biblical passages, examining the language behind them, and exploring what these references to dragons might actually mean.

    Were dragons misunderstood creatures, symbolic imagery, or something lost in translation? Jackson connects the passages, challenges familiar interpretations, and invites listeners to look at the biblical text from a fresh perspective.

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    55 mins
  • How to Train Your Cuttlefish: Dragons Part 2
    Oct 3 2026

    This week, Jackson dives into dragons, mythical creatures, and some of the bizarre animals lurking beneath the ocean. His star witness? The cuttlefish, a strange little sea creature whose ability to change its appearance somehow becomes evidence that dragons may have actually existed.

    Joe, feeling increasingly enlightened, contributes whenever he can while Jackson explains how mythical creatures may have evolved from real animals, mistranslations, exaggerations, and stories brought home by travelers returning from exotic lands.

    Could centuries of storytelling turn an unusual animal into a dragon? Could a giant squid become a sea monster? And most importantly, has the cuttlefish finally cracked the case?

    Probably not. But we now have a little knowledge about it.

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    59 mins
  • To Be or Not to Be Distracted: Dragons Part 1
    Sep 26 2026

    This week on A Little Knowledge, we dive into Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, metaphors, and the strange ways we use language to explain the world around us.

    Meanwhile, Joe tries his damnedest to derail Jackson at every possible opportunity. Jackson, somehow, refuses to take the bait and keeps dragging the conversation back on track.

    Literature, language, questionable interpretations, and one host desperately trying to ruin the lesson. Just another week of having a little knowledge.

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    58 mins
  • Joe Saw the Sign, Jackson Saw the Ark
    Sep 19 2026

    This week on A Little Knowledge, Jackson takes us down the rabbit hole of the Ark of the Covenant, and Joe does his best to figure out what the hell he's talking about. We dig into the Ark, its biblical significance, the mystery surrounding it, and why people have been fascinated by it for thousands of years.

    Along the way, Joe tries his best to relate to the story while Jackson attempts to keep things on track. What exactly was the Ark? What happened to it? And will Joe actually learn something before the episode is over?

    We may not find the Ark, but we'll definitely walk away with A Little Knowledge.

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    29 mins
  • Explosive Superstitions: Curses, Part 2
    Sep 12 2026

    This week, we dive deeper into the strange world of curses. From the so-called Kennedy curse and the witchcraft behind some of history's most famous superstitions to the Salem witch trials, we try to figure out why people have believed in curses for centuries.

    Then we bring it all the way to baseball, where curses, superstitions, rituals, and a little bad luck have become part of the game itself. Are curses real, or are we just really good at finding patterns when things go wrong?

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    45 mins
  • A Little Superstition: Curses, Part 1
    Sep 5 2026

    This week on A Little Knowledge, we're getting a little supernatural. We talk about the occult, curses, blessings, and self-fulfilling prophecies, and how much power these ideas can have simply because we believe in them.

    Joe and Jackson look back at growing up in a time when our exposure to news and media was much more limited. Before the internet put nearly every answer at our fingertips, a lot of what we knew about the strange and unexplained came from family, friends, television, books, rumors, and whatever information happened to make its way to us.

    As usual, we attempt to separate fact from folklore with just enough knowledge to probably get ourselves cursed.

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    39 mins
  • Wait... It Was an Emu? Jokes, Part 3
    Aug 29 2026

    This week on A Little Knowledge, we take a questionably researched trip through the modern history of joke telling, from the 1800s to today. We look at how jokes have changed over the years, what people found funny in different eras, and how humor became such a big part of popular culture.

    Jackson gets personal, talking about his family, the jokes he grew up with, and what humor has meant to him throughout his life. Joe also shared a few jokes of his own... unfortunately, those jokes will never see the light of day because Joe had the good sense to edit them out before the episode reached the public.

    It's history, family, questionable humor, and the occasional moment of good judgment. In other words, it's another episode of A Little Knowledge.

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    43 mins
  • Is This Thing On? Jokes, Part 2
    Aug 22 2026

    This week on A Little Knowledge, we look back at our history with telling jokes, where we learned them, who we learned them from, and how our sense of humor changed as we got older.

    We talk about our fathers' very different senses of humor and the lessons we picked up along the way about what gets a laugh, what crosses the line, and what probably should've never been said in the first place. We also get into why racist and degrading jokes have never sat right with us, and how learning what not to say can be just as important as learning how to tell a good joke.

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    45 mins