Episodios

  • Cotton Fields to Football Fields: The Business of the Body.
    Dec 29 2025
    This episode of IDKMYDE, B Daht unpacks the hidden economic throughline between America's plantation past and its modern sports empire, revealing how Black physical labor has long been transformed into mass entertainment and massive profit. From cotton-picking contests to the NFL, the business of the body has changed its uniform -- not its structure.

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    5 m
  • Dreaming of a Whitewashed Christmas: Slavery, Myths and the Lost Cause.
    Dec 22 2025

    While Christmas is often remembered as a time of joy and tradition, its history during American slavery was deliberately rewritten. This episode of IDKMYDE, our Host, B Daht, unpacks how Lost Cause propaganda used romanticized Christmas stories to sanitize slavery -- and what enslaved people actually endured during the holidays.

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    8 m
  • The Rematch They Forgot, but History Didn't.
    Dec 15 2025

    This episode of IDKME breaks down how NC A&T and Howard's matchup inside Cameron Indoor Stadium wasn't just a game -- It was a quiet rematch of the very 1st MEAC Championship in 1972. We dig into why that original game was played at Duke of all places, and how B Daht returned to that same campus as an honorary co-captain. And with his co-captain, Dr. Anne Micheaux Akwari, being the widow of Duke's 1st ever Black surgeon, Dr. Ony Akwari standing beside him, the night became a full-circle moment of sports, medicine, and legacy intertwining.

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    10 m
  • How Cats Fell Off: The Biggest PR Scandal in Animal History
    Dec 8 2025

    Cats weren't always seen as bad luck, once upon a time they were treated like royalty. In this episode of IDKMYDE, B Daht breaks down how cats, especially black cats, went from sacred symbols in Ancient Egypt to "witches in disguise" during Europe's spooky era. You'll never look at a black cat the same again.

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    10 m
  • The Time Bosses: When Trains Told America What Time It Was
    Dec 1 2025

    Time Zones weren't created by the government -- they were forced on America by railroad companies tired of cities making up their own time. This episode of IDKMYDE, B Daht breaks down how one Canadian engineer and a bunch of fed-up train schedules shaped the clocks we still obey today!

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    9 m
  • The Continents That Used to Cuddle
    Nov 24 2025

    Africa and South America don't just LOOK like they fit, they really were boo'd up once upon a time! In this episode of I Didn't Know, Maybe You Didn't Either, B Daht uncovers how the whole planet used to be one big neighborhood, and why the breakup changed everything!

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    8 m
  • Sarah Rector: Black Gold and Baby Genius
    Nov 17 2025

    When my daughter asked me why oil was such a big deal back in the day, I didn't have the answer -- so I went digging! What I found connects an 11-year-old Black girl's "worthless" land to the rise of modern America. This episode of IDKMYDE unpacks how curiosity, timing, and a little bit of oil turned one question into a story I couldn't believe I didn't already know!

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    11 m
  • The Hard Truth About Viagra
    Nov 10 2025

    Everybody knows what Viagra does, but few know how it started. On this episode of I Didn't Know Maybe You Didn't Either uncovers the hilarious twist that turned a failed heart drug into a global phenomenon. Because sometimes, a mistake can become your biggest rise to fame.

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    8 m