You Know Too Much | Podcast in RSS.com

You Know Too Much

You Know Too Much

di Pamala Buzick Kim and Eva McCloskey

Società e cultura

Stagione 1

Eurovision Scoring with Jordana Freydberg

He emerged from a giant egg wearing a Windows 95 crop top. Jordana Freydberg knows way too much about Eurovision scoring, the fifty-fifty split between expert juries and a public vote you can buy your way into, the “Big Five” who are grandfathered into the final by how much they pay the European Broadcasting Union, and the 1974 UK jury that famously gave ABBA’s “Waterloo” zero points.

Fly Fishing with Nick Parish

Smash that rate button like a hungry trout smashing a stonefly. Nick Parish knows way too much about fly fishing and fly tying — the Michigan Fly Fishing Club that radicalized him as the youngest member by three decades, why salmon flies aren’t eaten by salmon, the black market for polar bear fur, and the boring truth that you can catch a fish 20 minutes from your house. It doesn’t need to be hard.

Microplastics with Lindsay McCormick

There is no control group. Lindsay McCormick started noticing more plastic on her surfboard every summer, and by the time she founded Bite she knew way too much about microplastics — the ones in your water, your air, your food, and the credit card’s worth we’re each supposedly carrying around. Her message is stubbornly hopeful: there’s no clean control group anymore, but there are small swaps that actually help.

Intention-Action Gap with Anthony Barrows

Your willpower isn’t the problem. The system is. Anthony Barrows is an applied behavioral scientist who knows way too much about the gap between what you mean to do and what you actually do. He calls it the intention–action gap, and he says almost every social program in the US widens it by design — hidden hoops, forms, stigma, and the psychological cost of walking into the office. Fix the system, not the person.

Special Century with Mark Rukman

You will never pay utility bills again. That’s Mark Rukman’s pitch for the town that says yes to the data center. Between 1870 and 1970 humanity built the entire nervous system of the modern world — electricity, plumbing, telephones, planes, everything. Then it stopped. Mark argues the next special century has just started, and if the towns getting the compute don’t get a share of the bounty, the data centers will get sabotaged.

Pooping in the Woods with Shawnté Salabert

How to poop in the woods, professionally. How do you poop in the woods — professionally? Shawnté Salabert knows. Host of the Gear Abby outdoor podcast, and living proof you can bury the lede — literally. She walks us through the whole business: bidets, Kula cloths, WAG bags, and the Cadillac of backcountry hygiene.

Identifying Vintage Fashion with Amanda Samuel

It all started when I found a Gucci sweatshirt at Goodwill. Amanda Samuel started collecting vintage at 16, doing community service at a Long Island Goodwill — where she found a Gucci sweatshirt in a garbage bag for $5. Twenty-four years later, she can date a garment by touching the zipper. This week: side seams, invisible zippers, pinking shears, and how to read a piece of clothing like a book.

Competitive Cycling and Eating with Yasir Salem

I went to a hypnotherapist to get past my gag reflex. What’s the Venn diagram between endurance sports and competitive eating? Yasir Salem and the Tour de Donut. Yes, this exists — and Yasir tells us about ultramarathons, the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifier, and the gag-reflex hypnotherapy that made it all possible.

Roller Derby with Suzy Hotrod

My glute rep precedes me. Suzy Hotrod on 20 years with Gotham Girls Roller Derby — the strategy, the bruises, the early-aughts bar-worker resurgence, and the community that made her give it everything.

Brewing Beer with Nick Bonadies

I make beer to get people off their phones. Nick Bonadies on what actually goes into a great beer at Belleflower Brewing in Portland, Maine — the water chemistry that can make or break a recipe, the Maine farmers growing his barley, the lambic process that takes years, and why beer’s real job is bringing people together.

1 di 2